1948 Willys Jeep RESCUE! Over 3 SLOW Years of Work in UNDER 14 Minutes!

I've wanted to do one of these for awhile and it's finally time. Here's the highlight reel of the past three years or so of the 1948 Willys CJ2A Jeep project, the cornerstone of the channel, (also including a short "slide show" of pictures from before I bought it and before I started recording videos for YouTube). I have a full time job so I could only work on it on weekends and after hours as I had the energy to do so. I learned a lot of new skills along the way in order to bring an old abandoned Jeep back to life. It was used hard and put up wet, as they say, then left sitting in a barn for around 30 years. The seller said it "needed one of everything" and he was not joking.

I learned how to make my own brake lines, drill out swedges on the hub over drum style brakes, swap out wheel studs (more than once), rebuild a transmission, rebuild a transfer case, checking backlash and tolerances as I went. I installed a new clutch and pressure plate, learned to rewire an entire Jeep from scratch, manually mounted my own tubes and tires on wheels, and along the way I had to buy a bunch of tools and equipment so I could media blast and properly paint individual components as I went through them.

While it runs and drives (and stops!) as it should, there's still more to come with the project: a windshield repair, a set of basket case axles to rebuild, a basket case transfer case to build up, a suspension overhaul to install, and eventually a full round of body off frame repairs that will require learning how to weld. Probably even a ton of bondo and paint work.

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