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What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (106 Viewers)
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Another one to add to the list of crap that four people might find useful. Redid all my battery cables and cleaned up all the loom. But I made the starter cable longer to keep it looser and decided to use the little useless tab on the charcoal canister as a clamp for the battery cable.
You know that useless piece of metal hanging off the bracket on the charcoal canister? I wanted it to be slightly less useless. Does the job perfectly.
You know that useless piece of metal hanging off the bracket on the charcoal canister? I wanted it to be slightly less useless. Does the job perfectly.
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Currently about 400 miles into a 750 mile trip.
Installed a different head unit in my 96 LC.
It is an Alpine single DIN. I pulled it out of the 95 Jeep GC that I drove for a lot of years
It replaced a much older Alpine unit. Now I have Bluetooth for my tunes and even have my phone and a mic so it's clearer while I'm on the road. I have gone through 4 headsets trying to get one that doesn't pick up all the road noise. This one appears to be pretty good so far. My wife can at least hear me now and I don't have to yell into the phone the entire time.
It is an Alpine single DIN. I pulled it out of the 95 Jeep GC that I drove for a lot of years
It replaced a much older Alpine unit. Now I have Bluetooth for my tunes and even have my phone and a mic so it's clearer while I'm on the road. I have gone through 4 headsets trying to get one that doesn't pick up all the road noise. This one appears to be pretty good so far. My wife can at least hear me now and I don't have to yell into the phone the entire time.
Factory Softop 80??? 
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Follow the voltage
I honestly don't know what I'm doing with a volt meter and spent sometime last night trying to figure out how to use it properly. I assume you are saying follow the voltage by testing the plug to determine if the problem is before (wires) or after (board) ??
Yes work your way back from the led fixture to see where 12v os present
I did diode first and still no light
I determined that I had no voltage at the connector ahead of the diode
The opening and closing of hatch twists cable and eventually invisibly breaks coductor
How do you like the diesel? (I'm assuming pretty well).
Spent a week touring the Yellowstone Area. On the way to Goose Lake up by Cooke City, best campsite of our trip btw!
The bouncing/rocking have loosened up a bunch of exhaust bolts/nuts. My toolbag didn't have my 17mm, but i got my trusty vice and bail wires. Yup, truck is sitting on driveway now and the vice is still there!
Not sure what to make off how the truck performed this trip. Coolant temp shoots up to 210F on those steep 2nd gear climbs (monitored with UltraGauge). I probably saw 214F highest. I had to make a few stops climbing up to Beartooth Pass to let the cooling recover. Oh i guess as heavy as i was, at some sections i had to downshift to 1st gear when 2nd is unable to hold speed.
Off-road, the truck performed great -- other than shaking all the exhaust bolts off... and dragging that ass all the time.
Forgot that i had to manually unlock my rear locker here, what a nice spot to wrench on the truck
The bouncing/rocking have loosened up a bunch of exhaust bolts/nuts. My toolbag didn't have my 17mm, but i got my trusty vice and bail wires. Yup, truck is sitting on driveway now and the vice is still there!
Not sure what to make off how the truck performed this trip. Coolant temp shoots up to 210F on those steep 2nd gear climbs (monitored with UltraGauge). I probably saw 214F highest. I had to make a few stops climbing up to Beartooth Pass to let the cooling recover. Oh i guess as heavy as i was, at some sections i had to downshift to 1st gear when 2nd is unable to hold speed.
Off-road, the truck performed great -- other than shaking all the exhaust bolts off... and dragging that ass all the time.
Forgot that i had to manually unlock my rear locker here, what a nice spot to wrench on the truck
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Bludozer
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Again, temps in that range are nothing to be concerned with. Its hot as balls out and you are loaded down while winding it out on mountain passes. To be expected, and your "cool off" periods were likely unnecessary. Don't overthink it.
It was indeed warm, high 80s when we were climbing up. I got more comfortable with the temps eventually plus the wife didn't care anymore for blowing the heater all the way up to the pass lol.
Why are you even questioning your purchase? The reviews on that unit are awesome. I know your scared what the neighbors might think.
All the way up to 214!?!?
Haha... you're only 11 degrees from the ac shutting off! Joking with you of course. Absolutely nothing to worry about those temps.
