jeeprostyle
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Hello fellow jeepers. I just turned 16 last month and i wanted to get a summer project so decided to buy me an old cj-5, my personal favorite of all jeep models. Its pretty much stock and is in need of a restoration. It has the stock 4 cyl. f-head and runs strong. I just got done building my little shop car port of the side of my dads garage to begin tearing it apart and fixing it up to be my little offroading machine . . . eventually.
The first thing i want to do is the body work/interior work, seemed like the easiest thing for a beginner to start with. I tore out all the interior crap the guy before me had in it and pretty much trashed it all except the roll bar, it was all garbage so no worries. Im not quite sure how to take the tub off but im gonna try and figure it out here soon so i can sand it down to get rid of the surface rust, do some minor body work and get it ready to be painted and such. I was thinking of putting that bed liner in the tub to water proof it and make it rust resistant but im not sure if this is the way to go.
Any advice on where to start with restoring this jeep and what to do would be really helpful. I dont really have much for money, no job = no money but im workin on that . . im still trying to pay off the original 700 dollars the jeep cost me . I would eventually like to put a 3 - 4 inch suspension lift with a 2 inch body lift so i can put some bigger tires on it, 33 - 35 inch would be nice, but im not sure if my little four cylinder has enough power , or what i need to make it have enough power with gears and such. My dad has restored some old trucks so he knows what he is doing but he has never restored a jeep so were kinda fishin in the dark. Thanks for any advice, im located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona just so you know.
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Hello fellow jeepers. I just turned 16 last month and i wanted to get a summer project so decided to buy me an old cj-5, my personal favorite of all jeep models. Its pretty much stock and is in need of a restoration. It has the stock 4 cyl. f-head and runs strong. I just got done building my little shop car port of the side of my dads garage to begin tearing it apart and fixing it up to be my little offroading machine . . . eventually.
The first thing i want to do is the body work/interior work, seemed like the easiest thing for a beginner to start with. I tore out all the interior crap the guy before me had in it and pretty much trashed it all except the roll bar, it was all garbage so no worries. Im not quite sure how to take the tub off but im gonna try and figure it out here soon so i can sand it down to get rid of the surface rust, do some minor body work and get it ready to be painted and such. I was thinking of putting that bed liner in the tub to water proof it and make it rust resistant but im not sure if this is the way to go.
Any advice on where to start with restoring this jeep and what to do would be really helpful. I dont really have much for money, no job = no money but im workin on that . . im still trying to pay off the original 700 dollars the jeep cost me . I would eventually like to put a 3 - 4 inch suspension lift with a 2 inch body lift so i can put some bigger tires on it, 33 - 35 inch would be nice, but im not sure if my little four cylinder has enough power , or what i need to make it have enough power with gears and such. My dad has restored some old trucks so he knows what he is doing but he has never restored a jeep so were kinda fishin in the dark. Thanks for any advice, im located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona just so you know.
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