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It’s poor person EarthRoamer lifestyle. 4x4? Check. Ford? Check Diesel? Check Composite camper? Check Can haul expensive wine? Check Equally at home with PBR? Check mate, EarthRoamer! Or, it’s van life with a full size bed. And a full size bathroom. But still a van.

This is the big problem besides the width I really wanted to be able to put a soft top on it but it’s just not wide enough I tried to do a modular 3 piece solution but I couldn’t get it to seal. Now it’s only removable in one piece like a bronco top, but the front freedom panels work...

So I read a lot of your posts about top Modification. Made sure I got the proper SMC rated adhesives. Learned how to cut and dissemble the factory hard tops. Found out the freedom panels have a fairly significant downslope so I made a layered mid panel with pieces of the 4 door top and the...

My memory is not the best either, now that you mention it I seem to remember 2 different styles of extended jeep that year, one with wider middle doors and one with narrower modified middle doors. That route probably would have made my life far easier, but I’m thick headed and do things my own...

I’m not sure. Apparently it was done by Quality Metalcraft back in the day, with help from aev. Which makes sense because the concept looks like it drove through the aev warehouse and picked up one of everything they offered in 2012...

FOR SALE: 2002 Born Free 26RB 4x4 7.3 diesel. $75,000. Location: Wake Forest, NC 2002 Born Free 26RSB, with a rear bed that you can keep made. 107,XXX miles on a 7.3 that is very happy chugging along. Gauges with trans temp, turbo boost and pyro. DP tuner switch on the fly chip with high...

So it has about 3 inches less wheelbase than a gladiator, but it’s about a foot and a half shorter so it drives like a porky jk or a nimble jt, depending on how you look at it. The weight isn’t that much more and it drives like a 4 door acceleration wise. It has a big steering box and dodge...

Now it’s just fine tuning the little things. Trying to look at new paint schemes I also got the Aev rims that were on the first concept I saw. It seems dumb but kinda makes me happy. I have 2 door and 4 door sliders I need to combine Into one set for this pig.

Door off life is fantastic Beach life is fantastic. Top off life is fantastic

By the way if you start asking for a driveshaft over 60 inches everyone gets itchy. But the shafts I got with the parts rig were Tom Woods and they said sure send them back! Might be the longest jk shaft ever. 1310 cv’s and they run quiet with no vibes.

Here you go. 3 rows of seats. 4 front seats. It actually works amazing. I have a car seat adapter in one now and it’s so great to have it on a long slide with height adjustment to get the car seat just right. Plus because it was designed as a 2 door the seats move out of the way to get...

So I took the factory windshield frame and skinned it and chopped the base off to match the angle of the b post. Then I welded it in. This way I could use the factory freedom panel attachments and match all the angles. Plus now the kids have back seat sun visors which is pretty cool. What...

So a whole bunch of cutting and fitting of the floor and the rest of the body and the doors fit kinda almost decent. I mean it’s a jeep. It’s panel gap wasn’t amazing from the factory. Not a high bar. Note the missing triangle. Out in the sun to assess the work. Actually coming together...

I’m no jscherb, but it quickly became apparent that the soft top would be difficult. There is a bulge in the roof too and the tops are significantly more narrow up front. So off to Craigslist. Found a cheap 2 door hard top to go with what was left of my 4 door hard top after the accident.

So rebuild the axles, swap around the suspension, buy some new shocks, use the best bits off 2 vehicles and then wheel it out in the sun! neat. Do some questionable maneuvers and get the back out of the garage. get your wife to spot you while you use the trusty tractor to wed these 2...

Maybe eventually. It’s on the list.

So I did a bunch more measuring and understanding about how the frames on jk’s actually work. Turns out they are the same from 2 doors to 4 doors with the exception of the center beam, and the center beam is the same except for its length. So I cut the 2 door frame long with some of the front...

So things were going pretty good, for awhile. I swear I had measured everything before I started, but I forgot one important measurement I guess. The front of the door openings. Turns out I was now 3 inches short. Looking at jeep bodies now it’s painfully obvious they bow out, but I’m a cj...

So time to cut up subject 2. Forget that ripping bodies apart changes your center of gravity Phew. Got everything shuffled around ok.

So get comfortable with the sawzall and the plasma cutter Rip it out of the garage Same thing with the frame Here we go. All ready for throwing everything back together.