What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (82 Viewers)

[LS1FJ40]

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

Or too smart! I could never do this because I have no idea what you are doing!!

 

[FJP971]

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.

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Yes please!

 

[LS1FJ40]

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.

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I hate you. I thought mine was clean then you go and do this?!?!

 

[NLXTACY]

I hate you. I thought mine was clean then you go and do this?!?!

Ha! Dude it was a total hack job. I was under a time crunch so didn't want to go too crazy.

 

[JLH911]

He didn't say "hi" because he was in a 62. A 60 guy would have nodded back.

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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[Qball]

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.

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Sweet! Now that you got it all figured out I'll swing by in a couple of weeks. I have a fat marine AGM waiting for this.

 

[suadero]

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.

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Nice! Looking forward to the kit version if I ever do the '93

 

[PolarRunner]

I did finally get my tailgate lid installed. "Houston, we had a problem."

My lid has a slight deflection in the center, about 1/4". You'll also see the hardware that connects the rods sticks up a little. You can see the rubber trim I added to the cut. Seems to be good protection from sharp edges.

This led to two problems. First the doors were warped.

Second, the latch hardware was blocked by the inner door frame so it couldn't move.

Well, I shimmed the low spots with nylon spacers and ground the inner lid frame.

Everything is happy now.

I still have to install mine.. And my lid has similar deflection from denting... Great.

 

[NLXTACY]

Sweet! Now that you got it all figured out I'll swing by in a couple of weeks. I have a fat marine AGM waiting for this.

Take your sweet, sweet time

 

[Bryanseye]

Remove before flight.

 

[Dubbinchris]

Crawled underneath to grease the driveline and discovered this.

 

[JaketheSSnake]

Finally got to take the cruiser camping, it was a blast! We only did one night because we weren't sure how the little ones would do. They did great and the teenager bailed, go figure lol. We found some black Raspberry and mulberry growing wild and my daughter loved them . It was only a 20ish mile drive but I'm pretty happy with how the weatherproof storage bag and Prinsu rack worked out, I figured it would be pretty noisy, but I didn't notice it there at all. I think we're ready for the Colorado trip next weekend!

 

[ewillis]

Got sliders?

 

[ajax1]

@Bryanseye are you a AP? I am out here in colo if so we are hiring for Hawkers if your interested

 

[GeoRoss]

I still have to install mine.. And my lid has similar deflection from denting... Great.

Before you bolt it down check the latch clearance by sitting on the lid since you have a deflection.

I'm going to enjoy mine.

 

[Dragos80]

Got sliders? View attachment 1488617

Did you get that special deal picking them up?

 

[Dragos80]

Finally got to take the cruiser camping, it was a blast! We only did one night because we weren't sure how the little ones would do. They did great and the teenager bailed, go figure lol. We found some black Raspberry and mulberry growing wild and my daughter loved them . It was only a 20ish mile drive but I'm pretty happy with how the weatherproof storage bag and Prinsu rack worked out, I figured it would be pretty noisy, but I didn't notice it there at all. I think we're ready for the Colorado trip next weekend!

WTH?

 

[JaketheSSnake]

WTH?

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Stainless steel washer drum/fire pit. It works awesome!

 

[I Lean]

Stainless steel washer drum/fire pit. It works awesome!

That's great...how do you get it to levitate?

 

[JaketheSSnake]

Geez, I'm not giving away all of my secrets!