1992 Jeep Comanche "Maria"

[Salvagedcircuit]

38 minutes ago, MariaManche said:

Thanks for the advice! 
 

I cleaned up the stud with a wire brush on a die grinder and sprayed a liberal amount of Kroil on the top and bottom side. I’ll see if she breaks tomorrow after work. 

 

If you removed all the spot welds in the top uniframe support, you can always try using a large prybar and prying a bit between the top uniframe support and the floor. It seems that stud is not welded to the uniframe. It looks like something is pressed on over the stud into the uniframe support. Mine looked like a pile of rust, and I could not tell. I tried to remove my stud from the cab and it just snapped clean off.

 

It may be easier to remove the stud from the bottom side, but be careful of your brake and fuel lines. If you plan to reuse them, it's not good idea to heat up brake lines. The fluid does not like extreme temperatures and I'm sure the old lines are not up for it either. There's a few of those plastic fuel / brake line clips around that location. Un-clip them all and try to push the lines out of the way. That should give you more room to work. Obviously moving the fuel lines as far away from the torch as possible is also good piece of mind

 

[The86manche]

15 hours ago, MariaManche said:

Thanks for the advice! 
 

I cleaned up the stud with a wire brush on a die grinder and sprayed a liberal amount of Kroil on the top and bottom side. I’ll see if she breaks tomorrow after work. 

When I removed mine I did almost exactly what you did but I also applied a little heat on the top side. I used two nuts and was able to remove all of mine

[MariaManche]

I know anyone following this build thread is tired of hearing about mice nest…. But i just can’t seem to get rid of them. Worked on the driver side floor tonight and found a huge nest in the uniframe. 
 

This does reassure me that I made the right decision to replace the floor pans even if they seem “acceptable” to most. 
 

[MariaManche]

More floor work. Trying to do the most professional job I possibly can. 

[M.T.Hands]

Nice work

[MariaManche]

Patch Panel #1 ready to be welded in place. 

 

 

Question.

 

Is that black trim on the front fender, door, and front of bed stock? Does not appear to be and the more I look at it, the more I don't like it.

 

[coheed]

1 hour ago, MariaManche said:

Patch Panel #1 ready to be welded in place. 

 

On this patch panel did you end up cutting the spot welds out from the fender side? I'm currently doing this section and all the way up to the top of the firewall and I'm debating how exactly I want to go about it. 

 

I believe the body trim was dealer installed. Either way whether it was stock or not, if you don't like it take it off. You can use fishing line or dental floss and just fish it behind the trim and basically "saw" it off. 

[MariaManche]

1 minute ago, coheed said:

On this patch panel did you end up cutting the spot welds out from the fender side? I'm currently doing this section and all the way up to the top of the firewall and I'm debating how exactly I want to go about it. 

 

I believe the body trim was dealer installed. Either way whether it was stock or not, if you don't like it take it off. You can use fishing line or dental floss and just fish it behind the trim and basically "saw" it off. 

Coheed, 

 

Yes, I cut the spot welds from the inside of the fender. This got a little "hairy" due to that thin sheet metal and not being able to fit my drill/spot weld drill bit. I just used a small cut off wheel and basically cut a shallow "X" into each spot weld. Then used a chisel/hammer to pop them free. I will take a better picture tonight and share it with you. 

 

My next step is to paint the body surface with weldable primer, drill out holes for spot welds in the patch piece, paint the patch piece with weldable primer, and then tack her in place. 

[coheed]

1 hour ago, MariaManche said:

Coheed, 

 

Yes, I cut the spot welds from the inside of the fender. This got a little "hairy" due to that thin sheet metal and not being able to fit my drill/spot weld drill bit. I just used a small cut off wheel and basically cut a shallow "X" into each spot weld. Then used a chisel/hammer to pop them free. I will take a better picture tonight and share it with you. 

 

My next step is to paint the body surface with weldable primer, drill out holes for spot welds in the patch piece, paint the patch piece with weldable primer, and then tack her in place. 

The cutting an x is a good idea. I'm using a small Dremel with a cutoff wheel for the tiny parts I can't get my regular grinder into and I may do that. Cutting the spot welds out is more work and more tedious up front, but in theory less work down the road. The tricky part for me will be up at the wiper cowl. 

 

Luckily for me the seams where the spot welds are are solid. It's the panels next to the seam that are crazy rusted.