UPDATE: Back on eBay
(03/05/2013) This seller is buying this along with another car and doesn’t need it. This includes a rear PTO, Drum, and Saw.
“This is a nice car, it looks great!!
The car has had a lot of work done, and it runs well. It was owned by a mechanic who was able to give it TLC. The tires are new. This is not a rust bucket. I took some a pictures up close of a surface rusted area which is minor on RH side.
The car is with a Cadillac and I have to buy the pair, I am a Caddy guy and want to move this one.
301 672 1000. Can store car for 60 days.Car will drive anywhere no problem.”
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That’s a very unusual belt drive on the back of that one. Looks like it’s been adapted from something else.
I just checked my Jeep belt drive and it is turned 90 degrees to this one, or to the right side of the Jeep. All the pulleys I’ve had were not reversible. I think I’ve seen, probably in Fred Coldwell’s work, a left side Jeep belt pulley in preproduction Agrijeep photos. The buzz saw is for use with a 3 Point Hitch setup, and to be used with this pulley, the driven pulley will have to be moved to the left. Dave, I took a nice photo at The Great Willys Picnic of a Newgren Buzz Saw equipped Jeep about the same as this unit. I’ll forward it to you. If that pulley is preproduction , it is a VERY scarce piece. Watch the bidding on this auction.
That’s an unusual belt pulley but it’s not an Agrijeep left hand belt pulley that was permanently mounted to the left side of the rear PTO gear box and kept open and available for other uses the 6B spline shaft on the right side of the rear PTO box. Here, this belt pulley is mounted on the right side 6B spline shaft but has been rotated so the pulley faces to the left rather than to the right.
Years ago there was an after-market extension that could be mounted to the tapered bolt pattern of the Willys rear PTO box but had a square bolt pattern on its outer rear side. A Ford tractor belt pulley, which used a square bolt pattern, could be mounted to this extension with the pulley orientated in any of four directions: right, down, left and up. But this is not that.
Instead, the mechanic/former owner used square tubing to transition from the tapered bolt pattern of the Willys rear gear box to the square bolt pattern of this belt pulley. I also imagine he used a short 6B spline shaft extension to connect the belt pulley to the rear gear box drive shaft.
To me, the unusual thing about this belt pulley is that its housing is canted 45 degrees from the belt pulley so the pointed corners of the housing are left-right-up-down rather than in the 4 corners of upper-right, lower-right, lower-left and upper-left. I imagine the pulley drive shaft comes out a “corner” of the housing rather than the “side” of the housing. Moreover, the housing on this belt pulley is very streamlined rather than industrial/square, which suggests it was made in the late 1930s.
All-in-all, a very thought-provoking set-up but not the agri-gem we’ve been looking for. 😉
How lucky we are to have noted Agrijeep author Fred Coldwell set us straight right here on eWillys. Still, this is a very nice setup though the S / N tag shown is for a 1952 CJ3A.
I have a few ford belt pulleys and this is not one of them. I have seen guys make adaptors to fit them to Jeep though. Since the Ford was a 1 1/8 shaft, and the willys was the later standard of 1 3/8, there was an adaptor used. I suspect people did this because you can still buy the ford style drum pulley for $35!