Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:16 am
PROGRESS.... So that is the word for today. The 3 of us got together for a good 8 hour day. We pulled down the headliner completely this time. If you are doing one of the these conversions I think it's worth it to just pull the whole thing down especially when tracing wiring that is running under these headliners. The Jeeps especially have kind of a strange system of taking all the wiring down each side to the back but then they loop it through another harness to power that command center that's in the front roof. Okay, so we feel confident that we are also going to deviate on another point.... we are adding an additional 5 inches of interior space within the cab for either side mounted jump seats or possibly a jump bench. We do not need to move the bed.....just the front cab wall. It will cause us to shorten the fender boxes but it should work. We are going to use self drilling screw to tack/mock all this up before making the final decision. After getting the headliner out we removed the rear seats, seat belts, and a crap load of interior trim, including a decent sized stereo amp and CD disc changer. Then it was on to unpluging and removing the tailights (these are lightly trimmed and reused), the rear hatch, and the two rear doors. And, then we started cutting. We used a diamond edged circular saw for the roof top and demolition blade on a reciprocal saw for the sides of the roof. Next we sawed through each pillar and did a rough cross cut which allowed us to lift off the entire greenhouse. I picked up a cheap small body saw on sale awhile back....man that thing has been a time saver especially when combining it with a pistol type air chisel. So where are we.....we will have just about 1 more hour for some fine trimming and we should be good to start our mock up for mounting the bed. That will go much more rapidly than my Charger build as the Jeep floor structure require almost no additional bracing. And on that subject.... very impressed with the Jeep structure, thing is a tank. Looks like a lot of crush safety built in with tripling up stress areas. And man, when the guy I got this thing from said it was rust free, he wasn't kidding. ALL of the original seem sealer is intact and I haven't even seen one rusty bolt yet..... Sorry, not much in the way of pic.s , this just moved along fast.... I'll slow me down and get more pic.s next time..... The plan is to meet and do another full day next Sunday.
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- Headliner coming down.... see what I mean about loops of minor wiring harness.....
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- Riley and Dalton removing wire harness and more trim.... lots of trim.....
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- So Grandson doing some final marking for our next round of cutting.
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