What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (48 Viewers)

[cc93cruiser]

Haven't posted in awhile, but thought I'd show you guys my latest screw up.. Decided to pull TC to rebuild because I have had a leaky Fr output seal for yrs. I put the TC in a parts cleaner and like an idiot I had the smart idea of leaving it in there for a couple days.. Well, took it out of cleaner and started to dry out then noticed that that aluminum case itself does not have that semi gloss finish but a dull dark Grey, almost as if I painted it. I have tried to clean with everything, the dark grey residue just keeps coming off. . Guess I am going to run it like this ( BTW, inside of case also has dark grey residue)...I will just clean the mating surfaces and where the bearing races reside..

 

[SNLC]

Haven't posted in awhile, but thought I'd show you guys my latest screw up.. Decided to pull TC to rebuild because I have had a leaky Fr output seal for yrs. I put the TC in a parts cleaner and like an idiot I had the smart idea of leaving it in there for a couple days.. Well, took it out of cleaner and started to dry out then noticed that that aluminum case itself does not have that semi gloss finish but a dull dark Grey, almost as if I painted it. I have tried to clean with everything, the dark grey residue just keeps coming off. . Guess I am going to run it like this ( BTW, inside of case also has dark grey residue)...I will just clean the mating surfaces and where the bearing races reside..

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Purple power or ?

Cheers

 

[cc93cruiser]

Purple power or ?

Cheers

Harbor Freight special...

 

[efjayatee]

Harbor Freight special...

 

[tech_dog]

Well, took it out of cleaner and started to dry out then noticed that that aluminum case itself does not have that semi gloss finish but a dull dark Grey, almost as if I painted it. I have tried to clean with everything, the dark grey residue just keeps coming off.

Sounds like aluminum oxide. What chemical did you have in the cleaner?

The carbs on my two-stroke outboard are like that after decades of ethanol corrosion. I'm pretty sure you'll keep making more grey aluminum oxide until you run out of aluminum.

 

[BTLSHP]

Hand Over Weekend/Week,

Despite a couple of issues like what I hope are valve seals, my dad's 1994 finally made it to my daughter in Denver. So, Denver has a new 80 Series in its community and my daughter and her finance have a weekend adventure rig once the oil consumption gets sorted. It was an everything that could go wrong did go wrong kind of trip. Amtrak from Denver to SLC is a pretty cool trip!

The cake was made somewhere in Denver and was really good and well done.

If you are ever in SLC and need a hospital, I can't say enough good things about Utah State Medical Center. My dad will be fine, just complications from a poorly executed hip replacement last May.

 

[Broski]

Hand Over Weekend/Week,

Despite a couple of issues like what I hope are valve seals, my dad's 1994 finally made it to my daughter in Denver. So, Denver has a new 80 Series in its community and my daughter and her finance have a weekend adventure rig once the oil consumption gets sorted. It was an everything that could go wrong did go wrong kind of trip. Amtrak from Denver to SLC is a pretty cool trip!

The cake was made somewhere in Denver and was really good and well done.
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If you are ever in SLC and need a hospital, I can't say enough good things about Utah State Medical Center. My dad will be fine, just complications from a poorly executed hip replacement last May.

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Nice hand off
The 80 looks really clean

 

[BTLSHP]

Nice hand off
The 80 looks really clean

It spent the first 24 years of its life garaged. Most of its 240k miles were roundtrips to a cabin in WV. I have had an outrageous amount of assistance from these pages and their many authors. I will stay "connected" too it but the first thing we did was get out the FSM as indexed by @Malleus and change the oil.

The Katzkin interior is really sharp

 

[COS80]

Hand Over Weekend/Week,

Despite a couple of issues like what I hope are valve seals, my dad's 1994 finally made it to my daughter in Denver. So, Denver has a new 80 Series in its community and my daughter and her finance have a weekend adventure rig once the oil consumption gets sorted. It was an everything that could go wrong did go wrong kind of trip. Amtrak from Denver to SLC is a pretty cool trip!

The cake was made somewhere in Denver and was really good and well done.
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If you are ever in SLC and need a hospital, I can't say enough good things about Utah State Medical Center. My dad will be fine, just complications from a poorly executed hip replacement last May.

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Funny, check out the cake my wife got me for my birthday.

 

[BTLSHP]

We need an 80 Series cake thread!

 

[Dubbinchris]

It spent the first 24 years of its life garaged. Most of its 240k miles were roundtrips to a cabin in WV. I have had an outrageous amount of assistance from these pages and their many authors. I will stay "connected" too it but the first thing we did was get out the FSM as indexed by @Malleus and change the oil.

The Katzkin interior is really sharp

You got out the FSM to change the oil??

 

[BTLSHP]

You got out the FSM to change the oil??

It was a good excuse to introduce a rocket scientist to the manual. In fairness it was the first time he had done one.

 

[FMC80]

You got out the FSM to change the oil??

And? Everyone starts somewhere.

 

[FMC80]

Went to my daughters horse show…how many Land Cruisers can you spot?

 

[musthave]

Went to my daughters horse show…how many Land Cruisers can you spot?View attachment 3948718

I count 5. Hopefully the one isn't pulling that horse trailer

 

[FMC80]

I count 5. Hopefully the one isn't pulling that horse trailer

It most definitely is pulling that trailer.

 

[Trigger6]

It most definitely is pulling that trailer.

I was going to suggest it might be a GX (turbo V6), but after closer inspection think it is a LC.

 

[ebbs15]

I installed the Window rocket Window Rocket 80 series 93-97 LHD - https://powertrain-integration.com/products/window-rocket-80-series-93-97-lhd

Window Rocket - who’s tried it?

Saw a YT vid this week and I’m intrigued. I have all new window runs, special dry lube and while much faster (dead of summer) than before, my windows are not what I would call “quick”. Especially if I’m trying to roll-up more than one at a time. I’ll have to see how they perform this...

forum.ih8mud.com

Definitely happy with the result, anxious to see how much it improves the window speed in the winter... but now they're as fast as my 09 GX 470's windows (just wish they had the auto up and down my gx does lol)

 

[Josie'sLandCruiser]

Does anyone have a good tool for dropping the spare tire from the OEM location, hopefully a single piece for garage use?

I'm sick of using the multi-piece tool out of the emergency kit every time.

On my Gen 2 Tacoma that I got used (and was missing the bottle jack and tool kit) I used an engine starting rod (hand crank) from a FJ55 (slightly modified) to lower the spare tire from underneath the pickup bed. This was a long one-piece rod.

 

[Fj80oregon]

Picked up this guy today.