What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (106 Viewers)

[Seth_O]

Out there the term is "Folsom Wives" from what I remember.

Just hit the Chik-fil-a on E bidwell any week day at lunch time. Nothing but small kids and moms in yoga pants as far as the eye can see.

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

Luckily for me the Cruiser isn't my DD. The AC is super cold in the 4Runner.

I'm a sweaty mess though. It sort of sucks I have more free time in the summer to work on the Land Cruiser and 4Runner.

This year I invested in a canopy and mister system. I'm about to pull the plug and get a portable swamp cooler.

Check out Hessaire coolers for the win.

 

[LS1FJ40]

Yes sun roof manifests in the headliner, windshield manifests in bottom corners of windshield and back firewall.

Also it might not be sunroof drains, but the gasket allowing more water than the drains can deal with. My drains are totally clear but the water ends up on the floor.. I found that it flows across a small plastic part, into a screwhole, then onto the headliner.. with much of the water missing the drain pan completely.

Vinyl tape and unhooking the sunroof switch was my solution.

Stupid moonroofs! If there is one thing Mr T did wrong is that he started soccer momming the 80 series!

It's already planned to get removed and welded shut when I monstaline later this summer/fall. Just haven't had time...

Vinyl tape is getting put on in the meantime.

 

[Heckraiser]

are there any threads on welding the sunroof shut? Did all 80s come with a sunroof, or can you get a good donor panel in USA?

 

[scottryana]

It has been done....

are there any threads on welding the sunroof shut? Did all 80s come with a sunroof, or can you get a good donor panel in USA?

 

[Heckraiser]

is that your black truck? Did they make the panel for the truck, or cut out of another roof? I'd just be concerned about getting the curve right.

 

[scottryana]

Yeah that is my black truck when I took it in for paint and mods. They cut my hood vents in, cut the large intercooler cut out in the bumper, pulled and patched the sunroof, made metal ground effects for the fenders and rockers.

They made the panel. You can not tell.

Bad photo but I didn't take any specifically of the roof.

is that your black truck? Did they make the panel for the truck, or cut out of another roof? I'd just be concerned about getting the curve right.

 

[jdayment]

Got gas

 

[LS1FJ40]

are there any threads on welding the sunroof shut? Did all 80s come with a sunroof, or can you get a good donor panel in USA?

Not all 80s came with sunroofs. My 92 doesn't have a sunroof (or factory rack, or running boards, or leather, or cruise control). All things that should never be on an 80 Series. It was just coincidence/dumb luck that I couldn't afford any of them when I ordered mine.

I will just weld in a piece of sheet metal before I monstaline it.

I'm going to leave my interior slide in place. I have top secret plans for that. (We need a gunslinger/cowboy emoji!)

 

[LS1FJ40]

Yeah that is my black truck when I took it in for paint and mods. They cut my hood vents in, cut the large intercooler cut out in the bumper, pulled and patched the sunroof, made metal ground effects for the fenders and rockers.

They made the panel. You can not tell.

Bad photo but I didn't take any specifically of the roof.

I totally respect what you are doing but I don't understand WHY!!!

 

[Steve D]

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I hope those bars are further from your head than they appear. I'm no expert but I have a friend who bonked his helmeted head on the cage in his race car and he was out of work for a year because of his concussion.

 

[musthave]

How long? I'll be out there next Friday

I'll be here for another week. Lets get together if it works. PM'd you my info.

 

[scottryana]

Because I am less smart than I should be. Haha.

I totally respect what you are doing but I don't understand WHY!!!

 

[Aloha Jen]

Tons of cruiser support through Cali, what parts of the state are you headed to? NorCal, SoCal?

What part of CA are you visiting @Aloha Jen ?

Both north and south California. Up around the Bay Area at first, then LA, Orange County, San Diego, and then back up to San Francisco.
Turns out there is a Land Cruiser restoration business right down the street from my families farm property in Gilroy CA. The name was Custom Cruisers, and they had like twenty 40 series plus a few 60's there. It was pretty awesome!

Also saw this cool old man with his arm out the window cruising in his nice 62. I honked at him, but he just ignored me. Maybe he was creeped out by me photo stalking him!

If you and Mike are in the Boulder, CO area you have dinner and plenty of drinking on the house!Safe travels.

We did have tentative plans to head out that way and visit the Land Cruiser Museum in Utah, but Mike went on a last minute trip to Ireland. He's there now, and keeps sending me pictures of all these cool diesel Land Cruisers we don't get here.

 

[OGBeno]

Both north and south California. Up around the Bay Area at first, then LA, Orange County, San Diego, and then back up to San Francisco.
Turns out there is a Land Cruiser restoration business right down the street from my families farm property in Gilroy CA. The name was Custom Cruisers, and they had like twenty 40 series plus a few 60's there. It was pretty awesome!
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Also saw this cool old man with his arm out the window cruising in his nice 62. I honked at him, but he just ignored me. Maybe he was creeped out by me photo stalking him!
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We did have tentative plans to head out that way and visit the Land Cruiser Museum in Utah, but Mike went on a last minute trip to Ireland. He's there now, and keeps sending me pictures of all these cool diesel Land Cruisers we don't get here.
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Hahahah.... work overtakes fun. Know all about it.

If you need Cdans info, please let me know.

Again, dinner and drink invite is open to you all of you come to the front range.

Happy travels.

 

[NLXTACY]

My buddy @DrGil wanted dual batteries and fuse panel for his 96 80 Series so that his fridge could run off the aux and leave his main alone. My setup was way too convoluted to consider so why go the opposite and try something that is basic and easier? Enter the BlueSea ML-ACR.


The ACR, fuse panel and circuit breakers, along with some 1/0, lugs, misc wire, connectors, oh and a sweet one-off custom bracket to hold it all and it seemed like it could be doable in a day. Well, night. We started at 7pm and just finished at 2am. Seven solid hours for dual batteries isn't bad. If I were to make a few adjustments to the bracket, pre-cut and pre-terminate the wires, then you could have plug n play dual batteries in about 2-2.5 hrs.

 

[joez]

I hope those bars are further from your head than they appear. I'm no expert but I have a friend who bonked his helmeted head on the cage in his race car and he was out of work for a year because of his concussion.

A lot further than they look in the pics. I was surprised after I posted them how close they made it seem.

 

[cc93cruiser]

nevamind

 

[surfpig]

Heading up to towards the headwaters of the Middle Fork 'Murican. Backpacking. One or two
days.

 

[musthave]

RMNP here we are.