What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (71 Viewers)

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Looks good! I'm waiting for the QPM's to come back in stock!

Where is the aux battery located? Long wire runs to that ACR if both batteries are under the hood.

What is the inverter going to be used for? I'm always curious as to why folks want/ need to run inverters when things like laptops and camera battery chargers can be 12v.
The Aux battery is in the lower right corner of the pic in the perforated case. Laptop chargers anf power supplies are typically 19V.
 
Took a picture

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After 7yrs with the truck I finally setup my center console with auxiliary power and fixed the mounting of all my gadgets. Details of all the parts used here in my build thread: Builds - Evolution of a Land Cruiser: My 80's build thread

Ordering a bunch of parts

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External antenna

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Wiring

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Outlets

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Wits End to the rescue!

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Mounting

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Ready for takeoff

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Just decided screw it, it’s Friday! Leaving the gear in the truck, heading out tomorrow morning to run a good trail and camp up at 10,000ft next to a lake.

Why not!? ;)

Cheers
 
What color?
Very light gray. So light that when both are mounted, I can see VERY little difference between the color of the sun visors and the headliner. My interior is the stock oak color.
Here are the old and new pics.

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After 7yrs with the truck I finally setup my center console with auxiliary power and fixed the mounting of all my gadgets. Details of all the parts used here in my build thread: Builds - Evolution of a Land Cruiser: My 80's build thread

Ordering a bunch of parts

5Ej1hwuh.jpg


External antenna

q8Lz0JTh.jpg


Wiring

3mA9QBRh.jpg


Outlets

5OOE9tEh.jpg


PvpSQCGh.jpg


Wits End to the rescue!

SiPjF6ph.jpg


Mounting

tTLwbldh.jpg


Ready for takeoff

m4OrS0zh.jpg
Nice setup, please report back on overall stability and some long term testing with that much stuff on those mounts. I'm still rocking my Satellite Dish mount/RAM ball tree setup which is rock solid but I'd like to push everything back towards the dash a bit and I've been contemplating this very setup.
 
Very light gray. So light that when both are mounted, I can see VERY little difference between the color of the sun visors and the headliner. My interior is the stock oak color.
Good to hear that's such a hard to discern match. I'm rocking the mid-90s Chrysler New Yorker dual visors in Gray and they are almost a perfect color match for my Oak LX interior.
 
Deleted the original roof rack. Got rid of any rust, drilled out the rivet nuts with 3/8" bit, sloppily primed and painted with Duplicolor products and installed well nuts with nylon washers and stainless hardware I believe is made for motorcycle windscreens.

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Well, it’s all clean and ready to go. Installed new rear brakes yesterday, bled what looked like 20yr old brake fluid all out of it and it’s ready to rock and roll.

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Have a good weekend ya all, I know I will! :)

Cheers
 
2nd attempt at changing the tie rods and steering damper was a success. Went ahead and got the center links so all that's new. Up next is a new speedo cable, air filter, and removing the third row seats.
 

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