What did you do on your jeep today? - June 2018 - The CJ2A Page Forums

Mark, get you an old socket and cut a decent sized slot across it (to slip the cotter pin through) and squeeze it with a c-clamp enough to slide the pin thru the hole.

'47 CJ2A PU
'48 CJ2A Lefty

"Common sense is not that common"

Put a little wiring on the farm jeep untill it started to rain again lastnight, so worked on cleaning the fuel tank.
Weather says 20% rain so I drove the 46 to work this morning with the windshield down.

1946 cj2a #28680
1948 chevy 3800 thriftmaster
1946-50's cj2a-3a farm jeep
1993 yj, aka the yj7

Took it to a shop and said fix it!

RICH

1947 cj2a (Toy From Hell)

I hit a semi-local salvage yard and picked up a new air cleaner. I want a Donaldson style unit so I can fit a snorkel, but I don't have the room in the engine bay for one.

A week or so back I remembered that my mom's old beater "The Beast' had a canister-style air cleaner. It was an 88 Dodge Colt Vista. God, I hated working on that thing...

Anyway, this is the 'proof-of-concept' mockup. The cleaner is 88 Dodge Colt Vista, the hose is RV furnace ducting, and the 'carb bonnet' is from a TBI Magnum V8 Dakota. Total cost including a new filter was $31

I'm going to cut welds on the canister to remove the factory brackets and the oval inlet. I'll fab up new brackets and a 3" round inlet and get it mounted up. I'll likely hit the salvage yard again and see if I can fabricobble ducting from the air cleaner to the carb bonnet.

The eventual snorkel will be in the same location as on an M38, but I'm going to build a free-standing mount for it so I don't have to take it down to drop the windshield. We fold it down any time we can get away with it.

usmcpmi wrote:

Well, I figure that if it was an issue with right hand lug nuts coming loose, all the cars on the highway would have right and left hand studs and nuts...I've been bending wrenches for almost 40 years...and only seen wheels come off a few times...everytime it was because of human error...MG

I had the same question a few years back and went digging for the answer.

It turns out that RH threads on old wheels will back off driving down the road and LH threads stay tight.

The

moment in the industry was actually a change in the rim design.

If you look at the lug hole in a stock KH Willys rim, you'll see that the steel around the hole is flat. The edge is beveled to accept the acorn nut, but the metal around the hole is flat.

In fact, if you look at the back side of the rim, you'll notice that the stud hole is mostly unsupported. There are a pair of ridges or rings located inside and outside the radius of the bolt circle that take the load of torqued lug nuts, but they don't provide enough clamping force to actually lock the lug nut down.

Contrast that to a modern steel rim. It has a convex cone pressed into it and that the area where the lug nut torques down sits directly against the drum/flange. When you tighten a modern acorn nut against this cone, the compression of the rim against the drive flange prevents the nut from backing out all by itself. It's essentially a permanent, built-in lock washer.

So if you're going to use modern rims, you can use all RH wheel studs. If you're going to use period correct rims, you should use LH wheel studs on the left side of the vehicle.

And now I need to step out and properly torque the transmission drive gear nut down and take the kids out for ice cream. Big smile

Edited by LesBerg - 16 June 2018 at 12:23am

1948 CJ2A 157713 24" Stretch "Old Ironsides"
1st Armored Div
6th Infantry Reg
3rd Infantry Bn
Headquarters Company #161

rubigo in quo speramus - "In Rust we Trust"

Painted the wheels, put on new tires and added new wheel bearings

T. Nick
If it's not broke, work on it till it is!

48 CJ2A #192834 "Grunt"

I had a thought I was going to flat tow my salad to my work and then drop it off with the fellow who is going to get it running for me....but the daily driver S10 sits just a little too low for the jacked up Willys Jeep...so we are hiring a flatbed to pick it up instead...I also learned you cant back it up when it is on the end of the tow bar....it does tow ok around the yard tho...so took it for a walk around the yard....

I am the squirrel....

I unloaded it from the trailer, with the same mileage on it that was there when I loaded it Friday......... Cry

BW

It is NOT a Jeep Willys! It is a Willys jeep.

Happy Trails! Good-bye, Good Luck, and May the Good Lord Take a Likin' to You!

We Have Miles to Jeep, Before We Sleep.

Not much today. Figure out about buying gas. oh yeah master cylinder is out.

Jus another hurdle.

uncamonkey

Drove it, between the rain spells, and got the mail.

Rick Estes