Jeep Gets Floored (Jeep CJ5 Rebuild part 7)

Keepin' on with rebuilding the 1956 Willys Jeep CJ5 I pulled out the woods last summer. In this episode, I use my recently finished electromagnetic sheet metal brake to make the front floor pans and supports.
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[@RotarySMP]

Great video, as always. Thanks for sharing your progress Jeremy. "this thing took about five months longer than I expected" - Sounds like one of my 5 minute jobs :)

[@branchandfoundry560]

It's that MEME that's going around, "We don't do this because it's easy. We do this because we thought it would be easy."

[@joshwalker5605]

ok that magnetic brake is slick as hell

[@Mr49Studebaker]

Been waiting for more jeep content

[@rallymax2]

I grew up with a '68 Land Rover Series 2. I find it fascinating how similar this Jeep is to that LR. It's almost a runner!

[@65cj55]

Sweet, it's good to see another being saved.

[@canonsonico3752]

*predator vision* while sheet bending? Take my like, please

[@barthanes1]

Oh man, it looks like a Jeep again!

[@mattholden5]

@Jeremy_Makes_Things Man, this really drives home your previous introspective question of how much original material is required to consider it a rebuild vs a new design. You're dancing a fine line, and I'm enjoying watching you go through the process. Thank you fro sharing.

[@RB-yq7qv]

The girl is coming along. The welding never ends

[@chunkdaddy4733]

Nice. I just found your channel and binged all the Jeep content. Then boom another one.

[@honeycuttracing]

Project lookin good and the magnetic break is great 👍

[@mikebroom1866]

2 mons ago I got the TOPDON TC001 with coupon. DRASTICALLY better than competitors. I use it all the time, usually for battery cell temp. Today we measured the sunburn difference on my right / left arm from leaving it out the truck window.

[@Raketemensch42]

Yes, yes, Jeep! JEEP!

[@badjuju6563]

way better than expected, also thats good progress.

[@Qvantum46]

Youre a true master of turning rust into working objects, and the magnet bender seems to work great! :)

[@yeagerxp]

Good job 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦

[@be007]

slow but steady it goes. cheers ben.

[@WC4DOOR]

Great job, I learned a different sequence on bending hat channels, thanks for the tip. Try lead soldering your pin holes, works awesome.

[@RRINTHESHOP]

The brake looks to be working great. The Jeep is coming along nicely. Lots of work.

[@DangerousSportsForSeniors]

You, sir, are no amateur hack.

[@southmaplegarage]

Well done. You should make yourself a shrinking disc for your grinder. Its way easier to control the shrinking over the torch quench.

[@grippgoat]

Walking away from the dropping sheet metal. 😂

[@freeidaho-videos]

Nice brake! Good progress...

[@warrenjones744]

Bender is a win Jeremy. As is the body work. Nothing ever seems to go as planned when it comes to projects. But who cares, it keeps us out of the bars I always say.

[@splitchest9566]

It was only going to take 5 minutes but then the wife asked me "HOW LONG!!?😡" Now it's going to take all day.

[@stuartstephens]

Good work. The magnetic brake seems to be doing the job, although I'm thinking one of those inexpensive little cube shaped digital angle measurement devices would be a useful addition.

[@JeremyMakesThings]

For sure. I was pretty impressed when the bevel gauge stuck in place though.

[@jdmccorful]

Heck of a great job on the sheetmetal work. Thanks for the view and the sense of humor.

[@hassmakki]

I can't complement you enough. Keep up the great work. You're one of my favorite KZbin channel to watch

[@xne1592]

However long it took to make I'd say it was worth it. Most gratifying to make such a useful tool. Your ability and perseverance are admirable.

[@tomthompson7400]

well done.

[@Luzeon]

New subscriber here…I love this channel! A little bit of all things I like. Especially the metal casting to usable parts. Cheers, and I hope your thumb gets better quick!

[@ThePontiacmann]

Looks Very Nice. Love your Videos

[@rogerdeane3608]

Like your style, keep it up.

[@handbannana3610]

The floors look good! the one I did we just used 1"x3" rectangular tube for the bracing. It was a little thick right at the edge of the tub but I just pie cut it until it would fit. I'm pretty sure that the middle brace in the hump was never really spot welded to the floor on any of the CJ-5s I have worked on, It always seemed like it should be but that might have been why you had to fiddle with it so much.

[@edsmachine93]

Very nice work. Your bender is awesome. Great idea. Thanks for sharing.

[@BenMitro]

The fabrication is soooo good given the scarcity of sheet presses! The Jeep front section (grille) with the lights looks so much like the front of a mini moke.

[@Andrew_Fernie]

looking good 👍

[@Rustinox]

I think it looks great. A very nice result. And projects that takes "a bit" longer than expected, I think I know :)

[@davetyson2331]

well done

[@djuhen]

Very Nice

[@TheWoodyworker]

Fantastic

[@bryandale7125]

Good job! God bless in your continual build of this classic. I love old Jeeps, but three years ago I bought a new 2-door Rubicon and built it to handle all of the trails here in the Oregon mountains. But one day I would love to build an old CJ or TJ.

[@errolpoxleitner7901]

Good job

[@624Dudley]

I’m impressed with your brake. It looks to have been worth the time. 👍

[@Vikingwerk]

Impressive!

[@Wheel_Horse]

Enjoying the series so far! I did pretty much the same thing with an MGA a couple decades ago. One technique that might have helped you a bit, a little easier, it the "cut and butt", and the use of Cleco fasterners. But, that's water under the bridge now, isn't it?

[@Porkhammer]

Impressive metal work, you earned yourself a new subscriber. And no, I couldn't care less about its powerplant. :D You dragged it out of the woods, you do whatever you want with it. I'm just glad to see another jeep rescued.

[@garymucher4082]

I think it is coming along pretty nicely myself. Interesting magnetic metal break as well. Never thought about doing that. One of the best things about working with metal is, if you make a mistake, you can either weld more metal on, or just make another part... Thumbs Up

[@Devildog1962]

Just caught your newest video I've been waiting on this one for long time ⌛️. I'm not disappointed you are the man with the plan!!!!! I can't wait until you put out that next one. You are a impressive guy keep up what your doing.

[@nadam35]

love to see these videos, please keep releasing them! #4077

[@Dave.Wilson]

Fantastic job there Jeremy. thanks for sharing.

[@josephheyob1403]

love these videos! About to start my own CJ5. It's in about the same condition so these videos have been perfect to plan my restoration. Can't wait to see the next one!

[@sherylryan7038]

Thank God your back everythime I go on KZbin I think what happened to that Jeremy guy the mystery solved

[@dcpete3054]

nice work, I have been trying to find a project willys myself, the magnetic finger pincher,lol I meen brake could use some lifting handles.

[@belatoth3763]

I'd like to watch a video in some youtubers' wives speaking about their husbands hobby :) Jeremy is definately one of them but I'd be interested to watch a Keith Rucker video too 😂

[@JeremyMakesThings]

Did you see the one RotarySMP did with Mrs. Rotary? It was pretty comical.

[@belatoth3763]

@@JeremyMakesThings I'll check :)

[@belatoth3763]

@@JeremyMakesThings I found Shop Tour from Hell episode, really cute. Why are they ask us questions like that: "ok, it's a milling machine but what do you want to mill??" ? Shop art was cute too, mine has a painting of mine "The dancing bear and woman under the Moon". The white woman color was the prime and the black bear color was the finish on my self made pool table. Of steel of course :D

[@corytheriault2365]

Colin furze wife would be one I'd love 😆 all the tunnels

[@georgedennison3338]

Re: thermal cam When you don't have any plans to use the thermal cam w/ a project, set it up on your breaker panel, & record during a heavy machine use project. If it coincides w/ wife & kids at home, (if shop & house share power). The camera will pick up overheated circuits &/or hot breakers. This kind of diagnostic imaging could save your shop/home/lives by cluing you in to an overload circuit or aging breakers, (Breakers that have tripped frequently can become unreliable. While the design of a breaker SHOULD be fail in trip mode, there's a reason there are electrical fires caused by overloaded circuits.) The same kind of electrical forensic testing can be done w/ an inexpensive IR temp gun from HF. W/ a temp gun you get spot checks, but the camera is deluxe, time span forensics. Re: magnatron bender If there's a local scrap salvage yard where you might salvage some fingers from an old finger brake, you'd be set for all kinds of bending.

[@camillosteuss]

Whoever asked the questions, likely isnt a machinist or a fabricator, or any kind of metal artist... If they were, they would well know that one does not just undertake a project - without realizing along the way the need for 20 other projects, each of which would ease the completion of either still on the list... I am restoring 9 machines, to do that, i needed materials... Once those have been bought, i quickly realized that i cant finish any machine cleanup before disassembly, as i want to remove every component by undoing it, rather than sliding it off and potentially causing damage by any chips or grit in the ways... To do that, i need a heavy duty lift... Ok, i made one, but to finish the lift, i needed a functional lathe(see where this is going?) for rollers, wheels and other such ancillary parts... My only technically functional lathe needs a tailstock fix, for which i need a functional mill, which i do have, but i want to disassemble my mills and check them for any shit before using them(you know, full service before first use, regardless of where you got them from or of their apparent state)... To do that, i need a lift(round and round the wheel turns)... And this is just a fraction of the issues... And the same story repeats for every other machine, as all need a lift, as most parts are 100-500kg, which renders trying to move them either a suicide or even worse - damage to machine parts... And when i consider the lift, there the cycle repeats again... Not just the aforementioned, but i also need to make whats essentially a rack, so the lift could index along the ram`s length, while remaining low profile, as to be collapsible or to have the ram telescope into the main column for storage... To do that, i need a mill... So to finish off my lift which i need to service my machines, i need 2 functional machines, which i need the lift to get functional as per my standards before considering using them... Its a bloody mess and a damn chaos of shit just running in cycles and loops, always ending at ``oh, i wish that that project was done at least, but for it to be done, i need some other project to be finished first, which needs the first project in question to be finished first...``

[@SuperGrover]

Nice. If this was Minecraft that would be a Lexus...

[@HansWeberHimself]

Splendid!! Great work and it looks quite nice actually. Will you have a transmission? Did you really need to recreate that tunnel or are you just generally going for a faithful restoration?

[@JeremyMakesThings]

It will have a transmission still.

[@irritantno9]

Might want to build a rotisserie.

[@JeremyMakesThings]

The tub almost has enough structure to put it on a rotisserie now.

[@irritantno9]

@@JeremyMakesThings I really want to make a mag break now

[@kenknight4560]

The brake build was very interesting, seems costly and you have to have power to use it. There was a reason these never were a success in the market place, few if any advantages to a traditional box/pan brake. If the goal was to restore the Jeep, complete floor pans are available and time saved is a plus. We all live and learn.

[@JeremyMakesThings]

It was a few hundred dollars in materials, and the revenue from the build videos covered most, if not all of that. Just for fun, I worked out the electricity cost per bend, and it’s around 0.2cents, which is pretty negligible. There are certainly ways to use a normal brake for most of what this will do, but with this it’s much easier. Having the ends totally open allows a lot more flexibility for doing things like flanges in two different directions. If my only goal was to get the Jeep back on the road and money was no issue, I would have just bought a replacement tub, but that doesn’t make for very good content…but I probably wouldn’t be spending the time to make videos about it anyway. I’m learning a lot and have no regrets on this build.

[@christopherbill8537]

The brake is awesome - any thoughts on adjustable stops on it for the upper clamping piece?

[@troyd-motorsport9933]

Great Video Jeremy! What thickness have you found the magnetic benders can handle? Would it handle 1/8"/3mm aluminium sheet? Thanks!

[@billbradley3946]

Looks like the next project might be a shear.....

[@JeremyMakesThings]

I wish I had room for a big stomp shear.

[@kisoia]

Great job, thanks for the video 👍 What gauge sheet metal for the floors are you using?

[@JeremyMakesThings]

18ga

[@kisoia]

@@JeremyMakesThings Thanks - your brake bends that very nicely :)

[@deeiks12]

I wonder why they chose to make the bracing curved, not straight. Seems like its way more difficult to manufacture that way.

[@JeremyMakesThings]

The original was stamped, so it probably formed better with the curves rather than sharp angles

[@kendingsor]

I like the part where you bent stuff

[@JeremyMakesThings]

That was a really good part.

[@Sweetlou22]

What gauge metal are you using ?

[@JeremyMakesThings]

18ga

[@davevanatta1965]

factory leafs or lifted ? if liftd where ya get

[@JeremyMakesThings]

Factory

[@user-mn6ng6dn5b]

Is that a Vespa Piaggio 50cc moped in the background?

[@JeremyMakesThings]

Indeed it is

[@user-mn6ng6dn5b]

@@JeremyMakesThings 😍 A Bravo. Cannot see the taillight in the video. If it’s round, we’re talking 1978’ish? Otherwise early 80’s I suppose. Love it!

[@user-mn6ng6dn5b]

@@JeremyMakesThings and your videos! I laughed so hard sometimes I started coughing and had problems breathing 🤣🤣🤣

[@JeremyMakesThings]

It’s a 78, has the big oval tail light

[@user-ef9ww3vv9q]

Tem muita conversa e pouco serviço

[@jeremylastname873]

I sure hope you got the title to the Jeep before putting so much effort into it. 😅 Please don’t ask why I say this. 😂

[@hrxy1]

superb vid thanks

[@Mad-Duk_Machine_Werkes]

Looking REALLY good- excellent progress- that Magna-Bender is kick ass! If you dont already watch him, check out "Low-Buck Garage" he has a TON of fixing up old Jeep videos and hacking together a bunch of BROKEN old rusty junk into working old rusty junk -