1980 U-50 (br Army Cj-5) Restoration

way cool, I was down your way in Sao Bernardo a year ago. Theres a lot of cool old iron in Brazil.
what web site do you use to look/buy old vehicles? besides facebook, i dont have that.

 

The best website would be Mercado Livre, which is similar to E-bay in concept, and OLX, but for more local stuff we usually use Facebook... Dad found his last Jeep through there

On the U-50, did some progress last week

Radio mocked up


We went back and put new brake shoe liners in the front


Dad did some travelling and brought home the engine!
This is from a '82 F-100, and therefore has the double barrel carb; we're leaving it that way for the extra ~9hp.
We will however have to change the bellhousing and clutch fork, since the F-100, Maverick, and the very last Jeeps, despite keeping the T-90 bolt pattern, have a "reversed" fork, with the cable pulling from the front.

T-90 empty case as a placeholder

Today we fired it up, and i have to say, it was one of the easiest times we've done that with a new (to us) engine.