Jeepndogs LJ Rebuild

jeepndogs · Dec 23, 2018

I have been doing it 32 years. Stared out as a tech, went into the management side around 2000 ended up as an Operations Manager for a independent that had 15 locations. Got a little burned out on all the crap day in and day out. I have been a Technical Trainer for Gerber Collision now for a few years. I cover their shops in the Midwest and help with their OEM certifications and do all of their Welding certifications. In the past two years I have done the BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Tesla,Porsche, Honda, Ford, GM, and Toyota certifications. So it’s been exciting to say the least! Lol!

bobthetj03 · Dec 23, 2018

Way past my pay grade! I just managed an independent for 5ish years, and before that was a PPG jobber for 15ish. Now all I have is a Matco knockoff gun, a Dewalt DW849 rotary, and a Griots DA polisher for the inner detail geek in me. I did manage to pool enough skillz to build my frankentrailer though, so I have that, lol!

jeepndogs · Dec 23, 2018

If I have my way the wife and I will be relocating to the Colorado area in the next 5 years or so. I just want to put up a good size pole barn on some property and do restoration work and chassis work. Maybe through a few Jeep builds in here and there.

psrivats · Dec 23, 2018

Chris said:
@psrivats has them in his TJ (the IGGEE covers I mean). They look so good that when I first saw his Jeep in person I thought he'd had the seats redone in leather. You really can't tell it's a seat cover, they fit that well!

I do love my Iggee covers. I got them in grey/black and they look great in my Jeep. I got my cloth seats steam cleaned and these went on top of them. Super easy to keep clean after a long day of hiking or biking since they don't retain any stink. The install takes a bit of effort but they are sized really well and match the contour of the seats perfectly.

I strongly recommend them if you don't mind the feel of vinyl seats.

JMT · Dec 24, 2018

psrivats said:
I do love my Iggee covers. I got them in grey/black and they look great in my Jeep. I got my cloth seats steam cleaned and these went on top of them. Super easy to keep clean after a long day of hiking or biking since they don't retain any stink. The install takes a bit of effort but they are sized really well and match the contour of the seats perfectly.

I strongly recommend them if you don't mind the feel of vinyl seats.

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They really do look fantastic, and I appreciate you posting a pic. These and some seat heaters are definitely going on the list for 2020, maybe sooner. Very clean look

psrivats · Dec 24, 2018

JMT said:
They really do look fantastic, and I appreciate you posting a pic. These and some seat heaters are definitely going on the list for 2020, maybe sooner. Very clean look

There was someone on the forum who put a BMW 3 series (I think) leather seats in his TJ. They were not much more than the Iggee and I remember them looking really fantastic. They had built in heaters too. Let me see if I can find that post.

Edit: Found it. It was from an E90.

https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/replacement-seats.7156/post-231580

Sorry for the slight derail @jeepndogs

jeepndogs · Jan 19, 2019

Well after my compressor but the dust and also my furnace in the garage I had to replace both. Finally had some time to make some more headway on the old girl today.

Randy_K · Jan 19, 2019

Some nice looking work. Its going to be sweet when you are done and well worth the effort.

bobthetj03 · Jan 19, 2019

Well done!

jwrangler187 · Jan 19, 2019

Do u think that damage was the result of poor body work from a prior auto accident?

jeepndogs · Jan 19, 2019

Some of it was. But the rust is is the typical spots. But it definitely had some collision repairs.

jeepndogs · Feb 2, 2019

It’s been a busy few weeks. All the rust repair and patch work is done. Underside of the tub was cleaned and epoxied. All the filler work is done. I need a day or so to finish pulling the bumper, windshield and some small trim items and it’s off to the shop for final sand and the entire Jeep will get a few coats of epoxy followed up by some 2K primer. If all goes well it will be yellow again by March.

psrivats · Feb 2, 2019

@jeepndogs lots of good work! It's going to look great after the paint work.

bobthetj03 · Feb 2, 2019

The first scratch will be the toughest brah!

jeepndogs · Feb 2, 2019

I have learned my lessons with that over the years! Probably going to run it into something as soon as I get it all back together just to get it over with!

Mike_H · Feb 6, 2019

Looks great man! All the same spots you repaired are bad on mine...That is future Mike's problem though...I can't decide if I want to fix this tub, or just let it go to shit and replace it with a nice, rust free one in a few years.