So. My girlfriend had a headache, a box was delivered by UPS and sitting at my gate, and we had a 35% chance of rain. Those things added up to... an excuse to take off work!!

Naturally, after feeding a Tylenol to my girlfriend, I went straight to work on the FJ40. I quickly got the doors on, but here is the rest of the story. I bought the
@SMG door pins a while back, and it was time to use them. I followed the directions in his post about cleaning the hinges with a drill bit etc. I assembled the passenger side first with some high quality spay lube, Zep 45, but it was more difficult than I expected, a little more hammer required than I would have thought. Then for the driver side I used a Q-tip to apply assembly lube to all surfaces. That was the trick! After assembly the passenger side was immediately rock solid, but the driver side still had a rattle. Then I discovered that the driver side wasn't actually closing all the way... The latch seems to have 2 stages of closing and it was only getting half way. Then, I slammed the door and voila! The latch closed all the way and it was super tight! So now I guess I have to sleep some tonight so that I can try driving the 40 to work tomorrow to see how the doors work out. I just have to remember to slam the door in the morning... I bet there is an adjustment for that.
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Here's a sneak peek of what is coming up for my weekend project... Here's a hint.... SummitRacing had a great sale going on this week.
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