Recent content by wanderingwillys

Could be related to the fact that I am out of town 2+ weeks out of every month and working on 3 other major project vehicles at the same time... 1942 stock willys 1966 M35a2c 1967 M543a2 Impossible to say...

Busted Yeah - Mike caught me out of the shop in the "real" world... I did get the parts to build the rear driveline... and I physically touched the jeep last night... :redneck: That's been about it though... I am clearing out some other little projects so I can get back to this monster... Matt

Not much... Work has been out of control - in the last couple of weeks I was in Egypt, Djibouti, and Ethiopia for 7 days and then in Baltimore for another 5 days, This weekend I was working on a steamship in tacoma all day sunday... Work work work! Anyhow - I have the transmission in my hands...

I don't think I have any from the back - yep I reused the centers from a set of split ring wheels and machined the 10 bolt budd out of the 5 ton combat rim with a step machined in it - then just turned the same step in the split centers - bang together (0.001-0.003" press fit) and weld... Matt

What's new... Not much in willys land; the auto transmission for the crawler is supposed to be done some time this week - I took a bit of a break from the big one to finish off the stocker I have - re-built both axles, trans and t-case - motor is bare block and going to the machine shop this...

Middle of the summer I fell victim to the political infighting at the race shop... A buddy of mine had offered me a job long ago at a large marine diesel shop in ballard... So I took it and have been there for three months now... We do work for the big tankers, ferry system, cruise line...

Big motors... I have been setting up to do machine work on these... That is one bank of 4 - (2 v16's).... with a 17" bore :cool: I am going to be reboring the liner landing surfaces for a new insert PS - those studs have 2" threads and get torqued to 3500 ft/lbs :eeek:

Yea, yea, yea :hi: I did manage to get the tranny on its way to be rebuilt, pulled the mock up block from the buggy and now need to rework the front crossmember so the oil pump gilmer pully will go on and off with the motor in the chassis... otherwise there is lots of snow on it right now!

Yep thats Brad's place... There is some oddball stuff in there... Besides the military stuff he collects old steam powered stuff - has some narrow gauge track and three locomotives... :cool:

A buddy of mine used to have the salvage contract for Ft. Lewis - had about 45 - 50 dueces and 20 5 tons at one point... Now that gov. liquidators took over he no longer gets trucks... They are going away... Unless you want to pay $12k+ So the short answer is Mckenna!