Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

Not with the right tires it doesnt

 

He's over in Mn

 

Yes. Lol.
Very peaceful at 6am.
There are offroad trails via the south entrance. Not sure what they entail, yet.

 

Nothing a few sandbags in the back can't fix. haha
Tires are huge part.
My '01 come stock with BFG's and it ran great on snow. The '16 come with these things call Goodyear Wrangaler or something.
I drove those down to the point that nobody will ever try to put them on another vehicle.

 

Need some help...

Went out wheeling the other day and got into a branch that tore the wiring plug for my Eaton ELocker apart. Looked it over and put it back together, but it wasn't working. Went looking for a fuse, but... Eaton uses a 15A Manual Reset Breaker (see #2 in schematic below.) Unfortunately, I pulled that out and looked it over without taking note of how it was oriented. I did not see any monkey business and put it back in. When I checked to see if it made a difference a bad cloud of smoke came from the engine bay... and said breaker was melty toast! Clearly I have a ground issue and I can bet it is where I reconnected the wires at the rear end. I will check that more closely. Question is: can I just put a 15Amp fuse in place of that breaker?

 

Pat, I hope this helps with the orientation of the breaker. The post on the left goes to the battery.

 

@pearing

Pat, I have my Manual right in front of me. Call me if you have any questions.

 

As I am running out the door -it is inside the clear plastic covered thing right next to the relay... I will take a picture later, but it looks just like a fuse but black with funky white markings on top. I do not have a breaker in line like what you are showing...

 

That's cold...

 

It ain't stupid if it works.

 

Looks fine to me.
Red Green would approve.

 

Should have duct tape holding the pliers though.

If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

 

Duct tape was "over there". Zip ties were within reach.

 

Looks good to me.
Had a Honda years ago that I snapped a thermo housing bolt. Couldn't get an easy out on it so held one side on with a C-CLAMP.
Giving the handle a snugging up was added to the list of routine maintenance.

 

yo stop by

 

Got my roof rail brackets and mounting ears figured out and welded, and finally put the topcoat on this stupid roof rack lol. What a fricken pain in the ass all this was

I was going to integrate some mounts, but this needed to get done and out of the garage. I’ll add mounting options as I go.
Gonna let it dry a few days and mount it up then. Crossing my fingers that’s not when I discover I overlooked something ridiculous.