A Geek Grows Up

Since getting my house (and garage) afew months back, I’ve really been able to ramp up working on my Jeeps. Here’s a quick run down of where I am:

I removed the tinted rear door glass from my 98 parts XJ, and installed it in my 97 XJ. I’ve got the rear passenger quarter glass out, I still need to pull the driver quarter glass, and the rear hatch glass. I can install the quarter glass myself, but will have to find a shop to do the hatch glass.

In the above picture, you can see the door glass is darker than the quarter glass behind it.

I got the factory skid plates removed. I just need to clean them up before installation. I have a feeling I will need some new nut straps for the gas tank skid, and I will need to figure out how to mount the transfer case skid in the cross member/frame.

Front End Skid Plate

Transfer Case Skid Plate

Gas Tank Skid Plate

The top nut strip is the way it’s supposed to be. The bottom got bent somehow when the Jeep was wrecked. The odd thing is that the bent strip came from the driver’s side, and the damage was on the passenger side. I guess the whole subframe is tweaked.

On of my other projects is to mount the header panel with headlights, grill, turn signals, and all the goodies on a piece of brick paneling and make it look like the jeep is crashing through the wall.

I hope to have the parts Jeep out of my garage before spring. The goal is to get the glass out, pull afew more interior parts, drop the rear drive shaft, remove a portion of the floor so I can unbolt the transfer case/transmission tail, and then cut the front end off at the firewall with engine, transmission, axle, and everything else still attached. Then all I need to do is drop the gas tank, remove the rear axle, and scrap the shell.

Lastly, my birthday was last week. I’ll gladly take any donations of Jeep parts….

Tags: Jeep, parts, skid plate, tinted glass

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