What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (61 Viewers)

[cbmontgo]

Took it out and enjoyed it.

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Cheers

Dammit man. This looks like a great day.

 

[Azca]

Finally received my welder! Ordered over two months ago along with a spool gun, hopefully I get to play with it a little this weekend as it is my first welder and the only thing I have welded was accidental when I was an electrician. Hope to start fabing with it, soon thereafter. Non-critical parts first.

Cruiser is collecting far too much dust sitting in dry dock waiting for me to take care of her.

 

[leonard_nemoy]

Finally received my welder! Ordered over two months ago along with a spool gun, hopefully I get to play with it a little this weekend as it is my first welder and the only thing I have welded was accidental when I was an electrician. Hope to start fabing with it, soon thereafter. Non-critical parts first.

Cruiser is collecting far too much dust sitting in dry dock waiting for me to take care of her.

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Congratulations!!!!!

I love my Hobart. It is a great welder. They are made by the same company that makes miller welders.

I would recommend getting a tank and just avoid the whole flux core thing. And run it off 210 if you can.

 

[Azca]

Still need to pick up the bottles, everything I have read says to go that route. For the voltage, I already wired up 50 and 30 amp 240 volt outlets. Just need an extension cord.

 

[BILT4ME]

Congratulations!!!!!

I love my Hobart. It is a great welder. They are made by the same company that makes miller welders.

I would recommend getting a tank and just avoid the whole flux core thing. And run it off 210 if you can.

220, 221, Whatever it takes.

 

[kreiten]

went to the ocean with the fam for Father's Day....

 

[High Lander]

Took the old girl in for pressure test and AC recharge this morning. Held pressure like a goodun, now blowing ice cold. Cheap fix!

 

[PZLCruiser]

Drove it for the second time after updating and charging the AC system. All is happy happy. First time in 6 years that I have a functioning AC system. AC system does make the engine temps go up. I seen 213 in stop and go traffic but she blew cold the entire time.

 

[WhitePhoenix]

Drove it for the second time after updating and charging the AC system. All is happy happy. First time in 6 years that I have a functioning AC system. AC system does make the engine temps go up. I seen 213 in stop and go traffic but she blew cold the entire time.

That is pretty high up there on the temp. To give you an idea, I see around 186-190 when low speeding wheeling and traffic. Might want to do some investigating on the coolant system. Anything else done to the engine (supercharger, etc) that might increase the temp?

 

[z531519]

Your LX is gorgeous my man. Got a build thread?

Thanks man. No build thread, there won't be much in there if there is one. It's your generic ARB bumper and 4x4 labs. OPOR sliders, and 35 Falken AT3Ws. Hmm what else, yeah a used Gobi Rack and a 2.5" OME lift, which is probably a bit soft in the rear for my weight.

 

[cvenom96]

Thanks man. No build thread, there won't be much in there if there is one. It's your generic ARB bumper and 4x4 labs. OPOR sliders, and 35 Falken AT3Ws. Hmm what else, yeah a used Gobi Rack and a 2.5" OME lift, which is probably a bit soft in the rear for my weight.

/endbuildthread

 

[z531519]

/endbuildthread

i wish it wasn't, for now i just enjoy reading thru the build threads here.

Next big one would be some gearing, either 4.88s or TC gearing. I had to go thru Monarch Pass in CO, and a car in front of me decided to slow down right before the climb which dropped my RPM to 3K. Well, there was no climbing past 3K rpm for the total 7miles to the peak. The speed limit is 45mph and the fastest it got was 40mph so i'm not too far from it. I almost never take pics of paved road pass peak signs but i was so damn happy i was able to get on top i had to take one, and bought a sticker to say we did it

 

[Feldrian]

QPM fitted up and ready for install. Just waiting for grommets arrive for the through body fittings.

 

[z531519]

Close to the end of our 2 week UT to AZ trip. Currently in Sedona originally planning to do some hikes but it's just so damn hot so most time spent in the airbnb pool.

But the 80 keeps going, sure a bit slow and a bit hot sometimes, but we're getting there. Here's where the 80 took us
- Canyonlands Needles
- Beef Basin, Moon House Ruins
- Valley of the Gods
- Alstrom Pt
- White Pocket in Vermillion Cliffs
- Grand Canyon North, and East

still need to drive back and hit a few spots in CO to cool down

A trip isn't an adventurer without a few snags along the road
- removed my wheel spacer and the slee 2" bumpstop after realizing i got about 3" left of rear downtravel. No bueno when hitting any minor dips on the road.
- do i really need offroad lights and front plates? ha, took both out and woah, my coolant and air temp is back to normal.
with that said, once truck is heat soaked and the coolant purged into the reservoir, the cooling system would struggle to stay below 200 on all the uphills. The trick is to keep the. truck running while filling up gas.
- i just swapped out my charcoal can, but holy pressure build up after a 100deg run on Schneby Hill.
- first time wheeling over 100F, slow crawl on Broken Arrow Trail and the temp got close to 220F on the slowest crawl. Had to keep the rpms up to manage the temp down. I did turn off the AC a few times but wife/kids disapproved. It was around 108F, but hey all the pink jeeps are running open!
- missed out finding a campspot by Grand Canyon on the east side. Got too late, and damn that House Rock rd rattled us. We turned around and ended up in Cliff Dwellers Lodge, best decision ever.

Some 80 related highlights from the trip:





Valley of the Gods

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had to take the kids here and cool off. camped away from the crowd up by the sand hills

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Alstrom Point, it was nice and cool here View attachment 2705149

no 80, but White Pocket is way cool not to share.

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sweet and short, Broken Arrow at 108F
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Just came back from this trip.

Drove from blazing hot AZ up to CO mountains. My cooling system is so sensitive to ambient . Thankfully we climbed up the CO passes at lowish temps (60F?) and only saw high of 199F climbing Durango to Silverton. In contrast, ambient of 99F on highway from AZ to CO, a small climb will easily get me up 210F. Easily with AC on, so had to turn it off quite a bit to my wife's displeasure. I know folks will say don't sweat it, but i tend to OCD on the ultragauge and can't keep myself to keep just driving along.

Also a PSA: please make sure to do a visual or check your bolts/hardwares. After 2 weeks of this trip, I ran quite a bit of washboard, rocky roads and noted to my wife a bolt is loosening up somwhere. In fact i already swapped out a swaybar locking pin that shook itself out. Well turned out there was something more important, and it was the front passenger caliper bolt that shook itself out. My guess is i was running with one bolt for awhile and i did a hard brake coming into a rest stop on the freeway which finally loosened the single bolt holding the caliper in place, and moved the caliper to hit the wheel. I thought i broke the tranny as it made grinding/metallic sound pulling into the rest area. Somewhat happy to find it is just the caliper bolt though i know we were very lucky this happened at a lucky time, not going down the mountains of CO!

With a bit of good luck, and lazy maintenance on my end, i found the bolt stuck on the greasy knuckles (was gonna use the tow bolt already). Zipped them back up and we are back on the road!

so learn from my mistake, i do visuals but now i need to do more. So next time i'd actually throw a wrench in there.

anyways final few pics to keep this post positive

HOT

to COLD

 

[PZLCruiser]

That is pretty high up there on the temp. To give you an idea, I see around 186-190 when low speeding wheeling and traffic. Might want to do some investigating on the coolant system. Anything else done to the engine (supercharger, etc) that might increase the temp?

Well I recently did the head gasket. New radiator, new water pump, new thermostat, rear heater bypass, cleaned out the oil cooler. Shes all updated with pink coolant even. Newer fan clutch with new fan blade. My torq app sounded a high temperature alarm. The dash gauge never went over hf way.

You see those temps 186-190 on a hot day in traffic with AC on? 186-190 is my normal operating temp.

 

[OffRoadScott]

Just came back from this trip.

Drove from blazing hot AZ up to CO mountains. My cooling system is so sensitive to ambient . Thankfully we climbed up the CO passes at lowish temps (60F?) and only saw high of 199F climbing Durango to Silverton. In contrast, ambient of 99F on highway from AZ to CO, a small climb will easily get me up 210F. Easily with AC on, so had to turn it off quite a bit to my wife's displeasure. I know folks will say don't sweat it, but i tend to OCD on the ultragauge and can't keep myself to keep just driving along.

Also a PSA: please make sure to do a visual or check your bolts/hardwares. After 2 weeks of this trip, I ran quite a bit of washboard, rocky roads and noted to my wife a bolt is loosening up somwhere. In fact i already swapped out a swaybar locking pin that shook itself out. Well turned out there was something more important, and it was the front passenger caliper bolt that shook itself out. My guess is i was running with one bolt for awhile and i did a hard brake coming into a rest stop on the freeway which finally loosened the single bolt holding the caliper in place, and moved the caliper to hit the wheel. I thought i broke the tranny as it made grinding/metallic sound pulling into the rest area. Somewhat happy to find it is just the caliper bolt though i know we were very lucky this happened at a lucky time, not going down the mountains of CO!

With a bit of good luck, and lazy maintenance on my end, i found the bolt stuck on the greasy knuckles (was gonna use the tow bolt already). Zipped them back up and we are back on the road!

so learn from my mistake, i do visuals but now i need to do more. So next time i'd actually throw a wrench in there.

anyways final few pics to keep this post positive

HOT

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to COLD

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My dream is to get up to where you live do a few of the trails there and then head up to Colorado, Utah etc.

 

[BILT4ME]

Just came back from this trip.

Drove from blazing hot AZ up to CO mountains. My cooling system is so sensitive to ambient . Thankfully we climbed up the CO passes at lowish temps (60F?) and only saw high of 199F climbing Durango to Silverton. In contrast, ambient of 99F on highway from AZ to CO, a small climb will easily get me up 210F. Easily with AC on, so had to turn it off quite a bit to my wife's displeasure. I know folks will say don't sweat it, but i tend to OCD on the ultragauge and can't keep myself to keep just driving along.

Also a PSA: please make sure to do a visual or check your bolts/hardwares. After 2 weeks of this trip, I ran quite a bit of washboard, rocky roads and noted to my wife a bolt is loosening up somwhere. In fact i already swapped out a swaybar locking pin that shook itself out. Well turned out there was something more important, and it was the front passenger caliper bolt that shook itself out. My guess is i was running with one bolt for awhile and i did a hard brake coming into a rest stop on the freeway which finally loosened the single bolt holding the caliper in place, and moved the caliper to hit the wheel. I thought i broke the tranny as it made grinding/metallic sound pulling into the rest area. Somewhat happy to find it is just the caliper bolt though i know we were very lucky this happened at a lucky time, not going down the mountains of CO!

With a bit of good luck, and lazy maintenance on my end, i found the bolt stuck on the greasy knuckles (was gonna use the tow bolt already). Zipped them back up and we are back on the road!

so learn from my mistake, i do visuals but now i need to do more. So next time i'd actually throw a wrench in there.

anyways final few pics to keep this post positive

HOT

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to COLD

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Check your fan clutch.

Since we're both in the MW and don't regularly see "HOT" temps, a slight variance becomes obvious when working it.

I recently pulled a trailer and saw mine getting hot enough to make me concerned. Found my fan clutch seal has been leaking and the fan move easily when rotated by hand. Time for a new fan clutch.

 

[BILT4ME]

My dream is to get up to where you live do a few of the trails there and then head up to Colorado, Utah etc.

You WANT to go to Minneapolis?

 

[jcardona1]

Lake day

 

[z531519]

Check your fan clutch.

Since we're both in the MW and don't regularly see "HOT" temps, a slight variance becomes obvious when working it.

I recently pulled a trailer and saw mine getting hot enough to make me concerned. Found my fan clutch seal has been leaking and the fan move easily when rotated by hand. Time for a new fan clutch.

got a modded blue fan, also have just added foam around the radiator, also fresh coolant. The radiator was swapped out by PO but can't tell what brand it is, but me thinks it's inefficient brand (looks OE). I run 185-190 regularly and winter time it's 177F (i even add a rad blocker) but anything hot the rad can't seem to keep up.

You WANT to go to Minneapolis?

hey it's not bad up here, we have the boundary waters. The only sad part is you have to drive thru Nebraska and Iowa . j/k.