I ordered a hood liner from www.hoodliners.net last week. Talked to the owner, Gonzalo, through E-Mail to procure the liner and received it today.
My 1983 FJ-60 had no hood liner and the price of an OEM at $300 shipped was a bit much for my taste. Having no liner meant a hot hood and a large echo chamber. I looked around and this seemed like the best deal out there.
The first thing I did was to take to hood off of the truck. I put the prop hood up and then put rolls of paper towels under the corners of the hood closest to the windshield so that if the hood fell it wouldn’t hit anything and do any damage. Removed the eight 12mm bolts, and was able to easily lift the hood off by myself and place it upside down on the grass.
Time for me to get scrubbing.
Then one more time to make sure it’s nice and clean.
After that I just let it air dry in the sun, but it looks like it’s about to rain again!
Got lucky and the rain passed over, time to get the liner test fit. Everything lined up right away, looks like Gonzalo made some very accurate cuts, no stretching required. Then I realize that since the old liner was removed, they took the plastic retainers off also. A trip to O’Reilly’s got me everything I needed and I started spraying the 3M rubber and vinyl #80 spray adhesive I got from Home Depot on making sure to not go past where the liner would be. It was already test fit, so all I did was flip the top half over and spray the adhesive. You are doing the adhesive correctly when it goes on like silly string. I sprayed the hood and the liner, making sure to not over spray. Once the top half was done, I waited about two minutes and flipped it back onto the hood and pressed it into place. Then I flipped the bottom half up and did that part the same way.
When I was done I made sure the holes lined up and pressed the Plastic retainers into place. Then I smoothed the whole thing and pressed everything down.
Then I eyeballed a good spot to place the decal and pressed it into place.
Reinstalled it back onto the truck and took it for a spin.
No problems after a 20 minute run, liner stayed in place.
Overall I am very impressed. The biggest difference was in the amount of sound insulation I have now, before it was like driving with the engine right in your lap, now the sound it GREATLY muffled, perhaps as much as a 5-7db difference. Appearance wise it looks great in my opinion. The rubber/foam insulation is aircraft firewall material so it should provide many years of use. The material looks like it will be easy to clean and the adhesive is supposed to be high temp tolerant. Total time from hood up to hood down was a bit over 90 minutes, but that includes the run to O’Reilly’s. Out of pocket Cost was $107 for the liner, delivered, and $17 for the 19oz can of adhesive of which I used about half. That’s less than half the price of new.
What do you guys think?
My 1983 FJ-60 had no hood liner and the price of an OEM at $300 shipped was a bit much for my taste. Having no liner meant a hot hood and a large echo chamber. I looked around and this seemed like the best deal out there.
The first thing I did was to take to hood off of the truck. I put the prop hood up and then put rolls of paper towels under the corners of the hood closest to the windshield so that if the hood fell it wouldn’t hit anything and do any damage. Removed the eight 12mm bolts, and was able to easily lift the hood off by myself and place it upside down on the grass.
Time for me to get scrubbing.
Then one more time to make sure it’s nice and clean.
After that I just let it air dry in the sun, but it looks like it’s about to rain again!
Got lucky and the rain passed over, time to get the liner test fit. Everything lined up right away, looks like Gonzalo made some very accurate cuts, no stretching required. Then I realize that since the old liner was removed, they took the plastic retainers off also. A trip to O’Reilly’s got me everything I needed and I started spraying the 3M rubber and vinyl #80 spray adhesive I got from Home Depot on making sure to not go past where the liner would be. It was already test fit, so all I did was flip the top half over and spray the adhesive. You are doing the adhesive correctly when it goes on like silly string. I sprayed the hood and the liner, making sure to not over spray. Once the top half was done, I waited about two minutes and flipped it back onto the hood and pressed it into place. Then I flipped the bottom half up and did that part the same way.
When I was done I made sure the holes lined up and pressed the Plastic retainers into place. Then I smoothed the whole thing and pressed everything down.
Then I eyeballed a good spot to place the decal and pressed it into place.
Reinstalled it back onto the truck and took it for a spin.
No problems after a 20 minute run, liner stayed in place.
Overall I am very impressed. The biggest difference was in the amount of sound insulation I have now, before it was like driving with the engine right in your lap, now the sound it GREATLY muffled, perhaps as much as a 5-7db difference. Appearance wise it looks great in my opinion. The rubber/foam insulation is aircraft firewall material so it should provide many years of use. The material looks like it will be easy to clean and the adhesive is supposed to be high temp tolerant. Total time from hood up to hood down was a bit over 90 minutes, but that includes the run to O’Reilly’s. Out of pocket Cost was $107 for the liner, delivered, and $17 for the 19oz can of adhesive of which I used about half. That’s less than half the price of new.
What do you guys think?
