Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Originally Posted by ScooterCO

Everything is looking top drawer... well.. except that steering box. What are your plans for that? Or are you just going to whip up a stainless version of that as well. LOL.
You do nice work! I don’t care what your buddy’s sticker says. Thanks for your continued sharing of this project!

Scott

Thats a setup box, the real one is waiting in the wings all painted black, Cheers for the kind comments, They are appreciated.


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Keep em coming!

Originally Posted by stovens

Keep em coming!

Steve there will be lots of updates over the next week or so because i'm trying to get it ready for some test runs at our Hotrod drags in september, fingers crossed !!!

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Originally Posted by stovens

Steve now we are cooking !!!

Looks so good going back together , My DNA tests places me with 100% percent matches in England . Cool huh .


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The finishing touches don't look to far away here , the willys is going to be a real body shaker ,


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Originally Posted by bluestang67

The finishing touches don't look to far away here , the willys is going to be a real body shaker ,


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Your right, hope to get my rear axle case back today so I can get a bit more done.
Amazing though still get hurdles put in the way though.

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Been busy last few evenings, Got my axle case, ladder bars and panhard rod back from powder coating, (Thanks Paul), I went with powder coat as it was quicker and easier than painting it.

I've tried to use mostly Castellated nuts & split pins as they look older and I think they look cool.








Got it all back installed and fitted the diff which is a spool with 3.75 gears and Strange axle shafts.

Suddenly realised I didnt have an axle breather, no time to order one so just copied the one of my roadster, a bit of hex aluminium bar and 15 mins later i had a breather, had to redrill and tap elsewhere as the old location was too close to the coilovers.
















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fRAME LOOKS LIKE A CRAZY CHOPPER / Trike with those chrome bars up in the air! Everything looks great, another masterpiece about to be completed from the Langley Garage!

Originally Posted by stovens

fRAME LOOKS LIKE A CRAZY CHOPPER / Trike with those chrome bars up in the air! Everything looks great, another masterpiece about to be completed from the Langley Garage!

Hahaha, Steve someone asked if they were my mirror arms

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Frames are sweet when they start to come together finished . But I think the flowers in the back ground brings it out more >


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Originally Posted by bluestang67

Frames are sweet when they start to come together finished . But I think the flowers in the back ground brings it out more >


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Cheers Bobby.

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Got a call from my mate the chromer today to say my axle was done

I only gave it to him on friday as an emergency job so has done a brilliant job. Don't know why but the metal is incredibly hard to polish, I know its forged, Anyone know why its so hard to work ???



I did the roughing out polishing and he finished it off, Its bl00dy heavy and he said he wouldn't want to do another one ever !!!

Hopefully get it bolted on tomorrow evening.




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Well i started to refit the frontend last night but it started to rain so knocked off work a bit earlier today and got it more or less back on the car

Came across a couple of small problems though , my mate Allan kindly milled a couple of castor wedges, It would appear that the taxi only had 1 degree of castor and i wanted 7, the problem was the stainless U bolts i got were a bit short once the wedge was in place, solution was to ditch the nylok nuts (didn't like them anyway) they came with and make up some barrel nuts , I only had enough material to make 4 so if anyone has a bit of 3/4" hexagon stainless bar i could put it to good use












The other small problem was the locating stud on the springs was a different size to the hole in the axle, axle was 5/8" and spring was 1/2", solved this by turning up a piece of stainless bar with the size on either end, worked a treat








Heres the progress so far, hope its dry tomorrow as i want to fit the front calipers and rear drums.










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