Jeep Rover 110 7 passenger vehicle (JKUR+)
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shays4me
Willing Wanderer
I thoroughly enjoyed this pickup.
gavan
Observer
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Well that’s a thing…. Reminds me of a Toyota Trekker
“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?
Well that’s a thing…. Reminds me of a Toyota Trekker
“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
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.
Feeling a little down I remembered a truck from sema in 2013. It was cool. It was 3 rows. It had presence.
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.
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
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.
Well
Time for the porta power and the spot weld cutter.
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
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.
Align them and get them straight
Then strap it together to keep it solid
Get dressed for the party
And plug weld and lap weld and every other weld until it’s one piece
And now for a teaser
The ole 4 mirror trick.
Align them and get them straight
Then strap it together to keep it solid
Get dressed for the party
And plug weld and lap weld and every other weld until it’s one piece
And now for a teaser
The ole 4 mirror trick.
