What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (72 Viewers)
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surfpig
The Anti-Tech
Fired up the 90 ...
Headed into the grand canyon back country to check out some 13000 year old pictographs and pooped a little bit when I lost a tire doing 70 on the way back
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Oh man that sucks. How exactly did it happen?
We need an "awww" button. I can't click the "Like" button on that kind of news.
Went out to Sheeps bridge out by horseshoe lake in AZ. 94 Fj80 with 342k
I am not exactly sure, 3 studs on one half were gone and the 3 on the other half of the hub were still there. 3 of the holes in the wheel are ruined and the other 3 are normal. Good news is I managed to keep the right side up and I was able to drive it 75 miles back home. Damage seems to be a ruined wheel, some missing studs, torn fender flare, and a bent dust shield thing on the brakes.
BullElk
SILVER Star
Musthave, can you tell us where or how we can find your ebay items?
At the risk of going "chatty" as others have mentioned the guy did say he's selling off items on eBay...
AND.... I've seen much "worse" reasons for starting a "go fund me" I need to go on vacation, I need a new phone, ect...
This is caring for a living thing that has no way to care for itself, seems a Nobel cause if you ask me. And regardless of if it was a rescue or not, doesn't change the current state the animal is in now.
END: "chatty"
To stay on topic we rolled out to find this over the weekend but left the 80 in the garage... Here's my runner to play from a few pages back... Love that truck makes a great DD.
Sounds like the nuts were loose. That happened to me on my jeep when i was in hs. What a sight it was watching my wheel pass me up on the road before the truck went down.
It was a busy weekend at my uncle's jungle barn...
Uncle's 60 on the right installed his front seats - from his donor rig and he decided to join us at Rubithon next month. So he will be installing lockers soon. We received the sliders from Jason @reevesci and the welding begins...
The 80 in the middle is my cousin's (his son), doing a front end rebuild and the 80 on the left is mine.
While they were busy doing their thing... I was busy getting dirty with her as well. Replacing my front pinion seal and front 3rd member gasket is a lot of work! Had to remove the axles to pull the 3rd member, and the DS.
I had a leak, a drop or two every other week and wifey no likey leakie on the driveway, other wise I'm going back to parking on the street!
Thanks to @beno for getting me the right gasket. Local dealers are dumb, well, at least my local dealer...
When I ordered the gasket they gave me one for an open diff. They gave me a gasket for a locked '94. When they re ordered, it still the same. So Beno saved the day.
Uncle's 60 on the right installed his front seats - from his donor rig and he decided to join us at Rubithon next month. So he will be installing lockers soon. We received the sliders from Jason @reevesci and the welding begins...
The 80 in the middle is my cousin's (his son), doing a front end rebuild and the 80 on the left is mine.
While they were busy doing their thing... I was busy getting dirty with her as well. Replacing my front pinion seal and front 3rd member gasket is a lot of work! Had to remove the axles to pull the 3rd member, and the DS.
I had a leak, a drop or two every other week and wifey no likey leakie on the driveway, other wise I'm going back to parking on the street!
Thanks to @beno for getting me the right gasket. Local dealers are dumb, well, at least my local dealer...
When I ordered the gasket they gave me one for an open diff. They gave me a gasket for a locked '94. When they re ordered, it still the same. So Beno saved the day.
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97 LX 450 with 270k on the clock. Total Birf soup barfing on PS knuckle. It's my first time getting in to the axle/knuckle and had a blunt reminder why to not use the monkeys (aka mechanics) at the Big (OH CRAP) tire chain to repack bearings. I was so disgusted what I found I forgot to get pics, but both lock nuts had chisel marks from where they loosened and tightened without having the 54mm socket. the lock washer tab was not locked to the inside, just the outside, and one of the cone washers was missing on the hub. Sheesh! Spindle was mostly good. a little bit of a lip on the outer... I will probably go back in and use locktight on the outer when I get a breather. Found ugly galling on the outer race that looked like a blob of cancer, funky skid marks and minor galling on inner race so I replaced both bearings. That was a lot easier than I expected, having bought brass drifts and a HF bearing driver kit. Learned my lesson about not having extra small stuff parts on hand. On my way up to cruiser outfitters to get another spindle seal and new lock nuts and lock washer. This was first time I have bought from Kurt.. cant believe I haven't bought from them before. great resource right in my back yard. Pics:
Just completed 8 days, 4 states, 4 national parks, 600+ of dirt, 1920 miles total.
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Good to see the water level up and clear!
Something tells me that pink drank is more then grapefruit juice...
