All right, for a little background, about 2 weeks ago I had my rear upper control arm mount snap right off the frame. Thank you, road salt.
(Yes, before any of you get all riled up saying I shouldn't have bought it, this was obviously going to happen eventually)
So, since I like my jeep too much to just drive it into the river and go back to driving a honda, I figured it was time for a frame swap. We looked around for about a week, and found one we liked. So, we drove 2 and a 1/2 hours to a Salvage yard in Hammonton and got one from a 2002.
It had some minor surface rust, but for the area its in great shape and we figured it was nothing that couldn't be cleaned up real nice.
We wire brushed the new frame down, made sure every square inch had been touched by a piece of sandpaper(prep is 90% of the work with painting as we all know) and then we got all the tight areas(in the brackets and such) with some rust converter. We then went over the whole thing with a coat of rustoleum rust preventer stuff, and then a coat of rustoleum satin black.
she cleans up nice
Now we have that all set up, time to start tearing into the old one.
TurtleRace was real helpful with this, giving me a sense of direction for where to start. Before I get real far in, my only experience so far with jeeps(in my 18 years) has been a suspension lift and a fender replacement. My dad had a jeep, so he has a pretty good idea what he's doing with most of this. To be clear, half this stuff I don't even know what its called, so your going to be seeing a lot of "remove the black thing that looks like a bowl except with a little pointy object on the bottom". Correct me as you read.
First thing we did was remove the fenders, I'll get that up tonight.
(Yes, before any of you get all riled up saying I shouldn't have bought it, this was obviously going to happen eventually)
So, since I like my jeep too much to just drive it into the river and go back to driving a honda, I figured it was time for a frame swap. We looked around for about a week, and found one we liked. So, we drove 2 and a 1/2 hours to a Salvage yard in Hammonton and got one from a 2002.
It had some minor surface rust, but for the area its in great shape and we figured it was nothing that couldn't be cleaned up real nice.
We wire brushed the new frame down, made sure every square inch had been touched by a piece of sandpaper(prep is 90% of the work with painting as we all know) and then we got all the tight areas(in the brackets and such) with some rust converter. We then went over the whole thing with a coat of rustoleum rust preventer stuff, and then a coat of rustoleum satin black.
she cleans up nice
Now we have that all set up, time to start tearing into the old one.
TurtleRace was real helpful with this, giving me a sense of direction for where to start. Before I get real far in, my only experience so far with jeeps(in my 18 years) has been a suspension lift and a fender replacement. My dad had a jeep, so he has a pretty good idea what he's doing with most of this. To be clear, half this stuff I don't even know what its called, so your going to be seeing a lot of "remove the black thing that looks like a bowl except with a little pointy object on the bottom". Correct me as you read.
First thing we did was remove the fenders, I'll get that up tonight.