Jerry Jeep

today job is to start the body work new back panel and filling the 3485 holes that should not be there then its the floors  happy days i have found a lot of stress fractures all over the bulk head this is from the top hat section that have turned to rust and the wood turned to dust   

so what have i been up to today well as all the parts have come back from blasting i have been cleaning the powder off and priming and some top coating also  taking a look at the body need to order some parts i also picked up the rebuilt rad  

1 x top hat section fuel tank strap joes motor pool number tn8j31pa

1 x passenger side fish plate joes motor pool number tnsqenhp

1 x top hat section under the back floor jeeparts have them in 

photos for you   

just to let you know i have picked up all the blasted parts and primed them took all day but i left the camera at home so will put them up tomorrow there is a lot of work on the body but nothing that cannot be fixed   

some photos of the parts i have cleaned and primed lots of nuts and bolts that's what takes the time then its time to clean the hubs repack the wheel bearings ready to rebuild the axles and both the diffs with new bearings and oil seals i might have to take some time out as if the blasting is finished all the parts will need priming the same day  

3 minutes ago, steviem said:

It's a bit weird,  I think MBs changed in the fall of 1944, so how many are running around with the earlier fitment,  you would have thought there would be a market for them. 

over the last 2 days i have finished striping the axles taken all the parts to the blaster and i might be picking it up Tuesday/Wednesday and i have cleaning all the nuts bolts and small parts will put up some photos tomorrow  

5 hours ago, GSYBSA said:

Hi Jerry, Who did you speak to about the deep mud exhaust, is there a UK stockist?

 

Rgds

Rick

no one in the uk has them you can get some of the pipes best way to go is to make one out of am m38 jeep with a wartime front down pipe i have made a number of them for jeeps i have restored over the years this usmc jeep is a ford and i had to make the deep mud exhaust

20 minutes ago, steviem said:

Ok bud, are these the tyres we discussed,  speedway 600/16, plus tubes flaps etc, are the wheels now in stock?

tyres from John Gray  phone number 01937 580 302 mobile 07968381304 wheels should be in along with exhaust number 01483860403

1 hour ago, steviem said:

Well I guess it was better than none,  hopefully the grease has had some protective valve,  those combat wheels sounded a challenge   are they original rims Jerry 

yes they are you need to order your tyres from john grey from milweb as i have heard he is not in the best of health not covid and you might as well order the wheels from universal jeeps i all so asked him about the deep mud exhaust pipes for your jeep ask him about that  i am going to put together an order for jeeparts next week so stand by the phone     

a foot note about  the grease in the diff it was so thick i filled up the diff with some petrol/derv mix and put the drill on the pinion nut to wiz it over to soften the grease so it would sort of run out  when its back from blasting i will remove the pinion and wash it all out and cheque the two pinion bearing and oil seals

After a bit of a brake from jeeps ( putting down some concrete out side workshop ) this weekend i have been stripping down ready for blasting both of the axles i have never seen a diff that was full of grease how it was still working i will never know   the pile for cleaning is getting bigger and bigger, only 2 of the wheels that are combat rims and they took over two hours to strip  so much rust i had to cut the tube from the rim hope to get it all to Taffy the blaster next week then i can start on the engine and gear boxes 

the regulators that can work 6 volts or 12 volts and are solid state inside are great however what i have found and you should know is that jeeps and dodges and more that use the same type of generator there are two types first is a FIELD EARTHED and the other is a ARMATURE EARTHED there is no way of knowing which one you have from the out side you need to strip down the gen and cheque it out    

6 hours ago, steviem said:

Anyone tried one of these from JMP, seems to have a flick switch inside to convert 6v/12v as required, Jerry would this work with mine keeping an original finish?

https://www.joesmotorpool.com/ford-gpw-parts/916-joe-s-motor-pool-6v-12v-voltage-regulator-for-ford-gpw-willys-mb-slat-mb

 

this will be for show only as an alternator has this built inside its called a rectifier pack  

2 minutes ago, steviem said:

Great work Jerry,  although we've lost quite a bit there is still a lot of original material there,  my aim was always to preserve as much originality as possible,  tell taffy to turn the psi down,  what do you want me to do with the step, are mb and gpw's different?

get the new step there is a difference not much i can work around it  

spent today removing all the rusty panels and patches have ground up all the spot welds  there is a lot of steel to put back just need to do a bit of panel beating to dress all the edge angles then strip down the only two combat wheels and axles then off to taffy the best blaster in the north west      

36 minutes ago, steviem said:

Good knows what they had in the huge hole on the dashboard,  thanks Jerry. 

heater or speaker for radio seen this before i am going to strip the axles next and get them blasted along with the 2 combat rims will phone universal next week and get two more rims and order the tyres from john grey  

have done the lights indicators for the grill and head / side lights fitted just need to do the  indicators in the back lights will draw out the wire diagram for you when i cut out all the rust will post the damage for you there is a large number of drilled holes i need to weld up for you there is going to be a lot of body filling and sanding for you the body filling is better going over the red primer. Have put all the bolts from the parts i take off with them so it will be easer for you to rebuild your jeep 

today job was to strip down the jeep body and cut all the rust out tomorrow then its of to the scrap yard 😏 sorry the sand blasters all ways get the two mixed up with old jeeps all the best jerry

spent today finishing off the willys mb frame for steviem looking all good now so next its cut all the rust off the body then its off to t he shot blasters along with a box of bits 

working on the front of steviem jeep got it all sorted and welded up i have made some strengthening plates for under the cross tube i have done this on a number of jeep over the years and they don't look out of place and the chassis did need them  did all the grinding then it rained on it and i went inside to work on the grill combat lights 

1 minute ago, steviem said:

Not looking forward to seeing how the rest had been bodged up, dreading axle, diffs etc. Great work though Jerry thank you. 

can i order the hangers on monday £17 each look on jeeparts shop 

spent today finishing off the last of the grinding around the front end and bolted it to the jig ready for welding up will have to make some extra reinforcement plates need to get 4 bolt spring hangers as the last owner has welded tubes on the oval holes what a mess   

work to day. spent all day cutting and grinding all the scrap from the front of the jeep and yes its not good the steel plate was 1/4" thick and ark welded on will need to get the chassis jig out tomorrow to set it up when i first striped the jeep it has had a very hard life this truck 

so anther day in paradise working on the jeep sorted out the back end and finished it off found two spring hangers in my stock of parts just need to weld on the hangers when i turn it over finished making the bit of the frame that was missing  tomorrow weather permitting will start to cut all the extra scrap off the front end to fit the new bumper plates   

Anther cold day at work shop but got on with rebuilding the steering box striped off the springs cleaned all the axle U bolts and recut the threads sorted the  spring base plates and got all the bits in primer tomorrow will paint them in colour ready for fitting Steviem give me a ring later 

just see your post a lot of people do not have the vent pipes fitted m201 , m38 , m38a1 need the coil cooling the pipes run from the air filter to manifold and keep it all cool i have changed many jeep to a war time type dizzy all the parts are a lot cheaper and you can run j8 plugs and much better ht leads