Jeep Rover 110 7 passenger vehicle (JKUR+)

cj-10

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Gavan I have followed your other 2 builds on Pirate. I'm looking forward to following this one. I loved the cj-10a
 

mog

Kodiak Buckaroo
A guy has built a very nice 7 seat Gladiator (so JT not JL/JK), which might have some ideas you can use.

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Photos property of KRAG

More info on the JT Gladiator forum HERE

Video on YouTube:
 

gavan

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A guy has built a very nice 7 seat Gladiator (so JT not JL/JK), which might have some ideas you can use.

Well that’s a thing…. Reminds me of a Toyota Trekker

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“Well we are thinking of a 4Runner eventually so let’s try this”

Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool and I’m glad people have the same kinda idea but pickups are pickups and passenger vehicles are not pickups.

I’ll get off my soap box now.

Who is going to convince me that a nice minty fresh 400hp Ford 351/zf5/atlas sitting on my garage floor needs to not go in the crawler and get diverted into the family mini van?
 

gavan

Observer
Ok like all good projects I sold all the parts and lost interest in it.

Just kidding! I finished it!

And for no reasonable reason I will drag yall along.
 

gavan

Observer
So I did a lot of measuring and a lot of looking at my frame and realized it was far worse off from the accident than I expected. I didn’t think I could get it straight enough to go a good build, and my sheet metal skills were not good enough to build the box, plus the body by the c pillar was also tweaked enough to make it a problem.

Feeling a little down I remembered a truck from sema in 2013. It was cool. It was 3 rows. It had presence.

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gavan

Observer
So I made a high quality photoshop picture of my idea and sent it to my friends. They all said I was crazy, so I knew I was on the right track.

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gavan

Observer
So I went shopping. I managed to find the right color with over 200k miles for a good price. That took care of all of my parts. Well. Most of them.

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gavan

Observer
Let’s tear down! You know where this is going. Getting all the parts off both vehicles and setting them together to compare and contemplate.

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gavan

Observer
So get comfortable with the sawzall and the plasma cutter

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Rip it out of the garage

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Same thing with the frame

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Here we go. All ready for throwing everything back together.

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gavan

Observer
So time to cut up subject 2.

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Forget that ripping bodies apart changes your center of gravity

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Phew. Got everything shuffled around ok.

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gavan

Observer
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 guy and I was stuck on “jeeps are squares”.

Well

Time for the porta power and the spot weld cutter.

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This was by far the low point of the build. Everything hinged on this and it was not a fun experience.

I was also duped because I had seen one done. Figured it was “easy”.

I missed one key point in the pictures

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If you zoom in that’s smooth not segmented like the front of the door. So they made new panels or bondo’d it or both. Oh well.
 

gavan

Observer
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 frame intact, then cut the 4 door frame and cleaned up the 2 frames using the front of the 2 door frame as a splice. Easy. Mostly.

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Align them and get them straight

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Then strap it together to keep it solid

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Get dressed for the party

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And plug weld and lap weld and every other weld until it’s one piece

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And now for a teaser

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The ole 4 mirror trick.
 

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