That is awesome! I appreciate your guts doing that with the long drive.
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (26 Viewers)
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That is awesome! I appreciate your guts doing that with the long drive.
NLXTACY
Wits' End
Gotta lot to do before I head to Laurel Lakes this weekend...hopefully.
Step one is this bad boy, but I have a laundry list to get thru.
Step one is this bad boy, but I have a laundry list to get thru.
Drove her to my uncle's barn and removed my rack and it's now hanging on top of the Willy's.
Getting ready for monstaliner project.
Then I replaced the old upper tail gate with a better one (without rust on the hatch)
Looks kind of weird without the full rack.
I got these on the mail two days ago. I bought three gallons. I'm going to mix the white with a bit of killer beej and see what happens...
Still need to work on those fender flare holes over the week.
And I'm still undecided whether I'm rolling or spraying though...
Getting ready for monstaliner project.
Then I replaced the old upper tail gate with a better one (without rust on the hatch)
Looks kind of weird without the full rack.
I got these on the mail two days ago. I bought three gallons. I'm going to mix the white with a bit of killer beej and see what happens...
Still need to work on those fender flare holes over the week.
And I'm still undecided whether I'm rolling or spraying though...
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Nice! Olympic is an amazing place, probably the best one I've been to. Great trip with the family.
NLXTACY
Wits' End
She got to fat and won't fit in a very tiny and very expensive SF garage. Might have to find her a better home rather than have her harassed by hobos. Still up in the air but not looking good.
I'm going to brag about the guy who made it. He's a new entrepreneur and when I find someone doing great work for our 80's I gotta shout out.
BenderRodriguez
My requirements beyond safety were:
1. carry a 33" to 37" tire
2. removable within five minutes
3. NO noise or NO wiggling whilst wheeling
4. ease of installation within 5 min.
5. look slick
6. closer to the drivers side for rear view visibility
7. include some gas can or rotopax onto it (3).
8. be stout enough to hold another 180 lbs. (mtn. bikes and the Kuat NV rack)
9. not encroach on the bike rack (enough room for both).
10. not fly off on a freeway or for that matter a washboard dirt road
11. fit onto an aftermarket rear bumper (4x4 labs)
The engineering and welds are superb and the speed of delivery was within two (2) weeks.
Cost for all of it began at $400 and as I added to the customization I'm up at $850 now; and, worth it to me as an active 80 owner. Here are some pic's and if you have something you would like done...give the newest 80 entrepreneur a PM: Bender Rodriguez
The Turnbuckle is genius--as more weight is put on the far side the turnbuckle pulls up the tire carrier so it fits square without sag!
Back when I was a young man and still had good knees I hiked both Glacier and Olympic National Parks. Two of the most beautiful areas in the US. When you were in the Olympic forest, did you see any of the Banana Slugs?
No we did not, that would have been something my daughter would have liked I'm sure!
Having never lived on the West Coast, we found them to be quite an oddity. I have never seen them anywhere but the Olympic National Forest but I understand they live up and down the West Coast.
SUMMIT CRUISERS Jr
SILVER Star
Got back home from another trip. This time it was only a week long, but 3500 miles through Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska.
The Tetons
The Snake River
Yellowstone Lake
Mt. Rushmore
The Black Hills National Forest
The Tetons
The Snake River
Yellowstone Lake
Mt. Rushmore
The Black Hills National Forest
Took the wife and doggers up to look at some railroad history. Crazy to think they had a hotel up there at the turn of the century with people mucking about in 15 feet of snow for half the year.
two very pooped pooches
two very pooped pooches
Hauled the farm tables my fiancée built from Spokane to Orcas Island for our wedding... my now wife wanted farm tables on an island mountain so she got em!
It was quite the weekend, complete with a wheel bearing replacement in the parking lot of our hotel on the morning of my ceremony and two failed valve stems! I walked down the aisle with busted knuckles and grease under my finger nails
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We drove away from the site in the 80, looking forward to pics from our photographer.
It was quite the weekend, complete with a wheel bearing replacement in the parking lot of our hotel on the morning of my ceremony and two failed valve stems! I walked down the aisle with busted knuckles and grease under my finger nails
.We drove away from the site in the 80, looking forward to pics from our photographer.
CongratsHauled the farm tables my fiancée built from Spokane to Orcas Island for our wedding... my now wife wanted farm tables on an island mountain so she got em!
It was quite the weekend, complete with a wheel bearing replacement in the parking lot of our hotel on the morning of my ceremony and two failed valve stems! I walked down the aisle with busted knuckles and grease under my finger nails
We drove away from the site in the 80, looking forward to pics from our photographer.
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LS1FJ40
SILVER Star
Hauled the farm tables my fiancée built from Spokane to Orcas Island for our wedding... my now wife wanted farm tables on an island mountain so she got em!
It was quite the weekend, complete with a wheel bearing replacement in the parking lot of our hotel on the morning of my ceremony and two failed valve stems! I walked down the aisle with busted knuckles and grease under my finger nails
We drove away from the site in the 80, looking forward to pics from our photographer.
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Congrats!
SUMMIT CRUISERS Jr
SILVER Star
Big question is; Will I feel $$$$ worth of bump steer correction over 19 year old stock and are there any legal fee credits included to help with my subsequent divorce?
NLXTACY
Wits' End
Admittedly I'm not the perfect person do discuss stabilizer differences with. I can only report on my own experience.
When I lifted my truck I replaced all suspension and steering components I could stomach. 100% OEM bushings because poly bushings can suck my @$$.
I had one bad tie rod and the stock stabilizer wasn't doing me any favors. Replacing all new tie rods, drag links and the OME stabilizer was the biggest thing I noticed with how my steering behaved with my new, at the time, 315s. No more wander, no more jerkiness when the tire hit something on the road. For all intents and purposes it was fine. I can't stand my OME shocks but I didn't really have a complaint about the stabilizer.
Since I'm now a reseller for King of course take everything I say with a grain of salt, but that being said there are some things I really like about the King stabilizer:
* it's rebuildable. I can repair if it leaks. I can replace either bearings if they fail.
* because it uses bearings there are no bushings to wear. Of course the bearings can fail too but there is some joy seeing a bearing joint VS a bushing joint.
* the total stroke length is longer than OEM and FOX and OME. Does this matter in day to day driving? Doubtful but it could off road, to be seen.
* there are internal bump stops on both ends on the stabilizer. I'm waiting to see how this translates to the steering wheel when on rocks BUT I did some low speed tire bumps angled into the curb and I noticed that the steering wheel didn't have that super fast, thumb-breaking steering wheel spinning I would normal expect.
* on road feel is different. I'm not sure how to translate how it feels. Maybe "darty"? In other words the truck seems to be a touch more steering responsive. This part is less smooth and more "direct". Hard to explain.
