Building the "BEAST"

yeah, most people don't realize what it means until they ask me.

 

yea most people do the same thing to me. mine says MDSLGR

 

Nice find!

 

With all the custom fab work and high tech gizmos on your truck, not to mention your access to Jason's fab skills.... you use zip-ties to attach it to your bumper... And to think you were giving me a bad time at Expo for having zip-ties on my FJC.

 

Yeah, my daughter took that picture up on Cleghorn trail. I bought her a really nice camera for christmas a couple years ago and she's gotten quite good at taking pictures.

 

I was wondering when someone was going to notice that. I'l fix it this weekend.

 

dont feel bad... my rear plate is held on with zip ties..

 

This question may prove to be a bit asinine, but hows your factory warranty

 

I think it's an '05 so I think it's out........

 

OK. Some of you know that when I changed my rear axle, I lost my speedo and my tranny didn't shift right not to mention my check engine light was on all the time.

I needed to fix this and the only way we thoght we could was to change the rear axle once again.

Thanks to Sol and Mossyrocks, we found a way to do it with out all the money of a rear axle.

First. The '05+ Taco's get the speed from the rear axle abs sensors, sends the info to the skid control unit, changes that info into a four plus sequence and then sends that info to the instrument cluster into the speedo giving you the speed.

Since I didn't have the rear axle anymore, I needed to find another way to get that signal.

Enter Sol and Mossyrocks.

The early '05 Taco's have at the end of the transfer case, a plug that covers the port where a speed sensor goes for the manual tranny Taco's.



Now, from what I understand, the later '05 and up auto Taco's don't have this plug.

Then I needed t get a speed sensor that would work in my Taco.

This is a speed sensor from a 3.4 Taco. There are a number of different tooth count gears that come with these. I needed a 30 count gear.


This one had 2 teeth so I needed to change the gearon it.


Then the plug I got didn't have any of the wires in it so I had to make some new ones. I found the old fog light plugs I had and used those to get he wires and ens that I needed.


I took the old plug apart and put new wires into it and put it back togeher.




All back together with new wires.


Then I needed to find the wire I needed to tap into to feed the speedo the info it needed.
Here is the skid control schematic that shows the red yellow wire with the (A/T) next to it that goes to the speedo.


Then I found the shematic that shows how a manualtranny Taco gets it speed info. The V1 speed sensor is where the manual tranny Taco's get that info from. I just needed to follow that info and tap into the red yellow wire that goes to the speedo.


Then I had to find the red yelow wire in all of this junk.


Found it!!!


Then I put it all back together after taking the red yellow wire out.


Then it was time to go to the transfe case and pull the plug out of the rear of it.


Then I looked inside to see if there was indeed a worm gear that I could get speed from..... and there it was.


A closer look.....


Then I put the speed sensor in and hooked it up.



The sensor has three wires coming from it. One for power which I got a keyed 12 volts from the cigarret lighter, a ground which I grounded in the cabin, and the signal wire that I connected to the red yellow wire coming from the skid control unit.

Hooked them all up and lookie... It works. No more check engine light and the tranny shifts like t's should.



The best thing is that it's only 1 mph off. You just can't beat that.

I'ma so happy....

 

Congrats on figuring that one out and with any luck all that hair you've pulled out will soon grow back

 

um, wow..... just wow...... Nice job figuring that one out.....

 

No problem just leave me all your unlimited amount credit cards when you pick it up....

 

Thank you very much.

 

I'll be looking for your post.

 

I got so excited about fixing the speedo that I went for it and dove into getting my spiral cable fixed.

You see, when you do a sas, you stand a good chance of breaking your siral cable if someone unlocks your steering wheel when you don't have it hooked up to the steering box. That obviously happend to mine.

I didn't want to pay $256.00 for a new one from the dealer so I went to the junk yard and found one from a 5 lug Taco. The air bag had deployed but that was OK 'cause I just spliced my good ends onto the housing end.

here are the two spiral cables. My broken one on the right with the yellow sheaths on it and the one from the junk yrad with the blown plug ends.



Here are the blown ends that I will cut off and splice on the good ones from my truck.


Here are the good ends.


With everything spliced together and buttoned up it was time to put it all together again.


First was to put the spiral cable unit back on the colunm.


Then the colunm cover goes back on.


Next is the steering wheel.


Then last but not least is the steering wheel pad and air bag.


Then I connected to battery back and look Ma! No funky air bag warning light on and the horn works too. i had forgotten the horn is a real one too. not one of the funky Carrola beeb beeb sounds.


My work is done for the weekend.

 

Again, nice job!

 

Thank you very much!