What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (102 Viewers)
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a_traut_man
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@Gdesoto Went cheap-ish with what Best Buy had that would kind of fit, didn't plan on doing speakers today it just kind of happened.
Pair of kickers in the front and the lowest profile pioneers they had in the back, both took some modification to get them to fit because I wanted them to fit behind the interior panel.
Pair of kickers in the front and the lowest profile pioneers they had in the back, both took some modification to get them to fit because I wanted them to fit behind the interior panel.
surfed the web for Land Cruiser porn and found this:
Video of the Week: First 4×4 Crossing of Greenland Ice Cap
Zona
Video of the Week: First 4×4 Crossing of Greenland Ice Cap
Zona
ewillis
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They chose the proper truck for the mission...
COYS
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How close to the bone stock 80s are these things? I'm in love with the way they look. Would love to run over all the Beverly Hills g-wags in one of these 80s.
I think the thing you need is on board air. The ones I have seen that do the best have a way to feed air into the tire via a big hoop that goes into the center cap. The tires are very wide, but I have seen nice versions that don't require cutting. You can run 35"s if you want. That is a big and wide tire though. Probably not great on dry pavement.
Got it a little dusty this weekend. With the Azusa mudderz and their pals at a little local spot in Riverside. The Toyotas got to play support crew for the big trucks.
COYS
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So all the axles, diffs, tcase and suspension parts are stock? They just somehow stuffed 44s under arctic truck sourced wide fenders? They did say in vid the transmission is beefed up. If so that’s flipping awesome.
went camping and worked my endure clubs hare scramble, we were an ama east national event this year.
and I got my new manifolds back from getting sand blasted si I can get them coated
and I got my new manifolds back from getting sand blasted si I can get them coated
I am not entirely sure. I read something once about how those were built up, but I can't remember how much they had to change to run that way. The one they were taking about had a way to raise and lower the tire pressure from inside the vehicle and I am pretty sure it was valved so he could raise and lower each tire individually. That's obviously not stock, but I don't think they go super fast, so I am not sure it would need a ton of beefing up as the stock stuff is pretty stout and it seems like some of the reason people beef up other 80s is to handle the pounding that rocks and dry trails dish out. I don't know how the snow driving goes, but my suspicion is that it is more about trying to float over the ice pack than it is about navigating really technical obstacles.
Rescued a friend' suburban out of a bottomless hole at our local river bluff bank watering hole. Pulled him instead of winching just to hush the naysayers squeking my "little toyota couldn't full a flea off a dog" no spinning no damage all and all a good day at the river.
Finally got the coilovers set where they should be. Getting close!
We introduced our dogs to the concepts of "camping", "fishing" and general river dog activities. They learned about trout, prairie dogs, bighorn sheep, elk crap, swimming and scavenged femur and rib bones. The Cruiser got to wash off her nether regions on a couple of river crossings, and there's a satisfactory amount of mud and dust caked everywhere.
Driver side is done but I am having difficulty figuring out how the front two pieces mount to the cat skid plate on the passenger side.
I was backpacking in Grand Staircase-Escalante NM. On the way down Hole in the Rock road, which was exceptionally washboarded, the hardware holding my Hi-Lift rattled itself off and the jack fell off on the road. No one even noticed in the car. We stopped for a lunch break a bit later, and a truck stopped and asked us if we lost a jack. I looked over at my bumper and sure enough the jack was gone. They gave it back to me and I used abundant zip ties and a ratchet strap to make sure it would make it through 70 more miles of washboarded road.
I have that picture and a few others that Luke sent me... maybe they are different on a ‘94?
The front mounting bracket is two halves that bolt together. It looks like one gets welded to the slider and the other to the front edge of the catalytic converter skid plate, then they get sandwiched using two bolts through the holes.
I wish I could find a picture of what that looks like.
went to Cruise Moab.
went to Cruise Moab.
