My First Mj Project!

[TheDude]

THERE WILL BE BLOOD! FLOOR! (And some blood..)

 

Metal cleaning attachment attached to drill had a sudden parting of ways..

 

 

Hammerin' stuff and adjusting things to fit right

 

Weldin' stuff (note the glow from the cab)

 

 

Small patch on driver's side floor

 

Slightly larger patches on pass side

 

[TheDude]

A few more small patches later and the floor is ready to be sealed!

 

After many hours of spreading roofing cement around late into the night..

 

 

So after waiting about a week for all that to dry, (It was a really rainy week, so it took longer) I got around to sound deadening the floor and rear of the cab with (you guessed it!) Peel N' Seal roof patching!

This stuff is dirt cheap compared to anything else, it doesn't smell, and works great!

 

[TheDude]

Now comes the best part, The new Badass Stereo!

 

Super fancy head unit.

 

 

 

My very electronically knowagable friend and savior with all the MJ's electrical problems..

 

 

 

Sweet looking amplified sub woofer.

Mounted to the cab backing with metal braces.

 

 

Sound check!

 

 

Everything sounds amazing, I could not be happier with it.

 

BTW Crutchfield.com is the place to go for audio equipment.

[TheDude]

I took a break from working on the truck to head out to the Bantam Jeep Festival with my friend Azzy from AzzysDesignWorks.com. 

 

I had to work Friday so I only got out there in time for the Jeep invasion in downtown Bulter.

 

 

Finally met a few people from the CClub forums in person! Earl T and StrokerMJ as well as a lot of other nice Jeep enthusiasts.

 

StrokerMJs' show truck in the museum. Soo clean.. :drool:

 

 

After the festival ended on Saturday, Azzy and I took his Jeep trough the trails!

 

 

and down a few more..

 

 

Azzy even stopped to help our friend in his FJ cruiser. 

 

 

and at the end of the day, some Sexy posing for Facebook.

 

 

Posters available for $5 each. 

[TheDude]

With Bantam over, the floor in the truck done, and the sound system installed, I can now do the most rewarding part of all, install the rest of the all Black interior!

 

Step one, Install carpet.

 

 

Step two, drink beer! Install interior plastics!

 

 

Step three, Install the center console and seats!

 

 

Much sexy, very black, such wow..

[TheDude]

Now with the interior installed, I buttoned up most of the dash aside from the bezel. Azzy is making me a set of Special Edition gauge faces for it!

 

After that, my electronically savvy friend and I rebuilt the rear tail light harness and after figuring out a few weird issues like, the connector for the reverse light switch severing itself, the plug under the dash for that switch being unconnected because when the fuse box was changed apparently that changed too..

 

Once we figured all that out we thought it was time for a test drive to our local 24 hour diner, Tom's.

 

 

Then later that week, I dropped it off at my local, mostly Jeep garage for inspection!

 

and guess what?

 

IT PASSED!

 

 

My baby, road legal for the first time since 2006!

 

It felt damn good.

 

but, It's far from done..

 

Now that I'm driving it daily, I have an ever growing list of small things to fix..

 

not to mention all the upgrades I still have planned!

 

but hey, it is a Jeep, what else should I expect?

 

:MJ 1:

[Dillithium]

Awesome progress so far, I hope to read more soon!

[TheDude]

Man, I've been lazy with updating this..

 

Recapping in order of events, on one of my first highway drives with it I noticed a strange vibration front of the truck.

Turns out the front most driveshaft U-Joint had seized solid and worn the slip in the shaft and the chain in the transfer case to basically ruin both..

 

So me and a friend headed to a not near junkyard for parts and they just happen to have a transfer case actually out of a '89 MJ already pulled and this is what we found when we pulled the case in the truck apart.

 

 

 

The fluid we drain out was gold colored from things rubbing that shouldn't to say the least.