Project "Secret Squirrel"

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Jack also informed me of a new goodie he picked up....

I started to instal it when we found some missing parts so---I threw it back in the corner and kept going forward

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Ok well it was time to throw the tires on it. Unfortunately we havent gotten the u-bolts/spring plates for the front so a few c-clamps and it was ALLLL good

In any case I am pretty happy how it looks so far :;

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Ok since I am waiting on more parts I was going to push the rig over into the other stall and get mine ready for this weekend----but I couldn't

I went and mounted the ecm---but I didn't like how it was so I threw those mounts away and re-did it. This time I liked how it turned out MUCH better :;

So then I sat down and ripped the 2.4 toyota engine harness apart--Identified all wires and curcuits and started building the harness.

I also went thru the stock sami harness that was under the hood and there aint much left now

Now this is very roughed in for now but I plan on wiring the rig with the possability of the fenders/fenderwells no longer being there

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Well I got a couple boxes and here is something that was in one of them. We will be running rope and this was just too sexy to not put on

crash · Sep 19, 2007

So I had a chance to start mapping out the electrical circuits. I decided to go and make a mount to hold the relays and found a place for the new fuse block...

After figuring out what all the circuits were here is whats left of the factory harness that I will be using (firewall side). There was also alot of redundent shit in this harness so it will be simplified without taking away anything...

And I went thru and figured out what all the fused circuits are in the factory fuse block. The now dead circuits will be re-routed for the new circuits to keep it clean/simple...

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Well I got another box of goodies. I decided to just slap these on for now so I could removed the c-clamps and make it a lil more safe to move the rig to the other stall. Plus the passenger side could use a curb on the inner u-bolt.

crash · Sep 19, 2007

So since I had another day to work in the shop I was planning on getting my rig ready for the weekend but damn---I don't feel like stopping. So I came to the conclusion to go ahead and start digging into the engine/front wiring. So I went ahead and dug into the mess....

So I ripped the top off the winch and got the soloniods figured out and tapped into them for the in-cab winch control. At the same time I got the positive cable mounted and the winch ground done.

Here the front of the rig is almost 100% wired/roughed in. I went ahead and pre-wired the rig up for turn signals in case jack decides he wants them. I also made a bracket and went ahead and mounted the horn and also ran one other wire for a future circuit if need be. And as you can see the wiring goes to the center and then over to the motor. The reason for doing this is if we decide to dump alot of the sheet metal on the nose its a simple deal to jst shorten the harness for our needs...

crash · Sep 19, 2007

And look---alot less wires strung all over the place. about 75% of the wires are roughly ran. Unfortunatly until we get a MAF sensor and alt I can only go so far with how it needs to be. But you kinda get the rough idea anyways..

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Ok---I jumped back onto jacks rig and got a few more things done up. Well we finally found a master that I think will fit. if memory serves me correctly it came off a ZJ with disk brakes all the way around and--as you can see fits NICELY in its lil spot. Not to mention I didn't have to make an adapter place---just had to drill the firewall.. Hopefully this will do the trick :;

This part may need to be re-done--will hjave to see how it stops when I am done...

crash · Sep 19, 2007

I also got the new clutch master--so on that went also.

And as I stated early on I was going to plate the back side of the firewall--so I did :;

crash · Sep 19, 2007

And jack also ordered another lil goodie a couple weeks ago---one of those new BLING lil arb compresors--damn these things are JUST cute

I had thought about putting it in the rear of the rig someplace but after some thought I decided to go ahead and put it on the firewall since there was a rather large spot that was just calling for it

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Ok there 2.4 motors use a digital MAF unlike the early toys who used a analog/mechanical style. The 2.4 MAF on stock aplication was mounted near the air filter box on the fenderwell. Well since all of that stuff is no longer I had to figure something out for the MAF. So I went and modified the air assy that mounts on the valve cover(also known as an air muffler).

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Did a bunch more work on the engine bay wiring. Its now 90% done (only circuit left to run is the alternator)... I was pretty happy with the routing..

crash · Sep 19, 2007

One thing I found missing on the wiring was the E5 ecm plug..(along with the DLC).

So until we can find a plug here is the temp fix. When we get a new plug its just a matter of slapping the terminals into the connector.

crash · Sep 19, 2007

And here is a start of the wiring on the passenger side under the dash. 95% of the ecm wiring is now done.

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Well here is how the relay's/new fuse box went. So the passenger side of the dash is done except for the DLC (that was also missing) but its pre-wired.

And I had to pull some of the dash apart to finish running wires/removing some.

crash · Sep 19, 2007

So I got the dash mostly wired and pre-wired it for 2 extra switched circuits in case down the road jack wants to add something. only thing in the cluster that I could not finish was the tach--that will have to be done after the rig is up and running. So I assembled it and just waiting for switch's to finish it off. I also ran the arb pump and checked that circuit along with most of the other circuits.

crash · Sep 19, 2007

And the engine bay is all done except wiring to the alt, line locks,cooling fan and main power feed (winch/alt/starter)

And here is the junction block, fan relay and circuit breaker for the fan. Here is where the wiring dives down and will go down under the body for all the circuits that are in the rear of the rig.

crash · Sep 19, 2007

Well I have been poking at this here and there between other rigs. I finally figured out where to mount the line locks. Since I am pretty sure most of the fender well will be going away I couldn't mount anything to it so it was tricky to figure out where to mount them. But I finally did.

I even got the residual/perportioning valves mounted

So all thats left for the brakes is the hardlines to the rubber lines...

marvin82 · Sep 19, 2007

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