Frankenstein Wagoneer

I have watched a lot of films and read the book of Mary Shelly, http://bigpaperr.com/blog/frankenstein-critical-essay - http://bigpaperwriter.com/blog/frankenstein-critical-essay has some more facts about Frankenstein!

Edited by CecileG - Dec/29/2016 at 4:42am

How is that Frankenstein Waggie doing these days! 

I just recently "started" an effort to bring a decrepit 83 Wagoneer limited back to life. First time ever doing any of this stuff. No engine work experience, no body work experience, and just a touch of interior work in the past. I've researched so much in an effort to not screw it up. Every other Waggy project I read about people lamenting about the speck of rust on their jeep from Arizona, Nevada, ect... I really got discouraged before I really got started. But this one of yours, man, it's an inspiration to me! My Swagoneer is a serious bit of work. But your efforts really got me jacked up to get working on it! Thank you.

Now, any advise on how to convince the wife to get on board now? :)

Cool project!

When I was researching rockers for mine I ran across the "Good-mark" site. I couldn't believe they still made original rockers, but if the ones you used worked great. I never bought mine from Good-mark, but went to home Depot and bought some 16 gauge metal and formed them myself. Rust is strange because my inner rockers were perfect and the outer rockers had rust. I cut out the bad metal, riveted the new ones I made on and all is good. I painted them flat black and until I win the lottery these improvements will serve me well!



 

OK, so there has been a lot that took place this fall!  First, the Waggy won the first place trophy in the Jeep category of the AMCRC Nationals show above!  As you can see in the last posting, there was literally no competition.  J  Sometimes life is about showing up…

So, on to the current state of the Wagoneer…I got the sound deadening and the carpet kit put in all the way. 

Unfortunately for me, I completed everything the same day that a hurricane came through our area.  “Good thing I got the window sweeps replaced” I said to myself.  Unfortunately, I didn’t notice that the new window sweeps somehow caused the driver’s and passenger’s windows to not go up all the way.  There is about an 1/8 inch gap at the top of each.  SO, needless to say, a fair amount of rainwater got inside the car on my nice fresh interior.  It was only done for about 12 hours!  Ah, the irony…

So, I had to tear the carpet back to get it cleaned up.  All that work, for nothing.  I have a band of duct tape at the top of both of the windows, inside and outside.  It is keeping the interior dry, although it is definitely not the final fix.  But it is good enough for now.   I dried it out the carpet with those moisture reduction things from Home Depot, and with a carpet shampooer sucking up water, and with a hair dryer.  In the end, I got it all dry, and then reapplied the sound deadening and carpet.  So now, that is all done, and it is looking great, but it is not perfect.  But it is still better by far than when I got it, so I am still happy.  There are still far fewer rattles but unfortunately, there is a fold in the carpet over the transmission tunnel that you can see in the picture, and there is a bulge in the driver’s floor from the grey felt sound deadening bunching up under there after it was torn back and dried out and reapplied.  Those are my reminders that I had to re-do the interior after re-doing the interior.  Next steps will be to take back enough of the carpet to flatten out the bulge in the driver’s floor and reapply it.  I will then install the running board trim that I got.  And, obviously, I need to fix the windows.  But it is making progress!   Here is how she looks right now.

Edited by WWI Flying Ace - Dec/22/2011 at 3:10pm