1950 Willys Truck re-rebuild by 50wllystrk

3 minute(s) of a 620 minute read

Let's get deeper into this posi unit. Once again, most axles don't have this, so the work is less than you see here.
Two pics here. The first picture is the new clutch discs. Clearly you can see the friction/fiber material on the new ones. Looking at the second picture you can see there is no friction/fiber material left on these discs. This is gonna be great having the axle in full working order again.

I placed the ring and pinion together as they would be in the axle.


Now to remove the carrier side bearings. I always thought there had to be a better way. Anyway, a two jaw puller fits into cut out areas to grab the back side off the bearing. The vise grip tool latched on to the arms of the puller keep the arms from popping off the bearing under pressure.

7-29-2011

We'll touch back on the frame work. Just another shot of the inner frame braces, I'm just so darn proud of them.

I have been dealing with an issue that was also a issue 26 years ago. There just isn't a good opening in the crossframes to allow a 3/8 fuel line to be run along the inside of the frame. Years ago I simply took the cutting torch and opened up some holes. This way will not be allowed this time. Executive decision time. I decided now is the best time to handle this problem, so I doubled up the metal on the outer edges a hole sawed the openings. Now I have enough room for either a rubber grommet to fit in and give a nice safe opening or, take a piece of fuel line, slice it down the middle a make a nice safe rubber guard. Either way, it's alot better that the cuttin torch.