Builds 1978 US Market FJ40 Factory Restoration (2 Viewers)
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Your Welding Turned Out Sweet Dallas ! 
PabloCruise
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Any media blasters near you?
PabloCruise
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I hear you!
The guys that painted my 40 run a blast business. Everything that came off got blasted, it looked so perfect!
The guys that painted my 40 run a blast business. Everything that came off got blasted, it looked so perfect!
dmaddox
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Ive called a few places, no one wants to touch it right now, so I am slowly section by section blasting. It will be correct when I get done with it.
What is sad is the number of previous owner:
Anyway - during this pandemic, it is therapy for me to right all of these wrongs. If not myself, someone will thank me later!
What is sad is the number of previous owner:
- Broken bolts left in the hole.
- Tacked in sheet metal and buried in bondo
- Stripped mounts (for example, roll bar nuts very difficult to remove) that they just drilled out to slip a 3/8" SAE bolt through with another nut on the bottom.
- JB weld slugged in a hole
- Fiberglass slugged in a hole
- Surprising levels of bondo and filler, six layers in some areas.
- Wiring hacks so numerous I have to rebuild most sections of the harness
- non-Toyota parts too numerous to list (quality would be another thing)
- Outright destruction to the body and fragile bits that compromise the safety of the truck.
Anyway - during this pandemic, it is therapy for me to right all of these wrongs. If not myself, someone will thank me later!
The roll bar bolts on my 79 are M10-1.25.
But the bolts holding the seat belts are bigger and I thought they were M11 according to this spreadsheet. I'm not sure whose made this spreadsheet, but it has been helpful to me. boltstotal97-2003.xls
EDIT: I don't know how to link that spreadsheet.
While I was digging I found this and thought it was interesting
forum.ih8mud.com
But the bolts holding the seat belts are bigger and I thought they were M11 according to this spreadsheet. I'm not sure whose made this spreadsheet, but it has been helpful to me. boltstotal97-2003.xls
EDIT: I don't know how to link that spreadsheet.
While I was digging I found this and thought it was interesting
Seatbelt and rollbar bolts
forum.ih8mud.com
Here is another source....
forum.ih8mud.com
Nuts and Bolts
forum.ih8mud.com
The seatbelt bolt size for US models is dictated as SAE 7/16-20 by federal safety regulations, not metric.
Well, I need to change out my rear seatbelt bolts to SAE 7/16-20, cause right now they are M10-1.25.
tlaporte
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I would have thought body color.
That color is correct. Same color as the roll bar and seat backs in my May of 1980. I have been unable to definitively determine the paint code/ powder coat color.
Land Cruiser Nation has this album >1980 FJ40 - 7.5K Miles | Land Cruiser Nation< I use it as my primary reference for determining OEM colors and equipment.
try this.> https://www.fototime.com/ftweb/bin/ft.dll/pictures?userid={2B59A31B-E687-42D4-B81F-7488E56A2498}&uid={2B59A31B-E687-42D4-B81F-7488E56A2498}&custdom=1 < It is an entire library with photos in chronological order. My search engine ha sit labeled as unverified but I use it all the time. Not all the vehicles are still original but enough to determine what you need.
look at the white 1978. Photo 190.
