Is there a hood lock for a FJ40? (1 Viewer)

bushwacker said:

I was wondering if there is any way of locking the FJ40 hood? I have seen hood locks on the net for jeeps, but will they fit on a FJ40. I have also seen where a guy welded a plate on the bottom of his hood, and another on the top of his grille support and drilled a hole throught it and put a padlock in it, but it looked kind of ugly. Any ideas?

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Desertdave said:

When I bought my Cruiser the PO had a hood lock rigged up. It consisted of a cable wrapped around the drivers-side front corner support for the hood, that dropped straight down to the frame when the hood was closed. An eye-bolt was installed into an existing hole on top of the frame, and the llop in the end of the cable was padlocked to the eye bolt. These parts were visible if you were looking for them, and could be reached easily enough to use, but weren't as obvious as some other contraptions I have seen or heard of.

I ended up removing it because I wasn't as paranoid as the PO was and I use the vehicle mostly off-road and for weekend errands, and I've not had anything taken from under the hood, although I did have the interior robbed many years ago before I was able to garage it overnight.

HTH

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