I guess I'm missing something?
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (67 Viewers)
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I guess I'm missing something?
LS1FJ40
SILVER Star
First thing I noticed! How the FAWK do these people not know which way the bezel goes?!?!
Rotated the tires, and did a charcoal canister mod.
I put an end to my Charcoal Canister problems for good!
Been putting this off way to long. The hard part was cutting the edge of the canister.
I put an end to my Charcoal Canister problems for good!
Been putting this off way to long. The hard part was cutting the edge of the canister.
I've never noticed that before, learn something new everyday! I would've mentioned it to him had I known when I was there.
Part of the "DIESEL" tag is covered
Still midway through my honeymoon down to the tip. Been a blast so far. Loaded to the gills with camp, dive, surf, fish gear!
Do you know if these are available new?
Walked out to bask in the glory of my new double beadlocks today, after 2 days of ownership, and they were all at 10 or less psi . . . . hmmm
Emailed Trailworthyfab and now I wait
Emailed Trailworthyfab and now I wait
That's the smallest St Bernard I ever saw
I used to have a bull mastiff that lured us in with cuteness before becoming a 150lb pile of cute.
Hahah she is 5 months old and 60 pounds. If you watch closely you can see her grow...That's the smallest St Bernard I ever saw
I used to have a bull mastiff that lured us in with cuteness before becoming a 150lb pile of cute.
got a lot done last night. put the 80 up on the lift yesterday morning. drained the trans and and dropped the pan. let it drip for a few hours while i sent a couple of customer cars home. finally got back to the 80 around 1730.
first operation in the trans was to replace the throttle cable. or kick down cable. or, as i now like to call it, so THIS is what this truck is supposed to drive like cable?!?! yes, it's as bitchy a project as you've heard, but so worth it. disco-ing it at the valve body is easy, it's getting the bolt out of the trans, and then back in that sucks. good thing my wife has small hands and is a seasoned subaru tech.
she shoved both arms up in there and had the bolt started in moments. all i could do to help her was hold the flashlight and try to catch the drops of dex III before they landed on her face. my wife rocks.
anywho, got the cable in, gave it an adjust, and moved to the next phase of operation open trans pan. solenoids. shift 1 and shift 2. two short bolts, two wire pigtails, several oz of atf in my hair, done. for the record, these are the two middle ones.
slapped a fresh filter on and prepped the pan for reinstall. this consisted of removing the pan from the parts washer, removing the old sealant, another couple minutes in the washer, a final wipe down of the pan and magnets, cleaning up the mounting flange on the trans, some right stuff rtv, then strapping it back in.
while the rtv cured up a bit, i moved on to the fun portion of the evenings event. slee coil spring spacers front and rear, as well as a new set of OME shocks to replace the (most likely original to the truck) tokico's.
most of you have done lifts and such, so that pretty much went as you'd expect. spring compressors and cussing. but also worth it. i liked the soft riding sagged out springs. i got the spacers to make up for the tiredness. i got the shocks because my wife said i don't care if you spend 200$ or 400$ on them, just get the ones you want. did i mention that my wife is awesome yet?
well, come to find out, whatever i did turned out to be a magic combo for me. the ride with the space'd up stock springs and the new shocks is pretty good. some of it could be the fact that i'm not on the bumps stops any more...
net result for about 6 hours of work, lots of smiles so far. the next two days i also get to fix my wrx. it's been in the garage at the house for the last 5 months with a blown up center differential. since i don't have time to rebuild the 6mt i have for it, i snagged a jdm legacy turbo trans for it to throw in for now. 4.11 final drive... yum! just for fun i'm throwing on a set of brembo brakes and some other goodies that have been waiting.
thanks to my wife for making the impossible bolt possible, cruiseroutfitters for the spacers and shocks(and axle kit and birfs) and thanks to onur for getting me a new kick down cable in time to do this.
be safe this crazy holiday season.
--r
(text edited because spell check)
first operation in the trans was to replace the throttle cable. or kick down cable. or, as i now like to call it, so THIS is what this truck is supposed to drive like cable?!?! yes, it's as bitchy a project as you've heard, but so worth it. disco-ing it at the valve body is easy, it's getting the bolt out of the trans, and then back in that sucks. good thing my wife has small hands and is a seasoned subaru tech.
she shoved both arms up in there and had the bolt started in moments. all i could do to help her was hold the flashlight and try to catch the drops of dex III before they landed on her face. my wife rocks.
anywho, got the cable in, gave it an adjust, and moved to the next phase of operation open trans pan. solenoids. shift 1 and shift 2. two short bolts, two wire pigtails, several oz of atf in my hair, done. for the record, these are the two middle ones.
slapped a fresh filter on and prepped the pan for reinstall. this consisted of removing the pan from the parts washer, removing the old sealant, another couple minutes in the washer, a final wipe down of the pan and magnets, cleaning up the mounting flange on the trans, some right stuff rtv, then strapping it back in.
while the rtv cured up a bit, i moved on to the fun portion of the evenings event. slee coil spring spacers front and rear, as well as a new set of OME shocks to replace the (most likely original to the truck) tokico's.
most of you have done lifts and such, so that pretty much went as you'd expect. spring compressors and cussing. but also worth it. i liked the soft riding sagged out springs. i got the spacers to make up for the tiredness. i got the shocks because my wife said i don't care if you spend 200$ or 400$ on them, just get the ones you want. did i mention that my wife is awesome yet?
well, come to find out, whatever i did turned out to be a magic combo for me. the ride with the space'd up stock springs and the new shocks is pretty good. some of it could be the fact that i'm not on the bumps stops any more...
net result for about 6 hours of work, lots of smiles so far. the next two days i also get to fix my wrx. it's been in the garage at the house for the last 5 months with a blown up center differential. since i don't have time to rebuild the 6mt i have for it, i snagged a jdm legacy turbo trans for it to throw in for now. 4.11 final drive... yum! just for fun i'm throwing on a set of brembo brakes and some other goodies that have been waiting.
thanks to my wife for making the impossible bolt possible, cruiseroutfitters for the spacers and shocks(and axle kit and birfs) and thanks to onur for getting me a new kick down cable in time to do this.
be safe this crazy holiday season.
--r
(text edited because spell check)
pulled both front seats cleaned and greased all friction/slide points and installed new drive gears in both.... think now is a good time to clean the original carpet that has had mats it's whole life... carpet looks good just blown out with my backpack leaf blower... but guess I'll still do a real shampoo and vac
Put in a second battery box. Won't have a second battery in there for now, but gets the fluids that were in the back cab out of there and stored in that location.
Since I completed the grueling task of installing the second battery box, I figured I would let my 80 take me on a holiday weekend adventure to the neighbor islands to visit friends and family (well, take me to the airport). Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving weekend!!
Since I completed the grueling task of installing the second battery box, I figured I would let my 80 take me on a holiday weekend adventure to the neighbor islands to visit friends and family (well, take me to the airport). Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving weekend!!
I guarantee you it's a pile of s***, held together with bondo and fresh cheap paint.
And 17,000 miles my ass.
You own a coat? WTF?
