the WTF?

9/28/2009 11:03:26 PM

lol nope keep lookin easy

9/28/2009 11:08:29 PM

which picture?

white walls inside?
no shock mounts?
no spring mounts?

9/29/2009 12:15:58 AM

the one jackstand not touching anything?

9/29/2009 7:30:05 AM

or maybe he thinks the top joint is oriented wrong?

lots of people think that is the wrong way, but it is loaded correctly.

If that's it, i will explain tonight, i have a field trip I'm about to leave for.

9/29/2009 7:44:55 AM

heheh The dead squirrel in the driveway.

9/29/2009 9:00:29 PM

you have a dent.

i remember when you got that dent.

you were catching up to the horribly damaged truck club before you cut that bad boy up

9/29/2009 10:59:07 PM

Started bending tube

fucked up, got both sliders bent, and one welded on before realizing it was WAYY into the front tires when turned...... had to go back and re-do that.

10/3/2009 7:03:32 PM

I have to say the fab looks quality thus far

10/3/2009 8:03:01 PM

Thanks dude. I have to say we are trying a lot harder on this one. When fabbing shit I used to say, well, that is the total opposite of what I was going for, but fuck it, I've invested 2 hours in it, so I'm going to make it work.

Trying to get away from that kinda stuff and do things right, even if it means redoing the work. I am happy with how it is turning out. Should have the bulk of the cage dome tomorrow, unless Hurley decides not to show.

10/3/2009 8:12:46 PM

yea, looks damn good. people dont realize how hard it is to actually do that kind of stuff and how time consuming it is

10/3/2009 11:35:21 PM

Excellent work

10/4/2009 12:19:53 AM

MJ's fucking rock. Well played, sir.

10/4/2009 1:20:21 AM

The only thing that differentiates it from a MJ and a XJ now is the "Comanche" badge, lol.

10/4/2009 11:30:22 AM

I might shed a tear when a rock rips those badges off. I thought about leaving the cab so preserve a little of the MJ heritage, but I'm just too tall. I was tired of hitting my head on the cage.

10/4/2009 1:04:45 PM

moar pics

10/16/2009 12:53:30 PM

Finally worked on it again. I now might own the world's tallest buggy

I made sure the cage would have ~3 inches of clearance over my head while wearing a helmet. My old interior cage hit my head even with no helmet. I am planning to TRY to run the entire ECORS series next year.

10/17/2009 7:28:39 PM

Lookin good mang

10/18/2009 2:29:08 PM

Worked on it again today. Looking less like a clown car already. Will be even better when the spare is mounted flat on the back above the "bed rails" to raise the profile of the rear. The spare tire mount will be quickly removable for when I don't want it back there.

10/18/2009 7:26:45 PM

i may have missed this part, but did you keep the wheel base the same for the ease of drivetrain parts?

10/18/2009 7:33:23 PM

No, we shortened it around 5 inches. This thing has always climbed like a motherfucker, so I didn't wanna make it too short.

10/18/2009 7:35:58 PM

gonna hang any sheetmetal on it?

10/19/2009 11:36:38 AM

I will pretend like that wasn't just padding and you actually wanted to know. there will be some sort of sheetmetal work, but how much is undecided at this time. I have a clean set of doors I might use to skin the sides or i might do lexan or plain sheet metal. not sure though.

10/19/2009 2:54:58 PM

expanded metal would be baller

10/21/2009 7:44:00 AM

This thread needs to be on page 1!

Picking up a 79 Ford HP60 this weekend! Already have a rear 60. Jumping in headfirst, I guess!

11/4/2009 10:07:22 PM

you have sexy welding skills

11/4/2009 10:20:43 PM

there is a reason I haven't taken any close up pics

I have been happy with MOST of my welds so far on this thing, but there have been a few i hope people never notice!

11/4/2009 10:31:34 PM

Haha gotcha, they "look" good though, all nice and painted it'll hold

11/4/2009 10:32:32 PM

Thanks though! Like I said, 95% of them I am happy with. Even that other 5% I'm not worried about failing, just wish they looked better.

[Edited on November 4, 2009 at 10:37 PM. Reason : spelling]

11/4/2009 10:36:12 PM

That's why God invented the flapwheel on the eighth day.

11/4/2009 10:42:37 PM

I will take a picture of our flap wheel stack. Quite possibly worth more than that vw buggy of yours!

Flap wheels are this dude's friend.

I think I have had some welds get contaminated but bad air inside the tube. At work our welders flood the insides of pipes with nitrogen while welding..... Not too possible to shield the inside of these welds.

11/4/2009 10:46:23 PM

Quote :

"expanded perforated metal would be baller "

11/4/2009 11:48:11 PM

^yeah, I've thought of that as well... either way it'll be pretty pimp

11/5/2009 7:54:20 AM

badass

11/5/2009 9:48:40 AM

Hurley and I got some more cage work done on saturday. Got the roof bars in, and seat tubes. Still need to add in the X behind the seats and some stuff in the rocker area, and around the bed.








And one pic of my newest addition:

11/8/2009 8:29:04 PM

why isnt it under the truck yet?

11/9/2009 11:27:35 AM

Just got it last night. If I had a small army of mexicans(or wolfwebbers) they would be at my house right now getting it in there.

11/9/2009 11:50:59 AM

you need tripleD4u and a case of beer

11/10/2009 11:11:27 AM

I could visualize that.

11/10/2009 1:09:07 PM

lemme borrow that 60 real quick

11/10/2009 7:15:24 PM

naw u cray cray boy

11/10/2009 7:18:45 PM

hell, you might as well tube the front half now

11/12/2009 8:16:38 AM

in the works!!!!! we're going all out


hopefully jeepman will swing by this saturday

11/12/2009 9:41:54 AM

I am going to do a little bit of tube in the front....

Im saving the real tubework for the buggy

11/12/2009 9:52:43 AM

i bet you like tubework

11/14/2009 8:54:17 AM

Joey working on getting the front 60 cleaned up


Ballistic brackets. these were a lifesaver on the front end.


This is as far as we got with the frontend.


After a few hours of cleaning off the mess the previous owner tried to weld onto this housing, we started on the truss. This one should look a little better than the one i had on the old 44.




The sad state of the Jeep, currently.

11/27/2009 4:13:37 PM

U gonna bring this to some MT BS ??? U bet you you are

11/27/2009 11:22:20 PM

is it me or does the left fron wheel looks like its 18 inches wide and its stretching that MTR

11/28/2009 1:11:19 AM

it was flat, and just pushed really far to the inside because of how i was turned when we originally parked it.

11/28/2009 10:01:23 AM

I cannot believe there is no Gangsta graffiti on that brick wall.

11/28/2009 11:30:37 AM