The Frankenstein Build! LT/Expo/Trail rig..and BS

Yup. And great memories.

 

More awesome ones to come!




Is it summer yet...

 

I agree

 

Too late now, but I would have kept the bed from the grey truck and bobbed it for your future trailer build. Matching trail trailer.........woulda been awesome....just sayin.

 

great idea.

However then entire passenger side was curled over including the actual box. And had a HUGE divit up on the part that goes against the cab from the bed rack. And the drivers side corner was completly rip apart. I had to use a ratchet strap to hold the whole bed together for the month i still used it. and both corners especially the passenger one was completely smashed in.

The bed was in the worse of shape from the roll due to the bed rack. I like the idea..but there was no way.

 

Monte, this thread need your help. I know you haven't finished yet but I know you know some of this stuff.

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-tacomas/268008-cs144-swap-q.html#post6581619

 

Ill head over!

Actually i am done..sorta. My dad broke my power breaker so we had to fix it. so while the epoxy drys i just didn't post it yet lol

 

CS144 in! Seems to running just fine. Glad I got it done. Will work on mounting the second battery and solenoid later. Need to weld in my bracket to mount the second battery. So that might be a few days. But I'm glad to have 100-110 amps at idle!

Lots of pics to come. As well as a write up as I left the stock wiring to easily swap in the stock alternator if this one get fried on a long trip in the middle of no where.

 

I want to do this! But it's going to be one of those mods that will have to wait until it's payed off and I have another daily driver...

 

Okay. Update time

So as you all may know I put in a GM Cadillac CS144 alternator. I also decided to keep my stock one for a back up as I plan on a huge expedition sometime in my life to South America.

To do this. Was a bit tricky. The wiring for the CS144 is different then the stock. But fear not. For I have a way.

So CS144 has four wires like so



This is important. The bigger wire is the sense wire. I just end up thing that strait into the alternator. This corresponds to the Toyota white wire

The next wire is going to be the ignition wire. This corresponds to the red Toyota wire

Then the next one is the most important. It is what actually activates the alternator. This corresponds to the yellow toyota wire. Technically..this is the only wire you NEED to connect. But. I have read it doesn't hurt to activate the others. So I did.

Since you don't need the furthest wire away I just nipped it




Now. To make it easy to swap the alternator in a hurry. I put some water tight connectors on both the alternators and the stock harness.

One of these. Came with 4 wires but only need three



Wired it up to the stock harness and stock alternator.



Now for the CS144 I just tired the larger sense red wire into the the alternator with a ring terminal. So only needed two of the wires on its quick connect.



CS144 is wired like so



So basic setup there. But then you have the stock wiring from the alternator to deal with. I am running 4ga wire from the new cs144 to a 150amp breaker then to the battery.

But. I kept the stock power wire that came off the stock alternator in place. So as to keep it easy to swap in. I tapped it off on the end by the alternator. But..you have to disconnect it in the fuse box since the stock wiring goes like so. Alternator-fuse box-battery.

This is the stock wire that goes to the back of the stock alternator



The wire come up into the fuse box and attaches to a post in the fuse box. Disconnect it here and just put it down in the big empty space in the fuse box

You see the post here




Now. To get power to the fuse box. Just use the standard stock wire that normally runs to the fuse box. It'll even run through the stock 80amp relay so it's safe. No need to upgrade this wire as I'm just running the cs144 strait to the battery.

So. Connector on the left is what you attach to the battery. One by the post gets taped and tucked.



You also don't need to upgrade the stock starter wire.



Now for mounting the cs144


You need a spacer of some sort to make up for the size difference. Ironically the cs144 mount is smaller.



Here is my spacer



Has to be a bit under 1/4"

The I made my main power wire.

3/8" end.



Then it just goes right into the stock position. Takes a bit of muscling. I took theskids off. Helped.

Now..for belts.

This is something I didn't find to go with all the research I did. Most write ups have a supercharger installed so a new belt isn't needed. For those that didn't. They said the stock belt would work. Or if not. Just get a second power steering belt and it fits.

Well. I didn't find this to be true. I bought a power steering belt and it didn't fit....hmmm. So I went back and asked for the next size up and it fit great. Picked up a new AC belt and kept the new PS belt so now I have back ups for all my belts

Here is the part number. One on the bottom is a power steering belt. One on the top is what I used for the cs144 alternator.



It's in! Fits perfect.



Now just tied in my breaker and my new lead to the battery.





I left the stock ground wire too. I will add another new one to the frame later. I also made a new one to go to the body. Forgot to snags a pic of it though.


Slapped in the battery and connected it up. Worked like a charm!! Fired right up.




Haven't done the dual battery part yet. Will get to it latter. Hope this helps.

 

I'm assuming you typed this very fast or used your phone? Haha Kind of a hard write-up to follow. I'm going to need this for sometime in the future, as well as the write-up I know you'll make for the dual battery haha

 

Lol...yes..on iPad..

I will go through it and clean it tonight.

 

Haha figured. I was thinking, "This is not a normal write-up that he does? All his other ones are amazing!"

 

Yea this thing is handy...but a PITA sometimes.

I plan on making a whole thread for it too

 

Awesome, will be another one of your write-ups that I'll have bookmarked haha

 

Cool haha glad I'm of help haha

 

Haha you're definitely one of the better 'helps' on this forum!

 

Thanks man. I appreciate that comment

 

I shamelessly stole some of your lighting pictures to post in the "LED Light Bars" thread.

You've got great photos showing the differences between lighting types, on the same vehicle.

Here's a link if you wanna clarify what you're running.

www.tacomaworld.com/forum/lighting/244444-led-light-bars-22.html