Well I have to start some where so here we go. I have just bought a 1988 Toyota pickup with 200,000+ miles. 22RE 4cyl, 5 speed, 4.10 gears with a 3" body lift, & 33" buckshot mudders. My goal is SAS for rock crawling here in North Alabama. I have a 2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited that I don't want to destroy yet so it is my daily driver and this will be a project. If this is the wrong forum let me know. Thanks!





Bath time

 

looks fairly clean man! little paint fade and some surface rust on the box but otherwise clean lookin rig. any other plans other than a sas?

 

I'd like to put a double trans case set up in it & gears. I'll probably weld the rear spider gears and weld on some rock sliders. I plan to wheel it stock while I pinch pennies to do the front end. I've got a lot of reading to do. I wanna buy once & cry once. I hate spending money twice on something

 

Well today I got the battery terminals replaced and a new battery. I started to degrease the engine and got rained out. More this week hopefully. I have a small exhaust leak I'll need to sort out. Does anyone know if it is worth putting an aftermarket header on or should I just clean up the factory setup? Thanks!

 

aftermarket header pairs up well with a cold air intake, you can even take it a step further and do the battery/maf swap. worth the money in my opinion. Cheapest way to squeeze some ponies out of a tiny motor

 

What is the battery swap you speak of. I have read about putting in cold air intakes and larger MAF sensors to get more flow. I figure when I take the exhaust apart this weekend I will see if there is any saving the stock manifold. I have been hitting the exhaust bolts with PB blaster all week so hopefully I will not tear anything up.

 

look up on google

"battery intake swap site:www.yotatech.com"

without the quotation marks of course. basically you lengthen the wires to your maf and put it where the battery is and battery goes where the maf would normally be. it shortens the intake tube to give a more direct flow and it allows it to get cooler air. Im sure you have noticed the intake in its stock form sits ride over the rad hose and soaks up a lot of heat from it. The maf you want to find is from a mark2 supra. I can snap a pic of the part number you want to look for later when im at home, it is a bigger bore and it plugs right in no problem. increases throttle response and some better mpgs.

 

Thanks for the search help. I just put battery swap in the forum search window and it referenced your previous post! I'll figure this out one day. I'd love a pic if you get a chance. I hope to get a bunch done over the long weekend, but we have rain forecast every day. we shall see

 

http://www.google.ca/#output=search&...w=1280&bih=933


theres a direct link to yotatech only threads containing information on battery intake swap. enjoy happy wrneching

 

here is a picture of what your intake would look like with a cold air intake, looks the same as what i have.



And here is what the intake maf swap looks like, notice how much shorter the intake path is and how it steers clear of the hot coolant line and ran


It is a fairly simple swap and shouldn't cost you more than 40 bucks to do it, just need a roll of wire and some longer battery cables. The above link should steer you in the right direction

 

Thanks. That seems pretty easy. I'll keep my eyes open for the MAF. I started cleaning the engine compartment yesterday in between down pours. I think we got 6" of rain yesterday. More on deck for the rest of the weekend. I keep looking over my shoulder for an ark.

 

The maf is hard to find, took me 2 years to get one, alternatively some people get the bigger one from a later year supra and swap the internals from the stock 22re one into the supra one.

 

Ok so I scored some parts. One SR5 gauge cluster for a manual trans & a inclinometer. The meter is a little rough but I feal I bought it well. Now I need to get that oil pressure setup.

 

damn. I want an inclinometer, every time i find one they're either 300 dollars or someone else scoops them up. Do you know if your cluster was from a 4cylinder truck or a 6? the one i grabbed was from a 6 cylinder and its a pain in the ass to get the tach to read right. theres a little adjusting screw inside the cluster that you turn but you have to turn it like a hairs width or else it goes to out of wack haha

 

I do not know what motor it came from. It was from a 5 speed is all I know. I read about the adjustment. I will play with that when I get there. I just could not pass up both for the price.

 

a deals a deal and even if it doesn't work for you im sure theres someone you can sell it to to make your money back. I buy everything i can when i see it

 

Well I started to take her out this weekend to go camping and as we started going up the trail the right front wheel started complaining. I would get 3/4 of a rotation and then there was a thump. I pulled the hubs apart to make sure they were engaging and there did not appear to be anything there out of the ordinary. I thought that they might not be sliding into position fully, but everything looked good. The weather changed and has been rainy since then so I have not taken the boots off to to check the drive shafts and U joints yet. I put her in 2 wheel drive and turned around. I hope to start tearing her down tonight after work. I have to get her in the garage and up on stands to see what is thumping around down there. Hard to do by yourself. I hate to put money into the IFS only to gut it next year so I'm hoping my buddy has the parts off his IFS to make her go.

 

it could very well be hub related or cv related, don't think it would be bearings because it would do that regardless of being locked in 4x4 or not. Good luck!

 

Well Houston we have a problem. Seems like the Ring gear did not want to play nice. I am exploring options as I type. I may be starting the SAS a little sooner than I planned. We dropped the center section last night.


Little pieces of metal in the oil as to be expected with this failure.

 

Driving right by Meridianville today, heading to SC today from jasper today.