What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (40 Viewers)

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Trigger6 said:
That is extremely clean, especially if you have been running with leaking valve seals for a long period of time.

Now is also a great time to replace the fuel injector o-rings, pre-emptively wrap the fuel injector harness wiring with fiberglass wrap, as well as replace the fuel pressure regulator (on the fuel rail)

looking further…. might want think about also replacing those heater hoses and heater valve. they look original (other than the blue inlet hose). Might set you back a couple of days getting back on the road, but they are soooo much easier to access with the throttle body and valve cover removed.
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Thanks!

The PO (Dogfishlake, AKA Bowfin Cruisers) did a good job on the PM headgasket job ~70k miles ago. The head got a full service at the machine shop, but they used non-OEM seals that failed quickly. ARP Head studs, Valve lash adjusted, Injectors cleaned / re-ringed, as well as wrapping the wire harness and replacing the coolant valve. The headers pretty much block off the EGR tube at the head, so I don't expect the EGR to get hot anymore. I'm not sure if the FPR was swapped at that time however.

I plan on replacing the rest of the coolant hoses / delete the rest of the rear heater next time I crack into the cooing system.

Thanks
-Rob
 
Fixed one tranny fluid cooler hose leak 2 weeks ago. Another one revealed itself:

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I was talking about
ChaseTruck said:
The trail can easily accommodate a full-size truck, but the moment someone comes the other way... well, I'm sure glad I didn't bring the K5 today. It was close enough with the two 80-series trucks. It is really neat up there, but it was a bit too hazy today for great landscape pix.
There's a fire burning, quite a bit further north, not sure that contributed to the haze.
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I was taking about the trip in general and that Claudia follows long with you.

Waiting in a wide spot for others to pass is common courtesy, and good trail etiquette and very cool also.
The Cruiser Head way. 😎
 
Broski said:
I was taking about the trip in general and that Claudia follows long with you…
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That’s basically since she got the LX. Back in the days when she drove the ‘40, more often than not she would be in the front - guess where my forum handle came from…:)

It’s actually interesting - she doesn’t fully trust the LX when it comes to trails that are technically more difficult, and would prefer the ‘40. Seems counterintuitive, but she drove the ‘40 on 10 Moab trips between 2005 and 2012 (CruiseMoab, BlazerBash, and once for EJS) - 4-speed stick, manual steering, skinny 33s, and ARBs f&r. She just knows what the truck would do at every obstacle. After that, life got in the way, we haven’t been to Moab since, and the LX hasn’t seen trails like e.g. Golden Spike.
The ‘40 has grown a bit - 5-speed manual, 315’s, ‘60 rear axle, more clearance on the sides due to Tools R Us-modified running boards, but is currently down with multiple frame cracks awaiting repairs.

I tend to lean towards the K5 on rocky trails, but I think I’ve gotten reasonably decent with the 80 by now. Probably due to having spotted the 80s in our group back then on those Moab trips, so I’m somewhat proficient at reading a line for an 80.
 
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tech_dog said:
My life got better after I got this oil filter socket.

Description was "73mm 14 flutes Bulk Filter Wrench" and it perfectly fits the 90915-YZZD3 oil filter.

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I have this and it rounded the filter edges. That's just when the war began.
 
The 80 got to spread its wings out on a duck hunt with the boys. It loves the muck just as much as they do.
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Broski said:
Sandstone Landcruisers maybe ? 😆
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:flipoff2: “Landkruzer”
I tried searching the name on the patch but the results took me to instagram. I don’t have an account there.
 
mrsleeve said:
Nice 87 I assume? There are a couple of us on here that were/are pretty heavy into the E30 world back a decade ago.
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Yeah you guys were probobly into e30s about the same time I was. I was on R3V forum a lot. I'm deautchman on there, but haven't posted in many many years. My first car was a drive way rescue '76 2002 that my dad's GF's x BF left behind, and she said if I towed it it was mine. Luckily she had the paperwork and everything. Then I had a '74 2002, a '91 e30 318i 4 door, and a '87 325e that got caged and i used for track days and autox. That one got sold to a dude here in Seattle who swapped a Honda K series into it. Then when I moved to WA I had a 2 door e30 318i for a short time. Wish I never sold that one. Some where in there I also had a e34 5 series station wagon with the small v8. Good times.
 
ERG80 said:
:flipoff2: “Landkruzer”
I tried searching the name on the patch but the results took me to instagram. I don’t have an account there.
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Me either 🤣
I guess you’re not getting the patch 😂
 
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