So lost some ground clearance today but the slowest transmission swap in Toyota history came to an end today:

going back to stock single case/crossmember for a few months till I can get my dual cases over to have someone with better skills to see if my adapter or something else is busted...at least it will be on the road soon.

just need to bleed brakes, front D/S and add fluids

so was looking for a wrench and opened a drawer that I had not been into for 2-3 years and found a cool stash of stuff:

was happy to find a bunch of switches

have an idea for a switch panel in the dash where the radio currently in.
Plan is to move the radio to a poor man's Tuffy security console(ammo can)

 

Nice Stash!!!!

 

Now thats drawer worth findin. Its like xmas all over again. Awesome!!

 

That is an awesome jack Robb. I never thought about it with my stock Toyotas and their little bottle jacks. Pretty cool demo too. It must have taken you all day just to make room for the jack handle. Your garage is almost as bad as mine Swap meet should take care of some of that...I hope.

 

Hey Paul you just haven't seen it lately, when I jacked up the driver's side the passenger side door was actually came open enough to get in
I want to find a Tacoma jack sometime, one member, Scuba, showed his stock jack fully extended, pretty high-nice equipment for stock stuff



Good luck on the swap meet, you have way too many parts
How did pulling that engine go with those two guys? Seemed like they showed up with out any tools...

 

Still plugging away at tieing up loose ends, hopefully taking it through DEQ (Oregon e
Emissions) tomorrow.
Found one root cause for my carb being gunked up all the time:

Stress cracks on the bottom of the air cleaner
Oh well, my buddy Paul came through again! He had a few good ones to choose from

 

Spent a lot of the day chasing down some wiring gremlins. The truck turns over etc, just going to change out the thermostat before I fire it up.
Figured since I was doing wiring I would finish hooking up the LED side markers. For about a $25-30 conversion I feel it is well worth it for the amount of light output:


Looking forward to converting the taillights.
Now just need to get it through emissions/registration:
-bleed brakes
-swap thermostat
-change u joints.
Fingers are crossed tomorrow allows time for it.
Having it on the road soon will be good motivation to get my dual cases checked out and back together

 

done alot of work so far. truck looks good.

 

i like it

 

What's the deal with those LED markers. Yours look great, but I can't get mine to work. I've got power to my two wires. 1 wire off the LED marker, I'm lost. Did you do anything special to get yours to work?

 

are you just using yours as the sidemarker like I did?
got these lights at NAPA, they have 4 LED's in each lite. You should only have power to one of the wires, the other will be your ground.
Make sure your grounds are good.

 

with LED. you cant reverse the wiring. only one wire is for power and the other is ground. if it doesnt work one way try it the other way by switching the wire

 

I'm just using the led light as a marker. I have a 1980 Toyota 4x4, and it has two wires(green and a white wire). The led light only has one wire, I got them from auto zone. I have hooked it up to both wires, nothing. And I've tried all of them.

 

Edit: just saw that your LED marker only has one wire: that means it is counting on one of the screws to act as the ground. Stock toy side markers have a plastic mount where the screw goes into the fender so you haven't got a ground.
Add an eyelet hookup from your mount screw(you will see one one the back of your marker) and connect that to your stock ground wire at each marker location.

Did use just replace the bulbs with LED into the stock side mArker housing or use an entire new LED Assembly like I did? If you just stuck an LED replacement bulb in there it won't pull enough juice, it will need a small resistor in the circuit.

That is true with an individual LED. On the one LED's that are prepackaged with a built in circuit (like I used) polarity does't matter. just verified on two different style marker lights and a 12v powersupply

 

oh thats good to know lol i deal with alot of leds and build my own led light kits

 

Got sidetracked and did a little prep work:

This drum did not want to come off so:

Gave me enough room to pry it off, played with the grinder some more, got the backing plates off so this thing would fit:

Both axles will be getting new bearings and seals. Just felt like cutting steel today

New u joints and cleaned up the rear driveshaft:

 

so the sun was out today and had time to actually button up the last few things on the truck:

Put on the CentraMatic wheelbalancers that had been on the shelf since X-Mas,
no problems in the rear:

had the truck up on Jackstands, it is interesting hearing the steel shot inside them rotate..
Ran into a snag upfront
they won't clear the bigger V-6 Calipers/vented rotors...gonna need a set of wheel spacers..I had some, dug for them but guess I traded them for something thinking I would not need them...idiot me

will order some soon..anxious to see how they work upfront..

cleaned out the shifter hole, wasn't a whole lot left of the original shifter seat:

the Marlin seat dropped in just like the video:

greased up the shifter and dropped it in with my homemade shifter retainer SST:


didn't get a chance to road test it today(pick up the insurance card tomorrow) but the truck started right up and idled for 2-3 hours(little smokey at first)...moved under its own power the 35 feet of my driveway

 

look's like you need some new front studs,the treads look like they are half rusted through.

 

Studs/threads are fine...

 

So got a set of wheel spacers so I could clear my front calipers up front when using the centramatic wheel balancers:

I switched back to 15x8's because I didn't want my wheels sticking out past the fender flares and centramatics were able to balance even going against this much weight(balanced at Schwab and tire has a ton of rock rash):

with out the balancers I would have a ton of Death wobble...not with these things