Drahcir495 Posted July 7, 2023 Author Share Posted July 7, 2023 Thank you. I am picking up another headliner soon, but I may get bored and try it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted July 9, 2023 Author Share Posted July 9, 2023 It's now almost 1am and I wanted to finish up my weekend project. I've been working on getting the indicator panel on the left side of the dash cleaned up. The last few days after everyone goes to bed - 10:30/11 - I am at the kitchen table buffing out the plastic panel. Holy crap it hasn’t gone over well with the wife lol. I have polishing compound sprayed out over the table and a bit of splatter on the wall . Well worth it though lol. I’m sure you guys will recognize this piece even though it’s not in the dash. It is in really rough shape. I don’t know what is covering up the indicators but they were barely visible-> I used the Novus plastic kit with a couple of buffing wheels on my favorite drill -> Half way through the process-> It took some time to get through it all but it came out amazing-> I love when a plan comes together TBC - Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvagedcircuit Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 29 minutes ago, Drahcir495 said: It's now almost 1am and I wanted to finish up my weekend project. I've been working on getting the indicator panel on the left side of the dash cleaned up. The last few days after everyone goes to bed - 10:30/11 - I am at the kitchen table buffing out the plastic panel. Holy crap it hasn’t gone over well with the wife lol. I have polishing compound sprayed out over the table and a bit of splatter on the wall . Well worth it though lol. I’m sure you guys will recognize this piece even though it’s not in the dash. It is in really rough shape. I don’t know what is covering up the indicators but they were barely visible-> I used the Novus plastic kit with a couple of buffing wheels on my favorite drill -> Half way through the process-> It took some time to get through it all but it came out amazing-> I love when a plan comes together TBC - Rich Holy moly that came out incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted July 9, 2023 Author Share Posted July 9, 2023 Thank you . It took a bit of work to get it polished out but I’m very happy with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted July 11, 2023 Author Share Posted July 11, 2023 Oh boy - just something else ruined from neglect -> Just ordered a replacement from ACC on Amazon. I forgot which color I got last time, so hopefully I picked the right one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 Got in the new carpet. Color matched the headliner material very well too -> TBC - Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted July 17, 2023 Author Share Posted July 17, 2023 Found my front drive shaft outside behind a plant along the wall of the house -> It had been out there for years and I thought it was in the corner of the garage with the other drive shafts . It was frozen shut and rusty. I kept oiling it with marvelous mystery oil and eventually freed it up. Took the wire wheel and cleaned off the rust then sprayed it with a few coats of paint -> Hopefully it’s the correct drive shaft - I have a few lol. It’s going to need a special u-joint for it to bolt up to the yolk of the front D44 before I put it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted July 23, 2023 Author Share Posted July 23, 2023 Thank you Buxmj for the headliner . It’s in amazing condition. It is much firmer than the original. The headliner material is going to be a breeze to put on -> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbyluvv Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 Glad to see you back Rich. Onyx is under the knife again as well. Can't wait to see your truck transformed again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted July 29, 2023 Author Share Posted July 29, 2023 Thanks Bo . It’s turned into a positive since seeing how bad of condition it was in. I enjoy working on projects, so I’m going to enjoy this. Revamping Onyx! That is going to be fun to follow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 ** Drahcir495 Part Two ** I have officially started to resurrect the truck. I tackled the headliner over the last day and a half. As I said earlier, I was able to get a headliner board from Buxmj - thanks again Buck . The headliner board was in amazing condition-> I had two small damaged areas -> I also wanted to smooth out the tears and divots where the material would glue to. Found this in the garage, but I don’t know exactly what it is intended for? I would guess drywall tape -> I use the headliner spray glue I picked up from Joann’s Fabric -> to adhere the drywall tape over the damaged parts -> I moved on to repairing the missing board pieces -> Then I used the tape to create a backing for the expanding foam to set up against -> I can’t remember who’s buildup page that I got the idea to use expanding foam, but . (Found it - USN_JeepMJ’s build up page) Filled the areas with the foam and cut and sanded it to match the original lines -> It came out pretty darn good. ** I ran out of room for pictures, so I will have to continue it on the next reply - tbc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 Now that the expanding foam was sanded to match the contoured of the backing board, I am ready to glue the fabric on -> Sprayed the adhesive on the board and the headliner material and then carefully smoothed out the material -> Yes - success -> Placed the Sun visors up against the new material and it was noticeably faded -> Tried to see if the SEM paint would get it close but not close enough -> Just going to have to redo those too. I’m just not in the mood to take on that job now, so it is a project for another day. TBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 Going for a different look on the Comanche-> I may have to lower the truck but the ride quality will be much better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 brush guard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Drahcir495 Posted August 3, 2023 Author Share Posted August 3, 2023 My new tires came in. BF Goodrich all-terrain KO2’s in 33x12.5x17’s. They look a lot wider than 12.50, but I like that -> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted August 4, 2023 Author Share Posted August 4, 2023 Not a lot to do to the MJ while it’s at the shop, so doing small things I’m able to do in the mean time. I’m going to do what NicknTime did with his winch and putting in dash controls. I have the exact same winch he has on his Jeep, so it is going to be a breeze to follow along with his installation video. I ordered two regular rocker switches and two winch control switches. One for power and the other for line in and out control -> Snapped them all in -> It’s strange but my dash has plates secured to the plastic for the switches rather than on a mount like my Cherokee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSch88L Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 On 7/30/2023 at 2:11 PM, Drahcir495 said: Now that the expanding foam was sanded to match the contoured of the backing board I am ready to glue the fabric on -> Sprayed the adhesive on the board and the headliner material and then carefully smoothed out the material -> Yes - success -> Placed the Sun visors up against the new material and it was noticeably faded -> Tried to see if the SEM paint would get it close but not close enough -> Just going to have to redo those too. I’m just not in the mood to take on that job now, so it is a project for another day. TBC Great work! May I ask how you removed the fabric from the headliner? Also, I can't clearly see from the pictures, but did you manage to keep the thin layer of foam padding intact? Mine is in otherwise perfect condition except a big cigarette burn that the P.O. did, so I was maybe contemplating doing thame as you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 13 hours ago, OldSch88L said: Great work! May I ask how you removed the fabric from the headliner? Also, I can't clearly see from the pictures, but did you manage to keep the thin layer of foam padding intact? Mine is in otherwise perfect condition except a big cigarette burn that the P.O. did, so I was maybe contemplating doing thame as you... Thank you . You know, I was wondering how I would be able to get the material off the backing board too. Fortunately, the headliner material and foam had already fallen off. I did attempt to pull the material off my damaged one, but pulling on it was just tearing the board apart. Maybe letting something soak into the material like denatured alcohol . Very glad I didn’t have to figure that one out. The Sun visors were plastic, so you can just pull off the material and brush off the foam with a metal bristle brush. When you figure it out let me know . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 Mixed feelings about how the Sun visors came out. Not even close to the first time I redid them. First I ripped off the material and laid it over the new material to get an idea of how much to cut -> I had a lot of the backing foam left on the plastic, so I used a big metal bristle brush to get it off -> Then I just sprayed the visor and also the material and set it down on top of it -> Flipped it over and looped over and trimmed up the excess-> then I started on the passenger side. While separating the visor it broke -> By some miracle, I had another one in my spare parts bin, and it was a passenger side visor . It had been repaired with JB weld by somebody else at some point -> It was raised and needed to be sanded down so that it wouldn’t show through the material. By a second miracle I actually had sanding paper gritty enough to smooth it out -> Repeated the process with the headliner material on this one. Snapped it together and put in the mirrors. Then I discovered the drivers side mirror was broken . Just not my day working on this. Both visors have indents on the visible side which is very upsetting. I will just have to hope that they will pop out. I am probably just have to live with it for now -> If Joann’s ever gets some of this color in I’m going to get enough to do them over. But I will be paying someone to do it Don't know why it adds pictures to the bottom of my posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted August 26, 2023 Author Share Posted August 26, 2023 I live 5 miles away from a preserve and in a very developed area. 13 years ago a tortoise wandered into my yard -> Now, over a decade later, another Gopher tortoise happens by -> Super cool. Got home in time to stop my step daughter from dropping him off into a pond - . My son and I brought him back to the reserve to be with the other tortoises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 gotta take good care of your neighbors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted August 29, 2023 Author Share Posted August 29, 2023 Yes! I’m always surprised at what makes its way through our neighborhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted September 4, 2023 Author Share Posted September 4, 2023 I just couldn’t handle looking at the job I did redoing the Sun visors. I really messed them up. Finger indentations everywhere . I had to redo them. Had no idea how I was going to get the material off them seeing as they had just been done. Ended up using paint thinner to soak the material with then left it for a while to dissolve the glue and hopefully it would come off -> It worked out well but it took some time to get it all off. I really took my time and did it all over again. Came out a heck of a lot better with almost no divots. Before-> And after -> I watched a few YouTube videos and one guy was using a pin like tool to pull up the foam and fabric. I will try it with a sewing needle and see what happens. I believe I’m the only one who will notice, so I can live with what’s there. One thing I did manage to do that can’t be easily fixed is I broke one of the mirrors somewhere along the way . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvagedcircuit Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Love the sprayfoam idea for the headliner. Now I can finally fix up my old beaten-up headliner and make that center console I've wanted to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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