Fj40 Rain Gutter Repair

I want to see a close up picture of these thing on a real fj40 to figure out why these things are made out of gold.

Fj40 rain gutter repair.

This weather strip was custom built for ccot and is a continues strip that is 17 10 long cut extra long. Rivets are cheap but weather strip runs 55 to 275. The kit required for a 9 73 or september 1973 vehicle is 088 100b kit which fits 9 73 8 92 or vehicles built between september 1 1973 and july 31 1992. So far i ve located 2 sources for rain gutter kits.

W s fits all 40 series. W s is 17 10 long cut extra long. Fj40 rain gutter weather stripping 63 to 84 ccot s beaded weather strip hard rubber like original that fits between hard top rain gutter and hard top side walls. Use common rods rebar with flat square ends to install rivets that attach the rain gutter to the fiberglass top.

There was a lot more rust. Simple hard top to rain gutter rivet installation. I remove the roof gutter rain gutter grinding off all the rivets and cutting out all the rust and make up new repairs to weld in. Weather strip w s installation instructions.

In this example 088 100a kit fits a land cruiser built between 1963 and 9 73. We begin repairing the fiberglass roof on the 1981 toyota land cruiser fj40. Lay w s down on rain gutter w beads to outside. 220 and 350 without rivets or weather strip.

Turn hard top ht upside down. Shark teeth cut to form ht. The bottom floor rod backs up the rivet from the bottom side and the top drive rod hammers down on the rivets mushroom head causing the rivet to bell out against the flat surface of the bottom rod.