What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (53 Viewers)

[Marine7]

Seeing that Rubicon up there... putting up a recovery in sand demo/class for Jeeps Go Topless Day event at Carolina Beach. Staged two scenarios, one for HiLift and one for Pull Pal. Not a bad day of work!

My 80 with $20 awning deployed, getting ready...
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Hundreds of jeeps of every config imaginable showed up
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Set up to discuss equipment first
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Didn't take video or pics of recovery as I had my hands full, but saw lots of people taking them. Hope to find some...

You should of been around south 17 in Leland last night. My buddy belongs to Cape Fear Jeepers, and during the pouring rain a Brunswick County Sherrif spun, and landed in a drainage pond on 17. Anyways, my buddy couldn't pull him out with his Heep, so he called me, and we did a "dual" winch pull to drag the sherif back onto 17! Fun times! I can't believe the quickest they could get a wrecker was 45 minutes! No pics though..... I was sort of busy.

 

[Marine7]

That jeep with brand new BFG all terrains wouldnt get stuck even on 2WD, so we sunk it! That did it. Then combined HiLift demo with traction device demo on that tire and he drove off drama free. The Pull Pal worked as designed, pulled another jeep without fuss.

I can honestly say that I've never engaged 4wd on Carolina Beach, or Ft Fisher. I learned sand driving by growing up at Silver Lake Mi.

 

[Marine7]

I went out to Joshua Tree National Park with my wife and kids, and a few other families. We did Old Dale Road, which is moderate in parts and mostly dirt roads. It was a blast.
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Is that a real picture?! WOW! I remember laying on the hood of our gun truck in Iraq, and seeing skies like that!

 

[LS1FJ40]

I went out to Joshua Tree National Park with my wife and kids, and a few other families. We did Old Dale Road, which is moderate in parts and mostly dirt roads. It was a blast.
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How was the peyote?

 

[2KCruiser]

This happened this morning, only another few hundred thousand to go.

 

[b16]

Jesus, that thing must still have the shrink wrap on it.

 

[RFB]

Installed a set of midnight duallies on the front 4xlabs bumper. very tough to mount lights on these bad boys.

 

[Irish Reiver]

Last night was the first real storm cell of the year to round these parts bring an end to the drought in spectacular fashion. Around 3" of rain fell and from what I can tell, A significant portion of it found its way into my rear inner arches. The evidence would point to the rear side lights so I smeared a little silicon on them and also did the slidey thing just below the rear windows. Hopefully that will solve the problems for now.

 

[jbatx]

I chopped the frame and welded in the factory hitch.

 

[BILT4ME]

I chopped the frame and welded in the factory hitch.

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Does your gate still open without dinging it?

 

[surfpig]

Did some degreasing in the engine bay. Readjusted the timing to stock.

Cali Smog check some time this week.

 

[Knox_Overland]

Removed the hideous running boards!! Next is the grill guard & bug shield.

 

[jbatx]

Does your gate still open without dinging it?

Had to do some grinding for it to open... I could have mounted on top of the rails I suppose

 

[surfpig]

Did some degreasing in the engine bay. Readjusted the timing to stock.

Cali Smog check some time this week.

prepping for summer too. It never really ends.

 

[Cruiserdrew]

Checked

prepping for summer too. It never really ends.

So what about the Rubithon pre-run?

 

[Yellow Jacket]

Chasing a leaky sunroof. Rear drains turned out good. Anything else I should do while I'm in there? Not really much up there so I'm thinking no. Will try to clean up the liner while I have it out.

 

[baldilocks]

I am running a 110v Hobart 140. Great little unit and it's been trouble-free for the past few years. I know some will disagree, but I feel this welder is more than capable for any truck project you may have.

Your welds look really good Jose. I have a Lincoln 140 and when it's plugged into my 20 amp garage circuit, it rips pretty damn good. 6 years and I'm still using flux core. It's messy but it works in all conditions. I keep thinking of going to gas shielding but it never seems to happen.

 

[JaketheSSnake]

Chasing a leaky sunroof. Rear drains turned out good. Anything else I should do while I'm in there? Not really much up there so I'm thinking no. Will try to clean up the liner while I have it out.

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How are you going to clean the liner? It's on my list to do as well.

 

[TYM4FUN]

Did some degreasing in the engine bay. Readjusted the timing to stock.

Cali Smog check some time this week.

On phone, you have a 97 right? No timing check on OBD2 for the inspection.

 

[NLXTACY]

On phone, you have a 97 right? No timing check on OBD2 for the inspection.

You sure about that? I've been called out twice for not having timing set at stock.