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Not a probelm, that is what I thought you ment but I've seen people do crazier things so I just wanted to clarify. :cool:
 
are you running the modified TJ uppers with a hard top? I couldnt really tell from the pic
 
cool, thanks, did you get the frames, make the mods and then skin them or can you make the mods with the skin on?

Also, on painting the hard top, did it remain textured or did it smooth out during the scrubbing and painting?, notice any cracking yet as the top flexes?

thanks! I think I have yet another project before jeep safari, glad it's late this year....
 
The guy that i got the jeep from had chopped the rear post off the frames but hadn't gotten around to welding them back on.....and neither have I. i will probably just leave the skin on and wrap them in my welding jacket to keep them from getting burnt as I make the small weld required for the fit to be perfect. To be honest ther are not that bad off with the back post not even in. They may be about 1/2-1 inch low in the rear of the door but they do not affect how the door seals. In all honesty, those uppers seal tighter than my full steel doors do. That is going to be a rainy day project when I don't have a lot going on here at the shop and I just happen to think about it. On the hard top painting I tried not to get rid of the texture while I was scrubbing it. The paint and primer still smoothed it out somewhat but there is still a texture to it. I could not be happier with how it turned out. There has been no sign of cracking or anything at all. Man I have used Krylon Fusion for many many things and never had bad results out of it.
 
Great! thanks for the info, I havent found a set of uppers yet, I have them for a YJ but they dont work with the hard top, but I did find replacement skins and replacement frames so I could go that route for ~$250 or so...
I guess i need to figure out what color I want the top then! so much to do
 
SCORE!!!!!!!!! Thanks to a new friend I scored a Full Soft top and half soft doors that will be going hopefully this afternoon after work! Cannot wait to get this thing on and show you some pictures. It is simply unbelievable at the comrodery of the people on this sight! Picture hopefully this evening or in the morning!
 
Well do to some set back and an unplanned business trip I just got around to starting the install of the top last night. I didn't have long to work on it but i got everything in front of the roll bar drilled and installed nice and square. I had to fab some new body brackets because of the ones from the top got lost in transit while on its way to me. Easy enough to make them so why fight with UPS. I was missing more of the half soft top that I originally thought but it looks like I will be able to use the stuff from the new full soft top as replacement and they will play dual rolls. I haven't taken any pictures of the half soft top yet but here are some of the full soft top and the brackets tha I made. i am planning on getting everything installed where it needs to be then taking it all off and having all the hardware powder coated. I think that will look pretty dang good. If I can't get the windows somewhat clean on the top I will start researching ways to put new windows in it. The top itself is in really good shape. I may need a little help figuring out how the use the roll up windows nad straps and the pleathura of snaps and buttons!
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Here are the brackets that i had to make. The silver one is the original and the black ones are the replicas.
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Alright well the Full Soft top is on! Well minus the body snaps but I had to wait until a warmer day to take care of those. This thing looks so freaking cool now! Thanks to Walkerhound for the detailed instructions and pictures. Everything went on with out a hitch well except for breaking the straps that hold down the rear bow....nothing that a couple of rachet straps didn't fix and yes and am getting black ones to replace the red and camo ones that I had in my truck at the time. Now to tear it all back apart and send it to the powder coater and to get to work cleaning this thing up.
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SCORE!!! So I took a trip up to the local bone yard (you may have heard of them....Ironman 4x4) to look for a spare wheel and tire and had good luck finding a wheel but not too much luch on a tire that was even decent enough to put a tire cover on. Anywho....while walking with the owner back in the woods to the "Rim Pile", we walked past an old jeep that was way past saving and i saw a pair of 2 piece factory soft doors leaned up against it. They were in great shape, clear windows, good zippers, no tears, good seals and handles. So we went on and got the rim and on the way back out I asked him what he would take for them. He stood there and thought for a minute examining the whole top and he said, "well the top is too far gone to do anything with so I guess I can split the top and doors....i reckon they are worth 50.00 a piece as good a shape as they are in." I stood there and looked at them holding the rim in my hand and i told him I was thinking 50.00 for the pair. He asked me what i was working on and I told him and showed him a picture on my phone and he said, "I tell you what....100.00 for the doors and the wheel and you bring that old 8 up here for me to see and you can have em." So i didn't have enough cash on me and had to go to the ATM and then couldn't remember my PIN so I am having to take a check back up there today to pick them up. Sorry i didn't take any pics while I was there but it was getting dark and I was trying to get to the bank so I could pick them up last night but didn't make it back up there. Hopefully I can post a pic tonight or tomorrow morning. If any of you guys are within an hour or two drive of the upstate of SC it would be well worth your time to make a trip to Iron Man 4x4. It is nothing but a jeep grave yard and restoration shop. There are alot of projects up there that need a good home! Dont let them do any work for you but they will have any part that you could ever contimplate needing.
 
Pictures as promised. I only got the drivers side totally complete between running out of daylight and it being time to feed the little man. Goal for today...make spacers for rear bumper so I can put the tire swing on.....oh yea and find a 35" spare tire and clean the wheel that I got from the bone yard. Me thinks this is my favorite look yet!
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Well finally got around to installing the tire swing this past weekend. I had to make some spacers to set the rear bumper away from the body because the guy that made the bumper didn't realize he put the pin for the tire swing to close so you could mount the swing because it would it the tub according to the PO. Soooo......I spent a couple hours making spacers out of 1" stainless shaft that we use to make pump shafts out of at work. Nothing like having a full fab shop at your disposal anytime you need it and not having to pay for it at that!
Turning the spacers on the Lathe
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Spacers installed
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Before Mounting the Swing
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Tire Swing Mounted
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Now i just have to make an hour drive to my cousins house in Gorgia to pick up the Spare that his giving me to run. It wont match but it holds air and i can cover it up so it will suffice.

I also got the running rough issue fixed. I finally got pissed of and just started unplugging things to see what would happen to help me diagnose a sensor or relay or something just not working right. So I cranked the jeep on one injector like I had been doing because it would not crank with both plugged in due to it flooding. Like always the RPM's run up really high which kind of helped because I could really tell how unplugging certain things affected the way that it ran. So i plugged the other injector in and of course it starts stumbling all over itself because of getting too much fuel and I started the process of unplugging things one at a time and noting what changes occured. Luckily the first pig tail that I unplugged smoothed the motor right out. I mean so smooth that other than the fan you could hardly here it running.
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Now the check engine light is on but the jeep is running perfect. I did realize that on a cool morning or if the jeep had been sitting it was a little harder to crank and not have to give it a little throttle to keep it running till it got warm. After some studying and asking some questions on here and Jeepforum.com, I deducted that the sensor that was not working was the Coolant Temp Sensor. So a nice trip to see my friends at O'Reilly's and 11.99 later with a new sensor, the jeep runs like new and I got my problem fixed. Now another project to add to the list is clean up the rats nest that the PO created under the hood and make it presentable to some extent. This will be easier to do while the jeep is apart for paint so that is when I will take on that task. That's all for now! Stay tuned for more!
 
Looking good. Glad you got that driveability issue fixed.
 
Thanks man! It was really starting to bug me big time! Couldn't have done it without some help from you guys.
 
Well a little update from this weekend. Our club got invited to a "Ride for the Child" fundraiser this weekend so a bunch of us participated to raise money for a good cause. Talk about lucking out! While sitting around eating homemade icecream at one of the stops, I was talking to one of the guys in the club and he was telling me about driving to Columbia earlier in the week to pick up a rear seat that he found on craigslist for the CJ7. Well he got it home and it didn't match exactly the way that he wanted it to so he was going to sell it and if I knew anyone that was looking to send them his way. I told him that I just happened to be looking for one and it sounded exactly like what I was wanting. Just so happened that the next stop on the poker run was literaly 2 miles from his house so we could just swing by there and take a look at it. So we went by his house and he got it out of his garage for me and we swapped a few twenties. I now have an original tan Levis edition rear seat for y boy to sit in in a few years! I am super stoked about this thing. Other than having to do a little repair on one of the front mounting brackets it is perfect. Another score in my book. I don't think that 80.00 was too much for the seat but it was exactly what I was looking for and I had the cash at the time so I jumped on it. I still have to mount it of course but it is sitting in there right now for looks. On a side note....I was plundering through my father in law's shop the other weekend and saw a high lift jack leaned up in the corner so I asked him if he would be willing to sell it and he told me I could have it. If he ever knew he was going to need it for something he knew where it would be. He said that I would get more use out of it than he would so take it. :-) Now just trying to figure out where and how to mount it on the tire swing. I'll take a picture of it when I go home for lunch.
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