Installed front mud flaps.
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (104 Viewers)
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Nice rig!, tose factory mud flaps or you buy aftermarket?
Thanks. Factory flaps. It came with the back ones. Took them off (with son's urging) when I took off the running boards, but I didn't like the "naked" flairs and the exposed screw holes. So, I ordered OEM front flaps, and then put all four on when the fronts arrived.
Great job rochmpr, Slee bumper looks sick too!
Had new front rotors and brake pads in. Tranny fluid flush.
I unplugged the antenna motor harness. It didn't go up anyway, and now I don't have to listen to the motor grinding away ALL the time. Then son and I removed a late 90s hands-free cellphone cradle and wired handset while installing CDL switch and doing 7 pin mod. It is so cool to be able to choose CDL in either High or Low now. 
Contemplated flushing the heater core....decided its to cold to bother today. It was snowing off and on so i just wrapped up a few random fixes left over from the radiator swap Thursday night.
Bundy Hill Offroad
Took the cruiser to Bundy Hill Offroad Park in MI. Pretty fun place! Mostly woods, trails, some rocks, and old quarry sites. Good fun. I smashed in my 2 passenger doors a little and the rocker...should have had sliders. Oh, also took off the fender flare on the same rock...damn! Guess it just pushes up my next project of bedliner on the bottom half and flareless. Oh, I also learned that Jeep XJs do not have very good frames. My buddy just bought one, took it out to Bundy, and got high centered on a hard packed clay/sand hill peak. I tried to hook up to him but he didn't have a bumper and hadn't installed recovery points on the front (had them on the back of the frame). Anyway, I hooked my winch hook to a 2" hole in the frame just behind his driver's side spring and tried the winch. It just pulled the cruiser forward in the sandy soil. Then I gave it some gas and I moved 6" or so...but the XJ didn't move. My hook ripped 6" through his frame taking out his brake line and bending his shock. I put a pair vice grips on the brake line and a pry bar on his shock and he was back on the trail to get back to his trailer. I can't believe how weak that frame was!
Took the cruiser to Bundy Hill Offroad Park in MI. Pretty fun place! Mostly woods, trails, some rocks, and old quarry sites. Good fun. I smashed in my 2 passenger doors a little and the rocker...should have had sliders. Oh, also took off the fender flare on the same rock...damn! Guess it just pushes up my next project of bedliner on the bottom half and flareless. Oh, I also learned that Jeep XJs do not have very good frames. My buddy just bought one, took it out to Bundy, and got high centered on a hard packed clay/sand hill peak. I tried to hook up to him but he didn't have a bumper and hadn't installed recovery points on the front (had them on the back of the frame). Anyway, I hooked my winch hook to a 2" hole in the frame just behind his driver's side spring and tried the winch. It just pulled the cruiser forward in the sandy soil. Then I gave it some gas and I moved 6" or so...but the XJ didn't move. My hook ripped 6" through his frame taking out his brake line and bending his shock. I put a pair vice grips on the brake line and a pry bar on his shock and he was back on the trail to get back to his trailer. I can't believe how weak that frame was!
I believe that's a zj not xj. And their frames are weak because they don't have frames they are unibody construction
Yeah, I agree. I was corrected by the dude that I pulled out after I posted the pic on facebook that it was a ZJ. He said it was the closest thing to a frame that he had...guess it didn't cut it. Why would you use something like that to go wheelin' in? No wonder he has to trailer it due to shakes and shimmies on the highway.
All hail the mighty 80 !!!!!
K-Trail
CWR33 said:
How difficult is the K-trail, wheeling wise?
Not to bad, I stayed in 4hi and didnt use the lockers at all. There were some rocky spots and it gets a bit tight. You need a gps though.
Keepin it Low
Measured my "rubbage" with the 35s at stock height. Its way less then I anticipated. Rear tucks in nicely I just need about 1-2" of uptravel left. Front fender gets in the way, a little. With as great as the suspension is stock id like to keep the geometry and provide room for the tires to articulate(tub wheel wells, roll fenders, etc). Option 1 is getting brand new oem springs, or option 2, getting OME stock height springs. Are they really stock height? Does anyone on here have them installed on their rig?
Measured my "rubbage" with the 35s at stock height. Its way less then I anticipated. Rear tucks in nicely I just need about 1-2" of uptravel left. Front fender gets in the way, a little. With as great as the suspension is stock id like to keep the geometry and provide room for the tires to articulate(tub wheel wells, roll fenders, etc). Option 1 is getting brand new oem springs, or option 2, getting OME stock height springs. Are they really stock height? Does anyone on here have them installed on their rig?
I just put 861/862's in my truck last week, gained 1" in rear, .5" on front left, LOST .25" on front right, rides much better, less squat and dive, and bodyroll, nice improvement over stock. I'm going to need spacers to bring it closer to level, but a truck without a winch would likely gain an inch all around. Not sure if the diesel is heavier than the gasser as well.
Thats odd on the front end. Did you contact OME about the uneven stance? Is that normal? 3/4" seems like a lot. Is OME the only option for a stock(ish) height spring?
