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Sethcj2a
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Posted: 19 Feb. 2019 at 2:42am |
I bought a running L134 out of a willys truck to replace the worn out one in my 2a. The flywheel on the truck motor is pretty worn and did not have the right number of teeth on the ring gear either. So i took the flywheel off of the worn out motor got it cleaned up and resurfaced. Tonight i went to install the flywheel and it would not fit on the two dowl pins. The pins on the truck motor are a straight pin and 9/16 vs the tappered ones that get used with my good flywheel. Has anyone run into this before? Any ideas on a fairly easy fix? Are the straight 9/16 pins some kind of up grade. Thanks for the help.
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Ol' Unreliable
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Those were an improvement. What exactly they improved I can't say but someone here can, I'm sure.
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There's a reason it's called Ol' Unreliable
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JeepSaffer
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Exactly as you suspected, they were an upgrade, supposedly due to the difficulty of field repairs (if needed) on the taper pins. The bolts are special bolts, 9/16 parallel shank, special head to clear the block. They can be had at various dealers.
There is a procedure for their installation covered in the manual. It involves installing the flywheel without the special bolts, drilling the crank flange slightly undersized, then reaming to exactly 9/16. I've just completed this on a crank and flywheel of my own. In your case you need to drill the flywheel, not the crank. I'm not sure that you can do this accurately without removing the crank. The holes need to be exactly centred on the 9/16 bolts. But I'm not a machinist. There must be a way of doing this accurately.....
Edited by JeepSaffer - 19 Feb. 2019 at 3:42pm |
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oldtime
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I have a pair of Willys OEM NOS straight dowels so PM me if your interested.....
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Mark W.
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A suggestion that unless you have the ability to machine your flywheel in house (with tooling you already have) it will be cheaper and much less hassle to pass that flywheel along and buy one that fits your crank set up. Put a Want ad on here and if you are on any of the Facebook Willys pages put an ad on them as well I doubt it will take more then a day to find a flywheel.
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Chug A Lug
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JeepSaffer
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...... or, get the truck flywheel resurfaced and put a new 97 tooth ring gear on it......
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1948 CJ2A #204853 in South Africa
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WeeWilly
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A good call since the truck fly wheel was probably balanced to the trucks' crankshaft. Jim
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mbullism
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You were going to use the ring gear on the "original" flywheel anyway, til the flywheel didn't fit... I'd just clean up the truck flywheel and swap the ring gear over as long as it was serviceable (as opposed to buying a new one)
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