Almost Done with the Parts on the Tub

I think I'm just about done taking everything off the tub. In this post I removed the heater and vent system, the tail light wires, the parking break, the side steps, the gas cap, the transmission cover, and started on the body mounts.

This is the heater and vent system. The silver box is part of the ignition system which was hooked to the heater.

This is on the engine side of the firewall. The two tubes are part of the heater. Radiator fluid runs through these to power the heater.

I unhooked part of the vent from the heater to the windshield vent.

This is the hood grate before I removed it. It was held on by six screws

After removing the grate there were four more screws in the corners that held the actual vent to the body.

Here is the ignition computer which I left attached to the venting system. I just unplugged the wires.

Here is the vent system after it was removed.

It is hard to see in this picture, but there were four bolts I had to remove that held on the heater system to the tub. You can see two of them on the left and right side of this picture. The one of the right is right above the heater tube.
I also removed that black tube at the bottom of the picture. I'm not sure what that is used for, but I am assuming it is just a drip valve.


Here is the heater system before I pulled it out. This came right out after I removed those bolts on the firewall

Heater system after I removed it.

Here is the a shot of the inside of the cab after I had removed the heater/vent.

I finally got everything removed from the dash and wanted to get a picture of it.

This is where the tail light wires come through the tub on the back driver side corner of the jeep. I just had to push that rubber o-ring out.

Here are the wires after I pulled them through the tub.

Next thing I removed was the parking break which I had trouble with. The actual pedal (that you see in the picture) is just held on by two bolts and wire break line.

When you push the parking break pedal down it pulls the wire which activates the rear breaks. This part is where it splits to the two rear breaks.

I removed that part from the two break lines. I just had to remove two pins then slide the break lines off.
My first thought was to remove those two nuts off this line and then slid the line through the tub and keep it all attached to the pedal. That did not work out so well. Those two nuts were so rusted on I had no way to remove them.

I noticed that the actual break line was starting to break apart. After seeing this I knew that I would eventually have to replace it, so I just cut this part off.

When I started removing the break line from the parking break I noticed that it was just held on by a clip. I removed the clip and the line slid right off. I was a little pissed that I spent all this time messing with those damn rusted nuts when all I had to do was remove the clip on the actual pedal.

This is where the parking break was attached to the body.

The next thing I removed were the two steps. Each step is bolted onto the tub with four bolts.

These front two bolts sit under the floor panel where is it nothing but rust. I ended up stripping out the bolts on the first turn. I was pissed after that because I did not have a tool to get stripped button head bolts off. I tried a vice grip heat and tons of PB Blaster, but that did not work.

Luckily my neighbor let me borrow an air cutoff tool. That helped a lot to just cut the bolts right off. This sold me in two seconds. I will be buying on of these this week.

This is just a shot of the side of the tub after I removed the step.

Here is one of the steps.

The gas cap and cover was the next thing I removed.
I first removed the three screws that you can see in this picture.

After removing the cap, there were 6 more screws that I had to remove. These six screws hold the gas line onto the cover.

Once I removed all the screws, the cover popped right off the body. I put the cap back on the gas line and I was done.

There is a panel on the body that gives you access to the transmission. This has to be removed in order to pull the body over the shifters. All I had to do to remove this was to unscrew about 10 screws on the panel and unscrew the heads off the shifters.

While I was unscrewing the four wheel drive shifter head, it snapped right off. I was not happy about this at all. I guess I will have to replace the shifters.

Here are a couple pictures after I removed the panel.

Here is the panel.

Every time I work on the Jeep I always have to clean up a pile of rust that has fallen off the Jeep.

My parts pile is growing fast.

At this point I am pretty sure that the only thing I need to do now before I lift the body is remove the bolts that attach the frame to the body and also remove the roll bar so that I can store the body a little better.
I did not remove all the bolts to the body mounts today. I just got under the jeep and checked to see if I could loosen them at all. Here are a few pictures of the rusted mess.

This one is bad. The rubber spacer was already about to fall out.

I messed with three bolts and all three came loose! This bolt did not look as bad as some of the others. As I tried to loosen it with a breaker bar, it ended up breaking right off.

Here is the breaker bar I used and the broken bolt.

Even though this bolt did not look as bad, I was shocked at how much it had deteriorated. You can see in this picture that the threads are not even on this bolt. Rust also just poured out of the hole like water when the bolt fell out.

I decided to give it a rest on the body mounts and worry about removing the roll bar first.