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Clueless 69 FJ40 build

Jcbmx

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Looking good!

You should talk to Nakman about a rack. I would buy one of his, no question, if either of my cruisers would fit in my garage with one. ;)

Thank you, I've never heard of those before. They're exactly what I'm wanting, plus local?!?!!
 

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I was just curious if anybody has experience with these? Specter off-road offers them and I'm looking to get away from my plano sportsman's tote that monopolizes my back, cargo area and doesn't allow one jump seat to fold down at all times. I like to carry gear and before I go DIY, maybe some opinions on this would be beneficial. Also, I need a place to put some rear speakers. I was thinking of building a full width box that goes around the rear heater and fits in the area where the floor drops down....but it's not much storage.
 

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Revive activated!

So I'm the idiot who enjoys their vehicle in the summer/Colorado warm months and works on it in the winter in a non heated garage with zero insulation to where the garage somehow manages to be colder than it is outside without fail. Needless to say, while looking for the bolts to my rear heater so I can reinstall it because I'm paranoid about my kids kicking the heater core again and putting a leak in it, resulting in me removing it during the warm nine months. I stumbled across these two items:

The OG ignition came with the 40and while I installed a Spectre off-road one I would much rather have the original part, which the same key happens to also match all the doors. The "lock function " of the ignition doesn't work and somebody could steal the vehicle with a screwdriver. My question is: does anybody know of a local-ish to Denver area place that could fix it? Maybe even cut another key

The second is something of a riddle. I found this fuse/relay while putting my 40 back together and still have no clue where it goes
 

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I'm just going to keep throwing out SOS's and hoping someone chimes in knowing my answer ha ha. I love a good old horn button. I don't care much about the horn, I don't use them… Kind of grew up thinking of them as fighting words. I didn't even wire up my horn because of this issue… but I did do the rest of the car.

I tried to get the horn button on to no avail It seems like the nut that holds the steering wheel on is in the way. Any advice on order of operations/assembly?
 

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I would study the horn button diagrams at www.sor.com or a FSM and see how the pieces are supposed to fit. It looks like you have all of them. It could be that one of those horn bits is supposed to go under the nut (?). https://www.sor.com/cat190.sor


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