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

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Steve, hopefully the ankle will get better or fixed for ya soon! Take care!

Finally got sorted at the hospital last friday at long last, foot aching but pain gone I did 3 days of resting but couldn't stand daytime tv anymore so ventured out to the workshop to find something I could do sitting down !!!

I still needed a water pump pulley so found a bit of 6" x 2.5" round aluminium, took a few measurements and started turning, ended up with a pulley.















I had a bit of swarf to tidy up !!!








I was originally gonna bore a hole in the timing case for a breather/filler as the Tbird covers have no holes but thought why not use the redundant fuel pump hole, A 1/4" stainless plate cut to shape and some bits of 1.5" bends and straight welded together, capped it off with a chrome breather cap, I will paint it satin black later.















Had to go in as bloody foot aching !!!

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Glad to hear that the cortisone shots seem to be helping! From what I know of them the most important part is to reduce/eliminate the stress to the area for a time of healing, so it's more EastEnder's and Coronation Street for you! By the time you're all better you'll be sneaking in from the shop to catch the latest episode.

Glad to hear your feeling better too!. As always the mill work it great! Roger is right to take it easy as much as possible!

Originally Posted by rspears

Glad to hear that the cortisone shots seem to be helping! From what I know of them the most important part is to reduce/eliminate the stress to the area for a time of healing, so it's more EastEnder's and Coronation Street for you! By the time you're all better you'll be sneaking in from the shop to catch the latest episode.

Sue watches eastenders regularly Roger, it just annoys me, it's nothing like the real east end !!! I think I will have to have my brain removed to watch daytime TV

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Sue watches eastenders regularly Roger, it just annoys me, it's nothing like the real east end !!! I think I will have to have my brain removed to watch daytime TV

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You're a sad, sad, sad man if you resort to watching E.Ender, Coro street or anything else than Last of Summer Wine when you're stuck at home.

Oh, and Get Smart is OK too!

Nothing to do with this thread but what does this mean when I click on 'Forum' , I couldn't find any other place to post this:

'Kiwi37, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.'

It does this to me all the time, something to do with the cookies I imagine, just click on today's posts and you're set to go.

Steve, my wife got started on Coro Street and Emerdale, they viewed one after the other, while we lived in the Puget Sound area, we got the CBC channel there. Then she got me hooked on it. Now that we live in the Boise Id. area we watch Coro Street on the internet. Being on the internet we can watch it anytime so we watch it in bed to fall asleep.

Jack.

Great work and I'm glad to hear you're foot/ankle are getting better!

Been doing some more sitting down jobs A previous owner of the body had done a hack job on the area where the door card sits and only left 1/2" so first job was to repair and build out the flange.










Next I started thinking about door cards, I had tufted diamond in my coupe so decided to do something different on the truck, decided on aluminum
panels that would match the seat, first job was to cut a piece of 2mm sheet to size, anything thinner would drum & resonate on a street car,
Next the holes were marked for the handle spindles and attachment bolts.










Next a piece of aluminium was plucked from the scrap bin and gave up its life to become finishers for the handles. holes were drilled in the panel to hold these in place with 5mm button heads with filled heads to resemble rivets.












Next I cut the top layer out with the plasma cutter and cleaned up all the edges with a flap wheel, added a few holes to make it tie in with the seat and be a bit more interesting.








Here it is assembled.






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So that is an awful lot of rivets one has to drill out if one needs to get inside the door to do a repair Steve or are they false rivets and only a select few hold the panel on ?

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

So that is an awful lot of rivets one has to drill out if one needs to get inside the door to do a repair Steve or are they false rivets and only a select few hold the panel on ?

Looks like the perimeter is button head screws

Great work Steve! That will set it off nicely!

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

So that is an awful lot of rivets one has to drill out if one needs to get inside the door to do a repair Steve or are they false rivets and only a select few hold the panel on ?

They are button head bolts Whip, you need to zoom in