Recent content by Inca03rubi

I know this is old but has anyone with an Inca gold pearl metallic jeep had any luck with a good color match? Bought a set of half doors being I can't find Inca gold ones and want to attempt to paint them as a project myself.

Correct. And I'm thankful for your reassurance. But the TJ has little safety as it is. My luck runs like trash 😅😅. So I'd hate to defeat what little safety features I do have.

But I entirely understand what your saying with regards to steering shaft nomenclature and how it can be shortened. I will take your prior suggestion and seek for an early model TJ steering shaft before looking into this particular steering gearbox. Again, much appreciated and had zero...

Correct, this IS an oem safety feature directly related to high speed front end collisions. It's designed to prevent the steering wheel and steering shaft from going thru the driver in a collision. By collapsing the 2 parts to its limits, you essentially remove this safety feature which now...

That was my concern, the pins are set as a safety feature and not having that collapsible feature when I was in a accident in the past caused me a lot of issues when I was dealing with the insurance company and lawyers. I won't get into greater details but the feature is there for your safety...

For me the gearbox is most definitely the easiest to do. The factory steering shaft is by no means difficult but I would prefer to NOT alter factory steering shafts. Still sends shivers up my spine from prior experiences involving modified steering equipment.

I'm not saying you did or did not mention it. My post was simply being relatable to the OP and openly saying that I'd like to not remove, alter or mess with my ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT currently installed and was more or less looking for an upgrade that has OE drop in ability. But thank you for the...

Alot of what your expressing is what I'm dealing with. So I'll be following. My current zf box has play in the steering wheel. When I had the steering drag link removed, I managed to grab the pitman arm and move it and was able to feel the dead spot that I was feeling in my steering wheel. I...

How did this project turn out? I'm in the middle of ironing out of my ZF gearbox on the rubi is toast. I have play when I remove my drag link and rotate the pitman arm by hand. Just a little play but enough to justify that this is where my steering wheel play is coming from. Also there was...

They went as far as the passenger door seam and down to the strip between the passenger door and the rock guard which is where the run is.

It sounds like a great start for some learning. I'm gonna practice on some junkyard panels before attacking the real deal.

I'll grab more photos later on, the back side of the panel shows me that they used a happier with a rounded end. It's got dimple like dings everywhere the dent was. No pulling with weld tabs was ever once used. The back of the panel was left unfinished so I personally had to clean it and spray...

So on that topic, the radius by eye does look close but upon closer inspection you can tell that the radius decreases as you go from the untouched area to the area they did a repair. Only slightly but it is noticeable. I guess they said that the metal would only move so much without over...

So it's fairly normal practice to use bondo filler to cover the dimples and dings from hammering a panel out? I'd have thought that youd have to get the body hammered out smooth.... I ask because I'm learning and find this whole body and paint subject interesting enough to maybe use some of my...

I guess how I saw it at the end of the day was that by gaining a partial refund, it was more in tune with the rest of the subpar competition when I got 3 prior quotes. These other guys quoted 700-800 using the damaged panel and doing the same blotch work. I also felt that with the cost back in...