What is this?

[Clyde-2]

What purpose does this black piece of metal, located in the glove box of my 40 serve?
Air vent protector of some kind? It takes up a lot of glove box space.

 

[spotcruiser]

Grill for the radio speaker. Easy to take out.
There's probably a hole in the right side of the glove box for the speaker also, which you may want to cover.

Todd Bull.

 

[Clyde-2]

Thanks Todd..............so you had to open the box to listen to the radio!?!

 

[spotcruiser]

Thanks Todd..............so you had to open the box to listen to the radio!?!

No. As I recall, the speaker was aimed out the hole on the right side of the box. There's an inch or two of open space between the right side of the glovebox and the side of the truck above the passenger footwell. The grill piece protected the backside of the speaker. :^)

Yep, high quality sound system.

 

[nuclearlemon]

wow. don't think i've seen one of those that hasn't been beat to s***

 

[Landpimp]

my 66 fj45 came with a different version

both my 82 fj40's have the OEM glove box speaker

 

[lunap]

What ever you do, dont take it out!!!! Your amazingly rich and surround-sounding cruiser audio will then sound like crap that cant be heard over the engine. Remember, I warned you.

 

[Clyde-2]

Had to take it out. Needed the glove box space. Didn't have the speaker in it anyway.
I now have Bose 151 outdoor speakers picking up the slack from my lose of high quality Toyota sound!!