July 2020 What did you do to your Willys today?

Thought I would fix / install choke cable / conversion. My cj2a came with a Dauntless Oddfire so has Rochester carb with a heat activated (bi metallic coil spring) automatic choke. I found out the knob with choke written on it (which I thought was glued into the dashboard hole, was in fact a fully operational choke cable and was rusted tight and just not pushed through the fire wall, a bit of wd40, oil and fiddling about and fabricating bracket on the carb, a fully functional manual choke was working beautifully.   I was only just going to take a look to see what I would have to buy! A great result and much better than having to open the hood, remove top of air filter  and chucking in a glug of gas down the ole girl's throat! And then trying to remember where I put the wing nut that holds the air filter together AND hoping that I never dropped it down into the carb! 

* I need to get on and fix brake, turn signal and tail lights next. (Probabaly should have done those before taking grandkids out and fixing the choke..... oh well!)   

It feels good when you get a good job done on these vehicles.  

Just wondering......

How difficult is it to remove a fender.  I have the dautless v6 squeezed in to my cj2a and I either have to remove fender or battery and hydraulic pump to get at the spark plugs. 

I took the steering gear, and column out yesterday, and will install a rebuilt one this weekend. This is much easier to do with the fender removed. Once unbolted it will come right out but you have to rotate it sideways with the Pitman arm on top to clear the oil pump. I will rebuild this steering box for my other project and use the one already built for that in this Jeep.

As to how hard is it to remove the fender:

One of the two bolts holding the brace to the frame was broken off years ago, the other was gauled in there with rust so took some heat, time, and penetrating oil to get those out. Other than that there are bolts into captive nuts at the grill and body tub which you can squirt from the backside with penetrating oil a few days ahead of surgery, and they usually come out. There are a couple of tabs on the splash apron which bolt into the frame, and one tab on the inside near where the fuel pump is that bolts to the frame. Usually a terminal block and a horn which have to be unbolted from the driver side fender, these bolts are often badly rusted but they are small bolts which break easily, and can be replaced.

Thank you very much.  That was VERY HELPFUL,  thank you again. 

Best regards Colin 

Had a brief moment of suspense when I first applied the brakes coming down a slight hill. What I thought was a firm pedal suddenly went almost to the floor, apparently the percieved firmness was just something stuck after sitting so long. It did stop, but I sure will be giving the brake system some serious attention.

The previous owner had half way converted it to disc brakes on front. I say "half way" because it is just the disc brakes on the front hubs, still has the stock single master cylinder, and still has original wheel studs which are not long enough. I haven't decided whether to keep the discs, or just convert back to the original style drum brakes.