making your own... because lets be honest... what can't we make at this point? (1 Viewer)
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Do some long term testing with some your bad prototypes by leaving some out in the sun to see about long term ozone and UV degradation plus some cold/hot weather durability/flexibility. A space shuttle went down due to cold o-rings, and the Titanic's hull plates/rivet's failed due to cold.
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I have! So far so good after a couple weeks of sun and rain and varying temps from 8C to 26C. I've got 303 aerospace protectant in the mail which should provide some added uv protecting.
I can't imagine any of these parts being used for something critical to safety. I restored my 40 2007-2009 and after 15 years... a lot of the soft parts are quickly deteriorating despite that I bought oem. My hope isn't to necessarily exceed their quality because I have very little control over the materials available to me... I just want to make the parts cheaper and make them more available for ease of replacement.
I'll show some pictures of my setup and link the materials. This material is supposed to stay flexible even below 10C. The more professional grade flexible resin can perform at even colder temps.
Sounds like you are on it. I know I see 105 to -25 F almost every year. The OEM rubber has done ok for the most part, and the stuff I have replaced is doing good so far. I have zero experience 3d printing filament or resin.
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Anthony, I have been waiting a long time for the right person to step forward and make the horn contact insulator grommet. There is a very specific taper to the grommet that is important to providing the proper distance between the horn button retainer and the ground plate. I have an NOS grommet available to you for measurements, or to borrow if need be. 
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Mark, that would be very helpful as the used ones get squished clearly seen by that circular pattern. I would be open to the borrowing but I'm overseas and I don't trust the mail with priceless artifacts.Anthony, I have been waiting a long time for the right person to step forward and make the horn contact insulator grommet. There is a very specific taper to the grommet that is important to providing the proper distance between the horn button retainer and the ground plate. I have an NOS grommet available to you for measurements, or to borrow if need be.
Do you have a way to take perfectly tangent/perpendicular images of the side and bottom? I could then overlay those images to get the taper right.
Measurements from a NOS one would also help confirm what tahoe sent me. ID, OD, height, thickness of the shaft portion and thickness of the disc portion.
Cheers!
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60's? FJ25 soft brake line clamp insert and the hood rod grommet. Also a non stock brake bleed cap for fun. I found out i can gently wet sand the area that has the supports with IPA and 320 grit to smooth out the surface. Looks way better than the ones I was scraping with a razor blade.
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Early Tub Fuel Line Grommet
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Does anyone know the numbers on the top of the Early Fuel Line Grommet? I found a picture on mud where I can see what I think is FA63-61417... at the bottom it looks like it might be C128?? Can anyone confirm or deny?
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Chase (@red66toy) of CruiserCult has them in stockAnthony, I have been waiting a long time for the right person to step forward and make the horn contact insulator grommet. There is a very specific taper to the grommet that is important to providing the proper distance between the horn button retainer and the ground plate. I have an NOS grommet available to you for measurements, or to borrow if need be.
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His 3d printed parts appear to be TPU filament from an FDM printer. They look nice and TPU is quite tough but it will never look like a factory original or match the detail of an original like resin can. It also appears they don't sell just the bushing.
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Yeah we don’t sell them separately. We mainly designed them to work with our horn plate replacement kits since most of the original steel units are corroded.
Indeed they will not look factory. For a rubber part you ideally will only see rarely at most, looks wasn’t our goal, it does the job as intended.
Great work on the parts so far!
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The soft brake line clamp is also used on early FJ40s and 45s. Just a different style metal bracket, but same rubber part.
Is that how you normally shop is at 3 a.m. in your undiesI would recommend making stuff that is **not available** from Toyota vs. stuff that people can just buy online at 3am in their undies.
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I bought the file to get the door access panel cover for my 69 and the file came with the TEQ in it but I had to paint it to get it to show up.
I asked a co-worker who does 3D printing as a way to goof around to print them for me.
I asked a co-worker who does 3D printing as a way to goof around to print them for me.
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That's cool! Did they ever come that way from the factory? Where did you buy the file?
I don't know if they were ever factory with the TEQ, and I can't remember where I bought the file but I still have it if you are interested, shoot me a dm.
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Security staff at Walmart always on the lookout for an FJ40 in the early hours...Is that how you normally shop is at 3 a.m. in your undies
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I’m not sure, but I don’t think Onur has ever owned an FJ40, so he should be safe.
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Okay this one is silly and I picked the wrong font so I need to go back and change it/resize the numbers but I made the little TG? Symbol and modeled the mold line. These are only ~$6 so I'm not sure $2 in resin is worth it when oem is available but it was quick to model
Steering column grommet:
Steering column grommet:
