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Old Dec 3, 2011 | 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by DaveVmax
Guy in ontario has something similar.
That is tight. Do you have any more pictures of it?
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Old Dec 3, 2011 | 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by ol'DixieJeep
do you still have rear shoulder belts?
No I cut them out when I removed the back half of the jeep. However, when I built the cage I had planed to run harnesses in the back anyway and I put the extra crossbeams in the back with a harness bar. I just have to find some now.
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Old Dec 3, 2011 | 11:54 PM
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I gotta watch this build. Looking good dude!
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Old Dec 8, 2011 | 12:51 AM
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I worked on fabbing up my tailgate tonight. Just thought I would share a couple of pictures of it
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Old Dec 15, 2011 | 11:50 PM
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Well after a bunch of fine tuning I finally have a working tailgate. I still have to fab up some kind of locking mechanism for it though, I'm pretty sure im going to use linch pins.
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Old Dec 16, 2011 | 01:43 AM
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lookin great man. cant wait to see how it turns out
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Old Dec 16, 2011 | 06:25 AM
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Looks good. Those chains jingling around in the back would drive me insane. I'd at least have to have coated cables.
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Old Dec 16, 2011 | 04:35 PM
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hey great job man. You gave me new ideas for when I chop my grand. I was toying the idea of extending the floor pan in the rear about 12-18" of my grand and make a p/u once chopped.
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Old Dec 17, 2011 | 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by 1ABrian
hey great job man. You gave me new ideas for when I chop my grand. I was toying the idea of extending the floor pan in the rear about 12-18" of my grand and make a p/u once chopped.
Sounds interesting, you will have to post some pics when you start
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Old Dec 17, 2011 | 11:57 PM
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I finished all of the fab work finally and pulled the frame for final weld.
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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 12:05 AM
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Well I finished welding up the frame and dropped it back in the jeep. Now I'm making up some templates for the skin
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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 10:47 AM
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pretty sweet man. Are you skinning the inside and out or leaving the external exo look?
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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 10:56 AM
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Subscribed! Looks sick man. Cant wait to see more!
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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 11:35 PM
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awesome build, maybe a dumb question but do you have a top that can you can put on and take off that thing?
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Old Jan 6, 2012 | 10:32 AM
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that thing is gonna be tough!
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