I’m still a ways away from even starting the tear down, but I think I’ve come up with the color that I’ll use for Ike when it comes to doing the body work. Drumroll please…. Potomac Grey! With it not only being a color I was considering, but also the original color of the Jeep, I think it was all but destined to be grey again. Below is a picture of an accurately restored color scheme I found on the CJ-3A page of Mark Struhsacker’s 1949 CJ-3A. Ike’s wheels were definitely red in the past, but I don’t think I’ll…
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With the weather being nice and with the transmission cover already off the Jeep, I decided to do a little cleanup on some of the smaller pieces attached to the body. Along with the transmission cover, I removed the shift boot retaining rings for the transmission shifter as well as the transfer case shifting rods. While I was at it, I took off the master cylinder inspection plate, and then the eyelets and body-side door rails for the canvas top. On the passenger side, this proved especially problematic. The semi-veritcle rail on the left is mirrored on the passenger side.…
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1 CommentIke’s first oil change, they grow up so fast 🙁 Well, maybe not the first oil change, but certainly the first oil change in a long while. After owning Ike for only a few months, it was time to give him a good old fashioned oil change. Some observations: the drain plug is HUGE compared to what I am used to. The bolt head is over an inch across, and needless to say I didn’t have any proper tools to get the bolt off. I ended up having to use a pair of channel locks to get around the large…
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