YELLAHEEP
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Littleton, Colorado
So...... someone is making replacement center console brackets? That looks like a metal version..... ? Where'd that come from?
Project Cheapskate
- Thread starter Kittrell
- Start date
- Location
- Thornton, CO
Dirtbound makes one, which I have/prefer and JCR.
- Location
- Thornton, CO
Landed Bilsteins today. Not much left to do on the suspension.
DutchVDub
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Milliken, CO
Nice. So you'll have this ready for Chinaman?
YELLAHEEP
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Littleton, Colorado
What's the skid from?
- Location
- Thornton, CO
Probably still looking at Slaughterhouse.
All of that stuff is from a WJ.
- Location
- Thornton, CO
Today got off to a fairly good start.
Here is what I started with on the passenger side.
After the rust neutralizer that EcoMike recommended (Loctite).
Mid paint, I had some exact match Duplicolor.
And done, there was no rust under the sound mat (I checked), so I left it.
Then things went sideways from there. My new heater core did not fit. The one of the tubes was brazed about 1/4" further out so the core bottomed out in the box and both tubes are also no bent enough, so they did not fit in the channel.
Stock
New
The tubes were the correct length but no where near the right angle. I am going to break down and get the Mopar one.
I was almost just going to slap the old core back in there and call it good but then we pulled out the driver seat and carpet. Stuff like this just drives me nuts. This is a Colorado Jeep and the underside is solid and not rusty. This is from someone dunking the Jeep or spilling a lot of water and just letting it set for years.
So needless to say I need a patch panel for that side, you can see the driveway through the floor. This is how we left it for the day. Trent is headed to Moab for the week so it will be a few weeks before anything happens on this.
P.S. Dutch, now I'm really jealous of your new rig.
Here is what I started with on the passenger side.
After the rust neutralizer that EcoMike recommended (Loctite).
Mid paint, I had some exact match Duplicolor.
And done, there was no rust under the sound mat (I checked), so I left it.
Then things went sideways from there. My new heater core did not fit. The one of the tubes was brazed about 1/4" further out so the core bottomed out in the box and both tubes are also no bent enough, so they did not fit in the channel.
Stock
New
The tubes were the correct length but no where near the right angle. I am going to break down and get the Mopar one.
I was almost just going to slap the old core back in there and call it good but then we pulled out the driver seat and carpet. Stuff like this just drives me nuts. This is a Colorado Jeep and the underside is solid and not rusty. This is from someone dunking the Jeep or spilling a lot of water and just letting it set for years.
So needless to say I need a patch panel for that side, you can see the driveway through the floor. This is how we left it for the day. Trent is headed to Moab for the week so it will be a few weeks before anything happens on this.
P.S. Dutch, now I'm really jealous of your new rig.
trippled
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- colorado springs, co
Take a good look at the windshield. If they leak it'll go right under the carpet and you'll never know. That's how mine rusted out. Turned out I could lift half the glass up.
- Location
- Thornton, CO
Windshield is solid though it's new. Could have been a previous issue.
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO
I lost my passenger side floor panel through the sunroof, and the Laredo sound proofing that held moisture just like a diaper. I'm not sure if it was a CO vehicle, but if it wasn't it only spent two years out of CO. 
- Location
- Golden, CO
Or somebody not bothering to knock the snow off their feet, and/or using decent floor mats.I was almost just going to slap the old core back in there and call it good but then we pulled out the driver seat and carpet. Stuff like this just drives me nuts. This is a Colorado Jeep and the underside is solid and not rusty. This is from someone dunking the Jeep or spilling a lot of water and just letting it set for years.
Soooooo, what you gonna buy with that 42-cents?
