How else would you cook the pancakes. Gotta run that truck a little warm to get those cakes brown.Be careful, it might over heat there!
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (58 Viewers)
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surfpig
The Anti-Tech
Love them Alabama Hills... Too bad about the summit try. It's easier form the other side. But it takes longer.
hubby's hometown is just an hour away
are you going to be there for a longer time ?
At least 2 years. This is a "bring the wife along" trip, which is cool. Do you visit often? If so, we could meet.
will keep this in mind - we visit about once a year - this year, hubby is looking into going, I won't
Finally got fed up with the rain and headed to sunnier skies in Moab and the San Rafael Swell. Packed up the wife and dog, and did some car camping along some back roads. I was a little nervous to head out without another rig, but we didn't do anything wild and had a great time exploring the area. Very stoked to finally live in a place where I can take trips like this on a random weekend for the cost of 2 tanks of gas.
Where was it?
Put a tank of regular gas in at Costco. I have my timing advanced all the way to 10 and to my surprise no ping or anything. Doesn't feel like I lost power either so going to run it on regular for a while, summer might help a little too.
Too bad you didn't scan and post it first! System worked flawlessly before my woman messed with the remote, now it only locks/unlocks the front doors, and chirps intermittently. Dammit woman
Do not fret. That blue pill might get the system back to the flawless state and keep it chirping.
River Road in Dekalb.
Started working on the engine. Head gasket. Valves etc...
After cleaning the engine i was surprised at how good it looks. I love my 80....
After cleaning the engine i was surprised at how good it looks. I love my 80....
Welded all of my exhaust mounts... again. Also noticed a crack where the collectors come together. Welded what I could reach but still leaking in back. Time for the Magnaflow I guess. Greased my drive shafts. Checked my wheel bearings. Still nice and tight.
Here's proof...
Artech, I have considered installing the same style recovery points as you have. Have you used them in a heavy pull situation? I have the ARB winch bumper and am curious as to how the bumper holds up with that type recovery point.
The bumper face looked like 3/16" material so I made some 1/4" thick backing plates about 1/2" bigger than the mounts and used grade 8 3/4" bolts. These are cast iron recovery points rated for 3 1/2 tons, so they are not actually super strong. (I think I got them from Jonesey's on sale.) I believe that with this setup the bases of the recovery points would be the weakest point, probably right at the bolt holes.
My winch is going under the rear, so I didn't need them to be bulletproof. I have never used them as of yet, but I think they'd stand up to a kinetic recovery line pull pretty well. A shock load would probably snap them right off. Not too sure how they'd take an angled pull, not too well would be my guess since the greatest force would be on only 2 bolts and their flange.
Still, they look good and will no doubt haul chevy's out of the snowbanks in the wintah, which is more what I had in mind for them anyway. If I break these I'm going to weld up some monster mounts from some plate steel, but these'll do for now.
Hope this helps.
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My ip67 did not survive lone star. Seller made good on the warranty and got me my money back. I went with this bar.
It's ip68. Great pattern and super bright.
It's ip68. Great pattern and super bright.
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Incredible price for a 50" bar. Report back on it's durability, but are you pretty happy with it?
Yes. The quality is 10x better and so are the LEDs. This one is ip68 so it can be submerged under water for a while. (I will not tested it while still on the vehicle
) I'll report back after couple of months of use.
NLXTACY
Wits' End
I updated one of my mods from last year on my ARB front bumper. The OBA manifold I'm using is fine was the plain old aluminum plate was boring me to tears and the whole thing has caused me to explain myself on too many occasions now. So I made another plate, had it powder coated and then laser etched it with the vector file I made for it. If anyone has a DeWalt Job Site compressor than the style is very familiar to you.
What it looked like this morning:
What the new plate looks like after powder and laser:
What the air manifold looks like:
What the repainted matte black cut out holes in the ARB looks like:
And of course what the whole thing looks like now:
Here's hoping that people can read
No idea if I am going to actually kit this up as a product or not. I'm leaning no because of the amount of cutting needed in the bumper or wherever. But who knows.
What it looked like this morning:
What the new plate looks like after powder and laser:
What the air manifold looks like:
What the repainted matte black cut out holes in the ARB looks like:
And of course what the whole thing looks like now:
Here's hoping that people can read
No idea if I am going to actually kit this up as a product or not. I'm leaning no because of the amount of cutting needed in the bumper or wherever. But who knows.
