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| PapaC | May 3 2015, 09:58 PM Post #331 |
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OFF TOPIC Weird week and truly been busy, just not with jeep stuff. Take a look at this, it's kind of long but it was a good for me score last week. Really, no one could hardly believe how this played out but think 'American Pickers' and 'Hoarders Buried Alive' all put together in one!! You may or may not remember my air compressor, the one the motors been burnt up in for two years and I couldn't afford to both replace it AND buy jeep parts. My wife had remembered seeing some old motors setting out at a junky yard sale almost two years ago and I decided to pay him a visit. Of course he didn't have a suitable motor but he mentioned he had a air compressor buried in a shop around back somewhere. It took a HOUR, no kidding to just dig my way in there and get it uncovered. And there it was. A single phase, double belt commercial horizontal air compressor with a Kellogg 335 dual pump and the biggest single phase 5 hp motor I've ever seen. New it would have cost thousands, and it looks like it will last forever. While I was digging my way into where it was he told my wife he wanted 900.00 and she kept casually talking and he came down to 700.00. I came out dusty and dirty (there was power in there and it did WORK) and offered him 400. He said he couldn't take less than 500. I told him that was fair if HE'd dig it out. We settled on 425. Last week it took me 5 HOURS with help to clear a path out of that building!! Wedged it up on some pvc pipe rollers and another hour to roll it out the crooked path we cleared into the daylight!!! And then actually built a frame on my trailer so I could load it with a chain hoist. Unbelievable what some people have buried away. Clothes, hundreds of boxes of old medicine, and cheap yard sale type stuff stacked to the ceiling!!! A few treasures though. I did come out with a old blacksmith crank blower and forge, a Lincoln come-along like I had never seen but extra well made, and two smaller electrical motors along with a few tools in addition to the compressor. That cost me an extra 75.00 lol so he got 500 dollars out of me after all. After getting it home I took the motor apart for a good cleaning and put it back together with some screens to keep the dirt dobbers out. Those mud nests are real motor killers around here and over the years I'v learned my lesson! Then I did a quick service to the pump by checking the valves, changed the oil, and replaced a leaky oil line. At 1750 rpms as the opposed to my old 80 gal dual pump compressor which required a 3450 rpm motor it is not as loud and pumps wayyy more air and quicker Initial test show that it was set at 175 psi and will continuously HOLD at 90psi blowing air straight out of a unplugged 1/4" air line. I reset the pressure switch to cut off at 125 psi to make it easier on the life of the pump and motor and freshened up the paint. No more LOUD roofing compressors in my shop makes me a HAPPY CAMPER!!! |
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Charles Tate....North Mississippi 1956 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible Doing ground up nuts and bolt restoration by almost entirely reconditioning original used or a few NOS DJ3A parts. 1962 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible. (For research and parts only) | |
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| PapaC | May 19 2015, 12:02 AM Post #332 |
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Small update My tub no longer looks naked. The new back panel surgery was extremely successful. Tub and fenders after test fitting have been taken back off of the DJ and are being prepped for paint My repaired steering column shaft and worm gear has been replaced with a pristine cj2a shaft and worm gear. This required a shortening of the cj shaft by two inches The frame which had gotten dirty from setting and working around has been pressure washed, paint lightly sanded , and is ready for a final fluff coat of paint to cover any scratches and just generally spruce it back up Saved a 2" by 4 " piece of sheet metal 'believed' to be blue comet poly by cutting it out and replacing with new metal. Also ordered a vintage color chip paint chart. Will take both the paint chart and the salvage piece to the body shop in an attempt to match the original color, hopefully by the end of or the first part of next week. A viable paint code for blue comet poly appears completely unavailable IMMEDIATE TO DO LIST FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS continue final prep work on the body begin re-install of my wiring harness using appropriate sized asphalt coated wire loams add acid to the 6v battery and see if a OLD battery that's never had acid in it will still work see if all my work has paid off and if this thing will actually crank and run Still much to do but feeling pretty dang good about work accomplished and parts acquired When I joined this site Sept 12 2013 I predicted it would be a three year project. This was before I even knew I'd have to hand make a convertible top. Considering the wreck I started with I'm now realizing I 'just may' be a tiny little bit ahead of schedule. Yep feeling pretty dang good about the whole ADVENTURE!!! Pics soon Charles |
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Charles Tate....North Mississippi 1956 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible Doing ground up nuts and bolt restoration by almost entirely reconditioning original used or a few NOS DJ3A parts. 1962 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible. (For research and parts only) | |
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| PapaC | Jun 21 2015, 02:44 AM Post #333 |
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No dents, no dings, no pits, no rust, top or bottom The passenger side foor board, the lower sides and braces around the drains, passenger side hat channel, rear panel and braces, and numerous other smaller areas has had metal hand made and replaced. The entire floor of the tub, and the rear part of both back fenders and some other areas was beat up pretty bad but I was able to straighten and save them. ![]() ![]()
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Charles Tate....North Mississippi 1956 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible Doing ground up nuts and bolt restoration by almost entirely reconditioning original used or a few NOS DJ3A parts. 1962 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible. (For research and parts only) | |
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| PapaC | Jun 21 2015, 02:55 AM Post #334 |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Tomorrow I start over with finer sandpaper, sanding this thin, fill any scratches, left, clean seams and joints again, getting it ready for a coat of red primer which will also have to be sanded. I'll need the red to be under the finish paint coat of blue comet. Hopefully now that it's getting close this will go quicker. |
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Charles Tate....North Mississippi 1956 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible Doing ground up nuts and bolt restoration by almost entirely reconditioning original used or a few NOS DJ3A parts. 1962 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible. (For research and parts only) | |
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| PapaC | Jul 7 2015, 08:45 PM Post #335 |
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My DJ tub is now fully primed top and bottom. In probably 2 days I think I can have it ready to paint. Right now work and fatigue are getting in my way. A 10 inch rain in one night last week is keeping me busy. In the meantime, I've tried and tried to duplicate a dry air filter. At least 5 different times. Hours and hours and hours of working from pictures and trying to forge and beat out something acceptable. Each time I was getting better results but still unacceptable for my restoration. Well, I finally worked this problem out and reproduced.....B) That's not fair and I can't do it. What I really mean a person I now consider among my very best friends is sending me this. ![]() Betcha just for good measure I'm going to make a mold from it before I even think about getting it ready to go on my carb!!! Feeling like I'm on top of the world Charles |
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Charles Tate....North Mississippi 1956 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible Doing ground up nuts and bolt restoration by almost entirely reconditioning original used or a few NOS DJ3A parts. 1962 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible. (For research and parts only) | |
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| dcwheels | Jul 7 2015, 10:07 PM Post #336 |
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That's a great find Charles.wish you luck through out your restoration. regards. |
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| PapaC | Jul 13 2015, 11:45 PM Post #337 |
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Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea Or maybe not Pulled the gas tank out from under the 63 so I could steal the "GAUGE, FUEL ASSEMBLY, (TANK UNIT) to put on my 56 ...that looks like this ![]() ![]() There was about 2 inches of rustproofing black goo in the bottom of that tank that must have gotten splashed around pretty good when I drug it back from Texas. Soaked and heavily coated the whole inside of the tank and the sending unit. Right now I'm just letting that unit soak in some real gas to see if I can get some of that goo to turn loose before I start real serious restoration attempts. Also I noticed that unit seems to have a cork float on it. I haven't decided yet if I'm nervous about that or not. Note. 1956 DJ3A gas tanks have the fuel pickup line attached to the back side of the tank. Later DJ3A gas tanks have this line going through the top of the tank. Charles |
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Charles Tate....North Mississippi 1956 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible Doing ground up nuts and bolt restoration by almost entirely reconditioning original used or a few NOS DJ3A parts. 1962 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible. (For research and parts only) | |
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| PapaC | Jul 14 2015, 09:58 AM Post #338 |
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Interesting tidbit that I don't want to forget
http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/what-did...017.html#334017 *i do know for a fact a couple of 1956 DJ3A's that were equipped with a Harrison heater *i've got a rusty but restoreable Harrison heater that I know for a fact came out of a 1956 DJ3A *I also have a much better Harrison heater I'll be installing in my own 1956 to replace the one that was stripped out when that I bought it *from 57 to 62 I have no personal verifiable information about what kind of heater might have been used •I pulled a unknown little toy looking very small square boxy heater out of my 63 DJ3A when I was stripping it down Charles |
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Charles Tate....North Mississippi 1956 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible Doing ground up nuts and bolt restoration by almost entirely reconditioning original used or a few NOS DJ3A parts. 1962 WILLYS DJ3A Convertible. (For research and parts only) | |
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| oldtime | Jul 14 2015, 06:32 PM Post #339 |
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The Harrison heater was a 6 volt unit. In 1958 Jeep started installing 12 volt systems into most Jeeps. The "fresh air type heater" came out at that time. It could be had as either 6 or 12 volts. By far most fresh air type heaters were 12 volt. The DJ-3's also used the fresh air type heaters after 1958. I suspect that all 1959 DJ's should have the fresh air intake hole in the right front quarter panel. |
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Currently building my final F-134 powered 3B . Rock Crawler using factory parts from the Willys Motors era (1953-1963) http://s4.zetaboards.com/CJ3B_Bulletin_Board/topic/30228766/1/#new | |
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