MDJuan Tubs

             Thanks for the reply.the serial #on my tub is 111009925E means according to your earlier post on serial # means mine was made january 2011. It's not a pre 2002.the problem is not the tub or the seat. The problem was me . I Thought the seat rested on the bracket on the wheel house when actually it does not there needs to be ahole drilled in the wheel house to bolt the seat to it . I have the original seat and discoverd theres a 5/16-24 mounting hole in the bottom roud tube of the seat back on the left side. My CJ2A is a 1946 serial # 25665.I look at my original and found a 7/16 hole above the bracket for bolting the seat. My appologies.Now I notcied your floor braces are narrower than the originals the one furthist forward to the front measures 1.400 inches the original measures 1.625 inches and the next one back measures 1.400 inches and the original measures 2.130inches.I think the transfer case cut-out should be moved forward 1.500inches to 2.00inches my shift levers hit the cut-out in the floor.The windshield to cowl is not a good fit the raddi's are not a match.

                                                                                                                                  Richard

Thanks for the detailed information complete with measurements.

I will go back to the plant on Monday and have our guys measure the floor braces and the transfer case cut out. And I will have a full report by next week.

Happy weekend!

Rommel

Richard J wrote: Rommel,              Thanks for the reply.the serial #on my tub is 111009925E means according to your earlier post on serial # means mine was made january 2011. It's not a pre 2002.the problem is not the tub or the seat. The problem was me . I Thought the seat rested on the bracket on the wheel house when actually it does not there needs to be ahole drilled in the wheel house to bolt the seat to it . I have the original seat and discoverd theres a 5/16-24 mounting hole in the bottom roud tube of the seat back on the left side. My CJ2A is a 1946 serial # 25665.I look at my original and found a 7/16 hole above the bracket for bolting the seat. My appologies.Now I notcied your floor braces are narrower than the originals the one furthist forward to the front measures 1.400 inches the original measures 1.625 inches and the next one back measures 1.400 inches and the original measures 2.130inches.I think the transfer case cut-out should be moved forward 1.500inches to 2.00inches my shift levers hit the cut-out in the floor.The windshield to cowl is not a good fit the raddi's are not a match.                                                                                                                                   Richard

 

We found several things on the MD JUAN body that were off but none of them were real critical. We had to raise the front of body up about 1" to get the fenders to fit properly. We did this with extra body mount rubbers under the front tub mounts. We also had to modify the fenders slightly to get them to fit up against the frame properly. This required cutting part of the flange and welding a small spacer. The Seats did not fit quite right either due to the distance from the resting bracket on the rear wheel well to the front step down being slightly different. The other thing was that the front ears that stick out of the body tub and suppose to rest on the frame (right around the master cylinder for example) were pigeoned towed in a bit and not lined up. We kinda left them and worked around that..

All it all it does look and fit pretty good now and I had expected problems of this nature from previous posts and others who had experience with it..

Having said all of this note that we also replaced the front four feet of the frame and some of the misalignment with the frame may have been done to variations here..

On the oil pump, I had an OEM oil pump that I found new gaskets for and installed them and the clearances worked fine.. Have not run it yet but manually pumping is creating and expected good vacuum on the intake side.. !!

Because of this forum we will now be incorporating the correct top bow socket kit on ourCJ2a tubs.

Please look at the pictures and see if something doesn't look right.

Daryl Bensinger will offer the  kits with and without the frame.  He just got the pricing sheet the other day.  

Rommel  What is the suggested Retail of the Master kits with frames ?