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Brent Zappe

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A Couple month ago I had bought a Willy's Jeep. This last week the weather cleared up for a day got to go pick it up and bring it home. Yesterday I was looking at it in my shop. I have a flat head engine in it and they changed it over to a 12 volt system. It looks like it need a lot of T.L.C. but it looks like a fun to drive around. Looking forward to it. What threw me was the people said it was a 1951 but it is a CJ-2A body Overland. I got it from an estate sale where the older people had past away. They are sending me the paper work for this jeep plus the pink slip because they could not find it at that time. Just was wondering if they still had flat head engine in these jeeps in those years. Enjoy the pictures of my great buy.
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https://www.kaiserwillys.com/about_willys_jeep_cj2a_history_specs

https://www.kaiserwillys.com/about_willys_jeep_cj3a_history_specs

Looks like you either have a cj2a or a 51, not both.
but either would have a flathead. Lots of info at those links.
 
Jeep used a flathead up through the mid fiftys,or later. All the low hoods were flathead. The CJ 3 with it's taller hood was an F-head(exaust valves in block,intake valves in head).Early CJ 5 also had an F head.
 
Your best bet on replacement parts would be www.walcks4wd.com. Also www.4wd.com is a good place.

Just beware a jeep is a money pit, I think I spent about 8 grand restoring my jeep about twenty years ago and it's time to do it again.
 
From what I've seen from prices is an old Jeep is a lot better investment than an old tractor !
 
You will be extremely lucky if you end up getting a title for it after the fact. If the past owners ever had plates on it the estate could file for a lost title and maybe work it from that angle ?
 
the body on your jeep looks pretty good. I have a 51 CJ3A, at least the body is. Difference between that and a CJ2 is the split windshield, like you have, on the 2. Most of them at least in my area have been modified several times after all these years. They are a fun little vehicle to play with. I have found Kaiser Willies to be about the best place to get parts, they have almost everything on the jeep. The old flathead, think some call them "F head" engines were pretty good. There are 2 versions, aa military and civilian. The military has a little faster gearing than the civilian. I always say that when you have a jeep you always have something to do, they generally need something
 
Many differences but mostly subtle between the CJ2A and CJ3A, there's two I always remember. CJ2A had the split windshield, CJ3A was one piece. CJ2A ignition switch was just past the center of dash toward passenger side, CJ3A was on dash to the left of the gauges.

CJ2A ended in 49, 51 would be a CJ3A, the tall hood CJ3B came out in 53, the taller hood was needed to clear the new F-head OHV engine.
 
Several years ago I had an MB military. Engine had been replaced with a small block Chevy v8. After I sold it, the new owner had to replace the rear end. He told me all the components in the rear had Ford stamped on them. I read where Ford built some jeeps during war time. Exactly like and parts interchange to Willys. Always wondered after that if I may have had a Ford built unit.
 

I use to keep a Jeep around all the time they are EZ as ell to work on and fun to boot... I sold my last one around early 2000 a 81 Jeep Scrambler a guy in Texas wanted it more than I did...

Enjoy your new toy...
 
Hayfarmer ..... I used to call "flathead engines" (with both exhaust and intake valves in the cylinder block) F-heads until someone corrected me years ago. So the old Ford V-8's and the old Continental tractor engines were certainly flatheads but not F-heads. A true F-head engine by definition is different. Can't say I've ever seen one to be honest .... Here's a definition from the web ...

The intake/inlet over exhaust, or "IOE" engine, known in the US as F-head, is a four-stroke internal combustion engine whose valve train comprises OHV inlet valves within the cylinder head and exhaust side-valves within the engine block.
 
I think after I restored my jeep I could have sold it for more than I put in it as far as parts. I don't think I could say the same about the old case tractor I bought and restored.
 
Great link JAN ..... I had replied a bit earlier about Hayfarmer's use of the term F-head for flathead. I replied to that and then I see your reply with the engine info and the one that refers to is a true F-head engine with intake valves in the head (overhead) and the exhaust valves in the block. Proper engine terminology uses the term L-head (or side valve design) for what most of us think of as a flathead engine (both valves in the engine block to the same side of the piston). The term T-head is apparently used to describe a flathead engine design where both valves are in the block but on opposite sides of the piston.
 
You are right it has the flat head engine in it (Go devil). Just got it running today and order some parts found out it was a 1952.
 
I have a 1952 what threw me is that I have the flat head engine (Go Devil). Plus a split windshield that open up after hitting the lock.
 
Yes I do know a Jeep is a money pit. My friends have Jeeps. The tell me this story Just ,empty, each, pocket. that is there story on fixing there JEEPS.
 
I got this Jeep for one thousand dollars. I was planning to have to do the registration paper work but they told me they wanted to do it for me. I have never had any body do the paper work for me.
 
Twenty years ago you could get a soft top for a jeep for less than 600 bucks. I think they are going for a around a grand now.
 
(quoted from post at 20:12:23 02/14/19) Yes I do know a Jeep is a money pit. My friends have Jeeps. The tell me this story Just ,empty, each, pocket. that is there story on fixing there JEEPS.
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I don't care what you're restoring, they are all money pits. A Willys or Jeep is about the lowest buck restoration you'll ever do.
 
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