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nofender
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Very nice sir! Nice to see the tag along hitched up all proper like. They do tow nice don't they!
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46 CJ2a rockcrawler
46 CJ2a - 26819 46 Bantam T3c "4366" 47 Bantam T3C - 11800 68-ish CJ5 |
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mbullism
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I'm a little upset you trailer people didn't tell me ... happy to find out on my own, but if I knew this three years ago..... |
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masscj2a
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Painted mine last week. Just waiting for a day of not working on the B to get it assembled. Maybe tomorrow, now that I fixed the oil slick. I'm still trying to decide if I keep the pintle or not.. Yours came out mighty fine mister. Want to come over and show off your skills? š
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1946 CJ2a Dauntless aka Jalopy
1946 VEC stock 1981 CJ-8 5.3 LS 1966 CJ-6 SBC TUX 1968 CJ-6 225 V6 1974 CJ-6 4.2 1967 M-416 East Coast Modified CJ's |
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mbullism
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I've been living with a leak I could not find for a while now, slightly high idle and had to run with just a little choke. I sprayed around everything, and even tried propane... nothing. The little bit of blue smoke I had was written off to valve guides. I had to add a quart of oil a couple weeks back but thought nothing of it after all the driving I've been doing... til Saturday when I had to add another quart.
I pulled the pcv and found it "well oiled"... dripping, actually. The valve is not being pulled closed at idle, leaving me an open "intake leak" I couldn't find by spraying, and at my slightly elevated idle rpm near high vacuum it was just sucking oil to be burned off. This is cleaned up, but really nothing jumping out at me "wrong": . . I temporarily plugged the hole in the manifold and instantly idling like a kitten down to around 500 rpm with no choke. It's been time for a valve adjust, I'm going to strip back to the valve cover and redo everything back out. Still a little puzzled, but thrilled to have finally found "something" |
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ggordon49
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Very Interesting MB, I'm thinking cleaning of the
Edited by ggordon49 - 05 Aug. 2019 at 2:42pm |
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- Don't Let The Fatherless Ones Grind You Down -
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mbullism
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Yay! Valve adjust day is finally here (sarcasm )
. . I knew this would be coming fast the day I lapped the valves, and I've been putting it off... and now I know why . First order of business was to clean up some of that NH mud splatter to get the surgical area clean...ugh. . Second order of business was this coffee table puzzle getting this cover outta here, lol, but there is a way... thank goodness . . no boring pics of feeler gauges and all, but it was pretty easy with the fender off, well worth the time. Only one of eight valves required no adjustment, and several were way off. Test drive was much "quieter" Last order of business was redoing the pcv stuff on the way back to whole... . . A little time with a vac gauge, timing light and a tach and we're happily idling around 7-800rpm without the choke. Still needs a little tweaking and dialing in, but hopefully the oil consumption is in the past. Next step is new (clean) plugs, rechecking points and dwell, and a final vac gauge timing session... oh, and get the rest of NH in the bucket
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ndnchf
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I need to adjust my valves too. Did you remove the valve cover with the fuel pump on? I dont want to remove the exhaust or manifolds. I will remove the fender. Getting that cover off and out looks challenging.
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1948 CJ2A - It goes nowhere fast, but anywhere slow.
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mbullism
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I found exactly one way to slide the the loose cover rearward far enough to then clear the exhaust and remove the cover towards the front... I did, however, have to hold my tongue just right, and squint with my left eye
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Spinnas
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So did you āfixā the PCV?
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mbullism
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I believe so, but ultimately time will tell. ...and by fix i mean i replaced everything from the valve cover gasket to the intake taking extra care at every interface. it no longer acts like it has a vacuum leak and idles well without the choke, i just need to watch for future oil consumption. i put a 50 mile spin on it yesterday afternoon and can say, if nothing else, the exhaust smells better
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Brian3
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Congrats on finding your trouble. About how long did your adjustment job take?
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I wish people would quit hittin' me on the head. MQ
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mbullism
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I had the front clip off for an engine swap recently, so everything that needed to come apart didn't fight me. I also spent a decent amount of time just cleaning to be sure I wouldn't invite grit into the work. With that in mind, +/- :
Removing the fender 20min Removing the PCV stuff 10min Removing the valve cover 15min (should have been 5min, lol) Adjusting the valves 30min Cleaning old gaskets and resealing new 20min Reinstall Valve cover and PCV 30min Reinstall fender 20min So roughly 2-1/2 hours straight through...add about an hour cleaning and a half hour after for rechecking and adjusting timing and whatnot and it was an easy four hours...which took closer to 5 or six what with stopping for lunch and misc honeydo stuff. Started about 9am, test driving by 3pm |
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TeddieG
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I just found this thread, and I now totally understand the response you made to my post about weird cotter pin stuff. LOL! Bubba had to think on the fly and within budget! In retrospect, it makes me sort of appreciate their thinking and doing. Where would my jeep be, if they just parked it and said goodbye to the little piece of junk? Owners were mostly depression era people, and they knew how to tinker and fix stuff with baling wire, crappy welding if they had such an animal, nails for cotter pins, etc. Bless their little hearts!
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mbullism
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You're on it, TG ... A lot of people hate on the Bubba, but those people fought the best the knew how (or could) to save these for us (though that wasn't the thinking in the moment )
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TeddieG
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There are a number of things that irritate me greatly that Bubba did, but we know he had a reason. This Jeep did not get all bent up while he was out joyriding. He was looking for cows, feeding them during blizzards, etc. and there a plenty of bumps out in NM pasture lands. Repairs were made like my Daddy made things: Oil field stout!
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Teddie
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mbullism
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Dejavu all over again ā¦ much like the RMC genset engine was a
parallel project until it got swapped into 69750, this is also a parallel thatās
crossing over. The RMC that replaced the
āoriginalā supersonic was always meant as a placeholder while the Kaiser engine
got redone. That hasnāt happened,
lol. The RMC is still coming out, to keep the hours/miles on it down, potentially to find a home in an M38 as yet undiscovered, to be replaced with
this: Or more specifically, this: The welder started life in the Navy and letās face it, the
Navy buys stuff they donāt build stuff in a manufacturing sense. The numbers on the Navy and Hobart tags agree
with the ESN on the block, so Iām 99% the hour meter represents the engine,
supported by the factory 3.125ā bores. It
was eventually sold off as surplus, bought by a local college, and as parts to
keep it going became less and less available it was then given to a college
employee who wanted the L134 to repower his gensetā¦ which never happened. The genset and welder sat outside beside his
house for years... waitingā¦ ya, waiting for me to stumble by .
The genset remains an uninvolved parallelā¦for now. This block is a dedicated industrial, manufactured around
1968 towards the end of L134 production, possibly one of the last go devils
ever cast. The plan is to break this
down, clean it up and verify bearings, bores etc., run out the decent fall weather
on the RMC and swap these this winter. May the Willys gods have mercy on my soul Edited by mbullism - 01 Sep. 2019 at 2:42pm |
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shadow
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Just reading back in your post and the Ramsey winch how were your drum brake pucks if they still existed, and what were you thinking for a replacement , the ones that came out of mine were in pieces, this is something I contemplate when I walk by my winch on the bench from time to time.
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lets go for a rip eh bud
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mbullism
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I had one left... I had formulated a plan to cut a plug from a matching thickness front disk brake pad, but ultimately "blinked" and bought a new pair from detroit wrecker... I see the're on "sale" (oof)...I think a pair to my house was almost $50 at the time
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