How to Remove Crome Trim Under Rear Sliding Window

[FJ80HI]

Anyone know how to remove the chrome trim under rear sliding window without damage and to reinstall. Want to rust repair under. Oem was painted black but under black is chrome metal. Thanks

 

[Fj80oregon]

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[Fj80oregon]

Edit the front doors have a screw the rears just pop out. You can still buy new OEM or aftermarket. The clips usually break off, you can try and be gentle but 30 year old plastic clips will likely break.

 

[Kernal]

You can pop open the cargo bay side panels by using a plastic auto interior trim tool and your fingers to carefully to pop the rivets loose, do not Gorilla grip/rip/tug on the panels. Then reach in and up to the inside top of that quarter panel cavity and feel the plastic clips poking down from the molding as they go through small holes in the body, squeeze with you fingers and push up, that should should release the clips working from one end to the other. With the side panels opened you can take your phone and snap a few photos looking up into the top of that cavity (below the side windows) to show the clip locations. Or, slide a very thin piece of plastic under the molding at one end, like a credit card, and pry upward starting at one end, once you get it started you can switch to the larger flat plastic trim tool.

The bigger question is how far up does the rust go?? Usually the rust starts under the rubber gasket for the side windows so to get at the source of the problem you may have to remove those windows.

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Rust is also known to start under the large gasket that surrounds and seals the rear body "door" opening ie: body side of the hatch and liftgate/door opening.

 

[FJ80HI]

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May be best. Seems to be a water holding area just need to fill holes

 

[FJ80HI]

Thanks for all the info. Yes had the rear lift gate by the glass rust and fixed that with epoxy. For those that get the rear lift gate rust around glass fix it as I had the entire glass shatter due to what I think was point stress loading on the glass due to missing sheet steel support due to fact rusted away

 

[FJ80HI]

They popped right out no damage. Think I’ll just delete. Fill in holes and paint. Mostly dirt under and no major rust. Just a potential for future rust and holes would allow water to seep into interior voids of the truck and cause rust

 

[Kernal]

New molding is still available from Toyota and it comes with new clips.
The water leak into the quarter panel cavity could be from the molding and/or from the plastic vertical vent. If you have rust in the bottom of those cavites
you may already have rust in the "dogleg" section forward of the wheel well hump ie rear most section of the rocker panels, behind and below where the rear door meets the wheel well.

 

[FJ80HI]

A testament as to how well these fj80s were made. This 91 has never been garaged and has seen tropical rain everyday for almost 40 years in one of the most corrosive salt laden air on the planet. Even with trapped dirt and water no corrosion. I had a 79 fj40 and just looking at the suv it would rust. Frame and all.