Squeegy410

OK, here's the build. let me know if you need anymore info after this :thumbsup: First off, the tools: torx sockets, screwdrivers (all sizes, a little nubby one is a necesity, and a ratching one helps) ratchets, and extensions. Oh and a used mcdonalds cup to keep all your parts in :yes: First take off the A pillars (i believe thats what their called?). you need a philips head and some expert fenangling to get this off. don't try to actually pull the whole thing off, just get the top all loose (two philips screws by the windshield and two pop outs above the door) and let it hang out of the way. the passenger side is less fenangling but has an oh crap handle in the way and no pup outs above the door, the oh crap handle holds it on. To take the oh crap handle off GENTLY (and i mean it this time :thumbsup: ) pull the wings off and let them hang. don't just pull the wing off as it will break into two pieces and you will have to glue it together... not that i did that or anything... :fs1: :wall: then use a small torx to get it out Then get your visors off. The driver side one comes right off as does the middle piece that holds them both in in the middle. the passenger side one (atleast my passenger side one) had a vanity mirror and thus wiring issues. To get the passenger side one off get behind the A pillar and find the plugs: Then unplug them and pull the wires on out: You may want to go ahead and take the rearview off too. its just one philips screw Next you want to start on the back B pillars. The first step is to get the seat belts off. use a torx and a ratchet to get them off. they are pretty stout so be prepared to use some elbow grease. BE CAREFULL! the ratchet will want to hit your back glass like in the picture. I didnt break mine but realized i could have. To get the b pillar pannel off you will need to take off the back pannel. its just alot of pop outs. be gentle and pry them on out. there are also clips holding the carpeted section to it. it can bow in the middle and let you just pull right on out of the sides, unless you have a center console :dunno: ive never had one :( once it gets all loose it still won't come all the way out, so just set it behind the seats. oh and the dome lights just unplug, no problems there. Once these pillars are off on both sides you have one more thing holding you from pulling out the headliner, the little metal clips above the doors. they do come off. if you feel up behind them there is a clip holding them on. slip a flathead screwdriver up behind it and make a gap then the clip will come out. i didnt know this so i just bent them. worked fine they just bent right back :banana: once those come out the headliner wil basically fall out on your head. there is velcro holding them on, but by now the headlienr had come apart at the velcro and the velcro stayed on the ceiling instead of with the headliner. find rat nets in your headliner, thats an important step :ack: oh and this thing. looks factory :dunno: anybody know what it is? work the headliner out of the cab (no problem) I had to dry the moldy spot on my headliner up, so i used this baby the heat gun also came in great handy for the velcro problem. I just used the gun to remelt the old glue and stick the velcro to it. worked great :thumbsup: now you need material to make a headliner. I had this GORGOUS :ack: naugahide laying around from before i was born. I'm broke, its good stuff, so i decided to use it. I figured itd be ok if the inside of my truck looked like maddona designed it :banana: But i got some naugahide dye at O'reileys and turned awefull silver into grey :yes: :yes: so i turned that into this: With these: It is a frantic situation to get the cloth on the headliner so i couldnt take in progress pictures, but i can explain well enough. Spray the super 77 on the cloth and the headliner.only do about half of it at a time so you can manage it all. make sure you spray BOTH of them. let them sit for about a minute (until both of them feel tacky). then start from the middle of the headliner and smoothe out it to the edges from the middle out. once you get to the corners you may need to cut them a little but thats no problem. repeat that until the headliner is on. I ironed my naugahide before i put it on the headliner, but it had been folded for 20 years, so if you don't need to iron it, don't. as for the dye , its just like painting metal, only on naugahide. paint the naugahide after you put it on the headliner, otherwise you may mess up the finish. then just reinstall it. for directions on that, just scroll back up, and turn everything right instead of left :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Mine ended up looking like this: I'm very satisfied :yes: :yes: :D :D :brows: :brows: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :banana: :banana: :banana: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotf: :rotf: oh and the final step is spray ten gallons of febreez in your truck to get the glue smell out :thumbsup: if you have any questions at all i'll be glad to help :thumbsup: btw the total for this project was about 20 bucks :thumbsup:

i understand keeping it stock... but how fun is that? :dunno: I would hate if i couldnt run my mj through the woods and down muddy hills and stuff. itsa four wheel drive and 2.6. honestly if it was me i would resell that baby for what its worth to somone who just wanted to take to to shows and use the profit to buy a 4.0 4wd and have fun with it :thumbsup: . its an amazing truck man, and if your wiling to leave it in the garage and stuff then you should hold on. but i would have to sell it for one i could actually play with

his wipers were on when he crashed :popcorn:

yeah thats toast man :( but i don't guess the wide body look is copyrighted :D we may not be able to rebuild it, but we can make another one :yes:

then just reinstall it. for directions on that, just scroll back up, and turn everything right instead of left :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Mine ended up looking like this: I'm very satisfied :yes: :yes: :D :D :brows: :brows: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :banana: :banana: :banana: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotf: :rotf: oh and the final step is spray ten gallons of febreez in your truck to get the glue smell out :thumbsup: if you have any questions at all i'll be glad to help :thumbsup: oh and i don't know how to alter the name of a thread or move it or anything, so if one of the admins wants to put this in dyi and change the name :???: haha if not i'll just copy and paste all this crap again into a new thread :shake:

now you need material to make a headliner. I had this GORGOUS :ack: naugahide laying around from before i was born. I'm broke, its good stuff, so i decided to use it. I figured itd be ok if the inside of my truck looked like maddona designed it :banana: But i got some naugahide dye at O'reileys and turned awefull silver into grey :yes: :yes: so i turned that into this: With these: It is a frantic situation to get the cloth on the headliner so i couldnt take in progress pictures, but i can explain well enough. Spray the super 77 on the cloth and the headliner.only do about half of it at a time so you can manage it all. make sure you spray BOTH of them. let them sit for about a minute (until both of them feel tacky). then start from the middle of the headliner and smoothe out it to the edges from the middle out. once you get to the corners you may need to cut them a little but thats no problem. repeat that until the headliner is on. I ironed my naugahide before i put it on the headliner, but it had been folded for 20 years, so if you don't need to iron it, don't. as for the dye , its just like painting metal, only on naugahide. paint the naugahide after you put it on the headliner, otherwise you may mess up the finish.

once those come out the headliner wil basically fall out on your head. there is velcro holding them on, but by now the headlienr had come apart at the velcro and the velcro stayed on the ceiling instead of with the headliner. find rat nets in your headliner, thats an important step :ack: oh and this thing. looks factory :dunno: anybody know what it is? work the headliner out of the cab (no problem) I had to dry the moldy spot on my headliner up, so i used this baby the heat gun also came in great handy for the velcro problem. I just used the gun to remelt the old glue and stick the velcro to it. worked great :thumbsup:

To get the b pillar pannel off you will need to take off the back pannel. its just alot of pop outs. be gentle and pry them on out. there are also clips holding the carpeted section to it. it can bow in the middle and let you just pull right on out of the sides, unless you have a center console :dunno: ive never had one :( once it gets all loose it still won't come all the way out, so just set it behind the seats. oh and the dome lights just unplug, no problems there. Once these pillars are off on both sides you have one more thing holding you from pulling out the headliner, the little metal clips above the doors. they do come off. if you feel up behind them there is a clip holding them on. slip a flathead screwdriver up behind it and make a gap then the clip will come out. i didnt know this so i just bent them. worked fine they just bent right back :banana:

Then get your visors off. The driver side one comes right off as does the middle piece that holds them both in in the middle. the passenger side one (atleast my passenger side one) had a vanity mirror and thus wiring issues. To get the passenger side one off get behind the A pillar and find the plugs: Then unplug them and pull the wires on out: You may want to go ahead and take the rearview off too. its just one philips screw Next you want to start on the back B pillars. The first step is to get the seat belts off. use a torx and a ratchet to get them off. they are pretty stout so be prepared to use some elbow grease. BE CAREFULL! the ratchet will want to hit your back glass like in the picture. I didnt break mine but realized i could have.

OK, here's the build. let me know if you need anymore info after this :thumbsup: First off, the tools: torx sockets, screwdrivers (all sizes, a little nubby one is a necesity, and a ratching one helps) ratchets, and extensions. Oh and a used mcdonalds cup to keep all your parts in :yes: First take off the A pillars (i believe thats what their called?). you need a philips head and some expert fenangling to get this off. don't try to actually pull the whole thing off, just get the top all loose (two philips screws by the windshield and two pop outs above the door) and let it hang out of the way. the passenger side is less fenangling but has an oh crap handle in the way and no pup outs above the door, the oh crap handle holds it on. To take the oh crap handle off GENTLY (and i mean it this time :thumbsup: ) pull the wings off and let them hang. don't just pull the wing off as it will break into two pieces and you will have to glue it together... not that i did that or anything... :fs1: :wall: then use a small torx to get it out

mine cost about 20 bucks :banana: :banana: i already had some naugahide laying around though so that helped keep the price down :D hope this helps I'm uploading pics now :D

coming right up boss :thumbsup: ill either do it tonight or some time soon :thumbsup:

it doesnt actually have a bolt just for adjustment, but it can stil be off kilter.

everything is done :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: It took me from 9 to 4 today but it was worth it. I didnt even take pics of what i did to the windsheild haha but it was just a simple silicone job :D the big deal was me replacing my headliner :D :D it took alot of work but looks sooooo much better :banana: :thumbsup: i have alot of good pictures and I'm able to do a write up of it. should i post it in do it yourself or should i just post it all here?

gotchya :cheers: well let me know if you need anything. I'm jsut like an hour away :thumbsup:

Glad to see somone that crazy about mj's :thumbsup: are there any pictures here on cc? and why do you wanna trade your buckets for a bench? :???: :???:

If you do have to replace it check the old coil for rusty/eroded connecting points like for the hot and ground wire. Thats just to satisfy my curiosity about this predicimate :thumbsup:

tell him to join comanche club and well fix it up on a donatin bases :idea: he could donate it and we could all throw in :D

I understand if not, but how much did it set you back? :???: you don't have to tell me but it just makes me wonder how much :eek:

was the problem on the harmonic balancer or the water pump?

I Love it man :thumbsup:

if it does it again i would bet on it being wiring issues. any problem that comes and gos like that and has potential to be electric usually is :smart: i very honestly hope it simply doesnt do it again and you have the best of luck :cheers: i really hate to see somebody have that kind of trouble :(

thanks :thumbsup: I'm taking my headliner off now so i will seal up on the inside first then when it dries up outside i'll seal it up on the outside and hopefully not have a leak anymore :D

take one of your tails off and see if your test light flashes when its on four way. make sure youve got a good ground and test it with your blinker first so you know your in the wire well enough, then get somone to turn your flashers on. if the wires getting juice back there you have a problem with your plug, but i doubt thats the problem. i would first off make sure my flashers were there and the right part (call a parts shop and have them look up the part for a 4 way flasher for your mj) and make sure you have the right one in there, because the 4 ways use a different kind of flasher than the blinkers, and if i remember correctly its more expensive so somone might have got cheap and bought two of the same kind. if it does have a flasher in it see if it lights the bulb up before they get to the flasher. if it does then change the flasher and you should be good, if not you need to do the first thing i mentioned. I hope this is helpfull, and if i said anything that makes me look like a douche i don't think your stupid, i jsut didnt want to leave anythign out :thumbsup:

do you keep a test light handy?