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What did you do on your 70 series today? (35 Viewers)
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Ouch.
My factory telescoping antenna broke off at a weak point right at the base. trying to machine, solder, drill, an adapter to use a $4 parts store rubber antenna didn't work. Love spending more than an hour on something that is totally fruitless.
Doesn't help that the factory antenna assembly requires half the front end to come off in order to remove.
Doesn't help that the factory antenna assembly requires half the front end to come off in order to remove.
I replaced my antenna with an original one without taking anything apart. Drop the old one with a wire and use the same wire to bring up the new one. Then its just one nut to tighten. The pain was feeding the cable into the cabin. Al these on LJ, hope HZJ is not much different.
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Nope. not even.
well, just looked on japan-parts and both 1986 LJ 73 and 1990 PZJ70 share the same antena 86300-90K01.
Unless the cars have completely different side wing configuration, look if u can feed the antena from the underneath into the wing and dont drop the old one without the "salvage wire"
I only remember I had a hard time to feed the cable to the radio(maybe salvage wire again?). Cable has a rubber grommet to seal the hole as its going through the firewall. That operation was difficult.
But I did not dismantled anything....
Unless the cars have completely different side wing configuration, look if u can feed the antena from the underneath into the wing and dont drop the old one without the "salvage wire"
I only remember I had a hard time to feed the cable to the radio(maybe salvage wire again?). Cable has a rubber grommet to seal the hole as its going through the firewall. That operation was difficult.
But I did not dismantled anything....
What about the bottom bracket?
if the bottom bracket is what takes the nut in the picture, then no problem to bring the bracket to the fender and fix the nut. I despaired with the cable, not with the antena itself.
the cable is also very short and needs carefull routing to reach the radio.
mind you, I have an LJ, not a heavyduty one.
the cable is also very short and needs carefull routing to reach the radio.
mind you, I have an LJ, not a heavyduty one.
GTSSportCoupe
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That's exactly how the antenna in my LJ78 looks. I removed my (broken) one without removing the fender also. Don't remember how I did it, but it was trick indeed. I think I may have use wire also (like Alexy). I was to cheap to buy a new OEM one, so put in an aftermarket one.
Got some things buttoned up today, hopefully I can finish this and have the truck running before Christmas.
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I have a clutch booster and there is no access up in there without pulling it all. Even then I am not sure my small hand would fit.
Other Cruisers have a plastic access panel so you can get up to it from the bottom. I pulled the inner fender but I needed to for other work anyways.
Cheers
Well I gave up trying to remove the factory antenna and the bolt I couldn't reach. So I pushed it down into the hole for now, put a plug on and ran one of these cheapo stick on antennas from Amazon. Too cold to monkey with all this outside for very long lol.
FJBen
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Anyone have any idea of what this is?
That is a DC outlet commonly used in marine applications. An example can be seen here:
WEST MARINE Two-Pin Electrical Connector | West Marine
WEST MARINE Two-Pin Electrical Connector | West Marine
c2dfj45
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Looks like we're ready to ship the strut kits....struts arrived today. Going to reach out to those of you who expressed interest in a kit with payment instructions and hopefully get these things out right after Christmas.
Narrow nose
Wide nose
Narrow nose
Wide nose
FJBen
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Nice, so basically rear power, Marine version.
Someone put quite a bit of thought into this rig.
The old gal has been shelved off to the side of my father in law's house under a tree and the birds have been treating it poorly. I spent all day today giving it a bath and tomorrow it gets new Koito H4 headlamps courtesy of beno
Why is that jewel "shelved off to the side"?The old gal has been shelved off to the side of my father in law's house under a tree and the birds have been treating it poorly. I spent all day today giving it a bath and tomorrow it gets new Koito H4 headlamps courtesy of beno
Truthfully I have three vehicles up here to pick from and two of them are other than "Utah-salted-road" suitable. The Challenger SRT8 is a summer car by design and we all know how 70 Series Cruisers respond to road salt. I am reduced to subjecting my FZJ80 to a salt bath.
I wish I could afford a throwaway POS to operate in the winter.
I wish I could afford a throwaway POS to operate in the winter.
