What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (78 Viewers)

[BamaCruzer]

Painted grill, emblem, and center caps. Also replaced antenna mast and removed old, cracked rear emblem.

 

[GW Nugget]

I know I'm a noob here but where did you get the 200000 mile sticker/badge? Do the make a 300000 miles one? I shouod hit that before the end of the year.

Unofficial Toyota High Mileage Badges.

To purchase easier - Toyota/Lexus High Mileage Club - https://3b59c7.myshopify.com/ -I will always answer the email listed here as well to send out a invoice to avoid paying website costs. Tends to be cheaper too without all their fees. We've all thought about it. I have dreamed of it. Decided...

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[NC LX]

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.

2nd battery highlighted below. Its a slim Odyssey rated at 16 amp hours. It’s zero gauge welding wire from the starter battery. Way overkill.

The inverter is there for any reason you may need 110v. I guess the the same reason one may carry anything extra. You never know and it’s better to have it and not need it than the other way around.

 

[OffRoadScott]

For the last week, I have been having a soft pedal for the first 2 compressions of the brake pedal and the 3rd is usually rock hard. With the power of the web and asking a few people, I have come to the conclusion that it could be either the master cylinder or the booster or both.

So today in preparation for the worst I removed the ABS and LSPV. As a reference I used: JeepinPete's ABS/LSPV delete great write up by the way @JeepinPete I only took one picture of the whole process and that was of when I had the ABS pump out.

My routing of the brake lines is not as clean as JeepinPete's neither is my engine bay. But this should give you a good idea of how much more room you should have after deleting the ABS.

The only issue I had with the LSPV was unbolting it from the frame. But I removed the nuts that hold the LSPV to the bracket and got it off that way. There are 4 bolts that hold the bracket on are accessible, 2 are easy to get to the others are a pain in the ass. They are up between the frame and gas tank.

Tomorrow I will bring some brake fluid home and refilling the reservoir and bleeding them with the help of the wife on Tuesday.

 

[SNLC]

The shop Cruiser kills it again.

Cheers

 

[ThaiCruiser]

New front brakes and OME bushings in.

Before and after

 

[Bryanseye]

Hauled my oven

 

[thatcabledude]

Looked down and noticed something.

 

[LC4LIFE]

Made a quick 100mile loop to just get out of town and do some weboost cell booster testing on a known poor coverage route. You can see the small magnet base antenna on my roof. Generally speaking, it won't create a signal where there isn't one, but if you have any signal at all it really helps. My wife and daughter run T-Mobile and I run Verizon. Typically, their phones are always loosing signal, but this trip their phones had no issue. It was a nice surprise. Also, finalized and shipped some battery cables I was asked to build, along with the fender and firewall grounds. I also built a custom EGR test harness for a fellow mudder. An uneventful, but good weekend.

 

[KrOswalt]

Hit what is possibly the best single day trail in Alabama, sadly it’s private property and they’ve started locking the gates to the public. Got to use the snatch block and winch to pull up a Jeep that had a broken winch, and a Chinese made buggy that broke his driveshaft attempting to climb a tough little rock ledge. I need to get started on removing my flares, setting up my suspension for sway bar disconnects, and fixing the tie rod that I bent.

 

[KrOswalt]

Made a quick 100mile loop to just get out of town and do some weboost cell booster testing on a known poor coverage route. You can see the small magnet base antenna on my roof. Generally speaking, it won't create a signal where there isn't one, but if you have any signal at all it really helps. My wife and daughter run T-Mobile and I run Verizon. Typically, their phones are always loosing signal, but this trip their phones had no issue. It was a nice surprise. Also, finalized and shipped some battery cables I was asked to build, along with the fender and firewall grounds. I also built a custom EGR test harness for a fellow mudder. An uneventful, but good weekend.



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Are those bolts with a simple rubber washer underneath? Removing my OEM roof rack and plastic runners is pretty high on my list

 

[LC4LIFE]

I haven't had good luck with rubber washers. They always seem to dry out and crack with time. I landed on stainless button head bolts with windshield urethane. That has been a successful solution for me for years now.

 

[Qball]

2nd battery highlighted below. Its a slim Odyssey rated at 16 amp hours. It’s zero gauge welding wire from the starter battery. Way overkill. View attachment 2067361

The inverter is there for any reason you may need 110v. I guess the the same reason one may carry anything extra. You never know and it’s better to have it and not need it than the other way around.

Just curious on what your use case for the 16 amp hour battery? Because a fridge can get through 16 amp hours in 3 hours or trigger medium battery protection(12.8) on most fridges in 2 hours of continuous load. If you have fridge in mind and want more than 1 day of run time in warm weather you probably need at least 60-80 amp hour battery and maybe solar too.

 

[Box Rocket]

Took my two older boys out to the desert to help with Canguro Racing for the Knolls 200. The Canguro 200 (Monica) was lumped into a group of all unlimited trucks for the race. Beat all of them with the exception of a Spec Trophy Truck. Happy with the 2nd place in a stock class rig racing a group of unlimiteds.

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[LandCruiserPhil]

At 200K I thought I changed all my fluids but I almost overlooked the final fluid change. Last done 75K ago, fresh 50ml of 20K in my Eaton fan clutch was needed.

 

[jcardona1]

Not too many times where a 3rd gen will dwarf an 80 but there you go...

Side note - cell phone cameras sure have come a long way. Just picked up the Galaxy S10 and it takes some incredible pictures for a smartphone. This ain't your grandpappy's Motorola Razr anymore.

 

[Bama4door]

Hit what is possibly the best single day trail in Alabama, sadly it’s private property and they’ve started locking the gates to the public. Got to use the snatch block and winch to pull up a Jeep that had a broken winch, and a Chinese made buggy that broke his driveshaft attempting to climb a tough little rock ledge. I need to get started on removing my flares, setting up my suspension for sway bar disconnects, and fixing the tie rod that I bent.

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Where in AL is this?

 

[KrOswalt]

Where in AL is this?

Brookewood, Camp Cherry Austin. It’s an old mining site, tunnels are from an old rail road that I’m assuming they ran some sort of carts down, obviously no way they could fit a locomotive in those tunnels. Lots of graded trails that used to be railroad beds, couple miles of shallow creek, tons of trails we’ve yet to explore, and a giant rock you can jump off of into the Holt/Bankhead lake to end the trip. Wish someone with some money would lease it and turn it into an off-road park, if you could sort the legal side out it wouldn’t take much to make a park out of it

 

[JK47]

Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout

Pacific Crest Trail, Sierra City, CA 96125

Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout - Google Search

Usually wheel in from camp and do the hike. This was a day trip, so I parked at head of hiking trail and did the ass kicking hike. Then 2.5 hours wheeling after...

Damm

 

[rex in bama]

Brookewood, Camp Cherry Austin. It’s an old mining site, tunnels are from an old rail road that I’m assuming they ran some sort of carts down, obviously no way they could fit a locomotive in those tunnels. Lots of graded trails that used to be railroad beds, couple miles of shallow creek, tons of trails we’ve yet to explore, and a giant rock you can jump off of into the Holt/Bankhead lake to end the trip. Wish someone with some money would lease it and turn it into an off-road park, if you could sort the legal side out it wouldn’t take much to make a park out of it

Sheesh , wish I’d known about that place when growing up in t-town - though maybe it was a good thing I did not.