55 Willy’s Jeep tractor

[Huskybill]

i went looking for a snowblower and brought this home. It’s an early pic of my 55 Jeep cj5 Willy’s tractor. For $400 with a 4way plow. I have her over 25 years now. I put the drive train in a 73/v8/cj5 frame when the orginal frame rusted out, I boxed the frame with 3/8” plate 2/3 rds to the rear and triple walled the 1/3rd section to the rear with 3/8” plate. I have a steel mini rock truck dump body too not on it yet. New pics to follow. She has lockers front and rear too.

 

[Huskybill]

It has 5:38 gears stock.

 

[motorhead99999]

Pretty sweet. I’ll have to take some picks of my rig some day. It’s a 40’s Ford flat head 6 with a three speed behind it and a 4 speed truck tranny out of a 48 ford behind that. Frame is a 46 ford 3 ton truck cut to about ten feet with a 48 cab on it. I built a crane/ jib on the back that runs on a 20 ton pto powered winch off of some sort of military truck. The rear is out of the truck I used the frame of. I run 11r 22.5 wastehaulers that I cut some lines in with rubber hog and I run chains on the back.

Here’s some pics I found of it almost stuck and carrying a yj tub into the garage




For the record that’s my 4 year olds toy drill on the Jeep frame not mine

 

[motorhead99999]

We call it huff and puff because it smokes so bad lol. If I put it in 1st and 1st or reverse and reverse and about 3500 rpms (which sounds like a washing machine with a couple handfuls of bolts in it so I try to keep it below that) I can get out a roll besides it faster than it moves

 

[Huskybill]

Nice

I’m the orginal owner of a 99 Wrangler tj with a rusted frame. It’s fixable but I’m too old now. I ordered it with 373 gears, Dana 44 posi rear. Convertible and hard top. Hd auto tranny. I been trying to sell it.

 

[motorhead99999]

How much you trying to get? They sell like hot cakes near me. The one in the pic came from Texas i put it on a cj7 frame I had that was spotless. Running amc 360 in that one.

 

[Huskybill]

I been trying to get $3,000 but if I’m offered $2,500 it’s yours, just put four new tires on it, new front pads and rotors. She runs great when parked. It’s been babied the misses drove it.

 

[motorhead99999]

I been trying to get $3,000 but if I’m offered $2,500 it’s yours, just put four new tires on it, new front pads and rotors. She runs great when parked. It’s been babied the misses drove it.

Where are u from

 

[Huskybill]

I’m near Waterbury,ct.

 

[motorhead99999]

Post a couple pics I’ll show the guys in the Jeep club. I have a Jeep club meeting Thursday. I’m not interested due to all the projects I have going on right now but maybe those guys will

 

[Huskybill]

My 99 wrangler tj will fit a cj7 frame? Wonder how my 134 f head would pull it with 5:38 gears? They have a kit for four wheel disc brakes using a corvette manual master cylinder. In my early days I was a Jeep mechanic at the dealers.

 

[motorhead99999]

Anything will fit with with some work. A yj tub and a cj7 tub are the same except one set of body mount holes. I’m not sure about a tj tub. I have only worked on a couple tjs as I like 95 and older stuff where emissions don’t matter in ny. I have also built my own cj7 / yj frames with 2x4 3/16 stock which is also easy to do if you have a old frame to go by.

 

[Huskybill]

Now you have me thinking?