building the little bastard

wilsotheboss · Mar 25, 2015

This is the building of my 1947 Willys CJ2A JEEP

jmsuitter · Mar 25, 2015

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

10frank9 · Mar 25, 2015

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

BlackHawk08jk · Mar 25, 2015

Looks like fun.

thardy · Mar 25, 2015

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

Sessoms14X · Mar 25, 2015

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

ROCK HARD 4X4 · Mar 25, 2015

So.
Much.
Potential.
:rock:

Bullwinckle · Mar 25, 2015

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 · Mar 25, 2015

Yes welcome to WAL.

XJWilson's · Mar 25, 2015

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

wilsotheboss · Mar 25, 2015

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 · Mar 25, 2015

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 · Mar 25, 2015

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 · Mar 26, 2015

wilsotheboss said:
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 · Mar 30, 2015

here are some more pics

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

catahoula · Mar 30, 2015

Welcome to a Wayalife! Sweet progress so far.

wilsotheboss · Mar 30, 2015

so here are some more

I thought that installing dick brakes would be a lot easier

olram30 · Mar 30, 2015

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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 · Mar 30, 2015

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

Jake Wilson · Mar 30, 2015

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

Much better! "dick brakes" hahaha

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