has anyone put a taco dash into an 89-95 body truck? if so any issues or complications?

 

i never seen one yet, but picturing it right now i think it will look sweet. awhile back i seen on car domain a guy put the NISSAN HARDBODY dash in a 93 yota that was sweet as ****

 

I'll get the pics & info from my buddy, he just put a Taco dash in his 88 4 Runner, can't be much differenat than the 89 - 95s. I just swapped the 4 runner body onto a Taco chassis for him & he's swapping everything from the Taco into the 4 Runner.

The Taco frame after all the mods made to ti to get the 4 Runner body to fit.


The 4 Runner body ready to go.


Gettin ready to put the two to gether, and if your wondering the gas tank did not fit.


I was able to use all the body mounts off the 4 Runner chassis but the one at the radiator support, had to fab those up.


All together.

 

And the fuel cell I had to make for it.

 

man thats pretyt sweet, good job there with the swap.

 

looks good man but why are you putting that body on that frame ???

also for the dash, id be interested as well. but im thinking about glassing and smoothing mine while the trucks out of order and moulding in some nice new shiny gauges

 

dash swap

Well I went to the local you pull-it this morning and i found a dash in a 4runner i think it was a 2001 model. I decided hey that might look good in my truck. so i stripped the old one out.

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and put the new one in along with the console. I still have some things to work out though.

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I still need to wire in the clock, the hazards, and the dimmer switch. as well as trim and modify for the parking brake.

It was not a straight forward swap lots of cutting and trimming. I also still have to extend the front of the dash to meet the firewall/windshield.

I kept my stock cluster and heater controls to avoid some headaches of trying to interface the cable stuff to electronic