Door wiring grommets

[Spook50]

After 22 years the rubber grommets on my doors and body sheet metal (the ones that hold the wiring in place) are all dried up and crumbled away. Is there an alternative out there that anyone knows about (like say a similar part made from silicon), or at least maybe the original part still available from Toyota? I've got to do up a list of the small parts I need soon and give Dan or Onur a call to get some stuff, so if there's no better option in this case, I'll just get new OEM parts.

 

[cruiserpilot]

Try Toyota first. I needed a couple of the little plastic grommets that hold the "Landcruiser" emblem on the side of my FJ60 and they had them in stock, in Toronto! But 3 days later I had them for $1.40 ea, but hey, original equipment in original package. Can't beat it! They seem to sometimes have the oddest old stuff still.

 

[slcfj62]

I purchased rubber grommets the size of the holes in the A pillar and the door, slit them across one side so they would go around the wires, and installed them in the holes. Then I took a piece of bicycle inner tube that I slit lengthwise, wrapped around the wires and poked the ends of the inner tube through the grommet holes. Then I rubber cemented everything--the inner tube to the grommets, and where the inner tube wrapped around itself. A year later, still seems to be holding up OK. I did it this way so I didn't have to remove the wire bundles from the doors.

 

[Spook50]

I purchased rubber grommets the size of the holes in the A pillar and the door, slit them across one side so they would go around the wires, and installed them in the holes. Then I took a piece of bicycle inner tube that I slit lengthwise, wrapped around the wires and poked the ends of the inner tube through the grommet holes. Then I rubber cemented everything--the inner tube to the grommets, and where the inner tube wrapped around itself. A year later, still seems to be holding up OK. I did it this way so I didn't have to remove the wire bundles from the doors.

That's not a bad idea at all. Sure save me a lot of asspain if I don't have to remove wires from the doors. Problem there is, what if you want to remove or add any wiring to a door? At some point soon I'll be replacing my speaker wiring, and adding a remote receiver for the power locks (the way Moby did his).

 

[slcfj62]

All the rubber cement is external to the wiring, so I can still pull a wire through. Just don't wrap the inner tube too tight.