The Things They Did Not Teach You in School About Jeep Restoration
1. The best advice I received from several places on the web was read everything that you can about the subject. 2. Again from the web … take lots of pictures. Especially from the "before" or the "in between" version … you can never go back. A photo was how I located the holes in the old body for the axe handle bracket. 3. You will need about 20 rolls of paper towels. 4. You will need about 20 pounds of laundry soap and probably ruin a couple of shirts etc. (Not to mention water and electricity to run the washer and dryer …..) 5. Make some sort of cart, dolly, rolling table, etc. to move the parts around … it has been especially helpful with the body to put it on one side of the other to get to various parts at different angles. The rotisseries are great, but a simple wood frame and casters will be great. A set of vehicle dollies seems like a given, but I almost did not get them. It was good to put the whole jeep on, then when things were all taken apart … the pieces were easily stored and moved around on them as well … One each for transmission/transfer case and the engine, two for the axles/springs stacked on top of each other. And everything in between. 6. An engine lift! I was able to take the body off by myself … just using the engine lift and some chains … takes you time … check twice … raise slow ….. 7. Lots of chain … 10'-20' for the engine lift. 8. A come-a-long … I only used it to get the jeep on a trailer and then into the garage, but the wheels were not rolling well and it was a necessity. Looking back, the wheel were not "frozen" the brakes needed to be "disengaged" by turning the eccentrics. (Doh!) 9. Did I mention that you will need a bunch of paper towels Goop, Lava, Fast Orange, whatever your favorite shop hand cleaner. 10. Keep a note book and I keep several spreadsheets and other documents to keep track of what and where and when and how ……… I keep pictures from the Internet … or articles from G503 etc. 11. Join as many clubs of forums and you desire. At least join a local MV or HMV group and the MVPA. I found dozens of trail and rock crawler forums and a few for MVs, I decided to stay at G503 and not split up my time. I have been working on the jeep 3-4 hours week nights and 5-10 hours a day weekends … not much time to surf! 1

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