TRIBUTE JEEP PART 2 - Clears Way for 1942 FORD GPW!

[@andykirkendall8285]

Super cool,I live in south eastern Ohio and next spring I play on riding around in Zulaski state forest with my 1948 Willys 😎😎😎😎

[@route40rust]

@andykirkendall8285 appreciate ya tuning in! Is your 48 a beater like my 53 or a beauty like Jared's GPW? They are a lot of fun in the woods! If you haven't already, please subscribe and help build the channel! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@andykirkendall8285]

@@route40rust my 48 has been neglected by the previous owner so I’m going through and replacing damn near everything

[@died4us590]

Nice of you to clear the trail up so the 42 doesn't get scratched up. That was an impressive amount of corn, hopefully it will attract the 4 footed critter you want to blast away for future meals. That trimmer reminded me of the many hour's i spent trimming the cemetery i ran for 10 year's. A real butt kicker right before Memorial Day, when an 80 hour week of getting the place ready for the constant stream of visitor's. I trimmed around every memorial, plus the lot markers, and that was a work out. We did about 250 burials a year, and i had one full time guy, and one extra worker for 6 month's out of the year. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to lay out the place on land with some steep hill's, made from the dirt used to build US-127 south in Jackson Michigan, because it was dangerous doing digs in the winter, because they should have put the graves straight up and down with the hill's, not so good having to dig side ways on the steeper part of the hill, making it unstable, and sketchy setting the vault and lid on ice and snow. I worked for a company that had 26 cemeteries, but unfortunately, i was one of the 3 non-union cemeteries, which meant we got all the junk equipment, less pay, and less help. You had to have i think 5 full time employees to be able to have a union. Once i took over as being superintendent, they changed me from hourly, to salary, and i sure lost money on that deal. Fortunately i loved the job, because i would talk to a lot of people who came to visit their loved one's, either daily, or once a week. The only sad part, was when they would then join their spouse or family, I'd have to bury them. Some of the older guy's had a hard time after losing their wife, and were just waiting to go, so in some ways, it was better that they passed on. I managed to get some work done on the old m38a1, took the front axle out to clean the grease up for paint, making it easier to replace the whole brake system, and anything else underneath. I'm not in a rush, just trying to keep moving. G-d bless you and yours.

[@route40rust]

I'm glad to hear you were getting around well enough to yank the axle out of the Jeep. Does it have a Dana 25, Dana 27 or something else? Did people frequent your cemetery for free dirt? However harsh or perhaps insensitive it may be, cemeteries always have a lot of good dirt laying around and in our small town when an old timer kicks the bucket everyone is kinda thinking about whose getting to that free backfill first! Lol, a little morbid but that's how it goes.

[@died4us590]

The front axle was pretty easy to take out, i put jack stands under the frame and axles, then used two jacks under the leaf spring's, took the shocks off, used an impact to remove the U bolts. Once i did all that, i just let the front of the leaf spring down on both sides, slid my creeper under the axle, and used a jack under the brake drum to set it down on the creeper. I had already removed the front end when i first bought the Jeep, so i had lots of room. I have the dana 25 front axle. The cemetery i ran was made from the dirt removef when putting in US-127, so most of it was poor quality, so we bought black dirt from a place called Lester Brother's. The cemetery has and old section that isn't open to the public that goes back to the 1700's, and the rest of it was flat to begin with, but they were paid a large sum of money to to take the extra dirt from the highway being put in. The hill's are pretty steep in places. I saw an old black and white picture of the cemetery when it was all flat, and just the mausoleum was in the center of the cemetery, while the dirt from the highway made up different sections. I was injured on the job, had a fall when a palate of granite tipped when the supplier was unloading it, and it pinned my leg between the granite, and a backhoe. I fell when it happened, and it twisted my leg and ankle. From the pain i felt, i told the guy who got my leg out that i needed to go to the ER, but the company owner said i needed to be seen by worker's comp. I couldn't walk without feeling like i was gonna pass out from the pain in my leg, ankle, and knee. They took an xray of my ankle, and said i had a bad sprain. They told me to take ibuprofen, and to go back to work the next day on crutches. This happened in November, we had snow, and it's not easy to use crutches doing burials, so i threw them away. I kept telling them that the pain was getting worse, and that my knee felt like bones were rubbing together if i moved to quickly. They had me do physical therapy for 6 months on a treadmill, but i told them my knee, ankle and leg were still causing bad pain. They finally did an MRI, and saw a torn meniscus, so they did surgery, and my ACL was completely ripped of the bone, so they made a new one from my hamstring. The had to cut out dead cartilage, and trim my meniscus. I had to do the treadmill again, but my ankle and leg were still jacked up, so at the 9 month point, they sent me to an ankle surgeon, and he took a special xray that was higher up my leg, and the nurse came in kinda shocked asking the dr. if he knew that my leg was broken. The outer bone of my right leg broke during the accident, and healed together like a cross, with pointed jagged edges that were tearing into my muscle and surrounding area. My ligaments were torn and stretched out in my ankle, so they screwed my ankle bones together to heal the ligaments, and rebroke my leg and plated it. I needed several surgeries to fix everything , and they had to cut out dead cartilage in my ankle. I had to do physical therapy, and the comp physical therapist transferred to where my ankle dr. worked, and she told me that she was so sorry about all the stuff i had been through, and that if she ever saw me again she would never doubt me again. I wasn't to happy to hear that she didn't believe me because i didn't go in there crying. My boot was the only thing that held my leg together, and i had nothing for pain the whole time. I told them i have a high pain tolerance because when i was ten i stepped on a garden rake that went through the bone of my foot, and almost came through the top of my foot. Not long after the rake accident, my left ankle started hurting all the dang time. I told my mom, and she said it was just growing pain. Ffwd 6 year's, and it was much worse, plus it was swollen and warm. I asked my dad for the insurance card, called my grandpa, and had him take me to my family dr. They took an xray, and it showed a large white mass in my left ankle they thought was a tumor, and possible cancer. When the dr. opened up the bone, the smell was so bad that everyone stepped back. I was told that the infection came from not being on antibiotics long enough when i stepped on the rake, and my body encapsulated the growing infection. I had surgery a week after the xray, and the infection ate through the bottom of my ankle bone, and into my foot. He said if they had been any later doing the surgery, they would have had to amputate part of my leg and foot. I'm in a medical journal somewhere for how my immune system encapsulated the bacteria. Sorry to go on so long, but i have been in a lot of pain in my life, and still am, but i don't plan on being in a wheelchair if i can avoid it. I have had a lot of pretty crazy thing's happen i. my life, but you gotta do what you gotta do. I sewed that damn worker's comp, because they didn't want to pay for the last surgery i needed, and so i left the job because i was having issue's with the company because of the lawsuit, and it ended up that i crushed two discs in my lower back in the accident that they were trying to say was arthritis, even though i never had issue's with my back until after the accident. I would rather be working at the cemetery right now, but you just don't know what will take you out. G-d bless.