Well, after having to take some time off to recover from a minor surgery I’ve finally been able to get back on the CJ. Having a decent amount of off time had me thinking about stuff and ultimately decided that if we may end up down the road doing shoulder harnesses then we better just do it now. So we got back onto Genright’s website and ordered the harness bar kit to tie into the cage and ordered 4 PRP 4.2 easy harnesses.
Funny thing about the seatbelts is that the PRP harnesses were no more expensive than a standard 3 point buckle. Figured it would be easier to do it now then down the road since Im here doing the cage now.
Then I got to working on getting the A-Pillars welded and installed, getting these to all line up and play together was a bit of a chore but that was to be expected and they did end up settling in nicely all said and done.
The floor plates and gussets come not attached so they need to be welded and this is where I ran into the biggest problem, where the stanchion bolts into the door hinge it left almost an inch gap to the floor (to be fair, Genright specifically states in the instructions that these old CJs will have floor sag and modifications will need to be made)
The passenger side was the worst, driver side still had some sag but it was close enough after some bending of the floor plates that we could fill it with weld. Passenger side, even after bending the floor plate, was just too much of a gap so I made a spacer it fill it in.
Once that was complete we proceeded to weld in the gussets and prepare it for paint because once these go back in there is no reason to pull them back out.
Got them all painted up and installed, had to slightly modify my floor mats but after that everything turned out nicely!
