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I've been on it all Labor Day - no lake for me.

I hosed the insides or the frame rails with rust proofing paint from Eastwood, made cardboard templates, and cut out the top caps with the plasma.

Tack welded the passenger one on, bending it on the frame rails as a buck as I went along. I was actually standing on the top plate to bend it around.

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Looks good...Jim

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Lookin' good!

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Hey guys, Biz here - Pops gave me my first welding lesson tonight on a top part of the frame that won't ever be seen. Wait - what are you saying Pops!?!?
It went well with just some simple plug welds - just draw a circle inside the hole about 5 times and its full. Easy!:mmmk:

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:metal: Nice work. Looks a lot cleaner than my first welds ever did!

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Nice work Biz! The frame section is looking really good.

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Well done!

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Nice work ,Biz.

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Nice work Drew and Biz!

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Clearly it's because of the instructor!!!!

Just kidding

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Saturday night picture time.
Not much to report tonight unfortunately, working on my lower control arms since they hit into my frame. I ended up cutting a relief and angling them to the inside. I'll weld on some overlaid pieces to re-attach and strengthen. Next we will make a mount to attach them to on the frame. They use 1 large bolt and a large circular cup for centering. The cup is actually part of the unibody I chopped off of the Jag.

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Just about finished up welding the lower control arms. Tomorrow on to making their frame mounts.

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Picture misfire above

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My 22 yr old daughter has been hanging over my shoulder when I work on cars since she could walk. Now she is just a few credits from having a Associates Degree in Automotive Tech. It is a real change to go out to work on something and someone is already using the tool that you need to use. She has started to rebuild a jeep cj2a-1947. http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/19...opic33573.html
checkout the welds.

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All the welds on page 4 is her.

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Nice Job! I did a CJ 2A one time, I'll have to find some pictures and post them.

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Tonight we started in on the lower control arm mounts. Buzzed these things out in no time flat - thanks plas!!!

Also shown are the finished angled arms, should work very nicely and zero cost!

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These mounts for the LCAs are working out really well. I scored a line to help me bend it by hand in my vise - I need a press and metal brake!!!

I needed a slight angle to have a really strong spot to weld to and still keep the LCA level at ride height.

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Bracket design looks good, will you be adding additional bracing...Jim

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Yes! 2 from underneath and 1 on top. But the main forces are front to rear push pull on acceleration and braking. Keeping the whole assembly from rotating around.

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To finish up for tonight, I have tacked in the mounts and the mounting cups from the Jag body. I disconnected the coil-overs so I could cycle the suspension fully up and down and check for clearance issues with the LCAs. Everything looks good so far. Now I am ready to drop the rear suspension assembly to get to the undersides of the frame rails for more welding and grinding. Also I'll need to work out the 6 brackets on my new LCA mounts.

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I found a couple of pics of my 1947 CJ 2A I built about 20 years ago. It was my first hybrid - a 47 front clip mated to a 1980 CJ 5 tub and chassis. It had a 304 V8 and 4 speed combo and was smokin fast. I had to remake the flat fenders 4 inches lunger and get 2 hoods and extend the hood 4 inches also by welding them together. The firewall was also a bear since it was so much narrower, I had to move the pedals over some and relocate the fuse block to the inside of the steering column. Overall it was pretty easy and looked awesome.

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Looks great....Can't wait for more progress updates.

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Sweet jeep!

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I thought you would appreciate this, Drew. I wonder how many of these suspensions are sitting in people's garages?

http://orlando.craigslist.org/pts/5235622563.html

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Pretty underwhelming Saturday night picture time. All I've done is drop the whole assembly again so I can get at the welds underneath.

Not much accomplished here since all last week I was scurrying around getting ready for my latest SportClips Grand Opening. We now have 6 locations as of Friday. I got a call from the CEO -Gordon Logan- today to congratulate me on our 6th location!

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Congrat's on six sport clips. Are franchises numerous or are you acquiring, then turning around, underperforming locations?

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Drew and biz, great work on the suspension work! Congrats on the Sport clips franchises as well! I'm sure you have a whole lot going on all the time now!

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I have bought 4 locations, opened 2 new ones myself, and have 1 more new location to build out. Today we are looking at Clemson University with Biz and will probably stay for the game and homecoming festivities = no work to report on the Buick. Boooooo

I did happen to find a great picture of what we hope to end up with.

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Now that is sharp .

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That will be very nice!

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That thing is slick! It makes me wonder why anyone would want a ****ty new plastic car.

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great looking car. I'm sure it will look better than that one knowing your work.

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What model Miller welder do you have there? I'm looking at buying my first welder. I don't need anything to massive.

Marc

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I run a Lincoln 180 on the farm and have been very happy with it.
David

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Millermatic 180. I really love it. I used to have a Lincoln and it was definitely more crude than this new Miller. I killed the Lincoln halfway through my Young Frankenstein build.

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Thank you

Marc

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Hi Drew
I'm George 57 Buicks are my favorite, you and your daughter are doing a great job on this one.
I found you by following a link from the Buick Club. I'm in the process of doing this with on a 1930 Buick coupe.I've installed a Fatman fabrications front suspension and picking up tomorrow a C4 corvette rear suspension. You are a little ahead of me so i'm off to try and catch up.
George