I have wanted to take off my SR5 emblem on rear and put the japan TRD logo there instead, whats a good way of going to do this?

 

I just pulled mine off with my hands. I have heard that using dental floss behind emblems works well...

 

well the reason I started this new endevor was from looking at yours and falling in love with it! Did you have to touch up and holes or was it just adhesive emblems?

 

The dental floss or fishing line trick works better if a hair dryer is used to heat up the area first. Then, slide the line back and forth between the emblem and the vehicle.

The hair dryer helps loosen the adhesive. Don't keep the heat on there too long as to cause any paint damage.

 

Nice suggestion LoCore. The only emblem that is mounted with screws is the "T" on the rear. I left that one alone The rest came off

 

Thanks guys, this gives me peace of mind now!

 

After you take the badge off, there will be some gummy glue. WD40 and an old credit card (plastic scraper) should take that off easy. Rub some wax after and your rear is nekkid and shiney!

 

i jsut did mine last week and in my opinion it looks a lot better. took forever to get all the glue off though. the fishing line and heat gun or blow dryer works really well.

 

Sup slick, call me up and we can wrench on our 4Runners. I got a few mods I need to complete.

 

I just wanted to add that the "4Runner" emblem has mounting pins also.

I took off the "T" and filled the plugs that are in the holes with JB weld. I then used touch up paint to take away the gray of the JB.

All I have now is the 4Runner on the back. I didnt want to mess with that bad boy yet.

Oh, and a hairdryer works really good to get the glue off in addition to bug and tar removed+credit card.

 

Goof Off works really well to get the gunk off too.

 

I have a 99 SR5 I would like to know which emblems have the pegs as it appears some years are dif. than others. and I dont want to deal with filling the little holes.

 

Swerks,

I debadged by 98 and the only ones that had pegs were the toyota oval logo (above the license plate surround thing) and the "4runner" emblem on the license plate surround thing.

Since the 99s do not have any emblems attached to the license plate surround thing, you won't have to worry. The Toyota oval logo is probably the only one that will have pegs.

I would definitely use a blow dryer and some WD40 or similar chemical to loosen the adhesive and then use WAXED dental floss to remove the emblems. I used monofilament fishing line and it burned the license plate surround thing.

Bob

 

Just to report back, I completed my task, I used a hair dryer then dental floss, then it just came right off, then the gooop was left WD40 really worked well to get it off! A good 10 mins later it was smooth and nice

 

From what I hear, Goo Gone + dental floss works wonders. The only problem is Goo Gone is kind of hard to get rid of after you use it.. so be prepared to do a lot of scrubbing with a lot of soap.