The tub is installed and reassembly continues.
For all you flatlanders out there here's what happens in the Great White North when you realize you are missing a firewall plate on your "new" tub and think there may still be one on your "old" tub - You excavate a path into the woods and scavenge it.
Carb with choke, hand throttle linkage, and crossover tube/intake plumbing rigged up. I bought an NOS ratcheting hand throttle last year (mostly because they are just plain cool) and was disappointed when I found the cable to be about an inch too short to use with a Carter WO. It hooks up nicely to the Carter YS.
The removable gauge panel alleviates the need to show off your contortionist skills when it comes time to wire everything up. I did not have to slither under the dash once.
I am using a new 3A harness from Walcks. Incidentally, it is the exact same harness that Kaiser Willys sells. Even the handwritten sections of the instructions are the same.
Dirty fuel tank and unwashed unpainted seats plopped right back in place. Everything fits as it should. This is a thrasher Jeep and looks the part but I'm not sure I'll be able to live with that Oil Pressure gauge. I draw the line at orange gauge needles on a Willys.
I was able to reclaim this neat little apparatus from my pile of random M38 parts. It's a fuel shut off valve.
If this was a proper M38 I'd run a line from the plugged "T" fitting to a dash mounted priming pump. I do not have any of the priming stuff so it'll stay plugged. Here it is installed next to the two tone steering box
