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New year update:
I’ve been enjoying a little post-holiday lull lately over here at CTP. I’m in the middle of a transfer case rebuild project, with a power steering gear box re-seal on deck after that, plus a bunch of little things on my daily driver 60 - that’s how it always goes driving one of these all the time. I’m also maybe shopping around for a bottom of the barrel garbage FJ40 to play around with. No reason to NOT sign another rust-deal with the devil.
More Koito headlight upgrade kits in stock. I am still regularly stocking these. When I sell out they may be temporarily out of stock but it shouldn’t be for more than a week. PM me here or email me if they are so you get dibs on the next batch.
The upgraded alternator charge cable Fusible Link Replacement Kits are in stock and ready to go out the door. This is the one you want anyway. Vast improvement over the stock charge cable (and my “basic” kit). The basic kit shown in the photo sold this week. As always, this is plug & play and comes with a bracket to directly and easily mount it in the engine bay. Overland Metric plated hardware holds it all together.
High Beam Indicator Modules … where to start … Out of the 300 or so I’ve sold, about a dozen have stopped working. I don’t like that and I need to drill down as to why it’s happening. It very well could be the result of the trucks those are going on, but I’d still like to rule out the HBIM. The circuit design was run by an electrical engineer consultant before I released these to the public, so due diligence was made. Five of those failures have been recent, though, so it warrants further inspection. I’ve also had some parts sourcing trouble recently with two of the components being regularly out of stock. On top of that I’d like to finesse my PC board design a bit, possibly for more readily available parts. All that being said, I’d like to do a design revision and then release version 2.0 in the coming month or two. Those will show as sold out on the website for a bit!
Beyond that I have a few more products in the pipeline:
Fire extinguisher mount - the products that have been on the market for this in the past simply don’t work (I bought them, then put them in the scrap metal pile), and they’re unavailable now anyway. I want one and there’s nowhere to get it, so …
Map light - ever pulled over at night and need a light in the cab? The middle dome light isn’t the best for illuminating the front two seats so let’s put a light up front, eh? This will not be plug & play on the wiring side, but it shouldn’t be too difficult. I’m aiming for an available OEM Toyota light that mounts to a customized bracket. I would also like the bracket to hold a dash cam. The more Cruisers I see that are getting into wrecks, the more a dash cam makes sense to me. So what’s everybody running for that? I’d need to make the mount fit a specific unit but I don’t know what the popular ones are and would like some feedback.
Dual battery stuff - I’m currently acquiring parts for my own dual battery setup. I’ll likely end up creating my own custom bracket to hold all the doodads required, so why not open that up to other people too? This will be a relay-based system as opposed to a DC-DC charger based system. It will mount to existing holes in the engine bay. Could anybody use something like that? Roll call please…
55 stuff - I already have a laser cut ABS tailgate panel for 55s available (the metal ones get beat up, dented, and form tears by the bolt holes), but I’m going to be putting some effort behind getting 55 cargo panels done by the end of the spring. Got a couple folks who have volunteered their trucks and panels.
EGR lower j-pipe ferrules - once upon a time I made these for us smog people, but I haven’t had them available in a long time. The upper ones are available from Toyota and the lower ones cross reference to the same part number. I can assure you the upper ones DON’T work for the lower though, they’re different inner diameters. I have started reaching out to some machinists to make a run of these. They’re simple, I just lack the equipment, and most larger machine shops don’t want to do small runs for me. Anybody have connections to somebody with a small metal lathe? PM me please.
Questions, comments, concerns? Please leave them below.
I’ve been enjoying a little post-holiday lull lately over here at CTP. I’m in the middle of a transfer case rebuild project, with a power steering gear box re-seal on deck after that, plus a bunch of little things on my daily driver 60 - that’s how it always goes driving one of these all the time. I’m also maybe shopping around for a bottom of the barrel garbage FJ40 to play around with. No reason to NOT sign another rust-deal with the devil.
More Koito headlight upgrade kits in stock. I am still regularly stocking these. When I sell out they may be temporarily out of stock but it shouldn’t be for more than a week. PM me here or email me if they are so you get dibs on the next batch.
The upgraded alternator charge cable Fusible Link Replacement Kits are in stock and ready to go out the door. This is the one you want anyway. Vast improvement over the stock charge cable (and my “basic” kit). The basic kit shown in the photo sold this week. As always, this is plug & play and comes with a bracket to directly and easily mount it in the engine bay. Overland Metric plated hardware holds it all together.
High Beam Indicator Modules … where to start … Out of the 300 or so I’ve sold, about a dozen have stopped working. I don’t like that and I need to drill down as to why it’s happening. It very well could be the result of the trucks those are going on, but I’d still like to rule out the HBIM. The circuit design was run by an electrical engineer consultant before I released these to the public, so due diligence was made. Five of those failures have been recent, though, so it warrants further inspection. I’ve also had some parts sourcing trouble recently with two of the components being regularly out of stock. On top of that I’d like to finesse my PC board design a bit, possibly for more readily available parts. All that being said, I’d like to do a design revision and then release version 2.0 in the coming month or two. Those will show as sold out on the website for a bit!
Beyond that I have a few more products in the pipeline:
Fire extinguisher mount - the products that have been on the market for this in the past simply don’t work (I bought them, then put them in the scrap metal pile), and they’re unavailable now anyway. I want one and there’s nowhere to get it, so …
Map light - ever pulled over at night and need a light in the cab? The middle dome light isn’t the best for illuminating the front two seats so let’s put a light up front, eh? This will not be plug & play on the wiring side, but it shouldn’t be too difficult. I’m aiming for an available OEM Toyota light that mounts to a customized bracket. I would also like the bracket to hold a dash cam. The more Cruisers I see that are getting into wrecks, the more a dash cam makes sense to me. So what’s everybody running for that? I’d need to make the mount fit a specific unit but I don’t know what the popular ones are and would like some feedback.
Dual battery stuff - I’m currently acquiring parts for my own dual battery setup. I’ll likely end up creating my own custom bracket to hold all the doodads required, so why not open that up to other people too? This will be a relay-based system as opposed to a DC-DC charger based system. It will mount to existing holes in the engine bay. Could anybody use something like that? Roll call please…
55 stuff - I already have a laser cut ABS tailgate panel for 55s available (the metal ones get beat up, dented, and form tears by the bolt holes), but I’m going to be putting some effort behind getting 55 cargo panels done by the end of the spring. Got a couple folks who have volunteered their trucks and panels.
EGR lower j-pipe ferrules - once upon a time I made these for us smog people, but I haven’t had them available in a long time. The upper ones are available from Toyota and the lower ones cross reference to the same part number. I can assure you the upper ones DON’T work for the lower though, they’re different inner diameters. I have started reaching out to some machinists to make a run of these. They’re simple, I just lack the equipment, and most larger machine shops don’t want to do small runs for me. Anybody have connections to somebody with a small metal lathe? PM me please.
Questions, comments, concerns? Please leave them below.
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