Rebuilding Wrecked Jeep Wrangler! Frame Damage repair!

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welcome back everyone to another episode of Russian garage if you're new to the channel don't forget to subscribe turn on those post notifications so you don't miss any of our builds but otherwise we're starting to work on our to thicken tin you into work on our Wrangler so last episode we got most of it taken apart mostly damage assess our original plan was to buy a complete Jeep parts car but though the jeeps are just way too much for the parts that we need from it so we just thought what we decided to do is we bought a new frame well new to us we bought a 2010 Wrangler frame just for the front sections because that these two front extensions are almost as much as a whole frame arm the extensions are actually $1,500 each and if we're to buy the whole frame its 3,600 bucks the frame that we found is $600 so we're gonna see if we can make it work guys and what the plan is and these extensions right here they're welded in right there on both sides but the hard part is is that this gearbox and where these bolts go in it's welded here and there's a tube that goes all the way through and it's welded here too so we don't know what's going to be easier to try just doing the front extensions or replacing the whole frame but again the frame that we bought is a 2010 we look through all the forums to find out what the big difference is because the JK's they have been around for a while and they just did a facelift or a slight redesign in 2012 which would featured a new motor and they redid the interior and a couple other really small things so what our plan is I don't know what's going to be easier whether to swap the whole frame or just the front sections here well the first thing that we're gonna do is we are gonna disconnect the body from the frame separate the two and we're gonna bring in the frame that we bought and compare the two measure them out and see what the big difference is between them because they're different part numbers but for some reason I have a feeling we're gonna be able to make them work it's probably just one or two little brackets that they changed on them and that's why I has a different part number so let's get this body and frame disconnected and bringing the other frame to see what the real differences alright guys another thing you might be thinking man it's a huge job to get the body and the frame disconnected just to compare it just to see if it works but in reality it's really not that difficult because all we got to do we already got our AC disconnected we didn't have any AC in here disconnect the ECU this harness goes with the engine which stays on the frame the brake lines will also disconnect those because the booster goes with the body and the brake lines stay on the frame we got our AC lines basically we've got one AC line that gets disconnected from the compressor which will go off the body and then a fuel line and a couple of heater hoses and then a couple of plugs in the back so it's really not that big a deal especially the fact that we got almost the whole front end took it apart and since we took off those running boards that they had on there we already removed four of the bolts that hold the body in the frame together and I think there's only like six more left so not a big deal at all alright guys so just for fun let's put a timer on here to see how long it takes us to separate the cab from the frame [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] alright guys so I've got 40 minutes that it took us to completely disconnect the body from the frame and you can see we've got the whole engine here transmission everything stays on the frame so now what we can do is we can bring in the other frame and compare the two and we can measure them and and compare all the brackets and everything else like that but for some reason I have a feeling that there's one or two because I know that one the big differences between the older ones and the newer GK's is they have on the front here they have a it's a vacuum brake pump basically it's when you're got low idle and everything it gives you additional vacuum to help you hold the car in place and we got the new frame that we ordered at the junkyard everything looks like it's in good condition and so we measured out this frame it's nice and straight the whole thing well we also compared it to the frame that came off the truck and this one because this one did come off doesn't intend so everything from here back is exactly the same all the body mounts all the crossmembers and all the hangers for the exhaust suspension everything is exactly the same the two things that we found that are different is one the newer ones that had because this one came with a 3.8 and the new ones come with the 3.6 and 3.6 has a bracket here for a electric vacuum pump which that's not a big deal because we're gonna be doing a custom bumper on there anyway and we were gonna buy a relocation bracket for this pump which is a popular mod on these things that it's gonna be up higher up by the ABS pump here so that's not a big deal this bracket not a big deal because we're gonna cut it off anyway and relocate that pump because of their custom bumper that make the big difference we can decide right now what we want to do is this engine mount is actually the same on both on both cars but they changed this one this one needs to go back an inch and a quarter so we're trying to decide what's going to be easier but most importantly what's going to be a safer more better repair to either cut off this bracket and cut it off of there and shift it back or having to undo this weld all the way around there the weld in here and then it's the same thing here but on top of that it has these two tubes on this side that go through both of these extensions and they hold the gear the steering gearbox in place so here on top of having to grind all this we'd have to grind these and somehow get those out and then put them all back in all right so before we make our decision we got to pull that engine no matter what just because we have we got to remove the gearbox so we have plenty of access here if we do decide to just do the front extensions so we have plenty access to get to all the weld spots and to get everything out we got to pull this engine anyway so what we're going to let's get this engine pulled and then that way we can do a thorough investigation of these brackets make sure that they're that they're the same or if they're different and make our decision from there well let's get this engine pulled first all right so we're ready to get this motor out of this frame so we got a four by four there's a nice little loop there to hook up to and one back here we got the transmission or I mean the engine mounts on both sides unhooked we've got the exhaust the catalytic converters unhooked on both sides some fuel lines mounts and drive the front drive shaft and the exhausts on there so it should be ready to get this thing out of here so we can compare the two frames perfectly [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that thing's swinging okay so we got the engine out we've got almost a bare frame know exactly where the engine was we did some further investigating between that frame and this frame and these brackets are actually almost identical the only little slight difference is here on the other one it's a little bit longer and the bracket itself on the other frame that we got is just back a little bit so this bracket is actually exactly the same both frames and even though they're different years and the only difference is this bracket just needs to be a little bit back and that bracket for the vacuum file take a look at the other frame we already actually did a little bit of work on here what we did is we went ahead and cut the bracket off so we got it all cut off and as you can see the only difference is that this little bit piece of metal is not there and then there's a couple of manufacturers stamp numbers here and even those are the same even though the bracket is slightly different we also measured it on the infinite self to see if we're gonna if this is actually gonna do anything on this new engine but as you can see this little piece that's cut out on the frame that we took this engine out of there is absolutely no reason because we're thinking that we might need to notch it so it's the same or possibly cut off that other bracket but there's a ton of room here so there's no reason to do the work twice so what we're gonna do is actually this bracket that came on the frame that we bought we're just going to relocate it exactly to where it needs our final decision with that we made is that it's gonna be a lot more practical much more better quality repair and we're not messing with anything structural a bracket is going to be a lot easier to relocate then trying to get these ends replaced and as a for the gas tank the suspension everything else like that it's not that much more work to swap everything from one frame to the other and on top of that while we're swapping the suspension we can go ahead and install the lift kit at the same time because we got to uninstall it anyway so we'll just put the new pieces in there so that's actually gonna save us time - another thing with this engine mount right now for from the accident it completely tore this mount into two pieces so while the engine is out that's gonna make it a lot easier for us to replace it versus having to do it on the car also from the accident from the engine shifting and the exhaust and everything else like that you can see that this hit the engine mounting bracket not the actual engine mountain but the bracket and punctured a hole and possibly even damaged the element that's inside the catalytic converter so this also we're gonna replace while the engine is out because it makes it a lot easier at versus having to do it on the car we also have a transmission mount that we had laying around from a previous Jeep that we did and it was it was better it's better condition than this but we've had to replace these almost every single time and we finally actually figured out what the problem is and not really having to replace it but this can be fixed because right now you can see this mount is stretched out this way and you can see right here that this mount is touching this bracket inside and that's what you would get very vibrant strong so what we figured out is that we would just put this on two pieces two pieces of metal or something to support it and you can take a hammer to this side and it straightens it right out versus where you can see that's touching so this mount is in better condition this one's a little bit rusty so we're gonna go ahead and use this mount but for future now we know that we can actually fix this mount versus having to replace it alright so now we're gonna go ahead and clean up that other frame exactly where we cut off the bracket that way we can reposition the bracket in order for us to weld it also since this bracket is still attached we can get all of our dimensions our PSA's measurements basically with this attached we can get the other bracket attached exactly where it needs to be that way the engine is a perfect fit [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] alright guys so we got everything all ground down we got all the metal cleaned up that way we can get a nice clean well done here we also got some of these little magnets that you guys probably seen for the plastic that I use when I paint but they're pretty strong so they're holding this bracket exactly where it needs to be we measured everything out so now we're gonna go ahead and put some tack welds we're gonna re measure and then err if everything checks out we're gonna go ahead and weld the whole thing in [Music] [Music] alright guys so we've got that bracket all welded in there let's check out these welds not too bad I mean those are I would say those are some nice welds the same thing on the side and got it underneath actually comparing them to what the factory ones were I think these are actually better than OEM so we're gonna clean that up and then we're gonna put some coating over it so they don't rustle our frame that we bought is ready to go we got this bracket on there got everything welded nicely we got it painted with undercoating again to prevent it from rusting we even go went ahead and swapped over the brake lines right now on our old frame we got all the shocks disconnected we got the gas tank dropped drive shafts the rear end the exhaust the only thing that's really left here is to undo it here so we can take this piece out so that the exhaust can go on the floor and will be the wiring harness we'll take off and we'll be ready to lift this frame up and out of the shop and we can start getting the next for the new frame to bring it back over this to get the suspension and everything else back on it including the gas tank basically pulminary everything up so we can put the engine back into the new crank [Music] okay guys so we got the old frame the original frame out of there our new frame we got it up over and hanging approximately where we need it so therefore one of the first steps is that we got to put the springs and shocks back in there also with the control arms we are going to be lifting this kit or this cheap so we're basically instead of putting the old one on it you know we're gonna put the lift kit on it right now so here's the lift kit that we got won't open going with a rough country two and a half inch lift also comes with the shocks comes with the n2 premium upgraded shocks so we're gonna go ahead and flip these shocks and springs on there and get these axles attached to the frame so we've got our three we assembled we got our lift kit on there let the shocks on there so this is all good to go and even if the lift here right now even with the water in the body it looks pretty beat a lot more beefier than what it looked like when we took out the factory one so everything turned out to be the same all the sensors wire harness clips everything all of them basically everything bolted right up and so the next step is to get the motor and back into the frame but before we do that we can have to replace the motor mounts who got one took it off we got to put a new one on there and we also got to replace this one so let's go ahead and do that [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right guys so we got the body attached to the frame now we can see here this big hole right here this little hole is supposed to be right in the middle like over there so we are going to need the frame machine to get this lined up and that lined up but before we get it on the frame machine we are going to take off the two tops on the top and the windshield frame just so when you're tugging on this our t-tops and the roof are not damaged we don't want to take any chances so we're gonna take some more stuff apart then we're gonna get on the frame that way you can get this screen down keep moving along [Music] [Applause] [Music] alright guys so we got the beef cooking apart far enough where we're happy with it that we can go ahead and put it on the frame to get these front end rails or aprons whatever you want to call them get these straightened out and get the windshield frame on there and basically so we can line everything up fix the doors but let's get it on the frame we don't want to start it up yet just because we have everything took it apart we don't want to put it together just to take it apart again so we're going to use our trusty forklift and I roll the Jeep a little bit forward drive it from the side and set it on the frame that way you can start working off [Music] so got the chief on the frame but that's it for this episode quite a bit done in this episode we got our brain completely swapped over I know we're planning to get these extensions replaced but it turned out to be easier quicker and better repair in my opinion to just have this frame swapped over we got the rest of the Jeep took it apart got it ready for the frame machine alright so if you're new to the channel make sure you guys subscribe turn on your post notifications so you don't miss the next episode and if you also haven't seen our other videos go ahead and go take a look at and those of you that are subscribed already thank you for subscribing and watching our videos and we will see you guys in the next episode [Music]
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Channel: Rush-in Garage
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Keywords: rush in garage, wrecked jeep, rebuilding wrecked jeep, jeep wrangler, copart, copart car, iaat, salvage, salvaged, custom jeep, lifted jeep, bought cheapest car at auction, how to buy a cheap car, how to fix a wrecked car, fixing wrecked, diy, qoonzquad, project car, jeep hit the light pole, rebuild, how to repair wrecked car, vtuned, jeep frame replacement, frame swap, engine swap jeep, lift kit jeep wrangler
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Length: 23min 24sec (1404 seconds)
Published: Fri Aug 23 2019
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