1984 Jeep CJ-7 Progress 2012 10 07

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Ok, it has been awhile since I did any meaningful project on the Jeep.

I did throw the hard top on in the mid of the week as the weather here has begun to turn cold. I did no cleaning or restoration on it and that will have to wait until spring.

To make the top worth anything the doors need to go on. At the start of this journey I shipped the front grill and windshield of to the paint shop because there was some rust developing. This Jeep came from the factory with a soft top and the PO purchased a hard top and some used doors. The doors were paint red, not garnet red, so they went off to the paint shop also.

They have been sitting in the basement all summer as the Jeep went topless all summer.

I prepared the work bench for the task of putting the doors back together
The door was put on the operating table
First task was installing the new weather strip
The bottom half was a true snap
And the top half just gets pushed into the channel in the door, no glue required
Next the lock access panel needed to be removed so that the water barrier could be reinstalled
The water barrier was laid in place
And the access panel was pop riveted back in place (that is how I found it when I took it apart
The top trim strip for the door panel was laid in place and I noticed there was no hole for the last screw to hold the trim in place. This trim was missing when I got the jeep and I purchased a used one as it is not made in the aftermarket. I drill a hole
And the trim was screwed in place
I have not been able to fine good original Garnet door panels (the ones in the Jeep when I got it were black, so I purchased aftermarket ones and will keep looking., they had to be prepared for installation as there were not holes for the window crank, door handle, and the Christmas tree snaps needed to be installed
The top edge of the panel is slipped into the trim strip and slowly lowered to line up the Christmas tree snaps with their holes
Whoops, missed a step, the door restraining strip was installed
The window crank was installed
This snap button was snapped in place (no garnet, will keep looking
A new window wipe was installed (old one was removed)
The door was carried up from the basement and set onto the Jeep (in the rain)
The water under the Jeep is not a leak, it is from the exhaust condensation from my wife’s 300C when I started it to move it out of the way. It is getting cold here, the doors are going on just in time.