What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (44 Viewers)

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I did a valve cover gasket and tune up at almost 239k miles. I’m hurting.
The wires that came out were dated 2012. The Valve stem gaskets were crunchy. And the spark plugs were covered in oil.
 
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Made use of the holiday weekend declutterring the engine bay. Replaced all valve stem seals, fully deleted EGR/VSV, corrected PHH/heater valve hoses. Painful. Think it was about 28 hours total spread between friday-today?
Still need to change the oil to clear out any trash that made its way in. Gonna switch from T4 15w40 to 10w30.
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ripped out moldy carpet
removed/stripped out under carpet padding to prep for sound deadening
removed rear panels/center console (steam cleaned)
removed cracked wood trim
removed dusted aftermarket stereo system wiring/amps
replaced breather lines, pcv value and grommet
replaced tired hood struts with strongarm struts

Currently at a local shop to check the brakes, I miss it already.

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Quick overnighter … 18° in the morning BRRRR!

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Did you go in via the Barney-Riley trail?
Yes. From 395. I wanted to go out via Loope/cottonwood canyon but couldn’t get any confirmation that it was passable. Plus I was solo…
 
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New tire day! The K02s served me well and almost got 50,000 miles out of them. They still had another 10,000 miles in them if I had to guess. They were always a challenge to balance, and of course they run small, but that is one great tire. I almost jumped to the 39 inch K02 but the crazy pricing made me not do the jump.

I ended up going with the Toyo Open Country R/T. They look much beefier then the K02. Deep tread blocks. I went to Casper Wyoming to get these installed (have a good friend who works at a Discount Tire). They were quite on the way back. I was hoping to get a little rubber overdrive with the tire being a little taller than the K02, but it was not a big enough size difference to notice anything.

Overall I am happy! I am curious to see if they stay quite.

Old K02s
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Mock up. 39 K02 in front, Toyo in Back
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Toyo mounted
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Back home and all cleaned up with Toyos
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New tire day! The K02s served me well and almost got 50,000 miles out of them. They still had another 10,000 miles in them if I had to guess. They were always a challenge to balance, and of course they run small, but that is one great tire. I almost jumped to the 39 inch K02 but the crazy pricing made me not do the jump.

I ended up going with the Toyo Open Country R/T. They look much beefier then the K02. Deep tread blocks. I went to Casper Wyoming to get these installed (have a good friend who works at a Discount Tire). They were quite on the way back. I was hoping to get a little rubber overdrive with the tire being a little taller than the K02, but it was not a big enough size difference to notice anything.

Overall I am happy! I am curious to see if they stay quite.

Old K02s
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Mock up. 39 K02 in front, Toyo in Back
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Toyo mounted
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Back home and all cleaned up with Toyos
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What exactly is your home? That’s quite the garage.
 
New tire day! The K02s served me well and almost got 50,000 miles out of them. They still had another 10,000 miles in them if I had to guess. They were always a challenge to balance, and of course they run small, but that is one great tire. I almost jumped to the 39 inch K02 but the crazy pricing made me not do the jump.

I ended up going with the Toyo Open Country R/T. They look much beefier then the K02. Deep tread blocks. I went to Casper Wyoming to get these installed (have a good friend who works at a Discount Tire). They were quite on the way back. I was hoping to get a little rubber overdrive with the tire being a little taller than the K02, but it was not a big enough size difference to notice anything.

Overall I am happy! I am curious to see if they stay quite.

Old K02s
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Mock up. 39 K02 in front, Toyo in Back
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Toyo mounted
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Back home and all cleaned up with Toyos
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Nice truck/tire combo looks awesome. Will this be your winter tire too?
 
Nice truck/tire combo looks awesome. Will this be your winter tire too?

Thank you! And yes they will be. Did a little snow wheeling on my way back. It was sloppy wet snow and the tires seemed to behave quite well and cleared out really nice. It'll be interesting to see how they do on ice.


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I live in Aspen but I do not have garage parking where I live. I live in a 300sqft shoebox haha. I lease a parking spot in a nearby complex that I park the cruiser in and also have access to a wash bay.
Well despite living in a shoebox that’s a cool set up to have access to, and hopefully it’s not a small fortune to rent. Although given that you’re in aspen it probably IS expensive. I lived in a shoebox in Philadelphia years ago but didn’t have any place to park but the street. :/. I’m fortunate with a 3 car garage now but it’s definitely not Aspen.
 
I wish we would take winter trips like this without a six hour drive
That was about 3hrs, door to door. It took more coming home, I helped (tried to help) a couple in their cool IH pickup, then I decided to drive around the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe, which I don't think I've ever done before...

So that ended up being like a nine hour drive home. :lol:
 
That was about 3hrs, door to door. It took more coming home, I helped (tried to help) a couple in their cool IH pickup, then I decided to drive around the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe, which I don't think I've ever done before...

So that ended up being like a nine hour drive home. :lol:
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This hill is pretty steep. You can’t tell from the picture. Loose rocks. Dude was way into using the gas pedal. He ended up breaking a front axle. I offered to pull him out to the highway. He insisted he could go out the other way, like ten extra miles… backed down the hill, and we parted ways. We were like 100 feet from the exit road.

Which sucked. By the way. :lol:
 
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This hill is pretty steep. You can’t tell from the picture. Loose rocks. Dude was way into using the gas pedal. He ended up breaking a front axle. I offered to pull him out to the highway. He insisted he could go out the other way, like ten extra miles… backed down the hill, and we parted ways. We were like 100 feet from the exit road.

Which sucked. By the way. :lol:
I offered to take his girlfriend home while he dealt with his stupid decisions, but alas…

< dirty old man >

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