What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (92 Viewers)

[Fj80oregon]

I spoke to Ian at 4x4 Labs as my bumper, sliders and jerry can rack are still being worked on. He said he will double check measurements of the bumper and let me know if they are issues. No one wants a bad bumper after it’s shipped and it’s making contact with the fender flares. Was your bumper a DIY weld kit? @Fj80oregon ?

No pre built. I get it’s a custom Bumper and every truck is different. Not sure how to feel yet depends on the action taken by them. Not sure what the course of action would be send it back, have them recommend me fix and ask for compensation.

 

[Fj80oregon]

Not sure don’t really wanna cut down a new powder coat job!

 

[thatcabledude]

Who dis is?

 

[Wrencher93]

Saw this, thought it was pretty cool. Sorry if it's already been posted.

 

[ATXnative]

Went up to the top of Elwood Pass last weekend and Bolam pass this weekend. Both super fun with great views, but Elwood was definitely much rougher/more technical. A/C belt snapped on Bolam and an electrical gremlin is randimly killing my dash fuse. Other than that 80 performed flawlessly. It's a mountain goat.

 

[on the rocks]

144/145 VT's on and sitting about 4" as advertised. Rear seems a bit lower but need to look closer. Left inner fender rub and right clears with a 1" shift to the drivers side on the pan hard due to lift. Will adjust next and hopefully clear the 37's with the delta 4" arms. It's going to be close. Suppose it's time to buff some pin striping out just to add more...

Couldn't resist and flexed with 3 shocks to check rubbing and clearance. Ran out of real estate before bottoming out anywhere, Not even close to rubbing anywhere with an extra 1/2" height gain. Huge improvement, Time to get the last shock on and do a real test. The baby curb isn't cutting it,,,

 

[Fj80oregon]

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@landtank he got a website!! Might not be news to some but I just found out!

 

[KennyBob]

No pre built. I get it’s a custom Bumper and every truck is different. Not sure how to feel yet depends on the action taken by them. Not sure what the course of action would be send it back, have them recommend me fix and ask for compensation.

Let me know what you find out if you don’t mind. I think I’m in the same boat with mine. If it wasn’t an LX I would’ve pulled all the flares off by now.

 

[z531519]

Let me know what you find out if you don’t mind. I think I’m in the same boat with mine. If it wasn’t an LX I would’ve pulled all the flares off by now.

my kit came with long hoop bars. I cut it shorter and also did not weld flush the curved section so i can move it furtther back, for a better fit and aesthetics. Not sure what i would do on a pre-built kit, hacking it up will sure mess up the powdercoat

I also have an LX, so wondering if the flares are bigger than the LC.

 

[KennyBob]

That might be it. Although I would think that would be disclosed in the description. Here’s what my DS looks like.

You can see that the flare is shifted forward (from the original line in the paint) and where it’s been rubbing the bumper.

 

[Defterdar]

Now with a touch of paint

 

[Surfdc]

Not the weekend but anybody know who this is? Nice build!

 

[b16]

I spoke to Ian at 4x4 Labs as my bumper, sliders and jerry can rack are still being worked on. He said he will double check measurements of the bumper and let me know if they are issues. No one wants a bad bumper after it’s shipped and it’s making contact with the fender flares. Was your bumper a DIY weld kit? @Fj80oregon ?

Mine was a DIY weld kit.

 

[NLXTACY]

Who dis is?

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Looks like the one in my shop now

 

[cody c]

they look close but significantly different. white vs black mirrors, fenders and different sticker on the window, sliders and rack on one but not the other, different wheels, different rear bumper, factory swing out etc.

Was that a factory decal the orange/yellow/red with black toyota text?

Weird.

I like the toyota colors and decals, but also like being somewhat non descript and hard to identify sometimes too. A generic grey is easier to dispute speeding tickets than something with standout-ish markings.

 

[nodor]

Received a Garmin InReach Explorer+ as a gift. Mounted it with a Garmin powered mount and RAM accessories to the Wits End Useless Cubby insert. Had a mount there already for my phone. Just need to get another RAM mounting arm to run both at the same time. The Explorer+ is a little big but it was a gift so I'm not complaining. Will run the USB cord through the Wits End piece at the dash at some point to hide it.

 

[bajaphile]

Not the weekend but anybody know who this is? Nice build!View attachment 2710887

Looks like the parking lot at Cardiff Grief? Do not recognize that one. Out of state plates possibly? No front CA plate = ticket.

 

[audi2nr]

Big haul today, might as well be the weekend!

 

[SNLC]

It’s a thing, this was last November in our shop.

Cheers

 

[Shoredreamer]

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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Looks like a great adventure! We did almost the same route but south to north a few weeks back.