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

My bumper is a solid 7or 8 lbs heavier that stock

 

No that's what that red wire going off to the side is for. It also goes straight into the body harness not through the connector.

 

Geezus Louisus

 

Are they hot, ground, switched?

 

I edited my post

 

7 or 8? Yeah that won't make a difference haha. My bumper before winch is right around 125lbs and with the 35lb of winch it is pretty sizable extra weight hanging right off the front.

 

I would tell you if I had a battery that can hold a damn charge... my guess was it's for the rear ABS sensors? Or something like that.

 

Your winch is 35 lbs

 

Jumper cables to your other truck?

 

By "punches" you mean verbal? I hope for your sake.

 

Lighter than most, synthetic line but still a big chunk of steel and iron. Was 75 with steel line. Shipping weight was 80lbs. Winch might even be 45 but it doesn't feel that heavy when I lift it.

 

Might be a brake controller hookup, see if any of the wires goes hot with the brake peddle pushed

 

You see that's what I would do, but I'll be honest it's way too goddamn cold and windy outside to jump this truck haha.

I'm going to drop by the pick-n-pull tomorrow and buy another battery.

 

Think it was part of that brake controller and alarm system spaghetti I removed?

It looks pretty stock to me, did these come with some kind of factory brake controller option I didn't know about?

 

Lots of vehocles come with a stock connector for a brake controller and when you buy the controller you get a cable that hooks to the stock port and to the controller.

 

yes. He would be dead otherwise.

 

No kidding. That's a pretty cool feature - if that is the case I'm wondering why who used this truck to tow didn't utilize it. Instead they used some weird piggyback connector under the steering wheel to control the brake signals.

 

What winch, the 9.5xp-s I have on order is suppose to be 68lbs

 

https://superwinch.com/products/superwinch-winch-lp8500-12v-1585202

Been good to me, affordable too, I got some synth line from a friend to lighten it up a bit Thanks @Digiratus

 

I think I’m getting a M8000 for my 1st gen
The 9.5 is for the 05