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I planned on making a thread about my Full Size Jeep project. I have now done enough work to start one. I will be updating this every time I work on the J-truck.
It all started when I signed up for the automotive courses at my local college. All the guys drove in with Chevy trucks, and I parked in the middle of them with my Grand Cherokee.
There wasn't a day that went by when someone would call my little WJ a fake Jeep, they told me a real Jeep was a FSJ. Well, lets just say I got tired of seeing all the Chevy's, there needed to be a Jeep truck in the parking lot.
I began my search on ebay, just to take a look at what was available. Then a friend of mine told me he knew someone who has been trying to sell his J-truck for a while now and wanted $500 for the whole thing.
I drove about an hour and a half to take a look at the truck up close, and there was way too much rust. I was told it was all surface rust, and I knew then my hands would be full with this project.
There was nothing left on this J10 that said Jeep. It had been replaced with everything Chevy. The guy wouldn't budge on his price, and he was taking the engine and radio.
If I had bought this truck, I would've taken every single part he put into it, out, and make it stock all over again. Instead of leaving it as a manual, I'd turn it into a automatic.
Well, lets just say I didn't think the truck was worth $500 as it sat. So I waited, looking on here through the classifieds and then one day...I saw an ad I couldn't pass up on.
Have you heard the saying "Good things will come to those who wait?"
That's exactly what happened, I saw an ad for a J-truck...the perfect J-truck for a restoration that fit exactly what I wanted.
A week after that, I drove to Wisconsin to pick up my Jeep truck. Got up at 5am Sunday morning, waited for my two friends with the truck that was going to haul my new baby back home, to show up. We didn't leave till 11am, and got home at 3am.
It rained most of the time, and we hauled everything back except the hood, doors and cab. We couldn't figure out how to put the cab on the trailer since the whole truck took up the entire trailer.
A week later, on Sunday again. I went back for the rest of the truck and picked it up. It was sunny on the way up there, but raining once more on the way back.
This is my first time having to actually see and have a FSJ up close to where I can understand it more clearly. I told my uncle and I told my friends "Hey, this isn't some little Jeep like my Grand Cherokee...this is a Full Size Jeep pick up truck, and it's not going to be light"
Lets just say for the first trip, my good friends HD Chevy truck took a small hit and was down for a few days. He told me the cause wasn't my Jeep that did it, I still felt pretty bad though.
My uncle's truck took the real hit, and he was just towing the cab, doors and hood. Most of the trip went well...but about 35 minutes from our destination...the Chevy was finished.
I figured out the cause pretty easily, the whole trip coolant was leaking on my side of the truck. There was no transmission cooler, and the truck got so hot it melted the temp. sending unit.
I didn't get home that night until 12am. After both trips, early monday morning, whether I had 5 hours of sleep or 2 I drove all the way to my college parked beside my J20 and kept watch.
I was extremely nervous the whole time, you just don't see a FSJ where I live any more. I was scared someone would see something they liked and take off with a part.
The whole J-truck was finally all in the location I wanted it to be in, my project began soon afterwords.
I would like to thank Ryan (KujoC) for giving me the perfect restoration project. There hasn't been a day where I've lost motivation yet.
I planned on making a thread about my Full Size Jeep project. I have now done enough work to start one. I will be updating this every time I work on the J-truck.
It all started when I signed up for the automotive courses at my local college. All the guys drove in with Chevy trucks, and I parked in the middle of them with my Grand Cherokee.
There wasn't a day that went by when someone would call my little WJ a fake Jeep, they told me a real Jeep was a FSJ. Well, lets just say I got tired of seeing all the Chevy's, there needed to be a Jeep truck in the parking lot.
I began my search on ebay, just to take a look at what was available. Then a friend of mine told me he knew someone who has been trying to sell his J-truck for a while now and wanted $500 for the whole thing.
I drove about an hour and a half to take a look at the truck up close, and there was way too much rust. I was told it was all surface rust, and I knew then my hands would be full with this project.
There was nothing left on this J10 that said Jeep. It had been replaced with everything Chevy. The guy wouldn't budge on his price, and he was taking the engine and radio.
If I had bought this truck, I would've taken every single part he put into it, out, and make it stock all over again. Instead of leaving it as a manual, I'd turn it into a automatic.
Well, lets just say I didn't think the truck was worth $500 as it sat. So I waited, looking on here through the classifieds and then one day...I saw an ad I couldn't pass up on.
Have you heard the saying "Good things will come to those who wait?"
That's exactly what happened, I saw an ad for a J-truck...the perfect J-truck for a restoration that fit exactly what I wanted.
A week after that, I drove to Wisconsin to pick up my Jeep truck. Got up at 5am Sunday morning, waited for my two friends with the truck that was going to haul my new baby back home, to show up. We didn't leave till 11am, and got home at 3am.
It rained most of the time, and we hauled everything back except the hood, doors and cab. We couldn't figure out how to put the cab on the trailer since the whole truck took up the entire trailer.
A week later, on Sunday again. I went back for the rest of the truck and picked it up. It was sunny on the way up there, but raining once more on the way back.
This is my first time having to actually see and have a FSJ up close to where I can understand it more clearly. I told my uncle and I told my friends "Hey, this isn't some little Jeep like my Grand Cherokee...this is a Full Size Jeep pick up truck, and it's not going to be light"
Lets just say for the first trip, my good friends HD Chevy truck took a small hit and was down for a few days. He told me the cause wasn't my Jeep that did it, I still felt pretty bad though.
My uncle's truck took the real hit, and he was just towing the cab, doors and hood. Most of the trip went well...but about 35 minutes from our destination...the Chevy was finished.
I figured out the cause pretty easily, the whole trip coolant was leaking on my side of the truck. There was no transmission cooler, and the truck got so hot it melted the temp. sending unit.
I didn't get home that night until 12am. After both trips, early monday morning, whether I had 5 hours of sleep or 2 I drove all the way to my college parked beside my J20 and kept watch.
I was extremely nervous the whole time, you just don't see a FSJ where I live any more. I was scared someone would see something they liked and take off with a part.
The whole J-truck was finally all in the location I wanted it to be in, my project began soon afterwords.
I would like to thank Ryan (KujoC) for giving me the perfect restoration project. There hasn't been a day where I've lost motivation yet.
Grand Wagoneer
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