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Work backwards. First define what you need it to do. You mention lights and charging devices. Make a list of what you mean by that, check their labels to see their consumption. It'll be some combination of volts, current (amps), watts or maybe amp-hours. Next to their power consumption...

Ha, yeah, a plain Jane go-to. Did splurge on one with solar charging and daily time checks with the atomic clock.

Are the radios powered from the truck or on their own internal batteries? Or does it happen all the time regardless of power source?

Check the owner's manual, it'll tell you what you should do. My guess is running just one set and they'd go on the front wheels. Toyota may even suggest not doing rear tires at all. With the way all-wheel drive and traction control works having all 4 tires chained may cause issues. For your...

@roving1 - Guess OME is just following the herd down poor quality control. Sucks. It IS odd that 881 vs 882 would have *that* much difference. Both are 500 lb/in springs but the 882 has two more coils and is 20mm taller. Very odd.

Yeah Martin, it's your crimpers. Yours use an anvil to punch into the terminal and smash it. This is an acceptable way to crimp some types of terminals designed to do this but not Andersons. You need a Molex-type, known as an "F" crimp. See how the dies have two shoulders that roll the...

Upset? They'll just exempt themselves from the rules. Ergo...

You may be able to simulate the downstream and eliminate the cat altogether. You have to retain the forward O2 sensor for the ECU to run in closed loop no matter what. People have mixed experience with sims, though. Engine designers look for an expected response of the downstream sensors. It...

Beyond the technical advice you've been given that, yes, you'll need a cat for the ECU to be happy I was just poking around Rock Auto (used a 2007 LR3 V8 49-state, not knowing much about them and assuming you're not in CA) and it looks like Davico, Bosal and DEC make catalytic converter...

@roving1, that video is anecdotal. Are you sure the floor is level (it appears to be a shop or garage and they almost always have slope to drain standing water)? What about tire pressures and bumpers? Is the truck packed or empty? What about the fuel tank, full or empty? Anyway, measure...

Can't say that they are proprietary crimpers but the proper crimps do look unique anyway if for no other reason than they have long barrel bodies, probably twice as long as typical crimps. The 3 options for terminals, the left two are the 15A and 30A and referred to as closed barrel. They can...

In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics! It requires 24 watt-hours to change 10 gallons of water by 1°F, so a 5 watt heater probably can't keep this tank above the ambient temperature as it may be losing heat faster than you're putting back in if the air is cold enough for long enough...

The website looks to have been designed in 1997, too.

It's not necessarily designed but a function of manufacturing. Once the springs are made they are checked for actual arch and maybe spring rate. OME then marks them according to being right at specification with a (0) or if they are taller they get a (+) or lower they get a (-) painted on...

Wanna bet? You know what else kills salmon? Hydroelectric dams.

VHF and UHF can do some weird things in the troposphere and ionosphere. But those are harder to predict than direct wave and tend to skip long, so suddenly get a hundreds of mile path.

I think they're in Arizona. Vegetation aside it would also have to be a place with elevation differences because radio horizon with two antennas about 6 feet off the deck (e.g. two roof mounted ones) is about 7 miles. To get a simplex path of 20 miles one station would have to be around 150...

Also, have you made sure the terminal itself has also completely snapped into the housing? You may have to *gently* use a small pick or screwdriver to press the terminal fully in. Andersen makes a tool to do this that makes working with small wire easier. With larger gauges you can use the...

Can you snap a photo of the terminals themselves and maybe your suspect crimp? The small size PowerPoles can be one of three possible sizes and I would like to see what Powerwerx and the Amazon seller actually sent you. The range of wire sizes is 15 amp contacts (PP15) are recommended for...