The Resurection Project

Looks good Joe! keep up the good work

Nice work! Those sliders are the prettiest part of the rig right now...

connordanny wrote:

Nice work! Those sliders are the prettiest part of the rig right now...

at least till they hit the first rock and fall off

well After getting the wheeling itch today I decided to take the rig out for test run today. With out the cage being in I decided to not to mess with anything that could put me in a roll over situation. Ie no off camber hill climbes. Didn't get many pics but the jeep did great, hell i came down hard on one of the side rockers and it didn't even fall off I was able to do stout with out even having to back up one time

looks good man

thanks, dont forget were heading out again in two sats so make sure you and your dad clear out your schedule for that day.

The rig looks great.
I like that you opted to keep the luggage racks up top!

thanks danny but i'm going to have to get rid of them when the exo roof goes on in the next couple of weeks.

Finally got the front light assembly pieced together so the jeep is getting a little closer to being street leagal.

So your still trying to get tags for it?

I'll plead the 5th on that nester.

good call.

Okay well good luck. If you have the hookups you could make it happen. The more you do the harder is gets. I love driving mine on the street. Nothing like pulling in to the gas station and everyone is looking like your on another planet.

Bill quick question for you, how did you mount you tube notcher to use it. Did you go with the vise method horizontal, or vertical? Or did you mount it on a stand?

I actually did not mount the notcher. I put the tubing in a vice and clamped the notcher to the tube in the position I needed and it worked great.

hmmmm didn't think about that one, i'll give that one a try and see what happens. thanks bill

just in case some people didn't relize this, bending tube with a manual bender sucks. So far I have over 12 hrs tied up and only have the B and C pillars bent. Lucky for the internal part of the cage I only have two more easy bends to go and the rest are straight cuts. So I should have the internal cage finished for our run next sat and have the external cage finished in time for Big Dogs

All right got some work done on the cage.



Before I get flamed on how high did the rear x. i did it so when i mount the spare tire on it, I will still be able to see under the tire and out the back when I need to back up.
Started to work on the B hoop but ran out of time before I could finish welding in all the bars.

Yes I know this is kind of a getto way to build a cage but I don't have a garage to work out of.

a couple of previews of how its going to look for the internal cage.


I had an extra magnet of one of my skid steers laying around and figured I'd throw it on the jeep so it could be a tax write off. I still have a lot of triangulating to do and i have take apart the rear cage so I can weld a 4x4 plates to the bottom of the pillars but it seams like its comming together. But i'll tell you what that notcher makes life real easy. I had to use a grinder to notch the middle bar on the B pillar and it sucked. Not only did it take to long, it wasn't perfect.

You did a great job rounding off the tail gate it almost looks like it cam that way.

looking good. by the way I have part of a track bar. just got you message this evening

no prob he just went ahead and ordered a new one.

looking good!

thank you sir, that tip with the nocher works real good till the hole saw starts to get dull then the notcher will grab and moves around on the tube. Also are we all still on for next weekened?

Looks good Joe.

I'm still on. Are we going saturday or sunday