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I agree, they look pretty cool.

Tire Tool Tray - Bolt Together – TMR Customs

 

http://www.earlycj5.com/xf_cj5/index.php?threads/158203/

I got it for Christmas. TMR Customs has a lot of great stuff, and great customer service.

 

That is pretty sweet. You know, it probably wouldn't be hard to make one out of wood.

Flat piece on top, some 2x2s going down and sitting at 10 and 2 o'clock, and 4 posts going vertically down the sidewall.

 

Now that military month is over, (it was fantastic btw), I get a short window of painting weather this week, so I want to repaint the outer frame. First, remove the burnt paint from the re-weld of the windshield top channel. Oh, and while I was gone, they got G503 photo album working again, so I can post photos.

Loaded up the gun with 2oz of hot rod flat and shot the inside. It was almost 60 degrees so I can turn it over in a few hours.

Then, chasing the sun late in the day, sanded and shot the outside. I'm sure there will be a few bugs in it, and it will flatten out when it dries. I'm ready to get this on the jeep and move on to more pressing issues now that spring is here.

 

The final day on the ventilating windshield project. Reassembled the inner to the outer, and got it on the jeep. The only remaining problem is that the rubber is so new, it doesn't want to latch. I had been hoping once I got it in the sun, it would relax and close enough to latch, but no. And of course the latch screws are the only ones I saw no reason to remove up to this point, and one of the 4 does not want to come out. It's a steel screw in an aluminum frame for decades, and it's not moving. I successfully drilled it out. Not bad, huh?

The solution is to space the latch out 1/8" so it can grab the keeper. If it ever relaxes enough, I can remove the spacer.

The adjusting arms are all done and work correctly.

I cleaned up some paint touch up and cleaned the glass, and went through a few cycles of opening and closing and latching.

Fully open, it looks pretty good. Now to move on to Rubicon prep.

 

Love it!

 

Back in "the day" we had an Allis Chalmers 190 with a cab. (No air conditioning kids, just a fan and maybe the option for heat). Summer time the doors would come off and the back window would open up. Then with every mother FN rut in the rented hay field that window would bounce up and SLAM shut typically with one arm backwards so you could not open it till you were done with the row. Then back through the field with the same rut BOOM. Finish the day covered in dust, sweat, and grease.