I have two '76s and a '78 and they are all flat side inboard. I don't know about the '76s, but I have never removed the bumperetts from the '78 and I drove it off the Toyota lot new back in Dec 77.
Oddly enough, I've seen factory literature with the bezels upside down.
I think Steve was right. Toyota put them on both ways. Pick the one you like best.
Because it put the biting part of the step closer to the middle. That is where you and I get in. It is ergonomically advantageous like that. How ever it looks better the other way.
Because it put the biting part of the step closer to the middle. That is where you and I get in. It is ergonomically advantageous like that. How ever it looks better the other way.
I've just looked at my cruiser, the Toyota EPC, and various other "Toyota parts publications" and the bumperettes all appear as "curved side inwards".
Well .... the parts-publication-images I've looked at suggest to me "curved side facing inwards" but perhaps I'm just "adjusting my eye to suit what I want to see"?
What do you reckon? ....
(I admit the pics aren't exactly clearcut about which is the curved side.)
PS. Toyota assembly-line staff have been proven before to have made mistakes when assembling our 40-series cruisers (and "mistakes affecting multiple vehicles" ... not just the odd mistake).
I do believe the design engineers would NOT have intended "either/or mounting" but would have settled on a particular way ... otherwise I think they'd have made the curve on each side (or "lack of curve") uniform.
That line drawing shows the curve side facing inwards. It would have likely been easier and more cost effective to make the bumperettes symmetric, so the fact that only one side is curved had a purpose to at least somebody during the design process.
There is a answer to the confusion. Someone who needs them order them from Toyota. Last time I check both left and right were still available new. Part numbers will tell you which is right and which is left.
There is a answer to the confusion. Someone who needs them order them from Toyota. Last time I check both left and right were still available new. Part numbers will tell you which is right and which is left.
From Toyota, that's what I did. But like a dumb-ass, I was so excited to check them out that I took'm out of the packaging and ran out to my rig. I never paused long enough to read the package label identifying which was which.
I called Spector because I know they have some on the shelf(Toyota was special order), and the guy went back and pulled one, reporting back that the straight side goes out, curved side in.
