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A Frame Off Restoration

Jul 2015
Learning Curve | Jun 2015

Don't Always Trust the Web

23/07/15 18:00
ClutchBellcrank
The first time we installed the Clutch Bell Crank Assembly we checked for pictures on the web to see the correct orientation. We found a good picture and installed ours in the same way; wrong! We could tell it didn’t operate smoothly. On further investigation we realized that it was backwards. The picture we found on the internet was wrong. Ironically it was one of the many pictures we took of our own jeep as we disassembled it that showed the correct way! Lesson learned.

The Learning Curve

You cannot do a project of this size and not make some mistakes along the way. We hope this section will help future restorers forgive themselves for a few mishaps now and again.

We often learn more by our mistakes then by our successes. At any rate, we enjoy laughing at our blunders and hope you will too! This is not the total of our errors just the highlights. There were plenty of little foibles throughout the project.