4x4 Wanna Be Part 2 - SAS Toyota Axle/3Link

Psh! K

 

You need to adam because I now have unneeded ifs hubs. Also where the heck did you get that exide battery? Work?

 

Hey Adam you should come to the sc meet. http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/south-east/244382-winter-south-carolina-meet.html

 

Yes sir, ole Carquest came through for me

 

I may try to ride down. I would like to be able to take the weekend off in order to make the trip worth it, but I'm already taking a weekend off here shortly for a TW meet. There is a group meeting up at URE on the 10th of November.

 

Yall just Going that saturday? Ill try and come if it will be a full day saturday i can get there early and wheel all day

 

Yeah, I am going down Friday evening, around 7-7:30.

Depending on if I have my Trunnion Bearing Eliminator in, I may or may not be doing too much wheeling. They are a little loose, I am worried about them failing on me. If I get them installed by then I will be ready to go. It's going to be a busy two weeks

 

Hopefully the Prerunner will be rocking some new goodies by then... just gotta find time

 

this build is shaweet! nice work man.

 

Thanks man, I appreciate it!

Some more parts showed up at work. I'm going to try to make an intake... Wish me luck lol

I should have a few more packages waiting for me at the house

 

I love coming home to brown boxes

Here are the waterproof LED's that I got




This is how I hope to mount them to the frame




And new headlights

 

I've seen those leds somewhere before Where ya gonna mount them? Also whenever you get your intake done I want to see it and possibly copy it.

 

Yeah

I'm going to put the two 24in on the inside of the frame(if possible), angled towards each other/down. The 12in is going to the back of the bumper, angled towards the rear axle and the other 12in is hopefully going in the camper

I'm going to try to rig it up Sunday. If you get bored swing on by. I'm also going to be putting in my HID bulbs and the Exide in. I need to start figuring out light locations and also where I'm going to put my switches

 

tomorrow will be a long day of wiring

 

I got around to doing some work today. I took the old battery and air box out to replace the HID bulbs, turns out it was a f*@kin ballast bad... So I will wait another few days to get them straightened out. I put the new battery in and hooked everything back up, then I got started on the intake.




1st - Take everything loose and disconnect the MAF sensor and the small vacuum tube on the right side of the air box.




2nd - Once the box is out you can pull the MAF sensor section off of the air box




3rd - I had to trim a little bit off of the MAF sensor tube in order to fit the filter on properly, nothing major, maybe 5-10 minutes worth or grind and test. After that it went right together




4 - The small vacuum tube must be relocated, so I took a good, sharp knife and cut out a small hole (knife and not drill because with the knife the hole had a taper not just a hole) where I put a small air fitting with pipe thread. I put just a little bit of black silicone around the fitting to seal it completely.




After that it's just a matter of re-assembling.





I'm very happy with the amount of space that it freed up. I was able to tell a difference at higher RPM's with it, and you can here that thing sucking air


I also decided to change the transmission fluid while I was under the truck trying to locate exactly where I wanted to put my lights.

 

You need some engine degreaser something fierce. Looks good though. The camper has a light in there so there wiring and a switch in there. The rock lights would be fun, single power wire to each and ground to nearest location the wire to one good toggle switch.

 

Yeah, I did some cleaning after I got everything back together.

I'm still waiting on the switches to get here... I'm ready to see these things!

I'm placing an order with Inchworm today for a few more goodies

 

I ordered 4.88's, solid pinion spacers, triple drilled flanges for the diffs and case. I'm going to try like hell to get all this installed and ready by the 10th

I'm still waiting on my switches from OTRATTW. This weekend the plan is to hopefully have all the wiring done, get the trunnion eliminator in, brakes, and gears in. Monday I'm going to pull apart the rear and get it knocked out. If everything works out...


EDIT: OTRATTW says the the switches will be here by the weekend

 

Good luck gettin that done by the 10th