So while I'm waiting for this thing to sell or trade I'm going to work to make it reliable, fix a few things and maybe to some body work. Why? Because it is fun to drive and the Wife does not care for it so the more I do the more somebody might be inclined to make an offer. So follow along if you like or don't if you don't either way here goes the cold water!
First thing first, if you have an FJ55 you gotta have a working back window, even if nothing else is working right, right? So today I pulled my rear window regulator out for the second time to measure the gear so that I know how far to scale up the stl file so I can print me a new gear and to make some other minor repairs.
The gear is slightly chewed up and cracked, I know that'll buff out. The I guess guide pins for the widow rail are broken off and somebody did some janky stuff with the regulator. The pins are easy enough. Clean up the rust reinsert and then hit them from inside the channel with the tig torch. Now the regulator, I'm going to need some help from the community to figure out what exactly somebody was thinking and what that linkage does that somebody cobbled up with some wire and a spring. I didn't get a pic but the terminal board is toast. For that I may Buy a small phenolic sheet and some rivets, salvage the terminals and make a new one.
First thing first, if you have an FJ55 you gotta have a working back window, even if nothing else is working right, right? So today I pulled my rear window regulator out for the second time to measure the gear so that I know how far to scale up the stl file so I can print me a new gear and to make some other minor repairs.
The gear is slightly chewed up and cracked, I know that'll buff out. The I guess guide pins for the widow rail are broken off and somebody did some janky stuff with the regulator. The pins are easy enough. Clean up the rust reinsert and then hit them from inside the channel with the tig torch. Now the regulator, I'm going to need some help from the community to figure out what exactly somebody was thinking and what that linkage does that somebody cobbled up with some wire and a spring. I didn't get a pic but the terminal board is toast. For that I may Buy a small phenolic sheet and some rivets, salvage the terminals and make a new one.
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