Making sure 4 low and lockers still work, in anticipation for the drive next week to Cruise Moab!
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend?
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Figured it out but it took hours tracing the wiring harness from one end to the other.
The cause: a loose connector in the driver's kick panel.
Drove 600 miles today towards Moab, averaging 14.8mpg from a 6.0L V8.
Parked for the night
Those MPG are on par for what I drive daily, 2500 Sahara cargo van. I would take 15 SPG over the 9 that I am getting now.
Our snowfall here was the opposite. Record lows
Makes sense. I've been watching satellite cloud movements almost daily for several years now and also living in the PNW, noticed that this past winter and early spring most of the "heavy" weather looked like it was hitting North America's West coast up around British Columbia and Alaska with occasionally seeing some hit PNW. California also had more than their share, but we were short changed for the most part. Sometimes it happens - we've seen it before and it looks to be a dry summer which means a bad fire season. At least that's the local buzz.
Whoever’s 80 I saw on I-10 north of Panama City Beach.. your driver side rear flare is loose and flapping around.
Safe travels and have a great trip!
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Got the painters tape removed, flat surfaces cleaned, and the timing chain and cover back on tonight!
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Finally got some pics of the undercarriage after ice blasting, frame repainting, wheel well lining, and applying 30-year industrial uncoating:
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hisandhers80s
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Going to be a big weekend with the Masters on in the garage and the wrenches turning! Should get the head on the block, have a new brake booster and master cylinder to replace, going to change out the accelerator cable while I’m under the dash, and have everything to refresh the fuel pump in the tank! Just got the upper and lower oil pans on as well.
Looks amazingFinally got some pics of the undercarriage after ice blasting, frame repainting, wheel well lining, and applying 30-year industrial uncoating:
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Finally got some pics of the undercarriage after ice blasting, frame repainting, wheel well lining, and applying 30-year industrial uncoating:
I had many visitors at the shop this week and everyone (including myself) has been wow’d by how immaculate your truck is @HighDesert Dawg. It was super clean before but the paint is amazing. Who did the paint?
Thanks Johnny. The truck was hiding a lot more body and frame issues than what was previously apparent but very happy with the body and paint work that was recently done along with the undercarriage work.
The paint was done by a very small shop in Albuquerque called "Authentic Paint and Body". I must have talked with over 15 shops in the Albuquerque area and found that most won't even bother with custom restoration projects anymore since all the money is in collision work with insurance companies. For the shops that will do custom work they wanted $20K to over $30K before they got too excited about the project. I thought about Maaco but just didn't get the right feel from them (at the local shop) as they had a blasé attitude about the whole thing which I translated into getting blasé results.
But Authentic really, really liked the Land Cruiser and was very excited about the opportunity to work on it, and their pricing was much better even with all the surprise body work needed and custom work like cutting into my brand new hood to install the heat extraction vents. They removed the doors, hood, fender flares, window seals, etc. to change the color but I had to remove all of the accessories (front and rear bumpers, winch, roof rack, sliders, insider door panels and interior trim, etc.) to help keep the price reasonable. Even better is their customer service which is on par with your shop! There are still some issues with the paint that I want fixed and they are looking to do that as soon as I get it back to Albuquerque. Speaking of your shop, I had to take a pic of it anxiously waiting outside...lol.
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Another seat retrofit. This time I went with some nice seats. 2010 BMW E92 M3 seats. Lots of adjustability and seat heaters.
The bracket fab work was very straightforward as the BMW seat rails are flat on the bottom and the same from side to side. The electrical work was a bit of a challenge as these seats expect CANBUS. I also got the seat heaters working with a pair pf PWM controllers. They work awesome and are nicely adjustable in terms of heat intensity. I will add details to the seat swap compilation thread.
The bracket fab work was very straightforward as the BMW seat rails are flat on the bottom and the same from side to side. The electrical work was a bit of a challenge as these seats expect CANBUS. I also got the seat heaters working with a pair pf PWM controllers. They work awesome and are nicely adjustable in terms of heat intensity. I will add details to the seat swap compilation thread.
I also did e90 seats curious what your bracket setup looks like. The canbus bypass was annoying fs.
I installed a bowfin cruisers rack on my newly acquired 80!
Clean looking 80 congrats
Thank you!Clean looking 80 congrats
Finally got some pics of the undercarriage after ice blasting, frame repainting, wheel well lining, and applying 30-year industrial uncoating:
