I really love that "it's your first car have fun" thing you said. Makes me feel better about her. That doesn't mean I'm gonna beat on it but ill have as much fun as you can on flat Long Island New York. Apparently other states inspections are tough! New York plugs in the obd2 thing to their computer, honks the horn, and gives you a pretty color sticker all for almost $40 now...

 

I plan to keep it for awhile as it's the best running 4.0 engine I've ever heard, and it's been in the family for a few years so there won't be any surprises with it. I've done so much to it already... Just look at my pictures... I'm working on taking off the nss as my project for now and it's really hard to get off.... These are the kinds of things (and the rust) that make me want to go sell everything I own just to have a nice car. It kind of depresses me lol. But do you think some stainless sheet metal, with some stainless rivets will do for a few years? I know new floor pans are what I should do but there expensive! And I don't weld... I'm thinking a little paint on the rust before I patch it up? I spend so much time on this jeep and it kind of makes me sad that I spend all this time to still be left with a rusty old jeep...
And rust on xj's isn't just cosmetic, it's a unibody, it's the structure of the truck. These are the times I wish I had that nice dark blue yj that quadratech has the pictures of in there magazines! Did you know there were no 1996 jeep wranglers? They just sold the 95 for 2 years, and all the 95 wranglers have a fully galvanized frame and body!!!!! I want a nice bright red yj with a 5 speed, a 4.0, the np231, and a hardtop and a soft top! If I got a wrangler I would take out, and leave out the carpet to prevent rust, but wrangler rust is mostly on the body which means it's mostly cosmetically annoying, not the structure of the truck itself rotting away....

 

I feel like I just wrote a novel on an iphone... Ouch

 

Jesus!... And I thought the rust on my passenger floor was bad...

 

^^^^ not making me feel better about my jeep... :,(

 

These should.

Passenger side, fixed. Hadn't even started the real cleanup yet:



Driver's side underneath. Floor is in worse shape than the passenger side was:



Those self-tappers are holding in a piece of rusted sheet metal. Someone thought it was a REALLY clever idea to put polyester batting between that piece of metal and the carpet. Hopefully I'm not going to need to replace too much of the transmission tunnel.

Cargo area rust? **** me, it's flat there, and your feet aren't going to fall out while you're running to the store for more parts. Just fix it. lol

 

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hang on, I have pictures of the front on my camera

 

Sorry dude! Haha I've actually seen worse. Should be fixable with enough time.

Oh, and our avatars look similar!

 

Oh your rocker backing plates (inner rockers) are shot too. lol C2C Fabrication is going to be your friend.

 

I've worked on a few where the rear section of frame near the shackles was rotted pretty badly. Gotta watch them too.

 

I used this:

Simple job, easier than the floorpans.