Fj40 Rain Gutter Repair

There was a lot more rust.

Fj40 rain gutter repair.

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. Rivets are cheap but weather strip runs 55 to 275. 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. W s fits all 40 series.

Weather strip w s installation instructions. Lay w s down on rain gutter w beads to outside. 220 and 350 without rivets or weather strip. Clean rain gutter free of debris.

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. 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. Ccot exclusive rain gutter weather stripping great solution to an otherwise expensive problem. Simple hard top to rain gutter rivet installation.

So far i ve located 2 sources for rain gutter kits. The ending month year means this part fits vehicles up to but not including september 1973 or vehicles built between january 1 1963 and august 31 1973. Turn hard top ht upside down. We begin repairing the fiberglass roof on the 1981 toyota land cruiser fj40.

Use common rods rebar with flat square ends to install rivets that attach the rain gutter to the fiberglass top. This weather strip was custom built for ccot and is a continues strip that is 17 10 long cut extra long. In this example 088 100a kit fits a land cruiser built between 1963 and 9 73.