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Can probably skip the last one. Doesn’t seem important.

 

Lol a certain attendee of last year's event is making me rethink that!!

 

Beer drinking makes me half-ass shit and not do anything! My liver needs a break and instead process welding fumes and filtering heavy metal particulates out of my bloodstream.

 

One item scratched off the list, beadlocks fixed! I'm most likely not going to build my hydro assist before these fall trips. I want some drama free wheeling and not be wrenching on/getting used to a new steering setup, plus the crew I'm going wheeling with won't be hitting the insane hardcore stuff. So it will mostly be maintenace items and adding some new brake line tie downs and boring shit like that.

Tacoma bro factor will be increased though, I ordered some LED light pods to mount right behind my cab faceing side and back. I like to night wheel, but always end up in a tree or almost backing off a cliff because I can never see shit behind me or to the side. I figure some pods mounted to the bed facing backwards and to the side a bit will light up those dead zones and also come in handy at camp or while trail wrenching.

 

Trail welder for my own reference later
https://offroadpassport.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3114

 

Let’s break your shit!



After you get the welder, of course.

 

This will equip me so my shit won't break!!

 

Or I'll be welding steering racks back on 1st Gen guys who put too large of tires on IFS!!

 

More licence plate Fab, hopefully this keeps all the shit out of my airintake that's kicked up by my tires.

 

So I can do an entire SAS swap, flip an axle, build a few crawl boxes and teach myself how to weld but apparently I'm too dumb to wire up some aux lights. I have a fancy wireing harness with a relay and a switch with a red and green LED light. I hooked the red and black wire to the battery and the red "off" light is always lit up on the switch. How should I hook this up so the indicator light goes off when the ignition is off? Lights work, just don't need this damn red light draining my battery.

I'm a complete idiot when it comes to vehicle electronics so I need to be spoon fed

 

Pull the power from a fuse for one of your cigarette lighters/power outlets instead of right off the battery. That won't have power when the key isn't turned

 

Cool I'll try that.

 

You could use something like this to pull power off the load wire for whatever your stealing power from:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/60-pack-...ASjMti_qKv-Nq8uY9j1args016jXnSx4aAjihEALw_wcB

Or something like this to just essentially create a new fuse slot:
https://www.amazon.com/Pixnor-Circu...ocphy=9013524&hvtargid=pla-307234676336&psc=1

 

The hot wire already has a fuse, I'll just splice a pig tail at the end and stab it into the fuse block.

 

Wiring is the devil!!!

 

A lot of those new wiring harnesses I see for sale are super lame and have a button for on and off. You need to get the actual power lead off of the battery, and the signal power off of a switched source for this. These new harnesses use a different setup which makes it "easier" by just having one power lead, I think, but you run into shit like this. Link to your harness that you got?

 

100% right man! Yea the lights took 3 seconds to hook up with the harness, but it's going to drain my damn battery with the lit up switch that's always on. Here's what I got with my light pods.
https://caliraisedled.com/products/wiring-harness

 

Haha yup, same one i have on my truck. Hate the thing. no good way to mount the switch, shitty wiring, but easy to hook up

 

The kits ok, I mean they are technically correct, the wireing was done in less than 2mins...

I was thinking, I may rip the elocker switch out of the dash since that's long gone and hook the lights up to that and eliminate this vampire red LED and weird push button setup. I guess I could always look at the wireing diagram in the FSM but what's the fun in that.