Grampa's Cj2a

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   had a weird weekend trying to get the new motor in. Lot's of little issues came up that kept me from getting very far.
First off I learned that there are different size aligning pins on some flywheels. The flywheel of the engine coming out and that I had planned to use on the new engine, had smaller pins with nuts that are the same size as the other flywheel bolts. The new engine crankshaft had larger aligning pins so that they would not fit into my intended flywheel. Luckily I had the original flywheel from the rebuilt motor, but the ring gear was bad. So ring gear swap. I'd never done that before.  Here's an Instagram video of what I did. Turn on the audio to hear me explain how I did it. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMF5r9zD-Ze/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

So that held me up for an hour or so and finished out my Friday evening.

Next, I put the new pilot bushing on the nose of my transmission input shaft and it slid right on, but once i knocked it into the flywheel it was too tight and the  junk input shaft that I use for alignment wouldn't go in. My garage is not super equipped with stuff and the only thing I could think of to open the bushing up a little bit with was a piece of emery cloth rolled up.  So I spent about 40 minutes twisting that rolled up emery cloth in the bushing until I could get that shaft into it. After that, I finally got the new clutch bolted on. 

Next issue, I went to install the new oil pump that the machine shop  had sent and it would not go all the way in. I could not imagine what the deal was, brand new pump, spins fine, stops about 1.5-2 inches from seating.  Finally I pulled the old pump out of the old engine to look at it. Gears slope the wrong way. The new pump is a chain drive application and I have a gear drive engine.  Crap, Saturday afternoon, where am I going to get a correct pump and get on with this? I called my friend Dave Delight of Quick Draw Jeep Restorations. He does lots of war jeeps and I thought there might be a chance if he had a gear drive pump he might trade me. Halleluiah! He dug around under some other parts and junk and came up with a brand new pump.  So off to Dave's place. He's about 35 minutes from my house and he has lots of cool jeeps and projects going all the time. He likes to talk about them and I like to hear about them, so about two hours lost going to Dave's to swap pumps with him.

Next issue, I start to move stuff that is bolted to the top of the engine like the air filter cross over tube and the oil filter. The machine shop used head studs that were too short for any accessories to be bolted on using them. There just wasn't enough thread sticking out. So another hour shot swapping out about a half dozen head studs.  

Now it's 7:30. I haven't had any dinner and I am teaching a Sunday School class in the morning that I haven't even looked at and if I don't spend some time studying I'm going to be tap dancing instead of gospel teaching. 

Needless to say, the engine is still sitting on the floor. 