The Green Monster

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  1. 70GreenMonster

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    Back to the Green Monster!
    Jeep ZJ project that has been in the way of the Maverick for a year is wrapping up.

    I should be moving the Maverick back to the shop this week.
     
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    Maverick moved from storage back to shop! Its been a storage container for a lot of the parts that were removed.
    Today I got everything out of it and cleaned off all the spider webs and months of dust.

    For the next little part, I will be welding some rust holes in the roof and in the C pillar behind the rear quarter window trim. I don't want to set the nice headliner on fire so it had to come out.

    To get the headliner out, I had to remove the back windshield.
     
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    A little bit here, a little bit there...

    Happy Fourth of July!

    This morning I decided to start the next little repair on the Maverick.
    We're taking kind of a top down approach right now.
    To start reassembly, I have to complete any and all welding on the roof and pillars before I can reinstall the headliner, or any part of the interior.
    Here is a picture of the rain gutter over the rear quarter window on the day I bought it:
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    Not looking too good. Since then we have removed the glass and chrome and headliner.

    With a little grinding this morning I found out it was not all bondo, there is some metal left, hooray!
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    Up front, I also had an ugly dime sized hole in my a-pillar and I knew there was some rust in there too.
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    To get to the worst spots, I had to remove a section of the drip rail, with a little chiseling here:
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    And a cut here:
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    And now we can see the ugly part that has to go:
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    These look like a couple of great places for some new steel.
     
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    Wow. That last pic is very telling of where things are heading when those little rust bubbles show up next to the gutter. I had no idea how these bodies were actually constructed.
     
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    It hurts to see stuff like this. Glad to see you taking the right steps to fix it.
     
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