1942 Willys Jeep

[88manche]

Clicking is your starter solenoid, the souind means you either dont have enough battery voltage to start the starter (simple voltmeter check), your battery cable isnt tightened down good, your starter-to-soleniod cable is either loose, or too corroded to work right (too high of a resistance), or it could be your starter. Take the starter in to get it tested, the rest you can do with a volt meter.

If it was running before, put the plug wires back how they were when you took them off.

It looks like you have an actual alternator, so you have a 12V as opposed to a 6V system. Hooking up battery cables backwards on a 12V system can mess things up. Look over your wiring, check your alternator, starter solenoid, starter, and any other electricly run thing.

Yes that thing that you said was sputtering and coughing black smoke is the carburator. This is a tell tale sign of timing being off. Put your plug wires back the way they were when you took them off to change the spark plugs.

I have a 1948 international KB8 2.5 ton flatbed with a 6V electronics system, and its a pain to chase down all the gremlins in it.

If you need a new solenoid, its a 4 post standard ford solenoid. any old ford truck will have one.

I want to say thats a GM style alternator, but im not sure.

Hope i helped you in some way.

 

[vikingxj]

Thank you Manche! I was informed by the g503 that I need to connect the wires back the way they were when I got them due to the difference between what is installed and what was installed originally (back in the 40's which is where I have a schematic from).

The original owner said the alternator doesn't work/isn't hooked up, so I need to do some more investigating. Its a little annoying because I thought I was correcting an error, but ended up making more trouble...:roll:

 

[2xtreme]

Do yourself a favor and take a LOT of photos of the all of the components in the Jeep currently.

You will find that things are often not original and having documentation of how it was hooked up when it was running can be very useful.

It would also be a good idea to mark every lead (+) and (-) so you don't make the same mistakes again.

Michael

 

[OverlandZJ]

Firing order on an L134 Flathead is 1-3-4-2. You have 2 and 3 reversed.

That carb is not original, might be a solex. Yours would be a Carter-WO model.

 

[vikingxj]

I got it up and running! I was zooming around my neighborhood today and yesterday. Just have to get it registered and have plates!

 

[Mc2KXJ]

NICE!