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RichJohnson
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Location: San Diego CA
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 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject: m38a1 body work |
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| I recieved my replacement body today, it needs the front 2 forward facing hat channels under the cowel replaced, as well as the plates on the cowel seen to be bent downward tward each other. Im really wondering how the $&% im gonna fix that, Where can I get repo hat channels. |
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Bob_C
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Location: Chester County, PA
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Army Jeep Parts (armyjeepparts.com) sells them. Just ask Nick or George there for them. They're really nice - and I wanted to say cost about 220$ (however dont quote me. I'm just going off of memory) for both the passanger and driver side - and they're complete. My hat channels were virtually gone when I got the jeep - so this was a huge time saver.
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RichJohnson
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow thats pretty expensive, I only want the two front hat channels, they are like 8 inches each, they project forward, not all the hat channels. Im not gonna spend 220 bucks for them. Ille just cut them off and forget them. The orignal body, still on my jeep they are totally gone and it seems pretty stable. |
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OKCM38CDN
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Call Jeep Panels Plus... He can make shorter ones, you got nothing to lose... |
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Jeff_H
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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You can also try cutting the old ones off and taking them to a local sheet metal place and see what they would charge to make some new ones out of 18 gauge steel. shouldn't be to much.
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Cacti_Ken
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:55 am Post subject: |
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I found that a local sheet metal shop wanted to charge me a heck of a lot more than Jeep Panels Plus.
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