Yeah good advice fellas.
When I first looked at this Jeep, being freshly bitten by the Willys bug, first thing I asked was if it ran. The PO hollered out for his pops. Then an old country fella in his late 70s with one eye and three fingers came out to greet me, poured a little gas in the carb, said some magical words, waved his three fingers over the engine, got in and hit the stomp button once and it fired right up and purred like a new born kitten full of warm milk. I bought it. Get it home, won't run....fiddle over the right magic words to say, then finally it runs, backfires a cloud of smoke through the carb like Vesuvius, then settles down and idles good, 30 seconds later it blows the exhaust pipe right off the manifold flange. I brake both lower manifold bolts, then to fix that I figure I've gotta pull the manifold and here I am. Trying to figure why I didn't inherit the one-eyed three fingered magical backwoods powers that should be running through me, the old guy said he knew my now deceased "Papa" and that we were surely related somewhere down the line. Guess I didn't get the "make any engine run" gene.
