Make room we got a fresh one :)

I got the headliner in today. I screwd on luon for the base and glued the indoor/otdoor gray carpet on with contact cement. Iv dont it before in my blazer and it worked great and still looks new. Didnt get any pics today maby tomorrow. Im going to bolt the sides on and put the top on finally! Just gotta get a final coat of paint on the driver side that shouldnt take long

 

oh and im also in in the process of changing the water pump and rebuilding the carb it had some studdering on acceleration and wouldnt start without gas down the carb. And the waterpump was leaking out the weep hole. I broke a bolt off on the carb manifold and one on the water pump but was able to drill and tap them easily. It was the long ones that go back to the block i was worried about but they managed to stay intact

 

The last few days iv been messing with the motor trying to get it to run right. It backfires like mad now and runs real rough. Probrobly the carb i cant imagine anything else broke in the short while since it was kinda working well. I had troubles getting the top fitted. When i intially mounted it i had to push the widhield forward like a half inch i figured it wasnt a big deal. Well when i tried to fit the door the problem became very obvious. So i pushed the whole thing back to make the doors fit. then it suck over the back of the tub a bit. So i cut the corner welds on the bottom back and kinda rolled the corners in and got it all lookin good. Now theres a problem with the back hatch the opening is too small. so iv got to drill out the spot welds and make it skinnier. i figure its the easiest way about it and have it look good. plus i didnt fix up the back hatch yet. I think i jinxed myself because i was just thinking that was the only piece i didnt have to do any metalwork to right before i measured it . But its gettin done slowly but surely

 

Your tellin me lol
I got the radio in its a blaupunkt acd2800 from an old audi it seems to work nicely and it looks good too i hung it under the dash infront of the shifter.
Iv spent the past two days afterwork building these brackets for my quad skates to run a single wheel out back. Seems to work pretty well but it will take a little getting usto to get good push and speed. also my tracked 2x2 is coming along slowly

 

WOW. Looks good. I like the headliner, it looks really clean.

 

Yea it came out really profesional. My hopes were that it would help deaden the sound because as i guessed the metal top is really loud. I hope it quiets down in there with all the seats and carpet in or ill have to put a regular muffler on it. From the little bit i ran it resonates alot

 

I got the rear hatch fixed up and on as well as most of the carpet in and the speakers in the back corners. Also got the wiper motors all wired in looks all neat and tidy. I sent my carb out a couple weeks ago for a professional rebuild should have it back in another week or so. Busy season i guess. I havnt got any pics for you maby in a couple days

 

got my carb back finally. Carburator usa in NJ does a nice job but plan on waiting 2 months or so in the busy season . Runs pretty good but still has problems. Smokes black smoke im thinking too rich but i have to run the screws in to about 1/2 turn to get it to not smoke does that sound ok?
Also took it up the road a few times had major vibes and crazy noises going on. The rear axle seemed tipped up too much so i pulled the shims out and its much better. The shims were in there before so i stuck them back in when i dedid the springs. Guess its a bit different.
Heres some pics of stuff i didnt show yet. I dont think my garage has been this messy EVER





the door is pretty much ready for paint now but heres some of the rust repair

 

Im also currently working on this minibike and i got free blazer last weekend so more progects on the list
http://www.oldminibikes.com/forum/project-logs/14406-super-bronc.html

 

I think i may have figgured out why its running shotty. Although iv got a new dist and carb. The alt is putting out 17v sometimes! when i run it just off the battery its better. Im going to get a new voltage regulator and pray

 

Well that fixed it. smooth as butter now! just gotta make sure all the adjustments are still good. who woulda thunk

 

Got the jeep registered and took it down to the cruise in tonight! And i only lost one bolt It works real nice. Got a few more details to finish up but check out when i started this thread almost exactly a year ago. I also got to work on the passenger door and almost have it done. Just in time too. My brother just bought a 200$ 73 vw beetle were going to pick up monday.

 

Sway Bars?? maybe you could tells us about that.


mike s.

 

i didnt end up puttng sways on it yet but im thinking i may because its pretty rocky and doesnt sit level with the least bit of weight to upset it

 

Just found this thread, wow, that is the most insane thing I have ever seen! You are a restoration master! Holy S*@%..... I kept wondering where you guys were finding all of these old rusted out monsters and how you were insane for buying them...but I guess you got the skills to pay the billls on the whole Dr. Frankenstein thing...Mine was either just kept in good condition or someone did what you did...but great job man that's awesome!


1966 CJ 5 225 dauntless V6, T90, spicer 18,twin stick, 4in lift, 33's, racked out

 

Haha thanks ! Iv been getting real good response sofar theres really not any old jeeps around town atlest not restored like mine. Im looking forward to taking it to a big car show at the end of the month.
I made a rack for my minibikes this weekend im not sure which i should bring to the show ?

 

my god bryan.
you are my hero!
that looks so good.

 

Its been a while but i did some work to it recently. A few weeks ago i finally got the temp guage working. I swaped it out with a spare i had. It took a little bit to figure out how to hook up the wires because i didnt have the jumper on the old one and forgot how things went. So i got that working. Still had the jumper on my messy workbench lol. But then the fuel guage didnt work i guess it draws some its power and throws off the reading so i figured it was probrobly the float level in the tank. So i got that all fixed.

Then i found some hub caps at a flea market and had the itch to put them on. But my back wheels wernt factory so they didnt fit. So i figured id wait till i found some at the junk yard. Well it didnt take long i found some right away. I had to cut out the centers to fit the front ones over the hubs but i figured they wernt the particularly valuable kind so i hacked them out.

Next i was going to put a sway bar on the back that i got from a golf cart but after lookin at it I figured i already had to put a traction bar on to stop the axle wrap and now ill have a sway bar and itll still be bottoming out with my passengers. So i remembered that jeep at the junk yard that i got the wheels from still had its original 9 leaf springs so i went back and got those and put them on. Eliminating the sway bar and trac bar and it rides like its suposed to now. Also i sold my plow setup yesterday so i guess i wont be using that again. Got 130$ for it
What do you think of the caps? I think it wasnt a huge improvement but they look good.