Thanks Corpman! Its one part at a time. Ordered my front frame horn from Matt at QTM nice guy, talked jeep stuff for a while, enjoyed the conversation. He gave me a few pointers I needed.
The tub is going to need the following:
1. both light panels
2. tailgate repair
3. panel below the tailgate
4. right side panel (rusted at the spare tire mount)
5 both wheel house brackets
6. re-weld the trans hump back
7. floor riser repair
8. hat channels
9. floor pan repairs (not a full replacement just misc. areas above the hat channels)
10. misc. holes and dents
The windshield is perfect, and when my dad had his jeep sandblasted we had my windshield done then. I had sprayed rust neutralizer on it until the time for painting.
I took out the fenders to asses the extent of repairs and they are toast. I have great 2A fenders that I will use until I get a good set of 3a fenders.
My hood had some issues not to bad but a lot of work to replace some areas in the front where the PO welded up bad spots and some dents. When I got the Rag top, he through in a great hood which I will use instead.
The grill is soaking in the witches brew for a couple of days to get all the rust off and help with the cleanup.
If I had a big enough tank I would put my whole frame and tub in it and never need any sandblasting
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I'm taking my front hubs off again and going to reline the brakes. although they had plenty of life in them, why buy the pads to fix it and not use them? It's was very easy to do it on the back brake pads so I'll go ahead and do the fronts.
Overall the progress seems slow, but when the frame is complete, the rolling chassis will take no time at all, and all those little nit picking parts will be done and ready for assembly.
I like to jump around cleaning and painting on misc. parts kinda breaks the boredom of working on just one area. Although the frame is key it will get done when its done :-?
