Barn find-1950 willys Jeep. Will it start and drive? #barnfind #willitstart

man behind the scenes now you told me i was going to be excited more about it than you so i made a purchase you did i'll be honest with you i'm fine as a barn find i have no idea what i actually bought but i'll make you a deal i'll show you what's behind door number two if you promise not to tell mrs dirk perfect i never tell her anything i get a question after you find after she finds out and i get the blame yeah all right let's see what we got so i guess it's been almost two years ago now we were actually down here on this job site and we installed a 1600 gallon cistern for that house and we pulled that well over there got a video on it have you seen it you should check it out it's a good video this is the one we had the crazy truck driver i thought for sure he was gonna turn it over but while i was waiting on that crazy truck driver i may have went snooping in the old barn so it's something that i would really like i think it's something you'd really like you ready check it out i'm ready it's mine it's whether it's good or bad it's mine so i'll let you have the honors go ahead all right go ahead what we got behind oh boy what do you think this i like now we're speaking my language now do you know what it is it's a g it's a g it's a jeep thing i'll give you a g what year is this i don't have a clue man i just you just bought it well i didn't i seen it but i i looked at it and it was it looked like it was mostly there it is mostly there i'm liking it so i don't i don't know man i don't know i was told it ran when it was parked uh years ago the frame underneath it seems to be in pretty solid shape i mean yeah floorboards seem to be i mean this one's been patched but i mean i rolled up behind the driver's seat well it looked pretty good till then oh dude hey we got tags here can we see what they are oh man looks like there's no army jeep yeah it does that's the just about wore off on it yeah let's see here truck identity it's an m3181 4x4 made williams over land motor company motors got me so well apparently it's a willy's now i don't know where they can find a year sure we'll find it at some point yeah this is uh it's really nice i mean it's pretty complete it's even got the little jump seat in the back original steering wheel i mean it's not like we need another project but i couldn't let this one get away hey the fuel cell's good fuel seal's good is that aluminum that's aluminum it's got the key in it that's a plus the owner does have a title [Music] you know we should probably check i think it's got an engine in it i don't know that would be a real that would be a real kick wouldn't it well i mean that's all right jenna could just pull you around with uh her jeep i don't like the sounds of that you don't huh and under hood number one we have hey it does that looks pretty original you know what i really like about this it's mine for now you get tired of it like you do your milwaukee set you'll just give it to me look at the frame man i mean the frame is like solid [Music] you tired of it yet no no i think my lawnmower's got a bigger engine in it but all right here's the call jenna see if you're tired of it yet no that's fine all right here's the question will it run will it move will it drive well i didn't really bring anything along with me besides a trailer so i knew it was something bigger but i say we uh i'll say i say we try to get the tires aired up let's get her to the shop and we'll start going through what do you think sounds like a plan to me step one air up tires got tires aired up you got some uh first class rigging going on right there you ready to see if this thing will roll i think so first time i've seen daylight in probably 10 years maybe yeah probably so all right let's get this butte out of here all right you driving i'll i'll drive this i'll take the for sure not snake and test vehicle unless you have the other one i'll see how it is okay that'll work um there is a mount up there where you can get a sky view of it i was gonna get a driver's side driver's seat view oh yeah driver's seat so when that snake comes out it really gets me that gets everybody first you know i was all right and i jumped right in this thing not worried about a snake until you had to say that all right [Music] [Music] why are you in here yeah i am in gear [Music] all right there's neutral [Music] oh we got brakes and the brakes are stuck on [Music] well look at her oh yeah that's a saver right there yes it is that is a saver we can't get this thing to shop work on it man you got me excited now yeah so here's the plan now that we think we have brakes i think we have brakes is the key word we're going to use gravity to our advantage we're going to make the circle come back around where we can load it going straight down that hill so you got your seat belt on yeah come on here we go come here in me you got brakes yeah [Music] well let's get the uh trainer position i'll give you a little shove and i'll call ahead and make sure the wife ain't home we'll see if we can keep her in the garage one thing that i want to make real clear before you tell me to load this is you remember what happened last thing i loaded on that trailer i'm glad there wasn't no video footage of it which one was this my seat oh yeah yeah you destroyed it yeah went off the side of it yeah this is narrower you should have a better chance to have a better shot at with this and we confirmed brakes work yes yeah you ready i'm ready i'm waiting on you oh you need a shove i need just a little shove i think you can get it by hand nah that's too much work all right so here's the plan we got the tilt trailer set up down there we got the jeep up here so once we get them rolling the gravity gravity should be the rest so let's uh let's go around here we'll give him a little a little nudge of encouragement hopefully get him going make sure our bumpers line up here you ready [Music] you're rolling all right line me up whoa you're driving [Music] is no [Music] it went water down all right you like it right there right there perfect ah what's your first gear just find a gear right there she is all loaded up and strapped down let's get this girl to shop and see if she'll start well the driveway we go fingers crossed the white's not home don't tell mom i got the jeep the old one see it it's on the trailer don't tell moms [Music] it's aaron's or we're just fixing it up here yeah it's errands it's all errands i'm just you know being a good friend and providing a shop for it a little further that'll work i had nothing to do with this i told her it's usually i thought it was he's already taken me to look at it but i hope everybody on facebook not facebook or facebook youtube all the places gives him a whole lot of heck for buying that and not a camper you i've just wrote a check for a camper you have a fire pit you're well taken care of dear did you see the camper i sent him today uh no he uh he didn't show me any of that he said it was horrible okay oh i found we got a jeep to work on love you have fun love you too are you excited wait gutter all right once you hop up over there and i'll give you a good old shove and we'll put her back in the garage you ready slime in turn oh we're gonna push it off it won't start yet hop up there right here yeah you trust aaron driving all right i got too excited you ready now it's ready don't hit the brakes till you're in the shop okay get it now oh come on it's [Music] you're almost there oh come on i got it yeah well boys we got her in the shop now what we have to jump the bathroom we jumped the battery that's uh not uh completely a false statement so this is my thought this thing's got three quarters of tank fuel in it we did look down the fuel tank it seems to be somewhat clean so before we uh before we abandon ship on before we jump into drain and fuel and seeing what all is going on over there we have confirmed it's a 12-volt system it's actually got a fairly new battery in it even though it's definitely not the factory battery i'm not sure let me have to cut that battery in two to get it back out but yeah so here's my thoughts if anybody cares what my thoughts are i'll say we pop the hood on this thing i say we uh check all the fluids i say we take the fuel line off going to the carburetor and uh spin it over a few times see if we got fire see if we get fuel to the carburetor and uh let's just go for it yeah what do you think size engine is this itty-bitty it's in line but that's what i'm looking for in line four cylinder okay i would say it's a good 30 horse on a good day yeah downhill in the wind yeah all right uh a dipstick found it that's a bad joke that was that was mean don't do that uh where's the real dipstick and it's not holding the camera it does have a dip stick don't it we're good mechanics we can't even find where to check all that it's got to be on your side i don't see it on my side you see the dip stick gutter it's got to be on your side it's definitely on your side what if it's on the bottom of it somebody's screaming in the comment section right now it's boy the starter i really don't see it no i know there's gotta be a way to check oil on this thing i think it's camouflaged by your plug wires there yeah it was right like that and it wasn't on your side wasn't on my side technically it was on the top that's not the most convenient place but did you get it cleaned up bud good job connect technically that was where i was looking is that what you were looking why didn't you say something i didn't see it like it's got a wheel in it oh look at that man that one looks good it's just freshly changed yeah well his head is beautiful probably whenever they um right before they put it in the garage i think they changed the little pocket yeah and they never drove it again all right we need to check next gunner wanna check antifreeze yeah let's see what we got in this one i know where that one's at uh she's looking a little empty there bud real empty or like i don't see any it may have all ran out well some way to find that let's put some in see where it comes out what if it has a hole in it all right if you see it running out somewhere hold real loud going in oh yeah why is it running out that already oh that's cause i spilled a little bit okay a little jumper yeah so no one look at that oh it wasn't as low as we thought it's almost full look at that anywhere leaking huh i don't see a leak anywhere do you nope except that spot where i spray that's where i spill a little bit yeah but it's looking up it's leaking out of a hose yeah that's the overflow hose it's overflowing or coming out your flooded all right so i'm thinking we take this off man behind the scenes so get a good look down that carburetor what do you think about that i think we take that line off going to the carburetor let's say we hook the jump pack up to it see if she'll wheel over what do you think [Music] um let me take that one off i'm pretty sure these plug wires are routed wrong what do you think i think so okay let's uh let's just reroute those before we even get started make it right take i'm gonna label those one two three four and let's feed them back around here or do they go or do they come up through here that would work here all right let's take this fuel line off here gunner you ready yeah [Music] can i clean can i walk yep won't you see if you can find me like a coke bottle or something we'll let it pump into that coke yeah like an empty bottle like your pepsi box yeah like a pepsi bottle smarty there we go that'll give us some room to hey what man that carburetor i don't know what the bowler looks like but the top half that carburetor looks pretty good looks like we're missing a return spring though we got us a temporary throttle spring we got our fuel line disconnected we got all of our fluids checked i'm thinking let's hook a battery up to here and try to start it see what happens make sure she's in neutral give her a give her a whirl yeah here we go ready yep i feel don't look bad at all really look at it no we don't i don't even smell bad no not really still it's you can tell it's a little stale but i think it's good enough to try what do you think i think so you want to pull the spark plug out and see if we got fire i think that'd be the next step let's do that [Music] all right got spark plug pulled out fire over and see if we got fire you ready yep yeah here we go low power i wonder if there's a separate switch for the coil okay let me get the uh owner's manual out glove box let's uh let's test the cool see if we got 12 volts on the coil well man behind the scenes our excitement has come to a screeching halt this evening yes it has we have at least two faulty parts we need to replace before we go any farther if you wouldn't have this a surprise i could probably told you we're gonna need that this one this one i'll give you this one i don't know for sure so we got fuel we got to turn over but that battery is done which it looks like it's brand new but it does not act like it's brown and after doing some testing the points the cap all the wiring seems to be good but this thing here is ohm testing at a fail rate so uh we're going to have to get a new coil we're going to get us a new battery and try asking you know what we need to do you know it was so new of a battery when they got this wherever auto parts store got it they didn't even mark what month it was it's like we could fill it in right now and get it warrantied yeah all right so um we gotta address a few things one we gotta let everybody know we did not forget about lieutenant dan no we didn't this was just a quick little find we're gonna see if it runs and then we're gonna just uh use it as is so don't worry we are not putting lieutenant down on the back burner this is uh just a quick little found it in a barn let's see if it starts and maybe put around with it this summer second thing it needs it needs a name it does it does red horse yeah you know what i think we should call it look what you call forest forest we got lieutenant dan and forrest yeah what do you think you like it um [Music] lieutenant dance the truck so anyways guys stay tuned we're gonna round some parts up maybe tomorrow afternoon if we get some time we'll see if she'll fire up and and uh hey the brakes work brakes work really good yeah we got that going for us so what do you think it's pretty cool isn't it here's your tool shopping so all right guys stay tuned we're going to round up a battery of coil and uh hopefully that fixes our no fire issues and see what happens all right man behind the scenes new day in the shop we got some new parts yes we do i'm hoping we have some fire like not on fire like like spark plug fire so uh we pretty much uh overhauled the ignition system we got us a new coil on it we eliminated the resistor put new points and condenser in the cap the cap and the rotor look good so we left those alone and we got new spark plugs aren't you glad i talked to you into that though because you just wanted to get the hole resistor it's not a cool resistor it's a coil we've been arguing about this all day right now we do even though we do know who's right why me me me this is about getting the jeep started not arguing with you so anyways oh and we got a new battery that will fit in the battery tray we just got to adjust some cable lengths here at some point but you really crank this thing over and see if we got five let's see if we got five see if my new jeep's got fire all right are we are we one step closer to starting here we go got anything no oh no now the starter quit that's a hold on i think i got just a tool for that hopefully try now hey we got a good spark we got a good spark that's good so when we take this on its maiden voyage here we want to make sure yeah one thing at a time sir one thing at a time yes well you want to throw some spark plugs in this thing for sparking we dig a new spark plug they told us our old spark plugs were antiques yeah they did they said they ain't made them for a long time oh boy we're thinking we're narrowing this into a late 60s early 70s jeep is is what we're thinking yeah we're getting late we'll get just like the reason it didn't get fired i'm telling you it's the point so you can answer so i i'm just saying now you guys can comment down below which one of us too is actually a mechanic mr welder hey this ain't a dozer no it could be this ain't a kubota okay oh yeah it's got hope there's a chance all right let's get the plug wires in this thing and uh i guess we'll see what happens [Music] you ready are you ready i'm ready know the truth oh we need the starter starter we have to work on that hello baby no joke where'd that come from i have no clue the blue messness down the exhaust that was like out of nowhere smell the gas yeah try it again [Music] oh good [Music] this is [Music] i thought it sounds sweet i didn't even smoke [Music] i can't always stand it man behind the scenes i can't either i say we uh calm down here a minute i say we put our tools up yep put the hood on this thing i'm so excited i'm gonna put the tools up like mike simon does just throw them on no we're gonna put them up you're gonna have to wait come on all right we're gonna see if this thing we gotta air the tires up we're gonna check a few foods we gotta make sure it's gonna work be responsible man behind the scenes responsible all right man behind the scenes we got our jump pack we got our fire extinguisher we got some random tools okay yes making sure how far you plan on venturing from home well until we run out of only question left is who's driving i'll let you drive i was going to be nice ladies oh you're gonna let me drop this let you drive all right all right let's fire up let's roll [Music] listen to that kitty purr now would you all right you know which gears which nope i'm just gonna find one [Music] what the heck it's a beauty talk about the other jeep i don't know what do you think it looked a lot better if he wasn't driving but i thought i'd be nice i almost don't fit in this way i know it think i'm making up the driveway you got brakes right boys can you find another deer and got the abused tires today they know the gauges look good i was even working what a jewel man what a jewel easy on the bumps now [Music] [Music] man behind the scenes we made it up here got some good stories from phil yeah we did can i drive my jeep now i don't know i almost got all the bugs worked out of it i think i think it's only fair it was right on getting this thing running me as always i think before we uh before we take her off we got to get a few pictures for facebook and instagram but i think it's only fair yeah it's only fair i get the driver look at that that's a beautiful picture he's a good looking g man oh it is she's a good-looking chief once you pop the hood we'll get a little look-see underneath there make sure we ain't got nothing leaking or crazy going on yeah but you know what we whenever i hey we even got brake lights when i did pull off i did check while we were on concrete nothing after i've been running nope really looks like we got us a diamond in the rough here yes we do hey look at that she does she looks good all right i can't stand it no more it's my turn all right my turn i'll drive it yeah i'm not gonna lie on this side hey see that seat right there i'm about to move her back i don't know what was made for me yeah you don't have to give it a bit of gas nothing i don't know it'll fire right up um reverse oh that's reverse but we want to go back yeah we won't go backwards yeah i'm not sure about this steering wheel yeah it fit me perfect it's weird i'm gonna have to raise them it fits me here we go i'll tell you what if you can make it back to the shop without killing it i'll let you keep it let me keep it what i paid for huh well yeah you paid i mean get one of them bonuses for me crazy there's a gear in there somewhere maybe yeah you gotta pull the clutch in maybe we'll just start off in a second you think you're gonna make it let's see what's happening we're rolling [Music] so i know where's the horn at oh right here i didn't have no problem going in i had a problem going oh i'm gonna pay attention there it went yeah it's like it's going all the way up in there yeah you don't have brakes like a new one no hey they work they do work and they stick a little but uh yeah i think i think you got you something here he's got manual lockouts i'm glad to see the tab gage working yeah i made a little bit of tweaking around on it but i wouldn't be scared driving to texas today it's gonna be louisiana all right don't let me in all right [Music] well man behind the scenes she obviously still needs some tlc but uh i think mechanically she's pretty sound yeah yeah for how who knows how many years we still don't know i do have the title for this jeep i don't have it in hand but the guy that i bought it from has it he's out of town right now so we will get an official year on this thing i'll let you guys know probably post something on facebook some of you guys may already know what year it is but the only major thing that i really seen is for some reason second gear is not fully engaging we got to figure out what's going on with that and maybe it may be something simple i doubt it's anything too too awfully difficult but i am very pleased with this great uh very pleased with uh it just we need to get some tires on it we need to get it get some insurance on it we just need to drive it or just driving around the farm here a little bit get it loosened up like i said guys that's as far as we're going to go with this one for now we just wanted to get it see if it runs something i'll probably tool around with here on the farm over the summer that project is still going to be our main focus we are we're pretty much got our little punch list knocked out and we're back on that one so there it is guys we enjoyed working on it hopefully you guys enjoyed watching don't forget to like subscribe and comment and as always we'll catch you on the next one you're supposed to say later what what's this peace out stuff i'm just in awe right now you

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Length: 40min 59sec (2459 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 25 2021