Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Well winter draws closer and its now dark at 6pm so progress is slowing rapidly but i picked up a B&M Quick Silver shifter cheap, been butchered in a couple of places but sorted that out and fitted it to the trans tunnel with rivnuts, Oh and decided to fit the Willys badges i had.

Lookin good Steve. I know what you mean about loss of daylight. Winter is coming quickly!

This is tough time of year to build. No time and lots of flash lights.

Thought i had better sort a handbrake, luckily i had an old upright handbrake lever from a old 1950's bus ( I knew i would use it someday)
The lever was 3ft long so first job was to shorten it to a nice comfortable length.

1st pic is what i started with.










Next on the list was a floor mounted bracket, someone had butchered the mechanism before i got it so i made an upright and welded the ratchet piece to it.









The pawl was pretty badly worn so i made another from steel, heated it to cherry red and quenched it in water to harden it.








Heres the bits laid out before reassembly








1st pic is fully closed and 2nd pic fully open. I was gonna cover it with a leather gaiter but thought it would look cool left open and chromed.









I also treated the old girl to a pair of ARE magnesium spindle mount 5 spoke 4" x 15" front wheels, these came with discs and calipers, bearing etc but need a little bit of fitting to complete.








Also got the other header done and finished.






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Well you have been busy,, looking good

Gotta keep busy Charlie !!!

Gotta love the detail work, Steve!!!! I guess that's what separates us from normal people who drive stuff the way the factory built it!

I've heard of those people do they realy exist???

Originally Posted by cffisher

I've heard of those people do they realy exist???

Probably just a rumor, but a friend of mine claims that they're really out there---wondering around bored to tears and hopelessly lost---but they are there!!!!!

one of them probably has Steves missing pair of channel locks

REally???? I didn't know that they knew how to use tools!!!!

Just showing off to the others

As they say Dave, its all in the details

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Gotta love the detail work, Steve!!!! I guess that's what separates us from normal people who drive stuff the way the factory built it!

Well the last couple of evenings i've managed to sort a job that i couldn't make my mind up about, namely the brake pedal, the sensible side of me was saying under the floor dual circuit master cylinder but i just thought it looked to modern, the other side was saying swinging pedals and 1960 Chevy picup master cylinder, the one drawback was that it as single circuit but as i already had a brand new cylinder i decided to go the unsensible route.

Obviously to use this cylinder i needed a swinging pedal box, the Ansen type fitted my needs perfectly and used the chevy master but after seeing the prices they were going for i decided to make my own.

One problem arose straightaway as i knew i had a master cylinder but forgot i had sold it to a customer, a quick call and another was on its way and the customer kindly sent me a template of the cylinder base bolt pattern, this at least enabled me to get started.



This is the 60-62 Chevy cylinder i'm using.















This is the expensive & rare Ansen pedal box















My version is made from 316L stainless, base is 1/4" cut from plate (not laser cut) pedal is 3/8" and as its on display i polished it all, master cylinder mounts on firewall. Mine is also adjustable

Looks great!