What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (78 Viewers)

[CrabCake]

If you have gear oil leaking out of your compressor, your rear air locker is leaking internally and diff oil is coming up the air line. Disconnect the air line at the diff, activate the rear locker and see if diff oil comes shooting out of the line.
A new compressor won’t fix that.

Ah, good to note, thank you!!!

 

[alia176]

I finished up with the wind fairing v3.0, finally! Every version made it quieter on the hwy, and I've finally achieved what I've been shooting for, zero wind noise from the roof area.

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

FREE SHIPPING SALE- LOWER 48 ONLY

 

[harrydunn]

Installed some Ironman caster brackets. This is my pavement pounder 80 so not worried about the ground clearance. Fairly easy install if you've got some mechanical skills and perhaps a big ratchet strap. The 2nd side is much easier to get bolt holes to line up-no ratchet strap required. Their instructions are still kind of backwards for U.S. rigs but I knew that going in.

 

[leonard_nemoy]

I’ve had a rear end clunk that has been driving me nuts for a couple months now that I have been trying to track down.
The rear end would clunk/pop on almost every turn, like something was shifting back and forth once in each direction.
I rebuilt my rear LCP swaybar links, that helped with a creak from the heim joint but the clunk was still there.
I replaced my rear panhard bushings with new oem bushings. Clunk still there.
I checked every nut and bolt, all control arms are newish with new bushings.
Figure I should check the body mounts at this point. The rear most mounts are pretty well hidden with the 4x4 labs bumper but the cut out on the bottom let me shine a light in there and what would you know, signs of shifting were slightly present.
I took the rear bumper off to access the rear mounts, removed the plastic cover to access the top of the bolt and as soon as I put a wrench on the bolt it would spin, surprisingly loose. Both sides.
I backed off the lock nut, tightened the mount up and locked it back in place. Went for a test drive before I put the bumper back on and yahoo the clunk was gone!
Tossed the bumper back on and she is good to go.
Ignore all the nasty fluid film but it kind of helped show the little bit of movement at the top of the mount sliding on the body.
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Happy Merl.

I think heavy aftermarket rear bumpers cause this based on my experience with the same issue.

 

[Ecliff5]

I think heavy aftermarket rear bumpers cause this based on my experience with the same issue.

Quite possible. My basic 4x labs bumper without swings is on the lighter side of things. I’d imagine this issue would pop up for anyone with heavy swing outs with tires, gas cans and off road jacks and whatever else you can bolt onto it.
I had this same bumper on my old 80, +120k miles on those body mounts and no clunks
I’ll probably go around and check the other body mounts to see if any others came loose. 30 year old rubber probably shrinking causing some extra play in the bolts.

 

[doc_random]

Swapped the broken power seats for manual seats. Everything went great, but now 3 of my 4 power windows don’t work. Guess one of the plugs for the seats also runs the windows?View attachment 3991140
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Maybe you hit the window lock button by mistake? Is the working window the driver's?

 

[FMC80]

Finally finished refurbing the door cards. When I bought the truck the door cards had lumps missing from the top bolster. Apparently her dog just chewed everything it could. Anyway, new foam & vinyl and new carpet material on the lower portion. Plastics freshened up with some SEM Monterey. Also fitted new shallow mount speakers on the front and some nice 4" units in the rears that allow me to keep the original grills. New moisture barriers as well for the win.

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This looks great. My doors cards are trashed, is it as simple as taking them to an interior upholstery place and they fix them to your liking? Do they replace the fiber backing too? Most of the holes where the plastic retainers slide onto are blown out on mine.

 

[405]

80 was dropped off for paint correction and ceramic coating. Check out that transformation so far! 30 years of oxidation going away on the OG single stage white.

 

[leonard_nemoy]

Some more shenanigans on the mtn, as usual night mode is always fun.

 

[Box Rocket]

and hundreds and hundreds of others

just ordered one. Thanks again for putting this kit together.

 

[leonard_nemoy]

just ordered one. Thanks again for putting this kit together.

Yeah, many thanks. This product rocks. I've been rocking one for years and I actually forgot it was there until I read this post. It's certainly doing it's job

 

[Josie'sLandCruiser]

My seat covers shipped the 8th and arrived today

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Hope to have a chance to see these in person sometime. Are you attending the North Sound meeting at the end of September?

 

[Irish Reiver]

This looks great. My doors cards are trashed, is it as simple as taking them to an interior upholstery place and they fix them to your liking? Do they replace the fiber backing too? Most of the holes where the plastic retainers slide onto are blown out on mine.

It depends on the model year. On the '95 & '96 (I assume the '97 as well) the door card furnishing is removal in 3 seperate secions. The dark brown top bolster, the light brown padded bit and the pocket with the carpet. The earlier model years just have a one piece which is hard to work with.
For the top bolster i just bought some closed cell foam from amazon to replace what was missing and some vinyl from a craft shop that was closing down. I used the SEB vinyl paint system to get the colour right on the different sections (Monterey & Prarie Tan). Some left over carpet from a roll i got from Home Depot and I was good to go.
My actual door cards were in good condition but i can't see how making one from some fiberboard or hardbord would be complicated.

 

[KZN130Alabama]

First coat of rattle can on the BellFab tube doors. Very impressed with the quality so far.

 

[Mdej3]

She had a quiet couple of days, starter finally took a dump. Put in a new Denso today and she lives again.View attachment 3978057View attachment 3978059

She's looking amazing!
Another @TampaCruisers Build in the wild. Love it !

 

[FMC80]

It depends on the model year. On the '95 & '96 (I assume the '97 as well) the door card furnishing is removal in 3 seperate secions. The dark brown top bolster, the light brown padded bit and the pocket with the carpet. The earlier model years just have a one piece which is hard to work with.
For the top bolster i just bought some closed cell foam from amazon to replace what was missing and some vinyl from a craft shop that was closing down. I used the SEB vinyl paint system to get the colour right on the different sections (Monterey & Prarie Tan). Some left over carpet from a roll i got from Home Depot and I was good to go.
My actual door cards were in good condition but i can't see how making one from some fiberboard or hardbord would be complicated.

Thank you for taking time to provide detail. My 94’s door cards are the ones in question. They’re not great, but they’re not as bad a dog ripping through them. Though, one is pretty close. I’m thinking I need to take these into a professional upholstery shop and pay in blood for down payment. However, if they can make mine look a fraction of how good yours looks, I’ll be a happy camper; albeit a poorer one.

 

[SNLC]

Cheers

 

[efjayatee]

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Cheers

Please tell us more anout the hood!

 

[cruiserdan]

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Cheers

Is that a 7x back panel?
Looks amazing.