What are these
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They mount on your door hinge when the door is removed and hold the end of the oem door straps
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So I was lucky enough to get a Fj40 from an original owner and it has these straps that go across the door opening. Does anyone have a picture of how they are supposed to connect near the front hinge. There is a shoulder bolt where they connect to the frame by the door latch.
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Oh, OK. I was thinking of making some half doors out of tube and just using stock door latches out secure them. I didn't know they had a safety strap that took place of the door.
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Looks like a difficult way make it safer. I think I'd rather remove the doors by pulling the pivot pins and leaving half of the hinge on the door. I made seat belt attachment bracket points on the roll cage so that I have seat belts with the top off.
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Safety straps were always included with FST models. Originally the used a eye bolt on the dash and special bolt at the top of the tub behind the B pillar. Not sure when those mounting points were replaced by the bar on the front door hinge and door catch. To my knowledge 1/76 when three point seat belts were required in the US that any soft top models were imported to the US. Seat didn't move the the roll bar until 2/78. From a while in the second half of the seventies those bars and safety straps that bolted to the hard door catch were included with the sale of the FJ40 hard top models. Never found any of the bars but do have a pair of the straps still in the package.
Haven't figured out when the eyebolt were replaced by the bar. My 73 FST still has the eyebolts. Funny that after the end of the eyebolts the hole in the dash remained. The A pillar only had the thread hole on FST. That hole in the dash remained for a long time. It was also there on early hard top models. Just the cut for the column shift in the bottom of the dash remained. Would thought from 9/73 it would have went away. That and the instrument cluster would have switched back to the FJ25 which didn't have the notch for the column shift there were all floor mounted four speeds with no low range in the transfer case.
Haven't figured out when the eyebolt were replaced by the bar. My 73 FST still has the eyebolts. Funny that after the end of the eyebolts the hole in the dash remained. The A pillar only had the thread hole on FST. That hole in the dash remained for a long time. It was also there on early hard top models. Just the cut for the column shift in the bottom of the dash remained. Would thought from 9/73 it would have went away. That and the instrument cluster would have switched back to the FJ25 which didn't have the notch for the column shift there were all floor mounted four speeds with no low range in the transfer case.
Mind you, these were available when seat belts were not standard features on cars. 'Safety' is all relative. They held you in the car better than no seat belts at all, but they didn't do much for you when a '56 Packard Patrician T-boned you at a red light.
Just pulled these pics from my Toyota microfiche dated Jan '81 for the period from 03/69 to 07/80. Check parts ID'd as 55191, 61170, 61180, 61190, and 61191.
