The Good, the Bad and the rust....

[AkureiYJ]

Well took some pics of the 92 today.
Not too rough, frame is solid, engine and trans are great, won't engage 4x4.
Rust isn't tooo too bad.
And from what I've read on here the 4x4 could be an easy fix.
So here she is as she sits:







And the worst rust on the whole vehicle:



Got my work rotted out for me!
Well it's only costin me $450 for the Heep so... Can't complain!

[notmyj]

I had to do my driver side floor as well. Its not bad if you can weld. Some 16 or 14 gauge sheet, a can of spray on bed liner and your set.


p.s. I like fancy pedals.

p.p.s. Gotta love living in the "Rust Belt"...

[GrimJeeper91]

Originally Posted by AkureiYJ

Well took some pics of the 92 today.
Not too rough, frame is solid, engine and trans are great, won't engage 4x4.
Rust isn't tooo too bad.
And from what I've read on here the 4x4 could be an easy fix.
So here she is as she sits:







And the worst rust on the whole vehicle:



Got my work rotted out for me!
Well it's only costin me $450 for the Heep so... Can't complain!

Click free....

I'm so glad I don't live in the rust belt...

[AkureiYJ]

Originally Posted by notmyj

I had to do my driver side floor as well. Its not bad if you can weld. Some 16 or 14 gauge sheet, a can of spray on bed liner and your set.


p.s. I like fancy pedals.

p.p.s. Gotta love living in the "Rust Belt"...

Previous owner included a floorpan for that side and what appears to be an extra floorpan , but whatever! I got the stuff to fix it! Plus some scrap metal to fix that other crap. After that's done, duracoating the HELL out of the interior. Herculiner is great, but I dont' have $100 to just toss down currently.

[atomicmoose]

And I thought my floors were bad! :suicide:

[ramburger]

what did ya pay for that bucket??
looks like you got your work cut out for you-

[rustywrangler]

Originally Posted by AkureiYJ

Got my work rotted out for me!
Well it's only costin me $450 for the Heep so... Can't complain!

Not a bad price for that. Ive got some of those rust issue but OMG the floor pan.

[pmeguy]

I had a 92 just like that (rust wise). I HIGHLY encourage you to recheck for significant frame rot. Even for that price, a frame-off resoration is the only real way to make a rotted frame sound. I could stick my fingers through way too many places on my old rig so I dumped it. Someone had coated the undercarriage with POR15 so it looked good when I bought it. But after a few months of owning and physically testing the frame rails, I realized that the POR15 was all that was left in some places!

I'n not knocking POR15 but once the structure is gone, POR15 aint fixin anything.

After my findings, I just didn't trust it anymore so I dumped it with full disclosure to the buyer.

Just my $.02

Good luck!!

[Varnish]

Check where the front seatbelts bolt to the tub behind the front seats, I was able to rip one of mine halfway out and my floors were nowhere near that rusty.

[red87yj]

when you give up on the rust repair let me know ill take the drive line lol JK good luck with it.
later
Zach

[XJ Beater]

eh, floor pan and a few patch panels, time to fire up my new welding aparatus, lol

[XJ Beater]

p.s. youll be buying the 30 rack, itll look like new after that

[Berb_15]

Make sure you hit the rust good when you do, I cut a nice chunk out, glassed and filled it and thought i did a really good job but the edges just started seperating again w/some small rust spots.... Other then that I dont think you can complain for $450!!!

[drexelsteve]

wow, what a pile. I'd only buy that for parts.

[pyro9862]

Originally Posted by drexelsteve

wow, what a pile. I'd only buy that for parts.

This is my friends 86 CJ7, someone gave it to him because it was so rotted. That YJ looks like it just rolled off the assembly line compared to what this thing looked like.



You got a great deal on that YJ whether you part it out or restore it. Like someone said, before you but any effort into the body take a screwdriver and stab the frame all over to make sure it's solid. If it's got a good frame it's salvageable.
Me and him learned how to do body work from his father bringing it back. We did new drivers and passenger floors, one new quarter, the flat area in the back, half the other quarter, most of the top of the humps in the back, a good portion of the sides of those humps, and about another dozen patches on the outside.
One mistake he made is buying replacement panels from JC Whitney. The only one we ended up using was one quarter panel and we had to modify it to fit and it still isn't quite right. Every other patch we just used steel shelving. Your floors won't look factory with the shelving but once you put some bed liner down you don't know the difference.