Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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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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That frame is looking real cool and sort of makes your firewall tag obsolete I think.

Man it's looks nice with all the new paint chrome and stainless parts! The red shocks really jump out too. Nice looking tyres too!

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

That frame is looking real cool and sort of makes your firewall tag obsolete I think.

Honestly Whip its not to my usual standard, everything looks good in pictures

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Originally Posted by stovens

Man it's looks nice with all the new paint chrome and stainless parts! The red shocks really jump out too. Nice looking tyres too!

Cheers Steve, Its finally started coming together.

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Honestly Whip its not to my usual standard, everything looks good in pictures

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Looks pretty kool from where I'm sitting,too,Steve..Love it..

P1ssing down again yesterday so I decided to put my rear brakes together in the workshop, I have a stash of 11" Ford drum parts and a new pair of drums so it looked an easy job

First problem I came across was I have New big ford axle ends but out of the 5 pairs of backplates I had all were old ford fitting Only thing to do was to modify them to fit.

I had a pair of new ford bearing axle end housings so turned up a mandrel from a lump of aluminium to align the backplate with the housing, then I scribed the holes as they are slightly different.

Once the holes lined up I clamped it all together and ran a drill through each hole to clean them up.

I now had elongated holes in the backplates, answer was to weld on some large diameter thick washers.

Everything was going very smoothly until I started to assemble the brakes then I suddenly realised I was missing the parking brake levers Couldn't find any in my stash so I've asked my mates to have a look and see if they have any laying around otherwise its order from the states which is gonna hold me up yet again

Oh well 2 steps forward and one step back

























This is the parts i'm missing just incase any one has a pair hanging around, they are for 11" diameter brakes






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I'm starting to think they are out to get me !!!

Finally sorted the backplate bits and pieces and pulled the drums out of the boxes and guess what ? Wrong stud pattern

Anyway I decided to use them and just redrill, heres how the job went.

First I turned up a spigot from a lump of aluminium round bar to align the centre hole of the drum, then a aluminium spacer I had was fitted to it, everything clamped up and then I drilled through the stud holes in the spacer, Fairly straight forward job but I could of done without it to be honest.

I cleaned off the very thin coat factory paint with a zip wheel and epoxy primed them and then gave them 2 coats of 2K Jedi black.




















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