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Had a bug up my ass about not taking the top of the cruiser this year, so instead I took the top off of the 4runner.
all the tools I needed, in addition to brute strength. The 4runner top is easily harder to lift off and carry by oneself.
Funny, because today's projects started with cleaning out the Trooper and downloading some excess gear.
Now to see if a truck toolbox fits in the back.
Can't wait to get the soft top on there. Don't think the hardtop is ever going to go back on the 4runner.
 
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Oh ya Sam now your ready for summer!!!
 
Stumpalama said:
What was the coping saw for?!
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My "custom" roof rack needed to be cut at the cab/rear roof line.
Truck toolbox fits pretty well behind the roll cage and tailgate. Now I just need to reinstall the rear bench seat and fill the truck with barely clothed fun women. Its a convertible and lifted truck driven by a madman.
 
sold the camry for a song and a dance, but I dont feel too bad about it. The guy drove down from baltimore and will transplant the engine into his 91camry.
So, had the plates in the windows for only a few hours waiting on the buyer to show, and not "properly affixed to the vehicle." It feels odd to pay a parking ticket on a car I no longer own...
 
Hello everyone,
Long time TLCA memeber and former (now coming back) Capital LC Club member. I will be at the next meeting in August to meet, greet, mingle, and show off my 1987 FJ60 or 1971 FJ40.

What am I working on?... Well, I have a 1971 windshield popout issue that is currently without resolve and I may need some local help and advice. The windshield has popped out twice at highway speed after being professionally installed. I have posted to the Mud FJ40 Tech forum, it is helpful but I am unable to get a definetive solution. The windshield tech is standing behind his work, which is a good thing but we want to avoid past mistakes. The link is here:
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/71-fj40-windshield-popout.813135/

Any help you guys can provide is appriciated and worthy of a round of beer. : )
 
BlackPanzer said:
Hello everyone,
Long time TLCA memeber and former (now coming back) Capital LC Club member. I will be at the next meeting in August to meet, greet, mingle, and show off my 1987 FJ60 or 1971 FJ40.

What am I working on?... Well, I have a 1971 windshield popout issue that is currently without resolve and I may need some local help and advice. The windshield has popped out twice at highway speed after being professionally installed. I have posted to the Mud FJ40 Tech forum, it is helpful but I am unable to get a definetive solution. The windshield tech is standing behind his work, which is a good thing but we want to avoid past mistakes. The link is here:
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/71-fj40-windshield-popout.813135/

Any help you guys can provide is appriciated and worthy of a round of beer. : )
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Either the installer didn't put in the lock strip at the bottom, or your glass is undersized, or both. You state you don't see any Toyota markings on the glass. That tells me it is a custom cut piece of windshield glass, probably cut undersized. Get a OEM windshield, and the lock strip if you need it. The glass will stay in place.
 
BlackPanzer said:
Hello everyone,
Long time TLCA memeber and former (now coming back) Capital LC Club member. I will be at the next meeting in August to meet, greet, mingle, and show off my 1987 FJ60 or 1971 FJ40.

What am I working on?... Well, I have a 1971 windshield popout issue that is currently without resolve and I may need some local help and advice. The windshield has popped out twice at highway speed after being professionally installed. I have posted to the Mud FJ40 Tech forum, it is helpful but I am unable to get a definetive solution. The windshield tech is standing behind his work, which is a good thing but we want to avoid past mistakes. The link is here:
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/71-fj40-windshield-popout.813135/

Any help you guys can provide is appriciated and worthy of a round of beer. : )
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Welcome Panzer. We look forward to seeing you next Wednesday. As far as the windshield goes, after reading the thread at the link you posted and not seeing the glass/weather strip in person, I have to suspect that the glass is a tad too small. I can't add much more than has already been posted on the thread, but I know there are at least two sizes for FJ40 window glass so maybe yours is the wrong one.
 
Got my anit-wrap bar built and installed before CMCC. It did its job (as far as I know), didn't break and didn't change the suspension characteristics at all, that I can tell.

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installed a softopper soft top on the 4runner, preparing to monstaline the exterior desert tan, replaced CAT to fix a reoccuring exhaust leak, and discovered a stripped out exhaust manifold stud(of course it is the rear most one)

Does anyone have a right angle drill I could borrow for a few hours? I need to helicoil the stud hole in the engine which is conveniently a PITA to reach and drill straight. i have electricity and air avail to power the tool.

I'll likely also chop out some rear fender rust and rivet the outer and inner skins together, then fold a seam from outside to inside and seal it all with magnet paints chassis saver.
 
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After seeing the power tank in action, and in the raffle at CMCC '14, I knew I wanted one.

I built my own a few weeks ago for about $200.



1-Aluminum co2 tank
1-150psi static regulator
1-200psi air hose/fittings from harbor freight.
1-ARB inflator with air gauge.
1-Power tank sticker from cmcc driver packet.
 
Nice Austin. If you wanted to run an air tool, you could just add an inline regulator at the tool to get down to 40-90psi.
 
Looks good Austin. Give me the diameter of your tank I may have a mount for you. I have an oiler/reg for mine it works awesome with my finish nailer. When my pancake compressor regulator got stuck.
 
I can refill/recharge at Maryland Fire Equipment for 28$, 5-10 minute wait, and local for me. I haven't tried Roberts Oxygen yet but heard it's cheaper; However, they would take my tank and give me their company stamped steel tank in exchange.
 
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