The Copper CJ

[carwash]

Been working on this build for a bit now... slowly. Customer is in no hurry, and that's good...

It's been a good time, but quite time consuming (read no time to work on my crawler) but that's what business is about i guess. My crap can wait.

On the list was rock sliders, with cage tie-ins to frame, rocker guards, redone rear cage with bracing added to the front cage and dash bar, seat mounts tied to frame to accomadate new PRP seats, rear bumper, paint inside of tub, paint all new parts hammered silver along with front bumper. There will probably be more stuff added as we get close to done. I'm happy with the way things are turning out so far.

Here are some pics!

Here it is as it came into the shop




Here are the before pics of the cage

[carwash]

In progress, and then out of the rig for finish weld and paint

[carwash]

I would have hated to see this customer have to utilize this original cage in a roll with seeing the missing welds and the fact that the floor under the B-pillar feet was almost completely gone from rust. The rust images are a strong argument in favor of tying your cage to the frame...

[carwash]

Slider and frame tie-in fab...

[carwash]

Rear bumper build...











and a shot of the front bumper... built this about a year ago for this same customer, now just painting it to match.

[fabricator]

looks good...
slider and frame tie in = a bunch o work.

[sarge]

Looks good Mike ,

you going to do anything about that Rock Tattoo / soup bowl in the rocker ?

[tjjeepjeep]

Looks great Mike!

[GPER]

Those rocker/ cage tie ins are sweet.

[carwash]

looks good...
slider and frame tie in = a bunch o work.

yes, takes a while to get it all lined up and correct, then gotta pull it all out and weld it all up, hoping that it all the tacks hold in the pullout... then hope that in welding it all up, it didn't tweak from the heat... ugh.

Yes a lot of work, but very rewarding with how they turned out.

I will call you tomorrow Rob about cutter my rocker plates... i have my needed measurments.

[carwash]

Looks good Mike ,

you going to do anything about that Rock Tattoo / soup bowl in the rocker ?

there's one on each side... he dropped it down onto a rock ledge, first run out after the new paint...

covering them up with 3/16 or 1/4 rocker plates...

[94Dodge Truggy]

Very nice work! When can we see this copper beast wheel?

[eighty3bronco]

I love that hammer finish on the sliders, stinger and rear bumper!!!

[Coby]

vedday nice! High-5. I need to come down and check it out. Whats the word on his motor?

[BiggDaddy]

Rear Bumper

What's with the plating and bolts on the back side of the rear bumper? Are you going to bolt it on? I'm in the process of making very similar bumpers out of the same stuff. Really thick rectangular tubing.

BiggDaddy