Restoring cj2a 59108 into mb tribute WWII

Got to love your ingenuity and approach to problem solving. You're doing great and moving along at a nice clip. Always of interest to watch your progress.

This is the way I restored all my tags.Serial number tag,transmission tag etc...I cleaned the tag with brake cleaner and a small brass wire brush.After I spray painted the tag and dry I used 600 grit and wet sand.It's make the tags more readable.Pictures to come soon.

Edited by Gil - 18 Apr. 2017 at 2:08am

I wanted a rotisserie so I took my engine stand and my brother's engine stand.It's not perfect but it does work ok. For the front I bolted pieces of angle iron to the front toe board body support. I welded a angle iron to both pieces. For the back I bolted 2 pieces of angle iron where the hinges are to give me a gap between body and the piece of angle iron I welded on. So when it's time to paint,the paint will be able to go behind the angle iron. I wanted to use a rotisserie for undercoating, painting, wiring, installing gauges etc...before installing tub to frame.I didn't want to modify engine stand height to get rotisserie to turn 360, It doesn't need to.I also replace 1 bottom piece of one engine stand with a longer pieces to make it more stable.

Joe ,what I used to repair my steering wheel is J-B Weld.When I used it I waited 24 hours before sanding ,it worked really good .Hope it holds .It seem to bond really good .

Just a little update ,I been working on the tub to get it ready for paint,I repaired a few extra holes in the dash and firewall.I also installed the handles,footman loops,top bow brackets,axe bracket etc...


Edited by Gil - 18 Feb. 2017 at 2:21am

2t2-crash wrote: Damn, that looks good! I'm making an MB clone as well. What are you doing about the gas tank in order to have the flat side and tool detentes?

Look on page 3.

2t2-crash wrote: Yeah I just went back and saw it. I might follow your footsteps in my build. ETA: did you hand make your tool cutouts? I have some picture on pages 2 and 4 of what I did. Also how are you getting your weld seams to disappear so well?

Lots of grinding ,dollying and body work .For the floor were I had to cover the weld I used a product called Metal 2 Metal it's a metal reinforced body filler.

Edited by Gil - 04 Feb. 2017 at 7:49pm

Flux core will work but a MIG welder using gas will do a much cleaner job and if you want to get obsessed, go to a TIG.

That's one way to do it but some later Jeeps had a drain on the back side of the rim around the tool box lid area. I was down in Durango and had to help a friend to find it and clean it out on his CJ5.