lol..i saw that too. me and cameras don't get along!

yeah it was off a 95

 

what kind of buttons do you use as i just had my door panels redone and decide to do away with the door handles and how do you hook them up to your poppers i'd appreciate it thanks

 

i used the buttons that came with the kit, there is a low spot on the door where i drilled for the two switches(so they were recessed), i then had to cut an opening on the back of the door panel so i could push the switches from the front of the door panel, when the panel is on you can't tell....but i knew where they were....

they are out now..kept shorting fuses, but this was after several years, rather than re-wire and replace the switches i just took em out...i'll take some pics of where i drilled sometime this week and post it up..a visual is always better!!

 

No 1uz swap in the list? aww man

truck looks good bud

 

u have recent pics of truck (side view)

 

i like the hidden button idea. when i bought my 86 yota they had the buttons down under the dash by the firewall. just had to tap it with your foot to open it

 

thanks guys!

JC no recent pics just my sig, but its not dropped like that

So i'm up to more LED work!!

picked up an SR5 cluster and i'm modding the hell out of it, not sure yet but i know i want the majority to be white..so after taking it apart i noticed it still had a green tint!! wtf!



so after some scraping and sanding i got this






after


i also did the small gauges and scraped off the faded orange paint..pretty set on blue needles


hopefully be done in one week

 

the moral lesson is....

lottery scratching helps in the long run! hahhaha

 

Nice! Lookin forward to see how this turns out. I'm gonna start calling you the LED Master.

Thats awesome!

 

i remember doing that too. lol. did green needles though.

 

playing around with my Sr5 cluster today and testing color options, these swatchbooks are great for testing colors

 

couple more

i'm going to use the red on the tach part so it doesnt look as faded and i'm thinking of doing blue in between the numbers, but leaving the numbers white, and then going with either blue or white needles

any color suggestions from anyone?

 

our trucks can go up to 8kRPM's???? what a joke

 

alright the LED stuff is on hold, now my thread is going to jump to me replacing my 22re with another, and i'm going to paint some stuff, possibly do the big 3 upgrade and i'm debating other goodies (header)..

I was going to do a 2RZ swap, but i need my wheels NOW! so time is not permitted, so here is the first pic of many to come...i'm picking up an engine hoist and stand later today for $150 which i thought is a great deal, comes with engine leveler too! so the engine will be out tomorrow! i'm gonna throw up what i'm spending too, just to see what it all comes out to.

 

got the engine out this morning, I still gotta strip it before I take it to get a new one. gona do that this evening..too hot in the garage right now







Got to wash the engine bay down, it looks allot better now..im going to paint it all black so it doesnt look so stupid with the original color still in there

before




after

 

looking like fun man

dumb question how did u remove the corner lights lol

 

Just curious, are you goin to bag your truck or just drop it?

 

how or why? I havn't had corners in a loooong time..someone stole my clears a while back..but if you were asking how to remove, just the two screws and take off the bulb

 

I would love to bag it, just something simple but 4 link for sure in the back, but don't have the funds now..its dropped w/3 inch blocks right now, front is still stock...but i'm hoping to get some spindles and do a ball joint flip..i need new ball joints anyways

 

So i found a place locally that was selling 22re long blocks for $600 OTD..They were local but an hour away from me. I called ahead of time to make sure they had one and they told me one left..ok i said i'm on my way..so i get there and they sold it! FCKIN pist me off...well they just ended up rebuilding mine and I got it back last friday..

In the meantime i painted my engine bay black



So this is what you get for $600, pretty right!?..I did some research on them before i committed and some local offroaders were happy with them, actually couldn't find anything bad about em, so i gave em a chance


...First thing i noticed is that it's missing the dipstick tube! then I noticed the two studs for the oil pan were missing too! Oh then its missing a stud on the head for the exhaust manifold! Missing some bolts that I had left on the block..ahhh i was getting pissed! and its not like they are just down the road!

So then i start to build the rest back up and notice its got a PLASTIC timing chain guide! wow..so no biggie my metal one is still good, went to swap it out and what do you know, the timing chain isn't even aligned right!



So i fix it the way its supposed to be


I'm just praying the rest of the engine is actually done right!

And here is where i'm at now, with a little help from my son!