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

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Will you be able to get the allen key into the grub screw when you fit it into the tight confines of the door ?

Not had chance to do much on this recently but I had some vapour blasting to get done on a customers car so thought I would get the inlet finished up, the blower plate supports needed welding on to the intake and I just knew it was gonna be a pig job so popped into Garys to see if he had any good ideas on approaching welding the poor casting, It didn't go well at all as just kept getting black crap coming out of the casting and the welds were not the prettiest so ended up smoothing them out.








Here's the intake finished








Before the plenum was fitted I needed a gasket so cut one from some Reinze boiler door gasket material.








Here's the intake bolted up












I also got the gauge spacers vapoured as well




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Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Will you be able to get the allen key into the grub screw when you fit it into the tight confines of the door ?

Yes Whip, no problem getting to it.
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Looking spiffy there Steve. Thanks for the update

Looks great, Steve, and the adaptation of the blower plate to the 3x2 top is first rate! What is the process, "vapour blasting"?

Originally Posted by rspears

Looks great, Steve, and the adaptation of the blower plate to the 3x2 top is first rate! What is the process, "vapour blasting"?

Vapor blasting uses very small (100-150 micron) glass beads in a high-pressure water stream. Neat system, and non-aggressive - unlike other media systems.

Originally Posted by rspears

Looks great, Steve, and the adaptation of the blower plate to the 3x2 top is first rate! What is the process, "vapour blasting"?

Yes Vapour blasting Roger, its basically a glass bead in water, Its nice because it peens the surface which closes the pores which makes it very easy to clean and stays nice for years.
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EDIT Henry beat me to it

Originally Posted by stovens

Looking spiffy there Steve. Thanks for the update

thanks Steve
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Hi guys no updates in afraid as we are in the states at Bonita Beach visiting Don Hulgas (remember him) itoldyouso
Met up with Don & the boys last night and glad to say all are well.
Off now for a boat ride with Don Jnr so speak later, stay cool.

Give the Hulgas Boys a big shout out and hello from CHR. We miss Don Sr.'s regular posts and advice. We also are happy to see Don Jr. back on site, and would love updates from his brother and his project too! Enjoy the states and have a beer for me!

Hey also while your there try and get a few shots of their current rods!

Did you make it back home from your trip safe Steve?

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Did you make it back home from your trip safe Steve?

Yes Ryan just getting back into the swing of things, we had a great time with Don Snr, Don Jnr, Dan & Nancy. It was terrific to see them all again, you would be hard pushed to meet nicer people, they are all like family to us

I've been teaching Don how to speak Cockney

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Just a small update, sorry it's late but I find myself looking on here less and less these days.
Not much I'm afraid as I'm at the arduous & tedious body work stage.
I wasn't entirely happy with the bolts at the front of the intake so changed them for studs & castle nuts, I machined in a pilot on the studs as it makes the nuts easy to start and has a nice finished look to them.










While I was there I fitted a direct temp gauge into the water runner, it's tight on clearance but fits snugly.











I also bought a Fenton fuel block back from the states which matches the Fenton intake nicely, fitted it with brass fittings to match the rest of the hardware on the truck, it sits on the firewall behind the blower which made the Marshall pressure gauge hard to see so a quick rummage through my spare fittings box and I found a 45 degree elbow, now it just pokes out from behind the blower and can be seen easily.











I didn't want to use modern jubilee clips on this build and really liked the look of Wittek thumb screw tower clamps as they look old and dead cool but they were really difficult to find but luckily somebody I know in the US put me onto someone that collects them (yes a very interesting old chap) and while on holiday I paid him a visit, unbelievable !!! He had tens of thousands of them !!! No cars just Wittek clamps !!!
After a bit of persuasion he said he would sell me some as long as I was putting them on an old car, I showed him a pic of my truck and everything was cool , I didn't mention it was fibreglass.
They are all stainless and hopefully I've got all the sizes I need.




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Looking good as usual, Steve, and glad that you were able to source some parts while here on your holiday. That's a different use for safety wire. Is your thought that it's serving a double purpose, first keeping the studs from loosening, plus acting as the pin in the castle head nuts or do you just like the look? Normal security for a castle head nut is a cotter pin. Just wondering....