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FINALLY!!! A Build Thread of My '82 Scrambler!

did u try brake fluid to get that stuff off? The guy who did my son's bedliner said it was the only hting their lining didnt like and when his master cylinder leaked down the inside firewall it peeled th ebedliner off in sheets
 
Josh,
When I met you in October, you mentioned this was pending. But you were standing next to another big red rig that did not look quite a nice as this (in my opinion!). I wish my Scrambler was starting with less rust, but where would be the fun in that eh? Looks very nice...... :cheers:
 
Just a quick update. Got the Scrambler almost completely stripped. Trying to take the hard doors apart. Any tips on taking the vent window out on doors that the vent window is fixed (non-opening)? Here are just few pics:

The bed-liner material in the cab almost came out in one large piece!
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New un-cut dash panel I will be stripping down to paint and install in place of the old cut up one:
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Tub stripped out:
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Pile of parts is growing:
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vent windows

Polarfire said:
Just a quick update. Got the Scrambler almost completely stripped. Trying to take the hard doors apart. Any tips on taking the vent window out on doors that the vent window is fixed (non-opening)?
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go to page 66 of Jeff's Gaucho build thread.. great door resto write-up which I've bookmarked for my own future use.. not sure if it matters if yours opens/doesn't ???

find it here
 
Bushmaster6 said:
go to page 66 of Jeff's Gaucho build thread.. great door resto write-up which I've bookmarked for my own future use.. not sure if it matters if yours opens/doesn't ???

find it here
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Thanks! I actually looked that thread up on my iphone while I was working on the doors. His write up makes it sounds so easy! Maybe my doors are tweaked a bit since they've been redone at least once before but it is not going as easy as the write up makes it seem like it should! I had a bear of a time getting the door paddles out! The little wedges would hit the inside top of the door before they would come out. Finally got them but it was much more work that I thought! Now I'm having difficulty getting the window to come out.

As for the dash, I would like to add the clock and tach but I don't think it is going to happen. I think I'm just going to go with an aftermarket old-school tach on the column. I know that is not original however, since my Jeep never came with the clock and tach I'm not going to cut the holes. I still want to get a period correct looking Sun Tach for the column so at least it looks correct for the era.
 
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I still want to get a period correct looking Sun Tach for the column so at least it looks correct for the era.
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I might have one of those...I remember seeing it in a box when I was going through my junk. I'll see if I can locate it and post a pic.
 
I followed Jeff's post when I redid my doors this summer. He does make it look easy! I had similar "issues" getting the door handles out. My windows were stuck also. You have to pull them back fairly hard to get them to break free. Mine were stuck from years of sitting and not moving. Going back was tough too, they are really wedged in there.

Keep the updates coming.
 
Point of no return....

Started the paint stripping today. This is the stuff I'm using:

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It is the same stuff I use to strip the clear coat off chrome wheels. If you ever use this stuff make sure to get the "low odor" kind, I made the mistake of getting the "regular" stuff once and you need a very well ventilated area or even better, do it outside. The process is to clean the area of any dirt, then using a brush, paint the stripper on in thick coats. Let the stripper sit and you can see the paint lift. At that point use a good scraper or putty knife (not a razor blade) to scrape the layers off. This usually takes several rounds of stripper and scraping. My Jeep still had the original silver paint under the red paint so I basicly had 4 layers to remove (paint, primer, paint, primer). Also, it is wise to wear gloves because if any of the stripper gets on your skin it will begin to burn, a quick splash of water will neutralize it.

Here is the hood with the first coat of stripper on:

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Scraping the first layer of paint off (I thought it was cool that I could still see where the original "Scrambler" lettering was):

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Here you can see that all the red paint is gone, there are areas of bare metal and you can see the remaining silver paint and original brown primer:

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Small bit of primer left:

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This process takes a while. Media blasting would be faster but I don't want the trouble of packing up the tub and all the parts to take to someone and then have to pay them. My father-in-law has a sand blaster but prefers this method because it dosen't damage or warp sheet metal. It creates a mess of paint shavings around the vehicle but once the stripping agent dries up it is easy to sweep on the concrete floor.
 
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This is as far as I got today:

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So far I haven't run into any areas of body filler and things are looking good. I think the tub should go faster than the hood as I don't think the paint is as thick on the sides. That's it for now, unfortunatly I won't be able to make it back up to the shop until this coming weekend. Dang job...:banghead:
 
Awesome! These threads always want to make me attack my tub...
 
Well working two jobs with my part-time job being retail (out-door clothing/equipment) I've been pretty busy lately so I haven't made it up to the shop to work on the Jeep in the past week. It has been killing me! Went up today with the goal of getting the whole tub stripped and ready to be sanded. There was one little spot on the body where the paint was real bad and I had assumed there was some problem in that area. When I stripped it I found a small area of body filler that was not prepped propperly (seems to be a theme here) and therefore the paint bubbled up. The body filler was there to fill a small dent that really should have just been pounded out but would have required that the roll bar be removed to get to it so they just filled it. I will repair it correctly. The only other area with any filler was a small spot below the tailgate right between the hinges. I'm not sure if it is just a dent or a rust hole, I will find out when I grind out the filler. I didn't take many pics because it was just the tedious job of stripping paint.

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You can see the small area of filler below the tailgate opening here as well as the mess this process makes. Father-in-law helping out:
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Small dent with filler right behind the driver's door opening:
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What is that gull wing thing in the background?? :confused:

Looking great! Someday I'll do mine right :banghead:
 
the first cut is the deepest... I found that once I got rolling, the idea of "ruining" the character of mine became a memory..

second pic.. love the look of that shop.. big workspace and those huge old-school windows must provide for great light in the daytime.. envious!
 
BW, the "gullwing thing" is a '36 Ford steel body pickup with gullwing doors, chopped, channelled, shaved, 383 stroker...it is my father-in-law's personal project, very custom and going to be very sweet!

Bushmaster6, the shop is a very cool old building. It has been an auto repair shop since the 1920's! When the in-laws first bought it they found an entire file of old receipts and pictures of repairs done at the shop during the '30's and '40's. They have some of them hanging in the shop. It is amazing what they repaired back then. Most would have easily been totalled by today's standards. I will get more pics of the shop and some of the projects he has going when I get up there next.
 
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