well it's about time a start a build thread. i'll start off with what my truck looks like at this very moment and what i'm doing now. i'll get a little bit up today, i'm about to pull it back into the shop and do the passenger side control arm bushings (did the drivers side day before yesterday)
eetdirt47's 1992 truck build in Bristol Bay Alaska
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got the bumper welded and bolted on, HID high and low beam headlight conversion done (have to get some 5000k bulbs, i dont like the 8000k), piaa 510's mounted but not hooked up yet. hooked my winch back up and now it won't work??
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skid plates painted and waiting for my brother to finish my new front diff. yukon 4.88's and open. i have a trutrac up front right now but i snap c/v's alot.. and i think i took a tooth off the pinion gear 
moved my intake to make room for a second battery, still don't know what kind of dual system i'm going to use but i have both battery's
moved my intake to make room for a second battery, still don't know what kind of dual system i'm going to use but i have both battery's
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creeper, it's a trail gear rock defense (for me iceberg defense) and i was able to get it here for $500. it was a pretty good deal seeing as how it was air freight and it's about a dollar a pound from anchorage to king salmon.
KLF, havn't tried the piaa's out yet but they are the driving pattern. i have another set with trail gears weld on tabs for both. i just got some rigid dually led's in the fog pattern too. i'll get them hooked up today and take some night shots to post.
KLF, havn't tried the piaa's out yet but they are the driving pattern. i have another set with trail gears weld on tabs for both. i just got some rigid dually led's in the fog pattern too. i'll get them hooked up today and take some night shots to post.
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pressing out the old control arm bushings. the lowers were smoked! my cousin took a little video of it. maybe i'll put it on youtube and post a link. got some new red ones from energy suspension.
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come visit sometime in summer dub, i'll take you fishing. finally got my control arm bushings replaced. now i need to replace the idler arm and a tie-rod end then do the alignment.
awhile ago i had some crap fog lights hooked up as extra reverse lights and the wires got hung up on some bushes or something and grounded out.. melted wires and filled my cab with smoke. we bailed out and now i carry a fire extinguisher.
well my dome stopped working along with my clock and my stereo, never thought to check my dome fuse because i thought i melted some wires. well i wired my cd players always hot to my ignition switched wire because it was fishing season (i'm a commercial fisherman) and i was busy. so now i have to re-do my settings everytime i turn the thing off. so today when i was fixing random stuff that i've been putting off i changed that fuse and searched mud for dome light options and found a couple of threads, one of them was
https://forum.ih8mud.com/79-95-toyota-truck-tech/360692-weird-radio-wiring-issue.html
so i found out that all that was wrong was a blown fuse. i had no idea that the dome fuse was for the clock, buzzer, dome light and whatever else...
also, my truck is throwing codes 24, 31, and 41. tps, and air flow meter and air temp sensor. i checked and replaced/adjusted the tps and checked the air flow meter. they are within spec and was wondering if they share a common ground or what could be causing them to malfunction?
awhile ago i had some crap fog lights hooked up as extra reverse lights and the wires got hung up on some bushes or something and grounded out.. melted wires and filled my cab with smoke. we bailed out and now i carry a fire extinguisher.
well my dome stopped working along with my clock and my stereo, never thought to check my dome fuse because i thought i melted some wires. well i wired my cd players always hot to my ignition switched wire because it was fishing season (i'm a commercial fisherman) and i was busy. so now i have to re-do my settings everytime i turn the thing off. so today when i was fixing random stuff that i've been putting off i changed that fuse and searched mud for dome light options and found a couple of threads, one of them was
https://forum.ih8mud.com/79-95-toyota-truck-tech/360692-weird-radio-wiring-issue.html
so i found out that all that was wrong was a blown fuse. i had no idea that the dome fuse was for the clock, buzzer, dome light and whatever else...
also, my truck is throwing codes 24, 31, and 41. tps, and air flow meter and air temp sensor. i checked and replaced/adjusted the tps and checked the air flow meter. they are within spec and was wondering if they share a common ground or what could be causing them to malfunction?
can you still get halon, and what is the cost? the last one i wanted to refill, it was $100+ a pound, and this was my shop extinguisher 10lb.
i will have to look the guy i called to recharge mine said when his tank was empty he would have no more halon. the 10lb ones i have around the house here were in a computer room we were demoing back in the mid 90's they were going to throw them away.
sorry about the hijack i am done.
sorry about the hijack i am done.
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i have a 3lb marine B&C dry chemical extinguisher. rated for liquids and electrical fires.
so now my clock will come on but the button's won't work. i took it apart and wiped the contacts down and pushed the buttons against the contacts with the cover off and nothin.. any ideas?
so now my clock will come on but the button's won't work. i took it apart and wiped the contacts down and pushed the buttons against the contacts with the cover off and nothin.. any ideas?
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dome fuse is good now. but the clock was working just not the buttons... i went back out there, tried again, worked. hmm. whatever i guess.
leaking coolant from what looks like the water pump but it's intermittent. and now my grandma's rig (95 4runner with a 22re) is losing coolant and sounds like the water pump bearing is done for. looks like i'll be doing water pumps!
leaking coolant from what looks like the water pump but it's intermittent. and now my grandma's rig (95 4runner with a 22re) is losing coolant and sounds like the water pump bearing is done for. looks like i'll be doing water pumps!