What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (34 Viewers)

[ToyotaDon]

Loving the O'Reilly banner. And also need to find someone that can do a good road force balance. TiresPlus threw bean bags in mine :/

Are you saying the bean bags worked? I do have a some beads I pulled out of some other tires that I thought about trying.

I was actually running the Road Force balancer that we have in the school's auto shop. IIRC, two of them showed excessive runout, but all had high road force. I might be able to fix runout by breaking the beads and rotating them on the rims, but road force is related to tire stiffness.

 

[Dubbinchris]

My son and I towed home our new (to us) 1987 MKII Golf GTI SCCA ITB class race car. Now we have even LESS money than we did before.

Man, I drove and wrenched on a MKII for years. Retired it finally at 330k

 

[Burgman]

Are you saying the bean bags worked? I do have a some beads I pulled out of some other tires that I thought about trying.

I was actually running the Road Force balancer that we have in the school's auto shop. IIRC, two of them showed excessive runout, but all had high road force. I might be able to fix runout by breaking the beads and rotating them on the rims, but road force is related to tire stiffness.

No the bean bags aren't right.

 

[Burgman]

PM me if you'd like one of your own.

I'm an O'Reilly district manager in Fredericksburg VA.

 

[mingles]

Got some cool stuff in a box that says "enjoy" on the outside (time will tell).

Thanks for the heads up on the traction mats. I have a 2WD Dakota that can't even get out of it's own way on wet pavement, much less snow, and these will fit discretely in the bed until needed. Black blends in better with the bedliner too. Thanks!

 

[tampacruiser95]

I replaced the original, 21 year old hood & hatch struts with these from www.liftsupportsdepot.com
Fronts: PM2006L & PM2006R
Rears: PM1047
I found them on Amazon though.
They are the same dimensions and work well. No more hood or hatch falling on my head!


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Good find!

 

[pengfinn]

Grabbed a couple buddies and went out to BFE to go shooting.

 

[LS1FJ40]

On the 92: Replaced a bunch of plastic trim on the inside of the 92 with some spares I had laying around. Door switch plates. Door handle cups. Nothing crazy. She's sitting waiting for the radiator to come in tomorrow...

On the 93: Drove it. Parked it in a normal car inaccessible area at show choir. Why? Because I could.

Are all the Sacramento mudders safe? @surfpig @Cruiserdrew

 

[Cruiserdrew]

Safe so far. They evacuated Oroville last night. The Oroville dam thing worries me more than the American River behind my house. Although it's pretty high right now too.

For perspective-the American River is at 60,000 cfs right now. Summer time flows often dip below 1,000. But I've seen it at 110,000 in 1986 and the levee system mostly contained it.

But the Oroville dam is an earth dam not concrete, and it's 700 feet high so...

 

[surfpig]

Safe so far. They evacuated Oroville last night. The Oroville dam thing worries me more than the American River behind my house. Although it's pretty high right now too.

For perspective-the American River is at 60,000 cfs right now. Summer time flows often dip below 1,000. But I've seen it at 110,000 in 1986 and the levee system mostly contained it.

But the Oroville dam is an earth dam not concrete, and it's 700 feet high so...

The dam itself is OK, but if that spillway busts up...

 

[scrowley]

Tried to go snow wheeling during the storm...didn't make it very far.

 

[SammyT96LX450]

Went exploring

 

[LS1FJ40]

Safe so far. They evacuated Oroville last night. The Oroville dam thing worries me more than the American River behind my house. Although it's pretty high right now too.

For perspective-the American River is at 60,000 cfs right now. Summer time flows often dip below 1,000. But I've seen it at 110,000 in 1986 and the levee system mostly contained it.

But the Oroville dam is an earth dam not concrete, and it's 700 feet high so...

The dam itself is OK, but if that spillway busts up...

Be safe. Are you guys downstream of the spillway?

 

[surfpig]

Be safe. Are you guys downstream of the spillway?

Sacramento is a ways away. A lot of farmland between here and there.

 

[Cruiserdrew]

Yes. But 60 miles downstream.

 

[chap79]

Safe so far. They evacuated Oroville last night. The Oroville dam thing worries me more than the American River behind my house. Although it's pretty high right now too.

For perspective-the American River is at 60,000 cfs right now. Summer time flows often dip below 1,000. But I've seen it at 110,000 in 1986 and the levee system mostly contained it.

But the Oroville dam is an earth dam not concrete, and it's 700 feet high so...

My very first job was working at Lime Saddle Marina on Lake Oroville. Man, those were the days. I'm a Paradise native. Would love to move back up that way but the job market is rather slim.

 

[danthman114]

Washer reservoir relocate and installed a dual battery. However, haven't done any wiring yet. Parts not in...

 

[AMMO]

Has anyone ever built something like this as a rear swing out?

Yes. Want to say @jcardona1 or @AMMO or ...... had something similar. But I think it swung down.

Oops maybe some of these types:
Swing down tyre carrier?
Swing UP tire carrier --any out there?

Mine is a swing out and swing down design that I fabbed myself in my garage. Nice thing about the design is the whole "cradle" can be removed off the swing out with pulling 4 pins. Right now my spare is inside the rig on top of the rear storage.

 

[PolarRunner]

Finally did some wheeling! Really my first time ever, aside from trail riding quads some years ago. What a blast. Even in stock form these things really are quite capable. I was surrounded primarily by XJs with a few JKs and some pickups as well. I was the only Toyota, let alone Cruiser.
Day after - I had way less mud than the other guys, and we were on the same trails and hill.

One of these things is not like the other...

So it doesn't look like much in the picture, and it wasn't terribly difficult I'm sure by most standards, but it was my first off road hill and it was fun!

 

[malteserunner]

I'm an O'Reilly district manager in Fredericksburg VA.

Right on. Might have walked right by you in St Louis then.