I was going to start the SC engine-out before Christmas but my ‘57 Willys threw its own wrench in that, in the shape of a holed #2 piston after I drove it up a long hill near the main UCONN campus. Finding a good replacement original flathead 6 seemed unlikely and there were reasons I didn’t want to rebuild the original (cracked block among them). So I was looking to install a SBF, 289 or 302 (as opposed to a SBC due to the Ford’s distributor being more suitably located). But then an unknown but good looking original Willys/Jeep motor came up on FBM and I jumped on it. A week later, with much help from my older son, it was in and it sounds and feels far superior to the original.
The truck is so primitive to drive that it’s fun. I’ve had it a couple of years now and done a fair amount of work on it. It’s a nice old thing and it makes people smile.
John
