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3 Months & 400 miles
Topic Started: Sep 3 2011, 09:34 AM (956 Views)
Hooligan
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Well... Its been that long and that far since I got her on the road in June. It's a daily driver whenever the sun shines. Only real issues are a tendency to stall on hard deceleration if the idle is 700 (playing with various resistors to adjust the final ohms at the distributor (currently at 3.7) almost completely fixed this (and adjusting the carb with each change)), oil leaks (some days none, other days, well...), a little hard to start when cold (ticks right over when warm) and a really, really annoying sympathetic vibration from somewhere in the tub. Just can't find it...

Windshield is always down and I can recommend the impact resistant, wrap around safety sun glasses from Home Depot. They are a vast, and much cheaper improvement (even though chinese), to the high dollar RayBans that went flying off my face when I looked over my shoulder at 45 one windy day :-)

My jb weld patch on the back of the block seems to have held up and stopped the coolant leak, moving the cheap chinese condensers from inside the distributor to the coil bracket seems to have stopped those from dying, and switching the rotor from an AL104 to an AL130 seems to have been an improvement as well (the 130 has a deflection plate under it).

I took it to a local car show on the 30th. Nothing fancy. I was parked between a 69 AMC Javelin SST and a 65 Ford Galaxy 500 XL. Looked a little out of place but was by far the most popular unit there :-) The wife hasn't forwarded the pictures of that yet :-(

Just wanted to post an update and to say thanx to everyone that posts anything on here... Its amazing what one line in a post somewhere can help with...

Some pix I took on the way home yesterday...

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1967 M38A1 CDN2 / F-134 / 24V / T90 / D-18 / 5.38
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yjcanibul
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good to see your enjoying it hooligan - thanks for posting pics

noticed u got same distrib and w/s in spec list, since mine
orginated not far away from you wonder if they came off
same dealer lot

how'd that oil look when you opened it up ...

thats awesome at the show - something bout
a flatty always draws some attention ...
57 3B : big speedo / Hurricane / YF 938 SD / IAY-4012 / T90 / D18 / 5.375 final drive / open diffs / Firestone 6ply Military NDCC / 12v Delco SI alt / Kayline Top / venting windshield / tub patched / "still fixing leaks one at a time"

89 wrangler : h/duty axles + 5spd / 200+hp 4.2L / arb locked / multiport fuel inj / warn hubs+winch / 1/4 mil km / fishing+trail riding / gets me to work
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Doug
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I'm glad to hear that you're using your jeep often. Mine just sits here far too much.

That is an awesome 3B by the way! :)
1963 CJ3B - F134 Hurricane, T-90C, D-18, 5.38s, Overdrive, 938YF, 12V alternator
1969 CJ5 - Dauntless V6, T-14, D-18
2004 TW 200
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mrbob
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Great looking 3b. Really like that color as well. Hope the sun keeps shining for you.
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Hooligan
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Thanx guys...

yjcanibul... Oil... Well it leaks a lot heavier when I get over 35... A 1/2 hour trip at 40+ leaves a definite mark (transfer/transmission and, I think, rear seal)... :-) What it needs is an IV... Still I can put a lot of oil in it for the cost of fixing it, although I do go through a lot of cardboard. I don't have the tools or space to do it myself... The unit isn't from around here. It came down from northern Quebec/Labrador... The engine, I'm now thinking, might be a 59, it has been rebuilt, or at least that's why I think it has no serial number on the deck. The IAY is that vintage at least...

Doug... Checked your your Jeep in July video. Way cool, your area makes me home sick for Alberta... Looks like all the forestry roads I used to trail ride/camp on...

Mrbob... WWII Semi-gloss Olive Drab from Willys acres... The entire unit is that color. A mistake I hope to remedy before next summer. I'm tired of explaining its not an "army jeep". Going to do the windshield black when I rip it apart to do all the seals, and the the wheels maybe Rustoleum Ivory Bisque... Seems to go well with the olive drab although I haven't been able to bring myself to paint one yet. I painted some ceiling tiles and taped them on but I keep looking for another wheel to test on...
1967 M38A1 CDN2 / F-134 / 24V / T90 / D-18 / 5.38
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