Well I am going to start with how I got it so you will have to figure out how to hack your crap up yourself. My only suggestion is make sure your lines are strait! :flipoff2:

 

Well we started by welding the missing chunk back in that the previous owner bought from the junk yard.

 

We decided that we would just go with the factory window body line and cut the D pillars off and bend the window seal over so we would have a flat surface to work on when it came time to build the back of the cab.

 

Next it was time to make the tail gate and seal up the D-pillar gap.
Cut the hatch at the same window line.

 

Then it was time to make the caps.

 

Ahh...the Cheromanche, sort of. Looks like a good start. Keep chopping and welding.

 

Well, we got a little more done today. Finished welding the patch panels and got the tailgate all lined up. We welded a brace in behind the tailgate that it will bolt to and it will still latch at the bottom. It would've been welded in but it needs to come off so you can get to the tail lights.

Now it's time to do some grinding.

 

Made a little more progress. Next I need to find someone that sells convertible top material, or just close it in.

 

dang, nice job. How did you get the windshield frame area flat enough to get a windsheild on?

 

I would suggest not driving it with the roof missing unless you did some serious bracing of the unibody. Other than that, looks damn good considering it's been rolled.

 

The windshield frame wasn't too much of a bi*** to get strait, after half an hour of beating it is really close to strait. As far as bracing I plan on connecting the roof to the back and building an x in there as well. There is a small brace in there right now but as soon as I get a chance to drive down to the steel store and pick up some tubing I will build the rest of the bracing. I will post pics when I get that done. I also plan on cutting the roof back to the window line.

 

all that work for sheetmetal... I thought the point of rock crawling was to ditch the sheetmetal, not bring it back... just fawking with you... good luck and looks like a good start.

 

What did you do with the interior?

Might want to check out mallcrawlin.com a few very good threads on chop topping a zj.

 

I have searched Mallcrawlin, one good write up and a couple of good links but not too much. I wouldn't have done a writeup at all but I thought that the next person that tries searching can get one more writeup at least. As far as the interior, the previous owner removed it to work on the Jeep and I have put almost everything back in the Jeep. I still need front black leather limited seats if anyone has any Still need to put the headliner back in but want to finish the back first.

 

Made some more progress, decided that it had to be sealed off. I drive may too much on the street and any wheeling I do is more than three hours away so it has to be bearable. Bought some 16gauge sheet metal and made the plates. I am going to weld the bottom plate all the way to the tailgate and bolt the tailgate to the rest of the Jeep with a seal. Added a few braces out of angle iron and welded them to the top cover. The seats wit quite nicely without the headrests and even latch. I also decided not to go with a bed because I wanted to be able to sleep in the back of the jeep for winter wheeling trips. Grand Slam North West is coming up soon I plan on grinding the welds and painting the new pieces with some cheapo Omni single stage paint that I have laying around. Hope to be ble to do that by the nd of the week and get some more pics up.

 

 

Here is a pic of the inside of the Jeep. Looks really good. It is nice and quiet inside the Jeep again too. Driving down the road feels just like driving a four door truck.

 

you shoudl mount a third break light under the glass in the center. One of those thin strips of LEDs.

 

I want to mount a third brake light there. The headliner dips down for the sunroof motor so it made the perfect place for one. Plus that damn computer console screen thing in front of the shifter won't shut up about missing a tail bulb, so I have to do something. If that screen didn't have the time and the date I would just unplug the damn thing. :flipoff2:

 

Mine would never shut up either. I just use my radio for a clock and made a panel for the area where the computer used to be.

 

ditch those busted wheels, keep the 5.9ers.

go check out mallcrawlin, as already mentioned.

so does the tailgate fold down? i dont understand what you've accomplished by welding a lid on it.

 

I didn't accomplish anything welding the back cover on. I wanted more interior room and something that I could wheel. For other people they could keep that part open but I would prefer having a interior. Also the upper part of the Jeep that is missing is the part that I always seemed to come down on (around trees and rocks) when I was wheeling my XJ and now I won't have that problem. It may not be what most people would do but the only reason that I didn't just buy a new chunk of roof is that this is going to be a more hard core build, I would like to end up on 38" boggers like my XJ. I miss the ground clearance. We'll see.

 

GSquared, did you put the 96-98 heater controls in, and I like the switch panel.

 

those are the stock controls for a '93 AFAIK

the panel is made out of an old mailbox and those led's are for the AW shifter computer

 

the 93-98's had the same climate controls i'm pretty sure. only difference was auto or manual climate control sys.


so...redline, does the tailgate fold down? or is that whole area welded off now, only accessible by folding the rear seats down?

 

The tailgate comes off but not super easy. Still trying to figure out a way to put a hinge on the tailgate but still get it to seal. But just folding down the back won't be much of a pain. Never seen another 93-95 with the heater controls with the digital display. News to me.