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got to spend a little time in the shop not all day and while im putting stuff a way i have a little helper show up .. so i had to go find some parts i needed
while doing this hes having a feild day in the shop climing all over the place i come back with some pecans and the squirl on top of my wire welds under the bag ... i went to eat came back he was gone i hope ,, :lol:

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i did a little work on the heater box once a gain looks like need to find a good box looked ok when started but rust out spots agian .and also got
some jeep door check stops for 40.00 for the stuck did a test fit and cleaned them up .:chevy:

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:chevy:

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Looking good! I love to see what things everyone uses to fix... err... improve on GM engineering! What model Jeep did the stops come from?

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I just got two dissasembled heaters in a bunch of parts I bought, nice Ca parts !

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they are from a jeep cherokee sport any 1984 to 2001 jeep cherokee
will work from a two door the ones off the rear on four doors are a little long ..

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Here are a few pics of the heater box, I will delete them after u see them as not to clutter up your thread ;)

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finally got to work in the shope today no xmas shopping no work so i worked out in the shop on the doors a little today got the driver side striped all the seam sealer off the inside door seam and stared on the passanger side .




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hope to finish sripping the passanger door monday so i can rework the doors im needing to find a metal srinking wheel . hope some one open monday . or should i ask santa :lol::metal: :chevy:

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Those are some nice looking doors. Real Nice.

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well after a couple of weeked of sanding and tring to get the beast going ive hit the wall on the motor :cuss::m6::m5: ive bent three push rods on number 4 and number 6 and the the studs are pulling out of the head and to make maters worst the head are not was gm"s best to start with .. they were giving to me from a freind . the heads are the 462624 which i didn't know at the time that they are known to crack if they been modified.
ive desided fo go with a bigger cam on the motor with is 4 bolt to start with and alum heads 2.02 1.60 any way here we go .
but atlest i got the rest of the fire wall finished .

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heres a little more and the rest of the fire wall and door pics . spent a little time on the truck rest of the time today cleaning up the mess form knocking out the plug off the trans while pulling the motor and spilling tranny fuild on the floor and not having and soil dry to clean up the mess
just love cleaning up trans fluid .. :waah::dohh:

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Finally after an month away from working on the truck finally got to spend a little time out in the man cave finally :metal::devil:
i did a little blasting on another heater box finally one that i won't to weld up any thin spots on the inside . and took out the old frame mounts that i cut out years before to make cleaner look on the inside the frame .:metal:

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some of the brackets still a top pass side to get ran out off day light
will get it this week:chevy:

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:mm::metal::5150::chevy:

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Looking Good. Nice job on the doors

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spent a little time in the shop today messed around with the t.v in the shop trying to get nascar on it but didnt happin :banghead::m6: so any way watched the start in the house then went out to the shop . and made a set up for getting pices read to shoot and need to go and get the plastic hung for the make shift paint both :metal: any way this is what i did . mounted the chains to the top inner beem in the shop and drilled and mounted a 9ft rod so i can hang parts to prime and paint . i can ajust it
buy moving the vise grips up or down and when i dont need it i can take the cross bar down ..

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here is what it looks like set up .. and a little from wast week on the truck and from today
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litttle more from today mostly on the frame and around the the passanger side frone windshild visor :chevy:

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spent the day taking the spindles a part to get ready for sell soon and also finished setting up the make shift paint booth :lol::metal::chevy:
need a little more on the bottom but should do fine with a fan
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heres a little update since i havent been posting whats going on
ill let the pics do the talking :metal:

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what was done last weekend :lol:

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:chevy:

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:uhmk: