What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (59 Viewers)

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Not all this weekend but got her home (nice to be in an 80 again!)

Started getting the interior clean. Pressure washer on the carpet, extractor on the seats and dry vapour steamer on pretty much everything else. Also got a haul of parts delivered 🎉
So far with @Indestructible 47 help installed new blue hub with 50ml of 10000 cst oil to replace some aftermarket that was mediocre at best, replaced drive flanges (much less backlash in driveline), replaced PO's incorrect size front driveshaft hardware with OE, replaced some blown dash lights, removed the PO's lacklustre LED spotlights and got some FYRLYTS installed and a thorough clean and degrease of the engine bay and underbody. Will need oil pump O-ring at least, maybe oil pan reseal or rear main as well.

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My HDJ80 from Europe has a fuzzy headliner but no fuzz on the pillar trim. Yours looks the same, ya?

I hate the fuzz, it stains far too easy and can’t really be cleaned. We have been having the headliner covered in a headliner fabric you can actually clean.

On the pillar trim, I discovered under the fuzz is the same as non-US Cruisers. Just textured plastic but the glue to adhere the fuzz is no joke.

Cheers
 
I see you are in Utah, but just FYI I used the same exhaust flex joint and here in North Carolina the road salt ate that thing up in one winter. Replaced it and it was gone again in another year and a half.
Crazy, that seems fast. It definitely doesn't look as pretty as when I installed it but seems to be holding up ok. I went with a 304 stainless system to try to get as much corrosion resistance as possible. I wish I didn't have to drive in the winter but that's the perfect time to go camping in southern Utah

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My HDJ80 from Europe has a fuzzy headliner but no fuzz on the pillar trim. Yours looks the same, ya?

I hate the fuzz, it stains far too easy and can’t really be cleaned. We have been having the headliner covered in a headliner fabric you can actually clean.

On the pillar trim, I discovered under the fuzz is the same as non-US Cruisers. Just textured plastic but the glue to adhere the fuzz is no joke.

Cheers
Yep, same here. It's difficult to clean for sure, although a dry vapour steamer is about as good as I've found to clean.
 
Thanks.

Acceleration from a dead stop is basically the same, so not going to win any 0-60 races, but that's not what it's designed for. Instead, you now get a truck that can not only keep up with traffic on a long mountain inclines, you can actually pass people already going at high speeds. Since I am also breaking in a new engine as well, I didn't exercise the new setup too much, but it was cool when I needed to. The LC now pulls like a freight train at speed, and cruising at higher speeds is no problem especially at higher elevations too (CO and NM where I am at 5000-12000 ft. most of the time). The turbo just makes the LC so much more enjoyable and drivable, but having the confidence to accelerate with a sense of urgency from any speed once moving is a whole new experience.
Take it easy on that motor with all that new powerrrrr!!!
 
Upgraded my lighting tenfold with HIDs. Threw on some old school xenon hella rallye 4000s. Still preforms great.
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Finally got around to doing a projector retrofit on my depos. Used the DDM tuning kit- little under $200 for everything compared to the $500 morimoto.
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Just eyeballing the cutoff. Easily one of best improvements I’ve done.
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Upgraded my lighting tenfold with HIDs. Threw on some old school xenon hella rallye 4000s. Still preforms great.
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Finally got around to doing a projector retrofit on my depos. Used the DDM tuning kit- little under $200 for everything compared to the $500 morimoto.
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Just eyeballing the cutoff. Easily one of best improvements I’ve done.
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Now that is cool. Though aux lights keep popping up for cheap I don’t think people realize how good they are. And great job on the retrofit! parts list? Sure more will be interested in what you used since that project can get outa control quickly for costs.
 
Sorry to be a buzzkill but how is this 80 series related?
Looks like it isnt.

But on a related to that off topic note, I am selling my 40.


Someone here please buy it, these things are the worst
 
Now that is cool. Though aux lights keep popping up for cheap I don’t think people realize how good they are. And great job on the retrofit! parts list? Sure more will be interested in what you used since that project can get outa control quickly for costs.
Details on this? Was about to go Morimoto myself
Did a small write up here: HID retrofit how to - Depos and morimoto mini d2s projectors - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/hid-retrofit-how-to-depos-and-morimoto-mini-d2s-projectors.1040012/post-15615850
 

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