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A Dd Mj Project


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well, it's been a while.

 

I took a perfectly good and straight longbed pioneer with a crap ton of rare factory bits and wheeled it until it was a cut up bobbed mess. 

So now it's time to atone. I wanted to be back into a Jeep for daily driver duty. Sedan just isn't fitting my lifestyle. I also came to the realization that I hate working on all things FWD. 

 

So I started looking, then the universe smiled on me and this thing popped up on facespace. 

 

It had me at "rust free"

 

 

It's three states away, mid 4wd swap and I bought it sight unseen. 

Hey, what's life without some adventure?

 

A friend went and picked it up, the title is in the mail. I'm shipping a new open cooling system to him, tune up bits and new vital electronics for the trip home. It needs the driveshaft fixed and ffour new tires before it's highway ready. I'm taking a bus to pick this thing up because I'm dirt cheap, so there's no option other than work on it for a weekend and drive it 500 miles home. 

 

What could go wrong?

 

This body is totally worth it

 

sumbitch, a rust free underbody with factory undercoating!

 

It's got some dents, and the paint is faded bad. All the important bits are straight and clean though.

 

Right now the plan is to shove a pair of 3.55 geared axles under it. A rust free D30 is coming from the south. I've found a factory MJ 44 locally. I've got the bits to put discs on it in the rear.  I've got the bits to put a 242 in it for full time awesomeness in the winter. A set of turbine wheels that I need to get back from my brother, the elusive rocker B pillar lights. in short, i've got on hand or in the works a bunch of cool MJ stuff to put on it.

 

I'm going to try my hand at pulling the dents from the bed, paint it and drive it for the next ten years. 

 

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seems a shame to do all that work and then doom the poor thing to the same fate as every other winter beater in the rust belt. :(  I drove an old minivan each winter for the last decade because rust-free only happens once.

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