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What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (35 Viewers)
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You sir are my new hero.took my two boys out for a little desert driving practice and shock testing. Stage4 Slinky kit continues to impress.
I saw that movie and the remake.
LS1FJ40
SILVER Star
I have one sitting in my driveway
. It's the pic in my avatar.Actually I have a deuce (2.5 ton) that pic is a 5 ton. It's an unbelievable amount of fun. Mine has the multifuel engine - it runs on anything petroleum based including diesel, gas, WMO/UMO, used ATF, etc.
To keep this tech: I started fitting up my OBA bracket today. Looking forward to having all that air available!
I have one sitting in my driveway
Actually I have a deuce (2.5 ton) that pic is a 5 ton. It's an unbelievable amount of fun. Mine has the multifuel engine - it runs on anything petroleum based including diesel, gas, WMO/UMO, used ATF, etc.
To keep this tech: I started fitting up my OBA bracket today. Looking forward to having all that air available!
Drive to Houston. Save people! This isn't over yet. The water is still rising and additional neighborhoods are yet to flood.
Beginning with a fresh start on our 80 turbo. Earning its way to the front parking area. So far everything looks very clean with no rust and many new parts.
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Drained old fuel from oversized (34gal?) aftermarket LRA tank makes it easy with a drain port. Lifted the front to get 100% of the old fuel and dirt out for a clean start. Could be a great place for a ballcock valve to make it easy to get fuel out????
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Put in a freshly charged Optima blue to get things started. The clean up on 'why did they do this wiring'.
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The Land Cruiser started right up and smooth as a sewing machine. Took a quick test run to the gas station to determine fuel availability once fuel comes on. When the fuel light comes on you have 10gals twice as much as a factory set up. Turbo power is awesome
should make for a good parts runner for now.
Drained old fuel from oversized (34gal?) aftermarket LRA tank makes it easy with a drain port. Lifted the front to get 100% of the old fuel and dirt out for a clean start. Could be a great place for a ballcock valve to make it easy to get fuel out????
Put in a freshly charged Optima blue to get things started. The clean up on 'why did they do this wiring'.
The Land Cruiser started right up and smooth as a sewing machine. Took a quick test run to the gas station to determine fuel availability once fuel comes on. When the fuel light comes on you have 10gals twice as much as a factory set up. Turbo power is awesome
should make for a good parts runner for now.
murf
Lifer
Not the first time you've said that
But it was a 40 series a year ago this month
IH8 alarm installers
IH8 stereo installers
It seems to me Houston could use a few 80s.
Music blasting too.
Music blasting too.
I don't want to say this the wrong way and I really hope folks don't take this the wrong way, but before you just grab some gas and water and hop in the rig and head for Texas, read this first: Lone Star MVPA - ('05 Hurricane Katrina Experience) All of it. Carefully. Then read it again.
Then take a couple minutes and think. First, realize completely and fully just how bad this could have gone for this guy. I absolutely respect and admire his integrity, initiative, forethought, and backbone, but his work was almost ended several times and he was incredibly lucky not to have lost everything. A ton of folks piled into Louisiana after Katrina to try and help out and ended up much worse off than he did. Then also think; Do I have enough stuff(fuel/parts/food/water/medical) to operate completely independent of any kind of support for the amount of time I am going to be there? The logistics and supply system there is going to be shot to hell, there will be very little fuel, food, potable water, medical supplies, or truck parts there for several weeks at least.
Then realize that not having a military vehicle and uniform means you will probably be turned back at most road blocks, or at least redirected multiple times and your offers of help possibly even lost in the logistical nightmare shuffle which accompanies any large scale disaster. The last thing anyone wants to do is make this bad situation any worse than it already is by adding to the problem. (And it's gonna get worse before it gets better, that's just how these things go. At least that's how the big ones go; something this big is going to take many, many months before things get back to some kind of normal for the people there.)
I'm not going to mention weapons or munitions here, that's a subject for another forum. But is is Texas after all, and they got plenty of guns there already. (So a few more probably wouldn't change anything. But do be aware that people packing guns do make the Feds nervous.)
If anyone is still bound and determined that they are going to go in there and to hell with me and my advice, OK at least I tried, but please-please-please go online before you go and take some short online disaster response classes and bring the certificates with you, it will go a long way and won't take more than a few hours. Hopefully it will help you be part of the solution and not just part of the problem. Here's some links:
Emergency Management Institute - Independent Study (IS) | Search Results Course List
https://www.nvoad.org/how-to-help/
3 keys to rescuing, evacuating and managing Hurricane Harvey victims
Some of my friends and EMA coworkers are already loading up to deploy down there and many more are going through the team support packages and getting things ready(er) to go. Probably the teams will be going in rotations, that's how they did Katrina. Many teams all over the US have already deployed and many more are on standby to rotate in as the teams get used up, so things are happening, some help is already on the ground operating and more help is on the way.
Now if somebody could just get the damn rain to stop...
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Yeah it's incredibly slick, we had one person go down at about 40mph, she was fine but a little shaken. I almost went down myself, somehow regained control.
Check out Mr. Fancy here.
What can I say, I removed more cup holders than added.
RFB
97 FZJ80 LIFTED SC DUAL BATTERIES,37s
probably one of the happiest cameras on the island.
LS1FJ40
SILVER Star
FYI, in case anyone didn't know...chicks dig the Chinese dorkel. Waked out of work to a woman taking pics of her Gen 3 Sport Edition 4Runner next to my 93. She ran over when she saw me getting in and had to ask a bunch of questions...
