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1995 Sahara project
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<blockquote data-quote="Plastic Fury" data-source="post: 442095" data-attributes="member: 21352"><p>Thankfully the wiring on this Jeep had been basically untouched save for the radio harness. Pretty common of course. My previous YJ had an absolutely butchered harness with wire nuts and whatnot. It was a real mess. This one is the opposite of that one for sure. This jeep came with an old Panasonic CD radio that was no longer working, looked like it had been exposed to a lot of water and mud. I decided to go with a basic JVC marine radio with bluetooth. I almost hard wired it but then decided to just repair the harness so it would be basically like OEM and plug and play again.</p><p></p><p>High quality wiring by the PO, always love seeing twisted wires and tape........</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122894[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I found a thread here that showed a great wiring diagram which made it easy to repair the harness to it's OEM setup.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122895[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122896[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>It also gives me more piece of mind regarding possible fire, knowing there are not any hot leads laying exposed. The PO hacked up the dash a bit for the previous radio but I have since trimmed it out and added the little trim frame from the new radio and it looks pretty decent.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122897[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>With the radio completed and the new speakers installed (I didn't take any pics of that, installed new Polk speakers in the dash along with picking up a TJ sound bar and installing Polk speakers in that as well. I am very happy with the results), I decided to move on to the hard top project.</p><p></p><p>I had previously picked up this hard top for $100 as the back of it was damaged, looked like it had been dropped. The rear glass was gone and it was pretty smashed. I wound up removing the OEM side tinted windows from it and sold them for $100 so I really got the top for free. I wanted to make a hard bikini top, so I was planning to cut the rear of the top off anyway. I started the project with my old Jeep, it was just in need of some fiberglass repair and then paint.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122898[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122899[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122900[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122901[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122902[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122903[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]122904[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]122905[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122906[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I used the SEM Camel to match the other dash and door cards that I have already used SEM Camel on. The dash pad and metal dash frame are still original finish so it's such a good match for the Spice color. I was pleased with how the top came out for being a rattle can job. The SEM cans lay out very nicely. I used a Rustoleum primer and Rustoleum matte clear for the hard top. I love this top much better than a standard bikini top. No flapping in the wind when driving, no concern of water pooling on it and having to run a pvc pipe across, etc..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plastic Fury, post: 442095, member: 21352"] Thankfully the wiring on this Jeep had been basically untouched save for the radio harness. Pretty common of course. My previous YJ had an absolutely butchered harness with wire nuts and whatnot. It was a real mess. This one is the opposite of that one for sure. This jeep came with an old Panasonic CD radio that was no longer working, looked like it had been exposed to a lot of water and mud. I decided to go with a basic JVC marine radio with bluetooth. I almost hard wired it but then decided to just repair the harness so it would be basically like OEM and plug and play again. High quality wiring by the PO, always love seeing twisted wires and tape........ [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240315_142610.jpg"]122894[/ATTACH] I found a thread here that showed a great wiring diagram which made it easy to repair the harness to it's OEM setup. [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240315_101956.jpg"]122895[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240315_151645.jpg"]122896[/ATTACH] It also gives me more piece of mind regarding possible fire, knowing there are not any hot leads laying exposed. The PO hacked up the dash a bit for the previous radio but I have since trimmed it out and added the little trim frame from the new radio and it looks pretty decent. [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240316_134113.jpg"]122897[/ATTACH] With the radio completed and the new speakers installed (I didn't take any pics of that, installed new Polk speakers in the dash along with picking up a TJ sound bar and installing Polk speakers in that as well. I am very happy with the results), I decided to move on to the hard top project. I had previously picked up this hard top for $100 as the back of it was damaged, looked like it had been dropped. The rear glass was gone and it was pretty smashed. I wound up removing the OEM side tinted windows from it and sold them for $100 so I really got the top for free. I wanted to make a hard bikini top, so I was planning to cut the rear of the top off anyway. I started the project with my old Jeep, it was just in need of some fiberglass repair and then paint. [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240323_011516.jpg"]122898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240327_000400.jpg"]122899[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240329_115658.jpg"]122900[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240324_123358.jpg"]122901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240324_123408.jpg"]122902[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240331_110946.jpg"]122903[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="20240402_105340.jpg"]122904[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="20240402_114744.jpg"]122905[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="20240402_191853.jpg"]122906[/ATTACH] I used the SEM Camel to match the other dash and door cards that I have already used SEM Camel on. The dash pad and metal dash frame are still original finish so it's such a good match for the Spice color. I was pleased with how the top came out for being a rattle can job. The SEM cans lay out very nicely. I used a Rustoleum primer and Rustoleum matte clear for the hard top. I love this top much better than a standard bikini top. No flapping in the wind when driving, no concern of water pooling on it and having to run a pvc pipe across, etc.. [/QUOTE]
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