Hello wonderful 80 Series owners, back with another little upgrade project.
Having started fitting out the back of the beast with a camping storage set up, the rear view mirror has become nothing more than a wind screen / wind shield ornament.
At the beginning of the year I had to replace the washer fluid motor and washer nozzles which meant disconnecting the rear washer nozzle from the system (I never used it anyway)
So.... had this idea to use both issues as an excuse to design a rear view camera set up with a monitor in place of the mirror and mount a camera where the rear washer nozzle was.
I purchased a cheap reversing camera off Ebay for $40 AU which came a 5" monitor, little 19mm diameter wide angle camera and all the cabling.
Here's a pic of the camera.
It was a mission to remove the nozzle, 26 year old plastic either breaks to bits or holds on for dear life, it took me 15 minutes to eventually lever it out but out it eventually came.
I measured the hole and had to open it up as the jack plug connectors to the camera were too big.
I took it up to 15mm which allowed for wiggle room then had to figure out how to get the plugs and cabling through to the inside entry hole for the original washer tubing because, as usual, Toyota don't do things the easy way and the underside hole was offset. with no direct line of sight.
Some old wired washing line comes in very handy for finding hidden holes!
Routing the cables was thankfully quite easy as the underside hole is a stretched oval which allowed pulling the power line and aux feed plugs through without any issues.
I then dry fit the Camera mount that I had 3D printed in PETG, the angle and position was great and the sun shade cowl works perfectly, the mount was then silicone glued it into place.
I then re used the rubber grommets from the original washer set up to waterproof the holes int the body work, I cut the grommets, fitted the cabling and reinserted the grommets. They are a tight fit so I don't think I'll have any issues with leaking where I cut them.
I will post some pics of the actual camera mount soon as there were some minor errors in the screen fit.
If anyone is interested in the mount I'm happy to send them the STL file.
Having started fitting out the back of the beast with a camping storage set up, the rear view mirror has become nothing more than a wind screen / wind shield ornament.
At the beginning of the year I had to replace the washer fluid motor and washer nozzles which meant disconnecting the rear washer nozzle from the system (I never used it anyway)
So.... had this idea to use both issues as an excuse to design a rear view camera set up with a monitor in place of the mirror and mount a camera where the rear washer nozzle was.
I purchased a cheap reversing camera off Ebay for $40 AU which came a 5" monitor, little 19mm diameter wide angle camera and all the cabling.
Here's a pic of the camera.
It was a mission to remove the nozzle, 26 year old plastic either breaks to bits or holds on for dear life, it took me 15 minutes to eventually lever it out but out it eventually came.
I measured the hole and had to open it up as the jack plug connectors to the camera were too big.
I took it up to 15mm which allowed for wiggle room then had to figure out how to get the plugs and cabling through to the inside entry hole for the original washer tubing because, as usual, Toyota don't do things the easy way and the underside hole was offset. with no direct line of sight.
Some old wired washing line comes in very handy for finding hidden holes!
Routing the cables was thankfully quite easy as the underside hole is a stretched oval which allowed pulling the power line and aux feed plugs through without any issues.
I then dry fit the Camera mount that I had 3D printed in PETG, the angle and position was great and the sun shade cowl works perfectly, the mount was then silicone glued it into place.
I then re used the rubber grommets from the original washer set up to waterproof the holes int the body work, I cut the grommets, fitted the cabling and reinserted the grommets. They are a tight fit so I don't think I'll have any issues with leaking where I cut them.
I will post some pics of the actual camera mount soon as there were some minor errors in the screen fit.
If anyone is interested in the mount I'm happy to send them the STL file.
great minds think alike 
