What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend?

[97 greenmonster]

] Wife and I had weekend alone, daughter went with grandma. Packed up the cruiser and headed up to Presque isle in Erie Pa for some fishing and camping.

 

[Dragos80]

Measured the front brake pads since I still don't like the way the car brakes. 7mm pads in the front. The disks don't look warn out.

 

[9780LC]

Got shocks installed

Got arms installed

Got new radiator installed

Burned a hole in ma wallet too.

 

[Nors]

How do you like the icons?

 

[9780LC]

Night and day difference over OME. Ride is smoother, not as noisy and the vehicle is more stable in the corners. Worth it to me.

 

[Nors]

Great Im just now putting OME med springs 2 1/2" lift w Icon shocks instead of OME what height is your lift?
Did you need caster alteration?

 

[9780LC]

I have the 4" slee lift. It needed additional caster correction. I had the plates that came with the lift kit. They did not do the job. The new arms took care of that problem.

 

[Qball]

Going to Vegas on Sunday and wanted to drive the LX so I can hit some dirt, then I realize it's going to be over 90 degrees in the desert so had to scrap the idea and taking the LS instead.

 

[crankwalk]

Installed a JVC head unit" for the USB, "installed" an Alaskan Bear flag sticker, painted the trim black and hit some trails south of the city about an hour.

Stopped by Bird Creek park. We are having a fantastic spring here in south central Los Anchorage.

 

[SammyT96LX450]

Best video from Lonestar. How to tackle a hill with my Lexus

 

[LFD2037]

Was that part of D-Woody?

 

[Dragos80]

Finally got to replace the steering column seal. Only about a month after I bought it.

 

[Traakon]

Well it was a an attack on two fronts.

Began with repainting the shocks that came with the lift purchased from jp_waltz. To do that I had to figure out how to get the plastic dust boots off without destroying them.
Before

Pitiful

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

OME shock needs some love.

After

Fresh Paint

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

Had to do something between paint coats so decided to gut the 80 for the new carpet.

Time to go

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

Old carpet really is worse than you know until you start exposing the seedy underbelly.

Leaves you with a hollow feeling inside

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

With all the interior gutted out to make way for the new carpet

Laid in some sound deadening...

FatMat

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015
• 4

As long as your doing it, might as well Fat Mat it.

Followed by some new plush pile...

Fresh Pile

• Traakon
• May 3, 2015

Fresh new plush pile as far as the eye can see

Driver / Passenger

• Traakon
• May 3, 2015

Not a project I look forward to doing again.

Quick tip- When your gutting everything, put the bolts back in the holes.

Quick Tip

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

When you remove the seats and other things bolted in. put the bolts back in the holes. When...

It will make finding the bolts/holes with the new carpet much easier. Just feel for the bump and run your razor knife around the head of the bolt and wha-la..perfect location every time.

Still have to put the seats/panels back and repaint the console/s but have some things to run fore and aft before I do that and a trip to the supply house for a buttload of new panel clips. Saved all but 2 but they are very brittle so new ones seem warranted.

Oh...another quick tip.
When using both a utility knife and a carpet knife...always pay attention to which you have in your hand.
And if you forget...there is always the duct tape compression bandage..

Gotta love duct tape

• Traakon
• May 3, 2015

 

[SammyT96LX450]

Was that part of D-Woody?

It was the trail to the right after clydes ravine.

 

[Gr8WhiteCruiser]

Installed glowshift with maxtow gauge water temperature. First 2 pictures setting at idle and the next 2 pictures been on the road for almost 20 min. Temp not bad for a 23 yr old 3fe engine.

 

[BRUPac]

Wheeled to hotel california. This is on the trail above it

 

[landcruiser80]

Installed some tailgate storage, https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/rear-tailgate-storage-solution-the-55-version.820515/
It only cost ~$20 though. $18 on sale for the hatch from amazon + screws from the hardware store. Took less than an hour to do. I mounted the hatch as far down on the tailgate as I could so I didn't have to worry about the rod that opens the gate. All of the fasteners for the carpet were retained. Nice additional storage to have, not bad for $20!

 

[BRUPac]

Saw a couple big horn sheep

 

[landcruiser80]

 

[hamishpotter]

Well it was a an attack on two fronts.

Began with repainting the shocks that came with the lift purchased from jp_waltz. To do that I had to figure out how to get the plastic dust boots off without destroying them.
Before

Pitiful

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

OME shock needs some love.

After

Fresh Paint

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

Had to do something between paint coats so decided to gut the 80 for the new carpet.

Time to go

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

Old carpet really is worse than you know until you start exposing the seedy underbelly.

Leaves you with a hollow feeling inside

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

With all the interior gutted out to make way for the new carpet

Laid in some sound deadening...

FatMat

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015
• 4

As long as your doing it, might as well Fat Mat it.

Followed by some new plush pile...

Fresh Pile

• Traakon
• May 3, 2015

Fresh new plush pile as far as the eye can see

Driver / Passenger

• Traakon
• May 3, 2015

Not a project I look forward to doing again.

Quick tip- When your gutting everything, put the bolts back in the holes.

Quick Tip

• Traakon
• May 2, 2015

When you remove the seats and other things bolted in. put the bolts back in the holes. When...

It will make finding the bolts/holes with the new carpet much easier. Just feel for the bump and run your razor knife around the head of the bolt and wha-la..perfect location every time.

Still have to put the seats/panels back and repaint the console/s but have some things to run fore and aft before I do that and a trip to the supply house for a buttload of new panel clips. Saved all but 2 but they are very brittle so new ones seem warranted.

Oh...another quick tip.
When using both a utility knife and a carpet knife...always pay attention to which you have in your hand.
And if you forget...there is always the duct tape compression bandage..

Gotta love duct tape

• Traakon
• May 3, 2015

Traakon thank you for the tips - and robust gallery of photos, nice bikes btw. Hope your hand heals ok. Looks like you have a great work space.