Matt's Cheerleader Jeep buildup thread...

Nuzzy · May 16, 2007

Jobless said:
You might need a little more weld on that :flipoff:

God, you buggy guys always have to overbuild everything :fawkdancesmiley:

Not Jobless · May 16, 2007

Nuzzy said:
God, you buggy guys always have to overbuild everything :fawkdancesmiley:

Buggy :wtf:

It's a Jeep :flipoff:

Nuzzy · May 16, 2007

Jobless said:
Buggy :wtf:

It's a Jeep :flipoff:

Oh yeah, forgot about your hood and 2' of frame rail :haha:

Not Jobless · May 16, 2007

Nuzzy said:
Oh yeah, forgot about your hood and 2' of frame rail :haha:

Don't forget the B-pillar & gas pedal :flipoff:

NotMatt · May 16, 2007

Jobless said:
You might need a little more weld on that :flipoff:

What... and ruin the look of that beautiful notch? No way! :fawkdancesmiley:

BTW, the rear spring hangers make nice rock anchors with the flipped XJ springs (hmm... Crusty was RIGHT)... already found that one out yesterday while putting around. I'll have to build some ramp/skid things for them.

boxboy · May 16, 2007

Jobless said:
You might need a little more weld on that :flipoff:

Weld it? what the fawk are you a newb:wtf: just slap some epoxy on it and call it good... it's what all the cool kids are doing these days.:awesomework:

tomsbrokeagain · May 16, 2007

boxboy said:
Weld it? what the fawk are you a newb:wtf: just slap some epoxy on it and call it good... it's what all the cool kids are doing these days.:awesomework:

what ever happened to JB-weld?:haha: :haha:

NotMatt · May 16, 2007

I had to trim the chin hair a little last night due to a singe-based accident involving welder sparks and a laquer thinner soaked rag in the tub. Not going to make that mistake again, it was too close to the fuel tank for comfort... :redneck:

CrustyJeep · May 16, 2007

NotMatt said:
(hmm... Crusty was RIGHT)

Say it ain't so :redneck:

Jeepless · May 16, 2007

its a jeep with a marlin crawler sticker on it.......

LOOKS like its coming togeter nicely, can't wait to get all these rigs together for a little bump to pass ...:awesomework:

Cascade_Crawler · May 16, 2007

Jobless said:
Don't forget the B-pillar & gas pedal :flipoff:

theres a few stock bumpstops on there also :flipoff:

Not Jobless · May 16, 2007

Cascade_Crawler said:
theres a few stock bumpstops on there also :flipoff:

I forgot all about those...but they'll be replaced sometime soon with the air bumps lying here :redneck:

NotMatt · May 18, 2007

Door bars are in. I ordered my harnesses last night from Summit along with a set of weld-on tabs for mounting to the cage. Ended up going with R.J.S. 5 point 3" wide latch style in RED. I'm ordering my winch rope today from Winchline.com.

I've got one week to get the following done:

Finish spreaders and fully weld cage, mount seats and harnesses to cage, track down an XJ or YJ A/C compressor and a serp. belt and wire up my OBA (this will be easy), mount and wire winch and spool rope on (another easy one), and re-do my anti-wrap bar.

Hoo-ah! I'm getting down to the wire.

NotMatt · May 24, 2007

Holy shat... I got a lot done tonight.

I started tonight with a bare metal cage, everything finished and tacked in place.

My seat mount... I'm very proud of this part... I had to re-do it once because it sat too high the first time. Now it's perfect. You can see the tabs for the harnesses in this pic sort of.

All finished up and seats/harnesses mounted:

The only issue I had is that I made the rear cross bar too high and the shoulder belts are too long... so I guess I'll just be running the lap belts this weekend because I don't have time to re-do it right now.

Also, when time permits I will be adding much more gusseting to the cage... I'm just out of time before this weekend as I still have some other stuff to get done.

ToyZuki · May 24, 2007

:awesomework: Very nice. Looks profesional. Did you do anything with mounting the windshield yet?

NotMatt · May 24, 2007

ToyZuki said:
:awesomework: Very nice. Looks profesional. Did you do anything with mounting the windshield yet?

Nope, I'll work on that later. Bungee cord for this weekend.

Cascade_Crawler · May 24, 2007

real nice job matt...:awesomework:

bobracing · May 24, 2007

NotMatt said:
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The only issue I had is that I made the rear cross bar too high and the shoulder belts are too long...

If anything, the belts look low. Most instructions want the belts mounted about shoulder high. This is so the belt will hold your shoulders back but won't compress your back. An extra bar the belts lay over at shoulder height would work too.

Nice job on the build.

cornfed · May 24, 2007

tomsbrokeagain said:
what ever happened to JB-weld?:haha: :haha:

Old School would be pig putty

NotMatt · May 24, 2007

bobracing said:
If anything, the belts look low. Most instructions want the belts mounted about shoulder high. This is so the belt will hold your shoulders back but won't compress your back. An extra bar the belts lay over at shoulder height would work too.

Nice job on the build.

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, don't they usually say the belts should be mounted so that the rear portion of the belt is 90 degrees out from the shoulder harnesses when strapped in? Maybe I need to move the bar BACK, and mount the tabs more flat instead of vertical.

Either way, I'm going to do a bit of research on that first before I re-do anything.