no inner guards

Post by **pcman** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:36 pm

im looking at cutting the front inner guards off my fj40 for looks mainly is there a reason not to do this apart from getting crap flicked up at the engine from the wheels ???

i thought id seen someones 40 with no inner guards but ive looked today and cant find anything on this

cheers
pcman

Post by **bad_religion_au** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:04 pm

they help keep your dizzy dry, keep crap outta the engine bay...

Post by **pcman** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:07 pm

yes i guessed that they would keey the dizzy dry but i plan on working something out around that to keep it nice and dry if i do decide to do the chop

Post by **hj 45** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:02 pm

Er......it'd look crappy with no inner guards.

Post by **Swifty** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:06 pm

How do you hold up the outer guards?

Post by **pcman** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:11 pm

Swifty wrote:How do you hold up the outer guards?

have mig will mod

just have it all attatched really well together

im leaning towards leaving them there but there just annoying to me

will see what tomorrow brings

Post by **Tojo** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:12 pm

i'm looking at cutting the front inner guards off my fj40 for looks mainly is there a reason not to do this

lots of reasons. Looks, structural strength of the guards, ingress of mud, water, sticks etc, no where to mount things, the list goes on and on

Post by **ToyTruck** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:27 pm

pcman ..... what can you see your benifits being ??????????

BTW i chopped out mine but replaced them straight away with conveyor belt rubber ... i only chopped them to fit shocks not for the REALLY COOL look :roll:

Post by **pcman** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:47 pm

lighter,
less stuffing about to attatch with the bodylift,
more engine bay room,
more airflow,
cause i can

something like that

and ive been tempted to make the whole front end lift off/tilt front for easier workings and id have to remove the inner guards to do that anyway

Post by **ToyTruck** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:02 pm

hmmm your reasons are

mmmmm yes definately go for it :roll:

BUT if your interested .. ive spoken to a few guys with fibreglass flip front ends and they regretted it , didnt flip far enough .

as for the more air flow i agree but it isnt worth the damage done to the electrics IE starter motor .... more airflow out of the engine bay doesnt help unless you can get more air in the front .
i made up a couple of vent ducts on the front (will take pics and post later)
dont get me wrong ........ not knocking your ideas , just make sure you have access to belt rubber or simillar cause you will need it after your first winter / mud run

Post by **pcman** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:15 pm

i like being different

my main reason is that ive gotta pull it all apart to straighten it and rebolt it together you see my truck was rolled at 80kmph thats why its now mine and all i did was bash the front end into shape to get it legal and now its really starting to fall apart so im thinkin that while its all off the truck it would be a good time to do some mods

owell ill see what happens as tomorrow progresses lol

cheers for your advice

Post by **Tojo** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:50 pm

if you do it post up pics!

Post by **bad_religion_au** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:50 pm

yeah mine has some form of fabric, it never stays attached...it's fawked,

Post by **pcman** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:03 pm

didnt end up removing the whole lot but removed a section the brackets that go fron the iner guard to the chassi dont line up so i just trimmed them off so it looks normal front end is still solid just hope it stays that way

photos tomorrow and i realised that i forgot to locktite all the bolts WAAAAAAAAAAA gotta loosen them all off and add some locktite to everything

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