What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (39 Viewers)

[JayhawkFZJ80]

Still working on establishing a baseline on work needed. Ujoint work done this week. Replaced one and greased the others. im amazed at how smooth it rides now. A big difference. Took a quick stroll in the country and a quick trip for work last night.

 

[Tedward]

Started on a weekday, but...
Pulled fender flares and factory running boards. Replaced fuel tank with new. Replaced speedo head in cluster. Had a zero mile cruiser for couple hours. Then went to Ohio Power or AEP recreation land. Caught many many blue gills and bass. Good times with my buddy.

 

[Steve D]

It's fixed but is it really fixed?

Friday night I picked up the 80 from my office. The last few times I have started it cold, RPMs went to around 1300-1500. The last couple trips, I would get an intermittent CEL. This time, it stumbled and stalled. Same thing on a couple more restarts. Then it ran fine. I got 1/2 mile down the road, sitting at a red light at Peachtree & Piedmont, and it died. This time, no amount of cranking came even close to starting the truck. Since AAA was going to take an hour, I got my wife to bring the Suburban and flat tow me the one mile home.

I pulled the codes and it showed 22 (coolant temp sensor) and 42 (vehicle speed sensor). Since the speedo has been intermittent, I had the VSS on my workbench. I picked up a coolant temp sensor from my local Toyota dealer. I swapped both in and the truck fired right up. I've only driven it a few miles since but all seemed to be back to normal.

So I ask the gurus: does this sound like the problem I fixed is really fixed?

 

[IanB]

Can anyone help me with a hydrolic height control issue?
Not engaging. Reseviour is empty.
I spoke to one LC owner who disconnected it, then put a 3.5 inch lift kit.
Does this sound like a reasonable solution?

80 series doesn't have hydraulic height control, fill out your profile/signature with your truck's details and we can point you in the right direction.

98-07 would be a 100 series, I'm guessing that's where you meant to post.

 

[Dixiedog]

Just got it from Arizona, man was that one filthy truck. Son helped me start the clean up.

I know of a few things that need work and no doubt some other things will pop up to work on but looking forward to it.

 

[Enders]

Went to Overland Expo east, picked up an Alu-Cab thanks to Juniper Overland out of Colorado. For those considering mounting to a prinsu rack, it's going to take some modification, and additional support to make it happy, but I think with some time I can really get it to sit an inch lower and probably ride better.

Expo east 17

• Enders
• Oct 2, 2017

80, prinsu rack with Alu-Cab expedition 3 tent

 

[ExpoGeorgia]

@Dixiedog glad to see you found another LC!

 

[Box Rocket]

Gave my 80's roof rack a 350 pound workout. Seemed to handle it pretty good. You'rewelcome @LS1FJ40 for the free store advertising!
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Since my 80 worked so hard hauling the roof load, I spent the rest of the weekend doing mostly this...
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...and this
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But not before making my 80 even more jelouse with looking at a potential new garage mate!
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The Prinsu rack will handle weight like that just fine. I've had 6 guys averaging 200 lbs each up there using it as a photo platform. Great rack.
Let's see more of that 40!

 

[jcardona1]

View attachment 1547654 Ran the rubicon con the second time this month, but ran down old sluce aka fordyce.

Nice! Did you run it up or down towards Buck? I haven't tried Old Sluice. There is one spot where it seems almost impossible to do in an 80 without lots of body damage:

 

[cybrstar]

Nice! Did you run it up or down towards Buck? I haven't tried Old Sluice. There is one spot where it seems almost impossible to do in an 80 without lots of body damage:

Ran down towards buck, and yeah the spot is right after the memorial is a VERY tight squeeze, But there were about 3 others but not quite like this one.

My quarter panel and rear passenger light almost blew up, but only suffered very light scratches with my buddy trying to push the land cruiser off the rock, lol, wish I had a picture of it.

I tell you, these 80’s are no joke. They can hang with the best of them. With the right spotter, 37’s, 4 inch lift, armor, rear Aussie, hand throttle (torro cable)......and some cahones!
It’ll bring you where you need to go!

First time I ran the con this month my 315’s actually were only 33.2’s.

 

[cybrstar]

@jcardona1 that was the rock! It looks like it was over a little. I had to ride the driver side but not that steep of an angle, but very close to it.
Here is the same picture going down. I’m right in back of him.

 

[jcardona1]

Ran down towards buck, and yeah the spot is right after the memorial is a VERY tight squeeze, But there were about 3 others but not quite like this one.

My quarter panel and rear passenger light almost blew up, but only suffered very light scratches with my buddy trying to push the land cruiser off the rock, lol, wish I had a picture of it.

I tell you, these 80’s are no joke. They can hang with the best of them. With the right spotter, 37’s, 4 inch lift, armor, rear Aussie, hand throttle (torro cable)......and some cahones!
It’ll bring you where you need to go!

First time I ran the con this month my 315’s actually were only 33.2’s.

Impressive Makes me feel better about taking mine through there

 

[cybrstar]

We should start a thread in where did you bring your 80 through this weekend!

 

[supercarrera]

Replaced the VSV to hopefully fix my code 71. The old VSV failed the continuity and resistance test so hopefully that was the only problem. I drove to work today and no CEL so far.

 

[izzyandsue]

Overland Expo East at the Biltmore was this past weekend, great time with great people. And way too many cool vehicles to post, thousands of people there, and gadgets galore. Didnt buy the titanium, TEQ engraved, toilette paper holder, but a new machete and summer tent. Made lots of new friends, taught a couple of classes, and learned from many others.

 

[Box Rocket]

I'm starting to supplement my use of paper maps on trips. Picked up an iPad mini and running Gaia GPS. Been a really cool app so far. Took a simple approach to mounting, I've been using a Cellet mag mount for my phone for a while and it's worked great and has been solid even on rough roads. Picked up two similar mag mounts for the iPad mini. It's surprisingly solid. Simple and effective.

 

[retrofive]

I'm starting to supplement my use of paper maps on trips. Picked up an iPad mini and running Gaia GPS. Been a really cool app so far. Took a simple approach to mounting, I've been using a Cellet mag mount for my phone for a while and it's worked great and has been solid even on rough roads. Picked up two similar mag mounts for the iPad mini. It's surprisingly solid. Simple and effective.

I need to do this. Been playing with bosses mag mounts, they have held everything great so far.

 

[Fj81]

I finally put on my caster plates! Hopefully the tendency to wander goes away.

 

[retrofive]

I finally put on my caster plates! Hopefully the tendency to wander goes away.

Plates were one of the better moves I ever made after some lift.

 

[Rob1983]

Great rack!
Let's see more of that

I see what you did there