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DieselDoris 1947 CJ2a from Sweden

Here haven't been any updates for a very long time, but some things have happened.

some pictures of my finished Rockerguard.






I have also finished my switch panel in the roof.


A very poor picture of the result.


And the backside of the panel.


Had to bee a little creative when I couldn't take it out of the car.
 
Tomorrow I'm of to the second competition for the season.

In the first comp we finished 7th out of 11 in the unlimited class.


And now some pics.




We broke the front bush on the main leaf of.

But we fixed that and continued


 
Now I have been home for a couple of days after this weekends competion.

The Willys worked flawless for 12 hours of hard offroad racing.

Approximately 4 km of trail with 24 special tests with very mixed terrain, mud, rocks and small very bad dirtroads.
The special tests were mixed but most of them were rocks of some sort.

Race inspection on Friday evening

Saturday
Drivers meeting 07:30
Race start 08:00
Race ends 20:00


The only two pictures I found online





We drove 6½ lap on the trail and took all the special tests on each lap
So we made 154 special tests in 12 hours.

How did it ended?


We came 2nd out of 10 starting cars in the unlimited class


It was very close on the first three places after 12 hours of racing
 
Thank you very much
csutton7 said:
bra gjort...​
Nice to see some swedish
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We are working on a timelaps from a part of the comp.


I washed the car a little quickly on sunday afternoon.
Not much of damage on the car, what I found so far:

*Both front fenders mangled a little, my rockerguards really helped to protekt the fenders and the tub
*Steering is a little strange but nothing big I think
*My airfilter have broken


Don't know when this happened during the comp
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Engine bay looks like we have been driving in concrete mix or something.
 
Long time since I wrote anything here.

I have wheeled my Willys a lot this summer.

In mid July I blow my engine. No oil pressure and blown head gasket.
The plan were to rebuild the engine and have it fitted before the Ren Väg Offroad meet in the beginning of August. But the engine needed a new crank shaft because the old one were bent and damaged, it took a couple of weeks to find a god second hand one.

So to have the Willys running for the big meet we took a chance and mounted a engine that were standing in the workshop, it sounded god when we started it but condition unknown. It worked over the meet but were weaker then the old one.

Towed out to the trailer with blown engine
 
The third competition were canceled due to to few participants.

The forth competition were held in southern part of Stockholm.

Race inspection on Friday afternoon.
After the inspection we found out that the fuelpump feeding the catchtank just were working from time to time so we changed that one.

we had some beers and barbecue and relaxed the rest of the evening.

Saturday:
07:10 drivers meeting
08:00 first start
20:00 last finish


We started first out of 12 teams

Some pictures



Take one test with the stamp.


It was very dry and dusty.




A tired co-driver








There were a trail with 12 specialtests
We drove 12 laps.
We took all the tests on every lap except one.


We never tried this test.

we ended up in 4:th place
 
The fifth competition were held in Uppsala roughly 500 km from home.

This competition were orienteering were we got a photo from google maps were the check-point are marked.

One driving area during the day and one for the afternoon/evening both had 50 check-points.

We had to take all 50 check-points to be allowed to start "lap" two.

Photo with one person touching control sign and car to get the point.

We had 6h of driving on each area.

some photos




We ripped the u-bolt that held the u-joint to the front axle. After a walk back to pit to pick up two new needle bearings and u-bults, we were up running again.


My friend and co-driver Patrik.


A well used bead-lock whell




We finished in second place out of 9 started teams in our class.
After this competition we had the points overall lead with one point
 
The sixths competition were held in my home town, very convenient.

The competition where of the type marked trail with special tests

Night stage consisted of special test 1 - 4
Day stage consisted of special test 1 - 10

Friday

Race inspection 17:00 -22:00
Driver meeting 22:30
Start of night stage 23:00
End of night stage 02:00

Saturday

Start day stage 09:00
End of day stage 16:00

On the night stage we started after the standing in the champion ship
We started first
And on the day stage we started after the result from the night stage
We started second

Since it was my 4x4 club that arranged the competition I ended up as one of the organizers, but I was forbidden to have anything to do with the trail or special tests.


And now some pics:


Special test 1 on the saturday morning


Part of special test 3 in the saturday afternoon


Special test 3. I'm driving on solid ground, all the cars had pushed up a lot of mud.


Part of special test 8


also special test 8




Special test 10
 
Everything worked very well during the competition and we had a good pace but not pushing anything. During the year we have learned that we preform the best result when we try to have fun and not try to win.

The only things that happened with the car in terms of brake downs was a broken fuel pump and that we lost 2 out of three nuts on the joint in between exhaus manifold and exhaust system when we drove out of pit area, but we drove back and tighten the last nut and drove on the rest of the day.

This competition where a lot harder then the other this year and a lot more fun to drive. Everything were more or less a challenge.

So how did it end?

We finished in second place, again
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and that gave us the second place in the champion ship.

The results from this year are we very pleased with.
Our goal when the season started were to finish on the podium at one competition. So we have exceeded that by far.


The trophy's from this season
 
We just had a wonderful spring Saturday here.

So I took the Willys for a couple of hours of wheeling.

Just a little snow left


My happy co-driver for the day
 
I had a question if I had any video of my Willys, now I have
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Here are the link:
https://youtu.be/66tIOTdfWz4

Question?
This is the code from youtube to embeed the video, it doesn't work, anyone knows whats wrong with it?
 
We been offroading this weekend






Me and my son is attaching the winch line for a friend
 
At the end of the day we tested where the tipping point is on my Willys.





I will never drive the car to that angle. Around halfway I started to say that we are tipping over, but we weren't.

It was a bit more lift before we reached the tipping point but we couldn't do it because of the rigging.

 
Long time since last update

During the winter and spring nothing has really been done on the Willys, more than driving and the necessary maintenance.

But now some things have happened.


I received a package.


allot of goodies for the winch and some wear parts.


First I replaced the winch motor.
The old original motor is 4,2 hp
The new Bow2 motor is 6,8 hp and 1000 rpm faster.

It made a very big difference.


We visited a 4x4 meeting not far away for a weekend.


So alike but very different.


And here we go again... Washing the car is so boring and it feels like it takes forever.
 
I have also upgrade my winch with an air-freespole drumand a new uprated main shaft.


The new drum is beefed up with thicker materials in the sides to reduce flex, smaller inner diameter to increase pulling power and allow to have more rope on the drum.
On the free end of the drum the nylon bush is replaced with a bearing.


The new and old main shafts, the new one on the right.


The winch is put back togheter.
 
The standard free-spool on the winch is more or less useless because you have to turn all the gears around, i.e. very heavy to free-spool.
I have always powered out my line because it's easier.

With the air free-spool I can free-spole with the line pinched with only to fingers, that is how easy the drum turns.

That saves a lot of time and also saves my co-driver when we are competing.
As a bonus my youngest son (8 years) can easily handle the winch line when we are to an off road meet.
 
The plan for the moment is:
* Toyota LJ70 axles with ARB front and rear
* Three link with panhard front
* Coil springs with shocks
* Toyota steering box
* Same Engine and trans as before
* New tube fenders at front looking like the standard fender but with more raise
* Frame connectors for the cage
* New fuel tank so I will pass race inspection (changed regulations)

And of course it should stay low as before

If time allows I will do radius arms with panhard at the rear and 5 speed gearbox
But the time is the deciding factor for the rear.

2018-01-10 21.14.21 by Jonas Schiller, on Flickr

2018-01-10 22.33.52 by Jonas Schiller, on Flickr

I have learned something from someone here...
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Every bracket have a paper template and a cutting template
 
pigge



After King Of The Hammers I just didn't felt for the projekt until beginning of July.

But the projekt is not dead and yesterday it stood on it's wheels by it self
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It was a really good feeling 11 month after I started disassembly the car.

 
I'm not going to write a lot just show the pics



 



Cutting template for the plasma






Sleve through the frame




The other side
 
When i bought the axles there where after market hightsteer arms fitted.
If I would have kept them, I'm only got 1" of up travel on the suspension.





so this is the plan.
 
I added frame connectors for the cage.
the plane is that they stop the tube from cracking.



I build the suspension to be able to have as much up travel as the frame allows.




All brackets that might need to be replaced in the future have wood templates.


Rear frame connector and radius arm mount are built as one strong unit.



Planed ride height


Rear pinjong angle at ride height

A shave is planned for the axles
 
Front axle at maximum possible full bump


Roughly where the motor gone end up.






We where in Amsterdam on our summer holiday.
In a normal convenient store I found this beer
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Mieser said:
The rebuild looks great!

What is the reasoning behind the rear radius arm vs something like a 3/4/5-link system?​
The reason is that I have had an extremely stabil car on sideslopes etc. and I try to keep that, with the radius arm I get like a built in sway bar.

Why a not so flexy rear end vs front end?
My experience is that if you get the front wheels true the obstacle the rear wheels will easier follow.
 
Time for some motor mounts


Passenger side


Driver side


Rear motor/trans mount
On this picture you could also se the sleeves for the radius arm mounts.

I would have liked to have the rear mounts on top of the frame but then I coulden't remove the trans with the tub on, so they had to be on the inside of the frame rail.
 



Same reinforcement as standard Willys frame
Are now also welded in between the spot welds


Motor mounts


Rear motor/trans mount
 
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