Alabama thread!

Dang Jo. Now I have to fix my previous response to include "There are only 2 reasons I would trade.... 2) If you currently have a PreRunner.

 

I went back and read his info and wasn't sure about his truck being a prerunner and wanting to trade for 4x4

 

Yeah, in that case I would definately trade. It's not like he would be the only one to do that around here. *cough, cough* TacoFMS *cough, cough*

 

ummmmm.............bite me brian ha ha I have no idea what you are talking about isnt that right davtopgun?

plus the main deciding reason for my swap was inablilty to put a rear face car seat in an access cab.

 

I guess your memory is the first thing to go with age cause I thought your 08 was a double cab

 

let me help an old man out

 

It's all coming back to me now

 

I have a pre runner Sport and I want a 4 wheel drive. There is something sketchy about that truck I found though. I don't think it was taken care of. I'm just going to drive the wheels off of my current taco for right now.

 

Take all the money you were going to spend to get a 4x4 and SAS that sob!

 

Did someone say SAS..? I'll just leave this here.. http://gadsden.craigslist.org/cto/3276868245.html

 

I saw that one. Was actually trying to find it again because I might get the 3500 for my truck and go get 3000 out for a loan and buy it! lol. Then I wouldn't have to do anything with it! lol. The good this is IT'S NOT A TRAILER QUEEN...... I can still drive it to any meet JUSTIN!!!!

 

So I did some work to the LC tonight.

The battery has been on the down slope, and the recently kinda cold mornings have been a little tricky. It barely started over the weekend, so I picked up a Die Hard Platinum 31M.

I couldn't get around to fabbing up a bracket and everything until this evening, so I rode around ghetto with it in the floorboard in the back seat, and a set of jumper cables. That got old fast.

I went out to my father in law's shop this evening, and my bro in law and I knocked out the install in a couple of hours. We got a little silly with part of it, which you'll see in a bit.

First step was to see if it fit. Yup, plenty of room:




The next step was to extend the positive terminal so that the right angle part would fit on the oversized battery. From the threads on mud, it looked like folks used copper bar stock. I used a 2.5" piece of 1" x 1/4" bar.





The next step was to slim down the end that goes on the wiring harness to fit in the channel that it clamps in. We could have used a grinder, but we thought it'd be a lot cooler to have a machined piece. Over to the mill...



Then over to the wire wheel on the grinder to clean it up and get it ready to go.



While I was at it, I figured cleaning up the mating surface on the terminal wouldn't be a bad idea.


Fit on the terminal was good.


Next step was to get the tie down strap ready to go. I used a 2" x 1/8" piece of mild steel bar stock, and bent it on the brake to fit the contour of the battery and line up with the factory tie down j-bolt and front bolt.



Next I cut two 5" sections of 2" x 1/8" angle to use on the tie down, and welded it up.



My welding skills aren't that great, but they're looked functional enough. I tacked everything, and then test fit. Then I ran one as a full bead, but got worried about the piece warping, so I did the others a half at a time and rotated through to finish it up.



And lastly, bolt everything down and start her up.


It starts really quickly now. Big improvement. Gonna grind the welds purdy and hit it with some rustoleum and call it done.

 

OH. Guess what?????? My alternator died.... and a guy wants to look at my truck Friday, I get payed friday, which is a good thing BUT I have a car payment Friday.....

 

well if the stars align and you do get it then ill not call you a trailer queen anymore, but ya gotta get it first...

 

looks great keith! good job and nice touch, but why a marine battery? did you need a deep cycle for the tank?

 

I wanted to be able to run my radio gear for longer with the car off was the big reason. The secondary reason is that I'm eventually going to do dual batteries in it, and I wanted the two batteries to match so that it's (as much as possible) an even load distribution and they charge evenly.

Despite being a deep cycle, it still has nearly 3x the CCA of the stock battery, so it's better in pretty much all respects. Damn thing weighs about 80 lbs though. I got it Sunday, put it in last night. Three days of using it as a ghetto fabulous jumper cable pack suuuuuuuucked.

 

Keith, why didn't you tell me you had a mill? What type?

 

Well, if we're mincing words, I never told you because I don't have a mill

My father in law is an industrial electrical contractor, and it's up at his shop. I also don't have a MIG, metal chop saw, 50 ton metal worker with shear, brake, and punch.

The mill is a bridgeport type, not sure what the total swings are, but probably like 10" on the Z, and in the neighborhood of 48 on X. They just ordered a digital readout for it, and it's got power drive on the X axis. Runs on 3 phase 480v.

 

mines not a trailer queen! lol. if mine was driving perfect, like someone we all know, cough cough GATOR cough cough i woulda drove it to stoney! his is more of a trailer queen!

 

ya mat because i haul it to work and everywhere else everyday...wait who called me yesterday for me to haul his truck from work to moms house