Vintage Willys @ The Rubicon Trail 2018

chasendeer wrote:

Wade had the right shirt picked out that morning!!!

This is funny. Wades shirt and then the orange shirt you see me wearing in the background is this one:

Stan
48 CJ2A (Grampa's Jeep)
59 Chevy 1/2 ton
Grampa's Jeep Build Thread

I want to go. As of next summer I will live only a few hundred miles away. I won't have a jeep suitable for it for a few years though so I will have to pitch in as a rider for now. I think my MB would file for divorce if I take it through there.

Alan Johnson
1942 MB - "TBD"
1943 MB - "Lt Bob"
1950 cj3a
M-100 x2
teardrop camper: https://forums.g503.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=201740

It’s that an engine knock in the videos from your jeep Stan?

Paul F
East Coast Willys Association
MASSACHUSETTS PATROL IFFC

bkwudz wrote:

It’s that an engine knock in the videos from your jeep Stan?

Annoying isn’t it?

It’s been knocking like that for two years now. I have good oil pressure so I don’t think it could be a bearing. It also sounds kind of deep like it might be in the rear of the engine. I’m a terrible mechanic and just try to put things back the way I found them. I may have a crankshaft end play problem because I didn’t really check that when I put it together, or a piston slap, or a wrist pin or some other mysterious issue.

I have a couple of more Jeep adventures this year, then I guess I’ll pull it out and see if I can figure it out. I have an annoying leak in the front of the transmission that I should take another useless attempt at fixing as well so i guess I’ll just pull the whole mess out and see what I can do.

I hope the knock is something obvious because if it isn’t I’ll never find it.

bkwudz wrote:

do your guys think the lower gears, slower crawling reduced the trail damage?

I have the same drive train set up as last year (same knock too), but Rick G had lower gears this year and he hit the obstacles a lot softer this year.

I added extra layers to my stock skid plate, fabbed some skid plates for the transmission cross member that also protected the pedal cross tube assembly along with skid plates for the axle u-bolts. I think they made a big difference on undercarriage damage. You probably noticed in the videos that my stock height causes me to drag quite a bit more than the others.

Stan
48 CJ2A (Grampa's Jeep)
59 Chevy 1/2 ton
Grampa's Jeep Build Thread

Here is some trail damage on “Shiela”

CJ2A #29110 "General Willys"
MB #204827 "BAM BAM"

"We do what we can, and we try what we can't"

jpet wrote:

My damage report:
Body damage from the rollover. Mostly came from rolling the jeep back over..
Windshield tore off and glass broke. I think this happened when they turned the jeep 90 degrees so it could be rolled back over.

Yep. I looked closely at the video, frame by frame, and I don’t think the glass was even broke until we spun it around to flip it back over. The windshield frame was clearly not broke until we started the recovery effort.......sorry, Jeff.

bkwudz wrote:

do your guys think the lower gears, slower crawling reduced the trail damage?

I absolutely think that was big part of it. My lower gears were certainly advantageous to me. This year I was at 65:1, last year I was 44:1 (I had the T90C gears but didn’t realize it, until the modifications this year). The other thing that hurt me last year was that my pressure plate was burnt up (had gotten hot and springs lost their temper) and not functioning properly. I realized this during the winter rebuild and that has made a world of difference in crawling also. But, yes, lower gears are crucial and advantageous.

Oh, yeah, skid plates on everything helps Wink

1947 CJ2a #119929 "Gus"
1951 CJ3a #451-GB1-24268 “Newt”

My Videos

Thanks to all for the trail damage reports. They are useful and informative.

There's a reason it's called Ol' Unreliable

great video Rick, thanks for the effort!

Paul F
East Coast Willys Association
MASSACHUSETTS PATROL IFFC

Yes it is a magnetic coffee/water holder. Wish we would have had two.

Vintage Willys @ The Rubicon Trail 2018 - Event Date: 29 July 2018 - 02 Aug. 2018