V8-powered Willys jeep
 

Or should I say, 12-cylinder jeep?!?

H.

Hanno,

Is that an amphib GPA ? Can see headlights on the front.

Nope - here's another hint.

Snow plough, snowblower?

Bingo!

One of nine CJ-3A's thus converted by the Royal Netherlands Air Force in the 1950s. They were later transferred to the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, were this example is still on stand by.

Rolba snow blower up front, powered by a Ford V8 in the back. I had to think of a WW1 tank, with the crew sitting next to the uncovered engine roaring at full speed :doh:

H.

I have always believed the average Dutcher was ... a bit odd. But wedging a barking, smelly, hot, truck engine into the back of a jeep and running a spinning driveshaft out the front end, just seems too "Dutch" for words.

Did the origins of Holland's famous Occupational Health and Safety procedures arise from the accicent and injury investigations of these snowblowers?

You would certainly have drawn the short straw if you had to drive that thing. :(

engine access
 

How do you access the jeep engine bay?

Like this :D

Look what I found when I tried to find more on the Jeep
 

Hi All

Hanno caught my interest with his posting of the Jeep, so I went searching on the web to see if I could find more, didn't but I did find this one that I thought people might find interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X02t-...eature=related . Some of the related links show similar snow blowers on regular civilian 4 wheel drive pickups that didn't seem to work as well. I suspect you need the real low gearing.

Sent the link to a couple of M37 owners in the club and they suspect that the truck had to be re-engined with a V8.

I have seen similar blower units as shown on the Jeep but slightly larger that had their own V4 engine mounted on top of the blower.

Cheers Phil

A good flat head can do that....
 

Hi Phil

A good running flat head in a M37 in low range...first gear is very slow.... engine would have enough power to run the blower and the drivetrain.

No different than my Massey with a 7 foot wide blower driven by the PTO.... that poor little 4 cyl Perkins at 45 BHP can handle it quite well as long as you stay in low gear. On heavy snow storm like you got in October I can actually stall out the engine if I try to cut over 20 inches of wet snow........ the secret is you raise the blower 6 inches of the ground and make two passes.

In the Ottawa area it was quite common to have a plow on a Dodge M series using the winch to raise the plow...... made for very heavy steering and hard to make sharp turns but they did push a lot of snow....ideal plow was made from a section of boiler plate cut to take advantage of the curved plate.

Hey so far... Ottawa is as green as ....... well you know !!

Bob

Look at exhaust location
 

Hi Bob

Agree with you, meant to say that the standard truck could not go slow enough.

M37 owner who commented on the V8 said that the exhaust was on the wrong side, which he took be that it had exhausts on both side. So which side does the exhaust come out?

When I looked at the standard pickup and the M37 it looked like the M37 was the better choice.

Looks like a good rig.

Cheers Phil

By the look of the exhaust comimg out of the exaust pipeand the screaming that is going on, my guess is the is another engine tucked down in that box
but what the H do I know
Stew