1987 FJ60 Revival

[MWM1]

Beautiful looking truck!
Regarding the clips for the chrome strip at the windows:

FJ6X Series Chrome Weather Stripping Clips - (Sets of 5)

These are sold in sets of 5. Replacement clips for FJ6X series Weatherstripping chrome door trim. 3D printed out of ASA, FJ60 FJ62 Door Card window felt clip plastic metal trim Toyota Land Cruiser Aftermarket new parts Chrome strip restoration weather seal 68211-90K00 75720-90A00 67868-30040

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[dbbowen]

Medium size update for today... I was able to get the rest of the chrome trim removed from the doors but I did end up breaking some of the clips, so I'll have to source those.

The shop has been really busy with customer cars recently so they haven't been able to spend as much time on the FJ as I had hoped. Thankfully though I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with the restore. Here are a couple pics of the progress the past week or two.

Happy to report that the truck has finally been primed and painted! Fingers crossed, I'm planning on beginning assembly next week and hoping to have this thing road worthy again by the end of January.

As a side update, I ended up purchasing a tan '84 FJ60 from TN that I am also planning on lightly restoring. Thinking I caught the FJ bug... its not as rusty as the white one so I'm up in the air on which one I want to keep vs. sell. I'll upload some pics of the tan one once we start working on it.

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happy to see you kept it the best 60 series color. Amazing work so far dude

 

[amjadi123]

Looks great!

Thank you! All in pieces now but hoping that changes very soon!

 

[amjadi123]

Beautiful looking truck!
Regarding the clips for the chrome strip at the windows:

FJ6X Series Chrome Weather Stripping Clips - (Sets of 5)

These are sold in sets of 5. Replacement clips for FJ6X series Weatherstripping chrome door trim. 3D printed out of ASA, FJ60 FJ62 Door Card window felt clip plastic metal trim Toyota Land Cruiser Aftermarket new parts Chrome strip restoration weather seal 68211-90K00 75720-90A00 67868-30040

cruiserhead.com

Thanks! Will probably end up grabbing like 20 of those!

happy to see you kept it the best 60 series color. Amazing work so far dude

Thank you! Same here, wouldn't have it any other way. I'm planning on keeping it as original as possible aside from an OME steering damper, 31x10.5x15 KO2s and some Bilstein 4600s!

 

[amjadi123]

Its finally starting to look like a Land Cruiser again but putting it all back together is taking a little more time than expected, but thats just how it goes. The paint looks so good in person and I'm really, really pleased with how it turned out.

Anyway, heres a quick update on progress so far. The doors/hardware, fenders, and hood have been put back on the truck. All of the windows have been reinstalled as well. I went with an OEM front window gasket to retain the chrome strip. We also painted the red tow hitch and trail tailor rear crossmember black.

Hoping for another update early next week!

 

[amjadi123]

Well, its a month later and not much has happened. Finished installing the TrailTailor C Channels and working on getting the body fitment on the front-end correct. The fenders and headlight bezels are especially troublesome, and I think this is an issue overall with FJ60s as I took a look on BAT and lots of the restored/repainted FJ60s on there have funny fitment of the hood/fenders/headlight bezels.

Anyway, I'm hoping to finally fine tune the panel fitment this week and get this thing out of the shop!

 

[tmxmotorsports]

Are you sure you have the headlight bezels on tye correct sides?

 

[amjadi123]

Are you sure you have the headlight bezels on tye correct sides?

I think so, but the ones on the truck now are from another FJ60 and the body guy is just using them for fitment purposes. I have the better condition originals in a box that I'll install when I get the truck back to my house.

 

[tmxmotorsports]

They should be marked R/L

 

[78Mustard]

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