What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend?
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CrabCake
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I took mine off to do the upgraded cooler like the Witt's End kit...pieced it together myself and installed in a couple of hours. Bigger cooler definitely helps my growling when out on the trail, mainly long, slow uphill climbs when it would get noisy. Yours would be a breeze to install it on without the radiator in there (if it's still out). I wanted to try and save my OEM part, but had to do a fair bit of bending to do so. Upgrade cost me about $140 in Amazon parts.You’re right it’s not discontinued but OEM is super expensive. Gotcha, I’ll look for some aftermarket ones. Thank you
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Would you mind sharing the list of needed parts?I took mine off to do the upgraded cooler like the Witt's End kit...pieced it together myself and installed in a couple of hours. Bigger cooler definitely helps my growling when out on the trail, mainly long, slow uphill climbs when it would get noisy. Yours would be a breeze to install it on without the radiator in there (if it's still out). I wanted to try and save my OEM part, but had to do a fair bit of bending to do so. Upgrade cost me about $140 in Amazon parts.
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Ran the rattlesnake trail out at 5 mile pass. Tested flex with the sway bar disconnect.
Front birfs and axles replaced with RCV 30 spline inner chromoly upgrade. Hasn’t been too many miles since full rebuild so only replaced inner axle seals and a couple of the paper seals. Also finally installed the Trail Gear outer preload washer kit I bought years ago.
Ran a bead on this and ordered the @Delta VS brace kit, which I’ll install with steering box rebuild/upgrade.
Ran a bead on this and ordered the @Delta VS brace kit, which I’ll install with steering box rebuild/upgrade.
Took a ride in Bankhead Forest
Drove it into the woods, slept in the back, saw some moose.
I installed the auxiliary fan kit from Maxflate Air systems to my rig. Easy to install only caveat was that you needed to print out the installation instructions from their website but other than that everything else was included. Tested the aux. fan while over-landing this weekend and worked as advertised.
Did you check clearance with the heads of those screws? They have been known to rub on the drive flange until it wears off the head of the screw or cuts a hole in the flange.
I changed mine with the pan head style screw as suggested in other threads here when I installed them in order to avoid the issue.
Bought a (used) lift and started putting it together.
Got angry because my ladder was to short to properly set up the columns. Fooled around with the crane and checked tire fitment to calm down.
Please excuse all that crap in the background, im still in the middle of moving in to the new shop...
Oh, and i got a "new" drill. Made around 1880, still works perfectly.
Got angry because my ladder was to short to properly set up the columns. Fooled around with the crane and checked tire fitment to calm down.
Please excuse all that crap in the background, im still in the middle of moving in to the new shop...
Oh, and i got a "new" drill. Made around 1880, still works perfectly.
Been battling a shaking steering wheel under braking for awhile. Most of the time it is minor, but sometimes it gets worse. Already replaced all four calipers as the front passenger side had sticky pistons and pulled hard to one side under braking. Still have a shaking steering wheel some of the time, so moved onto the discs or rotors I've had in the corner for awhile. Was also worried it might be a loosening wheel bearing, so dug in while the weather was still nice and had some time.
One drive flange was RTV'd while the other had an OEM gasket. Found out my lock washers have been abused and re-used many times by prior mechanics. Both of the tangs on the thrust washer were pretty beat up too, and have some noticable gouging I can feel on the faces. Lock nuts have the usual cuts and dings but nothing terrible so going to reuse both sets. Local dealer doesn't have any of this is stock but will have it ready by 8am tomorrow. Should have pre-ordered these just to have on hand but didn't really plan this right.
Haven't done this job in a 20+ years, so help me out:
Should the thrust washer be able to rotate in the spindle threads when torquing the inner lock nut to 43ft lbs?
Should the lock washer be able to rotate when torquing the outer lock nut?
I think the answer is NO to both, so hence ordering all new stuff. The inner tabs on my lock washer and thrust washer hardly engage the channel in the spindle, allowing these to spin/rotate when applying torque. But tomorrow when I got to button all this up, I want to be sure I'm doing it right.
Also wasn't expecting to find Timken bearings. With some discoloration on the inner surface of both. Nothing I can feel with a fingernail, but wondering if this is something to worry about or possible reasons for this.
Spindles seem OK. No wear that I can feel with a fingernail
One drive flange was RTV'd while the other had an OEM gasket. Found out my lock washers have been abused and re-used many times by prior mechanics. Both of the tangs on the thrust washer were pretty beat up too, and have some noticable gouging I can feel on the faces. Lock nuts have the usual cuts and dings but nothing terrible so going to reuse both sets. Local dealer doesn't have any of this is stock but will have it ready by 8am tomorrow. Should have pre-ordered these just to have on hand but didn't really plan this right.
Haven't done this job in a 20+ years, so help me out:
Should the thrust washer be able to rotate in the spindle threads when torquing the inner lock nut to 43ft lbs?
Should the lock washer be able to rotate when torquing the outer lock nut?
I think the answer is NO to both, so hence ordering all new stuff. The inner tabs on my lock washer and thrust washer hardly engage the channel in the spindle, allowing these to spin/rotate when applying torque. But tomorrow when I got to button all this up, I want to be sure I'm doing it right.
Also wasn't expecting to find Timken bearings. With some discoloration on the inner surface of both. Nothing I can feel with a fingernail, but wondering if this is something to worry about or possible reasons for this.
Spindles seem OK. No wear that I can feel with a fingernail
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Been busy working on the HDJ80.
Differentials, T-case, engine oil, and fuel filter all fluids changed.
Tinted rear windows 5% for some privacy, front windows will get tinted in a day or so 15%.
Built custom brackets out of old street sign aluminum and a metal brake for my over head storage system.
ACSD got deleted.
LED headlight upgrade, as well as turn signals and reverse bulbs,
Hoping to start on the coastal off road front bumper this coming weekend.
Last but not least was a good wash and some drone photos.
Differentials, T-case, engine oil, and fuel filter all fluids changed.
Tinted rear windows 5% for some privacy, front windows will get tinted in a day or so 15%.
Built custom brackets out of old street sign aluminum and a metal brake for my over head storage system.
ACSD got deleted.
LED headlight upgrade, as well as turn signals and reverse bulbs,
Hoping to start on the coastal off road front bumper this coming weekend.
Last but not least was a good wash and some drone photos.