Ironside93

Yeah that's definitely a good thing he isn't doing electrical for a job

AndyEBR

Clean electrical work is something drilled into me by my electrical engineer father... It's worth every minute you spend to keep it clean organized and labeled when you have to find a problem down the road

indianaXJones

Picked up my new roof rails the other day.



Some assembly required.

Then the next day I got to replace my starter.



The old girl had seen some stuff, mostly oil from the filter housing.

indianaXJones

Phase 3 coming soon.

unidentifiedbomb

WooHoo!

indianaXJones

Well, it has begun and you can guess how it is going to go.



Got my first top side look at the floors, and only broke one seat bolt in the process.



​​​​​​The sound deadening was structural.



Passenger side pan has seen better days.



Driver side is better at least.



Rough cut done and frame rail spot welds cut out. Still have some trimming, grinding and cleaning to do before i can do a proper test of the floor pan and welding.

The hazard fraught spot weld cutter did the trick, and for $5. I hope to never need it again. Have I mentioned I don't like doing body work?

More to follow when I quit being lazy.

indianaXJones

Well, I figured 11pm was late enough that I should put down the grinder.





Still needs some work, but fits pretty well.

Forgot to post earlier. The PO's amp/speaker wire rooting.


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indianaXJones

All welded up and a light smack with the flap disc.



Also got the little square behind that pan patched up as well. With that out of the way I turned my attention to the driver seat mount.



Not in great shape, but raided my scrap pile and came up with something that should get the job done.

indianaXJones

Seat mount is back in.



Driver's side rocker is cut out.



Pulled the rear flare off and unsurprisingly managed to snap every bolt holding the brackets on. Also came up with another reason to project scope creep.



I'll likely now also be doing a bit of cutting and folding before figuring how to reattach the flares.

ixanay_on-the_exjay

Nice Jeep, subbed. Looking at installing those shackle brackets myself at some point. Keep up the good work, these Jeeps don't save themselves!

indianaXJones

Thanks, I'll keep plugging away at it, but I'd be lying if I said I weren't getting a little tired of trying to save this thing. To that end, I got a little more done last night, not as far as I'd like to be at this point, but not far off.

Got the rocker ground back. I'll be going the angle iron route for side pan tie in with the 2x6s


Roughly the patch I need to make for the driver's side side pan.


I have decided to end the new rockers at the front edge of the originals. Plus side is that I get to keep the forward of the two lower fender mounting bolts.
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That was really as far as I got other than cleaning out a bunch of seam sealer. I'm beginning to understand why there is so much seam sealer everywhere.
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​​​​​​​That is not a rust hole, but actually a factory panel gap. Granted from the factory that just opened up into the rocker and not to the ground, but still.

outersketcher

Also had some reflective insulation laying around from another project so added some to the rail and #3 and #4 injectors.

If I may ask.. "Why did you do that? what purpose does it serve to wrap the fuel rail and #3 and #4 injectors?

unidentifiedbomb

For the angle iron I rotated them to face toward the backing black like a mini stiffener. More penetration to spread the load of the sliders versus having one side on the body. Keep up the good work!

indianaXJones

​​​​​To help the common misfire from heat soak, which is most notible in those two holes. The combination of hear shielding and swapping to newer style injectors has made it very rare for me.

I had been planning to do the shelf style myself, but will have to take a look when u actually get to test fitting.

unidentifiedbomb

It's in my build thread. Find the section when the 2x6s were started and it's in the early process