UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $2500.
Engine needs work.
“I bought this nice little Willys CJ2A a couple years ago from somebody near Kalispell. The story I got when I bought it was that it had been parked in enclosed storage since about 2002 without being run. It had a hard top on it from new (which I have since sold to a guy in Holland) and so had very little rust. I bought it and went up and got it, nicer than I expected except the guy said it didn’t run very well, popped back through the carb. I knew it needed some engine work when I bought it so it wasn’t a big surprise. I brought it home, threw a battery in it and it started right up but popped through the carb. I figured it had a stuck intake, which is pretty typical of these little flatheads. I pulled the plugs and tried to free it up with a brass punch but while I could get it to go down, I couldn’t get it to where it would go down just on the power of the valve spring. I ordered a set of all 8 valves, new guides and a gasket set, took it to a guy to put a set of valves and guides in; he called me a few days later and said he wasn’t going to be able to finish as he just got in a big job to do. I went and picked it up and it has been sitting in my storage ever since.
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