help with ID needed
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help with ID needed
I've found a probable slat grill. No data plates and has a CJ3A grill. No glove box. Script WILLYS on the rear panel. Very short oil filler tube with the early type dipstick (similar to Willys americar). Smooth sided MB hood. Does this sound like a slat? Still has gas can carrier and 3 bolt tire carrier.
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Are you positive your MB has a CJ-3B Grill, a CJ-3B Grill would be too tall for the MB Hood and it would not close.
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OOPS! CJ3A hood
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Got a S/N: 100487 How can I find an estimate DOD? I'm guessing November 1941.
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Congratulations. That is a nice early one. I don't have much data available for that early of a slat, but this may help a little bit.
https://g503.com/oldsite/serial-numbers ... ASC&o4=ASC
Good luck and post some pictures.
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Andy, Do you know anything about the dipstick type? Don't have numbers yet. Hoping it's original. Don't see "WILLYS" on the head either.
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Dan, does it have split seats in the front, no drivers side blackout light, and a round muffler. Also solid wheels, not split rims, and does the fuel gauge say "gas" ?
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Not sure if original seats. No blackout light. Don't know about the muffler ( going to pick it up tomorrow). Not solid wheels, looks like early CJ or late 40's Ford wheels. The Gas gauge is the only one missing. Seller is going to look in the barn for it.
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That early it should be one like this:
You will have a number of early things you need to look for. Your windshield should be one of the low types. Solid rims as others have mentioned, pancake air filter, 3 rib radiator, drivers seat with the round fuel sender hole, early gauges, etc.
Here is a picture of the early drivers seat pan with the round fuel sender unit hole.
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Pic of my 41 slat as found.
https://scontent.ftul1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=5CA7A17A
Wrong windshield. Glad I kept an old short one with the cast brass latches. The engine head is a post war but the engine has me puzzled. The S/N is on the front boss like a CJ would be but the number is "V10744".
Also, I have another engine with the proper MB casing number but the S/N is "441-55794" Anyone have a clue what that's about?
https://scontent.ftul1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=5CA7A17A
Wrong windshield. Glad I kept an old short one with the cast brass latches. The engine head is a post war but the engine has me puzzled. The S/N is on the front boss like a CJ would be but the number is "V10744".
Also, I have another engine with the proper MB casing number but the S/N is "441-55794" Anyone have a clue what that's about?
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I look forward to seeing your progress restoring this, dont forget help is at hand on here. Good luck Dan.
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The 441 engine is a 1941 Willys Americar or light truck engine, I also have one. It's the same engine as the early MB variety, made on the same assembly line by the same workers with the same parts, it just has a different number stamped on the machined pad. There should be a casting date on the passenger side of the block, just above the oil pan, that will tell you what month and day the block was cast.
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