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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    The owner took the sideboards off when she parked it years ago. She kept them stored for this moment!
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    Beauty shot of where I pushed it when it died on a test drive once it warmed up. Would not restart until it cooled back off.
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    New front floors in, you can still see where the rear body mounts haven't been rebuilt yet.
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    Well folks, sorry to have disappeared for over a year. Life got real busy, and I neglected to keep this thread updated. The great news is that I got it all put back together. The less great news is all the other stuff that happened that fought me at every step in the process. I had delivered the...
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    Firewall vin tag rivets-

    I just drilled off the VIN plate from the windshield frame on my neighbors project yesterday, and somehow it was the one thing that I didn't take a picture of, but in my minds eye it was a five lobed rosette rivet. On an 83 base model with what I don't doubt was the original windshield frame...
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    Got the rotten windshield frame off yesterday with my son’s help. Today’s shenanigans included removing the hood, grill and fenders. I got a few body mount bolts out intact before I ran out of acetylene. Getting them real warm with a small flame was working really well. Two captured nuts spun in...
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    I’m in Eau Claire.
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    It’s funny you should say that. The brown does not have a name. I had asked. I have been calling my Jeep Christine since I got her back in 98. She is very temperamental. I thing she has been jealous of all the attention on the brown Jeep. Since it went in my garage the right turn signal on mine...
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    I can take more later, this is what I had my phone. She did mention that she had gotten this bumper from a junkyard. I haven’t looked too close at it, but I had never seen one with metal end caps before. Granted, I had only ever my Scrambler SL and one other one that didn’t have a step bumper.
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    And now the bottom end is torn down and will head to the machine shop tomorrow. Also some pics.
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    Cylinder head went to the machine shop for a valve job. Thanks for all the love on here.
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    After getting the brown Jeep back to my driveway, it was late enough that I couldn't do much. My son spent the next day using Germ-X to clean alot of the grossness off. It was something he picked up from watching YouTube videos of restoring barn finds. He also vacuumed up alot of mouse turds and...
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    "So do you do this as a hobby?"

    Last year as I got my Scrambler "running" again for the spring, the heater core started to leak. Since I had the heater box out I decided that it would be a good time to also replace that passenger floorboard that I bought but hadn't gotten around to yet. The more I cut the worse things looked...
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    Official CJ-8.com Forum Lurker Intro Thread!

    Salvageable? My idea of that means that it has a VIN plate, and maybe a title, or at the very least a legit bill of sale. Beyond that I think almost everything else can be redone if the budget matches the expectations! This one might not win any awards or command a big price on ebay, but its got...
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