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Have you confirmed the linkage Bell Crank in installed correctly per Dally's post?

Pulling the trans is not that big of a job...floor jack and basic hand tools should do it...

Mike B :)


Yes.

At this point I drove it quite a bit yesterday and didnt notice any issue with the clutch. It was ...

I dont have the Army clutch TM.
I didnt see anything in the bellhousing that was out of ordinary.

At this point I can drive it for a while until the clutch starts to catch so Im just going to keep driving it till something breaks.
My friend suspects the pilot bearing is gripping the trany shaft ...

Yeah I went right to the manual and I have the proper free play in the pedal before the throwout bearing hits the pressure plate.
I wind up at send or ordnance personnel

Its weird it runs great cold for a while till it warms up then starts sticking.
Just seems bizzarre that it acts this way ...

My friend wanted to come over and see what I was talking about before I did anything.
So tonight he came over and we started driving around the neighborhood, starting and stopping to exercise the clutch. It had no problems at all for quite a bit and he thought I was crazy until it finally started ...

I will look for the grease when I open it up to look inside.

As for the levers, they are all what came on this jeep from the army. I bought it at auction a long time ago, Im the first owner outside the military.
It worked the clutch fine for years until suddenly a couple days ago.

So this is going to sound strange but bear with me ok.

Last year we rebuilt the motor in my M38a1 and I put a new clutch and pressure plate from Walks 4wd in the vehicle.

When it was all back together the clutch would not release when the pedal was stepped on. Yes we had the proper freeplay and ...

Thanks Wes, great photos and I do have that adapter kit.
Im not really learned on dwell and how to deal with it but I seem to have got this far not knowing. I will have to read that up in the TM Principals of automotive vehicles that I have.

So I Ohmed out my 4 coils that I have and not sure what ...

Thanks Kendall.

I actually did a forum search on "coil testing" before I posted my question. I read the posts it returned for about 30 min then gave up and posted my question.
Wes's answer on that post was what I was looking for, thank you.

Is there a way to test coils to determine if they are still good or going bad or failed?

I have 3 take out coils with no clue as to their viability.

'54 M38a1 all stock. I had a misfire issue and a friend suggested I replace the condenser first.
It was a recent install in the last two years ...

My front end got loose last year and my friend rebuilt my kingpin bearings and knuckles for me.
Within a few months I noticed it would tend to pull right especially on bumps.
I dont drive it as much as I used to now a days.

Well I got on the freeway yesterday and got a massive death wobble at 45 ...

Thanks so much for the help.

In the past I have been lucky using the newer kits with my spring and needle pin and a manual spec float setting. But part variance has caught up to me this time.

Wow very noticeable how much taller the MM kit needle plunger is compared to the RF kit.
Also the diaphragm springs as well. Very different.

Well from my recent saga its quite clear the needle and plunger in the MM kit are just too tall to allow fuel into the bowl even after flattening the float ...

Hunh, I didnt know one had to log in to flicker to see pictures. I have viewed others without being logged in I know, because I have to log in when I want to go to my stuff. Obviously there is a public link and I didnt know and didnt find it. I just clicked on the share photo and it gave me a link ...

Ok so I installed the first MM kit needle and seat and cannot lower the tab enough for gas to come out of the fuel line while holding the horn connected to the fuel line and cranking the motor. So that spring is just too tight, I have the tab flat all the way basically non exsistant.
So the ...

I opened my carb up again and compared the needle and seat and float spring to unused ones from Midwest Military supplied kits along with a very old take out that I saved. Springs are marked
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51894774797_7f2eaf54b6_n.jpg

I also compared the entire aparatus
left ...