What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (55 Viewers)

[Katsuo70]

Suspension Refresh on my LX was completed. Went with Dobinsons MRA 4" Lift 3-Way Adj. Shocks & VT Coils (2.5"). Also had Dobinsons Adj. Rear Lower Control Arms, and Adjustable F&R Panhard Bar installed along with fresh Bushings.











My previous setup was OME J Springs with some custom-valved Doetsch Tech 12.5" Extended Travel shocks. My overall Impressions of the Dobinsons MRA/VT setup is that there was no noticeable change in ride height. Center of wheel hub to bottom of fender lip measurements are within 1/4" of what I had before. Though the VT's definitely deliver more than the advertised 2.5" Lift. They're a lot like OME J Springs in that regard. The VT's are meant for heavier rigs, and I do have a Slee bumper and winch up front, but not a ton of weight in the back yet. The end result is a bit firmer, more controlled ride. Not harsh, but I may need to play around with rebound settings because it seems to overreact a little to bumps. It gets a little squirrelly hitting bumps at speed. But body roll is a definitely more controlled and everything just feels tighter. I'm sure the new bushings helped with that.

I'll be wheeling this coming weekend down at Truckhaven Hills. We'll see how it does.

 

[Obrokoff]

@Obrokoff tailgate mod. View attachment 3173954

Nice

 

[Grkdude]

First attempt to fix my defrost grid. This is 1 coat on 3½ lines. Permatex 09117. Doing more coats tomorrow as I run out of it.

 

[Box Rocket]

Follow up to an earlier post (sorry for not being 80-tech). 1st in class finish at the Baja 1000 with Canguro racing Saturday night. It's always an epic experience!
Untitled by Adam Tolman, on Flickr

Untitled by Adam Tolman, on Flickr

Untitled by Adam Tolman, on Flickr

Untitled by Adam Tolman, on Flickr

 

[surfpig]

First attempt to fix my defrost grid. This is 1 coat on 3½ lines. Permatex 09117. Doing more coats tomorrow as I run out of it.

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Interested in this, mine is in pretty bad shape.

 

[Grkdude]

Interested in this, mine is in pretty bad shape.

I had only 3 lines working on mine. I am doing second coat on these 3 lines some time this week. It has to be over 50 degrees to apply the product and I won't have access to a garage until Wednesday

 

[Brodie]

Installed the ARB Base rack. Real easy, really like it, I still fit in my garage with 2” to spare. I think I need to slide it about 4” aft to be just right.

 

[peneumbra2]

Follow up to an earlier post (sorry for not being 80-tech). 1st in class finish at the Baja 1000 with Canguro racing Saturday night. It's always an epic experience!
Untitled by Adam Tolman, on Flickr

Untitled by Adam Tolman, on Flickr

Untitled by Adam Tolman, on Flickr

Untitled by Adam Tolman, on Flickr

But... it doesn't have a roof rack!

 

[Sarmajor]

I painted it with Raptor Liner and it looks great.

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[FloridaCruiser22]

 

[Fj80Ringo]

Interested in this, mine is in pretty bad shape.

Same with me. id like to get mine working again.

 

[NLXTACY]

Took the winch apart, seems there was water ingression as rust seized part that enabled the winch to be in free gear for pulling wire.

Lots of cleaning done, unfortunately seems the gasket is shot hence the water issue. Will need to get a silicon gasket.

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Don’t think you need a silicone gasket. Same happened here but was rebuilt fine after making some adjustments:

Wits' End Toyota JDM Winch Rebuild Project

absolute-wits-end.com

 

[Vulkyn]

Don’t think you need a silicone gasket. Same happened here but was rebuilt fine after making some adjustments:

Wits' End Toyota JDM Winch Rebuild Project

absolute-wits-end.com

Oh wow thats next level ! Ok maybe i need to redo the cleaning part. Thanks for the link superb workmenship

 

[Oneops]

Stared wishing I could be sitting there driving it.

 

[surfpig]

Good advice. I only wish I would have seen it before because this exact thing happened. I didn't get good coverage on the base at all so it's splotchy but not terrible. I saw a good opportunity to practice with the clear so I went ahead with that. The clear came out great (Spraymax 2K). I'll block it down and do again one of these days but for now it's much better than it was.View attachment 3155494

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Not bad at all.

 

[OffRoadScott]

Earlier I posted I had changed my spark plugs. Here is a picture of the old plugs. Cylinder 1 is closest to the OEM Toyota parts box.

What is everyone's opinions on the condition of the spark plugs? What signs are they showing?

 

[BILT4ME]

Earlier I posted I had changed my spark plugs. Here is a picture of the old plugs. Cylinder 1 is closest to the OEM Toyota parts box.

What is everyone's opinions on the condition of the spark plugs? What signs are they showing?

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Line them up 1-6 so we can see the tips and the open side of the gap and take a picture more like from the end so we can see the center conductor, the gap, and any color of the ceramic insulator on the threaded end.

Then we can tell you.

 

[OffRoadScott]

Line them up 1-6 so we can see the tips and the open side of the gap and take a picture more like from the end so we can see the center conductor, the gap, and any color of the ceramic insulator on the threaded end.

Then we can tell you.

I would if I could, they are in the garbage now.

 

[BILT4ME]

I would if I could, they are in the garbage now.

They didn't look too horrible. How many miles were on them?

 

[OffRoadScott]

They didn't look too horrible. How many miles were on them?

Maybe 10K, I swapped them out to fix my slight miss. But traced my rich running issue to my O2 sensors. The FSM says the O2 sensors should be 5-6.5 ohms, mine were 13-13.5.

Also going to be swapping out the coolant sensor that runs to the ECU so hoping that helps too. Not sure of the history of that sensor.