What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (79 Viewers)
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Great news!! I am up and running. I want to wholeheartedly thank everyone here, Tim from Colorado Toyota repair, and the awesome guys at Cruisers and Company. I had to step away from working on it to save my sanity, brought it to them (they got me in super quick), and in about 4 hours, it was all good. They even let me hang around the place and talk shop for a while. Now, I can finally continue my trip. 
congrats. What was the issue?Great news!! I am up and running. I want to wholeheartedly thank everyone here, Tim from Colorado Toyota repair, and the awesome guys at Cruisers and Company. I had to step away from working on it to save my sanity, brought it to them (they got me in super quick), and in about 4 hours, it was all good. They even let me hang around the place and talk shop for a while. Now, I can finally continue my trip.
I was super close to solving it. A couple of things, like corrosion on some of the wires in the back, a new fusible link (I was thinking it could be that, but the car would still run)
. I just needed a different set of eyes on it because my brain was getting tired. 
Mandrake
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Looks good! How do they seem to help? Lower coolant temps and/or lower under hood temps? Have you instrumented it at all to quantify the difference?
Cool.....you probably saw my 93 being currently Turbo-ed!Great news!! I am up and running. I want to wholeheartedly thank everyone here, Tim from Colorado Toyota repair, and the awesome guys at Cruisers and Company. I had to step away from working on it to save my sanity, brought it to them (they got me in super quick), and in about 4 hours, it was all good. They even let me hang around the place and talk shop for a while. Now, I can finally continue my trip.
@Mandrake
I feel it didn't helped for me- but i don't have an ambient engine temp sensor to really know. I installed them 2 weeks ago and i also have hood risers.
Fyi....shouldnt help/effect ECT. Only to help the heat in the engine bay to escape.
hood vents are not the solution if you have an overheating problem. With that said, it helps to keep your engine temp down within the engine bay. They could possibly prolong the life of the rubber hoses, plastic, etc. nonetheless. I have them on my rig, they look great tho...
Mandrake
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I love how they look and know that heat out the top is more effective than heat out the bottom. Considering the fan blows most of the air up and to the exhaust right side of the engine bay, I was just curious how much of a difference they made.
I've been thinking about these: FJ80 Land Cruiser Heat Extractor Kit - https://trackspecmotorsports.com/products/fj80-land-cruiser-heat-extractor-kit?pr_prod_strat=jac&pr_rec_id=d276f514c&pr_rec_pid=8672302563611&pr_ref_pid=9852480848155&pr_seq=uniform
I've been thinking about these: FJ80 Land Cruiser Heat Extractor Kit - https://trackspecmotorsports.com/products/fj80-land-cruiser-heat-extractor-kit?pr_prod_strat=jac&pr_rec_id=d276f514c&pr_rec_pid=8672302563611&pr_ref_pid=9852480848155&pr_seq=uniform
That's funny you mentioned it. They gave me a sweet deal on a turbo taken from a 93..hahaha
LoL. Your HG is next! Dont do it....
Went from this yesterday….
To this and running today…
To this and running today…
man WTF. This makes me very sad to see. This will destroy the car tuning business. People about to start all driving chevys and fords.
This is what a 300k original oem catalytic looks like. That explains why I was getting an interminent P0420....otherwise looks good!
Finally replaced the factory worn out steering stabilizer.
Lower under hood temps. I have no over heating issues.
Under 105* in az I’m good at idle. I took lunch in the truck today like 102-105 and the a/c wasn’t great for the full hour. But atleast cool. Sitting out in the sun. Driving it’s a refrigerator.
Still need to do the aux fan. And I think it’ll be perfect. But I got these for free so why not.
Mandrake
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Awesome. Every little bit helps, especially down there. I'm about a week away from being ready to ship some fans.
ChaseTruck
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Just a quick ride in the desert yesterday, FR13 northeast of Phoenix. I somehow managed to surgically remove all the rubber from the frame-side mount of the right radius arm 
. Shoutout to @richardlillard1 and @twalker9480 for putting some rubber back in today!
. Shoutout to @richardlillard1 and @twalker9480 for putting some rubber back in today!
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Installed the dual battery kit from Delta about 6 months ago. Now looks like the starter has died meh.
Would click but no crank, pulled the starter and looks like I actually have an open field coil (reading from the starter wire terminal to the starter connector terminal)
No chance the dual battery start option could have caused this right? starter only pull the amps it needs?
I think I may have left the dual battery toggle in the "both batteries connected" position for too long but I didn't think that mattered tbh.
Edit: after checking the EWD looks like I should be reading from the starter connector wire to starter body ground lol. The other wire goes to the solenoid duh lol
Would click but no crank, pulled the starter and looks like I actually have an open field coil (reading from the starter wire terminal to the starter connector terminal)
No chance the dual battery start option could have caused this right? starter only pull the amps it needs?
I think I may have left the dual battery toggle in the "both batteries connected" position for too long but I didn't think that mattered tbh.
Edit: after checking the EWD looks like I should be reading from the starter connector wire to starter body ground lol. The other wire goes to the solenoid duh lol
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