A Wits' End coffee table book? Daily calendar? Something for guests to read in the bathroom?
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A Wits' End coffee table book? Daily calendar? Something for guests to read in the bathroom?
Waiting patiently. It will be a neat product. Great illustrative manual to stack next to my FSM & Wohlfarth's "Land Cruiser Legend" - those diagrams earlier in this thread were great.
It would be great to have both hard and soft copies whenever you manage to pull this together. I'm envisioning a spiral bound lamented 5x7 handbook. That would be a neat resource to refer to. I keep looking back at some of your diagrams. Would also be a great gift. Good luck!
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For me it's just weighing the cost of low volume printing versus actual demand. Sitting on hundreds of books wouldn't be a sound business decision. But doing low volume could be prohibitively expensive. It all depends on the final product. Like I said, I'm still going through my options.
Btw, I've also been considering a log book after @Golgo13 sent me some ideas. I was thinking about doing something like that with the illustrations, notes, URLs on each page. Dunno. I've done two coffee table books a decade ago and was fun but it was other people's money. But designing them isn't difficult, it's just time.
Btw, I've also been considering a log book after @Golgo13 sent me some ideas. I was thinking about doing something like that with the illustrations, notes, URLs on each page. Dunno. I've done two coffee table books a decade ago and was fun but it was other people's money. But designing them isn't difficult, it's just time.
you gotta make sure it has a little tick-a-box for each fact and mod. That way we can tick them off as we go.
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And a built-in calculator that keeps track of how much you spend but then also shows how much @NLXTACY has spent on his so we feel better about it.
Excuse me for being lazy, but is there an App out there for tracking maintenance specific for the 80 community? (I haven't looked) Something that includes maintenance recommendations, service schedules, etc?
Seems like this section of "Did You Knows" would fit nicely within an App that lets you track maintenance work. Perhaps with a feature that would let you photograph parts tickets and such to keep track like @LS1FJ40 suggested? (would have to be encrypted so the wife wouldn't have ready access to that information...)
I wish someone would make an app for this site 
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I used to write everything down in a notebook. Have every receipt and complete records of everything that has ever been done to my 80 since I picked it up new from the dealer. About 2 years ago I started converting it all in to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Took me about a year. Now I just add to that spreadsheet.
Did you know that @NLXTACY and I have both owned our 80s since new? Joey's is a 97 and mine is a 92. So I've owned mine 5 years longer yet Joey has spent more than double on his over the years. In all fairness, his is nicer than mine.
Judging from all that @NLXTACY offers on here and via Wits End I'm not surprised!
I bought my 1995 in 2001 from the second owner who didn't know what the diff locks were. She definitely only used it for soccer games and the mall; but, hey, it was the '90s SUV craze.
I've subsequently driven it extensively in South America and Africa. Recently shipped it back to the States where it avoids road salt sitting in a garage for most of Wisconsin's winter.
I've saved all repair receipts, but now that I'm doing more on my own an App would be neat. This "Did You Know" section could be a cool part of that.
I should probably shut up unless I'm ready to volunteer to build it!
What about print on demand publishing? Like Lulu?
Did you know that if you get tired of the crap fake wood paneling on the interior.... There's normal Toyota markings underneath?
Really? Pics?
I'll try to get a pic later today... but trust me; there's base model control labels under all that burnt and broken plasticky faux wood crap.
Pardon my grime; I've been working on the interior, and since all of this is going to be cleaned/recolored/replaced, I haven't been too careful with smudges. But this is what is under the faux wood.
Whaaa I thought it would be plain. I feel more comfortable removing that crap now.
Do it. You'll thank me for it, later.
Wait until a really hot day and then yank that stuff out. I found the adhesive will come right off the base plastic without any residue. If you try it on a cold day, the fake wood shatters and you need to work harder. Of course living in the desert helps because we get really hot days herein the summer.
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