How about boxing the frame, makes the frame a bunch stronger and isn't that hard to do with the body off, not a must but found it helps a lot. Hey a little more time on this step and making all the welds 100% saves down time on the trail when that 40 year old factory partial weld gives way. Also I also found NO Sharp Edges, when you cut away those fenders a simple 1 to 1.5" flat strip welded on the body to create a flat surface so when you overextend the tire you don't end up with a kids sandbox. Also it makes the fender one shitload stronger, yep it is a lot of work but again it is cheap investment to what can and will go wrong.
Yup, all you need is a shop with a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment and a spray booth, and you too can make your craziest ideas come to life!!
Or another is the imagination to work around problems. My home shop has built some rather outstanding examples, if I do say so myself, with scrounged up obsolete unwanted any longer equipment, lathe, milling machine, Mig Welder etc... acquired that way. Other equipment was hand built from what happened to be laying around, my powder coat oven is actually a old discarded 250 gallon fuel oil tank and parts from Ebay, for example. Then I got to admit some is OMG Harbor Freight sales stuff. Yep it works but takes more time to make it happen. Bruce just as Nike said Just Do It, you will be shocked to find what you can do when your mind is set on it.
@@notsevenfeettall Wow you went to the absolute basics on your job. Sorry I would have spent the extra $50 and got a Mig Welder Fluxed wire costs more but hey tanks and such are expensive. A pipe bender from Hazard Fraught will bend pipe quite well, and don't take that much creativeness to adapt mandrels to work tube either. But it just shows you you don't need a fully equipped shop to perform the job. That is how I started up.
I have worked in a Postal Service Garage (Vehicle Maintenance Facility) for over 32 years. These "Jeeps" were the start of my career. LLV's were the bulk of my career. God willing I will see the Oshkosh Defense NGDV's (next-generation delivery vehicles at the end of my career. Postal Service has been very very good to me. 😎
Okay, starting to like these guys more. And this project is great because it didn't wreck a perfectly good classic. Plenty of clunky old mail Jeeps around. 👍
The use of a grinder without a face shield and no guard on the grinder is super cool especially if you would love to find out why that’s death grinder all the way.
Some of the best builds are junkyard R us. My YJ has a 4.3 Chevy V6. I bought the Astro for the engine.bell housing is a 1957 I had.transmission it a Muncy 420 out of my 54 chevy pick up project. Read end is an 8.8 I traded for a Kayak. And the list goes on. That's what keeps me young.
@@justingadue6786 Hey justin. I love my bvb 4.3 by. And best of all my SM 420 . It's my Therapy vehicle. If I'm having a bad day. Remove vg the top, go for a drive. Come back new.
There's really nothing funner than fabricating, especially when it's super clean and you have every piece of fabricating equipment known to man, oh wait I must've got caught up in a TV fantasy. Well we all know how ugly it really is, but in the end it's still pretty fricking cool.
I am a old school guy, and do it the hard way and get the job done. You would be shocked what you can do with a short break, a stool and a cup of coffee. Simply I was taught to break a big problem into small simple steps, and DAMN it works. Example: sand in a pipe bender and it don't kink, a good hole saw cutter in a cheap harbor freight jig makes a good hole. Cheap Tig Welder from Harbor Freight and practice makes perfect, aluminum brazing rod. Rehabbed a old 9" South Bend Lathe with a medium taper fixture, worth it's weight in gold, Old NR12 Van Norman milling machine and again it has paid for itself many times over. I still am into proving "It can't be done" means no one has tried it yet.
They took multiple rotted out useless jeeps sitting in a field, and are fixing it into a perfectly useable rock crawler. Where is the destroying part exactly?
I feel yeah, everyone has to start somewhere. A lot of great stuff was built with just an angler grinder and cutoff wheel. Also an cheap eBay plasma cutter is a starting point.
Sorry I am a old fart and make most of my stuff with old manual tooling and experience. You get lazy and cut corners with the fancy stuff, notice they cut the fenders and didn't do a fold over or weld in edging, the first time they go over a big OOPS they have just made their kids a new sandbox and are stuck in the sticks with a shredded tire. Where you would likely do it right and be saying damn gotta get some more clearance.
@@garypic4083yea I have to suffer with a 30 year old set of torches. Have a WWII vintage South Bend Lathe and Van Norman milling machine acquired over time. As for the Welding machines my MIG is a old second hand, 1983 model and rebrand of a Miller and a Harbor Freight TIG. As for the other stuff, some is homemade, some second hand, or OMG Harbor Freight on sale. Have turned out some nice, if I do say, products. Takes a while to hand fabricate but I can get the Job done, though slower than those guys do. Most of my equipment has been upgraded in some way, am retired military and retired industrial electronics/electrical and have a strong mechanical background. And wife says an overactive mind. Just Dive in Gary and be proud of your skills, it can be done as the limit is your imagination.
@@notsevenfeettall Those Sandwich panels are from experience just a waste of time in that situation. Don't really provide much strength to the job. Should have bent a U panel to reinforce the job, they had a sheet bender and it would have only taken seconds to make a quite strong reinforcement panel. Have done it countless times on older vehicles and it works excellent.
Would love to get my unibody 96 Cherokee 2 dr.sport 4cyl, 5sp. 2 wd back on the road need TLC. Frame rails plumbing and some floors body is the nicest I have seen for a 96 in my area. sitting on 30 inch tires and runs with a new trans would be a project or I could sell it on craigslist as is. Wish I had a heated pole out back with a 8 inch concrete floor and a rich uncle who would send me a frame table. I'd be out there day and night the next 7 days restoring 2 of my personal vehicles.
I understand why they extended the wheelbase and moved the rear axle; but I hate the way it looks. They should extend the rear of the cab, and extend it too.
Instead of a jeep DJ5 it would be a DJ6 (like a CJ6), be kinda cool and give a bit more room for stuff but I guess since its more of a trail jeep then an overland jeep departure angles are a thing, but yes I agree with you the longer wheelbase looks disproportionate to the back of the jeep. Still a cool build although.
I would have done 3 hoops along the roof instead of just one (one against the windshield and one in the very back) and put the x bar in the back. Then connect all 3 on both sides of the roof and X the roof bars too. Then put bars from the shock towers diagonally down to plates in the floor and done plates underneath to connect them to the frame like the others. Then the sheets metal cover the shock towers I would have capped on the ends and cut them down to follow the braces and capped that too. Then I you can either use the back for storage or better yet put a second row of seats and everybody would be well protected. I would have done tubing to reinforce the fenders and add rock sliders. This would have been maybe 100 pounds or so in extra weight, but would have really strengthened everything. I also would NOT have painted it... just hit it with a clear cote to seal it (and maybe put bed-liner underneath).
90 percent of the frame is not welded . when i do chassis i solid mount the frame in 8 places that way the frame cant move no matter what . with that much movement you have to do full cage for the frame will bend . lots of stuff that needed to be done
I was hoping you would have finished welding up the "boxed" tubing instead of just leaving it tacked together being that you had brackets welded to them. Watching this gives me inspiration to start one of my projects.
So do I! BTW, I have been saying that for 30 odd years. Goal is to pick up a little wire feed and sgoogle myself on youtube end of this year or early next year.
Just wondering how it's okay to watch welding on tv but not in real life. Killed my eyes with your camera work. I do appreciate the build. Just wish I could see it after all this flash burn.
It's awesome, I really enjoyed watching it. Just a few things bothering me: why you didn't reinforce the frame welding some diamond plates? And sorry but after all that work to me painting with spray cans makes no sense. Sandblast it and put some epoxy stuff on it dude, come on. Everything else, I loved.
Cool buggy but unless the average guy has 50k and all the time in the world not realistic even remotely? Don’t get me wrong it’s sick but if you are a reg everyday gearhead (our subscribers love the realistic builds we do) this is just a dream! One day hopefully you guys do a real world build not just unlimited budget stuff! As our bud Ian Johnson says you can have a killer rig on a budget guys. Cheers!
How often do these episodes with the junk mail Jeep come out? I just discovered this tonight and it’s absolutely badass and I’d love to continue to follow along!
Should of drilled a hole at the end of the crack it helps from continuing further if you didn’t get to the end of the crack. Just saying ,nice build though
You show us marking and cutting the door with the matching arc from the quarter panel. THEN.. when you point at it, claiming to have edged it.., NOW it's cut way farther more forward, and at a diagonal straight line and NOT the arc matching the wheel well arc. It's ok to change your mind. But dont think we'll miss it.
Wow they really ugly de back of that jeep up. They could have got the same wheelbase bye moving the front axle forward a few more inches and could have took the back axle in more and it looked a lot more balanced and have Better weight transfer
Anyone knows the colour code for the Royal Blue Pearl? Would look great when restoring my XJ, unfortunately we don't have Summit racing products in Europe.
How about boxing the frame, makes the frame a bunch stronger and isn't that hard to do with the body off, not a must but found it helps a lot. Hey a little more time on this step and making all the welds 100% saves down time on the trail when that 40 year old factory partial weld gives way. Also I also found NO Sharp Edges, when you cut away those fenders a simple 1 to 1.5" flat strip welded on the body to create a flat surface so when you overextend the tire you don't end up with a kids sandbox. Also it makes the fender one shitload stronger, yep it is a lot of work but again it is cheap investment to what can and will go wrong.
Yup, all you need is a shop with a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment and a spray booth, and you too can make your craziest ideas come to life!!
Or another is the imagination to work around problems. My home shop has built some rather outstanding examples, if I do say so myself, with scrounged up obsolete unwanted any longer equipment, lathe, milling machine, Mig Welder etc... acquired that way. Other equipment was hand built from what happened to be laying around, my powder coat oven is actually a old discarded 250 gallon fuel oil tank and parts from Ebay, for example. Then I got to admit some is OMG Harbor Freight sales stuff. Yep it works but takes more time to make it happen. Bruce just as Nike said Just Do It, you will be shocked to find what you can do when your mind is set on it.
@@notsevenfeettall Wow you went to the absolute basics on your job. Sorry I would have spent the extra $50 and got a Mig Welder Fluxed wire costs more but hey tanks and such are expensive. A pipe bender from Hazard Fraught will bend pipe quite well, and don't take that much creativeness to adapt mandrels to work tube either. But it just shows you you don't need a fully equipped shop to perform the job. That is how I started up.
I have worked in a Postal Service Garage (Vehicle Maintenance Facility) for over 32 years. These "Jeeps" were the start of my career. LLV's were the bulk of my career. God willing I will see the Oshkosh Defense NGDV's (next-generation delivery vehicles at the end of my career. Postal Service has been very very good to me. 😎
Wow. I have a 46 willys that desperately needs this makeover!
Okay, starting to like these guys more. And this project is great because it didn't wreck a perfectly good classic. Plenty of clunky old mail Jeeps around. 👍
@gringo loco2 is there a problem with that
I am enjoying this junk mail series way too much. I can’t wait for the next episode!
The use of a grinder without a face shield and no guard on the grinder is super cool especially if you would love to find out why that’s death grinder all the way.
This reminds me of when powernation was showing on TNN Network back in early 90's . So when is revealing planned . Love the show .
$$$ Most of usdont have the equipment, and check book.$$$, But we get good Ideas.
You do what you can do at home with what you have.....👍
Some of the best builds are junkyard R us. My YJ has a 4.3 Chevy V6. I bought the Astro for the engine.bell housing is a 1957 I had.transmission it a Muncy 420 out of my 54 chevy pick up project. Read end is an 8.8 I traded for a Kayak. And the list goes on. That's what keeps me young.
@@juanbarturen2726 those 4.3 are no joke insane power for what they are
One day I’ll build one
@@justingadue6786 Hey justin. I love my bvb 4.3 by. And best of all my SM 420 . It's my Therapy vehicle. If I'm having a bad day. Remove vg the top, go for a drive. Come back new.
My fat thumb keeps typing bad. Dont mean nothing.
There's really nothing funner than fabricating, especially when it's super clean and you have every piece of fabricating equipment known to man, oh wait I must've got caught up in a TV fantasy. Well we all know how ugly it really is, but in the end it's still pretty fricking cool.
I am a old school guy, and do it the hard way and get the job done. You would be shocked what you can do with a short break, a stool and a cup of coffee. Simply I was taught to break a big problem into small simple steps, and DAMN it works. Example: sand in a pipe bender and it don't kink, a good hole saw cutter in a cheap harbor freight jig makes a good hole. Cheap Tig Welder from Harbor Freight and practice makes perfect, aluminum brazing rod. Rehabbed a old 9" South Bend Lathe with a medium taper fixture, worth it's weight in gold, Old NR12 Van Norman milling machine and again it has paid for itself many times over. I still am into proving "It can't be done" means no one has tried it yet.
I want to finally see the finished Jeep! Can’t wait :-)
me too, I Can’t wait to see finished the jeep, I Watch every video from this.
You guy's legitimately destroy everything you touch. Y'all are a friggin meme smh
They took multiple rotted out useless jeeps sitting in a field, and are fixing it into a perfectly useable rock crawler. Where is the destroying part exactly?
Love the Red White and Blue theme.
"...and we will use the CNC to this and that..."
Me looking to my manual tools: yeah... I didn't wanna build a nice car anyway... :,/
I feel yeah, everyone has to start somewhere. A lot of great stuff was built with just an angler grinder and cutoff wheel. Also an cheap eBay plasma cutter is a starting point.
Sorry I am a old fart and make most of my stuff with old manual tooling and experience. You get lazy and cut corners with the fancy stuff, notice they cut the fenders and didn't do a fold over or weld in edging, the first time they go over a big OOPS they have just made their kids a new sandbox and are stuck in the sticks with a shredded tire. Where you would likely do it right and be saying damn gotta get some more clearance.
@@garypic4083yea I have to suffer with a 30 year old set of torches. Have a WWII vintage South Bend Lathe and Van Norman milling machine acquired over time. As for the Welding machines my MIG is a old second hand, 1983 model and rebrand of a Miller and a Harbor Freight TIG. As for the other stuff, some is homemade, some second hand, or OMG Harbor Freight on sale. Have turned out some nice, if I do say, products. Takes a while to hand fabricate but I can get the Job done, though slower than those guys do. Most of my equipment has been upgraded in some way, am retired military and retired industrial electronics/electrical and have a strong mechanical background. And wife says an overactive mind. Just Dive in Gary and be proud of your skills, it can be done as the limit is your imagination.
@@notsevenfeettall Those Sandwich panels are from experience just a waste of time in that situation. Don't really provide much strength to the job. Should have bent a U panel to reinforce the job, they had a sheet bender and it would have only taken seconds to make a quite strong reinforcement panel. Have done it countless times on older vehicles and it works excellent.
Handmade stuff is more interesting.
Awesome design guys, absolutely something to be proud of!👍🏼
This show has definitely changed for the better.
Would love to get my unibody 96 Cherokee 2 dr.sport 4cyl, 5sp. 2 wd back on the road need TLC. Frame rails plumbing and some floors body is the nicest I have seen for a 96 in my area. sitting on 30 inch tires and runs with a new trans would be a project or I could sell it on craigslist as is.
Wish I had a heated pole out back with a 8 inch concrete floor and a rich uncle who would send me a frame table. I'd be out there day and night the next 7 days restoring 2 of my personal vehicles.
Can't wait to see the finshed jeep
Man I really liked the green before it was painted.
Me Too, it was very Period Correct
Me too
The age and imperfections of the old paint made it look better imo
With those Ford Dana 60s, I think they should’ve just picked up a junkyard coyote engine too
I understand why they extended the wheelbase and moved the rear axle; but I hate the way it looks. They should extend the rear of the cab, and extend it too.
Instead of a jeep DJ5 it would be a DJ6 (like a CJ6), be kinda cool and give a bit more room for stuff but I guess since its more of a trail jeep then an overland jeep departure angles are a thing, but yes I agree with you the longer wheelbase looks disproportionate to the back of the jeep.
Still a cool build although.
That back tire sticking out like that is hideous
I would have done 3 hoops along the roof instead of just one (one against the windshield and one in the very back) and put the x bar in the back. Then connect all 3 on both sides of the roof and X the roof bars too. Then put bars from the shock towers diagonally down to plates in the floor and done plates underneath to connect them to the frame like the others. Then the sheets metal cover the shock towers I would have capped on the ends and cut them down to follow the braces and capped that too. Then I you can either use the back for storage or better yet put a second row of seats and everybody would be well protected. I would have done tubing to reinforce the fenders and add rock sliders. This would have been maybe 100 pounds or so in extra weight, but would have really strengthened everything. I also would NOT have painted it... just hit it with a clear cote to seal it (and maybe put bed-liner underneath).
You make spray painting look so easy. Job well done!!
Love your channel, thank you for sharing, greetings from Costa Rica...
90 percent of the frame is not welded . when i do chassis i solid mount the frame in 8 places that way the frame cant move no matter what . with that much movement you have to do full cage for the frame will bend . lots of stuff that needed to be done
This project is looking so great, please keep up the great work.
I was hoping you would have finished welding up the "boxed" tubing instead of just leaving it tacked together being that you had brackets welded to them. Watching this gives me inspiration to start one of my projects.
Looked so much cooler with the old paint. Id have left it alone
Great project. You guys work really well together.
Here I drive to country roads l[king for Old cars in back of farms. I spotted one of those postal jeeps sitting in the weeds, going to check it out.
Still waiting on an update on this car its been over 5 weeks now
Carcass: paints roof white
FJ40: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, peasant
You guys are awesome! I love this Jeep build! Great job
I have one cj5 '75 and I love
I really need to learn how to weld. Great work guys!
So do I! BTW, I have been saying that for 30 odd years. Goal is to pick up a little wire feed and sgoogle myself on youtube end of this year or early next year.
what's the point of cutting the fenders when the tires stick out almost two feet beyond them?
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya 🙏
Here, ford transit 2.5 engine is put in these vehicles, it is said that diesel does not cause many malfunctions in general.
Would love to see a unibody Jeep Liberty bolted on a TJ frame!
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Not on a TJ frame, but it's a pretty badass rig......
Jimmy & Jeremy, y’all are killing it! Keep up the great work #Powernation
Maybe it would be great if you make a playlist for carcast season 2.
you guys win the award for most un-safe "roll cage" ever built lmao all that fancy equipment and still can't build a structurally sound cage.
I cringed when you brought out the rattle can! Dude that is very amateur but Ican fully relate.
I like the look of those old jeeps be it the mail ones or the older regular jeeps.
Did you forget an attachment point for recovery on the back of the Jeep or did I miss it when you showed off the new rear bumper?
Bumper. Lol
120👍's up guys thanks again for taking us all along with
Guys making the sheet metal shock hoop enclosure took up a lots of storage space
Then welded it in making working on the suspension more work!!
Yeah that was a weird thing to do. Now you can't slide in any cargo. They also left those huge gaps by welding it right to the ridges.
This jeep is wicked rad.
Just wondering how it's okay to watch welding on tv but not in real life. Killed my eyes with your camera work. I do appreciate the build. Just wish I could see it after all this flash burn.
Great job👍👍👍
Good job.
Those cross bars should tie into the corners, not just before them.
Lotta work !
Great Job !
Dudes.... Awesomeness
I stumbled on to your show. I like it..I love the jeep.
Really enjoyed!!!!!!!!!
It's awesome, I really enjoyed watching it. Just a few things bothering me: why you didn't reinforce the frame welding some diamond plates? And sorry but after all that work to me painting with spray cans makes no sense. Sandblast it and put some epoxy stuff on it dude, come on. Everything else, I loved.
I imagine the grey haired guy orders McDonald's in his TV voice🤣
It bugs me that they didn't even bother to remove the hinges and take care of any rust underneath. New stainless fasteners would look good.
nice work guys
Everything's a add on here
$600 original purchase price, Fully loaded shop + 3 months = $90,000 spent for a "weekend crawler"
Awesome
It would be cool to adapt that front cap . Grill hood etc. On my YJ. Just to be different
JP Magazine has a whole article on doing that swop 👍 doesn't look to bad at all,,,,,,,,,
Why a cheap spray can paint job on the frame?
space and time?
Semua videomu aku tonton, salam ❤❤❤ dari Indonesia.
I like the build, but the mailbag pun keeps me from subscribing and smashing that like button
Curious why you didn't bead blast the body and the frame?
I wish they would’ve slide the wheel openings back and filled in the gap. The long rear wheel openings look very unfinished.
Cool buggy but unless the average guy has 50k and all the time in the world not realistic even remotely? Don’t get me wrong it’s sick but if you are a reg everyday gearhead (our subscribers love the realistic builds we do) this is just a dream! One day hopefully you guys do a real world build not just unlimited budget stuff! As our bud Ian Johnson says you can have a killer rig on a budget guys. Cheers!
What are you putting in it for an engine I hope a four sil
How often do these episodes with the junk mail Jeep come out? I just discovered this tonight and it’s absolutely badass and I’d love to continue to follow along!
It appears that the Jeep is done; we might not see another episode: www.powernationtv.com/projects/junkmail-dj5-jeep
As a novice welder, I’m curious about your mig settings. Wire size, speed, amps, etc.
Wire size probably a .30 .35 and speed and ams depends on how thick your metal is
Don’t fill the holes in the to stop water from getting in ?
where is the next video of this jeep??
can you tell me??
Looking sharp guy's! One question tho, why no show on the engine. Or was it done on another sister show?
Looks amazing!
I have a 1997 Ford f series 700 truck .i Want to 4x4 it .yall want to do a budget kinda rat rod style rig
the front fender mod deserved a bead rolled into it to match the rest of the fender.
How did they decide who got to keep the hair style?
Should of drilled a hole at the end of the crack it helps from continuing further if you didn’t get to the end of the crack. Just saying ,nice build though
Cara voçe pintou o Jeep sem proteger o cabelo kkk. Vai ficar senssacional.
You show us marking and cutting the door with the matching arc from the quarter panel. THEN.. when you point at it, claiming to have edged it.., NOW it's cut way farther more forward, and at a diagonal straight line and NOT the arc matching the wheel well arc. It's ok to change your mind. But dont think we'll miss it.
Take a deuce and a half cab and put it on a 1 ton frame and build a hot rod
A friend of mine used the Summit paints , did not last at all !
I know it's a rock crawler that is gonna get beat up but I cringed watching him paint over the rust. He must've never watched any Kevin Tetz videos 😂
It's a off-road car so why not paint it in raptor liner? there there will be no scratches, dings, dents and rust forever.
Is the door going to be able to slide open past those wider tires?
Come on guys. Even if the car will be a mud queen, you could have beadblasted the body before prepping and painting... ;-)
Genius!
Rattle can frame primer after all that work.
Jimmy can weld...
Dudes all that work for a six cyl engine?? nice aluminum v8 would have been sweet!
i love you from algeria
I like too flip my tube bender vertically! Show off.
what about Rhino lining the under body?
👍👍from this guy
Wow they really ugly de back of that jeep up. They could have got the same wheelbase bye moving the front axle forward a few more inches and could have took the back axle in more and it looked a lot more balanced and have Better weight transfer
Anyone knows the colour code for the Royal Blue Pearl? Would look great when restoring my XJ, unfortunately we don't have Summit racing products in Europe.