Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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And and Never being wrong eh mate except when you are but those are so far apart no one can remember . Happy Birthday Steve..

Hope you a a great celebration, sounds like you did.

Cheers guys.

Cheers back at cha big guy!

Originally Posted by stovens

Cheers back at cha big guy!

Now thats a bit more like it Steve, cheers !!!

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Well there goes his progress work now LOL

Over the weekend i managed to knock off lots of pesky 5 minute jobs so the list is fairly short now
My 35 spline Strange Hy-Tuff shafts finally turned up so i slid them in place and put all the brakes back on, it was at this point I thought have I forgot something










I then thought I would finish off the carpet in the front of the car but my brain kept nagging me about something I had forgot, Got carpet all trimmed up and glued down, stood back to admire and thought it looked bare, thats when I realised I had forgot to fit the handbrake and cables Can't believe I did that !!!
Anyway I dug the handbrake I made out of its hiding place but now it wouldn't fit so put it away for a future project, Luckily I had a Lokar floor mounted handbrake in stock and also a cable kit, It was fiddly getting the cables into the back plates as I had refitted the drum mechanisms, got it done in the end though, works great.











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Looks really clean Steve. I have several Lokar products and they all seem to need a little finessing to get them just right, but they look great once they are fitted.

Very nice work!

Originally Posted by stovens

Looks really clean Steve. I have several Lokar products and they all seem to need a little finessing to get them just right, but they look great once they are fitted.

These all went together a piece of cake Steve, to be honest i've never had any problems with Lokar stuff, seems to work pretty good.

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You must follow the instruction sheets! My only problem was an excellerator petal, that was missing a part. Once I figured that out, and got the missing part, it worked great!

Well been mostly twiddling my thumbs looking for jobs to do while awaiting the arrival of my heads, got an email 2 days ago saying the head guy was back to work and was hand finishing them Hopefully have them soon

While finishing off the carpeting I found I needed some sill finishers so made them out of 1/8" x 1.5" 316 Stainless, shaped them up and gave them a good polish up.












Another little job off the decreasing list was to make a filler for the water injection resevour, I had already made up a round plate to seal the large hole so just needed a small screw on lid., Made it in Aluminium as thats all I had In that size. Was going to weld it but it was easier to make a gasket and bolt it in place, It seals on an O ring.










I had a pair of Holley carbs but got the offer of this pair of Edelbrocks that were new and already modified for a blower and had only been used on a dyno plus I like the look of them better than the Holleys.








I have to sort out the linkages and they came with a Lokar rear bracket, Nicely made but in my opinion a horrible looking thing, gonna either make another or heavily modify this one.






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More beautiful work, Steve. I like the sill plates, but that little tank cap assembly is very impressive. I'd love to have a lathe capable of that, but then I'd quickly come to realize that it's not the machine, it's the machinist!! Thanks for posting!

Originally Posted by rspears

More beautiful work, Steve. I like the sill plates, but that little tank cap assembly is very impressive. I'd love to have a lathe capable of that, but then I'd quickly come to realize that it's not the machine, it's the machinist!! Thanks for posting!

Yes Roger a lathe is a very useful tool, thanks

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Had a couple of hours spare this afternoon so decided to make a progressive linkage, Some of the bits that came with the carbs was Lokar but I was missing the main link rod between the 2 carbs, A quick search around the net gave me a picture so I found some round aluminium bar so drilled and tapped it to make it adjustable lengthwise, a small rose joint on the end and it all looked fine, the other end I machined up a bit of stainless to make a slotted end to make it progressive, my new milling machine has come on handy once again, how did I ever get by before I had it A quick polish and thats another pesky job ticked off







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