What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Yeah those contacts are what engage your starter motor after the gear engages the flywheel. The plunger has a copper sourround that should touch those contacts well

 

My backup camera is mounted to the license plate. Is that housing you made an old license plate enclosure?

 

Well that may be your problem

 

Those contacts and plunger are replaceable

http://www.nationsautoelectric.com/Nippondenso.html. you can test your starter motor by putting jumoer cable to either contact and to a battery

 

Wrapping is something that is done to dicks

Wrapping is like putting clean underwear on with no clean up right after you just shit your pants

 

Does anyone know if there's recommended preventive maintenance for power windows? After seeing the sticky, dried up grease on my door handle linkage I got to thinking about how my window motors seem to be working really hard whenever I use them.

 

from what the mechanic told me Toyota doesn't make the ujoints for the double cardan. ive heard rockford might but I haven't found any conclusions or post that have instructions and examples

 

You can grease the arm track and the window track, it helps a bit as the seals get dry.

 

Would it fit under the 3rd brake light?

 

I considered mounting the camera on the license plate but the view will be blocked when i have my bike rack on. I repurposed one of the 2 OEM license plate light bulb covers. I had some extras.

 

I tried mocking it up there but its too big to fit in the space under the brake light.

 

What about next to the handle for the tail gate

 

well it's spring loaded, push it all the way down and see if it touches the contacts all the way depressed

 

Wait, hold up, put the red where the black is and the black just on the motor case flange

Sorry I wasn't clear at all on that

 

If i mount the camera only with no base plate i can drill to the left or right of the handle and flush mount it there. Only prob there is the angle of the handle faces up to the sky slightly. I wont see down behind my bumper.

 

@m3bassman I edited my post did u see?

 

Check out the location in this guy’s build thread, first post. Might be what you’re looking for?

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/daves-build.320162/

 

I wish I had more time to work on my truck.... I work like 65 hours a week and then all weekend I'm either with the girlfriend or helping my parents get our yard ready for my brothers grad party. I am begging for free time at this point lol