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1983 Toyota Hilux windshield glass, can't find it anywhere! Help!

IowaOffRoad

IowaOffRoad

Imperator Donvaldus Ioannes
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I've searched the web, and can only seem to locate one vendor that maybe has NOS OEM for $750. As I broke my current one off road, and I'm probably going to break any new one off road, this is unacceptable. Surely someone here has been in the same predicament, and can share their sources? Since these trucks have reached "classic" status, I have a hard time believing that no one makes a replacement.
Let this also be a lesson to all to secure your shit inside the cab better as a loose screw pin shackle inside the cab during a flop did my current one in :mad3:.
 
ya give an auto glass place a call, windshields on the web a little weird to search for

searched 83 toyota pickup windshield and found later model windshields

searched later model windshields and didnt find shit

found alot of supra and mr2 windshields for some reason :laughing:
 
Makes sense. Dude has engineer under his name but isn’t smart enough to call a glass place. :lmao::lmao:
 
I had my 83 done by some random outdoor place next to a pick n pull for 100 bucks. There's glass for the first gens out there.
 
I had a windshield done in an 83 toyota by the first glass shop I called for like $120 they are available just make some calls.
 
TTMotorsports: Was the shop you got it from a national chain? I'm about 90 miles from any of the national retailers.

Aisin said:
Makes sense. Dude has engineer under his name but isn’t smart enough to call a glass place. :lmao::lmao:
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I called both my local glass places. They each have a different supplier (neither is safelite). Got a response of no longer available. Never got a response from the local body shop that uses safelite (I think). Turned to the internet, then here. Sorry I didn't explain well enough before.
 
Don't call it a hilux since they never sold them here and they probably have no idea wtf you are talking about?
 
Slander said:
Fag:flipoff2:
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we'll see who is laughing when your dick is in my mouth :flipoff2:


the bitches at the DMV straight up refused to put "pickup" as the model "because the title already says TRK (truck) on it" as the type. After waiting months for my DMV appointment I wasn't about to walk out and wait for another to sort it out. She told me I could type whatever I wanted into the box except "toyota truck" or "toyota pickup". Hilux it was. Maybe I should have picked "Toyota shit show dildo rodeo" as the model :flipoff2:
 
Wulf said:
we'll see who is laughing when your dick is in my mouth :flipoff2:


the bitches at the DMV straight up refused to put "pickup" as the model "because the title already says TRK (truck) on it" as the type. After waiting months for my DMV appointment I wasn't about to walk out and wait for another to sort it out. She told me I could type whatever I wanted into the box except "toyota truck" or "toyota pickup". Hilux it was. Maybe I should have picked "Toyota shit show dildo rodeo" as the model :flipoff2:
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That's funny as hell!!
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Should have picked the ass master and won the internet for eternity!
 
Slander said:
Don't call it a hilux since they never sold them here and they probably have no idea wtf you are talking about?
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Yes, I have inquired about “pickup” glass when asking/searching...

Beginning to think the internet Is a terrible place to go for help... ;)

I’m hoping it’s just good natured ribbing, not an indictment of the inadequacy of the commentariat’s ability to help. :lmao: Nope, probably the second thing.
 
IowaOffRoad said:
Yes, I have inquired about “pickup” glass when asking/searching...

Beginning to think the internet Is a terrible place to go for help... ;)

I’m hoping it’s just good natured ribbing, not an indictment of the inadequacy of the commentariat’s ability to help. :lmao: Nope, probably the second thing.
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Yea man just giving you some crap!!:flipoff2:

with Wulf i stand by my comments:flipoff2:
 
Yeah I couldn't find any online either but a call to local glass shop could get you some and if you pay for shipping or even uber delivery could get you one if you don't want to drive for it
 
Wulf said:
Where's your "practical engineer" spirit? :flipoff2:
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As I'm probably just going to shatter it again, I'm thinking of going classic semi truck route and use two smaller flat pieces with a center bar and build a frame. Think it will look dumb, but will be easier to replace in the future. Flat glass is relatively cheap compared to custom.

I have called several glass companies in the nearest city, they have all told me I'm fucked. Several offered to get a custom piece made for $$$$. I'm more of a $ guy if I can get away with it. :cool:
 
IowaOffRoad said:
As I'm probably just going to shatter it again, I'm thinking of going classic semi truck route and use two smaller flat pieces with a center bar and build a frame. Think it will look dumb, but will be easier to replace in the future. Flat glass is relatively cheap compared to custom.

I have called several glass companies in the nearest city, they have all told me I'm fucked. Several offered to get a custom piece made for $$$$. I'm more of a $ guy if I can get away with it. :cool:
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That's nuts, I'm sure I could nab a JY one around here still
 
I've always paid around $70 for new aftermarket. I guess I need to check my source and stock up. I'll report back tomorrow.
 
TRINDU said:
This. Dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
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I would have to agree, with modifications. Most engineers that have been turned out over the last 10 years or so are so specialized that they have no ability outside their narrow scope of education, and with that narrowing scope, they have a tendency to build up an ivory tower of their specialization in whatever organization they are employed in and scorn others who have a broader, if not quite as deep, knowledge and experience base. They call it “tribal knowledge” with a hint of derision, I call it wisdom and experience.
I have had the opportunity to work with several freshly papered mechanical engineers who know fuckall about electricity, hydraulics, pneumatics, etc. Unless you’re designing Lincoln logs you are going to attach or run your mechanical device with one of these. NONE of them had ANY exposure into the basic principles of any of these. This is what comes of designing everything with CAD and never having to build it. Or see it built and running. Or not running. Which is what usually happens. If you’re lucky, it never works, if unlucky, you get the project going just enough for property damage and/or bodily injury. By that time, the ‘engineer’ has been fired, promoted to manager, moved to a different project, or cashed in on the #opentowork banner on their LinkedIn profile. Fuck.

other than that I have no thoughts...
 
Is lexan an option? Sounds like you intend to keep breaking these, that may be easier and cheaper.
 
grapehead said:
Is lexan an option? Sounds like you intend to keep breaking these, that may be easier and cheaper.
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I’ve never had any experience with lexan but it may be on the table.
Just to clarify, I don’t intend to break a windshield, I just know it’s a cost of doing business when you wheel tight spaces with rollover risk. I could exo the cab, but the trail raisin isn’t worth the effort. Honestly the only reason to keep a windshield in it is for the 25% of its time I drive on roads when we’re on a wheeling trip.
This whole experience has been :eek: considering how loved the early trucks are. I know there’s not that many on the road these days, but I can still get a windshield for my DD Isuzu pickup (the real Isuzu, not the S10/Colorado clone) and they didn’t sell in nearly the numbers Toyota did, and are probably more likely to have been scrapped at this point.
Sorry for complaining, I really thought it would be easier than this. When it wasn’t, I really thought the internet would come through.
 
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