CALAMITY JANE - Shaped Up & Almost Ready for Paint

As some of you know, we rescued our 1974 Jeep CJ5 Renegade from a curbside back in August and since that time, Cindy and I have been working hard to address all the calamities that is all Jane. To see some of the things we've done so far simply click on the link below.

http://wayalife.com/showthread.php?39698-The-CALAMITY-of-Jane

After stripping her down, sanding her layer upon layer of paint down to the metal, doing some body work and welding up a plethora of holes, I think she's almost ready for paint. Here are a few shots of what she looks like now.

Looks great!

Body is looking smooth. Any idea what color you are going to shoot?

swampdog said:

Body is looking smooth. Any idea what color you are going to shoot?

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We're going to restore her to her original factory Jetset Blue Poly Metallic.





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wayoflife said:

We're going to restore her to her original factory Jetset Blue Poly Metallic.

:yup:

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I really dig that color, should turn out great.

Great job Eddie! Thank you for sharing

Did you just use rattle can primer or did you spray it with a compressor?

Looking good!!

Wow, sounds like your having a good time doing it.

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Looking good! It seems like you made pretty quick work out of the prep, time flies when your having fun right? That blue is going to look good, and I'm looking forward to seeing the it.

Okay, been working on Jane ever chance we get and we're now closer than ever to getting her to paint. Here are a few shots of things we've done since we got her body back into shape.

First up, we stripped her down about as far as we could go without doing a full frame off restoration.






Next, we Raptor Lined her bed.




You can see more pics of this here:
RAPTOR LINING JANE : Spraying New Life into the Tub of an old Jeep CJ5

Next up, we made repairs to broken and missing body mounts.


Had a hell of a time removing some of the body mount bolts being that they were essentially fused in place.


But, we ultimately got Jane sitting securely on all new body mounts.




Cleaned up a myriad of parts, stripped them of their paint and got them looking new again.




Cut the mess off of our factory roll bar, cleaned it up and got it powder coated.




Took apart the dash, filled in all the stupid crazy holes that the previous owner drilled into it and got it ready for paint. As you can see, I tried really hard to preserve the factory VIN sticker too.


Also took some time to take apart, clean up and repaint the speedometer cluster needles.


Here you can see that we've re-plumbed the heater and re-installed the cleaned up battery tray.




Now it's time to start unpacking all the new Omix-Ada parts we got and get them installed.


While they are new, some of these parts come a little rough and will need some cleaning up before installing them.


Being that we have an intermediate CJ5 and that most of the new parts you can get are made for "all" CJ5's, we found there were a few fitment issues that would need to be dealt with.


Time to do some trimming.


Fortunately, this was easy enough of a fix and all was good.


Now that's what I'm talking about!


And, with the addition of a new hood, Jane is starting to look like a Jeep again

Very clean.

WJCO said:

Very clean.

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Thanks! It's been a hell of a lot of work but fun as hell to do :crazyeyes:

looks like a great way to spend your free time! I wish we still had out CJ5 [emoji17]


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looks like a great way to spend your free time! I wish we still had out CJ5 [emoji17]


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LOL!! Lately, working on this Jeep has felt more like a full time job with overtime put in :crazyeyes:

It looks like you all have done a fantastic job so far! I know I've said it already but it is really awesome watching you all restore Calamity Jane. :yup:

Want to get an old CJ again some day, this just make me want to do it sooner. Something about them makes going back country exploring a little more pure.

Damn she's looking good!


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This project is really coming along great. I hope you run into the owner that ditched her on the road some day lol


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I barely have time to keep up with this thread. You are moving on the restore. Being this isn't your daily, sure does look like a fun project to work on, do it right and not feel rushed. [emoji41][emoji41][emoji106]