In my rebuild of my Dad's old 1961 Willys CJ5, I started to refurbish the older style Warn Locking Hubs that were on it. I'm not sure when these were added, whether they were added by my Dad before I was old enough to be aware of what he was doing or if the original owner put them on before my Dad bought this Jeep. My Dad bought it in 1966, so I am assuming that these were added sometime between 1961 and 1968 or thereabouts. In any case, you can see from the pictures below that I took the hubs apart since I could not turn the dial and wanted to make them work as intended.

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Overall, things were in good shape. However, the O-ring shown in the third photo that goes around the brass dial had some slight damage and I wanted to replace it. It is not a standard round cross-section O-ring, but a square sided or square cross-section O-ring. I asked others on this site if they new where to find replacements, but the best that was offered was that you could by a service kit from Warn (either directly from Warn or from Amazon). They offer their kit that they say is for Jeeps of this vintage, https://www.warn.com/warn-industries...ub-service-kit but from what I could tell from the pictures, it comes with a bunch of bolts and gaskets that I didn't need and did not have the square cross-section O-ring that I needed. It also runs around $40-50, which was more than I wanted to spend on something that probably wasn't right.

Continued on next post.