Cheap/Free Mods

I have an ABS kill switch and waiting to do this mod but after reading through your post you discuss this usage or application with a truck with a locker. As I have a TRD Sport I have no locker so are there any differences in the application or installation?

 

from the reading I have done there is no issue, I will be doing it according to the thread below
but maybe @NorilskSever can chime in if he did it and if this is how he did it

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/4lo-trac-abs-kill-switch-why-why-not.257444/

 

Thanks I saved that link. I'm still a little confused as to what exactly the yellow wire mod does. More reading I guess

 

@Kemosabe did it to his truck haha I am in the same spot as you, something like when u go into 4LO u have open diffs, but yellow wire mod tricks ur 4LO into thinking its in 4HI so u get the benefit or 4HI but in 4LO? hahaha I would have to read up on it again and probably a few more times to understand fully

 

Don't read, just do it

 

When you making your run down here

 

It was yesterday! We went to Binghamton and went back to Canada, arrived home at around 8:30pm

 

Where's Binghamton? Who'd you meet up with?

 

Binghamton in the state of New York, just before crossing to Pensylvania, on route 81. We met Eatsleeptacos, Fatfurious, SasquatchTaco and PMSTaco. We were me and Bocsy44.

 

It's a shame I'd liked to have met y'all but when I saw who one of the people going was that was enough for me. I sincerely hope it all works out for ya and you got what you needed

 

Just DO IT! Think later...
I was planning on doing that mod to my truck ^^^, but things changed, will be looking into disabling ABS on 3rd gen anyways. That thing chimes in at the worst possible times on trails for me...

 

I don't think it is going to be the last one tho!

We got everything we wanted for sure! But was a pain to bring it back to Canada at the border haha but overall everything went well!

 

Was it like:

- Anything to declare?
-

 

apparently they don't like car parts lol they made us pull into the garage and they emptied the entire truck hahaha they said it was standard because people misdeclare car parts and their value haha I swear they counted every nut and bolt to make sure it was all accounted for lol

 

Yeah they are pain in the ass always, that's why I do quick install of things on parking lot, cross the border, dismount, moving on.
Brought RTT, skids and many other thing like that haha. Don't like wasting my time counting bolts.

 

the funny thing is when we were on our way down, I was bringing springs and shocks down to one of the guys, told the US border guy that I had them and blah blah and he was just like, okay man no problem hahaha harder to get back into my own country lol I think part of it was that we drove down to Binghampton NY so they thought it was weird we would travel so far just to get truck parts off people we haven't even met before

 

is this with the SuperBrightLED's or the Ozium.com bullet style ones?

 

T3 Neo-wedge bulbs from autoillumination .com. Looks to me like a home based business in AZ? Ordered on a Friday, they had them in the mail on Monday. Pleased. These are the bulbs for our OEM switches to the left of the steering wheel.

Colored incandescents were like $1.50 (black bases). Silicone bulb covers were $.49. The "Japan OEM" LEDs were $3.99 I think (white bases). The green on far right is the OE Toyota bulb (it's clear with a green silicone cap).



I wanted to try a variety to see what bulbs/colors I liked best. The LEDs work best and are the "cleanest" light. Nice even, dark color in the switches. BUT... they might require modification. I had to file down the diameter of the fiberglass(?) disk that the led is mounted to. The diameter is slightly larger than the base and they didn't want to fit. But with just 30 seconds of filing, I was able to make them fit.

The lower circle on the side of the switch is where you install the bulb. 1/4 turn with a small screw driver.


Red fog light switch is led. The two blue switches are the OEM bulb with blue silicone covers. I didn't like the light output out of the colored incandescents. It was ok, just not as nice as the LEDs.

I broke one blue LED while filing. Forgot to turn the lights off when I installed the second blue led and it blew out. So I pulled the green covers off my old OEM bulbs and put on the blue silicone covers.



In closing... the safest/cheapest bet is silicone covers on the stock bulbs. The LEDs are a little nicer light but do require slight modification. My last choice would be the colored incandescents, although I bet some colors look better than others. Blue wasn't great. It was nearly indistinguishable from the stock green. But the Red was fine (but not as deep/even red as the led).

All said and done, a cheap and easy mod. Pick up a selection of bulbs and see what you like, as there appeared to be a flat $5 shipping charge. You want to get all you need in one order. Cheaper to get an extra coupla bulbs/covers than to have to place another order.

EDIT: make sure your lights are turned off when removing/installing bulbs. Or you might get a spark and blow the bulb like I did.

 

More like this haha, said they want to check what we have. I had a roof rack EatSleepTacos gave me, strapped on the top of my shell, they didn't asked a thing about it lol

Might do this the next time haha

yeah but still, we have to meet them some day! This was the day haha

 

oh yeah man no ragrets lol