New Slat Grill owner.

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New Slat Grill owner.

Post by ElGros » Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:45 am

Hi all

After a good year of reading and researching here I decided in August that a Willys project was for me. My MB is in good shape but missing alot of parts. The tub is probably restorable but it will take alot of work and skill because it is so rotted out. The frame has a small rust problem on the front passenger side but it will be fixed by removing the rusted piece and welding a new one.
The engine was rebuilt 2 years before i bought it and was never fired, the only major problem is that there is an H crack under the distributor that Bubba welded up. I will have to get that properly repaired, I've been in contact with a company that will put it into a special oven then weld it and let it cool down over several days, from what they told me its the only way.
I've been busy striping it down and making a list of parts that I need to purchase... wow so many its unreal. I'm in the first phase of the restoration wich is frame and mechanical resto. Once that is done then I will look into either restoring the original tub or buying a reproduction tub.


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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by Rick O » Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:03 pm

Welcome! And post some pics!!!
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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by Richard Grace » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:46 am

Denis, where are you located? Thanks. ....... -RG
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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by ElGros » Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:57 am

I'm located in Quebec, Canada

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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by GP1942 » Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:31 am

Bienvenue ,
Je suis sur que tu parle français !!!

Je demeure sur la rive -sud de montreal et j'ai aussi un slat que je restore :D

a plus.......
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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by ElGros » Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:17 am

Finally got some pics for you guys.

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I will get more and better pics of the Tub, its rusted out bad.

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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by GP1942 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:19 pm

Nice Nice

Lache pas mon Denis 8)

Je crois un model Canadien ou Britanique,a cause des attaches arrieres.

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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by GP1942 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:22 pm

Ton body,si tu peut ,répare le,c'est mieux ,il garde une plus grande valeur aprés.
Il semble meilleur que le mien,ton plancher est comment ?

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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by Boyso » Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:04 pm

Wow!

Tu l'as trouvé où?

Bonne chance dans ta resto!
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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by ElGros » Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:52 am

I just want to say that without this community helping each other out I think alot of us would find a resto project like this overwhelming, so thanks to all in advance for your help and advice.

Here some more eye candy:

Gauges, to bad the previous owner reset the odometer to zero but he told me it had 31000 something miles on it... why would anybody reset that... :roll:
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Radiator, look to me like its from a slat.
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Windshield, to bad the drivers side is broken
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Slat Grill with a slat missing
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I will post pics of the tub shortly.

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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by ElGros » Sat Nov 24, 2012 7:37 am

Can anybody tell me if this tag is original to the Slat Grill radiator? I removed the paint and crap off of it last night.

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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by GP1942 » Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:32 am

Hi
I think yes, you have 3 marks on the tank of the radiator,
and after that I can see on the photos. :wink:
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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by Brandon » Sat Nov 24, 2012 5:50 pm

Wow, congrats I love to see when people find these old war horses still around!! :D

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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by Chuck Lutz » Sun Nov 25, 2012 8:44 am

The tag indicates the radiator was serviced by "A-1 Radiator" at some point in time/ Perhaps a little research would find it they are still in business and if they are, they can probably tell you from the "068187" tag when that occured.
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Re: New Slat Grill owner.

Post by Viking27 » Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:37 am

ElGros,

Congrats on nice jeep project.

There are some guys that say that weldig the block is a hopless repair. Even if you heat it. I have a cracked
block and plan to repair it using special Lock and Stich pins. Each of the C2F pin has a pulling force of 300lbs.
If you use a pneumatic needle gun after the repair, it blends the repair so it can hardly be seen. This might
be a better optio for you, and you can do this yourself. A repair on the thin sides might require the L4 pins.
I recommend you study this.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq0wfU4ZaKk&feature=plcp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hope this helps
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