I love to hear that!

 

Ordered my floor pans for passenger side last night front and rear!!! Excited to get those installed and clean up this interior. Jeep is also registered and ready for the trails and small driving around neighborhood as of yesterday. The little driving around will help with working out any kinks.

Before Christmas I got in the oil filter adapter o rings too. Lucky my rig has a bolt head to remove oil adapter and not the typical Allen head key style that gives everyone trouble so mine should be easy.

 

 

Well got some things done today before my wife decided to have a new years get together.

Oil change: done
Cap, rotor, spark plugs, wires: done
Air filter: done

Removed oil filter adapter which wasn't hard but just in awkward position to remove. No more oil leaks!!!!!!

XJ runs better but still starts hard. Could it be possible my timing is a little off or do these renix jeeps just start hard?

 

Oh also I don't have manual so do they take 5qt oil or 6? Read both but I'm going to pickup manual this week which will be nice to have and I'm keep eye on oil level. Seems fine now at 5qt but I'll add more if needed.

 

Not much progress lately family has flown back home from spending 3 weeks with us so I'm now going to get more time to play with XJ.

Managed to grind/sand down all rust in trunk today and got some rust converter/primer down to get ready for bedliner later next week. I'm going to be doing front once I get pans in mail next week which will first need to be welded in. Drivers side will just get grounded down and patched passenger side getting completly new floor front and rear.

 

Wow brother, you got yourself quite a project! Congrats on being home with the family, and getting to start on your Jeep. I'm excited to see the journey of your build and see the finished product.
Maybe someday when our builds are more completed we can do a run somewhere together. By the way, did you ever join a club?
From everything I see, you have a pretty good base to start with, and I'm sure you're handy enough to get it done.

 

No club joined yet I was checking out a few today actually. I'm more concerned with just finding a few good guys or gals who are mature and no idiots and are willing to go out and wheel and have fun. I met here a couple already so hoping we can get our first run in beginning of next month which will also be our first meet face to face.

Thanks to Wristwriter I will be swapping all (4) of my doors for manual ones. I don't want to deal with electric windows or locks. That's just more electrical crap I don't need to worry about.

It is a good base, already has mild lift which I'm going to swap out with my already purchased RE 4.5" kit. Looking for some decent 33" tires right now to replace my worn ones. At least until I get some new ones on a month or so.

Yea it has some rust issues inside but outside is completely solid and runs good.

I would be more than happy to meet up with you at some point and get out on the trails. Thanks for your encouragement.

 

First coat of bedliner down. Still pretty tacky so I'll let it sit over night and lay down another.




Also got passenger front door mounted. Few adjustments to be made as its a pita to align it properly one person. Not to mention I didn't think to mark prior to removal in order to put new one back in same spot. I'll get it just takes some patience. Door closes just have to slam it a little harder than normal. Not rubbing just latch isn't up high enough to close easier.

Wristwister my son is digging the door paint job so I'm looking forward to picking up the others hopefully this week.

 

Ya know, that door looks kinda cool against the red Jeep!

Come get the other 3 any time, and when you put your old doors on it I could care less if they line up perfect, just gotta get it to the junkyard.

 

Thanks I thought it looks cool too! You can tell your daughter her old Jeep has relived again now in two Jeeps.

Oh sorry misspelled your user name twice now fixed the one above.

 

I'm thinking I might be able to stop over tomorrow morning and grab the other door plus install one back on yours . I'll let you know by phone.

 

The bedliner is looking pretty good and I also dig the door, it's a good look.

 

Bedliner in trunk done. Well maybe one small touch up but it has two full coats which I think is fine. I might go one more if i feel its not going to hold.
Drivers side grinded down and first layer of rustoleum rust converter primer. Should hopefully have both layers done and one coat of bedliner by end of today.
Woke up this morning with about a inch of water sitting in driverside near firewall on floor so got a bad leak. Funny because its only the way I parked jeep back in to driveway on hill vice forward where I get little to none. Either way still need to find leak I suspect windshield.

 

One coat of bedliner down. Ran out of time aa i had to go out with wife to store run. She had a DIY project for the girls so we had to run to home depot and finish that project up.

Tarped up the front of XJ to hopefully keep water out tonight while floor dries.

I love the UPS truck when it comes. He brought my floor pans for the passenger side. Thats going to be a pain project still need to practice my welding before i attempt. Or i may just find someone with some welding skills and help out that way i dont mess it up.