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SCJEEPER'S Build to Now!

Well it has been a long time since any updates mostly because nothing major has happened.......until now! I found a smoking hot deal on a full hard top and pulled the trigger on it. I am picking it up tonight about a hour and a half from the house so it will be too late when I get home to do anything with it but I'll be patient. Me and dad will get the half top off and bulk head out then put the back seat back in before we set it on the tub. In the mean time I have to get a couple of brackets that it is missing to hold it down. May involve a trip to tractor supply or something but we will cross that bridge when we get there. I am so stoked that I will finally be able to drive the 8 more since it will have a back seat again! Now playing in the snow......if we get any.......will be a lot more fun. I will chronicle the repairs that need to be made to the top in here.
 
Well the hardtop is at the house and in better shape than I thought. The guy that I got it from was really cool and had the coolest delivery vehicle I have ever seen. I feel like a got a good deal on the top considering all it needs is the attaching hardware and the the bars to make the rear hatch work. I have called out to Jeep Addict for some help since he has the same top but I am pretty sure that I have found the correct hardware so I should pull the trigger on that today and hopefully have it tomorrow. Anyway here are the pics.
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That top looks great. Congrats on a great buy.
 
Yea that thing was a beast powered by a Chevy 350. D60/70 on 39" Michelins. I picked up some latches that I am going to give a try at ACE hardware that seem to be pretty sturdy.
 
Bad Karma said:
WOW!!! :drool:
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What he said!!!

I'm glad you remembered to bring the top home (looks like a meet-in-the-middle dealio there to me). If it were me, I might have :drool: so hard all over that thing that I'd completely forget why I was there.
 
So dad called yesterday afternoon and ask if I wanted to swap the tops after work. Of course I did but i had 40 minutes between the time i got off of work until we had to head to church for supper. So i though to myself, "its just screws and bolts......I think we'll have time." I rushed home and got some tools out to get the half top off. By the time dad got there I had all the screws and bolts out and just needed a hand lifting it off. Easy as pie! Now to put the big boy on. I was thing that the clamps that were still on it were broken and didn't work. I was planning on replacing them all. I was wrong and pleasantly surprised that I had 6 total working clamps. We got the full top on and I am going to have adjust the windshield a smidge but I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! I still have to take the bulkhead out, put the back seat in, put the back hatch on and rivet the remaining clamps on to finish it out. So excited!! Pics as promised.....
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Not a lot of progress last night.....all I got done was putting my LED interior light back on the roll bar......it has velcro straps. We took Landon do see Santa last night with some friends and now he is at the age that he was scared to death so no picture with Santa. This is the first time ever that I have ordered something from McMaster Carr and I am not going to have it the next day. Part shipped from Ohio that is a 2 day UPS for me so I won't have all the clamps until monday. I can get the back hatch in at least this weekend and the rear seat in and the bulkhead out. I was kind of worried about how well the half steel doors were going to seal but they are tight as can be. Hopefully this thread will be pic heavy after the weekend!
 
Well I hope that everyone had as good and productive weekend as I did. Friday after work I was itching to get the back glass back on the top to the best of my ability by myself. That worked out pretty good before we went and met some friends for dinner. Saturday morning me and little man had some eggs and then we had to re-decorate the tree from this little miss hap that happened earlier. I am telling myself that it happens to everyone at least once in a lifetime. It really fell on its own, Landon didn't do it.
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After we got the tree put back together, it was time to work on the Jeep. I started with taking the bulhead out. This was the easiest project of the day. I was kind of expecting some rust under there but it was solid as a rock.
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After getting all the leaves and stuff out of the bed and getting the floor relatively clean it was time to put the back seat in. The was not hard but I had to Jess to help me with the nuts and bolts because the PO had drilled out the welded nuts underneath so I couldn't just run a bolt down i had to use a longer bolt and a nut. After i got the seat in it was time to get the speaker back in place and wired up for some tunes.
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That was pretty much it. The rest of the hardware for the top should be in today so hopefully tonight or tomorrow night I'll be good to go. One question though, does the hard top rear hatch supposed to have any kind of weather seal? Seems like it should to me.....any ideas?
 
Thanks guy that seat was a big score for me and I paid probably half what he could have got for it. Thanks for Jeep friends. The guy that I got the top from lives in the Asheville, NC area and I asked him if he was on here and he said that he had visited quite a few time researching things for his scrambler but he wasn't a member. I put in a good word for this great group of guys hoping that he would get on with us. Again, he probably could have sold it for more but since it was a fellow Scrambler owner he hooked me up.
 
I swear to God that I'm going to fly down there and rattle-can your doors some similar color of blue if you don't get those painted soon. The primer is driving me nuts when the rest of your Jeep is so pretty!!!
 
AK-RWC said:
I swear to God that I'm going to fly down there and rattle-can your doors some similar color of blue if you don't get those painted soon. The primer is driving me nuts when the rest of your Jeep is so pretty!!!
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HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! ME.......the master of the rattle can......had not even though about that for a temporary fix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the idea because I am straight up going to do it! If it will stop raining long enough I will do it this week.
 
Think the same thing every time i see a pic of that beauty. Funny.
 
gr8dain said:
Think the same thing every time i see a pic of that beauty. Funny.
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LOL same here!! :rotfl:

Our tree fell over this year too halfway decorated. Tree stand was widened out with 1/2" plywood and 3/8" bolts. :headbang:
 
Bingo the Top is done other than a little work on the rear hatch! i didn't get any pictures of the new hardware because it was pitch black when me and dad finished last night. I did get to drive it the grocery story for 10:00 PM diaper run and it was very quite other than the rear hatch rattling some. Now to get some color on those doors!
 
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