New England B.S. Thread

This one's similar, but there's an additional wire that runs to the dimmer control for the backlight.
Like I said, I've installed tachs before, but they've always been Autopro in the past; this is my first time installing a Sunpro. I'm 99% sure that I wired it correctly, but...
I've got another one on order, so I guess we'll know for sure on Wednesday. This one I'm going to test wire directly to the battery and run a jumper to the coil before I bother routing the wires, that's for damn sure.

 

Tacoma doesn't go in the woods .

 

Rob did you get any pics of me going down that wash out where the brakes shit the bed ?

 

I thought one of the guys at the meet and greet said he asked the pediatrician and they didnt recommend offroading until the kid was like 3. He had one of the more hardcore rigs though.

 

Yup give me a few

 

Interesting. I guess I could ask mine. But unless you're in a buggy I don't see it as much different than driving down the interstate through an area where the pavement had been milled prior to repaving.

 

I would tend to agree with that. All off roading is not equal. The stuff we did as a group in Rhode Island was fine, a buggy is a completely different animal.

 

RI type stuff, class 6 roads etc I would think to be on

 

I was actually going to run down to the ri spot yesterday to play around a little with the FJ after my wife left for the airport, but the monsoons put a stop to that.

 

John

 

It's funny the pics look like its a flat road . That first hole was like 4' deep .

 

Yea the 6th pic shows it more when your rear tire was in it

 

Truck would (should) be IFS...the film was set in October of 1985, so the truck would be model year 1986.

Or they screwed up and used an 85...which is certainly possible!

 

Where's the right one for Toyota?

You know, the dude crying after discovering his frame has rotted in half?

*ducks and runs*

 

More pic's from this weekend.















I have videos too but I have to wait till tonight to put them on. You will really want to see one of them, it's very cool

 

Rob how come no pictures of the trail limo in that huge ditch?

 

Because there is a drive around

 

The long wheelbase would have just glided right through there though.

 

He gets a new frame . No crying needed

 

It's an 85, you can actually see the front pinion in the drag race scene.


This is a picture of the actual truck from the first movie back at SEMA in 1985.


The actual truck for the first movie was a true SR5 show truck Toyota had built. Supposedly it was given away in a contest or something like that and was wrecked. The truck purchased for the second and third films is most likely not a real SR5 (or at least doesn't have the deluxe SR5 interior as the first truck did) and was made up to be a copy. That explains the differences between the trucks in the films, such as the seats, lack of TOYOTA on the windshield and tailgate, the different rollbar, etc. That truck was actually stolen at some point and ended up in Mexico, with a lift and awful orange paint, as well as some body damage. The wheels were long gone, but the Smittybilt parts were all there.

As far as the actual film, I suppose it's debatable if it would be an 85 or an 86. In real life, the film was shot before the 86's came out. In the movie there is a radio ad stating that Statler Toyota was having a clearance on all 1985 Toyota's, so it's not unreasonable that Marty got one of the last 85's before the changeover. If the dealer was building a custom truck, it'd be unlikely they'd already have their hands on an 86, although I got my '13 in late October of '12.

I'm really over thinking this.