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Don’t the soft tops have to merge onto a channel across the top of the windshield?

I’ve seen them here in Minnesota for $800 to $1500. Probably more of a market with the winters. As a side note, I have a hard top, with a seal across the windshield. Does anyone know if, when I want to run a soft top during the summer, I have to remove that seal to accommodate the windshield...

New TJ owner, got a good deal = doing lots of work myself to get everything running properly. This TJ has been in Minnesota its whole life so anxiety was high about un-seizing hardware. Someone HAS to have pulled the wheel not too long ago as the wheel nut came off with no problem. I actually...

He’s looking everything over this weekend. He has around 40 years experience and he has worked on Jeeps but I agree - if he tells me it’s good to go I’ll probably take it to my local Jeep dealer to get a second opinion. I probably need them to put in some fluid film anyway. wont be off-roading...

I definitely want to enjoy cruising with the kids and teaching my daughter to drive a standard shift on this, so there’s no way I’m going to mess around with the safety. I mean, nothing is 100% safe, but I agree that the caps are insurance and a piece of mind. Just hoping the frame repair...

I’ll be fixing it.

My understanding is you need to run Dana 44 if you want to run the big tires well, and do some crawling. the big tires and lifts are cool, but my guess is the mpg gets destroyed. Which I know doesn’t matter as much when you’re having fun.

Totally agree. I trust everyone’s eyeballs and experience here, but I’ll feel most comfortable after my mechanic puts hands on it and gives me an assessment. If he says it’s bad, good news is there’s a SafeTCap installer shop an hour from me. I would love to do a frame swap, but although I’m...

Probably not qualitatively rock bottom, but I got it for low blue book. There is some body rust here and there that will be pretty easy to fix. There are one or two bondo spots. But aside from frame it’s in overall excellent shape and low miles for that I6. I figure if I drop a decent amount on...

Alright, thanks everyone for the perspectives. I probably will not pull the skid plates. My impression based on what I have read over the last few weeks was that a frame wasn’t getting to an unsafe point until it has started to develop holes, or spots soft enough to break holes through. I’m not...

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Thanks for that recommendation. Yes, I wonder why after about five years they didn’t start drilling holes. Maybe so they could sell more jeeps.

Roger. So, other than cruising down the street and all of a sudden having 1/2 of the jeep crash down to the side, I assume I should just be keeping an eye out for holes, and keep poking around periodically? All the cleaning and spray work that gets done, does that have to be frame off? Also, I...

If you don’t mind my asking, were the caps about two grand like was mentioned above? I would be willing to drop two grand if I were fairly certain those would hold for several years. It would be cool to work on this jeep with my son, so like I said, almost anything that isn’t the frame I don’t...

I sprayed out the frame where I could the other day. And there are definitely plenty of flakes in there. It needs to be thoroughly cleaned out for sure. I have heard about taking the skid plate off and supporting Like you said. Kind of a newbie question, but where exactly should I put that Jack...

Definitely wouldn’t sell it to someone who didn’t know if the frame were deemed unsafe by a mechanic. Thanks for the feedback, everyone. See pics of skid plate - I tried pulling on it, pounding it, stabbing rusty areas with a driver - nothing happened. I don’t know the best screwdriver method...

Thanks for the honesty - I’ll check out the skid plate when I get a chance and post pics. I bought this just to have access to a Wrangler, and paid low blue book. Interior is almost flawless, tires are good, 4.0 and tranny are excellent, 92k on them. So if I can manage the poor frame for let’s...

The older gentleman I bought it from used it fairly regularly for fishing, and took it in for regular maintenance, said whenever his mechanic told him something was busted, he had it fixed. So it would be a fluke if it suddenly fell apart, but in just wondering if I have more like a year or two...

I’ll double check, but I think it’s still intact. Rusty like everything else, but not hanging.

Let me know if this tells you anything. Starting with front passenger and going clockwise around vehicle: