{"id":30,"date":"2014-01-18T09:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T07:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.korn.net\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-01-18T09:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T07:12:56","slug":"jeep-nose-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Jeep Nose Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking down the isle at the Rhinebeck swap meet when I saw this old Jeepster nose. I thought it would look great on my CJ-7<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10a03-20140118-020430.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20140118-020430.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10a03-20140118-020430.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was amazed it fit in my trunk and left plenty of room for more stuff<\/p>\n<p>The first thing was to chop it up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8c83c-20140118-020549.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20140118-020549.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/8c83c-20140118-020549.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I took the center piece and test fit it on the jeep but I had to cut a full vertical rail from each side<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/b1ff2-20140118-020634.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20140118-020634.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/b1ff2-20140118-020634.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not bad but a little odd looking with the edges cut flush so I took the end pieces I trimmed off and cut off the tips then welded them to the center piece making a nicely shaped edge<\/p>\n<p>I cut the top off and welded it back upside down to make a nice peak instead of the rounded indentation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/db6e0-20140118-021037.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20140118-021037.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/db6e0-20140118-021037.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost perfect. A little body filler to finish the slope but not too much sanding. I love the weathered rough look<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3d465-20140118-021229.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20140118-021229.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/vibrant-4linuxsupport.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3d465-20140118-021229.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love my jeep&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking down the isle at the Rhinebeck swap meet when I saw this old Jeepster nose. I thought it would look great on my CJ-7 I was amazed it fit in my trunk and left plenty of room for more stuff The first thing was to chop it up. Then I took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}