Cleaning up the ‘89

C6c6s

C6c6s

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Binghamton NY
I’ve had this one a year now and due to lots of travel and it unexpectedly become my DD when home I haven’t gotten much done except emergency repairs (u/joints, frame weld) It looks like shit but is still a fun ride found the warm caramel paint last year and sprayed my door panels. From ratty to decent. Had Lowe’s match exterior for hard top and pretty nice. Roller painted it. Don’t mind the Bambie photo bomb, she thinks she lives here. It’s a start

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Door panel has held up well. No need to touch up yet. Here’s the can for anyone interested. It’s the same YJ103 used on that killer interior he painted. Ordered these Qtech Adventure mirrors. No more f-ing around with relocation brackets and stripped and broken torx heads. They drop right in the hinge pin hole. Next project is replacing all the vacuum lines and hoses to hopefully fix some issues. They look pretty rough.

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Update NY mountains. Had the pond re dug 10 years ago due to cattail invasion. Just goldfish. Not big enough for anything else really. Plus the heron, kingfisher and a resident mink eat everything so it’s cheaper to get a $10 bag of Goldie’s than a $30 coy that’s just going to be someone’s dinner.
 
So my interior is holding up pretty good with that paint. Still looks like new after a summer of use. I like how your hardtop came out, too.

I got a pair of mirror similar to what you added. They start to turn in if I hit 55 or 60 MPH (not that that happens very often) even after repeated tightening. Do you have that problem with the round ones?
 
Looks good!
I really like that color, especially on the door panels!
Mine were butchered and ended up replaced with diamond plate aluminum from Warrior Products.
But they were spendy...Wish I could have gotten away with a $8.00 rattle can!
 
Yj103, so far so good. But I hit 50 maybe twice a week. So they really haven’t been “fully wind tested”. Planning a one hr highway trip when I get home so I’ll let you know. Sitting at airport in NC as I type. Mind blowing amount of killer clean YJ’s down here!!
 
I have an old military re-pop mirror that I bolt up the same way when the doors are off, I just like the style.
It will eventually be permanently mounted to the cowl so I can lose the mirrors off the doors.
Not run the interstate without the doors, (but without mirrors) so I'm interested if this may also be a future concern for me.
Looking forward to hearing more.
 
After a very extended winter vacation it’s back to business. As a follow up, the hard top still looks great. Even after sitting uncovered outside for a whole winter. The mirrors I found didn’t move at all at high speeds but bumpy conditions moved them enough to have to be readjusted. Nothing a few more cranks to tighten can’t fix. Only problem I could see anyone having is with the nuts. Paint comes off as soon as you look at them. So if you have a super clean ride, that may bother you. Me, it just matches the rest of my rig.
 
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