The Resurection Project

Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:09 pm

Okay just got word that the tube bender should be here around the second week of march

Heres the tube bender I went with.

As for work on the jeep, it has come to a grinding holt do to the weather. Though I did have some time to finish one of the frame stiffners/ LCA mount. The holes in the sides are for plug welds.

Also I got my brackets in from BTF and the damn things were defective. The cut marks were off by a little so the tabs would not go in. After calling them they said that sometimes it happens when the torches get old and that they would send me some new ones next week. Alwell I guess that works seeing that the weather sucks outside anyway. They should be here tuesday or wed. of this week.[img]
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sweet, im playing around with the new welder to get it to weld properly, it was acting up when i first started using it. so hopefully i can figure it out.
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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:30 am

okay, today is the day I get the rear suspension put in. I'm tired of looking at it on jack stands so i know the neibors have to be getting a little irritated also. I got the other box cut out and holes put in it with a plasma torch in 15 min compared to the 2 hrs it took me with a a sawzaw and drills. All I have to to say is that plasma is the shiznit, Bill you are the man king

If anyone wants to swing by i'll be here all day and probly most the day tomorow working on the jeep. I cant believe I got about a month to get this thing together and begin to test it. BECAUSE REMEMBER PEOPLE WE HAVE LESS THEN TWO MONTHS TILL BIG DOGS sdsfhhgdigdhfo

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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:57 am

all right got the rear 8.8 tacked together.

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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:08 am

looking good Joe

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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:26 pm

Looking good. yeah time is ticking.

Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:36 pm

Allright got the axel under the jeep. Everything is tacked of now so I have to go back through and put the monster bead on everything.

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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:59 pm

good looking work Joe. That thing is starting to shape up.
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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:04 am

I modded my ebrake cable the same way. comming along great. Are you going to be working on the jeep next sunday I should be able stop by and lend a hand.

Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:29 am

Thanks everyone, its feeling good to actually see the thing shaping up.

yea I have to swap in the other grands e cabels because this one came with drums instead of disc because it was a 93. As for next weekened i'm swapping the motor over, so any help I could get would be appreciated.
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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:23 pm

Joe, I was following the cage build of a guy in another club and Lt Dan said something that made good sense with trying to weld the top of the cage without setting the interior ceiling on fire.

"for the easiest way to weld it use a holesaw to cut holes that will let you drop the cage through the floor so that you can get the top as well,after you complete the upper welds you raise the cage , and then weld your footplates in place."

Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:31 pm

actually thats a good idea to get a full bead all the way around. I'm not to worried about setting anything on fire inside because everything has been gutted down to the metal Very Happy

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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:26 pm

All right got the jeep back down on all four tires. Some of the welding needs to be finished up but the majority of it is finished.

Now when I put the jeep back down on the ground I relized I had a problem in that the damn thing sets level without the motor and arb. I didn't relize the the brackets in the back were going to give me 2" - 3" more lift. I relize once I put all the gear in it will drop a 1" or so but i'm still going to have to run some spacers up front to level it out some. so i'm guessing this is going to put me around 7" to 8" of lift wich is about right with 36" tires seeing I was rubbing pretty good at full flex at 6"
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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:52 am

after having some bad weather and running into some other problems I wasn't able to get the motor swaped over last weekend so it looks like come hell or high water i'm going to do it tomorow.

Also as a side note, my tube bender came in yesterday cheers

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Subject: Re: The Resurection Project Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:29 am

Joe,
I'm heading to PG county this weekend to work on the YJ.... I have to get it out of my parents driveway and send it through emissions soon. If I get back to Baltimore while its still daylight I'll stop over to supervise!
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