1941 Willy’s Slat Grill

Have I ever worked on a points distributor ? No, I always upgrade to electronic. But that’s not happening on this 41 MB.

It’s been having some issues accelerating and even almost stalling at stop lights. So I figured I’d see what i could clean up.

I cleaned up the mechanical advance, adding some white lithium grease. Cleaned and set the gapped the points.

I’m amazed at how much it woke this little motor up. It idles smooth and is fairly peppy for what it is. IMG_2968.jpegIMG_2969.jpegIMG_2971.jpegIMG_2972.jpeg
 
so this old 41 has a bad case of the wobbles at any speed. So I decided to swap out the factory bead locks to see if it’s a tire rim issue. I have a brand new set of steels from my other project.

What a big difference in handling and ride quality, I also got in some more new old stock parts for the transmission.

The NOS 2nd gear didn’t like new synchros , so we’ll see how this fits.

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Today the 41 kicked my ass. I started feeling a driveline wobble pretty good.

It turns out the U joints are toast, so I started pulling them out to swap, more like I had to cut the fuckers out and drive the caps out, and sand and sand the surface

I did find it’s a Ford Script driveshaft, the “F” is right above the part number. The ujoints are 1310’s.


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Well that wasn’t the wobble issue I was experiencing with the driveshaft but it did need fixed, The one rear hub was a little loose. It’s all tightened up.

I replaced the inter windshield seal, you can see what was left after 80 years and what it should have been.

The rubber basically turned to stone and was a real pain on removal until I busted out the butane torch.

It really helped out with all the rattling this ol girl has.

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After the back and forth of NOS parts, reproduction parts I just got the T84 back from Tehachapi Transmission. I had them rebuild it after discovering some machining issues that I didn’t feel comfortable dealing with. The guy has previously rebuilt my 57 Wagon and CJ2A project transmissions. I do believe it’s been restored back to better than factory specs.

The case itself had tolerance issues at the main shaft at the case, causing the main gear to have up and down play and back and forth. It’s now a complete transmission for the first time coming off a production line in 1941 😳

I’m not sure when it’ll go into the Jeep, maybe when I get my new shop done in Nevada. :)

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piginajeep said:
After the back and forth of NOS parts, reproduction parts I just got the T84 back from Tehachapi Transmission. I had them rebuild it after discovering some machining issues that I didn’t feel comfortable dealing with. The guy has previously rebuilt my 57 Wagon and CJ2A project transmissions. I do believe it’s been restored back to better than factory specs.

The case itself had tolerance issues at the main shaft at the case, causing the main gear to have up and down play and back and forth. It’s now a complete transmission for the first time coming off a production line in 1941 😳

I’m not sure when it’ll go into the Jeep, maybe when I get my new shop done in Nevada. :)

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Cool that you got a new Jenner but why couldn't they just add a shim to take up the play?
 
WJCO said:
Cool that you got a new Jenner but why couldn't they just add a shim to take up the play?
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The shaft the main gear is on, those holes on the case were machined too big. So the gear itself floated up and down. There is shims for front to back play. That’s the easy fix.
 
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