What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (26 Viewers)

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Many have posted there setups and it has given me ideas and inspired me so I'll leave this here to hopefully do the same for others. Finished my rear quarter panel setup. Fabbed a bracket for fuse box, solar controller and inverter. Mounted it and finished wiring it this weekend.

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Finally got off my lazy ass and work on the 402 problem. Took the valve off and give it a good soaking with some solvant. Used a small screw driver do open and close the valve a bunch of time while soaking and it seems a bit more free now.

Put it back in and so far so good, no more code. Fingers closed it would last a while so I don't have spend 200 bucks on a valve.


Also after many trips to the deserts I finally took the air filter out of the can and shook some fine dust out. Guess about time to change it but not really that bad. The snorkel with pre cleaner really works!!! No real build up of dirt in the big can and basically nothing beside a few small leaves in the tuna can. Dorkel for the win! And chicks dig it too! :D:clap:
 
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A few more days in the Hualapia Mountains

Gold King Mansion vacated in 1929
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The road in and out to the Mansion
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Woke to snow - uncommon at 6000' in May for Arizona
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500+ gold fish at a high mountain spring, WT....:eek:
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Good morning for us but this baby Gila was not as happy
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With 2800 more miles on the clock, my trusty 80 made it all the way from Atlanta to Moab to Denver where it is stored in peaceful slumber until next month and the next adventure. I had a great time around Moab with a great group of people and really well run event by Rising Sun.

This photo from Sevenmile Rim (overlooking Moab) shows the wide variety of rigs at Cruise Moab.
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I was green with envy for the diesel 80s that came down from British Columbia. Dang Canadians are so pleasant I couldn't stay mad for long.
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Does this angle make @icorradoi 's 'butte' look big? :moon:
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After seeing the 4Runner and UTV ahead of me dump over on their sides, I was getting nervous about Hell's Gate. Oh well, I didn't drive +/-2,000 miles not to try...
 
Steve D said:
After seeing the 4Runner and UTV ahead of me dump over on their sides, I was getting nervous about Hell's Gate. Oh well, I didn't drive +/-2,000 miles not to try...
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Good job!
Dont follow the black lines and Hells Gate is a breeze

 
Steve D said:
With 2800 more miles on the clock, my trusty 80 made it all the way from Atlanta to Moab to Denver where it is stored in peaceful slumber until next month and the next adventure. I had a great time around Moab with a great group of people and really well run event by Rising Sun.

This photo from Sevenmile Rim (overlooking Moab) shows the wide variety of rigs at Cruise Moab.
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I was green with envy for the diesel 80s that came down from British Columbia. Dang Canadians are so pleasant I couldn't stay mad for long.
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Does this angle make @icorradoi 's 'butte' look big? :moon:
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Nice shot! I was just showing off my auxillary tank...

That hell's gate climb was impressive! Going to have to try it next year.
 
Inadvertently had a week's 4x4 vacation scheduled in and around Canyonlands the same week as Cruise Moab. We only saw a couple of Cruisers - everyone else was further north so we ended up with a surprising amount of solitude, which was just what the doctor ordered. Spent 3 nights camped and hiking around the Elephant Hill area, then boogied to Hite to hook up with friends and checked out the Land of Standing Rocks in the Maze. I've backpacked in Canyonlands several times and love the physical difficulty of that for what the experience is, but luxury camping with a fridge, Porta-Potti instead of a mylar bag full of kitty litter and killer homemade food is pretty choice.

My only issue with Canyonlands in general is the total and complete lack of fly-fishing. Other than that, what else is there to complain about when you nail the weather window, the judges agree the sunsets all average in the high 9's, the truck is flawless, your wife smiles for a week straight and you don't even run out of beer?


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Steve D said:
I was green with envy for the diesel 80s that came down from British Columbia. Dang Canadians are so pleasant I couldn't stay mad for long.
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We saw the BC contingent at the river overlook, and my wife pointed out the big "Turbo" decal on the quarter panel, "look, they have turbo too." Lol, I laid the guilt on her pretty bad since she made me dismantle my turbo "kit" and sell it to a neighbor. After towing the little camper, I think a version 2.0 is probably on the horizon once I hammer out some much needed maintenance and sorting-out.

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The ol' clunker sitting at the top of the world (didn't take the poser pic)

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thegogglesdonothing said:
... 3 nights camped and hiking around the Elephant Hill area ...
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Ugh. I had a backcountry site reserved. We climbed up over the first hill with no issues. On the way down from there, there was a Jeep Liberty with a busted trans. The CJ5 "tow truck" twisted a driveshaft trying to pull it out. A JK was there helping him.

After they got the broken down rigs off the trail as far as possible, my 80 wouldn't start. I got my wife to turn the key while I hit the starter with a 2x4. It fired right up.

Long story short, I was overruled on my argument that we should continue on because "I fixed it, didn't I."

2 nights later it did the same thing at McStiff's parking lot in Moab. No amount of lumber persuasion was helping. Before I swapped starters I tried tightening everything and unplugging and re-plugging the connector on the 2-3 month old Mr T starter. It fired right up and has ever since. Fingers crossed!
 
A few weeks ago I went down a rabbit hole, can't even remember why - oh yeah, bumped my rear bumper in a parking lot and had a golf ball sized gash in the plastic. One thing led to another, once my mud flaps were off to fix the bumper I started to looking at fading paint on flares and then noticed the hood losing its clear coat. Oh my! I am cheap so I thought plastidip on flares would tide me over while I pondered whether spray the hood or maybe monstaline black. Decided I might as well paint her. I am going in!

Started here.


Had to remove my Trail Tailor bumper, not so easy as a 1 man job but thanks to some blocks and 2x4, got her off without any damage.


Then to stripping


Then one-man rack removal


Off to Paint!
 
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Qball said:
Finally got off my lazy ass and work on the 402 problem. Took the valve off and give it a good soaking with some solvant. Used a small screw driver do open and close the valve a bunch of time while soaking and it seems a bit more free now.

Put it back in and so far so good, no more code. Fingers closed it would last a while so I don't have spend 200 bucks on a valve.


Also after many trips to the deserts I finally took the air filter out of the can and shook some fine dust out. Guess about time to change it but not really that bad. The snorkel with pre cleaner really works!!! No real build up of dirt in the big can and basically nothing beside a few small leaves in the tuna can. Dorkel for the win! And chicks dig it too! :D:clap:
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Well, that didn't last very long, got a pending code 402 this morning! dang it, back to the drawing board on fixing the darn thing.
 
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