There is a strip molding (I don't know the correct word) that snaps into the body under the rear side window. I need to install this, but I can't figure out a way to get under or aside the window in order get this in.
If I install the clips into the molding, there is not enough room to get...
My FJ80 (3FE) won't start, needs a jump every time, won't stay running at low RPMs. AND THE BATTERY checks out.
My 80 will not start without a jump. Dash lights don't come on. Thought it was (naturally) the battery. Right?
Nope, battery checks out brilliantly. Is does not discharge much if...
Purchased a few Denso air filters. I've never noticed before but either the top or the bottom is textured whilst the opposite is smooth. I don't recall the OE filter having this. The one I bought from NAPA years ago is smooth on both sides.
Is there actually a polarity on the air filters...
I have an older Slee rear bumper I'd like to put on. Alas after weeks of soaking in penetrating oil and some propane torch heat cycles. I simply cannot remove the bolts to the receiver.
Well I CAN but the heads snap.
Seriously, what else is left to try? If I snap all the bolts I won't...
In a couple years I'll be doing some international travel (SA)with my 1991 3-FE FJ80, what problems and negative effects will a desmog have?
I ask this not because I hate our air, in fact I'm generally in big favor of strict emissions controls. I am interested in desmog as to simplify as much...
Trying to run an antenna cable and some control wires into the cab in the 1999. Was going to then use a step bit. But...
There is something hard behind the firewall right here on the starboard side. Of course I stopped drilling. What is it, I thought I measured properly. Multiple layers...
Buy this shirt. Overland Fashionista Says So
A good shirt really isn't a trivial thing, all joking aside.
It took me 29 years to finally find the right shirt. No joke, almost 30 years years of "overlanding" and "wheeling" and "off-roading" (whatever we used to call it) to find this. In...
I've only done it once. I need to do it again on another vehicle.
I took an angle grinder with cutting wheel to the horns, then spent an eternity getting the side welded area cold chiseled off, then more grinding to smooth. Feel this could have been done easier and less effort.
If so...
Rear springs are original, they don't bear load well at all anymore; a lot of displacement. I have 862s laying around. Free height should be quite close if not just a hair over stock correct? A bit better load rating?
Said receiver for just bike rack. I can't find a receiver that matches the specific 4 bolt pattern. (No problem finding my pintle hook).
Anyone have a reference?
The track bracket that attaches to the window on the rear door, how to slide back into position? The window motor roller falls out because it has migrated forward on the window a couple centimeters.
Me gently and then more forcefully hammering it have no effect. On super snug.
I told my son I would help him install an "external" subwoofer in his 1999. Don't worry he's still a Cruiser kid who likes lifts and being off-road.
We took the rear panel off and voila we see TWO 2Ω speakers in the subwoofer assembly. Each sub speaker has two different sets of wires and I...
New-to-me FJ80, and I note a missing vacuum line (?) that appears to need to run to the Throttle Body. But I have no idea where on the Thottle Body said line would need to run. Nothing else seems to be disconnected? To where should that open VCV port be connected on throttle body...
My FJ80 has the classic aged paint. Clear coat splotching, top coat peeling. I've been getting estimates to both wrap and repaint. Looks like wrapping may end of up being a significant cost saver. I have however been advised to bondo all spots that have the paint problems, sand with 320 and...