so here is the birth record of my fourdoor. this project has been going on for three years now and still far from done but hopefully one day it will be. long before i knew what an FSJ was i knew i wanted a
four door pickup and i wanted it to be a jeep. my goal is to have a camping and tow rig that has room for the whole gang, and a waggy is just too small. the plan is two use two vehicles to make one, a truck and a wagoneer. one of my main goals is to retain the brow. inorder to do this i am basicly going to stretch the truck cab with the b-pillar section from a wagoneer. first i needed to find two donors.
the first donor is a '73 J4000. picked it up for $500 with a broken transfer case adapter. a new one of those and a new edelbrock carb, she runs like a champ.
second donor is an '80 wagoneer. got this one for $400. dosnt run and looks like it hasn't for some time. but it is a solid almost rust free body.
first thing on my list was to take the parts from the wagoneer that i wanted. so i proceded to gut it and start the hacking. i took a sawzall to it and just cut it biger than what i needed so it can be trimed exact size later. i wont be using any of the roof or floor from it.
then it was on to the rear doors. im going to use the rear doors from the wagoneer. they will line up perfectly and latch with the back of the truck cab once i swap the latches. obviously the rear doors from a wagoneer have a cutout for the wheel. solution is to use part of the front
door.