1980 CJ7 Crawler Build

BobJob42

BobJob42

Caught the Bug
Bought my first Jeep, follow me on this journey to making it a mild street driven crawler!

This is how I bought it and everything I know from the previous owner:

1980 CJ7
Factory hard top
4.2 straight six
Howell EFI conversion
T176 trans
D300 T-case
Power Steering
AMC 20 narrow rear
Dana 30 narrow front
4” lift (unknown parts)
1-ton steering
35’s
15” steelies
WARN winch

Things I have done since I bought it:

MORE off-road steering box bracket
MORE off-road steering box frame brace
BDS steering stabilizer
Borgeson HD steering shaft
KC headlights w/ Painless H4 relay harness
Steering wheel

And for the biggest thing, I just ordered a Genright full cage for it! So its about to go into my shop to be gutted and prepped.

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I got the interior gutted and the carpet pulled, out of all the bolts only one from the driver seat was rusted, hit it with penetrant, a torch and it’s stuck lol. But hey, not bad for a 45 year old Jeep!!

Now to remove the old cage and prep the floor for Raptor liner. Then onto prepping the Genright cage.
 
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My goal this weekend was to get all the excess carpet and adhesive out and I’ve got about 99% of it gone. Next will be to sand, fix some small surface rust locations and then the Raptor liner.

As soon as the Raptor is applied I will start working on the new cage.
 
Got the Raptor on today. It went on really well and is a very forgiving product, really happy with how it went. Using the roll on was also a plus, allowed me to control the product and get the texture I wanted.

Will it last? I don’t know, maybe, maybe not. I did as best as I could with what I had. I used UPOL’s acid etch and adhesion promoter underneath so only time will tell!

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Just placed an order for a new set of seats to round out the interior. I went with the Bestop Trailmax II Pro front and rear bench in Spice. Tossed around going with a set of PRP seats but I wont be using shoulder harnesses and I tend to prefer the more "OEM" style of seat. One of the seats are on backorder which is fine as I wont be installing them until the cage is done anyways.

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BobJob42 said:
Just placed an order for a new set of seats to round out the interior. I went with the Bestop Trailmax II Pro front and rear bench in Spice. Tossed around going with a set of PRP seats but I wont be using shoulder harnesses and I tend to prefer the more "OEM" style of seat. One of the seats are on backorder which is fine as I wont be installing them until the cage is done anyways.

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I bought those for my TJ I like them a lot
 
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