Recent content by DaveCruises

@RudigarP I'm curious about doing this myself, anything to report on how the chrome locking strip is holding up after a couple years?

Thanks for the replies. To me, the tail light guards seems most likely. Doesn’t really matter much, was just curious! I’m doing a pretty significant restoration, not sure how it stacks up in the grand scheme of restorations as it’s my first one. A lot more than just a re-spray. Already been...

So I'm getting prepped for paint and came across these rivet nuts that a PO installed in the tailgate jam into the tail light cavity. What could these have been for?? It's an 87 FJ60. Same location on the passenger side not shown. They are english threads and rusting. There were 1.25"...

Hi folks, I think I should preface by letting you in on back story, I've never introduced it before. I got an FJ60 last year from Atlanta, pretty good shape rust-wise. 262k. Body has lots of dents and a couple areas had bondo falling off. It had been repainted at some point in it's life with...

As you can see in my pic, it still sorta looks like crap with gaps :rofl: but I plan to 3D print a black insert or something that glues on the mounting hardware. Smooth out the print lines with a little acetone, should look pretty good. To mount the radio in there, it came with some of that...

Sorry for the slow reply, she's in storage hiding from the salt. I got the best picture I could, not great though. As far as speakers, previous owner put in some 5" round speakers or something- they are absolute garbage. Anyways, it's another project getting speakers figured out. Might be...

I guess my first post will be about radios! I just installed a Clarion M508 in my rig. I don't have satellite, but it looks like it's capable with a special tuner. Single din. I chose it just because its super minimalistic stylewise but capable technology wise. I don't need disco lights...