1948 CJ2A Build

I got the new riser mocked in. i am not putting it in yet because i have some rust to deal with on the sides, so next up is to cut out the floors. Such shiney new metal

 

Now the floors have been liberated from the tub.

 

i have to patch the center portion that is left. some previous owner just bent and welded a plate right over the rust and right over half of the PTO cover plate. Now that is lazy.

 

No real update. Just sickness. I hope to get crack-a-lackin on the jeep next week.

I did get this little nugget this week. After seeing the condition of the old tool box, there was no way to really save it, or rather just not worth it.

 

Luckily the floors in my CJ2A are solid. A couple of hat channels need a little attention. The rear tub corners have plates welded to the side. I'm going to start cutting tomorrow.. And get rid of the olive drab. My son's '59 is losing it's olive drab next week. In fact, most of it is already sanded off..

Looking good Danny!

 

Well after the sickness i got from Vegas I really didnt have any ambition to work on the Flatty. I would come out and clean around it, and sometimes just scrape off some undercoating. Finally i went out and did some work.
The original owner did some body work and not that well, i cut it out and added new rockers, there is some batch patching still in front of it, but it is solid and i will probably try to sand and level it out with filler unfortuantely, but it is not a show jeep.

So rockers are liberated.




Patched spotted in





The original owner put some plate for the rockers with no bend on the bottom like the original panels, I added metal with a bend so it will not slice your hand if you grab it. I need to cut out a drain hole on the passenger side to match the driver side.
Next on the plate is repair the center hump and then put the floors back in.

 

This week i got motivation to get the front floors done.
Driver side is in


Passenger side and center hump rebuild. I had to piece together the hump, but it will clean up after i hit it with a flapper disc


I still have a patch to go at the angled portion of the floor board. Took a while today to repair the previous owners attempt at repair, by just placing a 1/8 piece of plate over the original metal... and leaving a 1/2 void between the two piece of metal. I had to use the plasma to get by the side panel welds because the cutoff wheel wont get that close.

 

Well floors are all in, next to work on the floor braces.





I put in the gas tank and tool box to see how it looks.

 

But my flintstone braking is suffering, i may have to go to hydrolic

I was over in your area three weeks ago for the Clemson 4x4 poker run. boy that was a tiring day

 

I got a little garage time between doing repairs to subfloor in house and laying vinyl flooring.
Nothing special, but added my floor supports to the new floor pans. I had a bunch of 1x2 rectangular tubing laying around and it worked great for the supports. i also sleeved the body mount holes so nothing will collapse if the mount bolts are tightened down a bit too hard

 

Well now that the floors are done I am able to work on the Jeep again. I decided on my body color and wanted to get the bottom painted so that I can mount the tub back on the frame to get some room in the garage and to actually have it look like a Jeep again.




I decided to go the cheap route and got the Tractor Supply paint in Massey Ferguson Grey. I am not totally done with the rust repair, i need to do the tail light sections and two other small sections. I brushed on the bottom paint, but will spray the sides. I got lazy and did not feel like setting my guns up to spray. It isnt a show rig anyway.

 

I got pretty much all my welding done. I do need to order some body brackets for the rear corners, i did not want to make them since they are pretty cheap to buy the correct ones.
Welded a side patch


Biggest project was the rear tailight panels and seem. I was able to just recreate it. First i had to uncover the driver side seems, the previous owner did the usual bondo over the seem. Weird is they did not do the passenger side seem.








Getting close. I am actually getting pretty excited to get the body back on the frame