You can also use a 2 1/8" socket. It seems to fit a bit better being .001" smaller...
Okay, not really but they are easier to find.
Okay, not really but they are easier to find.
Got My First FZJ80 Last Night
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Roger that. A buddy called and told me he had one so I'll use his 2 1/8, although I may already have one of those, need to double check my big standard stuff. Anyways I ordered an OTC 54mm and it will be here Monday so no worries either way.
Ya'll aren't helping my list of things to do get any shorter.
But you certainly are helping make it go faster.
Ya'll aren't helping my list of things to do get any shorter.
But you certainly are helping make it go faster.
Welcome and hurry up w/ the pics.
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I'm, working my way up to 10 posts. AS soon as I get those posts, pics will follow. Probably make my build thread from here as well.
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Today is the day. Time to dig into the beast. Headed to the parts store to pick up the basics. Doing a full fluids and filter, blah blah blah. Also found a sticky caliper last night so I will be changing a rear caliper. Caused by the coffee colored brake fluid. Probably time to replace, if they haven't been done already, the brake hoses. I'll know more once I get in there.
Jacket
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Have fun bleeding the brakes, particularly the LSPV circuit.
It seems to have monopolized an endless supply of air bubbles....
It seems to have monopolized an endless supply of air bubbles....
iptman
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Check the valve cover bolts before buying the valve cover gasket. My gasket was seeping oil and after doing a couple searches on MUD found another thread where the guy found his VC bolts finger loose. Sure enough mine were too. Cinched them down and degreased the engine and no more seeping.
Now make with the pictures!
Now make with the pictures!
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Mid way through changing fluids. I have done the front axle, the engine, transfer case, and transmission. Front wheels are off, wheels are clean, replacement rear caliper is here. I already pressure washed and cleaned the engine and under carriage. Power steering pump is really noisy. Pretty sure PO put powersteering fluid in it instead of Dexron II. Good thing I found the receipt for the power steering pump he put on and its a lifetime warranty part from Oreilly's. New one is on the way and should be here next week.
Going to adjust the wheel bearings and clean and repack the steering bearings, then clean and grease the bearfields while I have the wheels off. Everything underneath looks good so far.
Going to adjust the wheel bearings and clean and repack the steering bearings, then clean and grease the bearfields while I have the wheels off. Everything underneath looks good so far.
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Is there any reason not to put a grease fitting in place of the square grease port plug on the front knuckles? Looks pretty easy to do.
Pics are here.
Pics are here.
If you pumped grease in via a zerk you could easily overfill the knuckle without noticing, the extra knuckle grease would more likely push past the axle seal contaminating your gear oil. Happens often even with normal greasing of knuckle. How did your front gear oil look when you drained it? While you have the birfield and axle shaft out are you planning on replacing the axle shaft seals?
https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/78276-front-axle-rebuild-faq.html
https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-...2011-added-concretejungles-1fze-overhaul.html
https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/78276-front-axle-rebuild-faq.html
https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-...2011-added-concretejungles-1fze-overhaul.html
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D*&m Nice rig!
Have fun with it.
Have fun with it.
Clean 80.
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OK, day two of ownership has ended successfully. I have changed all the fluids except brake fluid. EVerything looked nice and clean. Front axle was a little dirty but nothing to be concerned with. The tranny fluid looked good, but I changed it anyways and will probably do a filter kit in a month or so. That would get me a good look inside the tranny pan. Checked the plugs they look pretty good. Its burning a little oil, but not enough to concern me now. Might look for a spare motor to build up for the future. Valve cover is tight.
Pulled TPS, IAC, Coil, etc plug connections loose and put some Dielectric grease on the terminals to ward off any corrosion and keep water at bay. I relocated the front diff breather box and extended the diff breather hoses front and rear. I am having to remove and re-install the winch because the PO installed it upside down. You can tell he had never taken this rig off road. Good for me. I am building a new intake tube behind the mass air meter to replace the duct taped stock one. My wife will be driving it to work Monday. I pulled the front driver's seat and inspected the motors and gears. Looks like one of the plugs is missing on the out side jack screw. I'll be ordering those Monday. In the mean time I just adjusted it into a comfortable position. I also dug out the Key In Ignition warning box in the kick panel and unsoldered the buzzer. Now I can leave the key in the ignition with the door open and not listen to it screaming at me. I can't stand those things.
Tomorrow I will get to work on the brakes and inspect the birfields. I am also going to be checking on the brakes to see what is up with the sticky caliper. I think I am going to hold off if I can on opening the brake system until next week when I can get a new set of rubber brake lines. Probably pick them up from Slee or Specter. I want to do stainless lines from the body to the axles and rubber lines from the axle to the calipers.
I need to replace the cap and rotor tomorrow as well. It is showing its age. Also need to finish up the coolant flush and refill with distilled water and coolant.
Also need to order new pads, the center diff lock switch, Husky floor liners, and a few other misc things this coming week. A friend of mine pulled together some resistors for me to fix the temp gauge, so hopefully I can get to that this week before we go riding this weekend.
I was under the truck today doing fluids and couldn't get over how useless the transfer case skid plates looks, guess I will have to make a much better one. I should have a sheet of 1/8th in plate laying around and some tubing. I think I can come up with a nice one that will cover the whole transfer case and pick up both sides of the frame rails. I'll get to that as time goes on.
Pulled TPS, IAC, Coil, etc plug connections loose and put some Dielectric grease on the terminals to ward off any corrosion and keep water at bay. I relocated the front diff breather box and extended the diff breather hoses front and rear. I am having to remove and re-install the winch because the PO installed it upside down. You can tell he had never taken this rig off road. Good for me. I am building a new intake tube behind the mass air meter to replace the duct taped stock one. My wife will be driving it to work Monday. I pulled the front driver's seat and inspected the motors and gears. Looks like one of the plugs is missing on the out side jack screw. I'll be ordering those Monday. In the mean time I just adjusted it into a comfortable position. I also dug out the Key In Ignition warning box in the kick panel and unsoldered the buzzer. Now I can leave the key in the ignition with the door open and not listen to it screaming at me. I can't stand those things.
Tomorrow I will get to work on the brakes and inspect the birfields. I am also going to be checking on the brakes to see what is up with the sticky caliper. I think I am going to hold off if I can on opening the brake system until next week when I can get a new set of rubber brake lines. Probably pick them up from Slee or Specter. I want to do stainless lines from the body to the axles and rubber lines from the axle to the calipers.
I need to replace the cap and rotor tomorrow as well. It is showing its age. Also need to finish up the coolant flush and refill with distilled water and coolant.
Also need to order new pads, the center diff lock switch, Husky floor liners, and a few other misc things this coming week. A friend of mine pulled together some resistors for me to fix the temp gauge, so hopefully I can get to that this week before we go riding this weekend.
I was under the truck today doing fluids and couldn't get over how useless the transfer case skid plates looks, guess I will have to make a much better one. I should have a sheet of 1/8th in plate laying around and some tubing. I think I can come up with a nice one that will cover the whole transfer case and pick up both sides of the frame rails. I'll get to that as time goes on.
I just cleaned my IAC and that fixed my low rough idle. I replaced the Philips screws with 5x.8-16mm Allen head screws. To remove and install them you just need to remove the front plastic cover on the valve cover.
Also be carful not to over tighten the VC bolts or they will break. Torque is 9 IN lbs. A 10mm wobble or universal will help with the rear ones. I personally would not worry about pulling the tranny pan. You can also replace the FIPG gasket maker on the pan with a pan gasket from NAPA which fits perfect and is reusable, especially if you button everything back up and forget to reinstall the magnets.
If you search under my name here i have some tips on the VC gasket and some misc stuff from my experiences with tips from other mudders here.
Also the best bang for the buck for me was the Ultra gauge for real time temp readings and being able to see DTCs if they pop up while driving or on a trip where a scanner is not available.
Also be carful not to over tighten the VC bolts or they will break. Torque is 9 IN lbs. A 10mm wobble or universal will help with the rear ones. I personally would not worry about pulling the tranny pan. You can also replace the FIPG gasket maker on the pan with a pan gasket from NAPA which fits perfect and is reusable, especially if you button everything back up and forget to reinstall the magnets.
If you search under my name here i have some tips on the VC gasket and some misc stuff from my experiences with tips from other mudders here.
Also the best bang for the buck for me was the Ultra gauge for real time temp readings and being able to see DTCs if they pop up while driving or on a trip where a scanner is not available.
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Alright, its been a busy weekend. All kinds of stuff done on the new Cruiser. All fluids changed except brake fluid, more on that. Brakes have been checked and parts will be ordered on Monday. Birfields have been inspected and greased, wheel bearings have been adjusted and repacked. (Some idiot used a chisel instead of the proper socket, so all the adjusting and lock nuts where chunked up.) I replaced and extended the axle breather hoses. Pulled the driver's seat and adjusted it back where normal people can fit in the truck, new parts will be ordered Monday. I removed the key in ignition warning buzzer, simply unsoldered it from the circuit board. I removed the remnants of some janky aftermarket car phone installation. I built a new intake tube to replace the torn factory intake hose, checked the plugs and wires.
I removed the winch and to re-install it right side up, I'll get to that later on this week. I also want to route and correct the janky electric wiring for it and the extra lights. My wonderful wife helped out tremendously. She worked tirelessly cleaning the carpets and interior. She also stripped and painted the center caps and then she reblacked the center of the grill. She did a great job for someone who has never really done this kind of thing.
But the more I get done the more I find I want to do. This week I will be fixing the power steering pump, remounting and rewiring the winch, cleaning up the wiring for the auxillary lights, doing a brake job and replacing all the flex lines, master cylinder, rebuilding the calipers, etc. After that I will be building new skid plates for the transfer case and tranny pan. Then I will need to build either a skipd plate for the oil pan or a new oil pan from thicker metal. Not sure yet. Anyone have a decent lower steel pan they want to sell? I would like to copy the factory pan out of .125 or .187 plate. Then I need to build a new rear bumper with a swing out tire carrier. At some point I need to focus on the interior, but I want to finish building a new exhaust and intake setup, plus a few other things,
It never ends.
I removed the winch and to re-install it right side up, I'll get to that later on this week. I also want to route and correct the janky electric wiring for it and the extra lights. My wonderful wife helped out tremendously. She worked tirelessly cleaning the carpets and interior. She also stripped and painted the center caps and then she reblacked the center of the grill. She did a great job for someone who has never really done this kind of thing.
But the more I get done the more I find I want to do. This week I will be fixing the power steering pump, remounting and rewiring the winch, cleaning up the wiring for the auxillary lights, doing a brake job and replacing all the flex lines, master cylinder, rebuilding the calipers, etc. After that I will be building new skid plates for the transfer case and tranny pan. Then I will need to build either a skipd plate for the oil pan or a new oil pan from thicker metal. Not sure yet. Anyone have a decent lower steel pan they want to sell? I would like to copy the factory pan out of .125 or .187 plate. Then I need to build a new rear bumper with a swing out tire carrier. At some point I need to focus on the interior, but I want to finish building a new exhaust and intake setup, plus a few other things,
It never ends.
NorCalDoug
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Here's a few pics from our first ride with the new rig. Started out in the early afternoon on Saturday and reached our campsite that night around 10 f'n p.m.!!! Did it all over again Sunday after camping out Saturday night. Got to ride through several different types of terrain from some minor rock crawling to winching out of mud holes and a little night riding. Very happy with how the rig handled, not so happy about cleaning off all the mud, I HATE mud!!!
That was my wife's synopsis. She was not happy about the mud, nor was I. I hate mud with a passion. Now you guys out west are probably sitting there wondering what the problem is. WOW, a little mud. NEGATIVE. We are talking about a lot of mud and not that candy assed mud you guys have out there. I am talking about clay mixed with Elmer's glue. The stuff so thick a normal pressure washer won't touch it. I spent four hours Sunday after the ride cleaning out from under this truck. The mud was so packed into the wheels they were self steering and the brakes were worse than how bad they were before. And that was only a few mud holes. The trail was fairly dry otherwise, but those few holes required winching out.
Did learn a few things out there and they will be fixed next time. The frame mounted trailer hitch will really screw up the break over angle. That thing has to go next time. My new bumper will have the receiver welded into the bumper to eliminate the ground clearance issue. Couple that with the rear tire carrier and that should solve one of the problems I ran into this weekend. Skid plates need to be added. I didn't really bottom anything out but some of the mud holes had me worried about the AC dryer and I don't like the lack of plating under the front of the bumper and around the transfer case.
The truck needs lockers in a bad way. Had to winch some sections that I shouldn't have had to, but because I was lifting a wheel the truck would stop moving. I did have the front sway bar disconnected, but not the rear. The front springs were making a bunch of noise, popping and such. The rear was silent.
I think a set of front and rear lockers, CDL and pin & mod should round out the truck nicely. I will probably not get to the lockers right away, but the rest should get taken care of before next month.
The truck performed marvelously, didn't over heat, stumble or stutter. Yes we had our snags and hold ups, but nothing we couldn't recover from ourselves. Being independent was nice. Several of our riding mates had problems. One really built Jeep keep stalling and failing to restart. It was having fuel delivery problems and one of the four wheelers was also having a hard time restarting. But we couldn't be stopped and no one did anything we couldn't do.
I was very happy with the truck. Can't wait to finish out the mods and plan a trip outwest where they don't have mud. LOL.
That was my wife's synopsis. She was not happy about the mud, nor was I. I hate mud with a passion. Now you guys out west are probably sitting there wondering what the problem is. WOW, a little mud. NEGATIVE. We are talking about a lot of mud and not that candy assed mud you guys have out there. I am talking about clay mixed with Elmer's glue. The stuff so thick a normal pressure washer won't touch it. I spent four hours Sunday after the ride cleaning out from under this truck. The mud was so packed into the wheels they were self steering and the brakes were worse than how bad they were before. And that was only a few mud holes. The trail was fairly dry otherwise, but those few holes required winching out.
Did learn a few things out there and they will be fixed next time. The frame mounted trailer hitch will really screw up the break over angle. That thing has to go next time. My new bumper will have the receiver welded into the bumper to eliminate the ground clearance issue. Couple that with the rear tire carrier and that should solve one of the problems I ran into this weekend. Skid plates need to be added. I didn't really bottom anything out but some of the mud holes had me worried about the AC dryer and I don't like the lack of plating under the front of the bumper and around the transfer case.
The truck needs lockers in a bad way. Had to winch some sections that I shouldn't have had to, but because I was lifting a wheel the truck would stop moving. I did have the front sway bar disconnected, but not the rear. The front springs were making a bunch of noise, popping and such. The rear was silent.
I think a set of front and rear lockers, CDL and pin & mod should round out the truck nicely. I will probably not get to the lockers right away, but the rest should get taken care of before next month.
The truck performed marvelously, didn't over heat, stumble or stutter. Yes we had our snags and hold ups, but nothing we couldn't recover from ourselves. Being independent was nice. Several of our riding mates had problems. One really built Jeep keep stalling and failing to restart. It was having fuel delivery problems and one of the four wheelers was also having a hard time restarting. But we couldn't be stopped and no one did anything we couldn't do.
I was very happy with the truck. Can't wait to finish out the mods and plan a trip outwest where they don't have mud. LOL.
