Re: [MV] I agree with most you said - except

From: ken uhrick (kuhrick@home.com)
Date: Mon May 14 2001 - 14:04:41 PDT


my dad buyed a hanry j car for the motor for his willys Jeep
dont know what year ether was too long a go

At 01:22 PM 5/14/2001 -0500, Everett Doyle wrote:
>Among my vehicles - military and otherwise I have a 46 model CJ with the
>original engine in it -- when I got it was bored .60 -=- when came time for
>repair I had it sleeved back to standard and put a new crank in -- spent
>more than it was worth after repairs were made -- but old jeep had been
>faithful and I was not willing to put it on scrap pile.
>
> It has/was been my experience that usable flat head Willys engines are
>very scarce in US. This was done some 20 years ago and has held up really
>well.
>
> > 6. Finally, I read another posting about boring out the block to plus
>.60
> > thou. This can certainly be done and all the bits are available to this
> > size but you can sometimes suffer from overheating problems at this
>oversize
> >
>
>
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