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GPW Connecting Rod

Post by Bruce W » Sun Jul 25, 2021 2:16 pm

I need one GPW connecting rod, #4. I will take a #2 if I must. DPCD, I don’t really want one of your NOS rods unless I absolutely can’t find a re-sizeable one. Thanks
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Re: GPW Connecting Rod

Post by dpcd67 » Sun Jul 25, 2021 3:38 pm

Right; these are for collecting purposes since they are in cosmoline dipped boxes with the Ford information printed on the label. I have no used F ones.
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Post by YLG80 » Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:39 am

Is this for a collection?
I have four Ford GPW F marked connecting rods where babbitt is bonded directly to rod, removed from my running 1942 GPW engine.

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Re: GPW Connecting Rod

Post by Bruce W » Mon Jul 26, 2021 7:31 am

It’s for an engine rebuild. I bought a GPW engine that had all the machine work done, crankshaft and rods all nicely wrapped in plastic. When I unwrapped the rods, yes, they had been re-sized, but one of them is a Willys rod. :x
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Re: GPW Connecting Rod

Post by Bruce W » Sun Aug 01, 2021 3:22 pm

Still looking. BW
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Post by rosims » Sun Aug 01, 2021 4:58 pm

I have couple. Can’t remember what hole. I’ll look in the morning.

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Post by rosims » Mon Aug 02, 2021 5:32 pm

I found them. I have 2. But they are stamped for 1 and 3 hole.

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Post by YLG80 » Tue Aug 03, 2021 2:51 am

rosims wrote:
Mon Aug 02, 2021 5:32 pm
I found them. I have 2. But they are stamped for 1 and 3 hole.

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Waooh, nice.
Do you have a mean to accurately measure the internal diameter for the bearing.
This is to confirm the one I have found in the bearing catalog.
I would like to modify my F marked rods so that they would accept standard bearings instead of the bonded babbitt. (see photos here above).
Thanks.
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Re: GPW Connecting Rod

Post by Bruce W » Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:58 am

Thanks Robert, but as you know, they don’t do me any good. I need a #2 or #4.

Yves, I don’t know whether that kind of info appears anywhere in the TM’s, but the Service Manual For Universal Jeep Vehicles (CJ, but it’s the same) shows the big-end bore to be 2.0432” to 2.0440”.
I’m curious as to how a set of GPW rods wound up with poured babbit bearings.
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Re: GPW Connecting Rod

Post by YLG80 » Tue Aug 03, 2021 9:29 am

Bruce W wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:58 am
Thanks Robert, but as you know, they don’t do me any good. I need a #2 or #4.

Yves, I don’t know whether that kind of info appears anywhere in the TM’s, but the Service Manual For Universal Jeep Vehicles (CJ, but it’s the same) shows the big-end bore to be 2.0432” to 2.0440”.
I’m curious as to how a set of GPW rods wound up with poured babbit bearings.
BW
Thanks Bruce. I did not realize that the dimension was in the CJ Universal SM.
I’m going soon to melt the babbitt and see how it goes.
I will post pictures.
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Re: GPW Connecting Rod

Post by Bruce W » Mon Aug 23, 2021 8:16 am

Still looking for a #4 GPW connecting rod.
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Re: GPW Connecting Rod

Post by Bruce W » Wed Oct 13, 2021 5:51 pm

Bruce W wrote:
Mon Aug 23, 2021 8:16 am
Still looking for a #4 GPW connecting rod.
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I still need one. BW
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Re: GPW Connecting Rod

Post by conrod6 » Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:50 am

Hope you got one - there are a pair on ebay as I write.

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Re: GPW Connecting Rod

Post by Bruce W » Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:43 pm

:o 60 bucks apiece, IF he’ll sell one seperate? I’ll put 4 Willys rods in the motor first. That “F” don’t mean that much to me.
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