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Build Thread 79 CJ-7 Renagade

Build Thread 79 CJ-7 Renagade
That will also depend on if you have a inside mounted motor or outside mounted motor. Mines inside. I'm not knowelegeable on the yj windshield frame but I would think if you match the right mounted motor to the yj it should work. I don't know if the yj has a folddown windshield or not. Also check to make sure you have holes in front of frame to acess the windshield wiper linkages.:) Hopefully someone with more knowelge will chime in like bustadave, busted knuckle, and old dog their a wealth of knowelge and have helped me out alot!!!!!!:notworthy:
 
So yaaa... the guy keeps forgetting to ask his brother for his trailer, :censored:... soo I wait.

This is becoming more of a challenge than I figured it would be, all these neighbors seem so friendly, but I'm starting to wonder if they're just nice on the outside...

I started to go after my tub last night, call the guy leave a message, and we start south but not too far, we're hungry so we stop about 20 mins south of my house and figure it would be best to hear from him first, besides, he has a Dubois number and that's not even an hour from the pizza joint.. well we get ready to leave and the pictures I requested from him 2 days ago hit my phone, and from what I can tell the tub's not that bad, and then he calls, "sorry the pics are late, I work a lot, and on and on" so what's your address, I say, and I'll gps it and call you when I get close.. "ok," he says.... well, he doesn't live in Dubois, he lives 2-1/2+ hrs away and it's almost 8pm, and I'm in no mood to make a 6-7hr round trip that late in the evening so it didn't happen.:( Anyway, he calls today and says he take some more pics, get it up on it's side and get some of the bottom and everything before I make my next attempt later this week to go get it. So it at least gives me some time to find something closer!! LOL!
Anyone within 100 miles of Smethport, PA have a tub for sale????:D
 
Well, it's finally gonna happen.. I have the trailer in my front yard, I get off work tomorrow night at a decent time (5:30) tomorrow. I think the excitement is starting to build up again. Headers will be ordered friday, and I have a couple tubs located along with a pair of fenders, AND I have 2 days off, in a row, starting Sunday, to chase after parts!

I have also located a snow plow, and now I know it's probably not cool, but I will need one when I get back home to Iowa this Nov-Dec. The cool thing about this plow, if you will bear with me on this, is that it was made specifically for older CJs in the early 70s and maybe earlier. It is complete, top to bottom and it has an engine driven hydraulic pump system, and the guy only wants 200 bucks for it! I told you it was cool...:cool:

So has anyone dealt with these pumps? I was curious if there was maybe a hydraulic winch that was available for these as well... would be pretty neat, I think..
 
Well it's finally here! Too late for pics, but I'll get some up tomorrow night after work.. Goodnight.
 
Sweet! Mine was that color until the PPO oversprayed flat black over it. Now it rubbing off. I'm figuring out that my tub is too far gone. shoulda looked closer. Sounds like a YJ tub is better than keeping it original. Anyone in the Omaha area now of a YJ tub for sale? :rolleyes:
 
CJ jammin said:
Sweet! Mine was that color until the PPO oversprayed flat black over it. Now it rubbing off. I'm figuring out that my tub is too far gone. shoulda looked closer. Sounds like a YJ tub is better than keeping it original. Anyone in the Omaha area now of a YJ tub for sale? :rolleyes:
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Thanks Jammin, the guy I thought I had lined up for a tub was a no call, no email mo-fo this weekend:mad:, but I picked up my fenders, got a damn nice windshield frame with a glass that has a chip way over on the pass. side, a like new set of stainless windshield hinges w/mirrors, a CJ hardtop that needs a new rear frame, but all glass is good, a spare tire gate and a set of 15x10 wagon wheels... so overall a really good day!!

I was also talking to the guy I got all this stuff from, and he brings me into his office and shows me this bag of buttons, brass or copper I'm not sure, and says he cut them out of some seats he had that were torn up and he said they were from a Denim Edition CJ. Said he had just sold the 12 buttons from these seats for over 300 bucks on ebay... I get to looking at them and my son chimes in and says, "those look just like the ones you have, dad".. I say, what do you mean, are you sure?? "Oh ya, I'm positive" Well now, I just picked all this stuff up the other night when I finally picked up my chassis, and hadn't really looked at them real close, I even ran home from work yesterday at lunch because I had left the seats outside from when we unloaded them the night before, but again, I was in a hurry and only really noticed they were low back seat and they were tan and dirty... Anyway, the guy says he has a dash pad too, and well I've got to have the matching dash pad, right?, and it's a kinda faded on top, but we get it out of this Golden Eagle CJ that is just totally rusted away and unbelievably, the back is hardly rusted at all. 30 bucks and I bring it home too. We unload tonight and bring this pad in, and sitting in the corner of my dining room is a perfet, unfaded denim dash pad that came with my Jeep!! LOL! Oh well, it was only 30 bucks... My seats are the Denim Edition seats, and they're in pretty good shape except for a small tear on the driver's seat, but they are very dirty.. any suggestions on cleaning them??? I got to looking at my doors, and they have the matching Denim door pads in perfect shape too! I'm pretty excited about this, I gotta say! I also noticed that when we were pulling the dash pad from the other CJ, that that dash had the factory clock, and the tachometer, which I will be getting as well!:D
So I decided on these wagon wheels because 1- they are 10" wide and I can get 35" and bigger on them with no problems, and 2- I will be painting them the same as my body color, and then pinstripe the outer rim with one of the orange color from the hood stripes, and I will also mount the factory center caps on them as well and that should look pretty sharp, I think!

Whew! what a great day chasing parts!!!:chug:
 
I've always used Blue Coral fabric cleaner for my interiors. I would recommend starting with small out of the way spots and be really gentle with the fabric regardless of the brand you pick. Might even take multiple gentle washes to get it where you want. I had a seat in one of my previous cars start to tear on me because it was alot more fragile than it looked. The color matched wheels idea sounds cool :cool:. I can't decide on color. I'm caught between yellow & black, hot rod purple & black, or olive drab & desert tan.:confused: Apparently you are a savvy shopper. Good work.
 
CJ jammin said:
I've always used Blue Coral fabric cleaner for my interiors. I would recommend starting with small out of the way spots and be really gentle with the fabric regardless of the brand you pick. Might even take multiple gentle washes to get it where you want. I had a seat in one of my previous cars start to tear on me because it was alot more fragile than it looked. The color matched wheels idea sounds cool :cool:. I can't decide on color. I'm caught between yellow & black, hot rod purple & black, or olive drab & desert tan.:confused: Apparently you are a savvy shopper. Good work.
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Thanks for the cleaner input, my son is chasing after it as I type and I'll give it a try. As far as savvy goes, I guess I'm trying, lol! Right now, I have nearly everything I need, minus a tub, to put it together and still have less than $1000 into it. I have found a couple tubs but one guy is MIA and the other hasn't responded to me in about a week, but I'm still hopefull it's still available, and both were 300 bucks. I talked to a body shop last night about painting my parts, and without nailing down a price, told me that if he were to paint my 07 Dodge Megacab Dually with a three stage paint process, dissassembly and reassembly included, it would cost me about 3500 bucks. So I figure if I do all the prep work to the parts needing paint, coat the inside and the underside of my tub myself with an inhibitor like POR, and just have him shoot what's left with the color I choose in a single stage paint, like the original, then it very well could be painted for well under $1000. If I apply the $300 Renegade decal kit myself, I might have as much as 2500 bucks into it, and if you add the "used for two weeks" 95% tread, 35-12.50-15" set of BFG Mud Terrains I pick up this Sunday for $500 bucks, then I should have a very nice, like new CJ7 Renagade with 35,000 original miles, for around $3500! Now that doesn't sound too bad to me...:chug:
 
I also picked up a set of like new 35-12.50-15, BFG Mud-Terrains last night near Cleveland, for $400! So between last night and today I've logged near 900 miles chasing parts down. Seen some pretty country today driving down through Harrisburg, PA today. Looks like the Sesquehanna River was starting to receed a bit, and I hope anyone living near it is still safe!
Anyway, a great day with my son today, and met a great kid last night picking up those tires. He has a pretty tricked out TJ in his shop with a full-on home built roll cage that he built at Wyo-Tec, that's totally integrated throughout the jeep with seat mounts and full harnesses, along with front and rear stingers built himself, and a set of poison spyder tube fenders he said he snagged off ebay for a few hundred bucks. He also had another CJ that he and his dad have been working on together and they had installed a YJ dash into it, which he said was a real pain figuring out the wiring and all. Pretty smart young man! I love meeting fellow enthusiasts.. The guy with the tub was like, eh... I just sell tubs when I find'em.. lol, oh well, he came down on the asking price so I like him too! lol!
And while we were waiting to meet the guy with the tub, we ran across a Harbor Freight Tools store in Harrisburg, which cost me another 500 bucks!! LOL, oh well, can't have too many tools, and since the majority of mine are back home in Iowa, it was pretty easy to spend money in there. Picked up a little 120V wire welder for patching tin panels, I would have gotten a nicer, bigger Mig/Tig with gas regulators and all, but I wasn't sure if the 240V was available at my rental house without going to a bunch of work to get it. I'm an electrician by trade, but it's not my house so, I figure at least I can tack in sheet metal now if I need..
 
I've got some things done on the tub, mainly just getting the charbroiled dash and everything stripped from the firewall. I pulled up the patch panel on the drivers floor and now have a nice hole of rust I can cut out (yay me), and pulled the windshield hinges which revealed some more surface rust, and also tells me I should pull the lower door hinges as well. I slipped on on of my hard doors before all this to check fit, (which was dead on) and noticed I'll nee a different type of striker for the CJ door latches. Can anyone tell me or show me what I should be looking for or maybe a source for aftermarket strikers??
My $250 tub, it has some issues...
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Can you see the warpage?
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My $40 wheels, 15x10 and two have the offset to compensate the front and rear axle width differences.
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My $400, brand new 35x12.50x15 BFG Mud-Terrains
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Been a few days since I posted, and really haven't accomplished much because of work and weather, but I did manage to completely strip the burned guts out of the tubs dash and remove everything that was bolted to it. Then I took a sanding wheel on my 4-1/2" grinder and hit all the spots with rust on the exterior to open up a few places that had rusted through on the rocker, and then on the front cowl to knock off the surface rust that has aquired from the fire. I then completely scuffed up and blew down the firewall that had the same surface rust and gave a coat inside and out of Rust-olium Rust Reformer. Claims to completely stop rust and turn it into a paintable surface, so I will give the firewall, inside and out, several coats of this and then use Rust-oleum Undercoating over the top of that for a final coat. I will use this on the underside in the same process once I patch in the floor where needed. I think this will be sufficient, and stave off the rust for some time, hopefully.
I would have put some serious time into it this weekend, but my growing Jeep sickness (can someone please help me) took me to Buffalo, Saturday night, to ponder over a very rusty '59 Willys CJ5 , with an original Willys snow plow... and even though I could have snagged it for 400 bucks, I passed because of the logistics of my situation of being 1000 miles from home while I'm working here in Pa., and my time is running too short here to purchase and part it out as it had many good and rare parts that people could use.
And then Sunday, my son, who is working out here with me decided to purchase a very nice and original '79 Cherokee Chief from a very nice young man in Pittsburg, so we spent a very nice day driving there and back for that, having an awesome lunch at Primonti Bros. downtown while watching the Steelers play on the big screen. If I had known sooner it was a home game, we would have left much sooner and tried to make the game! But oh well.. It all equals to no time on my Jeep this weekend...:dunno:
 
Still sounds like a nice weekend though. :cool: Was that the tub from the classifieds section in SW Pa?
 
Petescj said:
Still sounds like a nice weekend though. :cool: Was that the tub from the classifieds section in SW Pa?
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It was a pretty good weekend, just a beautiful day to spend in Pittsburg, and still kicking myself for not checking on the games for the day and missing a chance to watch a pro football game with my son. And to answer your question, yes, if you are talking about the tub that was listed in the Harrisburg, CL. I got it for $250 and figure it will work for now. One of these days I'll be snagging a southern CJ tub, maybe, this one will last.:D
 
And for today's installment, we got the trouble spots on the fenders knocked down tonight, just a few spots of surface rust where the fender flares attatched and the hood clips, but nothing serious they're in pretty good shape. I also realized I have ran out of primer, so I brought them into the house for the night. I also need some solvent to wipe the sanding dust down. Any recommendations??
 
Last night after my previous post, I went ahead and ordered a pair of Headman headers, and an Edelbrock Performer intake, as I've decided to pull all the emission stuff off the motor. Now my dilema is whether or not to add a mild cam, and what size carb I should go with either with or without the mild cam. I would like some input on this, please. I was thinking of going with a 600cfm Holley without the cam, and if I added a cam then maybe as much as 650cfm... too small? I don't want to do an all out build on the motor for some time, just trying to make it a bit more efficient.
 
Last night it was like christmas! Just got back from work and was settling in to relax a bit, and what, to my wondering eyes appear, a UPS truck with all my new gear! LOL, Headers and and intake, check! New Holley Truck Avenger 470 ordered at lunch today, check! Now, I need to get my butt busy!:chug:
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I went with the less expensive Flow Tech headers, but I figure they'll last as long as this motor, or until I decide to build a 401. I have also decided, with ya'lls input, to run my exhaust inside the frame and out the back.:D
 
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