New Kidney for Pappy
Whenever I’m looking to buy an old Jeep, I always try hard to find one that is as stock as possible. The more modified it is, the more likely it’ll have mistakes that the previous owner(s) made and will need to be fixed. Of course, even if you do find something that looks as unaltered and completely stock as the 1954 Willys CJ3B that we found and bought, you can still find plenty of “WTF was he thinking” under the hood. While Pappy runs amazingly well for a Jeep that’s over 60 years old, I always knew there were things that I needed to address and suspected there were plenty of others that I didn’t even realize. And, one of those things just happened to be, the oil filtration system.
When I first looked under Pappy’s hood, something didn’t look quite right to me but at the time, I just couldn’t put my finger on it. After giving him a test drive and being wowed by how well he ran, I just wrote off what I was feeling and handed over the cash. What I would later come to realize was the something under the hood that appeared to be missing was in fact, an oil filter! Now, I know there are guys out there who’ve changed the type of filter they use or have relocated the factory setup but to completely remove it from the motor? I just can’t imagine what could possibly posses someone to that! Oil is the life blood of a vehicle and a filter is essentially its kidney and as you can imagine, reinstalling some kind of filtration system became a priority for me.
As luck would have it, Omix-Ada makes a TON of parts for just about EVERY Willys that was ever made and so it didn’t take much for me to find and order up a new Fram style oil filter canister, filter and oil lines. The only things they didn’t have was a new oil canister bracket that mounts to the block and the brass fittings you need to connect the lines. Fortunately, I was able to find most of what I needed over at Walck’s 4 Wheel Drive and at my local Napa Auto Parts. To see before and after photos as well as what all I needed to do including part numbers, simply click on the link below:
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