Made some good progress on the front end today. I scavenged a hood latch of of a 1990 LWB at the junkyard today and after a whole lot of tightening and loosening and adjusting, I got the hood to close and latch/unlatch properly.

Strangely, the latch bracket from the 90 is not interchangeable with the SWB 89, so I had to reuse the old bracket with a little bit of bending/adjusting.

Just a bit of shimming now and the body panels will be lined up well enough to start fixing small dinks and prepping for paint.

The seats and interior also cleaned up very nicely. I may live with them for a while until I reupholster since they came out so nice.


1989 Montero LS
1997 Jeep Wrangler