My rocker panels, and side pillars, were getting smashed beyond recognition, and since I needed to beef up my attachments of the cage, I decided to reconfigure my tub and cage tie ins.
The Pillars have been reinforced with 1.75" and 1" .120 HREW.
The tub and cage are completely tied together now(or will be when Im finished, there is 2"x .250 reinforcement, at the new rocker panel location. the 2 sides will be tied in with 1.75 tubing and the seats attached to the tubing. The rear bed has 2(on each side) 1.75 tubes running tight up against the bed rail, and just below the fenders all the way to the rear, and then a tube is dropoed straight down to the rear body mount.
Anyway its still got a little ways to go, but it should be nearly complete tomorrow.

Another of the interior

One more

And it looks like my Bistien remote reservoir 7100's arrived in time to make it, on to, todays modification list. They arent yellow anymore either.

That looks pretty sweet. I need to do something like that, my stock rockers have all but folded under.

Looks like crap Jeff :flipoff2: J/K, nice work http://www.pirate4x4.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif

Damn, all I did was cut mine out and use 1/4" thick angle Iron!!

Damn dude, nice work!

Jeff I like the stickers, I guess your need a new set?

Are you going to make clean up?

Rich

You running Blistins' on all 4 corners now? Lost the RS9's?
Nice work on the rockers, man.
You should invent the perfect grinding wheel. Might save you a small fortune before your done. :D You have black lung yet?

That is sweet. Looking good!:D

BEEFY! Thats how I like it! :D Looks sweet... :beer:

Sweet looking man!!!! Kinda reminds me of the lower door bars we put in a couple racecars a while back!!!!:p

Originally posted by Big Rich
Jeff I like the stickers, I guess your need a new set?

Are you going to make clean up?

Rich

You bet, Ill be at the clean up.
Im gonna bring the rig and have some fun after the work is done.

As far as the CalROCS stickers go,...are you kidding me, I know how tight you are with the black stickers, Kathy masked around them and we took rockers all the way to paint, today. I still have to finish the bed rail tubes and tie ins for the seats, but we got it closer to completion than it was.
Here are few pics.
http://tellico.off-road.com/wwwthreads_uploads/751980-MVC-011S.JPG
http://tellico.off-road.com/wwwthreads_uploads/751986-MVC-012S.JPG
http://tellico.off-road.com/wwwthreads_uploads/751991-MVC-006S.JPG

Notice the CalROCS stickers survived.:D

Originally posted by doctor_G
You running Blistins' on all 4 corners now? Lost the RS9's?
Nice work on the rockers, man.
You should invent the perfect grinding wheel. Might save you a small fortune before your done. :D You have black lung yet?

Haha, I could probably cough up a sack of abrasive dust and metal filings
All I need is a couple of 4 1/2" side grinders (1 isnt fast enough when your grinding, removing panels and cutting the fish mouth notches with them), a welder, and an area where no one will call the cops on me, and I can get quite a bit of work done with my parking lot fabrication.
http://tellico.off-road.com/wwwthreads_uploads/751992-MVC-005S.JPG

Haha, notice I have a grinder in one hand and another one with a cut off wheel ready to go on the rear tire.

Damn, I really need to settle down in one area and build me a shop.

That is such an awesome rig. It just gets more and more bad ass. Keep up the good work man!

Now there is no way you did that at the apts, did ya?:eek:

Originally posted by Keith
Now there is no way you did that at the apts, did ya?:eek:

No Way!
Last weeks tranny swap here at Yuppie Central is still causing a sensation with the management, (just for the record,..."Go Away, Im busy" is not the best response when the manager geek tells you, that you must stop immediately on your auto repair).
I have benn doing this swap in a feinds driveway, and I just make sure to get it to a driveable condition to take it home anytime I work on it.
If you could keep that CJ of yours out of your garage every now and then, I could have a great place for my projects.:flipoff2:

How did your engine swap go?

Hey some advice from a fab man,

Please use a faceshield (12-$15) and some pop in ear plugs at a minimun. I have lost some of my hearing due to fab work. Anything over 80 decibles will cause hearing loss. Ask Kurt Franson why the faceshield. He had one of them grinding wheels blow up and the shards went in his arm, chest, and a few othyer places. He was lucky and did not catch a facefull. I wear these two pieces of safty equipment all the time now.

The other thing is with the sanding wheels to finish off the grinding. Thoes suckers rip on sharp edges all the time so the faceshield will help there as well.

Just a concerned fab man.

Fleckster

H8monday that looks nice and clean in the finished pics......I had a question for you. Have you had any problems with tickets having your rear-fenders cut like that? I saw you cruising in Roseville the other day and it looked like a whole lot of tire highly visible from behind........just curious. ;)

H8,

just got in this thread.
it is certainly one of the most beautiful jeeps i've ever seen.

having an ugly beast makes you appriciate beauty:D:D

i think that what is most eyecatching here are the proportions of the jeep which seem to be perfect.

i envy you for doing all the work yourself, something i cannot
do because of lack of a place, time and also talent.......:D:D

is this rollcage attached to the frame?

as far as i could tell, it was'nt. maybe it's a good chance to weld some connections to the frame.

Nice Jeff! I just got done groving my 38's and they look pretty sweet. Stop by before CalRocs and we'll get your done.

Later, Tarzan

Originally posted by The Fleckster
Hey some advice from a fab man,

Please use a faceshield (12-$15) and some pop in ear plugs at a minimun. I have lost some of my hearing due to fab work. Anything over 80 decibles will cause hearing loss. Ask Kurt Franson why the faceshield. He had one of them grinding wheels blow up and the shards went in his arm, chest, and a few othyer places. He was lucky and did not catch a facefull. I wear these two pieces of safty equipment all the time now.

The other thing is with the sanding wheels to finish off the grinding. Thoes suckers rip on sharp edges all the time so the faceshield will help there as well.

Just a concerned fab man.

Fleckster


WHAT DID YOU SAY?,... I CANT HEAR YOU!!:D HAHAHA

Thanks Fleckster, I agree 100%, especialy when you consider that I would send any of my employees home for the day for practicing the same unsafe methods. My safety goggles glasses are on my driver seat(doing me a lot of good,huh!). To be honest though, I have seen so many pics of me grinding, without my safety glasses, that I know I dont practice what I preach.
I am going back and forth from safety glasses to welding mask, so often durring this portion of the fabrication, that I often wont grab my safety glasses if I can effectively grind with the debris being directed away from me. That said,..I know its not safe, I have had dozens of cut off wheels come apart, and they can occasionaly send shards into my chest hard enough to draw blood through a shirt. I also had to go to a clinic a few months ago, to have a small steel sliver removed from right eye,(cost was like $800). At my age though, I guess all I can say is, "do as say, not as I do!"
Thanks though, I really do appreciate the reminder.

Originally posted by Dingo
H8monday that looks nice and clean in the finished pics......I had a question for you. Have you had any problems with tickets having your rear-fenders cut like that? I saw you cruising in Roseville the other day and it looked like a whole lot of tire highly visible from behind........just curious. ;)


Thanks (Everyone) for all the compliments.
But any of the guys that see the rig on a regular basis, know that its not nearly as "show room quality" as it may look in the photos. I bang the wrinkles out of it every now and then, when it gets so bad, that sponsor stickers wont stick to it. Then it gets a fresh squirt of rattle can paint, and it is usually back on the trail before the paint is dry.

Tickets: I havent even been given a warning since, I moved into Roseville, last June,... but the fenders are trimmed back further now than they ever have been before. I have been stopped by two seperate Roseville police, in the last few months, to discuss Jeep suspension, and the future of the sport of Rock Crawling.
When I was living in Reno and Las Vegas,...well,lets just say Nevada is a very user freindly state for vehicle requirements(except durring registration, where there smog laws can be as tough as Ca.). The Jeep is registered out of Eugene Oregon, so I have no smog problems with the V8, (I have a clear title to a rusted beyond use, 62 CJ, if it ever comes to that).

Frog,
My cage, has never been tied directly to the frame, but I have laways taken care to beef it up at the attachements to the body, and designed struts or beams into the fabrication to carry the loads to the body mounts. This system, and at this point it really has to be designed as a system, will just do a much better job of doing the same thing I have done in the past. The cage will be tied in, as an assembly to the body's inner cage, and to the cockpit mounts and reinforcements. The seats are now going to be cage mounted on tubes, that run from side to side, and completely incorporated into the cage and body assembly. New down tubes at the rear of the cage will be ran directly down the rear of the tub, at the reinforced pillars on each side of the tail gate, to reinforced mounts at the rear of the frame. Basicly the body and cage have to be removed as a complete assembly now, as there is no Body assembly witha cage assembly bolted on, it is all one unit. I am redesigning the body mounts also, to get them out of harms way at the side rails, and also for a more secure, but still isolated mounting system.
That being said, this ole YJ has been in more than a 1/2 dozen hard roll overs in the last 5 years, and dozens of verying degrees of flops. The system was still very sound at my suppports as I was removing and redesigning them this time around.
I trust the system.

Thanks again, everyone for the compliments.

H8, you maybe wanna sell that 62cj title???hmmm? buuuuudy??

--Sherpa

Originally posted by UGET IT
Nice Jeff! I just got done groving my 38's and they look pretty sweet. Stop by before CalRocs and we'll get your done.

Later, Tarzan


Kevin,
Lemme know when you have some spare time, I have been saying Im gonna groove my SX's for the last 10 months.
Lets see some pics of your pattern.