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

Ty, I'll look into it

 

I am interested in these.

 

Mounted my external cb speaker. Should be able to hear it on the highway with the windows down now.

Also wired up my second blue sea. Tried to wire it from the old post that went out to the alternator. Apparently this was not a good idea because it somehow shorted the alt even though that has a direct run to the positive terminal. Had to wire it direct to the positive terminal too.



Can anyone explain why it went weird?

 

flamed Gen2er

 

Time for me to find a welder !!! AllPro delivered the other day !!!!!




Any sugestions on how to set these on??? Center...forward.....Aft ???

 

Did some half ass dent remove and paint job to try make it look a little better.

I didn't really put too much effort into.

Still trying to decide what I want to do for sure.

Bad pic credit: Sun

 

Wait you tried running the fuse box straight to the alt and not the battery??

 

California is beautiful but it's like a china shop you can look but no touching

Wonder how well it fits, I've dealt with some panels that needed serious massaging and trimming to look normal. $40 is cheap enough to find out on a whim though

 

Well thanks

 

Yeah and that was the fiberglass flare years so no easy fix there, just need a new one.

 

No, you know the post that used to run to the alt from inside to the oem fuse box? I ran a lead from that post to the secondary fuse panel. My "theory" was that hot would run from the battery, through the oem panel, to the aux panel.

 

That post is fused. 80amps. And is wired straight to the factory alternator. Not the battery.

 

Not since I did the big 3 and the gm alt tough. Alt is going straight to the positive terminal. And I have another positive going from the positive terminal to the fuse panel in the original location (to keep power going to the oem fuse panel.) so I thought I could take advantage of the 80 amp fuse to my aux panel.

 

Still need pics?

 

Well then you need to tie the fuse panel to the other side of the 80 amp fuse. Not to that post.

Though it should have worked but it wouldn't have been fused.

 

Okay so I think I get it. The oem design was to have current to run from the alt, to that post through the oem panel, and then out to the battery. When I redid everything and ran from alt to the battery I left the one that went from the oem panel (the outgoing one) to continue powering the oem panel. So if I want this to work I would need to go from battery, to that post, which would then take me through the 80 amp fuse, and out to my aux panel, instead of the other way around?

 

Second interested

 

I agree. It should work.

I have the same setup, and I run the trailer aux plus the accessory block straight off the post you are talking about, have never had a short.
Might have been a stray strand of wire causing a short maybe?

 

I have no idea. It should def work in theory. But when I started the truck the alt belt was screeching and getting really hot. Quick research showed I was shorting the alt through that connection some how. I don't get it.

 

i was thinking about dipping its, I dunno if that'd look like trash/ ricer or not... probably.


That or save for a minute buy some glass just for cause.