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What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (19 Viewers)
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What Bow is that?
Great choice on the brake kit !
Did you use a spacer to eliminate the dust shield ?
Did you use a spacer to eliminate the dust shield ?
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The dust shield? I just took them off when I went through the axle. Unlike the mini truck axle it doesn’t affect the offset of all the parts.
Whoops myself..
Nothing special, just a little Barnett 26lb compound for the kids to play with. I ain't a hunter or anything, but i been thinking of picking up something for myself to play with.
Today I am getting ready for a trip want to replace rear hatch shocks and rear wiper, belts are squeaking on start up. Rear side window is vinyl taped up gonna check it out. Trip is 350 round trip in April in Florida . Been driving it just super pumped 4 day trip .
COS80
SILVER Star
Where is that? looks awesome!
Cougar Buttes, SoCal.
NeverFinis
SILVER Star
Wired up a pair of BD driving lights using an AliExpress harness... I know...caviar with a side of fries...A man got cut costs where he can.
AliExpress Switch
I connected the Aliexpress harness to the original toyota light high beam harness as I was running the Slee Light Harness which uses its own relays and fuses. I wanted to limit the BD lights to only be available when the high beams were on.
But...driving home in the early dusk on Monday, with the lights on, someone flashed their high beams at me. It turns out my high beams and the BD lights were on! I couldn't see my high beam indicator in the cluster because it was hidden behind a scan gauge II and because this was early dusk, the lights were barely visible to me. . I couldn't turn off the high beams at all if the lights were on.
I must have been blinding people...
Toyota ground switches the lights, which I knew. The AliExpress switch/relay is positive switched, with all grounds tied together. In addition, the BD lights are grounded to their body, which were ground through the bumper, to the frame, which was the ultimate problem. They do have a ground wire. What I had done is grounded everything, bypassing the Toyota stalk, forcing high beams on whenever the lights were on.
Because the BD light bodies were grounded, there was no way to isolate the grounds independently.
The fix, cut two of the ground wires (BD Lights, and Switch LED) from the relay, and run them directly to ground. The ground wire remaining, for the activation coil, was run to the Toyota high beam harness.
The relay only gets power and ground, for the activation coil, from the high beam harness here. The R-Y wire is the switched high beam GND wire. The R-L wire always has power if the lights are on.
I cut off the Toyota light connecter and used a deutsch connector. It was actually a spliced repair harness, so I didn't feel to bad cutting it off.
I paid $14.95 for a complete wiring harness, including switch. I mean, if it works, it works.
AliExpress Switch
I connected the Aliexpress harness to the original toyota light high beam harness as I was running the Slee Light Harness which uses its own relays and fuses. I wanted to limit the BD lights to only be available when the high beams were on.
But...driving home in the early dusk on Monday, with the lights on, someone flashed their high beams at me. It turns out my high beams and the BD lights were on! I couldn't see my high beam indicator in the cluster because it was hidden behind a scan gauge II and because this was early dusk, the lights were barely visible to me. . I couldn't turn off the high beams at all if the lights were on.
I must have been blinding people...Toyota ground switches the lights, which I knew. The AliExpress switch/relay is positive switched, with all grounds tied together. In addition, the BD lights are grounded to their body, which were ground through the bumper, to the frame, which was the ultimate problem. They do have a ground wire. What I had done is grounded everything, bypassing the Toyota stalk, forcing high beams on whenever the lights were on.
Because the BD light bodies were grounded, there was no way to isolate the grounds independently.
The fix, cut two of the ground wires (BD Lights, and Switch LED) from the relay, and run them directly to ground. The ground wire remaining, for the activation coil, was run to the Toyota high beam harness.
The relay only gets power and ground, for the activation coil, from the high beam harness here. The R-Y wire is the switched high beam GND wire. The R-L wire always has power if the lights are on.
I cut off the Toyota light connecter and used a deutsch connector. It was actually a spliced repair harness, so I didn't feel to bad cutting it off.
I paid $14.95 for a complete wiring harness, including switch. I mean, if it works, it works.
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Cool front bumper!
Old Nick
GOLD Star
x2. Delta stuff is not only attractive, it's strong as all get out. We're going to save to buy a Delta swingout for my wife's 80.
Loaded it up for the trip to the Land Cruiser Roundup.
suzuguru
SILVER Star
Got it back from full engine rebuild, injection pump, turbo, clutch, pressure plate, etc... , Sumo low-range gears in the t-case, part-time 4wd kit, and full stainless 3" exhaust.
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Nice work.
How come they didn’t change out the factory HVAC hoses that look sketchy as hell and an 87240-60160 that looks like it would crumble in my hand?
How come they didn’t change out the factory HVAC hoses that look sketchy as hell and an 87240-60160 that looks like it would crumble in my hand?
suzuguru
SILVER Star
You got me. I guess that will be up to me.
If you value the monetary investment you just made on an -FT rebuild, I would address.
suzuguru
SILVER Star
Doesn't look too bad in person, but it's a cheap fix, so I will address it. They were actually supposed to do that, but failed to do so.
Head complete. Now to take care of some pistons, rings and cons.
NeverFinis
SILVER Star
Does it count if you install it before the weekend? Was supposed to arrive this coming Monday and I got surprised today with an early delivery.
Delta VS flip up table with stove extension. In the background, 5 lb propane mount, and bumper swing arm extension. Not shown, Stash Pocket, mounted on the other swing arm.
Delta VS flip up table with stove extension. In the background, 5 lb propane mount, and bumper swing arm extension. Not shown, Stash Pocket, mounted on the other swing arm.
