Maybe I'm still missing a part?

[WarDamnEagle]

Thanks to Pappy and Eric at Yotamasters, I now have two of the plastic tailgate torsion bar guides that I was looking for a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm still missing something. As you can see from the photo, the one end will bolt onto the frame (broken original one still attached) but there is obviously something missing from the other end as it's a couple inches or so away from resting on anything and there's nothing in sight to bolt that end to.

I can't figure anything out from the Toyota DYI diagrams.

 

[toy4xfun]

looks like you will have to fab something up!

 

[2ndGenToyotaFan]

I had the same problem... I think when the break, the torsion bar then hits the little bracket that holds the other end up (and won't open all the way), so people just rip them off (spot welded probably) and forget about it....

I cut a piece of 1/2 inch copper pipe to the right length and ran a long bolt through the floor then the pipe and down through the plastic guide... Good luck!

 

[WarDamnEagle]

looks like you will have to fab something up!

Thanks for the photo. I need to clean a bit of red mud off and see where that was attached.

Just another something to chase down. I think I keep this 85 around just for the scavanger hunts!

 

[toy4xfun]

i would send you the one off that truck but it probably would not survive being taken off.

i know what you are saying every day is a new challenge.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Can anyone with a 1st gen 4Runner take a quick pic of what their torsion bar guide is mounted to (see first pic in thread)? I'm just getting around to addressing this issue and I've forgotten what the missing bracket looks like.

Thanks in advance.

 

[toy4xfun]

ok here you are, i searched for the pic i sent before but could not hind it so i took another one.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Thanks. I just bought a door and fender from California Mini Truck so I phoned them this morning and explained what I wanted and they are going to cut one off and send it to me. It's just one of those things that I have put off doing for months.

 

[toy4xfun]

that is cool, i searched yesterday when i seen your post but it was too dark to take a pic, so i had to take it when i got home today. i guess some how when i was banned the original got lost.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

No problem. I appreciate the effort. I sent them the pic from my first post and told them I needed the bracket that was missing from the pic. That was all the information that they needed.

 

[Sam Stewart]

ok here you are, i searched for the pic i sent before but could not hind it so i took another one.

Beat me to it. I was going to say that it just bolted to the gate on both ends.

 

[toy4xfun]

No problem. I appreciate the effort. I sent them the pic from my first post and told them I needed the bracket that was missing from the pic. That was all the information that they needed.

cool do you have a link to them?

 

[WarDamnEagle]

cool do you have a link to them?

Sure: California Mini Truck

 

[toy4xfun]

book marked thank you.