Lightweight

[dieck]

Hey guys, my truck is a lightweight compared to yours, but my needs aren't quite as drastic either. It is my daily driver and light needs trailhead vehicle. I also recently installed a TRD charger on it which gives it quite a bit more pep.

I also have super high res bandwidth hog images if interested.

I do have a few mods you might find interesting

This is the truck in looking as it usually does for daily driving





Here are some pics of the inverter install (notice the subtle plug below the auto tranny shifter)





Here are a couple of the Line-X bed and ammo cans





And finally here is one of the taco with the ocean kayak (sometimes also a water safari alumacraft goes up there for the Texas Water Safari 260Mile canoe race)

[Scott Brady]

ooooh supercharger....

I remember back in 2001. I went to Tempe Toyota and was looking at 4runners and Tacomas (I ended up buying a Land Rover). They had a regular cab prerunner V6 with the supercharger. It was incredible. You could chirp the tires in third gear...

[dieck]

Proof that I need some extraction gear even for trailhead type work. This resulted in a LONG hike out of a swamp when the fire road turned into quicksand.



But if it gets you out in the wild, it's always worth the trouble.



This is a nifty camping hammock from Hennesey. It rocks and I've never gone back to a tent since I got it. I can literally put it up in under a minute without the rain fly and under 5 min with the rain fly. Super light weight when I'm on foot and ooooh so useful in swamps and mountains when there's not dry or flat ground.





Me at the trail head... Cheesin



And of course my faithful companion... Plato.

[bluerunner]

wow, thats really clean.

What other mods do you have planned?

Oh yeah, welcome to the board!

[dieck]

Next on my mod list are fuel mods and a tranny job to bullet proof the charger install.

I'm also real intersted in a removable topper or soft top for the bed similar to this:



Or maybe this:



And some protection, like this:
(Just kidding)

[lionsbreath]

Great looking truck! Welcome

[lionsbreath]

Is there any lift on your truck? How did you wire up the inverter? how much of a pain was it to put on the super charger did you do it yourself and did you install the 7th injector?

[The BN Guy]

I'm curious how you guys are mounting the ammo cans to the bed? Are you putting some sort of rubber bushing in between the two?

Clean looking truck. Lots of potential on the Taco's.

[dieck]

Is there any lift on your truck? How did you wire up the inverter? how much of a pain was it to put on the super charger did you do it yourself and did you install the 7th injector?

3 inch lift front and rear. Donahoe coilovers front deavers rear.

The charger install wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. The two hardest parts were removing all the belts from the accessories (with the tight engine compartment some of the adjustment bolts are hard to get to) and figuring out where all the vacuum connections go afterwards (the directions leave a little to be desired here).

I installed it on a friday night by myself. Started at 8:30 pm and finished completely at 2:00am. This time was really the whole job from opening the TRD box to re-bolting on the skid plate. Only tools needed were a screw driver (flat head), several metric socket wrenches, and a mechanics magnet for all the screws I dropped down into crevices.

I haven't done any fuel mods yet, and have had minimal knocking on this 02. I am probably running lean in the high rpms but I don't go there but once in a blue moon. I'm prepared to do some fuel mods from URD next if I think it's necessary but will probably not go with the 7th injector as I believe it's a bit of a hack sending fuel through the supercharger. Would rather go with more fuel pressure and larger injectors.

My favorite part about the supercharger is the engine has enough torque that it hardly ever downshifts on hills when on cruise control. Before it was shifting all over the place and felt very over taxed. As an interesting aside, if I drive like a grandpa in town I get 2 mpg better (19mpg) and 4mpg better on the highway (23 mpg). Not that this is a reason to do the charger, but it was a surprise. I think it is because the engine has so much more torque at low rpm that it doesn't rev as much under light accelleration.

The inverter install was pretty strait forward. Direct lead off the battery with a circuit breaker attached to the firewall. Wires pass through the gromet on the driver's side

I ran the wires in a loop in the engine bay to keep water from running down the wire in the engine bay and through the grommet.



Up under the dash. I could have gone with a larger inverter on the install but this one meets all my needs to date which are admittedly minor (no power tools)



This is the way it looks when getting in and out of the truck. You don't see anything.

[dieck]

I'm curious how you guys are mounting the ammo cans to the bed? Are you putting some sort of rubber bushing in between the two?

Clean looking truck. Lots of potential on the Taco's.

I used a trick that I learned from my grandfather to mount the ammo cans. He's an avid offroad guy and his daily driver is a 1960's vintage international harvester scout. (NICE).

The trick was initially non intuitive for me but made sense upon reflection.

Go to lowes and buy a big back of toilet bowl brass bolts. Toilet bowl bolts have to create a water tight seal because they sit underwater in the toilet. These come with a bunch of soft rubber washers.

Drill your holes then install the bolts with one washer between the ammo can and the head of the bolt and another washer between the can and the bed. Best to align the holes so they are in the raised part of the bed so water channels in the lower sections and rarely comes in contact with the bolt. Because the bolts are brass the never rust. Also the bolts are long enough and soft enough that you can trim off the excess length with a dremel or grinder and still thread the nut.

It has worked flawlessly and have never had an ounce of moisture get in. The ammocans have great waterproof seals, line-x seals any seams and the toilet bowl bolts and washers on the bottom keep things dry down there.