JavaJeep Update

[javajeep]

More photos

[javajeep]

and more photos

[bilt4mud]

Hi Tony,

I will actually be back in Solo when you are in Perth later this month.

PM me if you are heading to Solo, otherwise I'll email you when I go to Jkt next.

Till then...

Widodo

[javajeep]

I bought a donor J20 last weekend

No drivetrain but it has panels , tray and glass which is hard to buy here.












The tray will be modified for the future 6x6 conversion and the chassis will help with fabricating components for the roadgoing J20 , once its back on the road I don't want it parked for ages again.

I am told by the cops there are only 8 J20s still registered in Indonesia , there were probably a couple of hundred built here from kits.

[javajeep]

Just finished spraying all the J20's front and inner panels with PPG-Desoto Desoprime expoxy primer.

This is a two part epoxy primer used on commercial airliners and the end result is like powder coating , hard and tough !

It has to be sand blasted or wire brushed off , it won't come off with paint stripper.

If you want to use this paint and have an airport nearby try and get friendly with one of the workshops , this paint has a shelf life of 12 months for aviation use and costs $200 to $400 gallon , I can pick up expired tins of paint for around $10 gallon and it will be still ok for use on your jeep for another 1 or 2 years.

There are 2 parts to the paint , a base component (colored) and an activator component (clear) in separate cans so make sure you get both components.

I'll post some photos tomorrow.

[javajeep]

Here's a shot of the hood with the epoxy primer.




It's a first coat and it's already 1mm thick and rock hard, we have to cut a hole in it to put in the hood vent (now from a Boeing 737 air cycle machine vent , they're smaller than the 727 vent) , hit the low spots with some filler and then some more primer before a final coat of aircraft grade epoxy matt black top coat.

All the guards , inner panels and front clips (inner and outer are done). Doors being done over the next 2 days.

Next is working on putting a roll cage into the cab, when we've finished that the temporary auto primer will be stripped . We're going to TRY and fit some some side cockpit windows from a DC-10 in for a windscreen , these babies lexan and are 20mm thick ! No worries about stone chips , cracked windscreens or winch cables going through the windscreen

[javajeep]

Photos of the J20s new windsreen

I can't buy new windscreens here for the J20 so I decided to fix it with something that won't break and will handle body flexing without going white around the edges like the current J20 windscreens I have (2 of them)

The Lexan windows are the side cockpit windows in a DC-10 and need about 1cm trimmed off the corner of each of them to find the best position that fits





The windows will be bolted into an angle iron frame and the external gaps filled in with sheetmetal

In direct sunlight the windows have a very fine layer of gold built into them like a space helmet.