What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (79 Viewers)

[lumbee1]

My LandCruiserPhil sway bar end link ball joints are completely shot. I tried injecting grease into the ball but no luck. One is seized and requires a tremendous amount of force to move. Replacements arrive today.

I replaced my front sway bar bushings two weeks ago. Apparently I didn't tighten the bolts down for my sway bar drop brackets and lost one of the brackets. Since the front sway bar wasn't doing much, I removed the whole sway bar and took the Cruiser for a spin. Body roll and driving dynamics are not as bad as I thought, but once I have weight in the vehicle and a family of four, I could see this being a handful on twisty roads. I will make new drop brackets and reinstall the sway bar.

New Diode Dynamics fog lights are on the way to replace my Amazon lightbar.

I actually look my photo and put it in Photoshop to determine fog light placement.

 

[DirtyPepper]

Updated the front bumper to an ARB and added the Apex Badlands 12k lb winch (synthetic rope).

The winch was a PITA to get mounted properly…I was happy to have people who knew what they were doing and help.

She’s growing up so fast!

 

[Fj80oregon]

Updated the front bumper to an ARB and added the Apex Badlands 12k lb winch (synthetic rope).

The winch was a PITA to get mounted properly…I was happy to have people who knew what they were doing and help.

She’s growing up so fast!

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New bumper looks good, I’ll take your old one!

 

[JoeCova]

All these ARBs. My ARB wasn’t up to the task so I have it removed and making it better. ARB 2.0 in the pipeline.

 

[Trigger6]

Updated the front bumper to an ARB and added the Apex Badlands 12k lb winch (synthetic rope).

The winch was a PITA to get mounted properly…I was happy to have people who knew what they were doing and help.

She’s growing up so fast!

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I bought that same winch as a placeholder until I could afford a nice Warn…. I’ve used it a few times now and like it so much that I may just leave it.

 

[Godwin]

Road trip yesterday to pick up a "free" Honda 4wheeler. It's a 1996 with one flat tire, dead battery, front brake line frozen, will not shift into N, likely needs a carb rebuild, plus who knows what else. But it was free . Later swung by Tilda Bogue to pick up some 60 series parts that @Meshal acquired for me. Hung out with @wngrog a short time then @cruiserinsanityand I rolled back to AL.

 

[sterinn]

I put in a new dist. O-ring, the original had been slightly seeping for a while. Before i took it out, I marked the position of the arm and the dist body/nut, reinstalled it. It ran fine, but after a couple days I decided to check timing g and found i was about 3* slow, so adjusted it back to 3* and just went through my first tank of around-town driving, (with daily 15 mile stretches at highway speed, 70mph) and averaged 14.6mpg.

 

[nigelsiam]

I bought that same winch as a placeholder until I could afford a nice Warn…. I’ve used it a few times now and like it so much that I may just leave it.

You think the Badlands winch is a "placeholder"? Sounds like you got caught up in the name game and not going by results and performance. The Badlands winch is amazing.