3B Project

[81 CJ5]

Got this from a buddy for some NDT tires a few months ago. Thought I'd start a thread for the sake of keeping everything in one place.

SO I wanted to build this Jeep for the EC4WDA racing events but I doubt it'll ever happen.

The tub is in poor shape. I don't want to spend a lot of time or money on fixing it as it'll just get beaten up again.
I do want to run a fuel cell so I'll have to do something about the rear floor. On the corners and rockers, I was thinking diamond plate. The hat channels need to be replaced. Wheelhouses are about as good as the rest of the tub. I'll see what I can't procure to do some mending on the tub.


Not the right way but I think it'll be fine once I'm finished. I did take some sandpaper and paint to the back of the "patch" panels. Better than bondo imo.

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Axles are out, all the stock steering junk is gone, and the frame is almost bare. I brushed on some red oxide primer where I got areas of the frame wire wheeled.
I don't know what the rear axle will be yet but I do want to get my hands on a D30 for the front.
Don't mind my tire emporium.

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I've decided to go with OE YJ springs and shackle reversal...
I'm going to get some square tubing for the frame horns, 3/16 plate, and round tube? for replacing the factory crossmember. I'll be on the lookout for some springs so I can start figuring out where and how to mount them.

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[81 CJ5]

Well here it is. There is some wire wheeling and other misc. cleaning I still need to do but this is pretty much what I'm going to patch.
I don't have a bandsaw so every cut I make from here out is by my unsteady hands and weak eyesight with an angle grinder and cutoff wheel.

[Reserector [Veteran Member]]

... every cut I make from here out is by my unsteady hands and weak eyesight with an angle grinder and cutoff wheel.

Dude, I can relate.

[81 CJ5]

I killed another sawzall but I got the frame horns done. I will cut some fishplates to further secure the tubing. I have one side tacked in place and I have been practicing my welding.
Running a flux core lincoln 100hd running .030 wire. Left side was my initial test run. Increased wire speed and it made a huge improvement (to me).
So I stacked some junk up to support the tubing and leveled it to try and get a good straight cut. Worked pretty good.

[mynewtoy82 [Veteran Member]]

Is that flux core with no shielding gas? I hate welding without gas it never looks pretty and gets bb’s everywhere but it holds.

[81 CJ5]

Is that flux core with no shielding gas? I hate welding without gas it never looks pretty and gets bb’s everywhere but it holds.

No gas.


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[Reserector [Veteran Member]]

Oof. That's a challenge. You get an extra punch in your Man Card for using flux core sans gas. ;-)

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[81 CJ5]

Haha. The little Lincoln wasn’t cutting it so I pulled out the old tombstone. Now I have secured frame horns


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[81 CJ5]

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[Brake Weight [Veteran Member]]

Lol. No crumple zone there.