I was looking at something that will clean all this dirt and gunk from my engine bay. I saw a guy on Youtube who sprayed the engine bay with oven cleaner to clean all this nasty stuff, and I did the same. It actualy works pretty good. Super strong stuff. ( I let the oven cleaner sit over night too )



Rinsed all with pressure washer today. Next I scuffed whole engine bay with gray scotch pad and drill attachment.



After the prep work, I brushed on some rust converter ( OSPHO ) to stop the rust and make the surface ready for new paint.

Masking and taping took me about whole day. Taping the every brake line was pain in a butt.
After whole lot of masking and removing grease and wax, and other stuff, the surface was ready to paint.



I used some adhesion promotor on the hard spots an then some self-etching primer ( 2-3 coats ) on the whole engine bay. It turned out pretty good, better than I thought actually. I'm pretty happy with it. Now time for the actual paint.
Can't wait to see the finish result

I decided to go with satin black engine bay & chassis paint. Applied 3 coats ( 2 light coats, 1 medium wet coat ). Turned out very nice. Now it needs to dry for about 3 days to fully cure.
Now I need to finish my motor and transmission mounts and start puting everything together.

Nice attention to detail. Keep it up, looking good.

Today was a productive day!
I painted the hood to match the engine bay



and (re)covered harnesses in the engine bay. Maybe this is not the prettiest work, but I like the result.

Look's good, I can't wait to see more. Whats the plans for the Comanche?

I will post some updates on the zj soon. I'm working on the susspension now.

Plan for the comanche is to make it a show car for our companny, make it nice. Nothing extreme.

BTW I just picked up another comanchee lol

So the jeep is pretty much stripped haha
Time to swap the axles and make it 4wd.

Motor and tranny mounts are almost done. I will post the pictures really soon.

Also I found the np231 t-case in the shop during cleaning process and I think I'm gonna put it under the jeep instead of np242.

Just the shell lol

Motor and transmission mounts are finally ready!
I think, they came out pretty nice.

I also cut the stock control arms brackets and cleaned the whole undercarriage.
Now I need to relocate the coil spring mounts and undercarriage should be ready to paint.

I'm looking forward to see how this thing turns out. that MJ, however... looks neat already, especially with those Moabs on there!


I look at my engine bay and see how dirty and grimy it is but theres no way id have the patience to strip it all out like that. the contrast of white with black underhood should look very nice though!

Thanks!
I don't really know yet if I'm gonna stuck with white. I was thinking about, maybe some light grey. We will see haha

So, I'm half way done with the undercarriage.
Painted the "base coat" of undercoat paint today.
It is paintable, so I'm gonna paint something else over it, to make it easier to clean. Undercoating is matte with structure.
I think it's looking good so far

Some build progress

During the last few day I was working on axle truss for my WJ dana 30.
It came out pretty awesome, and I love it!




I also burned the rubber bushings from the upper control arms brackets, to make room for the poly bushing conversion.



Now I need to design the truss for the WJ dana 44A.

( welding the truss took me 2 days )

You burned those bushings out on purpose?! I set my old ones on fire inadvertently welding the truss on my D30. Got gooey rubber all over my weld table, which I then got all over the garage. It took me an hour wiping that **** off of every surface in my garage. I think I got it all.

Yes. First thing I did was to take out
the metal pin. Then I took knife and cut as much as I can of the old rubber. Then I burned the rest of the rubber.
I did it because, I'm going to put poly bushings in there.