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Gazzo's Down-under CJ thread

I think I mentioned above or in a other thread of gluing more than one together or from donor doors cause I think new aftermarket would be too thick anyway.
 
The other thing is, with the exception of the Alaskan postals and the aircraft tugs, there are almost zero of these doors out there in the US, so finding a fix has never really been a priority for the majority of CJ owners. Now I know Jersey and I are very interested in this topic, but haven't attempted anything yet.

I don't know how your Spanish is, but you might try Venezuela. Almost all of the CJ's down there had square corner doors, and I have to think at some point someone was producing the rubbers for the hard tops - windows, seals, etc.

I've been trying on and off there for a while, but with the govt. instability, finding reliable contacts has been... difficult.
 
Most of us are just wishing we were lucky enough to have that problem Gazzo!
 
When I was building my 42 Ford. I had some issues finding rubber for one area. The guy who did my upholstery delt with a company who had a ton of door gasket profiles available. He was able to get a close match, cut and glued the corners to get the right profile.

That was in the days before google. I would give google a try For suppliers.
 
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When I was building my 42 Ford. I had some issues finding rubber for one area. The guy who did my upholstery delt with a company who had a ton of door gasket profiles available. He was able to get a close match, cut and glued the corners to get the right profile.

That was in the days before google. I would give google a try For suppliers.
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Googled "automotive weather seals" There are a lot of options available. If you want to create your own seal, most profiles can be bought by the roll.
 
Thanks a lot gents. We do have a rubbers supplier here which I'll give a try. Hadn't thought of that route. Last night I found a rust spot on the dash at one of the dash pad screws. Looks like sealing this cab up when the time comes will be some kind of mission anyway.
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Thanks a lot gents. We do have a rubbers supplier here which I'll give a try. Hadn't thought of that route. Last night I found a rust spot on the dash at one of the dash pad screws. Looks like sealing this cab up when the time comes will be some kind of mission anyway.
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I have confidence in you! I'm sure you will get it figured out. I did keep an eye out for square doors at the swap meet last weekend. :thumbsup: :wave:
 
Not jeep related but it has an engine so a tenuous link. I have been at a gold mine all week in the Northern Territory. Today I got to look at the original workings about a k from the current plant. Found stacks of really cool and very old stuff, around 80-90 years I reckon.
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Then found an old for manifold made in Canada
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Then 30 metres away found the flathead it belonged to, look for the brass valves stamped Ford and centre punched to mark the disassembly/reassembly order. This thing has been roasting in our equivalent of your Death Valley for many decades and is pretty much perfect
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Amazing old boneyard worth sharing I thought.


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Thanks for sharing the boneyard! Finding old parts and leftover vehicles or machinery weathering away in the bush is always a bonus on the hike or hunt!


 
Thanks for the pics! In my younger days my wife and I spent many hours exploring the California Gold Rush areas, and later when in Utah some of the lost mines and ghost towns there. We recently found some here in Oregon, so that's on next summer's agenda.

I love seeing that stuff. I actually have one of those "coffee table" books of old cars and trucks rusting away in the fields..."Roadside Relics".
 
Rightio, bit of an update. After a month of no jeep (truck) I got to squeeze in a day. My goal was to get all panels ready for a spray day but "her indoors" sabotaged me by dropping off the mini me at the workshop at ten and not coming back by one. See he has no interest in playing with me n my jeeps (yet) (other than driving them along the beach that is) and sits inside with his iPad. So I got guilty and took him home. Anyways I got my doors welded up with some reinforcement where needed
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Some 10mm square bar behind and plug welded in place
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Ground down and bogged and we're GTG.
Roof time, got all busy with the wire wheels in the drip rails and then the mini spot blaster hooked up to my new 18CFM compressor
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Works well with fine garnet, bit hurty with the coarse stuff pinging everywhere though
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Got a pretty much bare metal roof. I think rather than try and patch the 'roo shooting spotty hole I'll mount a roof aerial there. Then we got home before a storm in time for a game of scrabble outside which the hound hates, storms not scrabble
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By the way, Spot #2 is clear:
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One step closer to painting.


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Probably not the right place to ask but can anyone shed light on this vin? I'm getting conflicting results but the bones of it is it's an 89 GW. We have a cut off here in Oz of Jan 1st 89. Pre that date easy, post that date not so much. Deciding factor in my pursuing a GW in Oregon.
Any help is appreciated good sirs.
I'll also try JF FSJ forum.


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Starting to get excited about paint. My factory looks more like a panel shop than a place that builds Reverse Osmosis systems :/.
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I dropped the rear wall section at the blaster this morning and will tackle the hood this arvo. Should have everything including the dash under etch by the end of the week. Saturday morning light sand over the whole lot then providing a wedding on Saturday night doesn't go too nuts Sunday might be the day for spraying. Fingers crossed.


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So this
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is why I was so keen to take all my panels back to bare metal. The truck's hood was the best I'd ever seen (apart from my Renny that is :) ) until I started stripping and water blasting
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Just goes to show all that glistens isn't necessarily a rust free hood. Dunno why people half do things. They resprayed this thing at some point but just did what we used to call a jam job.


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Looking good! What did you need specifically about the VIN. I'm assuming you googled it.....

I really need to paint both my '7s. Watching this makes me want to do it now. Just need time and money!
 
Hi Will. That waggie has snuck out of range now but I was hoping to get a build date before 1 Jan 89. Alas it is actually Jan89. Back to looking. Of you see a GW up to 89 let me know. It will round out my collection just right :)


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Back to the weatherstrip thing-
Check these guys out-

https://www.metrommp.com/

Maybe they can make a pair of door weatherstrips with an extra 10 inches or so on the corner, then all you'd need to do is cut on a 45* and glue.
 
I'll look into that, thanks very much
Only the dash to do now
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Ended up with everything being blasted so full bare metal.
Yesterday a friend dropped by with a gift from his dad. Taking up space for 30 years
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Interesting story to tell I'm sure given the pedals/ steering arrangement


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Nah I've been having a shop do the big stuff for me but they won't do the flat sections. I've been using a little spot blast and fine garnet for touching up what they miss. Has been working out pretty good I think. I like the surface of freshly blasted steel for keying the etch primer. I realise the "rust resistant" coating the the FSM says is on the steel will be gone but let's face it that was worth zip. 30 years on anyway.

Got the dash panel stripped with paint stripper and the pressure washer today. This dash is like the one on my seven, it has a 1/4 return folded all the way around the perimeter. Looks much nicer than the ones on our 8s they are flat except for the top edge. I think it's just finished nicer with the returns down the sides.

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