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to work on the inside of the Jeep for a little bit. I
bought some original parts awhile back. One of the
pieces was a seat. The seat cover was in almost perfect
condition with one small exception. The seat frame
was rusted out in the area of the right rear mounting
bolt area and as it turned out the rod used to hog ring
the seat cover to was also rusted out. My original
intention was to have the two seat covers swapped, the
good cover swapped to my good fram, have them leave the
other cover of the rusted frame, weld it up and then put
the old cover on that frame and sell it. It turned out
the old frame was not savable, so I have just the cover.
I think I will just hold on to it as it is not that bad. |
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One seat already out, and over to
the interior guy to swap the covers. |
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As is always the case you start
one project and another pops up, the inside of the Jeep
looks pretty sad |
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guess I will have to do something about it. I have been
want wanting to get to this rust for awhile now. |
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used this paint a number of times and it was a pretty
good match, but this time it did not match up that well,
but makes little difference as it is under the capet.
Here is my tool of destruction. It works well. |
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I taped off the area after
grinding and sjhot some primer and then the paint and
then clear on top. As I said above it did not match as
well this time as it did in past projects, I was closer
once I cleaned up all the over spray from the primer,
and I really should have taken more car and covered
EVERYTHING with drop cloths before spraying. |
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little soap and water cleaned up the rear very nicely. |
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Once the over spray from the primer was wiped up the
color match got a little better, but I sure am glad it
is under the carpet. |
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I can never leave well enough
alone, so when I saw the seat frames, they had to be
sand blasted and powder coated. Both front and rear |
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So how
do you tell a crazed jeep fanatic? Well look for the guy
out in his driveway in the freezing cold cleaning the
carpets in his Jeep. Another piece of original stuff I
picked up was another complete carpet set. I have cleaned both the set of
carpets that were in the Jeep and the set set of carpets
that I picked up used. i will install the best and
then sell the other set. They actually came out pretty
good. |
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newely cleaned carpet and the freshly powder coated seat
frames really look good together. |
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Another item I picked up was an
NOS roll bar cover. |
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It did not come with the foam pad
needed to go under the roll bar cover so one will have
to be made. I have extra if anyone needs some |
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We cut the pieces, and then
trimmed them to fit. The piece that goes over the top is
just a square piece 60" X 1/2" X 9" and fits perfect.
The short piece that runs down the back side of the seat
23 1/2 " X 1/2" X 9" has to be trimmed at the top to go
around the seat belt bolt and fit the intersection of
the rear brace. The piece that goes around the rear
brace has to be trimmed to fit the rear deck of the
wheel house and the intersection of the top roll bar.
36" X 1/2" X 9". I then used tape to hold the foam in
place to put the cover on, I taped the whole length of
the foam to give it a uniform thickness and left it in
place. |
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I have some wrinkles in the cover,
and hope they will come out over time, I will go back
and try and straighten them out as time passes. |
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As always I wan to thank the help
of the car nuts that show up to eat my food and drink my
drink, and help out. |
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So it is time to start packing
for our long planned trip to the Gator Nationals, It
will be good to see green grass again.
Just a note, for anyone that
thinks I have been foolish in posting my trip plans, my
son George will be staying at our house instead of in
his apartment taking care of the fish and taking a
vacation from his room mate. |
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