Mike from Deerfield Wis. proud Willys owner!

Hi, Mike here from Deerfield Wis. I have restored my 47 CJ2A from the ground up. 8 month project! I purchased the Jeep in 1974 when I was young and crazy! Man we had fun with the old WILLYS. Never did much to it. After a few years, a marriage, 3 kids, she just sat around, and after about 30 years I decide to bring it back to life! After much ribbing from my kids, I decided to go head first into a complete restoration. It was my new years resolution! With much help from Mike with Kaiser, she looks new again, Michigan yellow is her color! It was a very proud day when we rolled it out of the shop an fired it up! I do have an issue with transfer case fluid leaking out the rear seal. It initially seemed ok, but lately it runs out rather steadily. I installed new seals during the rebuild. Anybody out there have the same issues? Other than that she runs like a top. Still a few things I need to do. Heat!! and wipers. Mostly a fair weather machine these days! much different than when I was 20!! Happy to be on board!

Mike

Welcome Mike. Grats on getting the Jeep back in shape. There always seems to be something to do on them but that's part of the fun.

I would check the seal , I have installed a seal before and when installing the yolk , rolled or cut the seal lip . caused a leak. had to replace the seal again. also check the sealing surface on the shaft or yolk, if its grouved tha will also cause a leak

Does anyone have a tip for getting the transfer case output seals out? I have been beating on it using a slide hammer with a “J” hook but haven’t been able to get it to move. I haven’t seen any other pullers that will fit between the shaft and the seal.

I quit being lazy and pulled the bearing cap after I tore up the J hook on my slide hammer. Much easier to drive the seal out than to pull it.

It escapes me to where I saw it, but there is a tool that screws into the I.D. of the seal, then a puller is attached. It worked pretty slick. If I can come across where I saw it, I'll share the information.

We improvise when we need to. I had to pull a seal way down in a cavity on, of all things, a genuine Roto-Tiller - circa 1950.

I drilled and threaded a hole in the metal ring and screwed two bolts/big screws into the ring and pushed the seal out using the screws as jack posts.

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Originally Posted by gmwillys

It escapes me to where I saw it, but there is a tool that screws into the I.D. of the seal, then a puller is attached. It worked pretty slick. If I can come across where I saw it, I'll share the information.

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This sounds like something the military would have had but I don’t recall seeing anything like that in the manuals. I may have another look.

The hard part is working around the shaft. There isn’t a lot of room

It seems I ran across a video on utube. A guy was rebuilding a transfer case, and was going step by step. My problem is that sometimes I have that kind of videos running in the background while doing other things around the house. But if I was a betting guy, that's where I'd look first. It wasn't in a manual, that I do know.