Darth Vader Light

[cult45]

North American market got a padded dash on the top of the dash as well as across the bottom. The bottom padded dash closed under a little bit and we no longer had a place to the Darth Vader light under the dash. Very possible you still had the place to mount one depending on market.

Makes sense. We never got underdash pads and we only got the top pad in '83 [?].

 

[Landpimp]

In this case.....it's in the OEM tool roll under the front seat....last summer i did have to dig thru a pile of tool kits to find it.....I kinda forgot how many toyota tools I had.....was bummed when I realized I only had 5 new hammers.....should have got 500......they are sellin for stupid money.

Knowing you ... you will need to dig thru probably a dozen other manuals to find the correct one

 

[powthief19]

I'd love to make this in our cnc shop... at least the helmet part, maybe someone else on here could help with the light component. If someone wants to send me an original to pull specs from, i can make it happen then return the original of course.

 

[oregon fj]

I have never purchased or harvested forklift parts, so I can confirm both types are FJ40View attachment 1420667

Found this thread as I was looking to figure out if the Vader light switch in my ‘64 was correct. Saw the pictures posted by @Coolerman and @65swb45 and determined that - as I suspected - mine is not original.

Mark, if you see this, be prepared, I’m going to want to get one of those switches you pictured when you are ready to ship my carb back. Shoot, who knows how long my list might be by then.

 

[btbuild]

Should be a few switches still floating around. I had a ton of reproductions made. Still have a ton. Only thing was the trim ring wasn't the same.

I would love if someone would reproduce the vador light. I'd even take a printed one and use a LED.

Did you ever get a chance to reproduce these?

 

[emac]

I just got a 3D printer at the office. I am using it for printing dental models, with the thought of other stuff like this for fun. I havent figured out drawing stuff yet, but if someone would come up with an STL file of the part I will try to print some. I cant promise anything except they will be very, very cheap!