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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: demonicwillow on August 10, 2008, 11:21:11 PM

Title: Fed up
Post by: demonicwillow on August 10, 2008, 11:21:11 PM
Fitted some rocksliders to my jeep this weekend was going to finish it yesterday but the weather beat me, so did the passengerside one today but had problems getting it to fit up tidy to the sill so started cleaning the offending unflat surface only to discover some serious rot at the back end of the sill and floor areas.

The sills were boxed at some stage in a previous ownership but was completely bodged with filler, expanding foam underseal and tons of waxoil stuff at the ends, so its all gonna have to be stripped of its paint and re-done correctly, so thats the major work on it for the official winter period :evil:
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Post by: GermanXJ on August 11, 2008, 06:44:07 AM
J = just
E = empty
E = every
P = pocket

Sorry to hear it.
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Post by: Bubba on August 11, 2008, 09:12:08 AM
is that the one you brought back from scotland looked smart that did
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Post by: Carlos Fandango on August 11, 2008, 09:30:08 AM
They all look smart til you start prodding around and they are just rusty shit heaps really  :roll:

The metal on the floor pan is just sooooo thin!!!
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Post by: demonicwillow on August 11, 2008, 12:14:57 PM
Quote from: "V8 Bubba"
is that the one you brought back from scotland looked smart that did


Yeah thats the one, still does aside from the bash in the rear left corner now, when its washed up it looks well tidy.

But there is extensive welding required underneath around the shackle mounts and the offside shackle mount itself, the sills front end and back end and the drivers floor where it meets the sill at the front, all the shock bushes need replacing and the swaybar bushes are shot, drivers swaybar link is dodgy the upper shock mounts at the rear are totally bodged and the offside rear lower shock mount is buggered as well, threads stripped,so it all needs sorting out, the rad has totally had it, the front calipers have played up since the first time I drove it, and there is no rear offside brake period.

Its useable, but will need fine fettling come the winter thats for certain.
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Post by: MOCAJ on August 11, 2008, 12:40:23 PM
apart from that, does the radio work  :?:
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Post by: demonicwillow on August 11, 2008, 02:35:03 PM
Ha!  :evil: