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What are those things in pik 2 and 3, are thT on the main road near fairhaven

Love the pictures, jeep looks good

If that is true that the repro jacks are from a skoda then what model are they from. I am sure that there has to be some in the breakers yards arround with a jack in the boot. Perhaps

I am just hopeing that someone out there could tell me were i can get a jack for my jeep. A repro would do well. Jeep parts dont have any and do not know when they will be available again. Many thanks

I have a 42 Jeep. It has a problem with the gearbox. It is jumping out of second gear when on the over run, it does not do this all the time but it does do it. Whilst slowing down from third, then into second and slowing down it sometimes jumps out of second gear. Is this a common problem? Does it mean the gearbox is ready for a rebuild? I have been told that it just a common problem that Jeeps suffer from. Any coments are welcome

Can anyone answer this question about hood numbers. If a jeep is allocated to USAAF 8th airforce, would the hood number be marked USAAF or just USA. If it was marked USAAF would the actual number remain the same or would it have a new one alocated

Hehehehe nice pictures, Maelyn has promised revenge for that picture, you will never beleive it, she said she was cold, all for the sake of fashion.:-):-):-)

Wel i think it looks like a realy nice car and worth that kind of money. I am no expert but i have done a lot of reserch recently as i have just bought my first jeep. It is a feb 42 slat grill but had to pay big money for it

Hopefully Maelyn my wife, Diabolical Angel my Jeep and myself will be going there

MD.Juan is a company based in the Philippines, as most already know they make most of the replacement bodys and chassis used during restorations today. They also restore a few cars each year to sell directly to customers all over the world. They cost about 11000 USD. (about £7000)Then you have to import it, that will cost about £2000 plus 5percent vat still can be good value, they are due to have some ready before the end of the year. They advertise them in their news letter so you have to register in their website and they will let you know when they are ready, but you have to be quick as they go very quickly. Hope that is of some help to you

Other than the A2flight jacket, can anyone tell me what would be the stangard full uniform for bomber crews of the USAAF. I would like one like the 401st bomb group based in england

Wel then, are you going to instal that one in your jeep ????

i heard that you bought a mint jeep for 5g from lytham, it did not look like it needed new wheels on to me, some have all the luck

well Mark that just about answers your question, and so rightly said it is all your fault, hehehehe

Are these hubs still available new or are they just to serched for

Have you a picture of what it looks like???

Hi wolfy, hope you will post some pictures when you have it fitted. The problem with philippine people is jeeps are common place and have no mystery in them as it does to us. You can even get Jeeps fully restored over there with either new bodies from MD. Juan or orrigional bodies restored for half the price of over here if you have the right contacts there. Anyway, they do not like the cold so to get (here in doors, out doors)with you i think it has to be a heater. I fitted a clayton heater to a bentley R type continental about 8years ago and it was not at all frowned on and that was a customers £80000 car

http://www.claytoncc.co.uk that is their website

Just found the website for clayton heaters, they do a classic round heater as fitted to many classic cars. They still make them and they do them in 6, 12 and 24 volts. They are very much like the classic smiths heaters as fitted to landis and many other clasis cars. They also do replacement matrix for the smiths heaters. Would like to get a copy of the winterisation manual !!!!

Thanks for that, if you find a spare heater let me know, it is so my wife has no excuse not to come in it with me in winter.

Are there any coments or pictures out there for the fitment of a heater to a Jeep. I have fitter a round early landi heater to my 1933 Rolls-Royce and that was quite an accepted modification. I think a car should be usable at any time of the year. My wife is from the Philippines, as such she is used to a warmer climate so my car will need a heater in it. Call me soft but when I got married I drove us in my 1928 Rols-Royce soft top at minus 4 in January. That does not have a heater in it as such I could not get her in it again with me in winter. Has anyone fitted the round landi heater to a Jeep and were is the best place to take the water feeds from

Well all i can say is that anyone who condones that kind of practice is neither a mechanical engineer nor studied material technology

Well as a qualified mechanical engineer who specialised in material technology and material properties of steels and plastics I wont be welding any wheels on my car. Many years ago in custom car following, you could find wheels that were cut in half then a band of metal welded in to wider them, that practice was soon got rid of for safety reasons. That was because of the stresses caused by welding around the heat effected zone and the problems with the wheels being excesivly out of ballance. Wheels that are excesivly out of ballance put extra strain on the wheel bearings that will shorten their lives dramaticaly. At the end of the day it is all for safety reasons. Wheel manufactures are covered by public liability insurance against problems that might occur, Joe Blogs the welder might not have the expertise of wheel construction, why risk when safety is the issue.

When you weld a metal, the heat causes the grains within the metal to grow, known as grain growth. When a weld fails you will find it is not the actual weld that is failing but the heat efected area, that is the area right against the weld. As the grains grow with the efect of heat it makes that area brittle. It is that efect that causes the metal to fail. If you were to anneal the wheel after welding that will reduce the size of he metal grains, that will releive the stresses within the metal and make it more stable. When a new wheel is made it is manufactured from flat steel plate that is stamped and pressed to shape, this will produse work hardening within the metal but this is found to be acceptable and the usual practice. Even if the company producing the wheel is unknown the metal will have been produced in a metal foundry from a known metal. This will be a low carbon steel (ordinary metal to you and i). On a car there is many places you can weld but a wheel is not one i would risk, it is not the speed you go but the up and down pounding the wheels are subject to during the normal driving day, that is without even going off road and remember these are off road cars

Question, if you have a jeep block with frost damage that has a crack down the distributer shaft, what can be done to repair it and how efective is the repair