What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (60 Viewers)

[HardyDanger]

Replaced:
Valve cover gasket (last one was leaking after 5k miles).

Struggled disconnecting the kick down cable, then realized. Just leave it on. Once you have the throttle body removed you can just pop that cable off, easy as pie, plenty of of flex in the cable.

New coolant lines to the throttle body.

Fuel filter ( what a PITA)
Followed the tip to cut a slot in the upper bracket. However, I found that with two looonnnnggggg extensions I could access both mounting bolts from underneath. Trick was four hands.

Person1 sets the socket attached to a 12” extension on the bolts through the wheel well, and holds it in place for person 2, lying on their back, to connect it to a16” extension and rachet. And viola.

No good tips on the banjo’s. Front was easier than the rear with the hard line.

Also. Installed 555 TREs and DOM bar. Had the parts sitting around for a few years.

Checking my nuts and greasing drive line and knuckles.

Heading to Joshua Tree this weekend.

 

[petwhookie]

Playing around with the 3 link

I have a few sets of shock towers for sale

 

[HDJ80L]

Sanded down and painted the rear step and also repainted the rear bumper corners after removing scratches and defects. Hopefully the clearcoat on the step will help keeping it nice for a while.

 

[Rdeschain]

I finally got started on the new project. She's a '95 in 6M1 on K292 axles. Plan is to keep her as stock as possible. Paint and interior will need a fair amount of TLC but thankfully she has zero rust. The engine is good but will get a refresh anyway but that will be scheduled for May/June timeframe.

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Nice to see that 6M1 with the beige interior. Mine is also 6M1, but with the bluish/gray interior

 

[FMC80]

Nice to see that 6M1 with the beige interior. Mine is also 6M1, but with the bluish/gray interior

Mine is also 6M1 & Oak. I see more Oak interiors than Gray.

 

[Surfdc]

Cobbled an exhaust hanger after cutting off the resonator for the 4x4 labs bumper install. Used an existing hole and a bolt all the way through.

 

[Andrew Bluemel]

Last week @LC4LIFE, @ExpoMax and myself spent the week exploring all Death Valley has to offer. It was awesome. Lots of dirt roads, sand, rocks, snow, we saw it all. It was a great trip and all the trucks ran awesome.

 

[ERG80]

Over the weekend I rewired my front and rear aux lights to the aux fuse/relay panel, wired up some switches in the wits-end ashtray insert, labeled the switches with switch pro labels, and started working on a fuse box mount for the abs module bracket. Idea came from what huddexpo used to offer.

Felt like a decent weekend of progress.

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[kangjinsoo]

New rear main seal. Fj80 slowly coming back together. 3FE engine refresh! Easy job with engine outside truck but still satisfying. Is there gasket between the plate and the block? If so it disintegrated and I didn’t see one???

 

[Fj80oregon]

Finally brought the lift home after ordering and having it shipped to my work 4 months ago.

 

[whiskeytooth]

Got the second battery installed, just waiting on cables to run the starting battery to the relay and move the accessories and winch over. Pretty excited about this upgrade.

 

[Dubbinchris]

Got a box of new plugs with pigtails today from Ballenger. Will be rebuilding a bunch of the harness across the top of the engine. This started with a misfire that I traced to a crumbling injector plug. During some disassembly the ISV plug crumbled in my hand, so I decided to just replace almost of the plugs and send out the injectors while I’m in there.

 

[landcrshr]

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Got a box of new plugs with pigtails today from Ballenger. Will be rebuilding a bunch of the harness across the top of the engine. This started with a misfire that I traced to a crumbling injector plug. During some disassembly the ISV plug crumbled in my hand, so I decided to just replace almost of the plugs and send out the injectors while I’m in there.

It's kind of hard to tell, but is your harness burnt through right here?

 

[TXMeatball]

Annual cowl cleaning, just in time for pollen season. Made some new battery terminal cables with the other grounds and threw those on. While fiddling in the starter area I replaced my crumbling transmission harness with a minty used one. CDL still isn't working- dunno what else it could be since everything else is brand new.

 

[06reg4x4]

Yeah I have a 97 so a little different I guess. Are you going to rewore your harness with the Toyota injector plug and use adapters for the Bosch style or are you going to just wire in the Bosch to the harness?

Please post how the injectors work out. What part number?

 

[Dubbinchris]

It's kind of hard to tell, but is your harness burnt through right here?

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Yeah, probably. I’ll be pulling it apart and inspecting it and repair as necessary.

 

[CrabCake]

Please post how the injectors work out. What part number?

I just did the exact same project for the same reason...EGR roasted the #6 injector harness connector. I got mine back together on Monday evening after 6 weeks off of the road (some travel, some waiting for parts), and it now runs great again! I could actually cruise at 70 and accelerate from there...I'm on 315's but do have 4:56's + 10% under drive on gearing.

I used these from CruiserParts, not sure if it made a "difference" over the 2 hole since mine ran like crap before, but reasonably priced and work great, plus they were to me in a couple of days with the new jumper harnesses included. Since my injector plugs were crumbling, I permanently spliced these in to avoid 6 more clip unions. I also added a couple of keychains to eliminate all of the heat by the firewall. Makes me love my cruiser again! Along with injectors, harness plugs, keychains, I did the FPR, fuel filter, all gaskets, intake boot, studs/nuts/bolts, tons of vac lines....everything from the head to the intake boot pretty much except for the little control modules under the manifold.

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[surfpig]

Trying to clean the 3FE up and get her ready for paint. I’m getting a little OCD at the moment.
Does anyone know what the factory color was for ‘92 engine block 3FE?

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(Fe2O3) as far as I know.

 

[Old Nick]

Got the second battery installed, just waiting on cables to run the starting battery to the relay and move the accessories and winch over. Pretty excited about this upgrade.

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Those terminal connectors are sharp! I've now put them on my list of things to buy... thanks a lot... lol.

 

[zpilot]

Took my new OEM front bumper and corners to get it wrapped to as close to factory metallic gray, since the corners and center bar do not match from Toyota and to get protection from rock chips.

Found a guy who does wraps out of his house and super happy with the results. I went and sourced the wrap and had him install it.
If you're out in Los Angeles and need his service, I would definitely recommend him. Very nice guy and price was very reasonable.

Wrap Details: PET Super Gloss Metallic Dark Gray. Not 100% like factory but worked for me.

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