Hood history, painting along with kingpin/knuckle work!

Posted on November 19, 2020March 15, 2021 by Britt

Hood history, painting along with kingpin/knuckle work!

This week was a crazy busy week with work on two major ongoing projects.. the GPW hood and the GPW front axle! This week I continued work removing paint and rust on the hood, did some historical recovery of hood numbers, and painted the hood. After finishing the rear axle last week, I began work on the front axle with one of the more tricky parts… the kingpin and knuckle installation. I go through a full tutorial on how to set those along with the dust shields!

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Fuel Sender, F Bolts, Pintle Hook, First Aid Kit, & more!

Posted on April 23, 2020April 12, 2021 by Britt

Fuel Sender, F Bolts, Pintle Hook, First Aid Kit, & more!

Another stay-at-home week worked mostly on the Jeep! This is part 2 of my ongoing quest to fix the fuel sender and get a working gas gauge. I also finally replaced my post-war M38 pintle hook with a correct GPW one. More bolts were replaced to be F stamped, and I worked on restoring my First Aid kit for the Jeep. Finally, I start some work on the original body tub.

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More axle work

Posted on March 5, 2020April 20, 2021 by Britt

More axle work

After last week’s excitement, this week was much more calm. This week I continued to clean/disassemble the wartime GPW axles and sandblast various parts documenting F stamps along the way. I also started to restore parts of the emergency brake and checked the PCV valve for carbon/fuel buildup.

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The Jeep goes public!

Posted on February 27, 2020March 18, 2021 by Britt

GPW #208102 at the Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942 event

The Jeep goes public!

This week the Jeep made the first public appearance at an event in San Pedro, CA for the LA Air Raid of 1942! Then the next day the Jeep went to Old Towne Orange, CA for a mini-photoshoot in the area. Overall a great outing with lots of photos! Restoration wise, I was only able to get a little bit of sandblasting in and fixing a broken panel light switch.

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Tire Pump, LED Brake Light Conversion, and more!

Posted on February 20, 2020April 21, 2021 by Britt

Tire Pump, LED Brake Light Conversion, and more!

A full week of work since the last update, this week I was able to finish the tire pump restoration project and mount it to the rear seat on my Jeep. I also had my brake light burn out, so I decided to convert it to LED using the original lens! Finally, I sandblast some of the axle items I took off last week and begin to take apart my emergency brake. Finally, I have been prepping the Jeep for its first adventure coming this Saturday!

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More Axle work, a tire pump, and more!

Posted on January 23, 2020April 27, 2021 by Britt

More Axle work, a tire pump, and more!

Looks like for the next few weeks I’m only going to be able to work on some weekend days and Mondays as weekdays have gotten busy! But even then, still got a lot of work done taking apart the axles this week. Follow along as I take apart various items on the front axle and hunt for Ford F stamps! Also prepping for a tire pump headed my way and a nice flea market find!

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