97 TJ Heep to Zombie Killing Jeep Build by north50

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I've been slowly turning my garage into an area that is easy to work on the Jeep and store extra Jeep related parts (hardtop, doors etc..) So I cleared off the work bench and set to listing somethings on ebay and related forums to the items I'm selling. Worked out great have the bench cleared off to work on Jeep things now and made $600 that I put toward some front seats. I really wanted the Mastercraft's but couldn't handle $1000, so went smittybilt XRC for $425 and they will be here tomm. Got to love Amazon cheap prices and fast shipping. I have so much I want to do in preparation for the seats. I will be removing the interior pieces currently in the jeep to do the monstaliner in the tub. Also want to repaint the roll cage and padding, may just leave the padding out but not sure yet. Will try and get more done tonight and this weekend to post pictures of the progress. Need to clean out more parts of the house to generate jeep funds for axles and SYE next.

8-16-2011

Seats came in today and I'm really happy with the look and feel. Just have to figure out how I want to mount them. Have heard nothing good about the smittybilt mounts so looking at Corbeau. Now to start stripping out the jeep interior in preparation for Monstaliner. Also ordered an Aussie locker for the Dana 30 and a Riddler diff cover since I'll already have it apart.

8-21-2011

Well not a huge success of a weekend working on the jeep, but managed to get a few small things done. Radio installed, sounds great and more important I can plug the iphone into it.

So I got my new door pins and put the full doors on and have some issues. They have these gaps so ordered the delrin plastic inserts. Hoping that is going to straighten them up because at the moment I have to pickup on one door and push down on the other.

Also finalized my CB antenna mount and hope it works out ok because it looks great. Still working out how to mount the Radio overhead, thinking smittybilt gear overhead console.

Also figured out I could flip the spare tire mount and drill out the threaded holes so the mount isn't so high. Looks much better and allows me to see what's behind me in the rearview some what.

Also added some red accents as I plan on the jeep being completely painted with the bed liner and having a few red pieces here and there. Maybe some new wheels

Also ordered Smittybilt seat adapters, crossing my fingers they have worked out the issues with them. Have rear smittybilt 3" fenders coming, and plan on ordering the front flats with 3" flare.

To-Do List

Install JKS Adj. rear trackbar (yeah still not done)

Install Currie Anti-rock

Install Aussie locker and Riddler diff cover

Install XRC seats

Finish CB Radio install

paint,paint,paint