What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (28 Viewers)

[scottryana]

@jcardona1 I kind of hate you a little right now. lol.

There's plenty of water in CA to go play in. These are all within the last couple weeks. In fact, I won't camp unless I'm near a body of water

 

[musthave]

Water pics are beautiful. If you want to cali, head for the mountains I guess. Cool, refreshing, wheeling. Doesn't get better than that.

 

[120mm]

In all the excitement, I forgot to post my camshaft cover gasket and sparkplug tube gasket replacement. During the first 100 miles of my trip, oil started pretty much pouring out of that escape ramp of the front gallery. I kept driving another 1000 miles or so, but just kept an eye on oil level.

Like I said earlier, Olathe Toyota came through with overnight delivery of the gaskets.

This is pretty much what two of the gaskets looked like. And they were hard as a rock. Only one popped up in one piece, the rest fractured. I was able to fish the missing bits out of the valve train, where they happily rode for at least 1000 miles without evident negative effect.

Gratuitous naked valve train pic

Purple because Andre'

If you've ever done this job, I don't need to explain.

Victory! Runs nice, no leaks. Two of my camshaft cover bolts were sheared off and the cover was glued back on by PO. The PO also pretty much destroyed the threads trying to remove (unsuccessfully) them, so I went ahead and drilled the holes all the way through the tabs and put a nut and a lock washer on the underside. It was butchery, but it solved the problem.

 

[retrofive]

In all the excitement, I forgot to post my camshaft cover gasket and sparkplug tube gasket replacement. During the first 100 miles of my trip, oil started pretty much pouring out of that escape ramp of the front gallery. I kept driving another 1000 miles or so, but just kept an eye on oil level.

Like I said earlier, Olathe Toyota came through with overnight delivery of the gaskets.

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This is pretty much what two of the gaskets looked like. And they were hard as a rock. Only one popped up in one piece, the rest fractured. I was able to fish the missing bits out of the valve train, where they happily rode for at least 1000 miles without evident negative effect.

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Gratuitous naked valve train pic

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Purple because Andre'

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If you've ever done this job, I don't need to explain.

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Victory! Runs nice, no leaks. Two of my camshaft cover bolts were sheared off and the cover was glued back on by PO. The PO also pretty much destroyed the threads trying to remove (unsuccessfully) them, so I went ahead and drilled the holes all the way through the tabs and put a nut and a lock washer on the underside. It was butchery, but it solved the problem.

You are a cake designer aren't you Andre

 

[120mm]

You are a cake designer aren't you Andre

No, but I am baking a freshly picked sour cherry pie for my lovely bride tonight.

 

[Dragos80]

What were you wearing while painting that cover in purple?

 

[interactivebagel]

Of the truck or camping?

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Nice rig, man. I dig that lift/tire size combo.

 

[surfpig]

Maybe I should have trimmed my garage header a little more...

 

[retrofive]

Maybe I should have trimmed my garage header a little more...

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Eat more!

 

[surfpig]

Maybe I should have trimmed my garage header a little more...

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[Qball]

Seems a few of the gurus like the light (32) hydraulic fluid over the ATF. Just a FYI.

Yes but I'm cheap and only want to carry 1 fluid for both.

Is high end hydraulic oil better? Yes, but I already have the synthetic ATF and they are much cheaper and easier to source. And I am not good enough to tell the difference, I only did the fluid change as a PM.

 

[SFROMAN]

So I think there are more land cruisers in the parking lot where I work then there are at any other comparable parking lot in the US.

4 80 series, mine was the 1st
2 LX450's
3 100 series
1 LX470
1 2015 200 series

Has anyone else seen that many Land Cruiser's in a parking lot with under 400 cars?

I want to put a card on each one of them and ask them all to park in one part of the parking lot one day. It would be an interesting picture.

US embassy's parking lots. 99% landcruisers with a few vans and suburbans.
Oh and all of them are "modified"
It is a beautiful site staring at the parking lot. Unfortunately I won't be "that guy" that takes pictures inside the grounds.

 

[musthave]

US embassy's parking lots. 99% landcruisers with a few vans and suburbans.
Oh and all of them are "modified"
It is a beautiful site staring at the parking lot. Unfortunately I won't be "that guy" that takes pictures inside the grounds.

Wow, maybe I work at an Embassy and didn't know it Good point, hadn't thought of that.

 

[NLXTACY]

Maybe I should have trimmed my garage header a little more...

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It's a TuffShed, just put a crowbar under one side and lift it that extra inch and put a couple of Toyota Trails magazines in to keep it there.

 

[120mm]

US embassy's parking lots. 99% landcruisers with a few vans and suburbans.
Oh and all of them are "modified"
It is a beautiful site staring at the parking lot. Unfortunately I won't be "that guy" that takes pictures inside the grounds.

Not the parking lot, but on the road on the Shomali plain.

 

[landcrshr]

There's plenty of water in CA to go play in. These are all within the last couple weeks. In fact, I won't camp unless I'm near a body of water

Yup, the time is ripe right now, been taking the 80 to the mountains every weekend.

The rivers could be flowing better, but still nice.

Forgot about the drought for a little while, swimming in one of natures infinity pools.

And to keep it tech, DYK?...If you need to level your rig for sleeping, you do it at the front axle. You can stack rocks all day under the rear tire and that sucker won't budge.

 

[FZJ80 in KC]

Yup, the time is ripe right now, been taking the 80 to the mountains every weekend.
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The rivers could be flowing better, but still nice.
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Forgot about the drought for a little while, swimming in one of natures infinity pools.
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And to keep it tech, DYK?...If you need to level your rig for sleeping, you do it at the front axle. You can stack rocks all day under the rear tire and that sucker won't budge.
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Great photos! I was picking my line on the second one...

 

[landcrshr]

Great photos! I was picking my line on the second one...

Thanks, you would like it here.

 

[Racerkit]

Landcshr, niiice... Is that you flying on top of the white water? think I met you once last year in Death Valley Warm Springs, inquiring about your Nato can on the roof.

 

[landcrshr]

Landcshr, niiice... Is that you flying on top of the white water? think I met you once last year in Death Valley Warm Springs, inquiring about your Nato can on the roof.

Not me in that pic, grabbed it from the 'net. It's upper Cherry creek, I'm not a kayaker but the guys I saw there at the take-out said they have to hike in for three days with their kayaks to the put-in.

That may have been me at the springs, I'm there a couple times a year.