wjtstudios Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Congrats Kevin! Looks great 1 Link to comment
KevinG Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 So just wanted to post up a few things with the cage that might come in handy for Jeff and ECJ. I had a rugged ridge softop that would have worked with a quite a bit of modification. I was thinking about going fastback again, but really missed the extra cargo space with the squareback style, so I ordered up a new top. Probably made everything tougher than it needed to be. First two pics are the surrounds. Literally take it down completely flat. I ordered the soft top adapter and trek top adapter. Ended up figuring out how high the bow bracket needed to be then drilled the larger hole to go in the bung in the back part of the cage rather than the bracket that I "think" came with it. Could have come with the trektop stuff but who knows. The last thing I had to do was modify our stupid short garage to fit. 2 2 Link to comment
fiend Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 1 hour ago, KevinG said: So just wanted to post up a few things with the cage that might come in handy for Jeff and ECJ. I had a rugged ridge softop that would have worked with a quite a bit of modification. I was thinking about going fastback again, but really missed the extra cargo space with the squareback style, so I ordered up a new top. Probably made everything tougher than it needed to be. First two pics are the surrounds. Literally take it down completely flat. I ordered the soft top adapter and trek top adapter. Ended up figuring out how high the bow bracket needed to be then drilled the larger hole to go in the bung in the back part of the cage rather than the bracket that I "think" came with it. Could have come with the trektop stuff but who knows. The last thing I had to do was modify our stupid short garage to fit. Looks good man. Ready for summer. 1 Link to comment
Weebz Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 Shoot. Who has time for those details! Raw cage and a lot of holes in the body is about the best I’m doing at this point. Looks awesome though. Congrats. 3 Link to comment
Crawl2Camp Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Weebz said: Shoot. Who has time for those details! Raw cage and a lot of holes in the body is about the best I’m doing at this point. Looks awesome though. Congrats. I’ll deal with a cage after I flop. At that point I can get the wife to flip the bill. 2 Link to comment
KevinG Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 12 hours ago, Crawl2Camp said: I’ll deal with a cage after I flop. At that point I can get the wife to flip the bill. It was a pretty easy sell to my wife after Sand Hollow last year.... 1 2 Link to comment
KevinG Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 14 hours ago, Weebz said: Shoot. Who has time for those details! Raw cage and a lot of holes in the body is about the best I’m doing at this point. Looks awesome though. Congrats. Man I wish we all lived closer. I would be happy to dig in as much as you can stand me, but realistically Byron and Ethan are pretty amazing with figuring everything out and getting it all done. Link to comment
KevinG Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 Got around to putting the half doors together. I had ordered everything back in November. The shells came pretty fast. The inner panels not so much. When I got the shipping notifications that both front and rear had shipped and a couple of nice big boxes arrived a few weeks ago. After I got the doors back from paint I put the latches, handles hinges and everything on. I had held off on opening boxes since I have such limited space in the new garage, but to my surprise each huge box had just one rear panel. Hoping the other ones will show up in the next six months or so, but in the meantime I at least know how everything will look.... For anyone with a GR cage and thinking about putting the GR Cargo Rack in, keep in mind you need to weld bungs in the horizontal bar between the C and D pillar. Probably going to do that after the AZ trip. The other thing still on the list is the b pillar chop. Our body shop didnt feel comfortable doing it so something else for later in May. 4 1 Link to comment
Crawl2Camp Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Jeep looks great with the half doors and soft top & uppers. 2 Link to comment
Jdofmemi Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Love that look Thanks for the heads up 9n the cage bung for the cargo rack 1 Link to comment
KevinG Posted July 12, 2022 Author Share Posted July 12, 2022 So spent the weekend at Byron's. I can't say enough about this guy. I know at some point he's going to say "Kevin, for gosh sakes stop bringing me your junk". Still have to get it painted but in the meantime: 1 Link to comment
Gruff Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 It's such a simple thing, but damn it looks soooo good! Nice work Byron 2 Link to comment
BHaner Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 There is something seriously unnerving about taking a sawzall to the side of a rig... I think having access to a TIG welder really did make it easier. The metal is so thin in some places. 1 1 Link to comment
AJK Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 2 hours ago, BHaner said: There is something seriously unnerving about taking a sawzall to the side of a rig... I think having access to a TIG welder really did make it easier. The metal is so thin in some places. Nice work. So I see the pin in the bottom is to line up but how does it secure to the top? Link to comment
BHaner Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 1 hour ago, AJK said: Nice work. So I see the pin in the bottom is to line up but how does it secure to the top? It clamps to the roll cage. In the 2nd picture from the bottom you can see 1/2 of the clamp. 1 Link to comment
KevinG Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 On 7/18/2022 at 7:32 AM, BHaner said: There is something seriously unnerving about taking a sawzall to the side of a rig... Gotta admit, after you cut the first side so nicely and then I started to butcher the other side I was already googling "least rainfall in the us" and getting ready to list it on craigslist there. I swear if I hadn't met you I would still be rolling around in an AEV wannabe with a lot more money in my bank account. Thanks again Byron. 1 Link to comment
Weebz Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Hella nice work gents. There really is nothing comforting about cutting a perfectly good jeep. Came out great though 1 1 Link to comment
BHaner Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 11 hours ago, fiend said: Someday I’d like to learn TIG. Outside of running big flux core MIG on thick parts it is my favorite type of welding. Clean... Quiet... Relaxing. Well... Except for when you haven't done it since like 1998... Then all you do the whole time is think to yourself "don't touch the filler rod to the tungsten... Don't touch the filler rod to the tungsten... SHIT... You touched the filler rod to the tungsten..." 1 3 Link to comment
Jdofmemi Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Nice work Byron Looks great. Link to comment
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