Desert Steel Fiberglass Body

I finally found the marking tags for the fiberglass body on my CJ7. There are two Desert Steel tags that were painted over, one on the inside of each front quarter panel. Part of their logo includes a cactus. I think they are located on the Arizona/California border, based on an internet search. I tried to find an email address or phone number on the internet to no avail. For the regulars around here, you may remember a post of mine about the radio not fitting in the dash due to the hood vent drain being in the way.

BTW, the 360 block is at the cleaners, all of the engine parts are laying around the garage neatly sorted and labeled, and I'm preparing the engine compartment for a newly rebuilt engine. The suspension is finished, the stainless brake lines are on, the frame is repaired and painted.

Chip

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L.W.( ßill ) Hughes III

Can I post pictures to this NG or do I need to put them elsewhere?

CJ

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Please just post a link to them, these groups are not set up (they don't have the necessary bandwidth) for photos.

Jerry

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I figured as much, I have some pictures posted to my webspace now. They can be found at

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Most of the pictures are still on a different computer. I'll be sending those here soon. Just to get you going, here is a list of the pics and a brief description.

1976cj7 - this is what it looked like before I removed the lift kit.

framerepair - The driver's side rear frame after the welding. Before the repair, someone sandwiched another piece of metal to the outside of the frame and just welded it on. It had buldged out due to internal rust. It was in bad shape. All of the welded metal was removed and I ground the existing (vertical) rusty metal away to a clean finish. I removed sections (it was fairly thin anyway) so that I could weld the crossmember and shock mount to the new piece. The corners were then ground to a smooth even radius. This picture was after the repair but before the painting and before the rear axle was reinstalled.

frontaxlebefore - What the axle looked like right after I pulled it out.

axle1 - the front axle after sandblasting and painting with POR-15

front done - After the front axle was reinstalled, painted and complete. I see that the rusty header is still in that picture. It, however, is no longer rusty. I blasted it and coated it with POR-20.

timingchain - The first time the front of the engine was removed. What a mess. This shows the amount of play that was in the chain. (no wonder it was so hard to time the engine. eh?) I replaced the timing set and put her back together and drove it over the winter. Something still was amiss, so I decided to remove the engine and rebuild it. That is where I'm at right now.

I'll need to send a few more pictures of the process when I get them on this computer. I will need to take a few more pictures of the work that has been completed. I realize that this small sample does not really depict the amount of time that I have in it.

Chip

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