What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend?

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Finally got round to fitting my wood rimmed steering wheel, its about 3/4" smaller in diameter but thicker in the rim. Feels nice to drive.
In clearing out the garage I found a pair of 6" 130watt driving lights. Just the thing to fill the empty mounting points on the Bull Bar.
Also found a pair of big rectangular ones but the mounts were too close to the middle hoop to allow me to fit those. Found a smaller pair of rectangular spot lights which I'll mount on the back to bolster the reversing lights.
Found 2 pair of new Timken wheel bearing kits from my defunct HJ45 project, another donation to my Psuedo Son In Laws HJ60 project.
 
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New to the forum but put some 255/85/16 cooper st max tires on and some bilstine shocks on my beater
 
JHB Cruising said:
New to the forum but put some 255/85/16 cooper st max tires on and some bilstine shocks on my beater
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I really want those tires in 315....hopefully by the time mine wear out they'll make them in 315.

I went mountain biking with he LX(main reason I bought her when I first started...that was excuse anyways). The trail head was on a dirt lot and someone decided to carve a new slight up hill entrance that's off camber. The LX went up with no issues(of course) and had fun watching a new path finder try the same line couple of times and failed. One front tire in the air, a lot of skinny pedal and whole lot of dust, it was quite a show.
 
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Qball said:
I really want those tires in 315....hopefully by the time mine wear out they'll make them in 315.
I really like them so far. You can tell how heavy they are as soon as i started driving it. Very quite much more than i expected.
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Bled the brakes, greased the birfs, and washed it. All three happen about every two years so it's a big day around here. Damn it does look good clean though, maybe I should do that more often..
 
Finally out of the garage after a month. Belts changed, coolant flush and all hoses changed, new valve cover gasket, o-ring, oil pump seal, some vacuum hoses, fixed leak around back window, scrubbed rear carpet, new to me bfg tires on LC rims, throttle cleaned, etc.

Packed up the pull toy and went camping for the night with :princess: and 3 of 4 troops. :clap:
 
First highway test drive after a knuckle rebuild using Slee's 3 degree caster trunnion bearings. After driving for a year without caster correction I had forgotten how stable it could be at 80mph!
 
Got bumper back from paint


Installed custom hitch


Wired up 7-Pin
 
Took the toys out to get dirty, and the hatch struts are going - the dang hatch slammed on my head just after snapping this. So hatch and hood struts are on the to do list this week.

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^^I'm sure it's not as clean as yours, but it sure does get used and dirty...alot! And I'm finally at the point that I can keep it as an adventure vehicle and use the little car in town.
 
plutonius said:
^^I'm sure it's not as clean as yours, but it sure does get used and dirty...alot! And I'm finally at the point that I can keep it as an adventure vehicle and use the little car in town.
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I wouldn't say mine is very clean. It depresses me at times that it starts to show its age. True I don't get to play anywhere near as much as I want to. it kills me. My job situation has changed radically so now I have the freedom I so crave. In two weeks I'm doing a 5000 mile trip to Glacier, Yellowstone, Vancouver and places in between. Sooo looking forward to it.
 
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