The WYOmanche Project

[xjrev10]

Cleaned up the garage today do to the 50 degree weather we are having. Drove the truck outside for a little sun!



First time it's been outside since paint. It actually looks extremely nice; from 10 feet away!!! Anyway, I bought something from another member to kick this project off again...



Black mini console. The only part I needed to have a complete black interior. I looked at the donor truck today and I will be needing a headliner too.

Things left to do....

Have to figure out what in doing for doors. Hitting a swap meet and putting out as many feelers as I can. Either manual 97+ doors or one drivers door in nice condition is what's needed. Also weatherstripping.

Shocks. Thinking Bilstein 5100 shocks.

Rear brakes. I bought some disc brake parts from a ZJ that ill have to mod to work.

Fender flares. Flat style is on my mind still.

Rampage Headlights

Diff covers. Ruff Stuff will get the nod.

IRO steering.


That list is in order of importance to me. Glass will fall in there somewhere too.. Along with exhaust.

Almost forgot. Ben (Neohic) built me some kick ass looking bumpers in trade for one of my extra mJs that never was going to get done. I'll post pics when they are installed and painted!

Goal is by the 4th of July, this thing should be road ready! Fingers crossed!

[xjrev10]

Worked a bit this week on this..

Black dash out of the 87 Chief



But, not w/o leaving a blood trail into the house..



All tore apart for cleaning. The bottom part of the dash is in sorry shape. I should be able to repair it to make it presentable, but I will be searching for a new piece someday. These 25 plus year old plastics are extremely brittle it seems.



Dash out of the project truck, and black non tilt steering column ready to go in, Being totally impossible to install myself, Ive decided to replace the worn out steering shaft before putting this in.



Painted up some bumper brackets since I had the garage warm...



Then this happened







Gonna have to do some slight tweeking on the mounting to get it perfect, but I had to get it on to see how it looks.