Sooooo, I had the bright idea to try and re do a ton of stuff on the heep in a very short amount of time. Admittedly I was trying to bite off waaaay more than was going to be possible, but hell if your gonna dream dream big right? The funniest part of this entire build is that it started out one way and ended up going in a total different direction (damn tube rollers) This is the short list of what was done. Highlined hood, made new front and rear fenders, new winch mount which took up to much time, door bars for wheeling, and painted the entire Jeep This was all done while still working my real job on 2nd shift. Needless to say there were a few really late nights/early mornings. Flame away almight fab gods of the internet
1st Cut off the front of the frame, wish I would have cut it back at least to the grill but oh well I will remember for the next one.
This is the begining of the bumper/winch mount. The bottom is 1.75x.188. Altogether we used 1.75, 1.50., 1.0 and even a piece of .750 on this stupid thing.
In my goal to go green we even recycled the old winch mount but had to add some notches to make it fit good.
Fully tig welded than tossed in the powdercoat oven for good measure.
next was the hood. I have never tried this before so it was new to me. But if your gonna do a hood, this is the best way to do it.
Here you can see I used a small flange tool to tuck the factory edge of the hood up under the area where I cut off. This adds all the strength back into the hood instead of just hacking the bottom off and leaving it flismy.
mock up to get a idea if it will work
Then fully tig welded the entire piece moving around to keep the hood as straight as possible for the least amount of body work.