If you can, ask them to grind the portion of the crankshaft where the rear oil seal runs. Yours is rough, as most are, and it will wear the rope seal pretty quickly, resulting in an oil drip at the flywheel end. Unfortunately, most machine shops don't have a grinding wheel narrow enough.But it's worthwhile, if they don't have one, to see if they can find another shop that can do this bit. I had a decades old leak there, despite fitting many rope seals, because it was rusted and pitted there. I found a machine shop that had a narrow wheel and since being done, have had absolutely not a drop of oil leak from the rear seal. It is usually pretty expensive, what with having to set up the wheel, but at any cost, it's REALLY worth having done. And it doesn't matter if they have to take a large amount off, the rope seal can compensate for the smaller diameter easily. I had 80 thou taken off before it cleaned up but I didn't pack the seal in as tightly as I usually did. It was still very tight, though.

I had never heard of welding those small iron cracks with lasers. That is amazing, I love it.

Toledo...hometown of Jeep. The stories the seniors tell of Jeep production and shipping out the door is awesome. There is a business that provides parts for Jeeps of all types.

My 1st vehicle was Willys Jeep CJ2A, my Father gave it me. He later told me he knew that I would spend more time working on it than driving it. He was correct. Lots of fond memories.

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

They are great fun to work on fortunately, except when they need swearing at!

Great video! Really enjoyed the old school machine shop. I am getting ready to start taking the engine out of my 47 Willys Cj2A and am hoping it's not to far gone. Time will tell. Thanks for sharing!

Very impressive , thank you , need to keep old School engineering , very high quality

Great video and respect given to old school specialist services

“Don’t use places like these, soon they’ll just disappear”, yup, they are.

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky to find this old machine shop, rare in the UK now

@prolife5116

4 жыл бұрын

There's Mahindra Roxor now. The legacy will live on for ever, it never stopped. Indian company Mahindra had licenced the Willy's jeep to build in India from 1947. It was made all these years in India and people used to buy them . Now they are expanding in asia , europe and now in America They kept the legacy live all these years .

@tedcarl5382

4 жыл бұрын

PRO LIFE Roxor is cool but to many small changes to really interchange parts (as far as I can tell). Plus, not street legal. The Roxor is it’s own animal, shaped like a Jeep. It is cool that the rights were purchased and the Willy’s brand continued overseas. I wish FCA would work with them on getting something more “Jeep” street legal and selling side by side with their new SUV junk. It really is two different markets, let’s face it, people buying JLs, etc. are looking at other midsize suvs. The old 2A and CJ5 type stuff isn’t what the suv types are looking for.

I had a engine done by Hamlins back in the 1980s, great firm. Ps, Just to let people know that they are in Bridgewater.

0:30 ... Great shot! ... The old "line shafts" that used to power all the equipment are still in the ceiling! :) ...AND they are still using some of them!!!! So cool!! :) I never saw it myself, but a workmate told me, about a shop in Toronto back in the 1980's that STLL used the entire line shaft set up to run the vast majority of machines in the shop, even down to simple bench grinders! :)

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

Great isn't it, real shop with history, wonder if they were steam driven?

@MikeBaxterABC

4 жыл бұрын

@@Greendot319 It would have been likely i'd say! .. Then perhaps changed to an old style diesel engine, before finally becoming electric :0)

I have a Jeep engine minus the head stored away in my shed waiting for a time when I can rebuild it. It is super heavy.!! I want to have it as an educational piece of machine. Cheers from New Zealand.

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

Theyr'e solid old engines, lived in Hamilton for a year and a half in 2009 ;)

@mohabatkhanmalak1161

4 жыл бұрын

@@Greendot319 We are just down the road in Rotorua. I have seen the Jeep enthusiasts drive/meet - in summer time here.

I was watching a Guy Martin video last night where he was visiting an old guy I a machine shop. The Japanese gentleman was a Master Engineer specialising in machining cylinders. The feeling was that there was no one else there to take over once this guy stopped. So, I was happy to see your chosen machine shop had a young guy working there.

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

Quite a few younger guys at this shop, vintage vehicles and racing are still big in the UK and there is a lot of money in the high end stuff, perhaps there is still a future for these sort of shops, just much less than there used to be!

@ruebencover5795

4 жыл бұрын

@@Greendot319 the machine shop that is doing my engine , they are very busy because there good at wot they do and as you say it's big business there in the UK. They even have engines shipped to them for other countries

Mahindra Roxor is available as low as $16000 , i bought 2019 one and lifted it with a 3inch lift kit. Love the look of it 😍, im trying to make it road legal , will be over soon . They make very good tractors. The engine's got 62hp and 144nm torque but i have seen a video on KZread that it can do about 200hp with 400nm torque with the same engine. They have to detune the engine to meet the regulations. Its amazing. I'm planning on doing it on mine too, after putting enough miles on it. I would recommend every one to buy them, it costs not more than a mortarcycle or an ATV and you can look cool 😎. It's bear bones you can modify it as you like. Fiat is sueing them only for the grill and some body parts . As the case proceeds eventually Mahindra is going to win it as of now. Mahindra offers more jeep than Fiat fake ones. They are the only company to open a new plant in Detroit for over 23 years and they are planning to expand their designing hub to Detroit. They are providing jobs for Americans.I fell for it

Very interesting video. Didn't know about laser welding.

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to spread the word so hopefully it helps other jeep owners in the future, cheers

Neat old shop

Excellent

Great video, very informative. Thanks!

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

No problem!

Superb video. 😊👍

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Excellent, thank you!

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

No Problem, thanks!

It's a real bitch to find a good machine shop in my area

good stuff...from Seattle

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

cool shop.

Great, thanks for Sharing

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

No Problem, it's an interesting place!

Wow!

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

cool hey!

Hi thanks for putting out the video's, I have been watching some of your older videos you made about carbs did you make a video about putting it all back together, ?

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

Not yet, I'll finish those videos off once I built the carb for this jeep which should be in the next couple of months cheers!

@ruebencover5795

4 жыл бұрын

@@Greendot319 thanks look forward to it. I am doing a ground up restoration on my jeep too

I might have been seeing things but thought there was a crack between the valve and number 2 cylinder, sure they would’ve picked it up if there was.

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

just a piece of hair or something ;) blocks been magnafluxed

Love those machine shops. No problems with the head stud threads? Nearly all mine crumbled away...

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

A couple need helicoiling, you can see one in the video that has no thread, the rest were ok!

@paulfullerton183

4 жыл бұрын

@@Greendot319 👍🏻Don’t want to teach granny, but are you considering time-serts as opposed to helicoils?

Great video mate, I don't think anybody does laser welding in Australia and if they do it'd probably be three times more expensive than the UK. All up...what work did you have done and what was the total cost? I'm guessing to get mine done with all its cracks, I'm looking at $5,000 AUD.

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

I'll break down the costs in the next video when I go to pick it up and they give me the fin bill, it will be expensive but nothing too mad I think

Might as well ballance the pistons are all that eh?

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

i'll have a think about it!

Could you write how much you paid for each step, I will be rebuilding my MB '42 engine next year, I would like to prepare myself 😬

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

Ill cost it out in the next video when I collect it all and have the Bills cheers Matt

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If a company started manufacturing new, fully-authentic replicas, there would surely be enough custom for a decent profit.

@Greendot319

4 жыл бұрын

Would you believe they do! However there is a video on youtube that says they need as much machining as an old block to make them right but I have no experience of them myself so cannot comment!

Looks like more scam artists $240 bucks an inch? MY ASS!!!!!