Removing the Roll Bar & Disconnect the Tub

I finally got the roll bar removed and disconnected the tub from the body.  Below are the pictures on how I did it all.



Here is a shot of the roll bar before I removed it.

Here is where the roll bar connected to the body on the driver side.  All four of those torx bolts are stripped out.  I tried heat and a lot of PB Blaster on all of these bolts, but it did not work.  I ended up cutting the two bolts on the top off.  I did not have to cut the bottom two off due to the rust around it.  A little pull with the crowbar helped.



I had the same problems with the same bolts on both sides.  You can see in this picture where I used the crowbar the pry the up the body where the roll bar was attached.



I did not have any problems with the back of the roll bar.  As you can tell in this picture that rust ate the body where the roll bar was attached.  It was not even attached to the body.

Here is another shot of how the roll bar was not connected.



You can see in this picture that all I had to do was lift the bar up to remove it.  It is hard to believe that rust did all of this damage.



Here I am putting the roll bar in storage.  Maybe I can reuse it.  I will worry about that later.

Here is a shot of the jeep with no roll bar.

These next three pictures are some shots of the rusted out holes where the roll bar was connected.

Now that I had the roll bar out of the jeep, I came back to finish disconnecting the tub from the frame.



The tub was held onto the frame by a total of 10 bolts (5 on each side).  This is the bolt at the rear driver side of the jeep.

Almost all the rusted bolts looked like this.  I had maybe two or three that did not break when I was trying to remove them.  All the rest broke like this.

I used these 4x4 blocks to lift the body up from the frame.  This helped me see if I had everything disconnected.

I had to also use the blocks to help me lift tub up.

Here is one of the rusted up body mounts.  When I turned this bolt the whole body mount turned with it. 

Here is the front driver side, right under the door.  I used a couple jack stands for a little more support.

These next two pictures are after I finished lifting the whole driver side up on the 4x4 blocks.

The rest of these pictures are just a few more shots of the Jeep after I disconnected the tub from the frame.  I am now all finished and ready to get the tub removed.  I just need to find a place to store it and also get some friends over to help lift it.