I got my YJ mid June. It had a bit of cancer, getting to the point where it would be a long road to recovery.

Its a 93 YJ sahara edition
4.0L Stick 151,000 on the whole thing and 49,000 on rebuilt.
I got it for dirt cheap and had a ton of rust, but I have 90% of it fixed now.

Plans are/were to fix the body
A lift, I have been contemplating a SOA on full widths and maybe 2.5" lift leafs. I am fairly sure that is the route I am going.

What it sarted as:

Jumping into the rust. Drivers side

The passenger side

The hood, doors, and tailgate are/ are going to be black. The hinges are going to be spray on bedliner.
The hood is a two tone Black with the center grey that matchs teh rest of the body.


The current result pics.

Its not perfect, I dont intend for it to be a show Jeep. I just want it to look nice and wheel it.

kinda went hog wild on the pics but that is the progress of the Jeep over three months.

oh and the back of the Jeep, I still have one spot to cut and weld, and put my new hinges on.

man thats great i gotta give you a hand for that! i love seeing home projects like this! keep us posted on your progress looks great so far cant wait to see more pictures of it!

Nice work!

Man that's some dedication to bring the beast back! Nice job!

Thanks, I spent a weeks vacation on the thing. Took a vaca from work and put 50+ hours of work in it in 5 days. only a few little things left to do to the body.

Nice work........will be neat to see it completely finished. How is it mechanically? Run good?

you did a great job. that thing looks like it never had any rust damage.

Nice, what brand of welder are you using.

Mechanically it runs great, it has 49,000 on a rebuilt. The only thing I have to do is a rear main seal and do my fuel sending unit, I jerry rigged the old one with mighty puddy (only on teh elbows because it had pin-hole leaks from rusting).

I used a Lincoln welder ran off of 110. I wish I could have used my brothers Miller that ran off of 220, that one works like a dream.

Nice work! That thing was rusted out pretty bad.

thats a serious job there, what lake did you say you found it in.Your definitley that jeeps hero , it owes you big have fun with it.

Seems like it sat in a big pile of salt for its life. I am the third owner of it and I was told the original owner never washed it other than getting rained on. That was pretty believable.

I didnt think the rust was as bad as it was when it had everything still on it. I started to see how gone it was when I pulled the flares off of it.

Nice work!

Please take a few minutes & check around the frame rails by tapping on them with a ball peen hammer. Pay extra attention to the rear rails behind the rear axle humps in the frame.

You really made The YJ look good man I give you Mad props

I checked the whole frame and everything seemed solid, just looks a little flaky. Need to give it a clean up and paint it.

I wanted to give it a different paint job, so that is why I did the two tone Black Hood with grey, and black doors n' tailgate. I think it looks good.

WOW, In the start, when first looking at the pic's. That jeep looked like it was a gonner. ALOT of RUST. But you did an AWESOME job in cleaning her up. Great work.

Nice job!.... with work like that you'll have WF members knocking on your door.

I dont know about that, the quality of the work isnt terrific and not as smooth as I would want it to be. But thanks. I just want it to make it a few years, then I want to do a new tub, and fiberglass fenders, fiberglass windshield frame, CJ tailgate, a new hood, fiberglass grille.

In the near future, I am going to get fully soft doors, and loose the half hard doors, and get a set of full hard doors for winter.

Hey man you should rhino line it check out
Rhino lined first time

Looks great man. You sure are taken on a big project (50 hours in 5 days...just, wow) but it deffinatley looks like you got it all worked out. When your finished I bet no one will even be able to tell it had rust holes in it. I know the tub sure doesnt look like it ever had cancer.

Happy birthday plop

Thanks

Did the doors finally, got them painted black. Eventually and am going to make some door pannels.





and just because I like to see my doors are actually shiny :d:

Lookin good , marking another one off the list feels good and looks good

I need to hurry up and get some new hinges, most likely going with the stainless.

And another thing is that I am working out a trade, my explorer for a 95 YJ on 4" of lift and 33's and is a 4cyl. Assuming everything goes well, I am going to swap all the lift on the 93 (current project) and use the other one as stock for school since 4 cyl should get better MPG.

it looks great. i wish i could do shit like that to mine but mine didnt have rust that yours. Looks good and i can tell ima b jealous when its all done..any tips for a guy with no welder?