Recent content by 77flh

Nice to drive it Got a little over 500 miles on it so far and have been slowly working the bugs out. Door panels are upholstered and in as well as the side windows. Heater even works good! My aftermarket ignition switch started to come apart, ended up crimping it back together with channel...

Killer Job on the glass. Where you laid out all the cutoff pieces looks very similar to how I cut the stock windshield down on my binder. I'd say your friend will surely have plenty of work if he wants cutting those curved windshields...

Brake advice That is the best advice ever. The brakes seem pretty happy with no proportioning valve or residual pressure valves in the system. That stuff just burned up my wallet. The only thing I am going to do is adjust my master cylinder rod length so the brakes come on earlier in the pedal...

Static? I had an old CJ7 years ago and bought some kind of cleaner/polish specifically for plastic windows that also helped with the static...Can't remember what it was called? Maybe try a Jeep site for some insight?

Drove it a little Got it out for a test ride. Still plenty of bugs to work out. Some issues I had before I left the garage were the front brakes not releasing. Turns out residual pressure valve was bad. When I removed it from the system, you could see the spring in it was cocked and the rubber...

Man this thing is cool. And 27 MPG!! Wow, that's incredible. I back tracked the thread a little and don't think I saw what you did to the windshield. Did you find a modern car with a good curve for it? Have fun with it, glad to see it on the road.

Rough week Been a rough week for sure. We had to put our garage hound down. My head's not been in the game too much since so I just been polishing on my old 5 slot wheels and mounting tires. Put some free bee dirt trackers on the back. I like the look. Really need to be running wires to get it...

urethane Here is a close up of the urethane. I glued the glass in place on the pinch weld then let it set up for a few days. Then taped off the area around the windshield, filled it in with more urethane and tooled it off. Used soapy water and smoothed it the best I could. Urethane is a mess...

Been studying the split windshield a little more and the pinch weld looks pretty flat from the center you added out to about 1/2 way to the A pillar. I think with your sheet metal skills, you could do some fabricating and cheat that pinch weld on the outer portion (or even cheat a little on both...

Cutting laminate Thanks for the kind words everyone. I encourage anyone trying this to search "chopped top curved glass" on UTube. I have done a bit of glass work in my past, but learned a lot watching some of the guys and their techniques. When cutting laminated glass I always just think of...

Windshield Cut!! I have been stressing over cutting that curved windshield and finally took the plunge. I used to work in a glass shop out in SoCal 20 some years ago and have cut flat laminated glass with a pretty good success rate. Did a curved S-10 windshield for my brother and it took a...

Just flat glass Thanks for the kind words. The door glass is just flat, but because I am eliminating the wing glass, it has to pass on the outboard side of the regulator. This requires the glide pin to be moved both to the other side as well as more centrally located. Took a few more pics...

Why no side glass? It has become painfully obvious why a lot of chopped cars you see for sale have no side glass. Took a few good days to get the tops of the doors fitting right and welded up. Garnish moldings were actually the easier part of this, I was expecting the opposite. Got a day or...

cab set back on Finally finished up the brake lines, fuel line and transmission lines. Used braided stainless for the flex line and NiCopp for all the hard lines. Fabbed up a bracket and got the e-brake cables mounted as well. Used some cool saddle mount zip tie clips with a screw hole to...

Closing in on brakes Got the master cylinder and line lock on as well as most of the brake lines ran the last couple days. Not much in the way of eye candy for pictures, but glad to be making progress. Used NiCopp brake line and was really impressed with how easy it is to flare and bend. The...