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    TJ's GMH is well over and beyond the rest of ours's. He has a dedicated interior decorator, and his OCD will not let it get all jumbled up. Someday mine will be as nice as his!

    The wheels are a well needed improvement. The weld on option for the wheels is just aggravating, but you won the day.

    You did well on your Honda XL-100!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike P View Post
    Well tell him to contact me! I need to thin the herd, ha! And thanks!
    I will let him know for sure Mike!!!

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    [QUOTE=gmwillys;20772]TJ's GMH is well over and beyond the rest of ours's. He has a dedicated interior decorator, and his OCD will not let it get all jumbled up. Someday mine will be as nice as his!


    Your killing me gm, I gotta keep it half way decent the Bride may move me out back one day
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    Definitely have run into the "Universal Lug Nut" a few times myself. I actually had to do it to one wheel on mine to get it on the trailer. Just a tack mind you but, I have seen Bubba use it for a permanent solution!

    The wheels look good now Mike!

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    On the way home from picking up the wheels I stopped off at another guy’s place. He was selling off some of his 94 year old father’s spare Jeep stuff. Mostly M38 but some MB stuff. We made a deal on a mostly complete but apart MB motor and I also got some more 2A wheels. When I went back the next weekend with my truck to pick it all up he threw in another transfer case and a nice crank and cam (gear drive stuff) and some assorted bits and pieces all for a pretty reasonable price!
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    One can never have too many Jeep parts. If you can't use them, then they will make good trading material for what you do need. Well done Sir.

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    Nice parts Mike! Like gm said, you can't have too many parts.

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    Nice collection

    "We made a deal ... he threw in another "

    NOW, That's the way you do it. The pieces and parts look pretty nice from the outside - you did good as a startup Jeep scrounger!

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    I got the MB block torn down and took it to the machine shop the other day. I already knew it had a couple cracks in it. One in a valve seat and another between a head bolt and water passage. I was happy to find out they felt confident that they could pin them so that’s good news! They only do head work at that shop so once I get it back from them I have to take it to another shop for the rest of the work.

    In the mean time I slapped the ‘49 motor on the stand to assess and clean up. It seems to be standard bore. I may try to hone it and buy some stock pistons/ rings and see if it will run?
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    I also spent a little time last week cleaning up and rebuilding the carb I got with the ‘46 parts. I was pretty pleased to find out that most of it is wartime according to the markings on it.

    (Dang sideways pics!!)
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