July 2020 What did you do to your Willys today?

redrunner wrote:

I pulled the boat to the lake with my wife and let the golden retriever swim to her heart's content.

I am glad to hear about how you treat your family. The retriever & Willys included. It sounds like a good time was had by all!

I pulled the boat to the lake with my wife and let the golden retriever swim to her heart's content.

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.”

It looks like the felpro kit from autozone has both gaskets OS4350AD .

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

Yeah you will have a gasket between the block and the oil pan, and if you have to take the pickup tube off it will have one too. Truth being if you just want to see how it runs you’re probably fine starting with some fresh oil and doing a good cleaning later. I like cleaning them though, a couple gaskets and an afternoon is cheap insurance considering how important oil flow is for any engine.
A good discussion about the pick up here. https://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/cleaning-oil-pickup_topic14657.html

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

All good information. I've mentioned it before, but my mechanical knowledge is next to zero! This is my first time drinking thre oil in something larger than a riding lawnmower...

Got the oil drained. It wasn't sludgy at all. Unfortunately, I couldn't run the engine to warm the oil up because the engine doesn't run yet. I had some kerosene on hand, so I poured that in. Gonna let it sit for a bit, then crank the engine with the starter to move it around, and drain that. After that, I'll plan on removing the oil pan and cleaning it up. I have my fresh oil and an oil filter ready to go.

Thank you all for the advice!!

Edited by Rockgod1619 - 30 July 2020 at 5:02pm

'51 CJ3a - Papa Doc (51829)

I use diesel fuel instead of kerosene and mixed with some motor oil to flush with. I also use the same solution to clean parts with.

Jim

47 CJ2A (Ranch Hand) 48 CJ2A, 48 Willys truck, T3C 3782, M274 (Military Mule)

I think flushing the crankcase with Kerosene is a good idea.

When I was in Alaska 50 years ago a hunting guide told me they put kerosene in with the oil so the Jeeps would turn over in the cold weather.

Back in 87 I drove a Trooper into a mud hole that was more like a pond, and tried to back it out.

Unknown to me the air intake was submerged which allowed muddy water to be inhaled into the intake.

Total rebuild was necessary after I got it pulled out and towed home.

Before tearing it down I drained about half the frothy oil and poured in a couple quarts of Kerosene, started it and let it run a few minutes. I knew the damage was already done, but the flushing did clean it out pretty well.

The crankshaft on that puppy looked like it had been threaded!

I am not recommending running your possibly good engine with kerosene, but I would consider putting some in the crankcase and turning the engine over with the starter a while, rinse and repeat a few times with a day or two between cycles

Edited by Oldpappy - 30 July 2020 at 4:27am

If you can't get there in a Jeep you don't need to be there!

Just finished a full brake rebuild/mod (11" drums, slave cylinders, MC, lines and hoses) on my M38 resto project.

Have a similar setup on my '48 CJ2a done (poorly) by a PO (shoes backwards, self adjusters incorrectly installed, kind of cobbled lines). Plan to dig into that next to get it right.

M38 chassis coming along well, and ready to drop in tranny/tcase/brake/prop shafts, and rebuilt Ross. Ignitor, generator,, starter,, regulator and radiator all rebuilt and ready to install. Waiting for engine to be remanufacturered, then should be very close to a rolling, running chassis (Oct/Nov???). Better Half needs her garage bay back before winter!

Then, on to tub (which fortunately is in pretty decent shape).

Meanwhile, I drive my CJ2a for weekend jollies.

'48 CJ2a "Snakeskin"
'50 M38 "Thunder from Heaven"
'52 M38a1 "Patina"
'47 T3c
'48 T3c
'52 M100

As long as the electrodes are not burned away and the gap is correct there is no hurry on getting new plugs.

What I did to my Jeep today is decide what I am going to do with the brakes. I am going to remove the half done, highly questionable disc brake conversion the previous owner did in front, and install 11" drum brakes with self adjusters. From what I have seen so far I don't have much confidence in anything the previous owner "upgraded", and I have most of the parts for the 11" drum brakes already.

If you can't get there in a Jeep you don't need to be there!