Father son project cj2/3

I just picked up a new project. My hope is to instill some of my passion for jeeps within my 8 year old son and 5 year old daughter. They are both really excited to build a jeep with dad. I bought this basket case. The title says 1950, and the owner said its a 3a but it has a lot of 2a parts.... but the tub and frame appear to be 3a.... but who cares! I like it. It came with a solid frame, decent tub, and a massive amount of spare parts, axles, etc. It is missing a few things, but I should be able to build a jeep with everything I have laying around. The poor thing had a lot of work done to is and some expensive parts purchased but never installed. But it also sat outside at some point because the intake was full of water. I spent hours pulling the head and intake/exhaust manifold. I got it all cleaned out.... cylinders were fine intake was a mess. no water in oil.... but some of the valve guides and springs had rust on them. Anyway... 15 hours later she fired right up! Sounded good but smoked when you rev it. Once I freed up a sticky valve compression was good. only about 5-7psi difference between cylinders average. 110psi. not great, but enough for now. Im about 1 week into it so far and have made some progress. It came with teraflex shackles... I took them off and put stock on. I also worked at cleaning up and painting the areas of the frame where the shackle hangers are... the owner said he had the frame "restored" but they just painted over rust in some areas so I have been working at that. It is very solid. The only area that needed fixed was the corners of the rear cross member.  I am just patching those areas... the rest of the frame is good. The rear bumper was also just tacked on so I am making some better mounting plates so I can run a pintle or factory draw bar. The jeep came with brand new seat cushions, but no frames. I found a crusty set of frames for $50 locally. They are gross but better than spending $450 for a new set. Sorry to drag on but you are up to speed now. I will try to post updates as they come. :)    

Love it and love your helper.

Good luck with it. Our old MB was supposed to be a father sons project and I did all of the work. Our father just grinned when he drove it but at least he put fuel in it when he was done.

Looking good already! Sheetmetal looks clean too. Lucky you! 

nofender wrote: Looking good already! Sheetmetal looks clean too. Lucky you!

X2 on that, just wanted to add 110psi compression is excellent I think new stock is 115psi. Joe Wadoyado   Went back and checked manual 111 psi. at 185 rpm's, so that 110 psi is like new. Joe

Edited by wadoyado - 21 Nov. 2017 at 8:42am

Does anyone have the hole size and location for the PTO hole in the rear bumper? 

Millennium falcon wrote: Does anyone have the hole size and location for the PTO hole in the rear bumper?

Run a line down the centers of the two leftmost holes for the pintle hook.  At 3-1/4" left of that line and 2-1/2" below a line across the two bottom pintle hook holes should be the center of your 1-1/2" PTO hole.  That's what I measured on two frames.

Nice work and a heck of a good start! Despite the gross seat frames! Lol

Doodledad wrote: Nice work and a heck of a good start! Despite the gross seat frames! Lol