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Half cab hard top can be made from YJ hard top???

Randyzzz

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That looks amazing. Broken YJ tops come up every once in a while here. I already have a Scrambler top but it has the typical slight sag on the top panels. If I can’t get that resolved to my liking, I just might copy your build!
 
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Randyzzz said:
That looks amazing. Broken YJ tops come up every once in a while here. I already have a Scrambler top but it has the typical slight sag on the top panels. If I can’t get that resolved to my liking, I just might copy your build!
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I would be honored if this personal project served others. Therefore, and if necessary, I have many more photos of the process available to those who need them, tips and more. Just ask for them and I will gladly send them to you. Also, I will share my experience if it could help to somebody. We have a (Spanish, of course) forum of Classic Jeep Willys, where I posted the process too. If some want to see, click here:


And Merry Xmas for everybody.....
 
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caballogris said:
I would be honored if this personal project served others. Therefore, and if necessary, I have many more photos of the process available to those who need them, tips and more. Just ask for them and I will gladly send them to you. Also, I will share my experience if it could help to somebody. We have a (Spanish, of course) forum of Classic Jeep Willys, where I posted the process too. If some want to see, click here:


And Merry Xmas for everybody.....
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Merry Christmas!
 
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Hello guys... hoping everyone had a nice new year..
I has doing some work, restoring the rear window (replacing old rubber channel, painting, cleaning, etc), and today I definitely installed it, sealed, glued (with a very good window sealer) and bolted too.
Also, I maked a group of templates in cardboard to fabricate my bulkhead, because meassures in 2D are not the same in 3D, mostly when there are a couple of angles here and there...
At this moment, all meassures are checked and tested, next step is to sent it to my fabricator, who will make all 3 sheets.
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bigwalton

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This is fantastic! I missed all of this until tonight... WOW! Amazing work!!! :cheers:
 
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Hello again:
OK, today I installed both side pieces of my bulkhead proyect. I had to adjust here and there, and now have to re-desdign the center piece. Because folds require material and cause changes in dimensions, we had to change the meassurements of the center piece a bit. It was easier to modify the part with the fewest folds once the other two were pre-assembled.


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Hello guys:

OK, at last I installed my bulkhead. Yesterday I bolt it on place, sealed (with a very good non-acid body sealer) and primed first with marine type rust prevent, then with a black protective spray paint. I will paint it definitely with RAPTOR finish, just like I do on the top, at the moment when the Jeep will be painted too.
At this moment I need to fix the center piece with a good-looking bolt patern, because at the first time I had the (crazy!) idea to make a door with this part. But then I was thinking that this would compromise the soundness of the structure without gaining any real advantage. I did make all pieces of steel of 1,5 milimeters thickness to obtain more strenght without the stock stamped grooves.

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At the inside still have the marine paint (It will be finished in RAPTOR too), and the two hinges that I welded at the bottom. Between the upper side of bulkhead and under the top, I put an adhesive neoprene tape, to seal it and avoid skeaks by movement. I used all the stock holes to hold it, adding a couple more in some places. I used a cinc plated screws with steel and rubber washer too.
I noticed that the top edge is a bit weak, then I will use a steel tube, rectangular section, to reinforce it : I'll screw it all together, leaving the sheet metal edge between the tube and the top.
Next -and final- step: seat belts....
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That's great work! I actually think an access door is a good idea. If you're worried about the structure, you could add a frame around it, but I don't think it will be a problem if you add the square tube reinforcement across the top.

The '53 Willys looks like fun. Maybe you could start a build thread about that one, too! :thumbsup:
 
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OK, I finished the M38A1 and return to work at my Jeep... Today I was positioning the tool box that I want to put at the rear, because at the interior there is not room enough to let baggage in case of traveling...
I found this aluminum box at one friend's garage and now I'm reinforcing it, with a (aluminum too) sheet at the top, adding a rubber floor inside. Will fix it at the floor, with some kind of spacers between the box and Jeep's floor (to avoid accumulation of moisture )....de312f77-ef42-4eaa-a201-a7e3da06dea7.jpg
 
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