cnyguy

Ok, as the subject line sates I have a 91 PU 4x4 ex/cab with the 6cyl. I am looking into adding a plow, damn snow here in upstate NY is relentless, and want to know if anyone can tell me if this part will work, off 87 tacoma pushbar Aframe, pump and hoses, without much additional fabrication.
http://syracuse.craigslist.org/pts/984549713.html

Also, I am looking at installing a TACH and want to know if anyone can direct me to info on how to do so. I dont have a shop manual yet and I am not real sure if it would indeed show me how to install it. What I am looking for is info on where the wires from the tach will go.

One more thing- My dome lights will not work with the doors opening, yet I can manually turn them on at the light. Is it safe (its never safe) to assume that both door switches are bad?

Thanks again everyone, this is a great site and I cant believe how much I can find here.
Al~

Ilovemountains

I put an entire gauge cluster in my 88 V-6 automatic from the same vintage, it was plug and play except for the oil pressure guage sensor! You can find one on ebay, just make sure its the same year, engine and trans and just plug it in, I was even able to swap my odometer core over so my mileage was the exact same. Not sure about the door switches, Id try a multi meter on the light switch itself and see if power is getting to the lead that would be fed by the door switch!

Ilovemountains

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cnyguy

Thanks for the links and suggestion. I was thinking about the whole cluster but to be honest unless i can find it for 20 buks Im done. Do appreciate it.
Gonna mess with door switches when the snow stops falling, right like that will happen any time soon, ha.

abecedarian

Didn't know they made a Tacoma in 87....

Marc

There's a Tach Connection just on the outside of the Diagnostic Connector.

I think it's marked IGN.

abecedarian

As for the tach- it's fairly easy to install: + to a switched voltage supply, like the radio, - to ground, signal to the - terminal on the coil... and then the backlight wire goes, well, hmm- the dimmer for the dash lights is on the ground side of the lights, not the voltage side, so if you wire it to the dimmer the dash lights will dim as the tach light get's brighter. I just wired it up that way then adjusted the dash lights so they were about as bright as the tach backlight and left it there. Alternately, you could wire a potentiometer to the tach light, then connect it to the switched + wire and deal with a separate brightness adjustment for the tach.

And it's probably safe to assume the door pin switches are bad but disconnect the wire from the pin switch and ground it just to be sure. If the light goes on when you ground the wire, the switch is bad. Also, there's a diode between the passenger side wiring and drivers side that can screw with you too. Good luck finding it though.

cnyguy

Well I have no idea, just going by the add on craigslist. But...will the frame work on my truck do you know? Many thanks for the replies, thanks.

abecedarian

Maybe the Craigslist poster is just a dufus and doesn't know?

You may have issues though. The 1st gen 4Runners were basically 100% derived off the pickup. The 2nd gen 4Runners had some slight changes from the respective pickup, mostly to the body and very few to the frame: coil springs rear, etc.

I think you should be fine though, but please don't quote me on that. If it doesn't work, it shouldn't be much work for a fab shop to make brackets to work for you.

cnyguy

Guess Im confused about the 1st and 2nd gen 4runners. The plow frame is from a tacoma and I am running a 92 4x4 pickup. How does the 4runner fit in this picture? Thanks and sorry for my confusion.

abecedarian

Okay... I'm an idiot. Brain going in 4 directions at once. Yeah, you're right, the 4Runner isn't a consideration at all. What is a consideration is that in late 95 (iirc... may be 94 though... ), the Tacoma started production and is somewhat different from the 89-95 pickups due to the different engine(s) available and how the frame was modified to accomodate them. Maybe that's where I got confused: thought 4Runner and meant Tacoma vs. pickup.
Still, a fab shop should be able to modify the plow to work on your truck. May not be cheap though depending on what they have to do.
Have you contacted the CL poster and asked about the year issue? Toyota did not make a Tacoma in 87... maybe 97 is what was intended?