1968? Cj5 Slow Revival

Sweet looking CJ!!

 

Thank you sir! She’s rough but I like the look. I’m mulling over what to do with it in the long run. I love the stock color seen in the engine bay, and it will need a ton of metal work. We’ll see.

Another carb rebuild is in the books. It was actually remarkably decent in there. Most of the cleaning was on the outside. A few passages were plugged, and the (whatever that mechanism that passes as an accelerator pump) had some pretty dry cracked rubber. We have good squirting action now. And the carb looks decent. It wasn’t without some drama though. One of the carb bolts broke off in the intake. So I got to employ the “weld a washer on without getting set in fire” trick. Spoiler alert, it worked. I looked through my stock to find carb studs but found none the correct length so I replaced a few not good bolts and ran with it. But those will get replaced. Eventually.
I also ordered some tune up stuff. Cap rotor plugs and wires. I’ll clean up the points but I’m not replacing the condenser. My experience is if you have an old one that’s functional, it’ll probably do so longer that the modern crap they’re selling.
I also ordered a voltage regulator. I had to disconnect the excite wire due to overcharging.
Here’s the only picture I thought to take before moving it out of the barn to bring in the Torino. The welder was set too hot but it worked. Oh that’s the new oil gauge copper line I ran to get the gauge working again.