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You are the man! Now to compare to a 60 lead and see what I get. Fingers crossed the 40 lead is longer.
Thanks to you, that resolves my question. The 40 series lead is 8.5" longer than the 60 series counterpart. Woo!
This is great work. Where'd you find the L shaped yellow crank handle thing for the jack extensions? I've got the jack and extensions but missing that piece. It's not still available is it?So my dive into the tool kit went further than anticipated. I wanted it to be like factory but with a few additions and artistic liberties since the bag style changed, so if we're talking Pebble Beach...no this isn't 100% original to February 1978, but it makes me happy enough.
As far as tools go, I ordered the full suite of what I could from Amayama along with a new bag. Instead of the plastic handle driver I grabbed the Vessel versions and added a hammer and 6 wrenches with KTC clip instead of the usual two wrenches and plastic clip.
The fun started with the tool bag mounts, since I couldn't locate a set that I enjoyed, I started with an L bracket reproduction from Heritage Cruisers. For the bag strap, I ordered two options (since I have a mint original cad clip) and two strap fastener options, both from Toyota Coasters. After seeing what vehicles used this style strap I jumped over to the Coasters and found they use the same tool kit design as the 40, up to 2022, with minor changes so I ordered both options and this is what I found.
The 2000s Toyota Coaster uses this style clamp which is by far the closest to the factory style.
Toyota switched over to this style later and it crosswalks to the USA market as a oil line bracket, so its cheap and accessible stateside. Here's a comparison of the two.
I went with the earlier design since it matches the most to original but I can definitely see the benefit of the redesign.
For bag bands, there's two sizes that I found that work, just depends on how big your toolkit is. I went with the strap on the left due to how full my bag is now. Left would be for a '79-'84 J4x. The right would be '76-'79. I ordered both because I wasn't sure how big I needed.
What took a month or so to assemble...went together in 5 minutes.
If folks want to use the easy stateside option, this is what it looks like short of the L bracket. DISREGARD PART NUMBER. I had the wrong bag underneath during photo. The correct number is above ; 58705-27010.
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Much appreciated. BTW, searched my three spare carbs and no solenoid brackets. Sorry.
Appreciate you checking! These are some outrageously nitpicky items I'm hunting for, but that;'s the fun right?
…… @OPMACHINE makes a really nice one
You’re right! That’s the best OTC option yet….sucks it costs more than the winch but that’s the way it goes…
CD! Driving my life away these days, you? One day we will share another beer on Imogene. The oem was my initial option until I saw @OPMACHINE ’s.
I’ll have to look - there’s the fella that sells the bumper reinforcement for the stock bumper but the HFS is so cheap I’m conflicted!
I have yes! Toyota still sells them though in black - many Japanese market cars come with a wheel chock I’ve noticed - my old skyline had a pair as well in yellow.
Nice. Mine is thoroughly mangled, and not super practical, but cool! The fact it collapses is cool.
