Not much to update.
-I found weld-thru primer at NAPA.
-My POR finally came from amazon, I need a better option for buying it. Maybe direct from POR and wait for sales.
-Still need to go get steel from a guy I know.
-Took a drive last weekend and dumped my lawn waste on the special day they have for it (stupid and aggravating)
-Then I took a longer drive out to a new Jeep show that was ok but needs a lot of work to make it enjoyable. I hope the try again next year. They are a motocross track and not jeep people so they completely guessed at what it takes to entertain us and most of the "trails" were the moto track and open pasture. The wooded section was supposedly ok, but we didn't get in there due to a traffic jam. (bad mud, steep hill, no way around and no exit trail so it was a dead end until a buggy broke in the trail better). The announcer guy said they weren't allowing vehicles without winches so mine sat parked all day. Then we got out there in my buddy's jeep and saw plenty of them without winches. We later found out is was only the woods, not the whole thing. They failed to communicate that, and didn't have ANY signage at all labeling things or requirements. Tech inspection consisted of looking to see if we had seatbelts. I was nevertheless pretty pissed but I ended up having a good talk with one of the staff about some suggestions and to check out our club/show we do in September if they wanted to see some helpful things. They offered me a refund and I took it because I spent a half tank of gas driving to/from, and the entry fee was $40/day!!! Ouch. A full weekend with real obstacle course and everything for our show is less than that. Felt a little like a Karen but oh well. Im not new to this, so why I heard something different than everyone else when I was standing right next to the announcer is beyond me. My buddy and his gf heard what I heard, but I didn't ask around too much. Once you got on the "trails" there wasn't a good way to get off, so it was a long drive through everything and then we packed up and left. I did manage to supply tools and help fix a couple jeeps so good thing I went I guess.
Made some new cherokee friends kinda and they all had sick XJ builds. Varying rollcages with good ideas for mine, OBA systems that had input I can add, and one even has a RAD standalone shifter! Never seen one in person before. I want one. They all had bumpers and stuff built by the guy Im getting my steel from. One of them had a badass bumper setup I liked. Might have to see if he can duplicate it for me. Or learn and do it myself. They all had rockers done so I looked at that for a bit. Oddly enough I didn't see a lot of unibody stiffeners on them, even though everything else was armored.