What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend?

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Man i have been off here forever. The HDJ81 is still chugging along. Still the daughters daily. Its got 274000 km on it now. Almost due for tires. Debating between the SST's on it or the geolandar m/ts this time.
Planning on pulling the turbo and injectors at 300k when i do the timing belt and BEB and basically give the truck a refresh.
My youngest has me shopping for a 60/62 for him to daily, so i guess i need to start researching those and set myself a budget.

Bought a new house, moved into the new shop. Kind of missed this palce
 
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It's not perfect but it'll do.
 
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Ib8mud said:
Happy Easter everyone.

I’ve marked a few more things off my checklist.
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Today I’m installing a new head unit. Just trying to work my way through the mess that somebody had previously done.
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Use a good multimeter and a D or C battery with a wire on each terminal to check for speaker wires. I would get a stereo wiring harness specifically for the 80 (you can find them on Amazon) so you don't have to do that again.
 
2026 EJS is in the book. Completed the 2000 miles round trip, did Hells Revenge, Fins and Things, Poison Spider and Metal Masher trails in the limited time we have and a couple days of exploring the Arches National Park. We will be back some time in the future. Didn't get to do Moab Rim and Cliff Hanger this time around, look forward to it in the future....
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Marco Lau said:
2026 EJS is in the book. Completed the 2000 miles round trip, did Hells Revenge, Fins and Things, Poison Spider and Metal Masher trails in the limited time we have and a couple days of exploring the Arches National Park. We will be back some time in the future. Didn't get to do Moab Rim and Cliff Hanger this time around, look forward to it in the future....



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Oof, looks like an exciting ascent up Hell's Gate!
 
Dusten said:
Man i have been off here forever. The HDJ81 is still chugging along. Still the daughters daily. Its got 274000 km on it now. Almost due for tires. Debating between the SST's on it or the geolandar m/ts this time.
Planning on pulling the turbo and injectors at 300k when i do the timing belt and BEB and basically give the truck a refresh.
My youngest has me shopping for a 60/62 for him to daily, so i guess i need to start researching those and set myself a budget.

Bought a new house, moved into the new shop. Kind of missed this palce
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Go with the Geolanders and good luck finding a solid affordable 60 series.
 
Marco Lau said:
2026 EJS is in the book. Completed the 2000 miles round trip, did Hells Revenge, Fins and Things, Poison Spider and Metal Masher trails in the limited time we have and a couple days of exploring the Arches National Park. We will be back some time in the future. Didn't get to do Moab Rim and Cliff Hanger this time around, look forward to it in the future....
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You took a cruiser to a Jeep specific event?
 
Marco Lau said:
Yes. we don't discriminate, jeeps are cool too. I have done many events with jeeps in my 80s, Jeep Jamboree, Fordyce Sierra Trek....etc etc.
Most cruisers in my area only do overland types stuff, so i tag along with jeeps so i can do harder trails.
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Next time if you want to run the big boy trails in Moab come to Cruise Moab.
You didn’t even mention Pritchett Canyon !! We ran it the last to years along with Cliff hanger & Moab Rim.
All Cruiser Toyota guys.
 
Broski said:
Next time if you want to run the big boy trails in Moab come to Cruise Moab.
You didn’t even mention Pritchett Canyon !! We ran it the last to years along with Cliff hanger & Moab Rim.
All Cruiser Toyota guys.
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yeah i remember you guys tried to run Pritchett last time with Steve and one of your buddy and you guys ended up turning around?
My rig wont handle Pritchett without breaking something for sure, i know its limit. We were going to do Moab Rim and Cliff Hanger on this trip, but missed the group, so ended up doing Metal Masher instead. Next time. I don't tow my rig, so i have to be smart about decision making....
 
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Marco Lau said:
yeah i remember you guys tried to run Pritchett last time with Steve and one of your buddy and you guys ended up turning around?
My rig wont handle Pritchett without breaking something for sure, i know its limit. We were going to do Moab Rim and Cliff Hanger on this trip, but missed the group, so ended up doing Metal Masher instead. Next time. I don't tow my rig, so i have to be smart about decision making....
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All good ! If one guy wants to go back we all go back ! We don’t sent anybody back alone.
That was three or four years ago.
We ran the trail all the way through the last two years.
No breakage, Last year I did winch a couple of times. I was trail leader and it seemed to hold me back some being responsible for the rest of the group.
The year before as a participantI I one shot every obstacle no winching.
I think you rig is more than capable of running the trail.
But I get it !
I do tow but I also tell my friends that if they break we fix it or it goes on my trailer if mines not broken.
The other nice thing is I can carry a lot of spares and I do.

I have jeep friends to but it’s not because all the Toyota guys are Overlanders 😎

We’re planning another Fordyce trip this year love to have you along !!
 
Marco Lau said:
2026 EJS is in the book. Completed the 2000 miles round trip, did Hells Revenge, Fins and Things, Poison Spider and Metal Masher trails in the limited time we have and a couple days of exploring the Arches National Park. We will be back some time in the future. Didn't get to do Moab Rim and Cliff Hanger this time around, look forward to it in the future....
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So I've got 1.5" spider trax spacers on my LX450 with 315s on it, and I haven't really wheeled it hard with them on there, so I was worried about the tire poke interfering with being able to stuff up into the fenders under heavy articulation. Your pictures here have given me great peace of mind in that regard, since you have a pretty similar poke going on. Thanks! Also, looks sick out there, that Hell's Gate photo is a real code brown.
 
Popped off the panhard bar and replaced the bushings, and finally seem to have solved the death wobble that's been bothering me for YEARS and years at this point. Seems so simple, but shops kept sticking a pry bar in there and not finding enough movement and telling me that they were fine.

Also found out one of my neighbors is a former Marine helicopter pilot and mechanic who ran a racing fabrication shop for many years (he helped me press out old and install the new bushings), and has a shop that would make most of y'all blush. So I might be asking his help on any number of projects going forward... (third pic is him machining a solid steel rod down to 39.3mm to press out the panhard bushings)
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