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Project Patience

Yeah! Don't trash the old tub. I didn't see anything in the pictures that made it unusable. I trashed my old tub, but it had holes so big you could put your fist through it. I bought a replacement through Willys Overland and was mostly satisfied. The biggest issue was not having the tapped areas to screw things on to. A lot of things needed a bolt and nut(enter wife stage left to hold back up while I instal this blower box).

However, it sure is nice seeing that basially perfectly formed tub with no rust etc. Looks like a good job on the JEEP emblem placement.

Am I seeing that you are putting bondo in all of the seems?
 
DirtyB said:
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Am I seeing that you are putting bondo in all of the seems?
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No, it's a product called "Seam Sealer" The cured sealant exhibits very good physical properties including excellent adhesion to a variety of surfaces including painted and non painted metal, rubber, glass, wood, concrete. Non staining. Use for all sealing and adhesive applications in vertical and horizontal joints

The old tub is still here and I'll put it up for sale in the next few months along with excess parts I've collected. Again, if I had access to a rotisserie and a decent sandblaster, would not have gone with a new tub. That being said, the new tub really had no issues other than prepping the firewall
 
Please keep us posted on any issues with the new tub, I'm curious if other issues are going to arise later on, perhaps fitment issues with door or fenders, or who know what else. I think you are the only one going through this at the moment, so your documenting it would be helpful to us all. It really looks great and I can't wait to see how it looks when you are done!

As far as the old tub, I'm sure that there are plenty of people on this site that would love to have it because to them it would be an upgrade, and they can't necessarily justify the coin for a new tub, but they can put in the sweat equity.
 
rustycrawler said:
Please keep us posted on any issues with the new tub, I'm curious if other issues are going to arise later on, perhaps fitment issues with door or fenders, or who know what else. I think you are the only one going through this at the moment, so your documenting it would be helpful to us all. It really looks great and I can't wait to see how it looks when you are done!

As far as the old tub, I'm sure that there are plenty of people on this site that would love to have it because to them it would be an upgrade, and they can't necessarily justify the coin for a new tub, but they can put in the sweat equity.
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Thanks for the encouragement. I'm also a little nervous putting this thing back together. I also decided to encapsulate the new tub in color matched LINE-X. Gonna drive the heck out if it and want to take all precautions in rust prevention.

Will definitely post more pics as they come as well as bumps along the road.

I'll also post better pics of the tub in a few weeks for whoever is interested.
 
I had a tub that was LINE-xed, the issue I had was that the entire bed and floor was covered which raised the floor a fraction of an inch thereby throwing off the bulkhead alignment. Not a major problem. Other issue I had was that they LINE-Xed over the drain hole plugs which were left in during the LINE-X process, that was a pain. Only other thought is to take pics before the LINE-X job, so that any future buyer will know what's under the LINE-X, but it seems that you have that one covered.
 
Might be a bit late now, but you forgot to cut out for the door latches, ive noticed because thats what ive just had to do on my MD Juan tub....
 
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Best top seats wrapped in original style spice vinyl in the CJ style pattern, the originals were beyond repair unfortunately


 
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