Fj40 Rain Gutter Repair

Simple hard top to rain gutter rivet installation.

Fj40 rain gutter repair.

W s is 17 10 long cut extra long. W s fits all 40 series. We begin repairing the fiberglass roof on the 1981 toyota land cruiser fj40. 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.

In this example 088 100a kit fits a land cruiser built between 1963 and 9 73. 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. 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.

Clean rain gutter free of debris. 220 and 350 without rivets or weather strip. 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.

Weather strip w s installation instructions. Lay w s down on rain gutter w beads to outside. 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.

Turn hard top ht upside down. 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. Ccot exclusive rain gutter weather stripping great solution to an otherwise expensive problem.