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Wulfies nostalgia project
Bought this ol girl a few months ago. I always wanted a jeep since I was a kid. My step dad took me and my brother riding in a jeep back in the late 40'sa on our ranch. We went every where even down in the bottom of the creek. Ever since I wanted one. Well here it is. Got cj2a not completely complete and hacked up frame and F 134 engine from a cj3b was told. No data plates on anything. There is tub serial # 167884 and tail gate ser # 167885, engine ser. # 3J40413. Just got engine off to machine shop. Plan is to take front part of cj3b frame and marry it to rear half of cj2a frame and reuse L134 engine. Reason for marriage of two frames is the cj2a frame front end Bubba hacked it up and it has cracks in front cross member, Bubba also hacked back off of the cj3b frame. The cj2a L134 engine was free but no compression. The F 134 engine may be frozen . In process of taking F134 engine out of its frame to remove front engine mounting plate to hopefully swap it to L 134 engine so that it will mount in cj3b frame without moving motor mounts.
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Belzona 1111 to the rescue
First pic is after I applied the patch . I taped off the area to apply patch, then few minutes after removed tape. Second pic is after 3or 4 hours put it under heat lamp of heat gun for several hours to increase strength. I put it in the sun . After it cured a while, it looked like brand new steel.
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Couple more observations about springs
First pic is the front springs off of the cj3b frame which im gonna put back on , they in good shape. The pic shows an extra plate in one of the stacks, there is about one leaf difference in the two stacks , think im gonna take that lil plate of and make em more even in hight. Paint im using to paint springs, just painting outside of stack not in between each spring. Waiting on new center bolts , then take em apart clean up and paint.
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Check your rear end - so to speak.....
You always want to take the differentials apart - there are surprises that might be in there if you "assume" things are going to be OK.
All that was between me and a disaster was a thin eroded safety wire. That bolt head could have brought things to a quick halt!