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

I hear ya. I just got back from a 5 month gig working down in Florida, and though I missed the hell out of my truck, I grew accustomed to having bluetooth in the rental my company got for me. I drive quite a bit, and spend a lot of time making calls and listening to podcasts, so when I got back the tape deck aux adapter just wasn't cutting it anymore.

 

Looks good!

Tip:
Does the door have a hard plastic stopper? If it does I recommend putting an cane tip or crutch tip. The rubber tip will keep ppl from slamming the door when shutting. That hard plastic stopper will eventually dent the steel there. The rubber keeps it from denting the steel and eventually rattle.

 

Thought adding turn signal LEDs in the fenders would be a good idea, as this city gets more crowded the drivers are getting dumber and more aggressive

Got my Sierra LED light bar onwhite
and amber
in the same light bar, pretty sweet.

And though it's certainly not new, pulled the tent out of winter storage

Next thing to do, get the hell outa town!

 

@Burnett check out his roof rack set up^^^ may be what you're looking for

 

Awesome looking truck dude

 

What front bumper is that?

 

Thanks brother, work in progress for the last 10 years

homemade

 

Tops rustoluem bedliner and bottom is plasti-dip. Hoping bedliner is more durable.

 

Its coming, got that battery for $50, I have to work on building bank account up first. Just bought a set of RAT skids (being built now, group buy), all new upper and lower ball joints, inner and outer tie rods, pair of Hella 500s and upgraded them to 55 watt HIDs, bought a set of PIAA 510s, Elite front bumper, Smittybilt wench, Redline Tuning Hood QuickLIFT (waiting for FedEx to deliver, group buy), CS-144 GM 140 amp alternator and 150 amp breaker and other odds and ends all in the last three months. But a better battery is coming soon.

 

Thanks for the heads up!

 

Upgrading the alternator to a CS-144 GM 140 amp alternator and 150 amp breaker.

 

I installed a luggage rack on my shell and built a roof rack.. Now to get air dam and paint it and install lights...

 

What is running on the breaker?

 

If he is doing it the same way I did it, I put the CB between the batt and the alt.

 

Interesting. I somehow talked myself out of that when I was reading about HP alternators and Big 3 wiring. I do have a 200A breaker coming for my winch but that will be on the load side.

 

Just the opposite for me. I figured the winch could pull up to 500 amps (what I've read) no way I was going to do a 500A CB on the winch. It seems like 200A will get tripped under normal winch usage.

As for the alt CB, just some piece of mind there. Since the CS-144 alt maxes out at ~140A, the 150A CB should be fine and is affordable.

 

I just got the 200A because it was closest to what ComeUp website calculated at 190A. I didn't even think to check it myself. I hope 200A doesn't end up being too low.

 

The battery and everything I connect straight to it will be running through the breaker.
The CS-144 puts out 140 amps, the stock fuse is only for 120amps. The stock setup has the power from the alternator running from the alternator to the fuse box and then to the battery. So if I have more than 120amps flowing through the fuse box it will blow the fuse and I'm installing a 140amp alternator.
I am going to disconnect the alternator from the fuse box by disconnecting the wire inside the fuse box. Then run a bigger wire from the alternator to the 150amp breaker and then to the + side of the battery. Since there is already a stock wire ran from the fuse box to the battery, the fuse box will get all of its power from the battery run back through the 120amp fuse in the fuse box.
Since all my future power connections will be to the battery or a distribution block connected straight to the battery there should never be over 120amps pulling through the fuse box.
So that will give me a 150amp breaker between the alternator and the + battery post. If the draw from the battery is over 150amps the breaker will trip and I want have to replace the 120amp fuse in the fuse box. All I will have to do is reset the breaker.
Does that make since?

 

Anybody running RokBlokz flaps? I don't see them on the website but I kinda need something similar that I can trim/offset to fit with 1.25" spacers and flares.

 

Ok, I see. I'm thinking our 03's must be different though because when I installed the big three I'm almost certain that the main power from the alternator runs directly to the battery and then a smaller wire from the battery powers the fuse box.

This is a terrible pic but in the stock setup you can see the large wire coming to the battery from the alternator and the white wire going back to power the fuse box.