Jeep Gets Floored (Jeep CJ5 Rebuild part 7) 

Great video, as always. Thanks for sharing your progress Jeremy. "this thing took about five months longer than I expected" - Sounds like one of my 5 minute jobs :)

Been waiting for more jeep content

Good work. The magnetic brake seems to be doing the job, although I'm thinking one of those inexpensive little cube shaped digital angle measurement devices would be a useful addition.

*predator vision* while sheet bending? Take my like, please

The brake looks to be working great. The Jeep is coming along nicely. Lots of work.

2 mons ago I got the TOPDON TC001 with coupon. DRASTICALLY better than competitors. I use it all the time, usually for battery cell temp. Today we measured the sunburn difference on my right / left arm from leaving it out the truck window.

The fabrication is soooo good given the scarcity of sheet presses! The Jeep front section (grille) with the lights looks so much like the front of a mini moke.

Great job, I learned a different sequence on bending hat channels, thanks for the tip. Try lead soldering your pin holes, works awesome.

Well done. You should make yourself a shrinking disc for your grinder. Its way easier to control the shrinking over the torch quench.

Impressive metal work, you earned yourself a new subscriber. And no, I couldn't care less about its powerplant. :D You dragged it out of the woods, you do whatever you want with it. I'm just glad to see another jeep rescued.

Very enjoyable. Intelligent approach. Great camera work and editing. I've just watched your first seven videos back to back.

Project lookin good and the magnetic break is great 👍

Hi mate, hello from Manchester north west England, due to my failing health l just had to let go of my camaro and re discovered my love of old jeeps in the process, this led me to finding your channel and I'm really enjoying your work a great deal, so glad l found you and subscribed, I'll be following your work gladly from herein. Best wishes and god you and yours and the rest of the viewers Jay 🙏🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿♥️🇺🇲

Nice. I just found your channel and binged all the Jeep content. Then boom another one.

Youre a true master of turning rust into working objects, and the magnet bender seems to work great! :)

The girl is coming along. The welding never ends

Bender is a win Jeremy. As is the body work. Nothing ever seems to go as planned when it comes to projects. But who cares, it keeps us out of the bars I always say.

Good job 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦

way better than expected, also thats good progress.

The floors look good! the one I did we just used 1"x3" rectangular tube for the bracing. It was a little thick right at the edge of the tub but I just pie cut it until it would fit. I'm pretty sure that the middle brace in the hump was never really spot welded to the floor on any of the CJ-5s I have worked on, It always seemed like it should be but that might have been why you had to fiddle with it so much.

Very nice work. Your bender is awesome. Great idea. Thanks for sharing.

ok that magnetic brake is slick as hell

slow but steady it goes. cheers ben.

Good job! God bless in your continual build of this classic. I love old Jeeps, but three years ago I bought a new 2-door Rubicon and built it to handle all of the trails here in the Oregon mountains. But one day I would love to build an old CJ or TJ.

However long it took to make I'd say it was worth it. Most gratifying to make such a useful tool. Your ability and perseverance are admirable.

I think it looks great. A very nice result. And projects that takes "a bit" longer than expected, I think I know :)

Nice brake! Good progress...

Also just came across your channel and very impressed, when you said your repairing the body, I thought this guy's crazy, but when I saw your skill level, I can see why your doing it. You have sprayed weld through primer on all joints, but not inside the floor channels, I presume your going to coat them inside somehow to prevent the dreaded tinworm.

I think it is coming along pretty nicely myself. Interesting magnetic metal break as well. Never thought about doing that. One of the best things about working with metal is, if you make a mistake, you can either weld more metal on, or just make another part... Thumbs Up

well done.

Oh man, it looks like a Jeep again!

New subscriber here…I love this channel! A little bit of all things I like. Especially the metal casting to usable parts. Cheers, and I hope your thumb gets better quick!

I’m impressed with your brake. It looks to have been worth the time. 👍

I grew up with a '68 Land Rover Series 2. I find it fascinating how similar this Jeep is to that LR. It's almost a runner!

I can't complement you enough. Keep up the great work. You're one of my favorite RU-vid channel to watch

Sweet, it's good to see another being saved.

A project like restoring a very rusty jeep becomes like that broom that you’ve owned for twenty years, it’s only had six new handles and ten new heads. Jokes aside unless you’re restoring it to be a museum piece good enough is good enough and better is just tossing the bit you think you can repair and getting or making a new one. And if you’re doing a restomod tossing everything that was designed to be cheap nasty and disposable and replacing it with a more modern version is often the best choice as repairing something that you can’t get parts for anymore is Sisyphean.

@Jeremy_Makes_Things Man, this really drives home your previous introspective question of how much original material is required to consider it a rebuild vs a new design. You're dancing a fine line, and I'm enjoying watching you go through the process. Thank you fro sharing.

I recently subscribed to this channel and I consider myself to be an advanced. Do it yourselfer for many years , but Jeremy makes me look like a preschooler with construction paper, plastic scissors, and Elmers glue lol

Like your style, keep it up.

Enjoying the series so far! I did pretty much the same thing with an MGA a couple decades ago. One technique that might have helped you a bit, a little easier, it the "cut and butt", and the use of Cleco fasterners. But, that's water under the bridge now, isn't it?

Looks Very Nice. Love your Videos

looking good 👍

Fantastic job there Jeremy. thanks for sharing.

Just caught your newest video I've been waiting on this one for long time ⌛️. I'm not disappointed you are the man with the plan!!!!! I can't wait until you put out that next one. You are a impressive guy keep up what your doing.

nice work, I have been trying to find a project willys myself, the magnetic finger pincher,lol I meen brake could use some lifting handles.

You, sir, are no amateur hack.

Walking away from the dropping sheet metal. 😂

love these videos! About to start my own CJ5. It's in about the same condition so these videos have been perfect to plan my restoration. Can't wait to see the next one!

Good job

well done

Impressive!

Very Nice

Fantastic

Yes, yes, Jeep! JEEP!

The brake is awesome - any thoughts on adjustable stops on it for the upper clamping piece?

Splendid!! Great work and it looks quite nice actually. Will you have a transmission? Did you really need to recreate that tunnel or are you just generally going for a faithful restoration?

It was only going to take 5 minutes but then the wife asked me "HOW LONG!!?😡" Now it's going to take all day.

Great Video Jeremy! What thickness have you found the magnetic benders can handle? Would it handle 1/8"/3mm aluminium sheet? Thanks!

Thank God your back everythime I go on RU-vid I think what happened to that Jeremy guy the mystery solved

I'd like to watch a video in some youtubers' wives speaking about their husbands hobby :) Jeremy is definately one of them but I'd be interested to watch a Keith Rucker video too 😂

Nice. If this was Minecraft that would be a Lexus...

I use a FLIR thermal camera.

Re: thermal cam When you don't have any plans to use the thermal cam w/ a project, set it up on your breaker panel, & record during a heavy machine use project. If it coincides w/ wife & kids at home, (if shop & house share power). The camera will pick up overheated circuits &/or hot breakers. This kind of diagnostic imaging could save your shop/home/lives by cluing you in to an overload circuit or aging breakers, (Breakers that have tripped frequently can become unreliable. While the design of a breaker SHOULD be fail in trip mode, there's a reason there are electrical fires caused by overloaded circuits.) The same kind of electrical forensic testing can be done w/ an inexpensive IR temp gun from HF. W/ a temp gun you get spot checks, but the camera is deluxe, time span forensics. Re: magnatron bender If there's a local scrap salvage yard where you might salvage some fingers from an old finger brake, you'd be set for all kinds of bending.

The brake build was very interesting, seems costly and you have to have power to use it. There was a reason these never were a success in the market place, few if any advantages to a traditional box/pan brake. If the goal was to restore the Jeep, complete floor pans are available and time saved is a plus. We all live and learn.

love to see these videos, please keep releasing them! #4077

Great job, thanks for the video 👍 What gauge sheet metal for the floors are you using?

Might want to build a rotisserie.

Whoever asked the questions, likely isnt a machinist or a fabricator, or any kind of metal artist... If they were, they would well know that one does not just undertake a project - without realizing along the way the need for 20 other projects, each of which would ease the completion of either still on the list... I am restoring 9 machines, to do that, i needed materials... Once those have been bought, i quickly realized that i cant finish any machine cleanup before disassembly, as i want to remove every component by undoing it, rather than sliding it off and potentially causing damage by any chips or grit in the ways... To do that, i need a heavy duty lift... Ok, i made one, but to finish the lift, i needed a functional lathe(see where this is going?) for rollers, wheels and other such ancillary parts... My only technically functional lathe needs a tailstock fix, for which i need a functional mill, which i do have, but i want to disassemble my mills and check them for any shit before using them(you know, full service before first use, regardless of where you got them from or of their apparent state)... To do that, i need a lift(round and round the wheel turns)... And this is just a fraction of the issues... And the same story repeats for every other machine, as all need a lift, as most parts are 100-500kg, which renders trying to move them either a suicide or even worse - damage to machine parts... And when i consider the lift, there the cycle repeats again... Not just the aforementioned, but i also need to make whats essentially a rack, so the lift could index along the ram`s length, while remaining low profile, as to be collapsible or to have the ram telescope into the main column for storage... To do that, i need a mill... So to finish off my lift which i need to service my machines, i need 2 functional machines, which i need the lift to get functional as per my standards before considering using them... Its a bloody mess and a damn chaos of shit just running in cycles and loops, always ending at ``oh, i wish that that project was done at least, but for it to be done, i need some other project to be finished first, which needs the first project in question to be finished first...``

I wonder why they chose to make the bracing curved, not straight. Seems like its way more difficult to manufacture that way.

factory leafs or lifted ? if liftd where ya get

Looks like the next project might be a shear.....

I like the part where you bent stuff

What gauge metal are you using ?

Is that a Vespa Piaggio 50cc moped in the background?

Tem muita conversa e pouco serviço

I sure hope you got the title to the Jeep before putting so much effort into it. 😅 Please don’t ask why I say this. 😂

superb vid thanks

Heck of a great job on the sheetmetal work. Thanks for the view and the sense of humor.

Looking REALLY good- excellent progress- that Magna-Bender is kick ass! If you dont already watch him, check out "Low-Buck Garage" he has a TON of fixing up old Jeep videos and hacking together a bunch of BROKEN old rusty junk into working old rusty junk -