shawnville » Toyota http://shawnville.com Freelance Web Design Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:11:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Snow Wheeling http://shawnville.com/notebook/2010/02/02/snow-wheeling/ http://shawnville.com/notebook/2010/02/02/snow-wheeling/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:02:55 +0000 shawn http://shawnville.com/?p=422 We had a snow storm here in North Carolina this past weekend, so I got to do some snow wheeling. I mostly travelled the back roads, looking for people that are stuck or need help.

January 30, 2010 Snow Storm

I took a few pictures of downtown lenoir, and some of my truck.

1998 Toyota Tacoma in the snow 1998 Toyota Tacoma in the snow Downtown Lenoir, The Square Downtown Lenoir, The Square Downtown Lenoir, The Square Caldwell County Education Center

December 19, 2009 Snow Storm

Here are some pictures from our last snow storm.

Snow on the road My second driveway Deep Snow Creek behind my house Snow covered bridge Tire in deep snow Tacoma in the snow Christmas tree in Lenoir Square
]]> http://shawnville.com/notebook/2010/02/02/snow-wheeling/feed/ 0 Strobe Lights in the Toyota http://shawnville.com/notebook/2008/10/25/strobe-lights-in-the-toyota/ http://shawnville.com/notebook/2008/10/25/strobe-lights-in-the-toyota/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:25:39 +0000 shawn http://shawnville.com/2008/10/25/strobe-lights-in-the-toyota/ I recently put some LED strobe lights on my truck. I made the strobes myself. Each strobe has 27 high intensity LEDs. Also each strobe costs about $16 dollars to make. The front strobes are hidden behind the grill and are sealed in a project box. I tied the strobes to the turn signal lights, which I replaced with LEDs.

I also replaced the gauge cluster with one that has a Tachometer. The new one has white faced gauges, and red LED lighting behind it.

My New Truck LED strobe light behind the grill Rear LED Strobes White faced gauges Gauge cluster with red LED lighting

1998 Tacoma Strobe Lights from Shawn Griffin on Vimeo.

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I will upload pictures later.

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Here is the start
I got some insperation from brian894x4.com to configure the bed area of my truck into a more usable cargo area. I tried to take pictures as I went along.

A.R.E. Top
A.R.E Top
I installed LED lighting front and rear on the camper top.
Almost finished
Cargo Area almost finished
I am almost finished with the installation. I am going to put carpet in.
Integrated UPS
APC 500 UPS
I took apart an old APC 500 UPS and hooked it the trucks battery. I plan on putting a sealed deep cycle battery in to run the UPS off of later.
Driver Side Storage
Other side
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DSC01123.jpg

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My Truck on Hibriten Laptop in my truck Gauges Camper Top

]]> http://shawnville.com/notebook/2007/04/11/random-toyota-pics/feed/ 0 Toyota http://shawnville.com/notebook/2006/03/11/toyota/ http://shawnville.com/notebook/2006/03/11/toyota/#comments Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:03:56 +0000 shawn http://shawnville.com/2006/03/11/toyota/ I got me a camper top for my truck, and it looks great. I also ordered me a class III reciever hitch and a new bumber to replace that rusty stock one.
If you wanna see more of my truck go to my CarDomain.com page.
Shawn

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Tore the engine apart and found out that it had two sunk valves. So me and Dad replaced all the exhaust valves and replaced the damaged knock sensor, and put it all back together. And it runs like a new truck now. Now comes the suspension work, I am going to replace the rear leaf spings with some out of a 96 Tocoma.

Just bought a 94 toyota pickup truck. It has a V6 with around 200k miles on it. I got it for a pretty good price too. It has a dent in the bed, and a burnt valve, but other than that it’s a nice truck.

Pic 1 | Pic 2 | Pic 3

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