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RispoNY's Scrambler Build Thread - The 'Kit' Scrambler w/ Postal Top (PIC HEAVY)

Its very hard to get an accurate read on any color taken by camera inside under florescent lighting. You'll have to roll it out in the sun. Also as I mentioned earlier that color changes slightly depending on lighting.

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Also it may not be identical to the factory paint unless they used the same sealer color and same manufacturer of paint. Yet it should be very very close and only discernible if you were parked right next to a factory job.

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Wow, what an insanely intense past couple days. So I intended to pick up the tub Monday, however I didn't anticipate just how bad the weather had been up in Long Island. My trailer was buried under 2 feet of snow, and even after attempting to digging it out for about 2 hours, it still barely even budged. I was pulling it with my 4 door JK on 33's and still couldn't get enough traction to move it out. I decided to rent a cube truck from Uhaul instead...$30 a day and $1.59 a mile didn't seem too bad since the place was right in town. Got the tub loaded in on Tuesday the painter let me borrow 4 of his guys so that they could help me unload it cause of the 5ft high deck of the truck compared to my little trailer.

This is where the fun stats. Immediately when I got into my driveway, the truck got stuck in a rut. After trying to move it for a good 30 mins, i decided to call it quits. I had a friend come and pick all 5 of us up (the 4 workers and myself) so that we could get out of the cold and they could get back to work without getting in trouble. I then took the jk and basically rammed the uhaul out back into the paved dry road and left it overnight. Wedneaday, I spent another 2 hours trying to get the trailer out and finally succeeded, with only a few slipped discs in my back! I asked some of my buddies to help me this time, and managed to get the tub out of the uhaul and onto the trailer, so that I could bring it down the driveway and into the garage. While loading it in the trailer, the front cowl got scratched and some of the red paint from the trailer got all over my new tub. I almost fainted. Once we brought it in the garage, I hit it with some compound and a few microfibers and the scratch came out completely %100. Luckily it was just a little blemish on the clear or I would have sold the whole project, rescinded my lifetime membership, and boughten a Toyota FJ! Here are some pictures:

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Note: the pictures of the tub are all taken within a 10 second time frame. I took them on my iPhone and just focus on different parts to change the light setting so you can see how cool the color is and it's behavior in different settings.
 
This is great....but we need more stuck shots...and JK shots...and u haul ramming shots...and... :)

Tub looks GREAT tho!!!!
 
jerseyjeeps said:
This is great....but we need more stuck shots...and JK shots...and u haul ramming shots...and... :)

Tub looks GREAT tho!!!!
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Had no time for shots during the whole ordeal. But I do have a picture of the Uhaul bill for 3 days, plus 31 miles. Must've done 29 of them just flooring it in the snow!
 
Noticed your rear fenders are not drilled for flares...are you going to use 3m tape to mount them or run without them?
 
You're moving too fast on this project! No fair! Slow down and spend 10 years like the rest of us! ;)

Dude, that color looks awesome!
 
In a weird way I am glad you had to do this so I can ask for your opinion on the process...

I am scheduled to pick up the body from the painter in a week or two. Like you, I took it to them on a trailer. I am worried about bringing it back home (roughly 20 miles of interstate) and it getting scratched by a rock, a tie down coming loose, etc... I actually already thought about a U-Haul truck.

So aside from the snow issue, if you could do it over, would you have used your trailer? Or despite the issues, the U-Haul truck made for better transport?

Thanks!!

P.S. what size truck did you rent? I will be bringing back the tub, front fenders, hood, and doors. I already have the rollbar, windshield and grill.
 
AdamH said:
In a weird way I am glad you had to do this so I can ask for your opinion on the process...

I am scheduled to pick up the body from the painter in a week or two. Like you, I took it to them on a trailer. I am worried about bringing it back home (roughly 20 miles of interstate) and it getting scratched by a rock, a tie down coming loose, etc... I actually already thought about a U-Haul truck.

So aside from the snow issue, if you could do it over, would you have used your trailer? Or despite the issues, the U-Haul truck made for better transport?

Thanks!!

P.S. what size truck did you rent? I will be bringing back the tub, front fenders, hood, and doors. I already have the rollbar, windshield and grill.
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Hey Adam,

If you have enough guys to help you, like 4-6 guys ideally, I would absolutely go the Uhaul route. You'll pay about $50 but the peace of mind that the tub and parts are safe and enclosed is priceless. My painter told me to be extremely careful with using my trailer because since the paint is still soft and hasn't really cured yet, it's still extremely susceptible to imprints and markings. He said if I used a tarp, I should first wrap the entire tub in extremely soft towels and then put a lot if padding between the ratchet strap tied downs so that there would be no imprints. Way too stressful.

The uhaul I got was a 14' cube truck, which actually turns out to be about 11.5' of bed space once you factor in the moms attic up top which is pretty much useless. The tub measures in right around 9.5' so you might have to make two trips to fit all your parts flat. $29.95 a day plus $1.59 a mile was my rate. Good luck and post some pics when you get it all sorted out.
 
Thanks for all the compliments today guys but today has been a real horrible day. I got a voicemail from my painter telling me that all the body parts are unusable. Basically, this is what he told me. The sandblater used 40-grit steel grit to blast the parts which the painter said essential only takes off the paint and primer. Because of that, between the pores of the metal, there is still rust which won't clean up with sanding. He said he can still prime and put rust defender and paint the parts but that the rust will eventually come right back up so it won't make sense to do it. I don't know of another Sandblaster in the area, so either I bring the pieces back home and blast them myself with an at home blaster, or look for new parts that have no rust on them and have the painter just sand them down and prime them...horrible day.
 
Please tell me they didn't sandblast the tub (with rust) and then painted it.:fingerscrossed: I just got done sandblasting the axles and such. Harbor freight has one (if the have a larger air compressor). It doesn't take long to blast the parts.
 
jammer1 said:
Please tell me they didn't sandblast the tub (with rust) and then painted it.:fingerscrossed: I just got done sandblasting the axles and such. Harbor freight has one (if the have a larger air compressor). It doesn't take long to blast the parts.
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I bought the car in August and the tub was already sand blasted by the previous owner. He then put a coat of laquer primer which was unuseable so I had it blasted again but from a guy who came to my house and charged me over 1k to do it. The tub was perfect after everything. The parts I brought to a guy in Long Island to save money but apparently it wasn't done with the right grit.
 
Ouch! That does hurt Brandon. Sorry to hear about that.

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Thanks for the feedback on the U-Haul - I will definitely go that route.

That sucks about the sand-blasting. Hope you get it sorted out soon.
 
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