Smyth Jeep ute build 

Awesome! and thank you!

Thank you! Dig having some of your skills added to the video!

Thanks Mike

@@hesty32 you’re welcome.

Thank you sir! Next is a 2004 Audi S4!

Thank you! Cheers!

Thanks!

@@hesty32 help me to my jeep grand Cherokee wj convert to truck

The kit is aluminum and the car is steel so you can't weld them together. I use 3M panel pond in most all of the joints and that is amazing stuff. It might surprise you how much modern cars are glued/epoxied together. The rivets and 8 mm bolts come with the kit. But I often add a few more or swap in some stainless steel rivets for the aluminum ones just for a little more piece of mind. Never had any issues though.

@@hesty32 I love your ute conversions man all this super beautiful

@@hesty32 I figured it was because it's 2 different types of metal

I slightly modified the panels that come with the kit to make the hinged floor panel

That is just for access, so you can reach inside the inner fender wells when bolting everything together. Didn't really get the angle on video but I'm reaching through that hole to bolt them to the front bed wall and the forward half of the side walls

If you have to ask, better stick to the dealership😅

I moved the roof rack base forward, installed a couple more rivenuts, then cut the rails off even with the back of the cab. I used 2.5 tubes of panel bond

@@hestermannmotorwerks - do you think it is feasible to do the same thing (move front base forward) but use the back base with just a short stub of pipe in between?

@@jeffweller4578 yes for sure. That’s exactly what I did on this one. Used the existing front rivnut as the back one for the front mount and added one for the front. That moved it about 3 inches forward. Added a mount in the middle using a rivenut and a piece of pipe shaped to fit on both ends then two new rivenuts for the back mount. Was playing with spare tire on the roof so I wanted 3 mounts on each side. Turned out it looked goofy with the big wheel on the smallish cab roof so I ditched the idea

@@hestermannmotorwerks - thank you for taking the time to answer this - I was thinking of the spare up there - so you've saved me that effort - now if I can find a donor vehicle...

Nope sorry 99-2005 only.

Lots of variables but $6000 Is the base build price

thats not a simple question really but probably 30-40 hours building it then another 40-50 hours finishing it both interior and exterior. But I added a few customizations