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

Did this northstar battery need a spacer under it?

 

Yes that’s been reconnected now.

 

nope

fit perfectly.

 

Tryin to make some progress.

Side boxes went back in yesterday



Switches are ready, and wired, for the new lights.



Got the compressor wired back in



Chase lights and the lights for the side boxes are also wired back in.

 

More progress. Everything is powered up

 

Damn! I was actually eying this spot up earlier in the week to move some switches to! Now you’ve convinced me haha.

 

MOAR LIGHTS!

https://youtu.be/TwAST0V1bls

 

cool idea...but seems like a hassle to have the arm rest up to use your charging ports?

And man, i would never give up that storage. Holds a lot of handy things.

 

I agree, mine holds about 50-60 prehistoric music Cd's. I think they're on the endangered species list.

 

ha! thats awesome. But yes, endangered indeed.

 

Lol... I have other spots to store the guns.

I already have 3 double USB charging ports in the dash + the stock cig lighter + I put a cig lighter on one of the switches faced out the back of the console (for the fridge)

Those chargers are primarily only for use when in camp.

 

I like the idea of that spot, but i dont like the idea of flipping the console up to hit switches

 

I just wish I had an 01-04 console...

 

Round couple holders are crazy nice


Weird huh

 

i totally didnt have @45acp pick me up one for the 98 or 95 because i cant live without one.. LOL

 

It's an easy mod to get one...

 

Totally get how the switch panel location wouldn't be for most people.

But my thought process was: I pretty much use that cubby to store a bunch of shit... just random crap. Totally not worried about loosing that space.

As for having to flip up the arm rest. None of the lights those switches control are legal for use on the road. The lights will be predominantly used while stationary, in camp. The side lights might be used for some night wheeling, but they'd be switched on and left on, and the arm rest can come back down, it's not something I'd need repeated access to.

All in all, they came out exactly how I hoped they would.

 

I bought a police car center console and the accompanying arm rest so I could have real cupholders (are you really a cop without coffee and a donut?) and good space to install radios and switches.

 

Its the Optima brand batteries, Red tops, Yellow tops, etc., that are short and require a spacer to fit correctly in our trucks.

I actually found the group 24 Northstar to be about a 1/4" taller than most other brands of group 35 and group 24 batteries. This is important for those of us using the Coupe battery hold down. Mine requires a spacer (a stack of washers for me) to fit correctly.

 

With a little help from a 3D printer they can become round.