Chop top dress up...

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Aug 26, 2009 | 03:48 PM
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Well i finally got around to dressing up the top i chopped off... in my pics you can see how i cleaned up the C pillars and covered my old window pinch weld by splitting 1x1 square tubing on one side and beating it down over it... came out pretty well! just alittle cleaning up to do with it to make it alittle smoother... next im getting a sheet of aluminum diamond plate so i can make panels to cover the 4 big holes and clean that up a bit... itll look good with my fresh herculined black floor... then ill worry about the old roof line... probly just gonna run the rubber thats around the doors over it... not the thin fluffy stuff but the hard rubber stuff... and stick a peice of 1/4 x 2in thick steel all the way across to strengthin that top from flapping in the wind... but itll be fun to bend right...

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Aug 26, 2009 | 07:03 PM
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looks sweet! can we get like a full car pick. i wanna see how it looks
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Aug 26, 2009 | 07:22 PM
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Its kind of dark out now but i tried... where the little gab is between the 1x1 and the body im probly gonna fill with something to make it look smoother... even if i use a paintable caulk itll be fine... that thick of bondo or anything else that doesnt flex probly wouldnt work... paintable caulk is the only thing i could thing of that would make it look alittle smoother

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Aug 26, 2009 | 07:32 PM
  #4  
ha looks like you got a lot of work ahead of you. but it looks really good so far
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Aug 26, 2009 | 07:46 PM
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alot of work... but i own a handyman business and right now im so busy... plus my 03 cummins has bad injectors and at $596 each from dodge (thats the only place i can get them)... and need 6... the money on the jeeps gonna have to hold out till the work truck comes back to life... i miss being able to bark 2nd in a auto on 37's... lol...
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Aug 26, 2009 | 09:35 PM
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I love the look of a chopped 2 door. Looks so much better than a cut up 4 door.
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Aug 26, 2009 | 10:22 PM
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Oh yeah my dads gotta 97 dodge with the 12 valve cummins and my brother changed the oil and I guess didn't tighten the oil filter enough and it came off while driving and all the oil dumped out and blew the engine
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Aug 26, 2009 | 10:28 PM
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instead of bondo or caulking why not just weld it? run a bead down the whole thing on both sides and grind it down a little. just a thought nice work man.
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Aug 27, 2009 | 07:18 AM
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Quote: instead of bondo or caulking why not just weld it? run a bead down the whole thing on both sides and grind it down a little. just a thought nice work man.
I had thought about that also but its real deep... its 1x1 tube split so its a half an inch deep in there... takees alot of weld to get up in there and to make it look nice cause its always bouncing off the top or bottom... i could make it happen but it would take ALOT of weld to fill the crack... i dunno...
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Aug 27, 2009 | 07:26 PM
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