red66toy
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Hello everyone,
Thought I would start a separate thread on this subject so it can be easily found in the future.
So as some of you may know, some non-US 60-series had partial door cards with exposed paint at the top. I personally love this more utilitarian look as it fits better with the cruiser as a whole. Also the full door cards have the vinyl top which crack with age (as mine are).
There are three options to achieve this partial door card look:
1. You can have some sort of magical powers and locate the discontinued OEM inner door felts used on the non-US 60-series.
2. You can actually use the US inner door window felts made for the full door cards and adapt them to work without it. It is described in these threads: Pic needed...OEM door panel with paint at top exposed and in this one (Post 128)- window felt replacement
3. You can use the inner door window felts from a 75- or 79- series LC! They came from the factory with the partial door cards and use a similar setup:
75-series door-
I should note here that credit for this idea goes to @goldchaser who used this trick in his thread ( Hj61 sahara overhaul ). He was kind enough to tell me he got his felts from a 75-series LC. Furthermore, @boozewz recently demonstrated, in his amazing thread ( 1989 GCC Spec FJ62 G Trim ), that the inner window felts from a 79-series also work!He also showed that they can be easily glued in as well. EDIT: The 79 series felts are not available in the US market.
A thank you to @beno , I ordered my inner window felts for a 75-series LC from him (I am sure he knows the part numbers off the top of his head). A note of caution, when ordering the inner window felts, make sure you order them for the 75/79-series without the wing windows. The wing-windowed versions are too short to make this work.
Here is the method I used to attach them:
So once you get the inner window felts you will notice they are too long so you have to trim them and they come with thick clips, which are not compatible with the round holes on the inner door:
To make the clips fit into the round holes, I ground down the clip barbs to fit in the round holes (about 4.5mm wide):
It snapped in very nicely and securely:
Here it is mounted:
To finish off the look you can order the lock knob trim pieces, as shown by @DanS HJ-45 in his thread (post 412) Who likes addition? (FJ-60 + 1HZ)
Thanks, hopefully this was helpful!
Thought I would start a separate thread on this subject so it can be easily found in the future.
So as some of you may know, some non-US 60-series had partial door cards with exposed paint at the top. I personally love this more utilitarian look as it fits better with the cruiser as a whole. Also the full door cards have the vinyl top which crack with age (as mine are).
There are three options to achieve this partial door card look:
1. You can have some sort of magical powers and locate the discontinued OEM inner door felts used on the non-US 60-series.
2. You can actually use the US inner door window felts made for the full door cards and adapt them to work without it. It is described in these threads: Pic needed...OEM door panel with paint at top exposed and in this one (Post 128)- window felt replacement
3. You can use the inner door window felts from a 75- or 79- series LC! They came from the factory with the partial door cards and use a similar setup:
75-series door-
I should note here that credit for this idea goes to @goldchaser who used this trick in his thread ( Hj61 sahara overhaul ). He was kind enough to tell me he got his felts from a 75-series LC. Furthermore, @boozewz recently demonstrated, in his amazing thread ( 1989 GCC Spec FJ62 G Trim ), that the inner window felts from a 79-series also work!
A thank you to @beno , I ordered my inner window felts for a 75-series LC from him (I am sure he knows the part numbers off the top of his head). A note of caution, when ordering the inner window felts, make sure you order them for the 75/79-series without the wing windows. The wing-windowed versions are too short to make this work.
Here is the method I used to attach them:
So once you get the inner window felts you will notice they are too long so you have to trim them and they come with thick clips, which are not compatible with the round holes on the inner door:
To make the clips fit into the round holes, I ground down the clip barbs to fit in the round holes (about 4.5mm wide):
It snapped in very nicely and securely:
Here it is mounted:
To finish off the look you can order the lock knob trim pieces, as shown by @DanS HJ-45 in his thread (post 412) Who likes addition? (FJ-60 + 1HZ)
Thanks, hopefully this was helpful!
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