Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

I don't know Charlie..........................you know how fond of shiny brother Steve is. Looks to me like he's got a LOT of color sanding ahead to get that underside and inside buffer ready.

Not a chance Bob

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Well we had some terrible rain here on monday, we had a months rainfall in 24hrs

I have a California car cover on it now and it fits great but most importantly it don't let one drop of rain through, great product.

Luckily it stopped at teatime so I managed to get a couple of hours in last night after the rain stopped, mostly bits and pieces but i did get my battery cables all terminated and screwed down to the trunk floor with Adel clamps.

I ran the main battery cable along the chassis mounted in Adel clamps while the body was off, it runs along the main passenger chassis rail and ends at the rear axle where it needs to enter the body, the floor here is 1/4" thick so no grommets available so I used a bulkhead connector, very handy.










The connector is under the battery tray out of harms way. battery cable is 35mm2.








While I was crimping the eye lugs on I thought i would show you what a great little tool the Speedway crimping tool is. I used to use a set of tong type crimpers which were very expensive and very good but unfortunately someone borrowed them and never bought them back. This simple tool is equally as good.

Heres a short video clip








Also got the fuel tank back in place and the fuel lines hooked up.







Another little job that was annoying me was the little cables on the hood & trunk pins keep going rusty and I didn't like the way they were secured under the small hold down bolts, solution was to use stainless steel bicycle cable and to drill small holes and hold the cables fro the rear, looks neater I think, sorry about the dust on them.









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Sorry bout the dust????? So you should be..You are getting sloppy,Steven..sloppy..

The rest looks kool though..

Originally Posted by lamin8r

Sorry bout the dust????? So you should be..You are getting sloppy,Steven..sloppy..

The rest looks kool though..

Cheers Robin, did you watch the video ??? I reckon I may get a presenters job on QVC

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Cheers Robin, did you watch the video ??? I reckon I may get a presenters job on QVC

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Yeah,,Aunty BBC might not like your description of the hammer,though.. We call them a Mexican speed wrench,,after seeing a caption in a 40 odd year old US magazine with an article on the Baja 500 race,,and one of the drivers called it such..
Off track a little..Neat tool..We should all have one..Much easier than trying to crimp ..

Originally Posted by lamin8r

Yeah,,Aunty BBC might not like your description of the hammer,though.. We call them a Mexican speed wrench,,after seeing a caption in a 40 odd year old US magazine with an article on the Baja 500 race,,and one of the drivers called it such..
Off track a little..Neat tool..We should all have one..Much easier than trying to crimp ..

Thats just me Good little tool though, does what it says on the box !!!

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Very good Steve but I can't see the stainless cables in the photo, must be all the dust eh? Love the accent you British have but what sort of persuader was that you were using? Oh yeah, teatime???? tea is something one drinks, dinner is what one eats in the evening. You stand corrected young man so no more mistakes, jolly good chaps......

Saturdays are great, the phone is quiet and nobody pops in so usually get lots done without the interuptions
I needed to get my seats in so I could get my steering column set up and installed, I ditched the original seat covers and fitted some diamond ones instead










Once I had the column in I could mount the pedal & master cylinder on the firewall, its now all fitted but needs a small bit of bracing welding in, I will do that in the week as I need to drag my tig bottle from the workshop to the front of the house










Next job was to fit the Snow water injection tank & pump in the trunk, first thing i changed was the size of the water tank, the Snow original was pretty small, I had an old Jaz tank which was about 4 times the capacity, It has had a few holes cut in it but I can sort out adaptors to get the size down to suit the Snow lines. had to make up a new top for the tank as the original filler was missing, a bit of aluminium plate did the job and I will weld in a filer neck & probably a flip cap later next week.
A holding strap was made from a strip of 1" x 1/8" stainless and a few holes drilled for asthetics.












As the inside will have some thin black carpet on the rear firewall there would be no access to any bolts going through it so I spun up sme threaded aluminium bungs and used countersunk set screws through the firewall, once tightened I can still remove any of the bits bolted on the back.












The Snow pump is a pusher so was mounted as close as possible to the tank, For some reason Snow say this pump is mounted straight up with the electricals at the bottom, This don't make sense to me as any water leaks will run straight into the electrics, not ideal !!! So I mounted it up the other way, this also keeps the inlet low.






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Now Steve, you will have to educate me on what all that Snow Tank is all about. Is it another name for the water reservoir for the radiator? Yeah I'm a use to be blonde person.

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Now Steve, you will have to educate me on what all that Snow Tank is all about. Is it another name for the water reservoir for the radiator? Yeah I'm a use to be blonde person.

Hi Whip. its a Snow water injection kit, lots of info here Snow Performance : Gasoline but basically water injection enables the blower to make more boost without detonation therefore making more power


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Finally got around to dragging my tig bottle to the front of the house so finally welded in the pedal/master cylinder strengthening plate I had made a few days ago.








Once welded in some black epoxy was brushed on.








Next job was to cut a 1/8" ply firewall panel (forgot to take a pic) this was then covered in black carpet, the various electrical gizmo's we then reattached. The gizmo's were placed to be practicle and easily reached for any adjustments.
Top left is the digital MSD ignition box, top right is the Rebel Wiring fuseblock, bottom left is the Aeromotive digital fuel pump controller, bottom right is the Snow water injection controller.

The black carpet reall tidys it all up.










While sorting out the various wires I got to thinking where was I gonna put my indicator switch, I didnt want it on the column and couldn't hide it under the seat like I usually do, decided to take it apart and see if I could squeeze it into my switch box between my seats.








Once the casing was removed I found there was just enough space for it, Its tight but it goes in ok.











Wiring next

nicely done Steve.

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Originally Posted by stovens

nicely done Steve.

Cheers steve, it's getting closer

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I think I have the same turn signal switch waiting to go into the truck, though mine has a red tip, not green I believe(bought it several years ago so not sure!) I like the way you made ordinary into extrodinary.

Still been slogging away doing wiring, everything is in a slightly different place on my Willys as I can't reach the dashboard once strapped in so a fair bit of the wires in the Rebel kit needed extending, plus there were relays to add and a fair bit of extra wiring for the various pump controllers etc etc, plus of course with this being a glass car everything has to have its own earth, these were extended with modern thinwall cable as its easier to hide, its very useful stuff, not expensive and usually half the thickness of standard cable

I got the switch panel finished and in position, the mount is a 1.5" stainless 90 degree bend cut in half and rewelded 180 degrees in the other dircetion. base plate is 2mm stainless.










I know there are some that expressed an interest in the wiring so heres a tip, this is the rear light wiring connectors, the earth (white wire) has the female terminal and the tail light and brake/flasher has the male terminals, this stops them ever being connected wrongly.








A common problem on fiberglass cars and cars with a wood floor is getting cables through them with grommets, this is my solution, I holesaw the required size hole then use the offcuts from holesawing on other jobs, these are 2" x 16swg stainless, then I just redrill the correct size hole for the grommet and secure with 3 self tappers into the floor.










The cables get hidden behind panels where possible but the ones to my main switch panel have to travel under the carpet so are just stuck down with racers tape, once the carpet is in place they are undetectable due to the thinwall cable, I route them side by side.












Finished the wiring today and switched and tested all the circuits and everything works great, At last the car has a pulse []







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