DIY

Battery Box Cover

battery cover mid

The Subaru Sambar is a great vehicle. I even venture to say it looks good. Unfortunately as they inevitably fell to the cost cutters, a few things fell by the wayside. One of those items is the Battery box cover. They just stopped including it in the base model trucks. Frankly it looks really sad …

Broken Mirrors

new mirror

After 25 years of road use and sun, plastics start to break down. Our mini trucks are no different. The mirrors seemed to be in pretty good condition, but when looking more closely, there is a crack that has formed on the pivot. It has split to the point that it is pretty difficult to …

Rear Drum Removal

Drum Removed

As we are going through and servicing Tyny, we are finding that there are a lot of things that aren’t documented well that are specific to the Sambar. For instance, there are a TON of YouTube videos on servicing drum brakes. any of these will get you most of the way there. There is one …

A Better Shift

Getting the boot off

The Subaru Sambar, well any kei truck for that matter, are not known for the quality of the shift. By that I mean that shifting isn’t a precision affair. These are working vehicles, and the quality of the shift is skewed towards durability rather than precision. Add to that 25-plus years of use, and you …

A Spruced Up Engine

Completed Rocker Cover

Before TynyTruck even landed on U.S. shores, we came across Subaru part# 13285KA381 which is a rocker cover with red crinkle paint. It looks really great. While that is really great looking, we decided that Subaru blue would be the way to go. So, after picking up some VHT SP206 Blue Wrinkle Finish Paint, we …