What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (82 Viewers)

[LFD2037]

Have you tried introducing yourself to adults? Just a thought

It's mostly because I REALLY dislike asking people for favors!

 

[conviccted]

View attachment 1129141 parked and waiting for El Nino

Can you tell me what wheels your running on your truck ?

 

[Dragos80]

Have you tried introducing yourself to adults? Just a thought

Have you tried telling the same thing to Michael Jackson?

 

[jtwopark]

Box?

i had to ditch the boxes because i had to ship one to another mud member and bring one to Joey. Cut my hair just to make room for the two ARB bumpers.

Who on MUD has loaded up 2 ARB bumpers in their 80? I bet I am the only one.

 

[Qball]

Have you tried telling the same thing to Michael Jackson?

Well Michael Jackson isn't interested in adults.....


Anyhow typical fashion and to keep tradition alive what should been 1/2 hour job turned into 6 hour ordeal.


Firs the factory bumper came off in couple of minute, great. But as soon as we tried to put on the ARB bumper trouble started, unknown to me the passenger front rail was bent.

After much cursing, high lift struggles and sledge hammer.....no I'm not kidding, we used sledge hammer. We finally got all 12 bolts in. This baby ain't coming off any time soon.

Then we decided to install my 12000lb winch from smithy built. ARB bumper is a front mount design so it took 3 of us and a lot of cursing to figure out how to clock the motor. Then because the bumper's angle and being front mount we had to fab up 3/8 inch spacers and get longer bolts from Home Depot.


Needless to say it was an adventure and we kept our minimum 3x how long is normally should take track record.

And of course this post would be useless without pictures. First step was easy but it all went to hell after that.

I have to say I'm really liking the look of the bumper, it seemed to me that it complemented the rig quite well.

 

[jtwopark]

congrats on the bumper Chang!

 

[NLXTACY]

Well Michael Jackson isn't interested in adults.....


Anyhow typical fashion and to keep tradition alive what should been 1/2 hour job turned into 6 hour ordeal.


Firs the factory bumper came off I couple of minute, great. But as soon as we tried to put on the ARB bumper trouble started, unknown to me the passenger front rail was bent.

After much cursing, high lift struggles and sledge hammer.....no I'm not kidding, we used sledge hammer. We finally got all 12 bolts in. This baby ain't coming off any time soon.

Then we decided to install my 12000lb winch from smithy built. ARB bumper is a front mount design so it took 3 of us and a lot of cursing to figure out how to clock the motor.

Then because the bumper's angle and being front mount we had to fab up 3/8 inch spacers and get longer bolts from Home Depot.


Needless to say it was an adventure and we kept our minimum 3x how long is normally should take track record.

And of course this post would be useless without pictures.
First step was easy but it all went to hell after that.
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I have to say I'm really liking the look of the bumper, it seemed to me that it complemented the rig quite well.
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No more 6 hr projects that should take 20 mins dammit. I have metal shavings in my arm hair.

 

[NLXTACY]

i had to ditch the boxes because i had to ship one to another mud member and bring one to Joey. Cut my hair just to make room for the two ARB bumpers.

But now you look like Kim Jung Park

 

[jtwopark]

wear stockings next time!

 

[jtwopark]

and no more tea bagging!!! I can't look at a tea bag straight in the eyes anymore!

 

[Qball]

and no more tea bagging!!! I can't look at a tea bag straight in the eyes anymore!

Although the stories from the 6 hour ordeal are quite entertaining.

 

[ZA80]

Finished my turbo install on 1FZFE [emoji2] and then broke the A442F truck gearbox. No more 3rd or Reverse [emoji22]

 

[NLXTACY]

and no more tea bagging!!! I can't look at a tea bag straight in the eyes anymore!

Come on, you know that was funny. And you were so vulnerable

 

[NLXTACY]

Although the stories from the 6 hour ordeal are quite entertaining.

Sooo true. How's my Noogie Boo @socallove ?

 

[NLXTACY]

Finished my turbo install on 1FZFE [emoji2] and then broke the A442F truck gearbox. No more 3rd or Reverse [emoji22]

Yay! Doh!

 

[toyotaaddict83]

Mounted a 50" curved lightbar to the cruiser using gutter brackets for a jeep cherokee, and ordered some 35x12.5r17's!

Looks great!! Do you have a link to the mounts?

 

[Ridgemaster]

Who on MUD has loaded up 2 ARB bumpers in their 80? I bet I am the only one.

I haven't, but I have loaded the boxes for a Slee 6" lift AND Slee dual swing out rear bumber both in the back of the 80. Those boxes were freakin heavy and took me several days to recuperate. Slee must have planned the box sizes for they fit perfectly back there stacked. A smidge bigger and it wouldn"t have worked.

 

[LS1FJ40]

Wasn't the weekend but picked up new O rings for my AC conversion. Will be doing it this weekend. Finally.

Also picked up a new oil dipstick. The original one was looking a little dingy and the rubber gasket was wearing out so it was a little sloppy. Supposedly picked up the last one in the U.S...

Bare feet for the foot fetishists a la @NLXTACY

 

[Box Rocket]

Well Michael Jackson isn't interested in adults.....


Anyhow typical fashion and to keep tradition alive what should been 1/2 hour job turned into 6 hour ordeal.


Firs the factory bumper came off in couple of minute, great. But as soon as we tried to put on the ARB bumper trouble started, unknown to me the passenger front rail was bent.

After much cursing, high lift struggles and sledge hammer.....no I'm not kidding, we used sledge hammer. We finally got all 12 bolts in. This baby ain't coming off any time soon.

Then we decided to install my 12000lb winch from smithy built. ARB bumper is a front mount design so it took 3 of us and a lot of cursing to figure out how to clock the motor. Then because the bumper's angle and being front mount we had to fab up 3/8 inch spacers and get longer bolts from Home Depot.


Needless to say it was an adventure and we kept our minimum 3x how long is normally should take track record.

And of course this post would be useless without pictures. First step was easy but it all went to hell after that.
View attachment 1134649
I have to say I'm really liking the look of the bumper, it seemed to me that it complemented the rig quite well.
View attachment 1134650

Looks good. I suffer from a similar disease that every project ends up taking 3x as long as it should.
As for the winch mounting, I'm not sure why ARB doesn't just make the bumper a "feet down" winch mount. There's tons of room to do it and it makes things much easier since most winches default to feet down until you clock the motor. It was much nicer with my bumper (modified ARB) to just weld a new winch cradle in across the frame sleeves of the bumper and mount the winch feet down.

 

[AMMO]

Looks good. I suffer from a similar disease that every project ends up taking 3x as long as it should.
As for the winch mounting, I'm not sure why ARB doesn't just make the bumper a "feet down" winch mount. There's tons of room to do it and it makes things much easier since most winches default to feet down until you clock the motor. It was much nicer with my bumper (modified ARB) to just weld a new winch cradle in across the frame sleeves of the bumper and mount the winch feet down.

I did the same.

1/8 flat plate across the top of the frame rails solves that...

My power plant has bottom mounting and that's how I got it into the ARB when I had one.

I just drilled and ran the top bolts through the plate and bumper horns.