What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (60 Viewers)
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Make storage box in my cruiser.
NLXTACY
Wits' End
Finally made the arm and block for the Gentex mirror. Had no interest in glueing the wedge onto the windshield.
Chocolocco! Camped out and wheeled with a Rover buddy, man that Disco is pretty impressive. Tried some of the harder stuff he went through and with a few tries I’d make it.. really considering putting the Aussie locker in the rear soon
That's a fun place. I haven't been back since owning the 80 but probably need to. Only a 4 hour drive + whatever ATL throws at me.
2fpower
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I was thinking we don't have no stinkin' sunroof. I assume that door will not open @Box RocketPatches!?
We don't need no stinking patches!!
Box Rocket
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Actually the sunroof opens and works just fine, even with the patches.
Box Rocket
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Aussie locker will be a nice, inexpensive mod. I had one in the rear diff of my '93. They work great in these trucks. Also, your Rover buddy doesn't get credit for going that far up the ramp since his front tire is about a foot off the ground.
Your LX flexes better than that Disco. If he's got lockers in it, I'm sure those hard lines you guys were doing would have been you pulling him through if he had open diffs. In a moment of weakness I actually owned a Disco for a while. Ack! never again. No comparison to an 80.
Its a great park, my first time there actually! We did a few of the tough trails that hadn’t been torn up by buggies but the drive wasn’t bad. Luckily I live down in Fayetteville so I don’t fight ATL traffic
Aussie locker will be a nice, inexpensive mod. I had one in the rear diff of my '93. They work great in these trucks. Also, your Rover buddy doesn't get credit for going that far up the ramp since his front tire is about a foot off the ground.
Yeah he has a Detroit locker in the rear and lsd up front, 2 inch lift and 1 inch coil spacer to fit 35s. Doesn’t rub and surprisingly very capable. I’ve got an Aussie locker boxed up in my room, just wanted to get another daily driver before I put it in. With the rear locked I don’t think I would had a hard time with anything we did!
Box Rocket
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FWIW, when I put the Aussie locker in my '93 my wife was using the truck as a daily driver. I was initially a bit concerned about her driving it if it had weird road manners. It was totally transparent and the truck drove exactly the same on the road with the exception of the ratcheting noise when turning. I was really impressed with it. Excellent road manners and locked up exactly how you'd want on the trial.
Bludozer
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I have a spartan in the rear of mine but have had a similar experience. The supposed 'complete change in road manners' talk on here and many other forums has not been my experience at all. Outside of 1-2 loud bangs in tight parking lots throughout the time I've had it in the truck (a little over a year) I have not even noticed it in there. IMO about the best bang per buck mod available.
Box Rocket
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I never had any loud bangs with my Aussie in 5 years of use. Very smooth performance.
Hey, my 23 YO in Berkeley is wearing the same hat, as a dad far away is there anything to worry about ?
Box Rocket
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Less to worry about in Utah compared to Berkeley. Not a lot of Trump fans at Berkeley
Found it! Land Cruiser beer. Now on the search for the 80 series beer and the LX450 wine
Where did you get those latches?
ewillis
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You should try the LX470 pina coladas...fabulous!
