Build My first '40 and the venture

[OlYellr]

Last year at SAS, I realized I had achieved "Peak Temporary Wiring" Status. I was powering almost everything, (phone, gmrs, garmin, etc) through the cigarette lighter, and there were wires wandering around the shifters like spaghetti looking for purpose in life. Functional? Yes. Clean? Absolutely not.

So first order of business this round was permanently mounting and powering the GMRS. Picked up an antenna and @solomrus and his @solomkor fabbed up a slick bracket that bolts to the 4Plus rack. Of course, the antenna cable came from the factory approximately long enough to reach the moon, so routing it became its own little adventure. Ended up running it down the bracket, into the back of Yellr then around the roll cage, around passenger seat brackets, and eventually into the Tuffy where the radio lives.

Mounted the GMRS inside the tuffy.

 

[solomrus]

corporal punishment was on the way out once i hit school. i did have a principal with a killer vulcan neck pinch. funny how we recall some teachers clearly, but the rest are lost to the fog of time.

just the other day my wife and i were discussing the grade that maths were forever lost for me. fractions in 3rd grade. i got bored with it. i got lost. never caught up, and none of the teachers from then on out understood why i didn't get it and why i no longer cared.

i remember the 5th grade teacher that would read from The Hobbit every day after lunch. i started to read for fun that year, and never quit. thank you mrs. blessing. i remember mrs. fahrenholtz chasing don teska around the portable classroom. her face got so red from the effort. i remember mr. olsen in high school who couldn't say cardboard. the kids in that class were brutal.

anyways, yeah, things were different. things are the same. some teachers care, some teachers burn out, some teachers check out. some kids are interested in learning. others interested in sorting out the social order. it's a wonder that any of us survived the experience.

i did eventually get back to math. 8^)

--r

 

[solomrus]

but did it work bryan? how was the reception on the way back?

 

[OlYellr]

were forever lost for me. fractions in 3rd grade. i got bored with it. i got lost. never caught up,

You’re not alone. Five out of three can’t do fractions.

 

[OlYellr]

but did it work bryan? how was the reception on the way back?

I could pick up a fish farting in a river.

 

[solomrus]

there is now coffee on my keyboard.

--r

 

[charliemeyer007]

139% of statistics are made up. Many a ruler was broken on my knuckles.

 

[solomrus]

i wanna see the research charles. 8^)

--r

 

[Pighead]

139% of statistics are made up.

That number has recently been cut by 400%, IIRC...

 

[charliemeyer007]

Those were the same people that reported 5/4 of the people can't do fractions.

I remember in algebra and trig what a PIA fractional exponents were, then in calculus with the power/chain rule they made life a lot easier.

 

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[OlYellr]

With the GMRS mounted, I also wanted the mic in a place that actually made sense. The radio itself uses an RJ45 connection, and I didn’t want to be digging around the console every time I needed to grab the handset. Also wanted a cleaner way to charge the phone without relying on the cigarette lighter octopus setup from last year.

Best part is all the wiring is hidden behind the scenes now. We daisy-chained power with the Bluetooth radio and checked the circuit load since the GMRS is on a 5-amp circuit. Ended up stepping up to a 9-amp fuse to comfortably handle the radio plus phone charging duties.

So I used one of the 3D-printed delete plates and set it up with an RJ45 extension on the right side and power/USB plus voltmeter on the other. Also been all over the board with a carplay dash or not - I liked @sogncab setup when were were in the Black Hills last year and went Ram Mount.

With that - got the metric class b ball with the longest metric stud - added two washers and a nut - may paint the washers some day, may not and let it ride.

& got an extinguisher attached to the driver seat.

Fits surprisingly clean. Tiny detail stuff… but it makes the interior feel way more intentional.

 

[OlYellr]

Last piece of the puzzle was wiring the lights I acquired last summer. These are the Nacho/ARB combo lights & they needed proper power and switching instead of deal with it later. The lights have 3 circuits, fog, trail, and full sun.

Ended up going with a Garmin powerswitch setup and mounted it inside the pocket along with a negative ground bar so we could centralize wiring for the GMRS, lights, and whatever other questionable future ideas I come up with. Installed right by the inspection socket plug-in. I can control the lights and GMRS via my phone or it has a physical switch.

Then came figuring out where to mount the lights themselves. Ended up deleting the license plate location and mounting them there.

Also got a crash course from @solomrus on how he builds wiring looms. Bought and learned how to use Deutsch-style connectors, proper crimping, waterproof connections, loom routing, all that stuff. Used some of the wire I got so each circuit had its own color/stripe - and look like it was intended with using said color/stripe.

Honestly one of the best part of the project was learning why @solomrus does things the way he does instead of just bolting parts on.

Final loom, wrapped, Did it this way, so I could disconnect and secure the lights if needed.

Phone control.... I could control the lights and radio from maybe 50 feet away.

Yellr may still be a mutt… but at least the wiring is starting to act civilized.

 

[OlYellr]

Not tech - just experience I forgot to mention.

Last year, I replaced the windshield mirros with the OEM Euro mirrors on the door. During the drive the passenger side held steady and the driver would fold from the wind speed/pressure.

I was playing the automotive "Spot the differences between two images."

Turns out the angle of the arm was more forward. I moved the arm more forward, adjusted mirror and rock solid rest of drive.

Overall, glad how things went sideways. The new rubber removed so many rattles. Still have some, but made a solid difference. still drip free under.

 

[sogncab]

I wicked thin CA glue into the bottom part of the arm, where it goes into the mounting bracket. That tightened mine up.

 

[OlYellr]

Daughter came in from KC so spent last 6 days jumping around CA.

Tonight - did spend time on carb and timing. Also replaced this on passenger side. Driver side should be done too. Need to find and organize the parts I brought here. Hap-hazard toss and tuck before she got here.

 

[knuckle47]

@Ol Yeller you know my wife will do this when she finds that we may have surprise guests or visitors to make a room look “tidy”. Then, she can’t find where the hell she put things the next day! We have found small Christmas gifts, clothing, the OTHER shoe…yet to find the birthday cards she bought for the grandkids last November

 

[OlYellr]

Interesting little discovery from the door striker project. Yesterday I posted about installing the new OEM striker. I knew I had another one somewhere in the parts stash and finally found it today. Both are OEM. One came directly from Toyota, the other came through known vendor (still in OEM packaging).

What caught my attention was the two are noticeably different.

Different finish/coating, slightly different dimensions, and some small detail differences in overall appearance. Enough that side-by-side you immediately notice it.

No conclusions from me at this point—could be production year differences, different production runs, etc. Just thought it was interesting seeing two “OEM” parts that aren’t exactly twins.

 

[fjdiesel]

See if you can get that Cruiser Outfitters sticker off the Toyota sticker to see what the Toyota part number in. A heat gun works great.

 

[OlYellr]

See if you can get that Cruiser Outfitters sticker off the Toyota sticker to see what the Toyota part number in. A heat gun works great.

Ha! I’m posting me being stupid. Turns out that is the right one for 1981. I ordered wrong.

Wil bring it to CO and see if anyone can use it/want it