What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend?

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SNLC said:
The shop Cruiser kills it again.

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I know that location... One of my favorite spots! I always get funny looks from the UTV guys and questions along the lines of "you brought that up here?"

Unfortunately I've been too busy with work, life, and a couple of needed repairs to make it this year. Made 5 trips last year camping in various spots up top each time.
 
Utah and Colorado over the last six days. It was all simply awesome. Spent it with my father and my son.
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pawnthatdude said:
Not beyond what I noted. The battery cable presented itself earlier, though. Twice in Canada on the way up, the truck wouldn't start after stopping for gas. I would wait a few minutes and then it would start. I thought my starter was going bad. But since tightening the cable I have had no problems starting.




Here's an album of some I took. They aren't really in any order.
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Awesome photos. That is a trip I'd really like to do. If you don't mind, PM me with your overall fuel costs. Sure appreciate it!
 
pawnthatdude said:
This weekend I finished up a 2 month 10,000 mile trip from Colorado to Alaska and back.

Rough summary: On the way up, went through Wyomining, Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Stopped for a few days to finish the northern 110 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail so I've now done the whole thing. Continued through BC eventually north on the Cassiar Highway then Alaska Highway to Anchorage. Did a lot of trail running in the connected road system and spent time in Cordova (without the Cruiser). Picked up my girlfriend before heading north to Fairbanks and then the Dalton Highway to Prudhoe Bay. Got snow in mid august in the Brooks Range. Swam in the Arctic Ocean. Drove back through Dawson City, then the Cassiar Highway again to Washington. More PCT stuff. Back through a different Washington/Idaho route to Wyoming for a Wind River backpacking trip. Then back home very late yesterday and back at work today!

The Cruiser did well. Some notes:
  • Got an oil change and tire rotation in Anchorage half way through. Driving back, there was basically no oil consumption until the last 1k or so driving back into the lower 48 (where it was generally a lot hotter driving conditions). Now the dip stick is half-way between L and F with almost exactly 5k miles on the oil and 213k on the engine. Pretty impressive I think.
  • Haven't run all the MPG numbers, but seems to be right on 13 average. Best and worst MPG were on the same section of I-80 in Wyoming. On the way up I had a horrible headwind. Literally fighting to maintain 50-55mph on the interstate and I had to stop early to get more gas. On the way back in the opposite direction I drafted a semi from a safe distance with a minor tailwind. And besides crossing eastern Washington on the way back, this was the only interstate I took.
  • Some sections gas was really expensive and man it was painful on my wallet. Lots of $4/gallon+ in northern Canda. $5/gallon+ on the Dalton Highway.
  • The Dalton Highway was a little rough. I broke 2 exhaust hangers (or maybe 1 was already broken but not noticed) so my exhaust tail end is held with some scavenged wire. It also seemed to have killed my 9011 low beam bulbs. Both burned out north of Fairbanks with about 15k miles on them. I had my old stock bulbs so I put those back in. But driving at night sucked after that. Also the road rattled one of my battery terminals just loose enough that the truck wouldn't start/no sign of life at the highest/most remote part of the road on Atigun Pass. This was quite alarming until I tightened the terminal!
It was a hell of a trip.

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I handled for a musher in the Yukon Quest a couple years ago. Dawson City is the mid-point so we ended up spending almost 3 days there. Super cool town that I def want to experience in the summer at some point. -40 doesn't make for the most enjoyable walking around experience.

Did get to witness what I consider an honorable thing that's too rare these days. Sitting at the bar and a couple guys ended up taking issue with each other (over what I have no idea). So they both got up, took off their nice shirts (basically their flannel with the least number of holes), went outside, beat the piss out of one another, and went inside and bought each other drinks.

Anyway, sounds like a hell of a trip. Did you post more pics anywhere?

Edit- Hadn't made it to your post with the album yet but I found that one. Will check it out later!
 
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abeljc84 said:
Got dusty hitting 307k miles in SE Oregon. Hit the Steens Mountain Loop camped one night at 7k feet elevation then camped on the Alvord Desert. Can you spot the LC in the bottom pic? 😜

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I was blown away when we were at Alvord. Had just had a bunch of rain and the lake bed (while still rock solid) had an inch of water sitting on top of it. It was pretty surreal to drive across it. Like driving on top of water.

We didn't make the whole Steens loop. It was whiteout conditions and 4-6 inches of snow already near the top (early October last year). Some of the group members weren't comfortable with it so we turned around near the top. Hoping to get back at some point!
 
OffRoadScott said:
I finally finished up my 1.5 weeks long ABS/LSPV delete. Along with deleting the ABS and LSPV I installed a new booster and master cylinder too.

So this morning before it got too hot here in AZ I went and bled the brakes on my Land Cruiser. I used the Mityvac MV8000 Vacuum/Bleeder from Harbor Freight. The bleeder made things so much easier than the two men method. The only thing that I had to do was make sure I stopped every so often to ensure I was not emptying out the reservoir. For peace of mind, I bleed the system a full 3 times to ensure that I was getting clean new fluid out of the bleeder screws.

The with the newish booster/master and deleting the LSPV and ABS pump the brakes are so much better now. Here in a few months, I will be replacing the axle to caliper lines with stainless steel lines. I have the frame to axle lines in now and I am sure that has helped the feeling in the pedal.

The Mityvac was a great purchase, it cost me $45 and came with a few attachments for bleeding and testing different vacuum parts on cars. It also came with some great reviews versus the 2 others available at Harbor Freight. One of the reviews I watched the gentleman mentioned that he had his for nearly 10 years.
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Ill be needing one of those when i replace my abs and on the wifes car when it needs brakes.
 
LC4LIFE said:
Utah and Colorado over the last six days. It was all simply awesome. Spent it with my father and my son.
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Awesome! Is that rimrocker trail to the UT-CO state line? Def not Kokopelli...
 
LC4LIFE said:
Yes sir, Rimrocker it is.
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Thanks. Looking at a trip out that way the end of this month. That trail was still closed in May when i did a 2 week trip out to UT and AZ unfortunately. By the way, i need to swing by and get some of those e50 extinguishers from you at some point!
 
pnwcruiser said:
Started on the journey to replace the oil pump seal (rounded one screw head, grrr), replace the harmonic balancer crank bolt seal (thank you 3/4" breaker bar and starter motor), replace the radiator, and remove the lateral arms using my 3ton floor jack and 1/2" breaker bar for muscle on the 24mm bolts.

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Seriously what kind of camera is that amazing picture
 
JK47 said:
Seriously what kind of camera is that amazing picture
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That's my spectacular OnePlus cellphone and off camera Snapon LED shop light.
 
We went camping down in Lake Cuyamaca, Ca. I was in charge of carrying dogs, grilling rib eye, sharing a shower with a centipede
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and making my wife's F150 look little. A Jeep guy and I crawled under the front end of the FzJ80 to be sure it was as awesome as we thought.

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4 days chillin' at Pismo.

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EvanD said:
I was blown away when we were at Alvord. Had just had a bunch of rain and the lake bed (while still rock solid) had an inch of water sitting on top of it. It was pretty surreal to drive across it. Like driving on top of water.

We didn't make the whole Steens loop. It was whiteout conditions and 4-6 inches of snow already near the top (early October last year). Some of the group members weren't comfortable with it so we turned around near the top. Hoping to get back at some point!
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Alvord is really incredible, I got to see it for the first time when its known by locals as "the playa". I went to the lake bed last spring when driving across it meant getting stuck in a few inches of mud for sure, I drove a little on the fringe of the water where it wasnt too deep and like driving on ice, donuts and drifting was a lot of fun untill it came to cleaning all the mud off.... never again... to this day I think there is still sediment coming out from the crevasis' of the body, hot spring employees were surprised i didnt get stuck, I got lucky I guess 😂 Id love to do the loop in some snow, even deep stuff wouldnt scare me if I can make it before the road is closed for the winter I'm down.
 
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