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'93 80 vs. '97 LX
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Looks like a real GAS to me!!
ChaseTruck
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Ok. Old tank had the hairline crack:
New tank:
New fuel pump, new sock. Everything is back together, spent quite some time fighting the straps during reassembly. I needed to clean up the threads on bolt and strap before the bolt would take. Not a lot of fun with my cheesy tap...
Not sure yet if everything is in order just yet: turns out the new fuel sock is a bit taller, and so the entire assembly hit the bottom of the tank; contact with the plastic base of the sock. Solution for now was to bend the bottom of the fuel pump frame a bit upwards. Still contact with bottom of the tank, but top bolted on without any undue force. We'll see later today.
Not quite sure what to do with the new lawn ornament, at this point I'm just letting it dry.
New tank:
New fuel pump, new sock. Everything is back together, spent quite some time fighting the straps during reassembly. I needed to clean up the threads on bolt and strap before the bolt would take. Not a lot of fun with my cheesy tap...
Not sure yet if everything is in order just yet: turns out the new fuel sock is a bit taller, and so the entire assembly hit the bottom of the tank; contact with the plastic base of the sock. Solution for now was to bend the bottom of the fuel pump frame a bit upwards. Still contact with bottom of the tank, but top bolted on without any undue force. We'll see later today.
Not quite sure what to do with the new lawn ornament, at this point I'm just letting it dry.
ChaseTruck
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Runs fine, no funky noises or somesuch. Idle is low, but it always does that when the battery has been disconnected for some time.
Turns out I almost all of the gas out of the old tank. Two rinses with SimpleGreen, and it doesn't smell like gasoline any more.
Turns out I almost all of the gas out of the old tank. Two rinses with SimpleGreen, and it doesn't smell like gasoline any more.
'97LX ... to this: black clutch from the '93, 10k fluid, and the bigger fan (16361-61020). And since I can't do this exchange w/o taking out battery and tray, I got to learn how to input the security code on the radio...
No foam around the radiator; fins of radiator and condenser are pretty clean after a wash; Ultragauge installed as of yesterday. Fan shroud mounts appear to be 'custom'; two of the nuts on the fan clutch were nylocks that took a 13mm wrench, and two were flanged and took a 12 mm wrench...
did the bigger fan feet in the the original shroud ?
ChaseTruck
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The LX had the 4-Runner fan installed, the 3FE fan that I was referring to is a bit bigger than that, yet a bit smaller than stock
dead as a doornail - the LX this morning 
battery at 4V
battery at 4V
so, to get the new tank into the 80, the driver side rear lower control arm had to be loosened . . .
and apparently it was tightened again, too . . .
and apparently it was tightened again, too . . .
yet, this was left on the bolt . . .
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and it rode around in Baton Rouge . . . including once to New Orleans and back . . .
and then made it all the way to Arizona this January, including 2 hours of wheeling on a bumpy dirt road as the last leg
Michael airing down
and proof there was dirt at the end of the trail
and then made it all the way to Arizona this January, including 2 hours of wheeling on a bumpy dirt road as the last leg
Michael airing down
and proof there was dirt at the end of the trail
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we had driven the 80 from Louisiana to Arizona in anticipation of a bunch of friends and relatives visiting from Germany
an hour from Baton Rouge - going west
weather got worse, rain all the way to west of Houston where we stayed for the night
then apparently got spotted in San Antonio the next day
an hour from Baton Rouge - going west
weather got worse, rain all the way to west of Houston where we stayed for the night
then apparently got spotted in San Antonio the next day
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west Texas
where they seem to practice the sport of 3-vehicle towing, of which every vehicle has body damage and the tow load always exceeds capacity of the towrig
where they seem to practice the sport of 3-vehicle towing, of which every vehicle has body damage and the tow load always exceeds capacity of the towrig
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proof you are in the middle of the US - somewhere
finally in Arizona
hey, it's so much greener now
finally in Arizona
hey, it's so much greener now
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and then saw this beauty
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ghost-riding socket was discovered during the slider install on the 80 today
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Those are usually bought at auction cheap and taken to mexico. When I lived in Texas I would see the same thing but with Toyota pickups at least 3-4 times a month.
west Texas
where they seem to practice the sport of 3-vehicle towing, of which every vehicle has body damage and the tow load always exceeds capacity of the towrig
ChaseTruck
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yet, this was left on the bolt . . .
I don't need the socket back...
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took the 80 out today to show my sister and the youngest nephew what wheeling in Arizona is about 
also took several other Germans out who were in the US for the first time - they were blown away by the desert vegetation out here
the 80 served well, while the LX got a new motor (story for another day)
the 80 served well, while the LX got a new motor (story for another day)
and today, the 80 got crawler gears installed 
