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What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (92 Viewers)
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Ecliff5
SILVER Star
Tossed the roof rack and awning on and got most of the flares installed.
Those are stickers from the Land Rover crowd. I think I found mine on Etsy.
Continued with the base lining of my 92. Last weekend I chased down and corrected a couple cel codes for EGR system and a dead O2 sensor along with replacing the broken headlight and switching all 4 headlamp bulbs for some fancy 9005 sylvanias. I was surprised to find all the bulbs I removed were koito. Also removed a janky add on alarm/associated wiring. This weekend I adjusted valves(all were tighter than spec) replaced valve cover gasket and pcv grommet, set the timing (advanced it a couple degrees from the fsm recommended 7). And replaced nearly every single vacuum hose on the rig. Also tightened up the trans kickdown cable. Some combination of today's activities cured a slightly erratic idle it's had since I got it, and the drive home from my shop revealed a obvious difference in the cruisers ability to maintain speed. I'll be curious to see what fuel mileage does, my first tank yielded 9.6. after tuneup and cel corrections I got to 10.8. I'll report back after I burn through this tank.
2 tubes!!??! The big ones or the mini ones?
GSMTR weekend.
Met some cool folks and ran some blues on Thursday. I was an honorary 100 for the day. I came away quite impressed with what a mostly stock 100 can do with lockers (and even atrac) and a good 33 (@LJE 's driving helped). Realistic it's all id ever need for my purposes, but of course I still want 37s
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Friday I baled on the group and took the 2yo on his first wheeling adventure - couldn't have gone better- we had a picnic at overlook and he had a blast.
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Saturday momma headed home with the kiddos and I joined up with another group to run 22 for a run now referred to as the traffic jamb.
Slow day on the trail without too much action. I was a bit bummed headed down the mountain back to camp when @TampaCruisers chimed in on the radio he was stopping by his cabin to grab some meat, we were welcome to join him.
Turns out Manny not only has the nicest 80 I've ever seen in real life (and he actually wheels it), he's an amazing grill master and super generous dude- he stood att he grill for like 3 hours treating us with Venezuelian delicacies - pork belly, amazing steak cuts, blood sausage, things made of cheese - it blew our minds and definitely made up for a slow day of wheeling. If you're in the Tampa area, hook up with this dude for your cruiser needs.
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It was a blast getting to hang with you! Your truck is awesome (love that @Delta VS rear bumper!) and it was cool getting to keep up with an 80.
lumbee1
Native American
I truly hate the LSPV, but to each their own. My LSPV was the source of awful braking for many years until I removed it.
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Drove it to Bonnaroo...good times were had despite the weather and early cancelation.
We found a back country byway out to the coast, got some dirt road travel time in along a 300-mile tour. Found a little spur trail down to the river which required some 4LO time to navigate and were rewarded by a totally empty gravel bar, which we had all to ourselves. Oregon’s treating us just fine.
Hopefully replacing everything will improve braking. If not I'll consider ditching it. Trying to stay oem - ish for now.
lumbee1
Native American
You should definitely look into adjusting the rod for your lift height.
COS80
SILVER Star
If anyone has photos of the floor without carpet, from the 2nd row seat to the hatch, please PM to me.
CrabCake
SILVER Star
Great to meet you too! Good to get the kids involved, looks like they had a great time!
I got better than expected results fixing the cracked, broken, and missing tabs and screw wells on various trim pieces, using JB Weld Body Panel Adhesive. It hardens in six minutes, giving you about three minutes where it's putty-like and malleable. It cures rock hard in an hour.
COS80
SILVER Star
Super helpful, thank you.
The previous owner of mine installed this plastic floor, and I'm trying to guess how it comes out. I'm pretty sure it's screwed down into the D-ring holes, but there may be more to it (I can see some kind of metal support structure along the front edge).
Got a second one 
Would love to see these fully mounted and more pics!
Looks like a good "learn through play" situation. Just go at it with the right tools and start taking things apart. You cant really do any harm. If your nervous, take some reference pictures as you go so you can back track and put it back together correctly if need be. Stay organized, put hardware in sandwich bags or little plastic containers of some kind. The cheap ZIP Lock Tupperware containers are good. Another good habit if at all possible is to put hardware in its corresponding threaded hole, or if the hole has no threads, drop the screw in and wrap a small piece of painters tape around it so it cant fall out. That way you have all the correct screws in their holes. An especially helpful organizational technique when you have different length screws in the same piece of hardware, and you need to keep track of which exact screw goes exactly where it needs to go.
