Ke10 Smokers Vent Rubbers

[artinvest]

I have replaced all of my rubbers and the dreaded vents were the last to get done, and so I have just installed a brand new drivers side smokers vent rubber using an early 80's toyota vent rubber - considering there isn't already a forum with images on the subject I thought Id start one.

 

A WORD OF WARNING: For those of you thinking about replacing the rubbers in your ke10 my advice is make bluddy sure you need them replaced - the chrome strips around the front and back window are a nightmare that will bring even the toughest to tears replacing and trying to find a boot rubber that does the job is crazy. If you have decided to do it then good luck

 

 

Anyhow;

 

I order the two rubbers (left and right sides), they differ sligthly from the original ke10 rubbers as the originals are 2 piece and the hilux is a single piece. I bought them off an American ebay seller and they cost me about $50 delivered for the pair.

 

The toyota part numbers for the rubbers are (left side) 68182-89104 and (right side) 68181-89104. I searched everywhere and finally tracked down the part numbers I tried calling toyota in Australia however they told me there was NO chance of them getting them. The bloke I got them off had about 10 sets left and his American ebay id is griffithmotorsparts.

 

So how did they fit:

 

After stuffing around for 20 minutes feeding the rubber into the frame track I realised that I was oh so ʞ©$ɟing close to a perfect fit but just not there, so back out it came.

 

Then for plan B:

 

After I pushed and glued (I wouldn't normally glue but as you will see I had to with this job) the rubber into the bottom front corner of the bracket (I used a shelleys araldite that I have used previously on a similar job and it works well), after it set I pushed the remaining rubber into the tracks and it fit well. In order to get the extra 5mm I was short I pulled the rubber and glued it in the top corner of the smokers vent bracket.

 

When the glue set I was still about 2 or 3 mm off in a few places in the top corner. Because these new rubbers are a single piece you will need to glue the back edge of the rubber to the frame

 

I then used shelleys windscreen sealant (black) to fill in the gap and tidy up the corners.

 

Overall the job was pretty easy, and took about half an hour the vent rotates well in the rubbers and is a super tight fit when closed - mostly due to the new rubber. Below are a number of images of the job

 

 

 

 

This is a picture of one of the new rubbers - notice that it is a single piece unlike the original rubber that is a 2 piece design

Edited April 11, 2014 by artinvest

[philbey]

Smokers vent. Interesting name. These were always the old demister window for me!

 

THanks for the advice. Are you saying that getting the window rubbers with the chrome insert is impossible though?>

[artinvest]

I was makeing general talk about the windscreen and rear window rubbers - when you get the ke10 reproduction rubber kit from Scotts (or whereever you get it from) it comes with the channel and you have to push the original chrome strip into the channel - it is very tedious and everytime you get a bit in the end pops out, I found that if I taped it every 10cm as I was doing it, it stopped coming out.

 

Smokers vent is probably a bit politically iincorrect even as a non smoker I have always called them the smokers vent - funny how names stick

[parrot]

08/1978-02/1984 TOYOTA HILUX RN3*,4*,LN3*,4*

 

08/1978-06/1983 TOYOTA PICKUP RN3*,4*,LN40

 

03/1979-01/2000 TOYOTA STOUT RK110,YK110

 

Good info. Project Sprinter as you may have seen is looking to make the 2 piece sets as he already has for KE15/17's. Not sure how far away they are.

[TRD ke70]

Also known as "front quarter glasses"

[Feral4K]

yep 1/4 glass!...

[67Rolla-Ken]

I spent several days trying to get those chrome strips into the windscreen rubbers. In the end I gave up and got a professional out, still took him several hours to get both windows fitted.