building the little bastard

[wilsotheboss]

This is the building of my 1947 Willys CJ2A JEEP

 

[jmsuitter]

Wow that looks like alot of work but a great project can't wait to see how it goes. Good luck.

 

[10frank9]

Welcome to Wayalife! Looking forward to seeing the progress on this build.

 

[BlackHawk08jk]

Looks like fun.

 

[thardy]

Welcome to the Wayalife family! Really looking forward to seeing this build.

 

[Sessoms14X]

Nice! I want one for myself, my dream build. Lookin forward to seeing this build!

 

[ROCK HARD 4X4]

So.
Much.
Potential.
:rock:

 

[Bullwinckle]

Welcome to Wayalife! That's gonna be one fun build! I'll be following along can't wait to see how it turns out!

 

[Jake Wilson]

Yes welcome to WAL.

 

[XJWilson's]

Looks like a fun build. What are your plans for it, keep it stock or go extreme?

 

[wilsotheboss]

Hey everyone thanks for the response. My son Jake turned me on to this site to share my jeep. My 1947 Willys CJ2A has been a work of both love and hate lol. I have been working on it for the last three years almost every weekend with my Pop's. He is retired Army as well as I am. And he worked on the MB's through the M151A1's. I couldn't have done this without him, thanks Pop. I should have been finished a year ago but been having overheating problems which has caused me to go through 4 engines and 3 rebuilds. Hence his new name " Little Bastard " lol. But perhaps in the next few weeks that issue will be resolved. All of the work has been done in my garage to include painting him. I will post more progress pics in upcoming weeks.

 

[Warebear]

Wow! That's an awesome project! What are your plans? Is it going to be a rebuild of the stock Jeep or something crazy? Can't wait to follow this!

 

[wilsotheboss]

The only things that are not original are as follows...12 volt system, wanted to be able to see at night, electric wipers, so I can see when it rains, high torque starter I want it to start, electronic distributor smoother starting, and last but not least disk brakes on all four corners have to stop . But the rest is original.

 

[Jake Wilson]

The only things that are not original are as follows...12 volt system, wanted to be able to see at night, electric wipers, so I can see when it rains, high torque starter I want it to start, electronic distributor smoother starting, and last but not least disk brakes on all four corners have to stop . But the rest is original.

It's a beautiful jeep! Start posting some of your pictures that you took along the way.

 

[wilsotheboss]

here are some more pics

So my son said that i put these new pics in the wrong order lol:crazyeyes:

 

[catahoula]

Welcome to a Wayalife! Sweet progress so far.

 

[wilsotheboss]

so here are some more


I thought that installing dick brakes would be a lot easier

 

[olram30]

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I thought that installing dick brakes would be a lot easier

I never heard of dick brakes. Lol, looks good

 

[wilsotheboss]

Damn, I need new glasses to be able to spell disk brakes lol

 

[Jake Wilson]

Damn, I need new glasses to be able to spell disk brakes lol

Much better! "dick brakes" hahaha