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View Poll Results: If you are experiencing body rips or bulges with your FJ, what setup are you running?
Stock bumper, no lift 110 30.47%
Stock bumper, w/lift 37 10.25%
Stock bumper, w/lift and 285/70 17's 35 9.70%
ARB bumper, no lift 3 0.83%
ARB bumper, with lift 15 4.16%
ARB bumper, w/lift and 285/70 17's 30 8.31%
WARN bumper, no lift 2 0.55%
WARN bumper, w/lift 13 3.60%
WARN bumper w/lift and 285/70 17's 10 2.77%
ARB bumper, w/lift, and 255/85 16's 1 0.28%
ARB bumper, w/lift and 315/75 16's 6 1.66%
Demello bumper, no lift 2 0.55%
Demello bumper, w/lift 6 1.66%
Demello bumper, w/lift and 285/70 17's 5 1.39%
Road Armour bumper, no lift 0 0%
Road Armour bumper, w/lift 8 2.22%
Road Armour bumper, w/lift and 285/70 17's 6 1.66%
All-Pro Bumper, no lift 4 1.11%
All-Pro Bumper, w/ Lift 11 3.05%
All-Pro Bumper, w/ lift & 285s 29 8.03%
Stock with Skid Plates 28 7.76%
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Old 08-14-2007, 08:27 PM   #511
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Ah, love... its such a fickle and fleeting thing. It's so difficult to find the right one... court her... woo her... capture her imagination... light the fire of her passion, and then stoke the inferno of her insatiable lust all night long... and then remember her name in the morning.

In long term relationships, though, you have to get past that awkward phase, and look forward to the second date. You have to pull out all the stops. You have to commit. Sometimes you even have to swipe her driver's license.

Loving a car is very similar (except you don't have to use "protection"). Once the honeymoon period is over, you start to notice the drips in your driveway and the intractible twist in the steering wheel and that the rear bumper sags. You have to get past that. You have to develop a RELATIONSHIP.

In a relationship with a car, you have to decide that for better or worse, you're going to stick by that car and keep it going. You're going to invest the time and energy necessary to do whatever it takes to make her purr. You're going to be there for her, even if it sometimes seems like she's not there for you.

... and if you can't take it anymore and you scream "F - this!" you can always have her towed away and replace her with a hot new sporty model fresh off the line.


God, I love this country...
Jon, you forgot to mention the fact that with a CAR you can send it back to the people that brought her into this world and say "HEY! Fix this crap! And give me a loaner in the mean time!"
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Ah, love... its such a fickle and fleeting thing. It's so difficult to find the right one... court her... woo her... capture her imagination... light the fire of her passion, and then stoke the inferno of her insatiable lust all night long... and then remember her name in the morning.

In long term relationships, though, you have to get past that awkward phase, and look forward to the second date. You have to pull out all the stops. You have to commit. Sometimes you even have to swipe her driver's license.

Loving a car is very similar (except you don't have to use "protection"). Once the honeymoon period is over, you start to notice the drips in your driveway and the intractible twist in the steering wheel and that the rear bumper sags. You have to get past that. You have to develop a RELATIONSHIP.

In a relationship with a car, you have to decide that for better or worse, you're going to stick by that car and keep it going. You're going to invest the time and energy necessary to do whatever it takes to make her purr. You're going to be there for her, even if it sometimes seems like she's not there for you.

... and if you can't take it anymore and you scream "F - this!" you can always have her towed away and replace her with a hot new sporty model fresh off the line.


God, I love this country...
Jon, your to much sometimes buddy Well spoken
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Loving a car is very similar (except you don't have to use "protection").
It's called a seatbelt. Let's be responsible now
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TRD bought in January 10-k miles

checked the spots and thought i saw a crack but it's 100% clean....just drips of muddy water in that spot that wiped away revealing clean metal.
Seems to be a spot where those dimples are very close together...may help weaken that one spot??

Also hood attached firmly so far...
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Oh no jumpin' but a LOT of off road thumpin'
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Them New York streets are something.
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Well, I just finished reading 516 posts without stopping (my brain hurts)...must be a record. Happy to report no cracks/bulging. I've had OME heavy on the front and medium on the rear for about 15k miles, with Fab Four front bumper and Warn Powerplant winch, with moderate offroad use.

The most surprising thing is that with the exception of a couple lawyer bashing posts it was all CIVIL.

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Bernd, I'll be taking mine in this week with JON if he ever nails down a time. I spoke with Toyota Corporate yesterday and started a case file, directed them to this site and thread and told them there had been some complaints filed with NHTSA for possible recall issues (just to get them to speed up their response.)
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This is a smooth flat spot just before the bulge.


One side of the bulge.

front side of bulge.

And finally my super none modded FJ!



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Thats what we need. Stock rigs with the problem. I'm sorry you have it, but Toyota needs to see these most of all.
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