Hi guys!
About a year ago, when I was rewiring my 40, I added an additional circuit into the harness for a CB to go into my factory opening on my dash. I wasn't sure what kind of CB I was gonna' put there, but I knew that I wanted it to go with the old feel of the truck. Here's a picture of the wires hanging out from the factory radio opening...
As you can see, the dash is otherwise completely intact and in pretty good shape. (I know the knobs are in weird orders, I put them that way)
Well, after all of my waiting I lucked out on buying a Toyota CB (CB40F) from Mark at Mark's Offroad. Since there wasn't much information out on the internet about this specific CB, I thought that I would take pictures of my whole process; cleanup, wiring, installation, etc. Although this may not be the best CB on the market, I would think many of you purists out there might begin looking for your own CB40F for your rig...
I wasn't sure what to expect from this one... actually, didn't even know if it worked or not. Here is a picture of what the wiring mess looked like when I first got it.
Needless to say, it was not pretty. Before putting any power to this thing I wanted to clean up the wiring and take a look inside to make sure everything looked kosher.
The first step was clipping the wires that had been soldered midfield to the positive and negative speaker outputs.
I'll return to those later...
Next thing to do was address the broken inline fuse holder.
I thought that I might have to resolder a completely new positive line to the circuit board so I needed to open things up to check it out.
I was pretty happy to see that Toyota had been really smart in their design of the speaker... It just unscrews and unclips from the wiring harness. Hooray! (This meant it would be really easy for me to do an external speaker since I was sure I wouldn't be able to hear that little speaker wedged in between my CB and my heater)
Now I could get to the good stuff. I opened up the bottom panel to find everything in PERFECT shape. No webs, no dirt, no insects of any kind. It was a very happy circuit board.
I think it's funny that they used yellow twist ties back in the day...
So, I wanted to follow that red wire to its soldered spot on the board and see if I could just put a whole new line in there. It ended up being much to crowded and I decided to just do a mid-field splice and solder the new fuse holder in.
I then extended the ground wire just a bit.
And cleaned it all back up...
Now it was on to the speaker wires that were just about to fall apart from where they had been soldered. Take a look at how nasty this looks...
So, put new pieces of wire in as well as some heat shrink tubing and voila, here we have it all cleaned up with some zip ties as well.
So, now that I have all the wiring put back, and have added connectors to everything. Doesn't it look so nice?
To be continued... (Here's where it actually gets involved with the FJ40)
About a year ago, when I was rewiring my 40, I added an additional circuit into the harness for a CB to go into my factory opening on my dash. I wasn't sure what kind of CB I was gonna' put there, but I knew that I wanted it to go with the old feel of the truck. Here's a picture of the wires hanging out from the factory radio opening...
As you can see, the dash is otherwise completely intact and in pretty good shape. (I know the knobs are in weird orders, I put them that way)
Well, after all of my waiting I lucked out on buying a Toyota CB (CB40F) from Mark at Mark's Offroad. Since there wasn't much information out on the internet about this specific CB, I thought that I would take pictures of my whole process; cleanup, wiring, installation, etc. Although this may not be the best CB on the market, I would think many of you purists out there might begin looking for your own CB40F for your rig...
I wasn't sure what to expect from this one... actually, didn't even know if it worked or not. Here is a picture of what the wiring mess looked like when I first got it.
Needless to say, it was not pretty. Before putting any power to this thing I wanted to clean up the wiring and take a look inside to make sure everything looked kosher.
The first step was clipping the wires that had been soldered midfield to the positive and negative speaker outputs.
I'll return to those later...
Next thing to do was address the broken inline fuse holder.
I thought that I might have to resolder a completely new positive line to the circuit board so I needed to open things up to check it out.
I was pretty happy to see that Toyota had been really smart in their design of the speaker... It just unscrews and unclips from the wiring harness. Hooray! (This meant it would be really easy for me to do an external speaker since I was sure I wouldn't be able to hear that little speaker wedged in between my CB and my heater)
Now I could get to the good stuff. I opened up the bottom panel to find everything in PERFECT shape. No webs, no dirt, no insects of any kind. It was a very happy circuit board.
I think it's funny that they used yellow twist ties back in the day...
So, I wanted to follow that red wire to its soldered spot on the board and see if I could just put a whole new line in there. It ended up being much to crowded and I decided to just do a mid-field splice and solder the new fuse holder in.
I then extended the ground wire just a bit.
And cleaned it all back up...
Now it was on to the speaker wires that were just about to fall apart from where they had been soldered. Take a look at how nasty this looks...
So, put new pieces of wire in as well as some heat shrink tubing and voila, here we have it all cleaned up with some zip ties as well.
So, now that I have all the wiring put back, and have added connectors to everything. Doesn't it look so nice?
To be continued... (Here's where it actually gets involved with the FJ40)
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