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

What size did you use? 34/78?

Did you have to move anything out of the way to make it work?

 

Yeah Same size are you have pictured.

I had to slide the CC just a bit. Nothing drastic. And I think there was a resistor pack or something I moved too. Super easy though.

Gotta get the right positive connector. It can NOT stick up or it hits the hood on bumps. Found that out the hard way.

 

Second Saturday of every month it’s at IMS. Check out Indianapolis Cars and Coffee in Facebook and/or IG for updates and stuff. They have one every week at Gator Mototsports off Michigan Road and 96th Street as well although most of the older car crowd and stuff typically only go to IMS

 

Is this what you’re looking for? I used this part number to replace mine.

 

@Speedytech7 created the 1st Gen Lunchtable Thread to get some of the general chatter out of this thread. Thanks.
In adition to that, it has always felt wrong when I post things here that I did with my Tacoma because it's for things you have done to your Tacoma. Therefore I created a thread called "What have you done WITH your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition" https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ith-your-tacoma-today-1st-gen-edition.558780/

 

Ok... here's what I did.

For the positive side.
1) There's a white wire running in to the fuse box (8 guage) I cut the eye off the factory wire and spliced the pictured clear jacketed wire, with the red butt connector and used a piece of heat shrink to protect the connection. (make sure you get the wires all the way in the butt connector, and use your gorilla grip to make the crimp).

2) The main cable from the alt is 4 guage. I bought the cable extender (pictured) at O'Reillys. I then cut the cable terminal, and small wire, off right behind the clamp. I got this one because it splices 4 guage with an allen screw. I didn't want to trust crimping 4 guage without the right tool (because THAT would be a mutherfuker).

The connections to the positive side battery clamp are allen screw.

For the negative side
1) The body ground was too short (and thin, I think the factory one was just 8 guage). I had a piece of 4 guage amp wire that already had an eye crimped to it. I just cut it down to the right length.
2) The main ground from underneath (the 4 guage ground) was actually long enough. I just had to unwrap some of the (factory) elect tape, on the main harness, to get enough slack.

All of the connections to the negative side battery clamp are with an allen screw. (Note)
These battery clamps are for positive posts. A positive post is slightly bigger than a negative. I used a post shim (pictured) to make it get a solid connection to the negative post.

I tried to use as many allen screw connections as I could because I don't trust crimps (without the right tool).

 

too specific for TW standards. There will always be BS in every thread. And that thread will just get confused with this thread haha

worth a shot.

 

You know I had all those same thoughts, but because I'm an eternal optimist I started the thread anyway.

 

I got my first Check Engine light! P0303 so I ordered new ignition coils...

 

If you want it pm me.

 

Idek what it is lol

 

Well I finally got rid of the ugly chrome grille! I was planning on doing this to it but I’m too busy right now with “life” hahahah it’ll be up for grabs in a while. It’s only the center piece that I will be selling.

 

Thanks brother!!!

 

no, everything is okay now

 

So I was helping someone install a magnuson supercharger on an ‘04 v6, it’s drive by wire, we did everything correctly but there is a barb on the backside of the supercharger near the throttle body that we had absolutely no idea what to do with, it says it’s supposed to go to the vacuum throttle opener, but we don’t know where that is on a drive by wire truck, it runs and drives but the idle is really rough and it’ll die pretty quickly if you don’t stay on it. We blocked off the barb and it still made no difference. Any ideas?

 

Your pictures make me want so many things

 

sigh...

http://pressroom.toyota.com/release...sed+import+tariffs+to+commerce+department.htm

 

Like an RTT, cause they look way Overland, and a nicer camera.


We percolate our coffee , thats all I know other than the stuff you get from 711.

 

Pic? Think thats for the egr if you have it. If you dont thats where you run a 7th injector