Love it! Can't believe how good of shape its in

Cool. The tune up went well. She runs great and starts right up. I do need to adjust the idle, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. LOL.

I changed the plugs, wires, distributor, air filter, and fuel filter, clean the carb and linkage, drain the gas that was in it and put in new gas, and added a fuel system cleaner additive designed for carbs.

I still need clean everything really good with degreaser, then change the oil and filter, plus service the transmission. Probably wouldn't hurt to flush the transmission as well.

Victory: The fuel gage works! Again, a common area of failure when people buy these. Kinda happy.

I have to admit, though... with most of my V8 experience being with my race car 500 HP LQ9 and the 3" straight pipes off the header, the Waggy didn't sound quite the same. ;-)

That's great news!

Great news for sure! That's awesome.

Cool. I found the vacuum leak that was keeping it from idling, so now it starts, runs, and idles fine (could use some adjusting, but that's just fine tuning). I put it in gear and drove around the block. It only has 1st gear and reverse, but it moves under its own power. From what I'm reading, this might be a linkage issue. I'm going to tackle the linkage later today and see if I can get it to kick down. If not, the original plan was to always take it to a transmission shop and have them check it out. Plenty of fluid, no strange noises... just won't shift to 2nd. Oh, the brakes work too. Good thing. ;-)

Soap and water... and amazing combination.

So great Alan!

I also removed the headliner today. It was super easy. I'm surprised that there wasn't a decent write up on it that was easily accessible, so I'll do an official write in the write up section. Im so excited it is super clean underneath. No water marks, no rust, no repairs... the headliner board itself is in good shape (just dirty), so the next step is to re-cover it with new headliner material (still in discussion as to how factory or how custom we're going to go...) and re-install.

One school of thought was to use wood slats as the headliner (very cool look in the new 2015 Chief concept car), another is factory replacement headliner material, but a third is to use something non-factory, but still material based (NO, we will not being the super trendy / Michael D'Avy / Hipster plaid...). There are choices that are more of a leather look or fabric or... "whatever" is the discussion (snake skin was completely shot down...). Tons to choose from and I've seen some really good rest-mods online.

Looks freakin brand new!

Before you do any sort of headliner I would look into some insulation / dynomat or something that you could fit above the headliner to help keep it cool when you're running the A/C.. not a big deal either way, just something I would do.

Avis wrote:Looks freakin brand new!

Before you do any sort of headliner I would look into some insulation / dynomat or something that you could fit above the headliner to help keep it cool when you're running the A/C.. not a big deal either way, just something I would do.

Great call, Daniel. Should also help with road noise, I'm assuming.

alanzona wrote:Great call, Daniel. Should also help with road noise, I'm assuming.

It will help with some noise, but if you really want to do that, dynomat the doors and the floor.

Ok. So I tackled the headliners today. All in all, with an extra pair of hands (my son, in this case), it's not a bad project at all.

I bought some vinyl / leather looking material at JoAnn's fabric. The color is similar to the seats, but a little more on the brown side. I wanted to tone down the rust/orange colors and bring it more to the tan / brown side. I chose the vinyl because it was easy to work with and easy to clean. The material was $18 a yard. You only need 3 yards, but I got 4 yards so I would have extra for other projects. With a 25% off coupon, total in material was $60. I also got 3 cans of the 3M 80 adhesive that is for headliners. Great stuff, but it's about $15 a can. Sprays in the spider web pattern, covered evenly, and didn't soak through the material. Very happy with it.




The headliner board had the old crap on it from the foam of the old headliner material. I used a stiff tire brush that I typically use when washing the cars and it brushed right off. Took about an hour to do both sections (with beer breaks, of course). The board was nice and smooth afterwards.




Talking to Daniel Avis and others, it was suggested I put insulation above the headliner while I had it all apart... especially here in AZ, for the heat / water barrier / sound dampener. I picked up flexible 3.0R board (foil side is down in this picture, up on the install picture), cut it to size in my handy dandy driveway work space, and mounted it between the beams on the ceiling.













I laid out the material and cut it to size, leaving about 2 - 3 inches overhang on all sides. The wind was blowing, so I clamped it down in prep for glueing.




Everything I read said to do one half at a time, so I put the clamps in the middle, covered the other half, and started spraying the 3M adhesive. I sprayed the board side, then the material side, and let them both sit for about 2 minutes to get good and tacky. My son and I each took a corner and slowly smoothed out the surface, applying pressure so that the adhesive stuck, but not so much pressure that the glue bled through the material.




Here is the final product of the front section (after installation, we flipped it over, glued the edges to the back, and using an exacto knife, cut slices in the holes so we could fold the material back and glue it in place. All the openings will be covered by either lights or sun visors, but we still wanted it to be nice and smooth around the openings.




Here is the back section. Same thing - we used an exacto to cut an "x" in the space where the holes are, folded it back, and glued it. These opening are the rear dome light and the rear dome light switch. I'm going to let it cure for awhile before installing in the Wagoneer.

That turned out awesome! Love the rich brown color

Avis wrote:That turned out awesome! Love the rich brown color

Thanks, brother. I just finished the install and will get pics up soon, but I forgot the trim was more of a tan. I'm happily surprised at how well the two tone look turned out. Pretty happy. :-)

Cool! Got the headliner project finished today. I'm really digging the two tone look. The material cleans up easy and it looks good. Here are some cell phone pics of the finished product. I'll also be doing a full write up in the tech section.

Special shout out to my son for all his help.

Love it! That turned out great. I agree, The accent of the trim helps it blend into the rest of the interior better.

That looks great!
Was the other door in the back of the jeep the original door for the driver side? Looks like the int trim is a little different for the door thats on it.

Very Nice!!

fatbob309 wrote:That looks great!
Was the other door in the back of the jeep the original door for the driver side? Looks like the int trim is a little different for the door thats on it.

They replaced the driver door, swapped the original panel over, but have the wrong handle and retaining strip on it. The correct ones were in the back. I'll swap them soon.


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Wow! Pro looking job!