1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

If all you want is a good wheeler why stick to a Tacoma? I know we love them and you have a frame but an older toyota would be so much easier and cheaper to build

 

Well i can find trans and t case easy, other parts i cam probably get off member here for cheap.

Mainly its just a registerable cab thats decent shape i need

 

Because i missed my chance on the one i wanted.

Could of been had a 85 if i just pulled the trigger

 

They're way more common though, at least up here

 

Also @E30325 these look badass and i want one

 

That's everything haha

 

Oh no argument from me, they're awesome and my dream wheeler would for sure be a Tacoma, but if trying to build on from scratch on a budget I'd go older toyota for sure

 

Or just sas lol

Get some 1 tons off a cummins

 

Hm?

 

But i was told to 63” lol

 

Two of my fav tacomas I've found online, I love SAS'd flatbeds

 

Tons don't make sense unless you're running 40's or bigger though haha

 

See goals.

And besides i have a tacoma frame so thats what im building

 

Make sense if im building from junk yard parts and thats what i can get my hands on for a good deal

 

Yeah, I want one. A part of me wishes I had bought a SAS'd Tacoma that somebody had built right instead of a stock one haha

 

ford hi pinion 60 and a 14 bolt if you want affordable tons

 

I killed the instrument cluster by globbing solder on the pins of the primary microcontroller IC of the digital odometer assembly. The Quartz Timing IC broke its solder joints, and I was attempting to reattach it without a proper hot air rework station. SMD soldering is difficult without the proper tools.

Next step is to send it off to have the Odometer chip swapped onto my new instrument cluster as to retain the original mileage of the truck. I don’t have then proper reflow soldering tools to do this job.



It’s fascinating how the Cluster manufacturer Yazaki purposely obscured the IC identification marks as to prevent piracy, or odometer fraud. You can’t buy this chip or even identify it without knowing what it says. I have seen a couple of manufacturers do this.

 

And even full float 14 bolts are cheap as hell

 

What happened to lifting your truck?

 

It got cold.

I can do PCB work from the comfort of my own room. Haha.