I feel your pain. I had the same pain when trying to find an intake manifold for an 85 shovel engine with an J&P S.S. card and air cleaner. I think I went through 7 or 8 before finding one that fit right. But that is part of the fun. Keep up the good work! I would love to see your jeep in line at one of those car shows one day. Also love the shot of you pulling into the garage! That would make a great intro to the channel. A quick driving montage and wrap it up with pulling into the garage.
Man a few other local jeepers and myself have just about sworn off Kaiser Willy’s for anything but stuff you just can’t get anywhere else, which ain’t much. Every order I’ve had from them something was screwed up, the wrong size, or just a crap product. I’ve switched entirely to other venders myself. Glad to see you found some original parts to breathe some new life into. Always nice to see
Kaiser Willys tries, and when things go wrong they make it right, but there just aren't many good parts suppliers out there making correct and good quality parts. They've become the Amazon or Wal-Mart of Jeep parts, with the same wide selection but same quality problems. It honestly makes me want to start a business where I go out to swap meets, estate sales, marketplace, etc. and buy up all the usable/salvageable stuff I can find that's been outside sitting under a tarp or in a barn, hire some people to take the time to really clean them up and recondition them into good original US made parts, and start my own used parts shop with that as inventory. It would never make financial sense, of course, but that has been the theme of the channel...
The MB driveshaft is longer, because the transmission is shorter, all other CJs rear driveshaft can interchange except for CJ6 of course. So nice that you could find a good replacement and it's better to have the chunky one, that comes around mid 1951 onwards. It's neat that you could enjoy a day out and go to the swap meet. Wish something like that would exist where I live but old Willys are not a common sight where I live in South America. Great video, lots of neat stuff!
All correct. The T84 is definitely shorter than the T90. I didn't know that at the time, and I trusted that Kaiser Willys had it listed correctly on their site. (At least it's listed correctly now.) It's nice to know that there are some local resources out there with the MVPA chapter being somewhat active. Many of them live a few hours away, though. I hope to go on a trail ride with them sometime.
the yoke leaking is common even with new parts. use some sealant on the splines, behind the washer and behind the nut. on the splines I use aviation gasket do light amount on the output shaft splines maybe 1/4 the way and a good amount on the yoke female splines this way excess gets pushed towards the outside. it does make for a stubborn removal if you need to remove the yoke but it stops the leaks. silicon on the washer and nut usually.
The closest one nearby (still quite a drive) seemed to only deal with semi trucks and other commercial vehicles. An actual driveshaft shop would have been much quicker in the end. (After returning the KW one, rolling the dice on ebay, and then rolling the dice again on the swap meet one plus new u-joints, I still got it all fixed for much less than the price of a custom made one.)
sorry to say but it takes me about thirty min to cut that shaft down, but as you say its always good to have a dozzen or so extra drive shafts since that one only lasted sixty five years good luck on your front end rebuild and your trans rebuild , but you mite see if you cant find someone to help you
I'm sure the one that was too long could have been taken somewhere and cut down, but it was the principle of it and the lack of a local drive shaft shop. The vendor said it was right. It was not. So back it went. No need to spend more money to make something wrong into something right. And finding knowledgeable help in this area has been difficult, which is why I've had to learn how to do a lot myself.
I feel your pain. I had the same pain when trying to find an intake manifold for an 85 shovel engine with an J&P S.S. card and air cleaner. I think I went through 7 or 8 before finding one that fit right. But that is part of the fun. Keep up the good work! I would love to see your jeep in line at one of those car shows one day. Also love the shot of you pulling into the garage! That would make a great intro to the channel. A quick driving montage and wrap it up with pulling into the garage.
Man a few other local jeepers and myself have just about sworn off Kaiser Willy’s for anything but stuff you just can’t get anywhere else, which ain’t much. Every order I’ve had from them something was screwed up, the wrong size, or just a crap product. I’ve switched entirely to other venders myself. Glad to see you found some original parts to breathe some new life into. Always nice to see
Kaiser Willys tries, and when things go wrong they make it right, but there just aren't many good parts suppliers out there making correct and good quality parts. They've become the Amazon or Wal-Mart of Jeep parts, with the same wide selection but same quality problems. It honestly makes me want to start a business where I go out to swap meets, estate sales, marketplace, etc. and buy up all the usable/salvageable stuff I can find that's been outside sitting under a tarp or in a barn, hire some people to take the time to really clean them up and recondition them into good original US made parts, and start my own used parts shop with that as inventory. It would never make financial sense, of course, but that has been the theme of the channel...
The MB driveshaft is longer, because the transmission is shorter, all other CJs rear driveshaft can interchange except for CJ6 of course. So nice that you could find a good replacement and it's better to have the chunky one, that comes around mid 1951 onwards. It's neat that you could enjoy a day out and go to the swap meet. Wish something like that would exist where I live but old Willys are not a common sight where I live in South America. Great video, lots of neat stuff!
All correct. The T84 is definitely shorter than the T90. I didn't know that at the time, and I trusted that Kaiser Willys had it listed correctly on their site. (At least it's listed correctly now.) It's nice to know that there are some local resources out there with the MVPA chapter being somewhat active. Many of them live a few hours away, though. I hope to go on a trail ride with them sometime.
Whew! Nice work. The world of restoration.
the yoke leaking is common even with new parts. use some sealant on the splines, behind the washer and behind the nut. on the splines I use aviation gasket do light amount on the output shaft splines maybe 1/4 the way and a good amount on the yoke female splines this way excess gets pushed towards the outside. it does make for a stubborn removal if you need to remove the yoke but it stops the leaks. silicon on the washer and nut usually.
That's kaiser willys for ya
any drivetrain shops near by? they usually can make you a drive shaft to whatever specs you need or cut/weld/balance the new one you had
The closest one nearby (still quite a drive) seemed to only deal with semi trucks and other commercial vehicles. An actual driveshaft shop would have been much quicker in the end. (After returning the KW one, rolling the dice on ebay, and then rolling the dice again on the swap meet one plus new u-joints, I still got it all fixed for much less than the price of a custom made one.)
sorry to say but it takes me about thirty min to cut that shaft down, but as you say its always good to have a dozzen or so extra drive shafts since that one only lasted sixty five years good luck on your front end rebuild and your trans rebuild , but you mite see if you cant find someone to help you
I'm sure the one that was too long could have been taken somewhere and cut down, but it was the principle of it and the lack of a local drive shaft shop. The vendor said it was right. It was not. So back it went. No need to spend more money to make something wrong into something right. And finding knowledgeable help in this area has been difficult, which is why I've had to learn how to do a lot myself.