Builds Maytag. 1967 LPB, a daily driven survivor (3 Viewers)

[wngrog]

My first headliner was for my current FJ40 and I did a terrible job.

That looks great.

The harness.

Repair what you have or get a complete Coolerman harness?

 

[xtremeVA]

Where did you buy the headliner material?

 

[wngrog]

Where did you buy the headliner material?

Cruiser Corps has it

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

Where did you buy the headliner material?

I got mine from SOR. It was on sale.

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

My first headliner was for my current FJ40 and I did a terrible job.

That looks great.

The harness.

Repair what you have or get a complete Coolerman harness?

Now that I have the harness out and unwrapped it's in better shape than I thougnt it would be. I'll likely go through it and repair it.

 

[wngrog]

Now that I have the harness out and unwrapped it's in better shape than I thougnt it would be. I'll likely go through it and repair it.

That’s my preference. Toyota wiring is so impressive.

 

[cult45]

I used this to glue new heat insulation to the engine cover of my Ferrari as the original insulation had fallen apart. This glue has held up very well to the very high engine bay temps that the 3.4L V8 puts out. So it should be fine for a headliner.

Jeez, you reckon for a couple hundred grand you'd get insulation glue that bloody works!

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

Jeez, you reckon for a couple hundred grand you'd get insulation glue that bloody works!

Haha! To be fair it wasn't the glue that failed. It was 25 year old foam that started disintegrating after lots and lots of heat cycles.

 

[cult45]

'Heat cycles'

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

More wiring fun today. Got my order in with @Coolerman for all new connectors and a few fresh wires, so once thats in I can finish up the harness. Today I did some more cleaning and organizing of the harness and a few other parts.

I've decided to wrap the main power harness separately from the accessory harness. That way if I have another meltdown the bulk of the harness should hopefully be spared. I'll also be putting in some inline circuit breakers on the B+ and B- wires (in lieu of a fusible link).

Picked up this great wiring diagram. It's very accurate and easy to read. Laminated and 18"x24". Definitely worth the price.

Harness is starting to come back together. Taped the junctions and I'm waiting on non-adhesive harness tape to finish off the job.

Spent some time cleaning up this really nifty horn relay! So cool!

Also cleaned up this washer fluid reservoir, and look at that! Original Nippon-Denso part under all that crud! It has a small leak in the corner so I need to try and patch it up somehow. Will run without washers until then. I need at least one new nozzle anyway.

 

[middlecalf]

So for wires you're adding or replacing what's your method for determining the length with the harness out of the rig?

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

So for wires you're adding or replacing what's your method for determining the length with the harness out of the rig?

I just ordered a bit more than I thought I would need (it's not that expensive). I'll measure and cut appropriately once i have everything in hand. Most of the wires I'm replacing are going into that main power circuit anyway, and that's going to be a separate harness now as I said.

The random odd wires I'm replacing from the main cowl harness are mostly short ends that are splices of of main circuit wires (inspection light socket, cigar lighter...etc), and those are all pretty short wires

 

[wngrog]

That bag is stock? Looks like a 60 series rear washer bag.

Nice work. I had to add relays to my headlights because my switch was too weak to handle it.

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

That bag is stock? Looks like a 60 series rear washer bag.

That's my thought as well as I couldn't find anything about early cruisers having washers, or bag reservoirs.

Does look like it belongs there though. Here's where it hangs in the engine bay...

The pump motor control in the interior didn't look stock (wiring was kinda haphazard), so I'm guessing it was added on at some point. I did think it was cool that they cared enough to use Toyota parts for it though!

 

[middlecalf]

Well if you don’t want to use the pump motor I have a foot pump and nozzles someone installed in my ‘63. Don’t know if it works or what aftermarket brand it is but it would make for a full ghetto setup with that bladder bag hanging in the e-bay lol.

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

Lots of progress over the past few days... Received my package from @Coolerman with some new connectors and wire and got to work.

I actually had a lot of fun doing this. I know people hate wiring, but renewing this harness was kinda cathartic for me for some reason.

Started wrapping the harness with non-adhesive wire wrap. Pippa was there to supervise, as always.

New connections! This is the front harness for the bib junction blocks.

As I mentioned previously I opted to make the main power/ignition circuit a separate harness. That way if I ever have a meltdown again hopefully the damage will be contained to this harness and not the infinitely more complicated main harness.

It actually turned out really well

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

Once the harnesses were all wrapped up I was able to get them back into the cab. Everything went back in very easily as I didn't modify any of the tees on the original harness, and my new ignition harness I was able to fit easily using a couple of test fits before I wrapped it up.

For my main power wires I opted to install some in-line circuit breakers instead of a fusible link. This way if it trips its way easier to diagnose than a possibly faulty fusible link.

One went on the 10ga white/blue wire from the Alternator and the other on the White 10ga wire to the starter.

Here's my new bib junction blocks all hooked up with new connectors too! Hopefully my lights work now!

I'm still waiting on my new fuse block from cityracer (supposed to be delivered today), and a new refurb voltage regulator. Then I should be ready to fire it back up!

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

And of course as soon as I call it quits for the night my parts show up! Look at that pretty new fuse block and voltage regulator!

New firewall grommets as well as my old ones were in sorry shape. Opted to pick up a spare VR as well in case these remans go NLA.

 

[DailyDrive_FJ45]

A few things to sort out , but the harness is back in .

Low beams still don't work. Oddly enough high beams work though. Going to start diagnosis with a multimeter tomorrow. I know it's not the main light switch because everything else works (driving lights, tails, tags, dash). Possibly the dimmer switch? Maybe low beams are burnt out? Bad ground? We shall see.

Another thing to sort out is my brake lamp wiring. I neglected to take a picture of how my turn signal connections we're hooked up. My turn signals and dash indicators work fine. However my brake lamps are not working properly. Only the passenger side lights up now (but it illuminates as a driving lamp with the headlight switch so I don't think it's burnt out).

Everything else works great though!

 

[wngrog]

Where did you get the laminated wiring diagram?