Yellow Turdoda

[8Snaces]

Well... i must say... i shoulda started this thread long ago... But O WELL!!!
I have had a 1981 toy long bed since New Years. I took it out and broke it this first weekend out (some of u have heard that story).

Since then i have swapped the 22-R out for a 22-RE out of a 1983 Celice GT. That seems to be working pretty good. I drove the truck today for the first time in almost 5 months. I have a few more little details to finish like putting the dashboard back in, hide/tuck the wires away, power steering fluid back in the resevoir, .... the list the keeps goin..

I am in need of 1 part though.... Turns out the Mass AirFlow Sensor is not workin. It worked yesterday when i started the truck.. but today was a totally different story. If anyone has one, i really need it. I will be taking the truck out of class on monday.... hopefully.

Anyway.... i will have a couple pics up soon. I need to find out which CD i have them on and get em uploaded.

[*** YELLER ***]

I dont know what it looks like but I have some extra stuff laying around let me know what it looks like and I'll look around

[83yota]

it sits directly on top of the air box
(i believe)

[Wermz84]

Well its about time 8's            Awsome!


I had heard tales of your rig.  So if i'm reading this right, you also put the EFI in the truck as well? 
 

[AaronB]

 

[Wermz84]

Crap, how could I have forgot that....     X2!!!

[toy4x4ota]

hate to be the richard but its a must

[weirdtimes_7]

we need pics... WE NEED PICS!!!!!!!

military_stang

[8Snaces]

83yota.. thanx.. i know that it sits on the airbox, but the one that i have doesnt seem to be workin ...although i have a fix for it..i think.

I know that i need to post pictures... those are coming up soon. I have just found all my pics that are on CD's so... i will have gf help me post them this week. My avitar is one pic of the truck that weekend out.

[8Snaces]

Ok.. i got it running pretty good yesterday. Im hopin to drive it around tmw and for the next week or so. Im gonna be puttin in some gauges and rock lights and stuff over the next week. I have drawn out 2 or 3 cage designs that i like and im gonna go price some steel right now. Pics are in the works. GF has the discs and is workin on gettin them up for me...

[Wermz84]

and 

[8Snaces]

When i take it to work either tmw or thurs, i will take some brand new pics and post them the next day. But hang in there... the pics are coming.

[8Snaces]

AARGH!!!!! I have a severe short. There are 2 fusable links in the fuse box under the hood. THe bigger of the 2 keeps burnin up. THere is a major short on something that is a constant hot. Key off ...whats hot?? I need to find that and that should cure a 2nd problem... i dont have a chargin system. There is no connection from the alternator to the battery.... for whatever reason. AAARRRGGHHH!!!!!!!

[8Snaces]

Well... i made it home. No charging system yet.... but i made it home. I took it on the freeway and that thing moves at about 70mph. I was impressed... at only 2100/2350rpm. Now its time to start thinkin of paint schemes and stuff. I will be working on the electrical this weekend....anyone got free time or ideas?? Thanx. And pix will b up.

[Wermz84]

Awsome, glad ya got it home!!  Shorts suck 


how bout Rusty yellow.  

[8Snaces]

Rusty yellow is the current color. LOLOL!!!! I have an idea for the paint job but still got play with it a bit. I will be painting prolly over this weekend... i will end up gettin bored or somtin. Im gonna try to get some more of the wiring tucked away. I drove it to work and back to night.... That was defintetly a wild ride.

[8Snaces]

OK. I finally found the gurlfriend.. hope the pics come up. Here they are. I thought that we had more pics of the install and the harness and stuff. I think they got deleted or somtin. But heres "some better than none".

[jimbo74]

hey chris, did you eve rget the wiring figured out?

i dont need the power steering brackets anymore, i do need a late model efi pump, but thats anotehr story, i think i can get one though

[Duffil]

gotta be the only thread where guys are actually wearing safety glasses

lookin good, keep workin on it.

[weirdtimes_7]

F#$K!!!! I CAN'T SEE EM..... SJDLK:AJFDklasgjhasdf

military_stang

[Wermz84]

Looking good bro!!     bout time ya get the pics up. 


When you gonna take it to Hollister?

[8Snaces]

Im hoping to take it out soon. Im takin it to my boss place (where the 86 runner frame was almost FRanKenStiEned) and see if we cant get the wiring fixed. He is a crane operator, mechanic, truck driver.... Jack of All Trades. Master of Most. If we can fix the charging system, everyting else worx well enuff to take it out wheelin. HEHEHE!!

[jimbo74]

Im hoping to take it out soon. Im takin it to my boss place (where the 86 runner frame was almost FRanKenStiEned) and see if we cant get the wiring fixed. He is a crane operator, mechanic, truck driver.... Jack of All Trades. Master of Most. If we can fix the charging system, everyting else worx well enuff to take it out wheelin. HEHEHE!!

so what is actually wrong with the charging system? ive got an extra voltage reglator and an alternator that im not using, also i have wiring to make a new wire, and probably enough to rig a new harness too.....

let me know....

[8Snaces]

OK. Im not sure. I have a nasty short somewhere. I ran a wire (red power wire for stereo amps...8gauge ..about the size of my pinky finger) from the positive on battery to the back of the alt. It started smoking as soon as the second end came into contact with the alt. So... i have no clue.

[jimbo74]

that doesnt sound quite right.... im currently working on my wiring, and the connect from the battery to the alternator is 8 guage, well thats what im running, the stock wire appears to be 8 or 10 guage

ive got the regulator and the alternator if needed..... wonder where your short could be, there really isnt that much in the system....

[8Snaces]

I think that the short is in either the fuse link thats in the underdash fuse box or its a wire that i have wired to ground or not wired at all... I have an idea which wire it is.

[jimbo74]

tehre is a funky wire on the alternaor that looks like its suppsoed to be a ground, but it isnt.... it comes up to the fenderwell with the harness and its the power wire

[8Snaces]

Yea.. thats the wire that im thinkin mite be it. I have 2 good size wires that both come up to the fenderwell... i think that (both being power) 1 is a harness fuselink and 1 is a charging wire??

[8Snaces]

I got the chargin system fixed. It turned out the the alt was shorting out internally. Now i just got fine tune a few things.

[Wermz84]