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What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (22 Viewers)
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-38mm, bfg ko2
Trying to get ready for the Solid Axle Summit on Ouray. Was going to point westward tomorrow but not quite ready, and my gas tank decided to have rust holes in it, on top of everything else. Got the tank out, cleaned out, blasted, welded it, powder coated it, bed linered it. Ready to go in in the morning. That and a few hundred little things and I can roll!
That, and something seems missing in the interior. Hmmm.
Easier to clean this way
Easier to clean this way
You've got one of the best 80's globally, I've followed your build thread, watched you wheel on YouTube (Rubicon, etc.). I say this not to sound like a wise guy; but, the air foil thing on the back of your rig is gone? I have found it to be extremely functional by pushing snow, dust and rain away from the rear hatch window. Just curious on why you removed it?Skies were muggy with all the recent fires in the area but it was still a great weekend away from the valley heat
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Our 80 supported our Jeep... to pick up a few parts and tools.
Spent 4 days pulling/reinstalling the gearbox/xfer case out of our jeep to replace a leaking slave cylinder. Having only worked on patrols/cruisers/landrovers I had never seen an internal slave cylinder (what a deranged concept). At least a new pressure plate/clutch plate (may as well replace if pulling the boxes) and thrust/slave combo was only $150 delivered.
Younger son (summer holidays back from college) pitched in to help and learned a lot of tricks on how to do such a job. We built an adapter (have plasma cutter and welder) to sit on our floor jack to support the entire transmission. Made life a lot easier when we had to align and mesh the box back onto the flywheel pressure plate/clutch assembly.
I was boggled to see how tiny the fasteners are that hold the saddles over the prop shafts ujoints. M5 size (8mm head)- really??!? The other brilliant piece of engineering design is the mix of 10/11/12/13/14/15mm size bolts and of course Jeep has to throw in some star heads (female torx) just for fun. e.g. the starter motor has 2 sized bolt heads to retain it. Dear god, madness... Glad our Jeep is basically a city vehicle, can't begin to imagine it out bush and needing some repair - would need a snap-on truck in tow
Bell housing cleaned up so we could see and remove the thrust/slave combo on the gearbox shaft. Cleaned up the rest before reinstalling so not having to deal with decades of oil/grease residue.
cheers,
george.
Spent 4 days pulling/reinstalling the gearbox/xfer case out of our jeep to replace a leaking slave cylinder. Having only worked on patrols/cruisers/landrovers I had never seen an internal slave cylinder (what a deranged concept). At least a new pressure plate/clutch plate (may as well replace if pulling the boxes) and thrust/slave combo was only $150 delivered.
Younger son (summer holidays back from college) pitched in to help and learned a lot of tricks on how to do such a job. We built an adapter (have plasma cutter and welder) to sit on our floor jack to support the entire transmission. Made life a lot easier when we had to align and mesh the box back onto the flywheel pressure plate/clutch assembly.
I was boggled to see how tiny the fasteners are that hold the saddles over the prop shafts ujoints. M5 size (8mm head)- really??!? The other brilliant piece of engineering design is the mix of 10/11/12/13/14/15mm size bolts and of course Jeep has to throw in some star heads (female torx) just for fun. e.g. the starter motor has 2 sized bolt heads to retain it. Dear god, madness... Glad our Jeep is basically a city vehicle, can't begin to imagine it out bush and needing some repair - would need a snap-on truck in tow
Bell housing cleaned up so we could see and remove the thrust/slave combo on the gearbox shaft. Cleaned up the rest before reinstalling so not having to deal with decades of oil/grease residue.
cheers,
george.
Our 80 supported our Jeep... to pick up a few parts and tools.
Spent 4 days pulling/reinstalling the gearbox/xfer case out of our jeep to replace a leaking slave cylinder. Having only worked on patrols/cruisers/landrovers I had never seen an internal slave cylinder (what a deranged concept). At least a new pressure plate/clutch plate (may as well replace if pulling the boxes) and thrust/slave combo was only $150 delivered.
Younger son (summer holidays back from college) pitched in to help and learned a lot of tricks on how to do such a job. We built an adapter (have plasma cutter and welder) to sit on our floor jack to support the entire transmission. Made life a lot easier when we had to align and mesh the box back onto the flywheel pressure plate/clutch assembly.
I was boggled to see how tiny the fasteners are that hold the saddles over the prop shafts ujoints. M5 size (8mm head)- really??!? The other brilliant piece of engineering design is the mix of 10/11/12/13/14/15mm size bolts and of course Jeep has to throw in some star heads (female torx) just for fun. e.g. the starter motor has 2 sized bolt heads to retain it. Dear god, madness... Glad our Jeep is basically a city vehicle, can't begin to imagine it out bush and needing some repair - would need a snap-on truck in tow
Bell housing cleaned up so we could see and remove the thrust/slave combo on the gearbox shaft. Cleaned up the rest before reinstalling so not having to deal with decades of oil/grease residue.
cheers,
george.
I discovered the same thing working on the jeep I owned for about a year before I gave up. While swapping in a replacement engine (amongst many, many repairs in less than a year), I was amazed and angered at how many times I had to go to the tool box for different sized wrenches. I decided at that point that there was no way I was going to keep that thing!
got at the sound dampening with the wife..... waiting for the foam to arrive today so I can get the back end together, stoked that my Wits End quarter panel just arrived as well !
A beer?
Which sound deadening did you go with? Any good for temps too?
That is fatmat...at least on the bottom. The sides is rattletrap
It was missing from the picture, but only because it was in my hand!
Does one hold better on vertical surfaces than the other?
That looks great. I really wanted to do that before my trip but since I WAS supposed to leave today, that's out. I bet it will make a nice difference.
No offense to you ( or your wife) but your opening statement of "got at the sound dampening with the wife" made me laugh.
Sounds like something a mobster would say when they would want to "silence" someone!
Hey thanks! I think I removed it when I did the Monstaliner, not even sure what I did with it. Trashed it maybe? Didn't really like the look of it. But I guess that explains why my rear window gets so dusty. Didn't realize it helped keep it clear.
I've had both an air foil and no air foil. My back window was/is dusty either way. I pulled mine initially because the feet were rubbing through the paint and it was starting to rust. My current 80 didn't have one installed and I Line-X'd the top anyway.
My regular wheeling partner has the wing, I don't. At the end of our trips there's virtually no difference- both of our back windows are equally dusty. It might help at highway speeds, but not wheeling- even with a highway run afterward.
I believe they use the same backing material one is just thicker (rattletrap)
It's 2 different products from the same company
Edit: According to their website the rattletrap is supposedly way better in every way so I would say it holds better vertically.
I double the floorpan - 80 mil and 50 mil on top..... will be putting a 315mm foam layer across everything that's flat as the final touch... I'm not quite as OCD as @Boltripper but aspire to it after reading thru his thread ! I will be doing the headliner area as well with dampner and foam but waiting until my shop can recover it while it's down.... I will say the rattletrap is stickier so likely will use just that and foam.
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