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CG's Mall Crawlin YJ
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Baja
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Hey I take offence to that! Well not really but i should lol. My jeep is Black, Silver and RUST!
Says the guy with the Lime Green truck :lmao: yeah, yeah it was that colour when you bought it, but that is nothing a rattle can couldn't fix. Oh but maybe you secretly are afraid our colours will out do yours? :flipoff:
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Dirk
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What have you been drinking to pee that colour?
City of Ottawa water? Or maybe it's City of Gatineau's issue, I drink both. LoL
So as you can see typical rear CJ/YJ/TJ rear body mount rot:
So I pried the rear up trying to get enough space to just build new "boxes" to for the mounts, no luck as the body had sagged so that the line was below the top of the mounts. :banghead:
Well I said I guess since I had plans that if she was going to drive this in the winter that I was going to refinish the whole frame in November anyway so it was no time like the present to undo those body mounts. Those of you that are familiar with this line of heeps know about how the engineers in all their wisdom decided to cover the tops of the mounts under sheet metal to "protect" them from corrosion which just leaves you with rusted bolts that snap off when you try to remove them. Now I have on several occasions tried to move the bolts with a johnson bar and all they felt like were bolts that were about about to break so I drilled holes roughly above each body mount (read not that close) and then soaked them with Liquid Wrench and tapped the bolt heads with a hammer which btw is per instructions on the can and 4 of them undid very nice. The 2 at the front that sit totally unprotected on a plate seemingly designed to catch dirt and salt ended up spinning the mounts out of the rusty plate. Oh well not hard to deal with using the plasma.
Then I proceeded to pry the body up to wedge something inbetween, now I did not pry that hard but when I was looking at the back trying to figure out why it didn't seem to be moving much I dent my rockers and no I wasn't putting the full force on the rockers as I had a pry bar wedged between the body sub-frame and the frame, this was just residual force. No wonder "Jeep guys" are worried about their rockers, I have put a jack-all on my rockers on the XJ when it had them and never did that much damage.
issed:
So after grabbing the nearest big wrench and wrestling with myself to keep from smashing it into my forehead a few times to calm down I find that apparently there are 2 more body mounts on the cross member above the fuel tank and greeaat one of them is actually pushed through the floor so I can't drill there. Screw it, it's Miller and plasma time.
Oh and I have noticed that like a dog the nasty she has decided to piss on my floor (ps box) to show me her displeasure.
Anyway now I have room to rebuild the rear:
And on another positive note Connie steam cleaned the seats and they look pretty good.
So I pried the rear up trying to get enough space to just build new "boxes" to for the mounts, no luck as the body had sagged so that the line was below the top of the mounts. :banghead:
Well I said I guess since I had plans that if she was going to drive this in the winter that I was going to refinish the whole frame in November anyway so it was no time like the present to undo those body mounts. Those of you that are familiar with this line of heeps know about how the engineers in all their wisdom decided to cover the tops of the mounts under sheet metal to "protect" them from corrosion which just leaves you with rusted bolts that snap off when you try to remove them. Now I have on several occasions tried to move the bolts with a johnson bar and all they felt like were bolts that were about about to break so I drilled holes roughly above each body mount (read not that close) and then soaked them with Liquid Wrench and tapped the bolt heads with a hammer which btw is per instructions on the can and 4 of them undid very nice. The 2 at the front that sit totally unprotected on a plate seemingly designed to catch dirt and salt ended up spinning the mounts out of the rusty plate. Oh well not hard to deal with using the plasma.
Then I proceeded to pry the body up to wedge something inbetween, now I did not pry that hard but when I was looking at the back trying to figure out why it didn't seem to be moving much I dent my rockers and no I wasn't putting the full force on the rockers as I had a pry bar wedged between the body sub-frame and the frame, this was just residual force. No wonder "Jeep guys" are worried about their rockers, I have put a jack-all on my rockers on the XJ when it had them and never did that much damage.
issed:
So after grabbing the nearest big wrench and wrestling with myself to keep from smashing it into my forehead a few times to calm down I find that apparently there are 2 more body mounts on the cross member above the fuel tank and greeaat one of them is actually pushed through the floor so I can't drill there. Screw it, it's Miller and plasma time.
Oh and I have noticed that like a dog the nasty she has decided to piss on my floor (ps box) to show me her displeasure.
Anyway now I have room to rebuild the rear:
And on another positive note Connie steam cleaned the seats and they look pretty good.
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Yeah I was thinking that too, and the worst thing is I am pretty sure that Connie will hate driving a YJ and I have already been looking at TJ's oh but that's a winter project.
Dwayne = not so bright.
Dwayne = not so bright.
:lmao:
Ok as a lot of you know I did get it ready for Spring Fever and it did quite well and I will post those pics up soon. Now Connie says she would like to wheel Rausch Creek so look we are ready to go whenever. Sorry about the crappy pic, forgot to take one in daylight.
Yep and I am legal too, well after a lot of time I ended up having to use a plumb at both ends to ensure accuracy and the legal limit is 75.5' and I am 75'5" so all is good
Weight is another issue, going to have lighten the trailer by 400lbs
Weight is another issue, going to have lighten the trailer by 400lbs
Towed it yesterday with a weight of 20120, then I shed the 2 steel ramps I had brought=140lbs, my tool bag=60lbs, socket set=20lbs ..... Anyway I need to shed about 500lbs more off the trailer for Connie's Jeep.
The Excursion towed it pretty good, I am pretty sure I would do the PA hills fine but I would definitely need to run them.
The Excursion towed it pretty good, I am pretty sure I would do the PA hills fine but I would definitely need to run them.
Is that Mike Lorint's old trailer?
Ding, ding, ding
Well the forum is pretty quiet so I thought I would give you some really interesting stuff to look at......like bodywork, now that's some exciting stuff.
There was nothing left of the passenger corner once I hit it with a grinder and it was the side that looked good. Made a new bottom and welded it in.
The upright was totally gone so I thought it easier to add a piece sideways to it instead of trying to match it exactly up and down:
The old mount was not recoverable so I made a new one and pieces associated with keeping it in place and got some new hardware and poly mounts for the whole body:
I made a piece to fit in and then welded on another piece offset for strength and to try and make it as flush as possible so to minimize the the amount of fibreglass I would have to apply. God I hate doing bodywork on flat surfaces as if I remember correctly I was still 7 applications and sanding to make it look "good".
There was nothing left of the passenger corner once I hit it with a grinder and it was the side that looked good. Made a new bottom and welded it in.
The upright was totally gone so I thought it easier to add a piece sideways to it instead of trying to match it exactly up and down:
The old mount was not recoverable so I made a new one and pieces associated with keeping it in place and got some new hardware and poly mounts for the whole body:
I made a piece to fit in and then welded on another piece offset for strength and to try and make it as flush as possible so to minimize the the amount of fibreglass I would have to apply. God I hate doing bodywork on flat surfaces as if I remember correctly I was still 7 applications and sanding to make it look "good".
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Grumpy
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Been down this road before myself.....the outcome was about what you said....her hating it.....so I took it away from her and traded it....lol. P.S. sorry to hi-jack your bodywork posts, as riveting as they are....lol.
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