exhaust, rear brake lines done. Brake hose is a toyota pikcup and GM 1500 one joined together.


Started on the floor:



fyi the undercoating is flammable

is it the pic or is the softline really close to the exhaust?

Yikes! Good tip on the undercoating. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />

what i'm impressed with is how you put everything down. . .got the camera. . .(yawn). . .took the picture (or two, maybe). . .and *then* put it out <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

yikes! is right. ..

Its touching. I think i'm goign to put in a mini bungee cord between the brake hose and the breather line/abs tone ring wires on the right side to keep them both from flying around.

It happened about 15 times so it was getting kind of repetitive haha. Finally I was like, I should take a picture... The fire was no big deal but man that chemical makes sickening fumes, fyi. It rips up your lungs. I had to wear a respirator just from the small amount of smoke it made..

I just used some vinyl adhesive to seal the welded seams


For shift boots, I found 2 of these 4-runner shift boot things in the junkyard.


Cut up the frames and made a 3 boot assembly.


Screwed down. This is also after painted and duplicolor bedliner spraypaint. It is supposed to be rubberized and sound deadening spray. Waste of money, not very thick. I'm going to put down carpet anyways so no big deal.


I followed the 4x4wire article on clearancing IFS CVs for more angle.


Front shaft mocked up. 2" sq tube and 2.5" sq tube. I still have to tightenup the looseness between pieces. I ordered some teflon sheets if that doesn't work I will build up the inner tube with welds. Total cost on this bad boy was $30 and a stupid amoutnt of time. (cleaned & reassembled every u-joint and center CV bearing) There is a ton of work rebuilding these CVs I can see now why they charge so much for them.


For the rear shaft I bought some .188 wall DOM tubing for a shop to retube one of these CVs as well. This flange yoke is off an isuzu front shaft. Isuzu caps are the same od as the toy ones. The only difference is the clips are wider apart so you have to relieve the insides of the toyota slip yoke. That is an isuzu front shaft u-joint.

Wired up my alternator and taurus fan. To minimize the amount of wiring runs I used the starter cable to give the alt a path back to the battery. I found these little aluminum lugs at homedepot, drilled them out to 8mm so they fit on the starter solenoid.



Used another for the alt. Then ran the fan 12V supply wire off this lug.


Engine bay with more wiring done, added an air intake with 3.5" aluminum tubing, you can also see the fan relay and 30A fan breaker (might put this in a box eventually). As of now I am nust going to have the fan wired on low only. We'll see if that is sufficient to cool the truck. Turn on at 200F off at 190F using one of the megasquirt outputs.



upper harness is all efi and the lower is evrything else. Just made a plate with grommet holes and welded it to the firewall.


Rewired the headlights with 16guage and these replacement connectors from advance autoparts. Redesigned the circuit so the headlight switch triggers a high and low relay, rather than carrying current. The stock setup does not make sense at all. It uses a relay but the headlight switch completes the ground. I got a lot of these ideas from the website 4crawler.com. If anyone wants to do this for whateevr reason I can make a more readable diagram or explain it this is kind of hard to read. The end result is my headlights are noticebly brighter. Less voltage drop over harness.




mounted up the computer and cleaned up the power distribution. It was confusing at first but I am glad I just rewired everything than trying to splice crap together.




I never ended up finding a good solution for bus bars so I just used wire nuts to make the splices. Worked very well. I used the nut to twist the wires into a tight cone, removed the nut, soldered with a propane torch and reinstalled the nut. It is a satisfactory connection I think.

It crawled right out of the garage this morning by itself!!!!!!!

(ok maybe I was there also)








I have some pics of my dash project I will post up later

Rock on man!!!! for a second there I thought it was still IFS. You were able to keep the height down really good. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />