SS body, with pic

[Skellator]

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Also got to use my brand-new Ham license - KC9DEW - which was a lot of fun.

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Congratulations, I've had mine - KA3AYR - for 25 years, never used it. I'm still a novice. But I keep sending in the renewals when they are due. [img]images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I need to upgrade to a technician. [img]images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

BTW The Jeep turned out nice,,Very Nice. [img]images/graemlins/RockOn.gif[/img]

[JimmyZ]

Yes. Very yes. Tell people that ask that it's painted silver or galvanized or anything but the truth or someday somebody might want it more than you. After all if it got painted nobody would be able to recognize it from a distance. I would let it get a nice coat of dirt on it. You know it won't rust away.

[Jim_Lou]

Taz, the windshield frame fit to the tub, doors and the hardtop fine. It also fit the hinges they supplied, but they had already opened the holes in the hinges to match with the nuts welded in the windshield frame and the cowl. I don't know which holes were wrong because I haven't them with the stock hinges off the old tub. Also the opening for the glass was a little undersized. I put the glass in anyway due to the rush. Later I will take it out and trim the opening to size with a grinder.

The hinges they supplied didn't hold the doors properly, and I had to bend the door hinge sockets forward quite a bit. When everything got together the windshield seemed to be an eighth inch aft of where it should have been, because the leading edge of the door window frame rubs the windshield frame. I think that is all due to the hinges not being right, and I can fix it when I make new hinges.

If you ever do get a response and decide to order something from them, my advice would be to ask for the parts with no holes. Then put the holes in where you want them. Their stampings seem to be very good, but they must have cross-eyed chimps making holes. Lots of the holes were in the wrong place - close but not quite right. I think they must mark hole locations with a tape measure and felt tip pen, and then hand drill them wherever the drill bit bites in. If it doesn't fit they get out the die grinder and open the hole until it does fit. That was especially evident on the fender-to-firewall and instrument panel-to-cowl bolts.

And as for getting a response, I have e-mailed them three times asking if they could make doors. No answer yet. I think I'll paint the yellow ones black, after I fix the rust.

Jimmy, almost everybody who finds out it's stainless then asks if I'm going to paint it. I've started telling them "Yeah, silver."

I have been concerned about theft, and have taken some precautions. Theft protection by Sturm Ruger, among others. I'm just glad that everybody who reads this board is good and honest. The old body usually had a good coat of dirt on it. When I was taking it apart I tried to remember when it had last gotten a bath. Closest I could pin it down was mid-90's some time.

As for mesh on the radiator, I might do that, but then I got by 25 years without it, so I think it will be pretty safe. It is cheap insurance for sure. Expanded stainless steel might be hard to find. I also want to do something to keep leaves from collecting in front of the radiator. That would be another good place for some expanded SS.

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Expanded stainless steel might be hard to find.

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I bought some from a local yard to fix my employers grill. [img]images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]