driverdave

I sent you a pm.

Any plans on lifting it? Take your time working on it, your young and have time to do it right.

How long did it take you to clean the frame and how? I just started mine and realise I need different tools, my frame is solid but flaking rust.

Looks real good so far, I have to ask you about the exhaust are you keeping that straight pipe or are you going to get one that bends over the axle? The pipe looks like if you stuff that side the pipe will get hit by the axle.

The exhaust is a flow master muffler with after market cat 2 1/4 pipe, I like the sound its pretty quiet at idol but hit the gas it bellows a bit. If you have to replace yous exhaust I would get a flow master, cheap and sounds good.

welcome are you keeping the 2.5 or going with a 4.0 at some point?

Got the bed off today and flipped over, I do not see any thing that is not either rusted or rotted, brake lines in the rear leak fuel lines are junk, mounts are junk, so I'm going to start cleaning the frame tomorrow, any suggestions? I don't have a sand blaster just air/power tools and elbow grease.

I am going with a solid paint my xj is metalic pearl looks good but I don't want that for the mj.

I was told be some people to make sure when I paint the mj to put it together first then paint the truck, I watch Chip Foose's guy do his paint jobs and when he paints for the most part he sprays the hood, doors, fenders all off the car and sprays that way. Chip's paint jobs are a lot more complicated than mine will be. Guess I'm asking which way should I paint it, its apart right now.

I bought my MJ from my brothers boss, I saw it about 3-4 yrs ago and said I want it , my bro told me it was for sale with out asking I drove 3 hrs to buy it, was told first off it was a 92 nope its an 89 and the rot I didnt care much about from what I remembered it was pretty solid, well stuff happened and it had way more rot than I remembered for $500.00 I paid a bit much but 86k miles kind of makes up for the price. Next time I am asking for pics if I have to drive more than an hour away. No pics no sale to me.

I'm not sure where it is on a jeep. Is it in the VIN? If so, which one? Nevermind! :clapping: I found a thread that told me where to find it. The code is 9B and is called Olympic White according to automotivetouchup.com. And, you can access pics of my MJ at http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2095444 You can't tell too much on the color, but you will be able to tell it is not a real bright white. Being a house painter I have used this color and thats pretty much what I want, I don't want a pure bright white, I just called Napa and they are mixing me 4 different shades of white including Olympic white. I will be spraying it on this weekend to me spare fenders then choosing.

My 87 MJ is not the bright white of later years but more of a creamy white. I understand instead of blue mixed in to the white that they did in later years to get "bright white" it had a touch of yellow. When I repaint mine, it will be it's stock color. Do you have the color code for your white? I am now thinking that I don't want a regular white but off white. Sorry not trying to high jack your thread.

Not trying to be rude the way I say this but .... Lesson learned for some people that are new to Jeeps of any kind, always ask and ask for pics before driving long distances and getting mad it wasn't what you thought. Pics are the tell all about it being a 2.5 or 4.0, Dana 44 or 35. some people selling stuff don't know their a$$ from their elbow.

Where can I order the front 4 bed mounts?Actually and rear end parts besides scrap yards not the axle but misc parts.... I checked the local Napa and Jeep/Chrysler dealer (their going out of business part of restructuring) I get a few jeep mags but have never seen this listed. I think I just opened a can of worms removing the bed :wall:

It's not that you were miss quoted just the xj leaf will NOT work on an mj

mj springs are longer and different arch I asked this a while back my xj has 4.5" lift I wanted on my mj. look around for the forum "bastard packs"

Considering how much rust in on the under carriage I did not brake any bolts, sliced my finger open and spare tire carrier hit me in the nose and cut the bridge so that enough bodily harm for the day. I just need to find a couple more people to help lift the bed off and push the rig forward. I found the bed mounts 4 are rotted pretty bad so they need to be replaced,Frame rot which I know I can have welded, brake lines now peeing out fluid at a good pace. once the bed comes off I will post pics, damn my face is sore lol. I am glad now I decided to take the bed off, some of the work will be much easier standing up and doing it vs laying on the ground.

That stinks, guess some people can not tell the difference between a V block vs a straight block, I know its hard since they look so much alike, just kidding. myself I would have been pissed

Thank you

I bought a rear bumper today figured I would remove the old one and realized the bracket it mounts to isnt worth scrap so I need to replace them., the bolts are so rusty 2 stripped the head from the looks I can't dirll it out I could grind the heads off but then how do i drill and tap the bolt holes again so I figure I might as well remove the bed, I can't see (might be in the rust some where :mad: any bolts so if some could post a pic or let me know i appreciate it. I am holding off on painting it until I replace the rear axle which hopefully will be in a couple weeks. With the bed off I'm going to replace.. brake lines (master back) axle suspension (shackles, leafs and what every else) ( using all poly bushings) drive shaft u-joints fuel tan fuel pump fuel lines grind/sand frame prime frame under coat every thing i can either convert to rear disc or get 8.8 with disc So for now body work is just about done, a little more primer and I'm putting the body back together.

Where and how many bolts are on the bed?

I like that blue since my xj was/is blue I want to stay away from that color. Pink that wouldn't look good at all even if it is a females rig.

Weight reduction :rotf: , I took off 3 lbs or rot and added 50 lbs of bondo :grrrr:

Really? That's constructive criticism. It's not my truck and for some reason that comment bothers me. As Comanche Club President, I would like to apologize to you, driverdave, for the comments that were made by oregonman. Neither you or your MJ deserved it. Keep working at it, you are doing a great job! :thumbsup: :doh: and i want to clear up i was talking about the axles and the coils. not the paint or interior or body work or anything else . only the front end :cheers: sorry driverdave . your mj is cool .. don't mean to insult you but i have never seen that much rust in my life. . but thinking back my truck does not have much rust because i had rear and front main seals leaking on my front axle but fixed those..... and your stereo system looks kick @ s s i like the bass tubes that is a good idea i have truck boxes and they take all the room behind the seat . but if you don't want to see that i would just buy a spray can of glossy black and some heavy duty sand paper or grinder.... make it look like this Or 10x better .... :cheers: Don't worry I wasn't insulted by your comment, I have told friends it looks like it was parked in the ocean also, in fact I posted that comment on another jeep forum. If you saw the bed that looked like it went swimming also, the cab and nose were pretty much rust/rot free just full of parking lot dings, I mainly bought it because it has 86k miles on it. As for the stereo I have a set of 12" subs made a box to fit but like you said it takes up every inch of room, the base tubes are 6 1/2" with byilt in 100 watt amp each, I had 1 hooked up for a while and it sounded pretty good with 2 I should have a nice back massager lol.

It's fully primed now, going to rhino coat the pass fender and prime that, I ordered a case of undercoating today so when that comes in I'm hitting the inside of the fenders then putting it back together then next weekend i'm going to attempt to paint white on my test fender and see how it goes.