So guys, I lost my phone, had to get a new one, then I lost my new phone two days later. Our thread will be short on pics for a little while. in...
Luckily, I bought the steel a few year back before I had my amnesia seizure, we’ve just had a lot of down months stacked together. FWIW, I lost...
So, we're almost caught up to present day- we are about halfway through this project. I wanted to point out that in my last two pictures above...
Front Posts: I used poster-paper, scissors, sharpies, and occasionally a ruler to make templates from which to cut all of these steel pieces. I...
So about that cross member... So this is kind of stupid really in retrospect for those of you looking to do something similar within a reasonable...
Rear Posts (continued): tack welded everything together starting from the bottom and including the primary cross braces of the bolting plate....
Rear posts: I started with some standard plates from Tractor Supply- note, this endeavor is a fool's errand, minimize at every opportunity the...
Body cutting for integrating roll cage: I didn't take any pictures while we were cutting out these body panels. The rear cut-outs look pretty...
Under Body Frame Ties: So I wasn't taking a lot of pictures at this point so you get what you get- 2" bushing mount frame ties, powder coated...
I told you I'd get around to posting some pics at some point.... [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img]
I've created another thread specifically for the roll cage build- it may hog some of the posts here until we finish that project and get back to...
This is a driveway build my son and I have been working on for about 4 years now having been interrupted by some serious medical issues I've been...
I should catch up this thread a bit, I had to go backwards and change out the underside roll cage mounts that I had fabricated. I just hadn't...
Ok, lets see if I can remember how to do this stuff.. Well, lets see, we fixed the rusted out battery box among other things- I'll be building a...
I’ve got some pictures pulled together for an update, I’ll post one soon. We won’t be painting and refitting on the Fourth of July (big surprise...
Blast from the Past! This jeep project is not dead, merely wounded. I've had a variety of serious medical issues (Epileptic amnesia seizures,...
OK, I was able to get some progress on the jeep last (last) weekend, but have been away for work for the past 8 days. I've completed the cancer...
Except that your work here in the picture makes my Jeep look like it was repaired by a chimpanzee. Nicely done.
Now that you mention it, my rear frame cross member is dented and I was thinking of replacing it entirely, but I may well try the bench vise trick...
got some more work done over this past weekend. It's slow going this type of work, but we're about to get through some of the long-winded chores...
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