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Your Projects => Your DJ-3A Project => Topic started by: Bob3b on October 08, 2026, 09:59:43 AM

Title: 1956 DJ3A "Patterson"
Post by: Bob3b on October 08, 2026, 09:59:43 AM

Hi everyone, I'm the proud owner of 1956 DJ3A 10366 "Patterson," that belonged to David Eilers. He had quite a few issues when he came home that I working on solving. Brakes, steering, etc were the first to be addressed but he will need a steering box rebuild, maybe a throwout bearing and the shift mechanism needs some attention.

I'm looking for a few things too, like the original top bow and the top for the air filter if anyone has leads.

Title: Re: 1956 DJ3A "Patterson"
Post by: Rus Curtis on October 08, 2026, 02:13:23 PM

That's a healthy collection of stickers!

What does the air filter top (that you want) look like?

Title: Re: 1956 DJ3A "Patterson"
Post by: Bob Christy on October 15, 2026, 01:25:59 PM

I don't actually know! It's the dry element air filter vs the oil bath.

Title: Re: 1956 DJ3A "Patterson"
Post by: Rus Curtis on October 15, 2026, 04:56:46 PM

Ah....
Ok, googled and it pointed me to a thread of 48willys' DJ rebuild on the CJ2A forum (I've been following along over there and his posts here) but there a comment was added by 47 deuce alpha, 11 Nov 24):

https://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/dj3a-build_topic54377.html

Is that what it's supposed to look like?

I also forgot that 48willys got around to making his own (14 Dec 24):

https://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/dj3a-build_topic54377_page2.html

What are the dimensions?