Jesse's 1988 Toyota Liteace KM36

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A few hours rigging up some wiring this afternoon and I was able to get it fired up.

Hyperpak was a breeze to wire up and just jigged up something temp for fuel pump. 

Hoping to spend the next couple days finalizing the wiring with the proper relays with an electric fan provision also. 

 

 

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Have been making good progress on the wiring. I feel like each time I do it I learn from my mistakes and take a bit more care and make it look more factory 

Just collected the re-cored heater core from Auckland radiators after spending about twice as much as I wanted but it was one of those not keen to take the dash out again moments 

Hoping to receive $430 worth of warm toes in winter. 

 

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Had a bit of a yarn to them about my radiator situation while I was there. 

This is the current setup which has the bottom outlet on the incorrect side for the 4ag. They claim the increase from 1500cc to 1600cc would put this radiator out of use anyhow. I'm looking for a cost effective solution that will fit in the same space, use the factory mounting points and as a bonus have electric fan with shroud attached. 

Width to outside of tanks is 625mm and height 370mm 32mm inlet and outlet sizes 

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The hot seat 

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Used these wiring diagrams I found online for fuel pump control with carters oil pressure safety switch and for the thermoswitched fan with a manual override.

Have also put a manual override allocation on the fuel pump incase there are any issues. Used a couple of powertech 30A pre-made relay circuits with switches and swapped pins around to suit my needs  

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Sizing up the switches for these they will fit nicely into two blank plate slots in the dash

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Cables tucked away in some sheathing with cloth tape securing the ends. All getting clipped in to the factory mounting points 

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Hopefully OK to share in here/it's pretty relevant 

Recently I purchased an HKS turbo kit listed for kp61 starlet for my small online based parts business.

It utilizes the original carb in a direct blow through setup. 

Seriously considered going back to 5k to use it in the van but luckily someone purchased it before too much thought.

Happy to say it will be staying in nz and they have decided to let me restore it for them also. 

Jordan at Autoparts Vapour Blast has done a great job vapour blasting the flaking wrinkle coat off so I can re-apply for the new owner 

 

 

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Scored a parts van via Trademe yesterday 

It had a few parts I needed to get from Japan so it made sense to buy it, take those parts and part the rest. 

 

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Cloth individual seat upgrade which means the flimsy crossbar can go from behind the seats. As well as some luxury brown carpet in place of the brown vinyl. Photos are a bit rough but confident it will clean up nicely 

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Floor shifter raised Floorplan 

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Tachometer dash! Looks like I can swap my old speedo unit in as well to keep the lower kms 

COOL BOX!

Obviously can't run the ice maker without AC connected in my van but a cool placeholder anyhow 

 

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Undertaking the speedo swap into the tachometer dash was a bit of a piss around. Needed to swap the higher km face onto my 169km speedo unit because they are different shape for housing and different needles as well as the ym30 having the left side indicator light there. There were spacers pushing the face out on the km36 dash where the ym30 one had a clear plastic panel to distribute light? Along with this I had to swap the mechanism to reset the trip meter as this is slightly offset between both units. I had to discard the 100km/h chime as the km36 unit didn't have the mechanism built onto speedo. 

You can see the black plastic spacers either side of the needle. I tried to put the higher km unit back together to go into the km36 housing but I would need to Dremel some of the housing out for the chime mechanism/cbf.

Put Back together.

Sadly the clear plastic is pretty badly scratched on this one, I would need to heat up the glue to separate the fascia from the plastic which is not a priority at the moment. The km36 housing can sit on the shelf for a rainy day to undertake this. 

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Not too sure on which dash to use. I think the square one suits the build better but some clown (me) got overspray on it when I was tidying up corrosion around windscreen. There's also the colour difference. The dash is actually the same it's just the speedo surround that differ which is interchangeable and the padded insert on passenger side top. 

Not shown in the photo is the centre dash mounted digital clock which came in the ym30 which I am actually fizzing for. I distinctly remember daily driving this as a builder trying to wrestle my oversized cellphone out of my short shorts or shouting at the apprentice to see what the time was. 

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Yet another meaningless upgrade is this step shroud/jack concealer.

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Ym30 came with a brand new radiator with a 30mm thick core vs the 15mm thick km36 one. Also has matching inlet and outlet sizes. I think I just deal with the bottom hose on wrong size and rig up some horrendous pipework. 

The parts van really has paid for itself. 

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Rev counter dash has 3 plugs

My one has 2

So I traced all the copper tracks and made a list where the pins needed to move to in the 3 plugs. All of the wire colours except three where actually the same. Everything works except for three things. 

Charge light and handbrake light, oil pressure light. 

Good to see the fuel level has come up to same spot as other dash as ym30 van seller mentioned a problem with fuel gauge. 

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There weren't issues with the oil pressure and handbrake light I just hadn't hooked them up.

there is a problem with the charge light but it's related to my alternator wiring I think (still need to delete the 5k voltage regulator also) as there is a loud humming from reg when key on. Need to sort this and finalize the fuel pump and electric fan override switches that are already wired in then I can put one of the dashboards back in. 

Coolant pipes and exhaust are the only remaining jobs that come to mind.