Step 15 – Mount the door reinforcement plate you fabricated to the underside of your Lexus GX470’s rear door using one of the OEM bolts that held the door stopper in place and the second 10mm ball stud. The 10mm ball stud should mount into the original recessed nut hole on the undersi...
In some applications, a ballistic fiberglass cloth known as woven roving is used to line the interior of the body. The windows of the truck are either made up of several layers of automotive glass or of layers of glass mixed with layers of bullet-resistant optical plastic. ...
Here, too, there was a sporty SE, an option group with uprated suspension, larger wheels and tires, mellow exhaust, less exterior chrome, console-mount shifter for the mandatory four-speed automatic transaxle, a shorter final drive for snappier step-off, and a full set of large, legible g...
With that frustrating task behind me and my knuckle bandaged, I move on to the rewarding part: dropping on the body. The upper shell—roof, rocker panels and front fenders—is fiberglass; the lower parts that are subject to abuse, such as the bumpers and rear fenders, are carbon fiber. ...