It has began

[neilconnolly79]

Well last weekend I got the engine to fire, needs a carb rebuild so... I decided to just used everything from my CJ7. I got the body off this morning and the frame pretty much stripped to a bare frame the cracks are a little worse than I first thought, but still repairable.

 

[neilconnolly79]

Holy crap, how do I make the pic smaller?

 

[rustycrawler]

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This is one for Macs:

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Scrambler looks good...

 

[neilconnolly79]

Got most of the frame ground down today fixed one of the cracks in it, slow but steady right.
Also removed the gigantic cow killer and used that for plating over the crack.

 

[neilconnolly79]

Well made quite a bit of head way today, got the front axle, springs and shocks swapped between the 7 & 8, ran the new brake and fuel lines now tomorrows goal is to get the rears switched and atleast get the motor trans and t case pulled out of the 7.

 

[neilconnolly79]

made some more progress today, not as much as yesterday but, can't win them all. Jeep Karma showed it's ugly face to day, shattered the windshield, every nutsert for the body bolts were so rotted/rusted they all had to be cut, rear spring bushings are shot, and the rear spring hanger bolts all broke.

But here's what did get accomplished

 

[Polarfire]

Looking good! Damn Jeep Karma!

 

[neilconnolly79]

Well I've been plugging away at it over the last week and was able to bring it home today!!!!!!

 

[Randyzzz]

Wow! That was quick....

 

[Sfisher]

If only they all could be that fast!

 

[tower210]

Looks good!! What's next?

 

[Bushmaster6]

been there before

that craft shop looks familiar.. just across from the old CIF down at Camp Swampy

Well I've been plugging away at it over the last week and was able to bring it home today!!!!!!

 

[neilconnolly79]

Looks good!! What's next?

gonna, drive it to AZ this fall and once I'm done with school the following July I will be starting the Body mods, Planning and saving till then

that craft shop looks familiar.. just across from the old CIF down at Camp Swampy

It's just down the road from CIF at Ft Stewart

 

[neilconnolly79]

Got the Scrambler out on Sunday, but due to not doing a complete PCC/PCI I went out with a set of dead batteries in the camera. It performed very well until I found a bottomless mud hole and a gigantic stump or rock in the middle of it, sheared off 3 out of 6 bolts on the skid and mangled it up pretty good. Here's the aftermath

 

[Randyzzz]

You got lucky! You know the skid is also the transmission/transfer case crossmember...

 

[neilconnolly79]

Been some time and a few changes later here's the latest version of the Scrambler