Thought i'd put up a small build thread for my truck (only had it for four months!)
When I first got the truck I knew the brakes needed doing. Since I work for a aftermarket parts supplier, It's a pretty cheap and easy to get stuff from work.
Decided to do the fronts on the weekend, and the rears the following weekend........
So far so good, Untill half way through, trying to undo the little torx screws were so tight they kept breaking our torx drives. Turns out someone has loctite'd them in (maybe you're supposed to?) So we had to drill them out. Had to wait a couple days to get new ones from Toyota!
Just as bad as I had feared.
After waiting for the following weekend, take two! Done... Backed it out of the workshop to test the brakes.. BANG! lost all pedal pressure.
The rotor had gotten so thin, that it had snapped the hat off the actual rotor, and snapped the rotor into 3 pieces and this had caused the piston to pop out of the caliper, dumping all my brake fluid.
Parked up the truck untill the following day, went into work and got the parts for the rears, unfortunately we didn't have a caliper in stock, so had to flag that for now.
Anyways, many more successful plays later, i was driving home along the motorway, and noticed a clanging noise. Only under load though. Not being too familiar with 4wds, i didn't really know where to start. Tried everything I thought of, and was adamant that it was the transfer case. I drained the oil, looked at the sump plug and there was some fine metal shards. I thought yep, this is defiantly it, as im running a bit more torque than factory. After a month and a half, i managed to source a gearbox/transfer case for it.
I had a holiday planned to go south for a weekend, so the race was on to get the box in before the Saturday. Managed to do it on the Friday night, but couldn't test it (loud truck + angry neighbors = police visits).
Saturday, woke up, packed the truck and set on my merry way. Before I had even hit the end of my street, The dreaded clanging was back. So, Decided to drain diff oil.
Yup, Defiantly the diff. (Diff has been welded locked which i knew about)
After making a few phone calls, I went around to a buddys house (40mins away) as he had a lockrite locker in his an axle from his old truck.
Said truck
Managed to get the old diff out, and new one in! Choice only 5 hours late on my departure time.
Apparently not.
This is what my diff looked like
Truck decided to run like a bag of D!¢k$!! replaced plugs as old ones were fouled.. still no go. Went home and threw my toys
Auto sparky mate came over, said coil pack wiring. (Common problem with 1JZ engine that the coil pack clips get hot, crack, and break.) The previous owner of the truck has just put spade type terminals onto the pins, so went to Toyota again, and got some of the clips. Well f&*K! $25 +gst each (GST is like VAT for you guys? 15%?) but I thought it would be a good idea to get them anyways.
Got him to wire them up.. still no go. Pulled out the ecu to find this lovely wiring.
Another common problem with early jap Toyota ECU's is they used shitty capacitors, that ended up leaking and shorting circuits out. Sent it to a customer of mine from work, and he replaced them all for me with new ones
But NO, still no go. Truck is running an Apexi SAFC (Can cange A/F ratios etc) which had been wired in with Ethernet cable from a computer
which i did not know, but in the process of removing the ECU, had broken the Ethernet wire for the MAP sensor. Great! heres my problem.... NOPE!
After re-soldiering the wire, nothing changed. He checked the ECU voltages and stuff and found the ECU was putting 5V out, rather than receiving it! So the ECU is at some guru that is pretty good, to be fixed. And here I am for today.
Still truckless.
When I first got the truck I knew the brakes needed doing. Since I work for a aftermarket parts supplier, It's a pretty cheap and easy to get stuff from work.
Decided to do the fronts on the weekend, and the rears the following weekend........
So far so good, Untill half way through, trying to undo the little torx screws were so tight they kept breaking our torx drives. Turns out someone has loctite'd them in (maybe you're supposed to?) So we had to drill them out. Had to wait a couple days to get new ones from Toyota!
Just as bad as I had feared.
After waiting for the following weekend, take two! Done... Backed it out of the workshop to test the brakes.. BANG! lost all pedal pressure.
The rotor had gotten so thin, that it had snapped the hat off the actual rotor, and snapped the rotor into 3 pieces and this had caused the piston to pop out of the caliper, dumping all my brake fluid.
Parked up the truck untill the following day, went into work and got the parts for the rears, unfortunately we didn't have a caliper in stock, so had to flag that for now.
Anyways, many more successful plays later, i was driving home along the motorway, and noticed a clanging noise. Only under load though. Not being too familiar with 4wds, i didn't really know where to start. Tried everything I thought of, and was adamant that it was the transfer case. I drained the oil, looked at the sump plug and there was some fine metal shards. I thought yep, this is defiantly it, as im running a bit more torque than factory. After a month and a half, i managed to source a gearbox/transfer case for it.
I had a holiday planned to go south for a weekend, so the race was on to get the box in before the Saturday. Managed to do it on the Friday night, but couldn't test it (loud truck + angry neighbors = police visits).
Saturday, woke up, packed the truck and set on my merry way. Before I had even hit the end of my street, The dreaded clanging was back.
So, Decided to drain diff oil.Yup, Defiantly the diff. (Diff has been welded locked which i knew about)
After making a few phone calls, I went around to a buddys house (40mins away) as he had a lockrite locker in his an axle from his old truck.
Said truck
Managed to get the old diff out, and new one in! Choice only 5 hours late on my departure time.
Apparently not.This is what my diff looked like
Truck decided to run like a bag of D!¢k$!! replaced plugs as old ones were fouled.. still no go. Went home and threw my toys
Auto sparky mate came over, said coil pack wiring. (Common problem with 1JZ engine that the coil pack clips get hot, crack, and break.) The previous owner of the truck has just put spade type terminals onto the pins, so went to Toyota again, and got some of the clips. Well f&*K! $25 +gst each (GST is like VAT for you guys? 15%?) but I thought it would be a good idea to get them anyways.
Got him to wire them up.. still no go. Pulled out the ecu to find this lovely wiring.
Another common problem with early jap Toyota ECU's is they used shitty capacitors, that ended up leaking and shorting circuits out. Sent it to a customer of mine from work, and he replaced them all for me with new ones
But NO, still no go. Truck is running an Apexi SAFC (Can cange A/F ratios etc) which had been wired in with Ethernet cable from a computer
which i did not know, but in the process of removing the ECU, had broken the Ethernet wire for the MAP sensor. Great! heres my problem.... NOPE!After re-soldiering the wire, nothing changed. He checked the ECU voltages and stuff and found the ECU was putting 5V out, rather than receiving it! So the ECU is at some guru that is pretty good, to be fixed. And here I am for today.
Still truckless.
) break into pieces like that! 
