Just found some bad rust on my passenger rear floor. What looked tiny from below turned out to be wide spread cancer, from the front seat to the back corner. It all needs to be cut out and replaced.
I can't do that right now. I don't have equipment to fab the panel. And either getting tooled up to do it or paying to have it done will set me back $1000. If I get away cheap.
Then I've also got the body to worry about. Lower quarters left and right and a passenger side dogleg.
Plus it needs an engine. And I now have to spend what little I had saved for that on new tires for the BEEPING family truck. Because somehow a sidewall of the three year old tires split. Also worth mentioning they lost 4/16ths of tread on my 2k mile Montana trip. As soon as the tires hit three years old they just started falling apart. I am NOT happy about that.
But I've got the 89. Which I know has solid floors and frame. The most questionable part of that whole Jeep is the transmission. And it just so happens I have a spare. I could build one solid complete Jeep from the two. But it has an absolutely rotten rocker panel. I did have it sold to Wyatt. But I need it worse than I thought. Sorry man, I'll find you another one.
How long would you drive a Jeep with the rocker rotted clean off? I hate to do that sort of thing. But there's no guarantee I can get it fixed before I leave.
I've got a rocker for it. But I don't think I have the patience to attach it. Depending on what I find when I get it scrubbed down and trimmed up I think I might do the Tad style rock sliders. Hack the rockers off entirely and replace with 2x6 square tube. That's within the capabilities of my flux core with some nicer wire and some patience.
So this build thread becomes focused on Jeep number three!
Gabe, "reformed" Jeep hoarder.