What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAgegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw2XEGSo6IEQINqGoS2ujlbT

https://youtu.be/n6FDqmhQxMI

 

2nd gen people, Ford made a mercury switched hood light for decades, comes on whenever the hood is up. Power and and you're done. In the 80's and 90's GM had a cool underhood light with a magnet base on a reel, you can put the light right on the subject. Reel it in like a fishing pole, lol.
Personally I'll be using a Ford mercury switched light (or 2) with LED. It'll be bright and I could literally leave the hood up for days.

 

Basically you have the negative hooked up to ground..in my case the ground is in my aux fuse box. The positive is hooked up to the bottom of the switch pin. When you open the hood the switch pin make a connection with the positive (the switch is spring loaded) and when you close the hood, the pin disconnects from the power allowing the power to be off. Very simple to be honest.

Here's a short link to a video.. YouTube wouldn't let me upload it. I hope this helps.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/JrCysG74yjAzoAMw9

 

Drive to San Diego and go to the beach. I'm a master at dashboards.

 

Helps a ton! Thanks!

 

DAMM I.was thinking of doing the same. After seeing yours I Deffinately will..any link to the bulbs?

 

You'll need to buy a set of 6 ohm resistors to avoid hyperflash problems. Here are the ones I used:


Brake light red -

$14 LIGHSTA 3157 LED Bulbs, Super Bright 24-SMD 9-30V 3056 3156 3057 4057 3157K 4157 LED Bulbs with Projector for Brake Tail Lights, Turn Signal Lights, Parking Lights, Brilliant Red(Pack of 2)

https://www.amazon.com/LIGHSTA-Bright-Projector-Parking-Brilliant/dp/B07VZDN5BZ



Turn signal amber -

$14 LIGHSTA 3157 LED Bulbs, Super Bright 24-SMD 9-30V Non-Polarity 3056 3156 3057 4057 3157K 4157 LED Bulbs with Projector for Turn Signal Blinker Lights, Side Marker Lights, Amber Yellow(Pack of 2)

https://www.amazon.com/LIGHSTA-Bright-Non-Polarity-Projector-Blinker/dp/B07W526J41

 

TRD Pro Faux grille installed and swapped all lenses to amber for the winter!

 

So you're to blame for last January-March????

 

Lol crazy story. Thanks for that

 

Added some JBA UCA’s and got it aligned.

 

One of my favorite unk yard finds, although never got around to installing in my old 4R.

 

Sounds great IMO. exhaust all subjective opinions but I’m happy w it

 

Not to raspy.? Nice tone..?

 

Correct. No drone, just a tiny bit of rasp up higher in RPMS but In sub 3200 RPMs or so it sounds great and has character finally. If you find me on IG I can send you a vid of me revving

@ty_outside

 

Ok, thank you for the info! I don’t have IG tho.

 

Do it! It isn't the kind of hardcore off-road picture that most here will drool over, but it is colorful and shows the truck being used to carry an un-ordinary load in a setting that most folks will never get to drive their Tacoma.

 

What about just adding a switch next to/in line with the hood switch?

 

probably took longer to paper/mask it off than it would have removing the grill.

 

Nice!