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

This guy

 

Haha yeah I found it now.

What's your opinion on air chucks? I just have a generic one, but was wondering if a "high flow" would actually make any difference.

 

Eh I just have the coil hose and an arb inflator and it works good. 18 seconds to fill my tires up or so. Fast enough for me haha

 

Where did you get the info on how a dual electrode sparks? They can't spark across the dual electrodes. Both are ground, and connected to each other on the threads. Spark still fires from the center electrode to one or both of the dual tips. You can't create a spark between two common grounds.

 

My friend did the same thing and has run his for 6 or 7 years now.

I'm running 33x12.5s (air down to 15psi and air back up to ~30psi) and my MV-50 beats my ARB every time. I usually race them, one on the driver's side and the other on pass. I'd say that the 50 is almost 1.5 time faster.


NOW... if you want a real beast of an air compressor, this is the one you want. You can run your air tools off of one of these.
http://www.sierraexpeditions.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=279

 

Awesome!

More stuff to order....

 

Always something to order

 

Yeah! I've been ordering so many little things lately that I don't even know what's coming in or when...

 

You know you have the mod bug when you've established a friendly relationship with your delivery guys (FedEx/UPS) and they know you have daily packages... it still feels like Christmas getting those brown boxes though!

 

So I noticed that they sale o-ring seals for c02 tanks. I've just been using thread seal tape.

 

Haha I never see the delivery guys... They send it to our post office on base and I have to try to keep up with my tracking numbers....

 

could you possibly explain on how your wired all of this up? i have a terrible setup right now and would love to get a more professional setup like the one you have.

 

Sweet set up man!

 

I took my bumper off today so I could realign it because the Previous owner had a slight fender bender. The bracket directly behind the bumper was slightly bent on a small section but it's no big deal.




When replacing with a tube or plate bumper, is that brace/ bracket used as a mounting point? Or is it removed and not used?

 

You remove and where it mounts to the frame is where the new bumper bolts too

 

Where did you get those terminals?

 

Actually that one is for 98-00 as they have the longer front frame horns. So at crossmember lets them through.

My elite mounts straight to the frame. As do relentless..no idea about allpro..

Bottom line every bumper is different and you'll either always remove or replace that crossmember haha

 

It all comes off and the all pro mounts to the frame as well

 

Thanks ! The setup is actually really simple to do, the fuse block hooks up to the battery with a - and + that is marked on it, the wires go to the battery terminals. The - is a straight shot, the + on mine has the 100amp circuit breaker but you could also use a 100amp fuse to do the same job. The circuit breaker protects the fuse block from drawing to much power and melting itself. The circuit breaker is easy because all you do is reset it if it goes.
So, wire the fuse or breaker in between the + wire going from the battery to the fuse block. Than all you have to do is connect your positive and ground wires from your lights etc to the fuse block. Put the correct fuse in, most harness already have a fuse inline so I just cut that part off and used the fuse where I put the wire on the fuse block. It is a simple set up and the blue seas block comes with a nice wiring diagram.
Spend the money for nice wire connectors and shrink wrap, go slow and make it clean.



Terminals here

$24 Kicker Battery Terminal (BT4) Positive or Negative Competition Brass Battery Terminal with Two 1/0-8 Gauge and One 4-8 Gauge Output

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00EPK51JQ/ref=ya_aw_oh_pit

Fuse block here

$41 Blue Sea Systems 5026 ST Blade Fuse Block 12 Circuit with Ground and Cover

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001P6FTHC/ref=ya_aw_oh_pit

Circuit breaker here
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0024JJIN0/ref=ya_aw_oh_pii

Battery tray
http://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com...oduct_Code=OPT-SIN&Category_Code=BatteryBoxes

 

As a comparison you can see how my truck has little frame nipples coming out. lol