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SCJEEPER'S Build to Now!

Great looking 8! Love seeing your pics. Makes me want to run out and start taking mine apart.

But, not yet. I do have a question about your front fenders. Are those stock steel fenders? They look like they are more squared off than mine. I looked for the answer in your previous posts but likely missed your post about them. Any ideas?
 
Nice Scrambler! :thumbsup:


i like the paint and stripes. :wave:
 
Thanks guys! It has been a ton of work for sure. Those are YJ fenders and TJ Flares. The lines just flowed better that way I thought. Last night was fun. Jess and little man helped me take the back seat out and then played in the back while I moved the rear speakers back inside the half cab. That was after a nice corn beef and cabbage dinner with mac and cheese and black eyed peas. MMMMMMMMMMMM! Landon is a natural....he took the one of my ratchets out of my tool bag and started turning it on one of the bolts that I took out holding the seat in. At 18 months that aint too shabby.
 
Well I succeeded in getting my half doors operational from some damage that occured when I first got the jeep and them being ran over by my F250.....dont ask! So now I can be dry while I tear the Full doors apart and then I will get the body work done on the half doors and paint them all at the same time. Looking forward to getting this project behind me.
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Excellent :thumbsup:

I think we need the door-running-over story though!! :D :popcorn:
 
Well since I'm among friends and you guy can't give it to me any worse than I have already got it here goes. One beautiful spring day after getting the jeep I decided to drive to work doorless. At our old house we had a gravel parking area and I always backed the jeep and the truck into there parking spaces. Well the morning that I drove the jeep I took the doors off and leaned them up against the bed of the truck so I would be reminded to put them back on after work since it was still cooler weather. So after work something came up that I was going to need the truck for so I swung by the house, parked the jeep, jumped in the truck and left. Upon returning home I started to back in as usual and didn't notice that the doors were laying in the driveway where the had fallen when I left. They were laying inside panel down so I backed on top of the passenger side door putting a nice crease which you can see in the picture and messing up the outside door mechanism so that it would not work anymore. you could only open the door from the inside. Well there is my story.....I have made my piece that i am an idiot and I never done that again. Heres the door crusher.
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Yep. Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing. I have done lots of stupid crap. Just another day. Glad you got them working. And the pics with the halftop on are making me want to pick one up more and more. Hardly anyone ever rides in the back seat anymore.
 
I really like your Scrambler build. I like the little man helping also. My 3-year old daughter tells me she wants a pink Jeep when she starts driving.
Is your brother still in the graphics business? He did a fantastic job with yours. I am curious about prices through someone like your brother vs Phoenix Graphics. Does he have a website?
I have an 83 CJ-7 Renegade that I hope will be ready for paint and new Renegade stripe kit before college football kicks off and I become totally useless on Saturday's.
Can anyone say WAR EAGLE!!! AU kicks off the season in Atlanta against some small school from SC (I think it is Cremsun or something like that). (jk).
What year is your motor? What kind of gas mileage do you get with the 4.3L TBI motor? I also have tons of questions about the wiring. Do you have pictures of where the Chevy wiring connects to the firewall plug under the hood, and which wires are needed?
I bought my CJ-7 as a project and not a single wire was connected to anything on the Jeep. It has a 4.3L engine from a 1993 Chevy 4x4 K-1500 that had the 4L60-E transmission. The PO already had the engine installed with a Turbo 350 trans mated to the Dana 300 TC when I bought it. But, the Chevy wiring harnesses (uncut engine harness, and uncut under dash harness) were piled in a box. The CJ harnesses were both supposed to be in there also but when I got it home and inventoried everything not a single Jeep wire was to be found.

Thanks,
Bobby
 
My brother has since gotten a new job with the Sheriff's department and has had to put he graphix business on the back burner at least until is get his house finished. As far as cost difference goes I think that he could probably make them cheaper than some of the other due to the lack of over head. Now the reason that it made the most sense for me to have him do mine is because they were going to have to be completely custom. We are going to do our Black CJ7 Laredo with the same vinyl that we used on the scrambler just because we have enough of it left and it wasn't cheap so we are going to use it for a "factory looking" Laredo stripe kit. For someone looking to do an exact restoration I don't know that he has access to the exact patterns that the factory used or not. He may i just don't know. I do know that if I had to pay him for doing my custom work it would not have been cheap. Having family is great! As far as the 4.3 motor, all I have is the 4.3 throttle body mated the the original 258 I6. Runs like a top but I have never really looked at what mileage I get due the fact that my gauge is not exactly right or even close :-). I like the TBI set up but honestly I would stick the the carb set up for ease of working on. The PO did all that on mine and I had a time trying to get it to run right after a sensor had gone out last winter.
 
Thanks for the update. I need to pay better attention to details. I see in your vehicle description that it is the 258 w/4.3 TBI. As for the graphixs mine is definitely not a low mileage survivor so something close to factory style is fine with me. I like to support local small business whenever possible. We have a couple of local printing shops here that have made signs for my wife in real estate sales so I will check with them.
I thought I had a Scrambler purchased when I joined this forum, but the seller flaked out. I have had 3 or 4 more I missed out on since but I have my sights on another one that looks promising for this week. I will be selling the CJ-7 to fund that project when it is finally sitting in my driveway.
For now I am Srambling vicariously through yours and other fantistic builds on here.
 
Well good luck man! you are definately in the right place. I would think that any automotive graphics place would be able to work something out.
 
Well Jess went to do the Saturday morning grocery shopping so of course me and Landon worked on the Jeep. He was playing in the back while I was putting some polish in it. Needless to say i am sure that the neighbors although not close appreciated the horn blowing at 8:00 Saturday morning :-). Sorry I didn't even think to take a picture of the finished product.
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