Rear fender liner of sorts

[SteveH]

Ever since I bought my FJ40 in 1990, I have been annoyed at the rear sill area collecting crud. After 35 years , it was time to do something about it. I also live on a short dirt road, which makes constant dirt a problem.

I installed mud flaps way back when, and decided to now mount an 'upper' mud flap that would protect the sill area from flying mud. I had a stiff pair of 12" wide by 18" tall flaps, and cut them down to 13.5" and mounted them to my existing mud flap bar. See photos.

If I didn't have period-correct cool mud flaps, I would just buy a 24" tall mud flap on eBay, cut it half, and then make it extend from the inner fender top all the way down where a regular mud flap goes. The new flap is held in place by the fender support and sort-of jammed into the sides of the fender. I greased the heck out of the sill area (now hidden behind the flap).

The first photo shows the newly cut 'upper flap', the 2nd one shows it installed (inside the rear fender area) and the last one shows my regular old flap. The flaps are mounted on a piece of modified angle iron bolted to the taillight housing hole and the very edge of the fender.

 

[Living in the Past]

70-72 era IS imported FJ40s has an emissions tank up in the passenger's.rear wheel well. These tanks had a skid plate. Created a wheel well opening similar to front side. Skid plate has two fixed nuts used at the front to mount it..then to the bottom of the emissions tank. These would work to protect an auxiliary tank fill or like your doing protect back of the wheel and well as the corner of the rear of the tub where the rear sill ends. I collect a few of these skid plates over the years. Not sure if that Land Cruiser grave yard in Northern Colorado would still have any. 1980s and 1990s wasn't hard to find 40s in wrecking yards.