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Rust Repair Part 20: Blowing off the dust a year later
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I can’t believe it’s a been a year since I last worked on the XJ. When I first paused working on the XJ to get my EG hatch back on the road I didn’t think it’d be for more a few months but sure enough here we are a year later. Read more...

LS Swap Part 1: A New Heart for the XJ
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For the past year I’ve been daydreaming about a 6.0 LQ4 + 4L60E build but after seeing the prices of LQ4s I (the 6.0 tax is real) I decided to go with it’s little brother the 5. Read more...

Rust Repair Part 19: Salvaging What I Can of the Driver Side
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There’s a lot of rust on the driver side of my XJ, but it’s not as bad as the passenger side used to be. Back when I first began on phase 2 of the rust repair, I purposely started on the passenger side as I thought it’d be the easier of the two sides, but it turns out that wasn’t the case. Read more...

Rust Repair Part 18: Diving Into the Driver Side and Fixing the Drip Rail
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Having finished the passenger side, it was a little daunting looking at the completely untouched driver side knowing I had so much work ahead of me. I was a little worried I’d lose my motivation from analysis paralysis on where to start so I decided to dive right into it and start with the roof like I did on the passenger side. Read more...

Rust Repair Part 17: Finally Finishing the Passenger Quarter Panel
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It’s taken me roughly 3 times as long as I imagined to finish all the work on the passenger side, but it’s been well worth the effort. To recap the past 6 months I’ve replaced: Read more...

Rust Repair Part 16: A New Rear Passenger Inner Wheel Well
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Sometimes life does that thing where it gets in the way for awhile. The XJ ended up sitting and collecting dust for a few months due to other priorities eating up my time but I’m finally tearing back into it and making progress again. Read more...

Rust Repair Part 15: Finalizing the 2x6 Rocker
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Even though I’m making progress it sure feels like the parts pile is getting bigger as each week passes. The doors on the left are the old ones and will eventually be scrapped once I remove all the parts I want to salvage off them, but everything else is waiting to be installed. Read more...

Rust Repair Part 14: Welding in the Passenger 2x6 Rocker
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In this post we’ll continue building out the 2x6 rocker for the passenger side. # Finishing Up The A Pillar Before I could weld up the outer rocker I needed to finish the A / B Pillars so I’d have something to weld it to. Read more...

Rust Repair Part 13: Replacing the Passenger Inner Rocker To Prep for 2x6 Rockers
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With all this metal laying around it was about time I started putting it to use. While the 2x6 rocker mod (aka rock sliders) for XJ isn’t uncommon by any means, I’m planning on taking a slightly different approach in how I tie them into the unibody. Read more...

Rust Repair Part 12: Welding in the New Passenger Drip Rail
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My new metal brake finally arrived. Before settling on the Woodward Fab Boss 16, I spent several hours researching metal brakes and looked at a ton of different models across various manufacturers such as Baileigh, Tennsmith, Grizzly, JET, Eastwood, and Enco. Read more...