My Toyota Land Cruiser BJ40

Rear seat belt install

Well I had to do it, Drill four nice holes in the rear floor for the mounting of the rear seat belts. I had been looking for seat belts trying to decide what to do and how to mount them. I looked on line and read a little about how to secure the belts. I found a little bit of information here and there. I also was trying to go with OEM toyota seat belts but then after pricing them out , I figured it not going to really matter to me that much to have cheap-o seat belts as long as they hold people in. So I ran down to the local auto zone and started looking. Now the staff there had no idea if they had them in stock or not. So I looked and looked and was about to give up when I spotted them on the wall behind a chrome built shifted (YEA). So I was pleased to find that not only did I get the seat belts but also all the mounting hardware too. All for $15 bucks. great deal in my book...

So I go started right away and forgot to take some pictures of the process. but here are some anyway. I measured and drilled four holes , filled them down a little, then painted the top and underside with Rust zero. Let dry , then inserted bolts and tightened everything down. These things are stout and I would not worry about them ever pulling through. Then I mounted up the kids car seats , loaded up the wife and we all went for our first family BJ40 ride.... What a great feeling to see the smiles on the kids faces. The wife even said that she enjoyed it. Now she is asking about how we can fix that cruiser lean. : - )

posted by Fuel @ 5:38 AM 0 comments

Hard top hung / best top install

Best top install on mybj40, it sure is nice when the parts and the instructions all line up and even if you have to be a little creative at times , due to the nature of old trucks, its nice to have most things fit perfect.

I also worked to hang my hard top from the garage ceiling so that the top would not be in the way and that the wife can start to park back in the garage. I thought that this would be easier than it turned out to be. I think it just took a lot longer to get the top in position and hung. Pictures to follow. I also installed safety straps to make double sure that things dont fall back to earth.

posted by Fuel @ 1:02 PM 0 comments

POR crazy and beer = ho no

Well from here it is look great.....But late night in the garage with a beer I went a little over board and I might have POR over some holes... O well.


But it still looks good. And then I went on to POR the top of my windshield in prep for soft top mounting.


You can see the nive clean edge. This was all temp work to hold me over on a complete strip down and repaint. I wont get to that for a few years so . until then POR the crap out of things.

posted by Fuel @ 6:17 PM 0 comments