Dang! It's been a spell since I did an update
When we last left our "hero" he was in the process of welding the underside of the roof uni-body to the new steel when a window broke.......
......while welding the other side of the Heep it happened again!
After cleaning up another mess, there's more booger welds to grind and sand down.
While I've had the welder and grinder out I took care of the inner brace that I had previously pulled to "good enough" spec.
I've got to remember to stop saying "It's a only a small hole, I can patch that up in an hour". The "small hole" started out as the oval opening just above the body rail. By the time I got done exploring the hole grew a little bit.
Fortunately I had a goodly sized chunk of steel laying around that I could get a patch out of
Speaking of patches, the inner rocker right in the area of the lower seat belt mount had seen better days as in I only had to give a slight pull and twist to remove the belt winder
![Surprised :-o](./images/smilies/icon/surprised.gif)
And of course some of the floor found religion too
![Pray :pray:](./images/smilies/eusa/pray.gif)
The donner Jeep gave me a solid section of inner rocker, but it's same section of floor apparently goes to the same church as my floor
![Pray :pray:](./images/smilies/eusa/pray.gif)
so I had to scrounge some more steel.
What is it with me and windows
![Cussing Black :angry-cussingblack:](./images/smilies/angry/cussingblack.gif)
That one gave out AFTER I was done for the night and had put the tarp back on
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon/lol.gif)
On the plus side there's toob up there now in the form of 1" black pipe. If it's good enough for my rear bumper, it's good enough for a roof rail.
And a quick pic of the toob on the passenger side before it was completely burnt on (at least I didn't blow any more windows
![Thumb Up Right :handgestures-thumbupright:](./images/smilies/handgestures/thumbupright.gif)
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With all the major welding done I've started in on prepping the doors for some color. The plan was to strip the doors of glass and seals and such, clean and rattle bomb the jamb side of the doors and get them hung. Great idea until I remembered these doors have power windows that are UP and won't work until they're mounted and the harness is plugged in. So I just bombed the lower areas that would be a pain when mounted and moved on to some other small projects such as seam sealing the DS under the roof rail, redoing the cage to seatbelt tie in tab, grinding some of the booger welds, and figuring out how much I have to change up inside for the late model console and parking brake handle.
Now that I'm down to T- 3 weeks to the GAJR I've got to get my backside in gear and get-r-done! I know I'll have it back together by then. If it's going to be all one color or back to Dr. Heep'enstien's Monster...... who knows!