Wednesday, 3 August 2011

The dream that i made to come true

Its all about the willys cj3b, that i been dreaming for years and finally i bought it after a clean hunt about a year and saving money.

Its been converted from left hand drive to right hand drive, 4x4 is been disabled,the fender had a mahandra jeep fender. I bought this for a little high price and I  loaded the jeep into a truck and it traveled almost 300 Km to reach my home.

Started the Engine:
The jeep was in ideal condition for several years, so my first thought was to start the engine and listen to its noise.


I added a existing battery of a car and we cranked the engine to start cos the ignation key unit where not responding the fire. after trying many times i found that the bend axial for the  self motor where not working properly.

 I figured out a electrician to fix this issue but there where no new bendaxial in the market he  suggested me that he could adjust and weld the knobs of existing to fix into the self motor.

After 3 days i got it started.the engine got started just withing few strokes and the sound was awesome.

I picked up jeep home and started to workout things that i could change and restore to the original look.

1) Remove the hardtop rods
2) get a new flat fender
3) scrap the existing paint
4) tinkering job
5) paint job
6) mechanic work like a clean service and change the oil
7) add a new master cylinder and wheel cylinder liner
8)wiring work
9)adding new seats
10) nice soft top
11) activate 4X4
12) convert the right and drive into left hand drive

will continue........
Naked body of the jeep after scraping the existing paint.







Tinkering and metal paste work



Basic paint job


 Stage three!
All the below mentioned works where done
  Mechanical work:
 Change Engine oil ,gearbox and crown oil and gaskets
 New master cylinder,wheel cylinder and liners and other necessary things
 under chaise work
 rework on the spring leaf blades
 change of under chase belts and beds and screws



 Stage four! the paint job

Coronado sand color




wiring parts







After wiring work
Stage 5  
New wiring kit
addition of bulbs
new indicators 
new rear lights from wordwar 2
jerry can
side mirror 





Ready for trial 

took the jeep for a trail and found issue with A/C DC pumps , noise over the left hand side wheel, to much steering wheel play.  little leak in the back right wheel frm the cylinders.

On the way to valley view hills, trial picture

Under chaise paint job.
Seat covers
soft tops and new tires yet to follow