Thread: Oh no not another Willys Gasser build, this time a Willys shop truck

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The truck's looking super cool, Steve, or as our friend Dave Severson used to like to say, kewl man, very kewl!

Wow, looking good Steve but one question, will those carbs and scoops clear the the low scoop on the bonnet ? I relise you haven't cut the hole out yet but to my southern upside down eye it doesn't look as if you will be able to close the bonnet, hood for our American friends, using those air scoops on top of the carbies.

Originally Posted by rspears

The truck's looking super cool, Steve, or as our friend Dave Severson used to like to say, kewl man, very kewl!

Cheers Roger, funny you should mention Dave, I was only thinking the other day that I hadn't seen Dave on here lately ??? Also Dave ICI2

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Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Wow, looking good Steve but one question, will those carbs and scoops clear the the low scoop on the bonnet ? I relise you haven't cut the hole out yet but to my southern upside down eye it doesn't look as if you will be able to close the bonnet, hood for our American friends, using those air scoops on top of the carbies.

Hi Whip, I cut the hole a few days ago, didn't put a pic up because it didn't seem that interesting.




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Originally Posted by roadster32

Cheers Roger, funny you should mention Dave, I was only thinking the other day that I hadn't seen Dave on here lately ??? Also Dave IC2.

Yeah, both Dave's walked away by their own choice, and it would be nice to see their moniker's pop up again! Who knows, maybe it'll happen!

Glad you eased Whip's mind with that picture of the hole under the scoop. Can't leave a Kiwi fretting, right?

Originally Posted by rspears

Yeah, both Dave's walked away by their own choice, and it would be nice to see their moniker's pop up again! Who knows, maybe it'll happen!

Glad you eased Whip's mind with that picture of the hole under the scoop. Can't leave a Kiwi fretting, right?

Thats a shame as both Daves were interesting guys, I must admit to having had leaving thoughts regarding this forum myself, Its sometimes hard to load up and has numerous glitches but I feel like I have friends here in Roger, Bob, Steve, Charlie, Ryan, Whip etc etc and it would feel like i was walking out on them so i'm still here

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Well I'm running out of patience with this site too as I wrote a reply to Chopped top MK11 thread and got nothing but trouble so I will try again here.
Yes Steve I see you have cut the hole in the bonnet but what I was concerned about was the clearance of the air intake tubes under the hood scoop. To me it looked awfully close.
Sadly I just might have to follow the Dave's if this site isn't improved soon as I now find the HAMB site a heel of alot easy to use etc and without the issues here.

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

.......as I now find the HAMB site a heel of a lot easy to use etc and without the issues here.

Seriously? Without the issues here? Seriously? The HAMB has more issues than Carter's got little pills!! JEEEEEESH! IMO of course, only IMO, and like belly buttons, everyone has one.....

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming? Do anything today, Steve, or take Sunday off this week?

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

if this site isn't improved soon as I now find the HAMB site a heel of alot easy to use etc and without the issues here.

Umm...

I haven't been near the HAMB site for literally years because of the issues on it; and the pure vicious bloody-mindedness of some.
So I logged back in to see if it has changed.
And as far as I can see...no.

This is a great site here; and I don't want to leave.

No sir.

You could always try NZHRM...

(Sorry to hi-jack the thread...won't do it again...)

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Well I'm running out of patience with this site too as I wrote a reply to Chopped top MK11 thread and got nothing but trouble so I will try again here.
Yes Steve I see you have cut the hole in the bonnet but what I was concerned about was the clearance of the air intake tubes under the hood scoop. To me it looked awfully close.
Sadly I just might have to follow the Dave's if this site isn't improved soon as I now find the HAMB site a heel of alot easy to use etc and without the issues here.

Whip its tight on clearance but it does fit, just !!! Got about 1/2" of clearance on the top of the scoop.

Unfortunately the Hamb has changed big time !!! I often feel like my builds are no longer wanted there, Ryan did the big update and in my opinion lost some of the buddy feel to the site, A lot of very talented people left after the change which was a travesty.
As for this site I like the people but it has certain issues that get to be very annoying after a while, a recent one for me is I leave this page open on my PC but when i hit refresh it comes up with "token expired" and then I have to go to my login page and find the thread again.
I have commented on certain issues before which seems to have fell on deaf ears, just my opinion guys.

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Originally Posted by rspears

Seriously? Without the issues here? Seriously? The HAMB has more issues than Carter's got little pills!! JEEEEEESH! IMO of course, only IMO, and like belly buttons, everyone has one.....

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming? Do anything today, Steve, or take Sunday off this week?

Day off today Roger, here today is Mothers day, we set off to take my mum out for lunch but got a call to say our grand daughter had gone into labour, within the hour we had become GREAT grandparents to Layla !!!

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Day off today Roger, here today is Mothers day, we set off to take my mum out for lunch but got a call to say our grand daughter had gone into labour, within the hour we had become GREAT grandparents to Layla !!!

Wow! Congratulations on the new Great Grand Daughter, Layla! What a beautiful name, and I expect it fits her perfectly.

Wow! so that makes your Mum a Great Great Grand.
Congratulations to all of you!

Originally Posted by rspears

Wow! Congratulations on the new Great Grand Daughter, Layla! What a beautiful name, and I expect it fits her perfectly.

Thanks Roger, Layla came 6 weeks early but seems to be doing great.

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Coming to the end of most of the machining now, just the snout drive left, I had previously made up all the components and just had the keyway to broach into the drive flange and shaft. Popped into see my mate Brian as he has all the broaching tooling, I took a pic of the setup and a short video of the action, this is the old school way to put keyways in, not sure how its done these days.
Basically a mandrel with a slot is inserted into the flange and then a tapered rack with cutting edges is pushed through by a power press, this removes about 60 thou each pass, then a thin spacer is inserted behind the rack which on the next pass cuts the groove deeper and so on until its the required depth is achieved.

I did take a video but this one explains the process better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRbOux9NfeU











The shaft keyway is much easier to do and is milled in on a vertical Mill, I chose 1/4" key basically as I already had some 1/4" key steel.










Although i'm using a sealed bearing I felt it needed an oil seal just incase any oil wicked through the bearing/shaft joint so a seal was pressed in place, I had already cut a circlip groove. the key was raduised at one end to fit the keyway perfectly.








Here its all assembled and ready to fit. The mounting holes were originally bored for socket cap screws so I counter bored them to accept 12 point ARP bolts.









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