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

Not trying to piss you off (though it sounds like I may have). I actually want to know more about your solution to the piss poor stock power harness that the Taco comes with, and why you think BamaToy's solution isn't fit to solve it.

 

Yea thats what i did with mine, as im sure you know..and mikes. Just make them with quick diconnects.

Thats one of the pros to the CS144 for me. It fits with basically no major modification.


oh and Ducktape!..and Zipties...lots of that shit too..haha

 

All done!
Lets see what else i can match to the headliner, I got a lot of fabric left.

 

That looks really good. Note to self... learn to sew Maybe you could do the door panels next?

 

Yea you'll figure out something..different..you always do...or have too..im not sure which



haha!

oh whatever! That is ducktape! Same damn thing..its just the best kind of ducktape! haha

 

i just heard you say in my head "Hard to say...."

hahahaha oh man. Good times

I guess you could go to a junk yard and pull one out of a wrecked something..they are in a lot of cars. The Caddy one is the one i have..then you could just have it rebuilt by an Alt shope..hell probably get it upgraded to 185 easy and still have the high idle output.

Did you not see Bourne Legacy? The gun..won..just saying

 

Thanks! That pic is doing that awful sew job a lot of justice!
By door panels do you mean the cloth oval in the door? If it is then yes it is definitely happening
Camo everything! Is the theme here haha

 

Yup, that's what I mean't. I wasn't sure if you had the doors with the ovals or the doors with the whole cloth side though. I would need quite a bit of material to do mine (whole cloth side )

 

This is great

 

Should be..easy...right?





haha! yea...no doubt.

But it was still good! and....the gun won..

 

I bought so much fabric because I figured I would screw up the headliner and have to start again. But I did it first try and now I have 7 yards to mess with.

 

nah its more like

 

thats why its so great


even though i never touch weights really till high school..haha

i think Derp Mark found that a while ago.

 

torque app runnin on 7" tablet. Not sure I dig it yet.

 

Ah okay. I have this weird thing that sometimes my AC doesn't trigger unless I push the knob all the way over. It's like on or off, no in between.

Been wanting to mount a tablet in mine for wheelin at the local park so i can have a large map to always follow. It will happen eventually.

 

Don't let it bother you man. Nothing wrong with Bamatoy's kit, I'm running it with no problems at all. Still get 14.5 volts at idle myself with everything running, lights, heater and all. In reality, it don't mean shit.

It's not about the volts, it's all about the amps. Volts mean nothing other than meeting the minimum requirements. I'm surprised I never see anybody talk about an old fashioned AMP Gauge....used to be standard back in the day. The only accurate way to see what's going into and out of the battery.

Voltage gauge, btw, doesn't tell you crap. Totally fucking useless for knowing the actual state of your charge. A low battery incapable of starting the engine can still show 12-13 volts. Car battery and lawn mower battery will both show same volts. Yet the lawn mower battery won't run yo winch.

I've run the winch just fine, have yet to see a battery or alternator give up the ghost.

I'm not sure what the problem is with where the kit was made. The truck was designed in Japan, built in America with Japanese parts and assembled most likely, with migrant labor, on a Friday. Hence the clunk.

In the end, it's his truck and he can do what he wants. We get to see if it works or not.

 

Amp clamp is a very important tool. I use my amp clamp all the time to check the amp load on generators