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

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I got the chassis out of storage yesterday, it has been blasted clean but unfortunately got done just before I went into hospital so has flash rusted slightly, it makes doing the last bits of welding easier though, once all done I will get it freshened up as the blaster is only a couple of miles away.






The centre section front legs were a little tight on the trans, I tried to alter what was already there but it was too time consuming so chopped the old ones off and will get some new metal folded tomorrow.






I had previously made some of the ladder bar front mounts but hadn't finished them, so that was today's job


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Very Nice!

I got the new legs folded up but the only had black steel so had to sand them clean before doing anything !!!
One done.











for some reason I didn't get the rear shocks fitted so I got that done too, they are MGA levers off a friends race car that went telescopic, they are re valved so much stiffer.









Also enlarged some of the existing chassis holes and cleaned them up





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Dammed, what I love about you is you always make it seem way too easy! In the process you make it look like it was always that way.

Had a couple of hours at the bench tonight and the seat vapour blasting came back so put my seat together, it can now go off to my mate Tom for trimming, diamond tufted is the order of the day












i Ali made up some shock mounts studs





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Progress not so good Saturday but I got the valve cover nuts polished





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Very nice work! The frame is looking great! Are you going to paint it or have it PC'd?

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Very nice work! The frame is looking great! Are you going to paint it or have it PC'd?

Paint Ryan, I would never powder coat a frame

Made up shock axle brackets, just need to clean case and tig them in place.









Been thinking about axle location, a pan hard won't work correctly with a transverse spring in my opinion so been looking at alternatives, thought about a Mumford set up but it's a bit to complicated for the space I have so decided on a Watts linkage.
First job was to make the centre pivot out of a lump of aluminium bar.












Next some tube was found and threaded inserts made up








A simple bracket was made to start with and then added to as I went















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Got the chassis brackets made up and welded on












Welded some some nuts onto the bars to help with any adjustments







All done





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Very nice work! I really like how the center link mount bracket turned out!

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Very nice work! I really like how the center link mount bracket turned out!

Thanks Ryan 👍

What is the tile you used on the floor. Dose it stand up as good as it looks like?

Originally Posted by cffisher

What is the tile you used on the floor. Dose it stand up as good as it looks like?

They are just a regular ceramic tile Charlie but fully covered in adhesive, I jack on them and use axle stands without any bother, the only thing that marks them is splatter from a mig or sparks from a grinder, been down 13 years now.

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Got the other leg cleaned off and welded in at last, also made up the shock link sleeves, after that popped over to see how brad was getting on with the cab and it's nearly ready for primer.










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