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I like the Willys PU......but I'd really like to bring the Chevy (far right) home!  A '39?


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Darn Guys now you are making me want to make a trip over your way and go jeepin with ya all.
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Originally posted by rocnroll rocnroll wrote:

I like the Willys PU......but I'd really like to bring the Chevy (far right) home!  A '39?


yep it's a 39.
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Originally posted by mike in oregon mike in oregon wrote:


Darn Guys now you are making me want to make a trip over your way and go jeepin with ya all.

All Flatfenders are welcome might just have to make the march run a event/get together ..
I would also really like to attend a spring fling,one of these days.
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You better and I will try to get up your way someday soon.
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Oops Flatfender Monday....not Saturday
Finally got the heater installed under the dash of my 3B and was ready for a snow day. Plan was to go to my Dads right after lunch for some jeepin.
It was 2 degrees that morning so afternoon seemed like a good idea.
I went out to the shop about 10:30 to pull the jeep out.checked the oil, little low went to add some 30wt, wow thick as 90wt... looked at the thermometer in my shop 15 degrees!!!!
Started up the jeep and when I let out the clutch,in neutral the jeep wanted to surge forward! The 90wt was really thick.
Drove it out of the shop and let it warm up, the newly installed heater worked great

Now for some lunch and off for adventure.........then the jeep stumbled and started flooding no matter how much I tapped on the carb the float was stuck back into the shop, pulled the top of carb.. removed float,slosh-slosh had gas in it, TITANIC float!!!
Thought about pulling the float off my other jeep,then remembered a recent post where Bruce W used the term titanic float..that's where I learned the term. From that post the fix is to drill a small hole,drain the gas out soder hole shut, then dip in boiling water check for bubbles.
Called Dad told him I was running late and would call after making repairs and eating lunch.
Drilled hole drained gas, sodered hole, dipped in hot water... no bubbles ??? Maybe when I heated it to seal hole I drilled it self sealed the leak??anyway reinstalled it, ate some lunch and headed out
Get about 1/2 mile out of town,call Dad tell him I'm on my way be there soon
Get 1 mile out of town and hit a roadblock / woolly traffic jam!

1000 sheep where coming my way!!!
I pulled over and waited.

They brushed up against the jeep as they pasted rocking it slightly.


They just kept coming! And coming!!!

Well to make a short story longer
Finally made it to Dads.
First order of business install tire chains.
I dug them out of Dads jeep and borrowed one pair.

Now this is my kind of snowmobiling












Oh man it was so much fun busting through the snow tire chains clattering.
I found 2nd gear low range the best choice for me all out pedal on the floor.






If you've never churned though the snow about to be stuck at anytime, you should try it.

Took the chains off and headed home another adventure done.


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Wow! Great story and photos! Thanks
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Ben, I'm glad you're not "sheepish" LOL. Cool pictures which reminded me of my high school days. When school was called off due to bad roads and blizzards, we loaded up shovels and chains and headed out for some Jeep snowmobiling. Much fun. I got to ask, are there old antique trucks and cars everywhere you go???????????.  Shocked Oilly
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We where snow wheelin on Dads property, so yes there's old trucks and cars every where!!
He has spent all his life collecting them, still has his first pickup a1950 gmc that a farmer gave him , when he was 14
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Looks like me trying to get out my driveway sunday!Unhappy 
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Wow looked like an amazingly fun time with your dad! Thank you for sharing!
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Ben, does your Dad adopt? I'd be a "very" good brother Oilly
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Wow, that looks fun. We do get a little snow where in North Carolina from time to time, mostly freezing rain. However I have had her in a little snow before. Looking forward to doing it again. Tongue Tell me How cold was it that day in the most recent photo's??  
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It was around 18* that day for the high,
But around 4pm when I took the chains off and headed home the temp was dropping fast.
Made me glad I had installed a little 12v defroster for the window,it was icing up pretty bad on the way home. found the defroster at harbor freight worked very well.
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Good times and great pictures. Thanks
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Flatfender Sunday
A friend and I, went for a little jeep adventure on Sunday afternoon,Near Parma Idaho.
Was great to get the jeeps out and be able to drive them, after the long winter but there were still a lot of snow out there that's for sure.

My friend drove his sweet cj3a. And me in my cj3b.

And I found a deep snow drift to get stuck in

Didn't even try out my new winch. A

A quick tug and we were on our way.

Clint, broke Trail through this section, we figured it was safer, that way if he got stuck we could use my winch to get him out,he made it with no problem and I followed his tracks.

Turns out the last 8 feet to the gravel road was the hardest part of the whole trip.
The berm the snowplow had made was frozen really hard.


Probably would've made it,if I would've had my tire chains on my tires instead of hanging on my front bumper
And if I would of used my good idea from earlier I wouldn't of got my jeep with the winch
Stuck in front of the other jeep. A guy in a pickup came along and pulled me out which saved some shovel work..... Clint almost made it but got stuck as well.


I pulled him out, and we called it a day

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awesome! thanks for sharing
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Always enjoy seeing photos of your adventures Ben! Thanks for stopping and taking them. ( Or who ever you with who does take them!)
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