Drahcir495

I’m thinking I know where this is going

Wood?! The Jeep emblem on the front is an awesome touch

Another gem -> But not just for looks->

Just caught up on the progress you’ve made. That lug nut was insane. Amazing that you were able to get it off, let alone not damaging the rim

Mixed feelings about how the Sun visors came out. Not even close to the first time I redid them. First I ripped off the material and laid it over the new material to get an idea of how much to cut -> I had a lot of the backing foam left on the plastic, so I used a big metal bristle brush to get it off -> Then I just sprayed the visor and also the material and set it down on top of it -> Flipped it over and looped over and trimmed up the excess-> then I started on the passenger side. While separating the visor it broke -> By some miracle, I had another one in my spare parts bin, and it was a passenger side visor . It had been repaired with JB weld by somebody else at some point -> It was raised and needed to be sanded down so that it wouldn’t show through the material. By a second miracle I actually had sanding paper gritty enough to smooth it out -> Repeated the process with the headliner material on this one. Snapped it together and put in the mirrors. Then I discovered the drivers side mirror was broken . Just not my day working on this. Both visors have indents on the visible side which is very upsetting. I will just have to hope that they will pop out. I am probably just have to live with it for now -> If Joann’s ever gets some of this color in I’m going to get enough to do them over. But I will be paying someone to do it Don't know why it adds pictures to the bottom of my posts

Thank you . You know, I was wondering how I would be able to get the material off the backing board too. Fortunately, the headliner material and foam had already fallen off. I did attempt to pull the material off my damaged one, but pulling on it was just tearing the board apart. Maybe letting something soak into the material like denatured alcohol . Very glad I didn’t have to figure that one out. The Sun visors were plastic, so you can just pull off the material and brush off the foam with a metal bristle brush. When you figure it out let me know .

That’s pretty cool. You’re right, a great story to go with it.

Not a lot to do to the MJ while it’s at the shop, so doing small things I’m able to do in the mean time. I’m going to do what NicknTime did with his winch and putting in dash controls. I have the exact same winch he has on his Jeep, so it is going to be a breeze to follow along with his installation video. I ordered two regular rocker switches and two winch control switches. One for power and the other for line in and out control -> Snapped them all in -> It’s strange but my dash has plates secured to the plastic for the switches rather than on a mount like my Cherokee?

My new tires came in. BF Goodrich all-terrain KO2’s in 33x12.5x17’s. They look a lot wider than 12.50, but I like that ->

Just awesome seeing one of our trucks doing hard labor and looking great doing it

I just read all the build options on your first page. Do you have an ashtray light!? That’s something I haven’t seen but I didn’t know to look for it. Is that a 200 mph gauge that I see. Had mine parked for 4 years and I forgot what needed to be done to it too.

That made me laugh! I have heard that about my garage

Going for a different look on the Comanche-> I may have to lower the truck but the ride quality will be much better!

You probably have already got the rca cables run, but here’s what I found works. The area behind the radio is pretty limited on space, but as fiatslug87 said it’s very much doable. I used an electricians fish tape to pull all my wires through, but a coat hanger will work just fine. Tape the wire to the end of the coat hanger and feed the other end down and out of the dash. Then all you have to do is pull it all out

Just submitted mine

Is legit? Is it a way to get and sell your information?

Just an awesome truck! Well deserved MJOTM.

Now that the expanding foam was sanded to match the contoured of the backing board, I am ready to glue the fabric on -> Sprayed the adhesive on the board and the headliner material and then carefully smoothed out the material -> Yes - success -> Placed the Sun visors up against the new material and it was noticeably faded -> Tried to see if the SEM paint would get it close but not close enough -> Just going to have to redo those too. I’m just not in the mood to take on that job now, so it is a project for another day. TBC

** Drahcir495 Part Two ** I have officially started to resurrect the truck. I tackled the headliner over the last day and a half. As I said earlier, I was able to get a headliner board from Buxmj - thanks again Buck . The headliner board was in amazing condition-> I had two small damaged areas -> I also wanted to smooth out the tears and divots where the material would glue to. Found this in the garage, but I don’t know exactly what it is intended for? I would guess drywall tape -> I use the headliner spray glue I picked up from Joann’s Fabric -> to adhere the drywall tape over the damaged parts -> I moved on to repairing the missing board pieces -> Then I used the tape to create a backing for the expanding foam to set up against -> I can’t remember who’s buildup page that I got the idea to use expanding foam, but . (Found it - USN_JeepMJ’s build up page) Filled the areas with the foam and cut and sanded it to match the original lines -> It came out pretty darn good. ** I ran out of room for pictures, so I will have to continue it on the next reply - tbc

Yep, good choice of paint color! Looking really good

Going to enjoy seeing this rebuilt . Love the look of the gladiator bumpers.

Thanks Bo . It’s turned into a positive since seeing how bad of condition it was in. I enjoy working on projects, so I’m going to enjoy this. Revamping Onyx! That is going to be fun to follow

Love the stance of your truck. Looking forward to seeing it as a flat bed

Oh no Pig. I do like the hood vents.