Early 40 hardtop questions (2 Viewers)

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I aquired a hardtop from what I think was a 1965 FJ40.
1) It has a roof vent that I haven’t seen before and I assumed it was aftermarket but the stampings and remnants of the headliner look Toyota. Were these factory at one time?
2) The outside hatch levers look bent to me. The pushrods are likely seized. Can someone confirm the should be flat before I take them to the workbench and stat hammering on them?

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- Original vent
- Latches have a bit of bend originally. I can get a side pic with a ruler after a bit.
 
Parts catalog info for roof vent
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Here are my latches FWIW:
Driver’s side
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Passenger side
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I don’t find anything wrt the packing 63159-60010 that’s current. If wanting to resto probably will have to become creative with some off-the-shelf rubber seal. Maybe someone has done this and will chime in. GL.
 
another question to jump in on this topic was 64 when they went to the wider rear window on the early top? never knew they had two sizes tell i picked up a spare rear door and relaized the glass and imprint were bigger than my 63. had a 62 at one point also and it was the same smaller glass
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I’m going to need all the glass. Is there a standard reduction from the opening size when cutting glass? Eg make a pattern of the opening and remove 5mm all the way around to allow for the gaskets. I haven’t started shopping for gaskets yet either so I’d welcome advice there. City Racer, perhaps?
 
I’m going to need all the glass. Is there a standard reduction from the opening size when cutting glass? Eg make a pattern of the opening and remove 5mm all the way around to allow for the gaskets. I haven’t started shopping for gaskets yet either so I’d welcome advice there. City Racer, perhaps?
I think you can find universal gaskets online or through a glass shop. But SOR has them.

I think i have some glass that i could trace for a pattern if you want.
 
I think you can find universal gaskets online or through a glass shop. But SOR has them.

I think i have some glass that i could trace for a pattern if you want.
If you could even measure across in both dimensions I could make a pattern from the hard top. I'd appreciate that.
 
another question to jump in on this topic was 64 when they went to the wider rear window on the early top? never knew they had two sizes tell i picked up a spare rear door and relaized the glass and imprint were bigger than my 63. had a 62 at one point also and it was the same smaller glassView attachment 3726666
I never realized that until you brought it up.
Green one is a early door with buttons on the outside for opening, beige one is later one with handles on outside to open.
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I never realized that until you brought it up.
Green one is a early door with buttons on the outside for opening, beige one is later one with handles on outside to open.
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yeah that 3 extra inches of glass really helped with being able to see thru the vibration if the rear view mirror. dont get me wrong i love my corrugated top and think they are way better looking than any late model stuff but rear mirror is more or less for night driving to see if theres some shaking lights coming up on you.
 
I aquired a hardtop from what I think was a 1965 FJ40.
1) It has a roof vent that I haven’t seen before and I assumed it was aftermarket but the stampings and remnants of the headliner look Toyota. Were these factory at one time?
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My favorite trivia, the roof vent latch is the same part used on the front door vent windows. And this is where I say @andybudge has a very nice reproduction of the knob.
 
Maybe Toyota was using up old parts and put old top door on newer bottom? Or PO maybe did that??
That's what I was wondering, as well so I searched around a bit and found this one, also supposedly a 1965.
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this one was buttons only, no levers, short post, so later model. second one is also short post but with levers and bigger window. (and home cut holes for corner windows)

neither top was factory to the two 40s they were on, so no clue on lineage. maybe a 64-65 split???.
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