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Month: May 2013

98 Tacoma Alternator Rebuild

98 Tacoma Alternator Rebuild

After a little over 300,000 miles on my 1998 Toyota Tacoma, the alternator finally died this week. A re-manufactured one is around $130, so I decided to rebuild mine. There are a couple ways to do this, one is to get an alternator brush set like the one I got from O’Reilly Auto Parts (P/N:32–0123) for $5. Or, you can get the Toyota kit that comes with the entire brush carrier assembly (around $20). Shield Removal You need to remove…

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2013 Mustang GT Trunk Light Mod

2013 Mustang GT Trunk Light Mod

I have had my 2013 Mus­tang for about 3 months now, and put 3,000 miles on it. I have really enjoyed the car, but one thing that is lack­ing is the trunk light­ing. The trunk is lit by a sin­gle fes­toon lamp at the very rear of the car, low to the trunk floor. The light is very eas­ily blocked by most any­thing. A pop­u­lar mod is a LED bar/strip attached to the roof of the trunk, but I have not found a very good how-to, so…

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