What else are you going to do with your life anyway lol. The satisfaction of getting it done is the same at 16 or 86.
Sad kids today almost never get to work on their own cars in our throwaway world.
Frame Restoration Question
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What else are you going to do with your life anyway lol. The satisfaction of getting it done is the same at 16 or 86.
Sad kids today almost never get to work on their own cars in our throwaway world.
Amen brother, last week I was watching Price is Right and this kid at the end was bidding on a Mini Cooper. He asked was this car an auto or stick shift ? When informed it was a stick he passed the offer to the other person. Rather than learn how to work a clutch. he passed the offer on a great little car. It's sad to see what our youths have become. It is stated that the best auto theft protection is to have a stick shift, the indrocrinated morons are not capable of mastering skills like we have. So sad
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My TJ looked similar many years ago after about 10 years as a daily driver in Ohio and Michigan. Used wire wheels, brushes, needler & hammer to get the big stuff off and then ran a pressure washer through the frame multiple times after banging a nut on a weld rod around in the frame with a drill (like the chain on the snake above) for a few hours to knock off most of scaling inside. After all that I used a pot blaster to take off what was left of the cancer then treated it with metal ready and POR-15. Coated the inside with Eastwood. Seems to have held up fine for the 10 years after that but I stopped driving it in salt. Note that I did have to replace some of the areas on the torque tube where the body mounts, they were too far gone. Not a terribly difficult project but it is time consuming and even more so if you have some areas of the frame too far gone that need to be repaired/reinforced. If I was to do it again I would probably yank the entire frame and take it to a blaster instead of doing it in my driveway, just didn't have that capability at the time. If it was too far gone would do the same but just source a decent one and have it blasted/coated.
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My NJ frame, looked very similar to the OP's.
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