Restoring my fathers old hunting Jeep

[JohnL48]

Dam nice work!

Thank you. I might actually have time to work on it soon

 

[farmhunter]

super thread - I'll follow along until you are done -
You have incredible patience, I'm impressed!

 

[JohnL48]

Finally got to do some therapy work, been awhile but I have to make the money to spend it
My original oil pan had a pin hole in it so I found another one,

Got her sanded

Prepped with Por-15 metal prep

A little scotch bright sanding and primer

Back to Buick green. Hope to get the old one off and this one on this week and get her started again to fix a few drips and leaks

 

[JohnL48]

 

[Triple C]

Luv this thread...

 

[Tenured Student]

Your jeep rebuild is coming along nicely. Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

[mthornton99]

I'm always amazed at these rebuilds.

 

[JohnL48]

She's peaking out of her storage spot



She survived pretty well for being in a dark damp basement for over 8 months


Looks like my temp. Switch is leaking, probably cracked

 

[JohnL48]

Off with the old oil pan

On with the new

Temporary fix

 

[JohnL48]

She fired right up. Runs perfect.

 

[Otghuntingclub]

Interesting thread...thanks for posting. Wish I had your knowledge and patience!

 

[JohnL48]

I couldnt seem to keep where the speedometer cable attaches from dripping oil no matter how hard I tightened it

So I made a cork gasket for it, hopefully there will be no drips under it in the morning, thats my Jeep accomplishment of the day

 

[JohnL48]

Well before the bugs got to me I tried to get the tailpipe hanger mounted. Tomorrows another day. And yes thats a NOS hanger I found and cleaned up

 

[JohnL48]

So wanting to stay as factory correct as I can I did some research to see how the tailpipe hanger was configured and attached to the crossmember. These diagrams are about all I could find on it

I already had a what I believe is a NOS hanger, But I needed to make the support and L brackets shown in the diagram. I found some pc's in the shop

Here are the pc's I made, L bracket on right and the support on the left

This is what I came up with

 

[JohnL48]

Marked the hole location and drilled, every tool box should have one of these step bits

Everything mounted to what I believe is factory correct

 

[catscratch]

Man, I've done a lot of work on cars but never cared much about factory correct. In fact, most of what I've done was to "correct" what the factory sent out

I've got to say that I love your Jeep and what you are doing with it. Almost like a puzzle how you are researching everything and piecing it together. Great job!

 

[JohnL48]

With the chassis back in storage, time to dig into this body to even see if I can save it

My plan is to try to save the sides and replace everything in between with new panels. First step is to remove the sides which means lots of spot welds. easiest way to find them is to sand the paint to bare metal. Any round spots of paint left over usually is a spot weld which will need to be drilled out

Spot weld cutter

Spot welds for inside support. Nice amount of bondo here

looks like a 70's repair to me. overlay sheet metal over rust, braze and loads of bondo

 

[JohnL48]

What am I getting myself into here

I got the drivers side off after a million spot welds

Laid a square on the bondo. more than 1/2" on here and this is the good side

had to take most of it off with a chisel

 

[JohnL48]

Only patch panel I can't find is the rear corner but found this on you tube on how to make one

 

[catscratch]

Damn, that is a lot of bondo!

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