Went bush.
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Like your tires. What are they? One of my extra grips has a gash in the side. Still holding air, but I might use it as an excuse to get some new tires.Cooler and greener with altitude.
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Started the day at sea level and ended up at roughly 3500 ft of elevation. Back to the beach tomorrow.
I got a simple 24V cooler. I don't have a dual battery system [...] So I wired in a battery protector yesterday. [...]
Now the question is: What would be the minimum voltage my truck would still start on? I set it to 22V, but that's a guess only.
BJ73, 3B 2x75Ah batteries.
Cheers Ralf
Like your tires. What are they? One of my extra grips has a gash in the side. Still holding air, but I might use it as an excuse to get some new tires.
Do they just snap in?Small stuff but made a difference.....
When I did the conversion of my original door cards to newer door cards....one thing I overlooked was how old and beaten up the original door lock knobs would look with the new stuff. For some reason I could not order these separately for my land cruiser off any of the usual parts sites so I got some that are meant for corolla, tercel, etc...anything but land cruiser officially. They worked perfectly though.
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Old vs. New....
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Do they just snap in?
Tested it today. I draw 20Ah from the batteries (4h @5A), starting at 23.1V (so not full), which brought them down to the shutdown at 22V.
With no load, the batteries sat at 22.6V then.
I managed to get two glow cycles within 2min (just to see if it would cope with that). It fired right up, still. There was however a significant pause of about 1sec after the relais clicked before the starter kicked in. The starter didn't sound to have big issues to crank it over. My engine starts very well, so after two revs she is alive, though.
Well, @WarDamnEagle is right: It is borderline. So parking nose down and having jumpercables at hand are wise ideas.
But it's of course not the intention to drain the batteries down that far on a regular bases.
Cheers Ralf
i have quite a few small parts for Toyota cars in my troopy, not for the purists, but it works.Small stuff but made a difference.....
Like that t100! I wish Toyota had made more of these. They are hard to find these days.
Like that t100! I wish Toyota had made more of these. They are hard to find these days.
141k manufactured.
They are still out there.