New 60 carpet for sale! DECEMBER 14, 2024 UPDATE (4 Viewers)

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Are you making it for the 80 series as well ? If not do you have the contact of someone that dose similar product as you do ?
Yes, we sell 80 and 100 carpet, in addition to the 60 and 62s. If interested, please PM me for additional information. Thanks, David
 
Hey All - I have read the instructions multiple times, but still have questions about the wheel well carpet. I'm pretty sure I have the correct sides identified. I'm struggling to figure out a few things:

1. Does the wheel well carpet cover the wiring loom running up the driver side wheel well? If so, how?
2. It says the door welting should hold the carpet, but i'm struggling to see how that's possible. Any advice?
3: Does the carpet cover the back seat "pivot" bracket? Or, is it cut around that?
4: Should that be trimmed, so that the rear cargo panels go over the carpet and secure it?

Hopefully all that makes sense, but feel free to ask questions.

Thanks.
 
For my part, I'll be watching for the answer to number 4.
I'm struggling to get the carpet to lay flat at the edges in the rear. It seems that either the carpet and welt is thicker than the old carpet, or the upholstery panel is slightly too wide from the bottom of the window to the bed of the truck. (Refurbished by a local upholstery shop using the original as a pattern. So, no telling how true to the original pattern.) Haven't figured out the solution so I'll be interested to know how folks answer number 4.
 
Better photo of the front passenger footwell.

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Hey. Been using your pics for reference on my install. It looks like the carpet lays over the "bolt" under the gas pedal. Is that how you did it? Or, did you cut around and let that bolt come through the carpet. Thanks.
 
Sorry guys, I have an elderly father in the hospital, and I just saw this post. Let me see if I can help.

You wrote:
I have read the instructions multiple times, but still have questions about the wheel well carpet. I'm pretty sure I have the correct sides identified. I'm struggling to figure out a few things:

1. Does the wheel well carpet cover the wiring loom running up the driver side wheel well? If so, how? Yes. The carpet should be put in place, and once in place, the edge that runs down the front side of the wheel well should be pressed to fit the pinch mold in the door opening that the welting presses down on to. In other words, once you hold the carpet against the pinch weld and trim it to the same height, the thickness of the carpet and pinch weld are still thin enough to allow the welting to be pushed down over both of them to hold it in place. Look at it like this: Just think about painting your wheel well and the inside of the pinch weld. You want to the carpet to cover the same area the paint would - and in the same fashion. Then, when you push on the welting, it looks finished. Note: this all presupposes you're adhering the wheel well carpet to the wheel well. That allows for the carpet to run up to, and up, the pinch weld. Hope this is clear.
2. It says the door welting should hold the carpet, but i'm struggling to see how that's possible. Any advice? See 1 above
3: Does the carpet cover the back seat "pivot" bracket? Or, is it cut around that? It's been so long since I installed my last 6x carpet that I can't remember. As long as you have the wheel well carpet on the correct wheel well, that small detail is really a matter of preference. If you can leave it to where the carpet covers the pivot, it will almost certainly look more finished. It just has to be otherwise trimmed enough to not interfere with the seat back operation.
4: Should that be trimmed, so that the rear cargo panels go over the carpet and secure it? I'm not sure to what you're referring by the term "that." The rear cargo panels should go over the properly-trimmed rear cargo carpet, but they don't secure anything (other than themselves to the brackets on the rear quarter panels)

Hope all that makes sense.

David
 
Second question:

For my part, I'll be watching for the answer to number 4.
I'm struggling to get the carpet to lay flat at the edges in the rear. It seems that either the carpet and welt is thicker than the old carpet, or the upholstery panel is slightly too wide from the bottom of the window to the bed of the truck. (Refurbished by a local upholstery shop using the original as a pattern. So, no telling how true to the original pattern.) Haven't figured out the solution so I'll be interested to know how folks answer number 4. I'm not sure to what you're referring by "welt." There is no welting back on the rear cargo panels. Perhaps you're referring to jute? (the fibrous insulating material underneath the carpet.) If you're having a hard time fitting the rear panels because of insufficient clearance at the bottoms of the panels, your panels are too tall. That's why I always advise people to use no thicker than 80mil sound deadener with the factory side panels.

What you can do to possibly remedy this problem is to trim maybe an inch or two of the jute back away from the side panels to create more room underneath them. Then you'll have only the thickness of the carpet to contend with.

Hope this helps.

David
 
Third question:

Hey. Been using your pics for reference on my install. It looks like the carpet lays over the "bolt" under the gas pedal. Is that how you did it? Or, did you cut around and let that bolt come through the carpet. Thanks. I remove the bolt, cut a small hole to allow access to the threaded floor pan side, and reinstall the bolt. If you don't do this, one and, eventually, two things will occur: at the least, it'll discolor / disfigure the carpet and make it look bad. The second is that it'll eventually wear through (both are dependent upon how often your truck sees wide open throttle.....and with these old slugs, they generally see that condition a LOT! HAHA!)

David
 
Sorry guys, I have an elderly father in the hospital, and I just saw this post. Let me see if I can help.

You wrote:
I have read the instructions multiple times, but still have questions about the wheel well carpet. I'm pretty sure I have the correct sides identified. I'm struggling to figure out a few things:

1. Does the wheel well carpet cover the wiring loom running up the driver side wheel well? If so, how? Yes. The carpet should be put in place, and once in place, the edge that runs down the front side of the wheel well should be pressed to fit the pinch mold in the door opening that the welting presses down on to. In other words, once you hold the carpet against the pinch weld and trim it to the same height, the thickness of the carpet and pinch weld are still thin enough to allow the welting to be pushed down over both of them to hold it in place. Look at it like this: Just think about painting your wheel well and the inside of the pinch weld. You want to the carpet to cover the same area the paint would - and in the same fashion. Then, when you push on the welting, it looks finished. Note: this all presupposes you're adhering the wheel well carpet to the wheel well. That allows for the carpet to run up to, and up, the pinch weld. Hope this is clear.
2. It says the door welting should hold the carpet, but i'm struggling to see how that's possible. Any advice? See 1 above
3: Does the carpet cover the back seat "pivot" bracket? Or, is it cut around that? It's been so long since I installed my last 6x carpet that I can't remember. As long as you have the wheel well carpet on the correct wheel well, that small detail is really a matter of preference. If you can leave it to where the carpet covers the pivot, it will almost certainly look more finished. It just has to be otherwise trimmed enough to not interfere with the seat back operation.
4: Should that be trimmed, so that the rear cargo panels go over the carpet and secure it? I'm not sure to what you're referring by the term "that." The rear cargo panels should go over the properly-trimmed rear cargo carpet, but they don't secure anything (other than themselves to the brackets on the rear quarter panels)

Hope all that makes sense.

David
Thanks, David.
 
Third question:

Hey. Been using your pics for reference on my install. It looks like the carpet lays over the "bolt" under the gas pedal. Is that how you did it? Or, did you cut around and let that bolt come through the carpet. Thanks. I remove the bolt, cut a small hole to allow access to the threaded floor pan side, and reinstall the bolt. If you don't do this, one and, eventually, two things will occur: at the least, it'll discolor / disfigure the carpet and make it look bad. The second is that it'll eventually wear through (both are dependent upon how often your truck sees wide open throttle.....and with these old slugs, they generally see that condition a LOT! HAHA!)

David
Ok. I was on the right track. I removed the bolt and opened up a hole with the soldering iron. Thanks!
 
ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS FIRST POST:

December 14, 2024 NOTIFICATION OF 1/2/2025 MFR. PRICE INCREASE: Hey IH8MUD members, I wanted to give everyone a heads-up that I just received notification of a manufacturer price increase, effective 1/2/2025. Therefore, if you've been considering carpet for your truck (or gifting some carpet for someone else's truck), now would be a less expensive time to do it vs. after the first of 2025. Just wanted to let everyone know.

Don't forget that my carpet now comes with an in-depth installation guide! It'll help you (a) plan for your install, (b) speed up your install, and (c) prevent mistakes along the way!

Thanks,
dnp


OK. Here’s a project I’ve been working on for some time now, and it’s finally about to reach the point at which it can benefit all of us! (Well, all of us in need of carpet anyway......)

Like many of you, over time I either had, or was considering buying, a 60 or two that could stand to be restored (or at least, a little freshened up.) One of the main items I kept running across was dirty or ratty/destroyed or non-existent carpet, and I wasn’t being successful in finding the “correct” replacement carpet for them. 25 years ago, I used to mainly play around with muscle cars, so in my terminology, “correct” means the right color / texture / finishing of the carpet that would have originally come in the vehicle. Granted, only break-the-bank OEM carpet is going to exactly match what came in the vehicle, but I was looking for something that was (a) affordable, and (b) so close to OEM that you really had to know what you were looking for in order to tell the difference between aftermarket and OEM......and that was my problem. I wasn’t finding any. As a result, I set out to see if I could find a carpet manufacturer that was willing to work with me to produce what I was seeking.....primarily for the projects on which I was working at the time, but also to see if I could make it cost-effective to provide our hobby with a solid, OEM looking/performing product.

Soooo, with that goal in mind, I contacted some of the companies from whom I had bought quality carpet in earlier days, and after talking with a few, I found one who was willing to take a chance on this carpet project, even considering the small(er) size of our community. I explained to them in specific terms that my goal was to have them create a molded, nylon loop-pile carpet, in “correct” colors, with appropriate backing, and with surged edges like would have been the edge finishing from the factory. They agreed on everything.......except the color. They advised me it takes a very large fabric commitment in order for the “dye house” to offer a custom color and that they couldn’t guarantee it would match the factory colors, but it “should be pretty close.” Well, when I got that response, I advised them that was one of the main problems I had encountered in my initial search, and I saw no reason to proceed with this project if the end product was going to be incorrect like all I had found before. I told them the bottom line for me was: It’s either correct or it’s not. I reminded them that they weren’t likely going to, for instance, tell a Corvette guy that the carpet you’re selling him for his NCRS restoration is “pretty close.”.......that wouldn’t work for him, and it wouldn’t work for me.

Thankfully, the guy with whom I was working (GREAT guy, by the way) understood my position, and he went to bat for this project a second time with the executives of the company. I’m not sure how he pulled it off, but they agreed once again to take a chance on there being “enough” 60s to make it worthwhile. He told me if I had any unfaded samples of the two carpet colors in the 60, he would get them matched up......and it just so happened that I had two carpet sets, a sample of each I took from under the center console. Boom! So off we went.......

Enough of the text background to the project, here’s a visual rundown of what it took to make this project come together:

Our lovely floor pan "model" leaves the shop on the way to get her svelte measurements taken:

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Raw, straight, rust-free floor pan ready for cleaning

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Cleaned floor pan with mold being created

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More below.............

Following is an overview of the ordering instructions for the various items we offer for both FJ60s and FJ62s:


- A complete 6-piece set (front row occupant carpet/second row occupant carpet/cargo area carpet/tailgate carpet/2 rear wheel well carpet pieces)
- We also have front corresponding carpeted floor mats (driver's mat / passenger's mat / one-piece second row mat)
- For the rear, we have a corresponding carpeted cargo area mat
- Lastly, if you want bulk carpet to replace the carpet on the bottom of the door panels and cargo panels, we have that also. I've not done that replacement myself (yet), but people have told me 1 yard is a sufficient quantity to do the job

It's all a la carte pricing, so if you're interested in ordering any / all of these, please PM me and I'll respond with (shipped) pricing.

From the time I submit the order, I usually have a tracking number for the shipment in less than 48 business hours (NOTE: there have been some intermittent slow downs due to Covid, but that's the exception, not the rule.)

(P.S., You can be confident there's nothing you can do to the interior of your truck that will transform it more than this replacement carpet. The difference is simply astounding!)
 
How do I place an order and see the actual product
Send me a PM (@dnp), and give me your shipping address. I'll respond with options and pricing. As for what the product looks like, there are multiple photos on this and the FJ62 threads (links in my signature below).

Thanks,
David
 

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