209 TACOS - B/S and shenanigans

Slide thru to the mod day on sunday

 

yeah, you can see angelo's dildo "diff" breather mod

 

LMAO I would never be caught dead with that thing strapped to any vehicle I own or drive

 

Dirty Harry lives next door

 

How late will it go to? I’m in Livermore with my kids and might not make it till 2-3pm

 

Not a wrenching mod, but pretty cool functionality for off roading and basement parking garage parking.

I posted a write up

Anytime Front and Rear Camera
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/anytimebackupcamera-com-install-front-and-rear-cameras.567192/

 

Prepped and painted the sliders. Getting them welded on next week. Also I'll be switching out to the 883 springs and adding a 1/2" spacer up front. Hope everyone have a good weekend and good mod day. Unfortunately I'll be working or I would be there to lend a hand, 2x.

 

My sliders need to hurry up and get done!

 

I guarantee, at least some of us, will still be here at 2 or 3... even if it's just cause we're sitting around bullshitting.

 

Can we start a running list of what people need to do on the mod day thread?

 

Whoa... 883s and a 1/2 spacer? A half inch spacer will give you 1 inch of lift on top of the lift from the 883s.

That's a lot of lift.

 

Thats a good idea.

 

Welded together the base my Aux battery will sit on... and welded it to the fender well. (No, there will not be pictures of this because holy shit, my welds look like garbage... but it's solid and is going to hold)

Finished re-making the battery tray and hold down.

Now, need to paint the tray, base and area around the base, and start actually installing the second battery.

 

Are there more batteries there for me

 

No... I'm gunna text my guy and see whats up.

 

Talked to my guy, there aren't any yellow tops right now. He'll get them as soon as he can.

 

Can he only get Optimas? What about some Odyssey?

 

I thought about that as well. Here’s my thinking on this. 1/2” is supposedly only 3/4” of lift at the most? I still have 2” of rake in the back without the sliders on. I have to consider that when I add a winch it will be at least another 70lbs more and I still need to put on the Trans skid which is another 15?lbs if not more. I also consider that I have a V6 DC 4x4 which is the heaviest configuration for our gen.

After all is said I want to try the 1/2” spacer anyways since I’m switching out the springs. 1/2” reguires you to replace the 3 top plate bolts with extended ones and to do that you have to remove the springs. So in the future if I don’t want to run 1/2” spacer or maybe go a little smaller it would be easier to remove or replace and leave the extended bolts in.

 

Anyone have experience with these AGM batteries? https://www.samsclub.com/sams/durac...seleople-who-viewed-this-item-also-viewed:2

Specifications

• 20 amp hour rate:55
• Battery electrolyte composition: Glass Mat
• Battery purpose: Starting lighting instrumentation
• BCI group size: 34/78
• CA at 32 degrees F: 890
• CCA at 0 degrees F: 775
• Freight class: 65
• PolarityT
• Reserve capacity: 120
• Terminal type:T040/T041
• Volts: 12

Versus Optima Yellowtop https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p...gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CPnUn8Tbqt0CFb8ErQYdq-wPZg

• BCI Group Size: 34
• Cold Cranking Amperage: 750 A
• Cranking Amperage: 870 A
• Negative Terminal Location: Top Right
• Positive Terminal Location: Top Left
• Reserve Capacity: 120 min
• Terminal Type: Top Mount
• Voltage: 12 VDC

Seems to be about the same specs with the Duracell being a little more on the CCA. Also found out that East Penn (Deka) is making these Duracell batts now.

 

I have a yellow top in my Lexus. Couldn’t really tell you if it’s any better from real world use. However I have ran my car with just ACC for a good amount of time and it hasn’t fail to start yet. I did get a free replacement once through autozone but forgot the situation. It’s garage parked so it can’t be from heat? I think it was because I didn’t drive it for awhile or It was just faulty. Speaking of that it’s been almost a month since I drove it, better take it out for a drive. I might need to look into upgrading or getting another battery for a future winch setup.