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Does welding a bell housing back together count? I have one of those.

Sorry. There has been a delay in posting, owing to my son having to spend some time in the hospital.

My lubricant came in and it's really interesting stuff. Viscosity-wise this flows more like thick maple syrup than honey...and just as sticky! As I mentioned, this product meets all the ...

Exactly. My chemist friend put it very succinctly. "There are many lubrications that will do the job. Some better then others." Ergo, there are lots of other options out there for us.

All any of us can do is do our level best to make an informed decision and hope we're satisfied. My goal is, as ...

Yesterday, I did my homework. I read about this till blood was squirting out of my eyes. This is certainly not my area of expertise. I am not hanging my hat on what is correct based on the TM, simply because we have lubricants available to us now that simply did not exist back then.

Of course, an ...

Ok, we're back in business. Just a quick update and a formal request for a source for the PROPER lube for the steering gearbox. I know what NOT to use and I have had to politely tell many of my overly-helpful parts counter guys that what they're pushing isn't the right stuff. I even expected to find ...

Or take it to a machine shop and see if they will take on the job of making one. Never hurts to ask...particularly if you have a suitable hunk of material for them to make one from.

Just a thought.

On a slightly different topic (eye protection) I finally caved in and had a piece of metal removed from my eye yesterday. I've always been rather indifferent to pain which is something that drove my parents (and my wife) kind of crazy over the years but when I knew I'd be going to the coast for a ...

Ok, here's a little update. Some parts are in and here's the rebuild kit.

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As you can see here, the splines on that new shaft are FAR healthier than the old one, whose splines are high in the middle and low on either end - part of what is causing the ...

Oh! SWEET!

Thanks!

I'm into this now.... I have only one word!

FABULOUS!

SO much better than the TM!

I'll be referencing the TM a greater detail more on the build. I didn't find the Ross manual in the downloads section of this site. Did I miss it?

For the readers, Wes is absolutely correct. No matter what your experience or skill level, very few are the times when the manuals don't provide at ...

One of the benefits of NOT having all the parts ready to go is it forces you to slow your roll. So I spent today doing all the extra things that were needed to make this part of the Willys project go in the right direction.

Today was the final disassembly and cleaning of the steering gearbox. There ...

Keeping these shims located where they came from throughout the overhaul of this steering gearbox is important if everything is expected to go back just the way it came off.

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I just went at this with the drill and a cupped wire brush and knocked off ...

Ok! My son and I removed the steering box this evening and it took about five minutes. That went very quickly owing largely to the fact that there is no driveline in the way and one of us worked inside the engine bay while the other worked outside.

We removed the three bolts securing the box to ...

The brake line kit came yesterday.

Keeping in mind the last problem I had with mail order (remember the bearing cup substituted for a bearing and concealed in the bearing box?) I dutifully checked the whole order and found I was missing two minor pieces. I called the guys, politely discussed it ...

Waiting for parts....