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

Have you thought about doing some of you stuff with intend too sell?

Like that coloum drop, or some of the beautiful little things, like the little switch/remote buttons holder thing from the other willys build?

Or mayby make one with the top hole 52 mm, so a small gauge would fit in it? Like a oil pressure gauge and a big Amber light in the next hole. For an a big bulb that comes on before the motor loose all pressure, because you dont have time to look at all your gauges when you drag it/stomp on it while Towing you perfect willys coupe drag car.

 

You should mate, I would love to see it for sure !!!

 

I got the column support insert made up so silicon bronze welded it into place, then the weld was dressed with a bull nosed tungsten burr to create an invisible joint (I wanted it to look like a cast piece)








I had to paint some small parts for a customers car so gave the support a squirt of satin black epoxy, I love it !!! Its exactly what I wanted it to look like















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Looks great...
I'll take 3. Do you deliver ?

 

Eat ya heart out mate, theres only one

 

Wow, just wow!

 

Excellent creativity, design and craftsmanship.

Well done.

 

I will give you this for now this was last weekend at Tulsa Oklahoma




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Yup like that !!!

 

Yeah I need to find some time for the 26 coupe Ryland.

 

I already do mate, I have a small Rodshop in England.

 

I clamped the column in place just to check and make the bottom mount up.






While I was looking at it I thought the column drop looked a bit bland so went home and spun up some thin finishers for the holes.






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Just found your new build thread Wednesday. This one is just as much fun to view as your coupe build was! I'll be subscribing so that I don't miss any of your progress. Thanks for sharing!

 

What a guy LOL. Thing looked bland so I just MADE some snazzy new finishers. You are "the man".

 

Glad to have you onboard for the ride

 

Shit hot mate, awsome work you are doing there.

 

Yep .... What he said.
Nice work Steve. You area craftsman.


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Thanks mate, its still looking a bit scruffy but will look better once I get into the body work.

 

Oh yeah, ain't that bit fun, especially filling pinholes in fibreglass

 

Yesterday was one of those non productive days where you work all day but seem to have little to show for it !!!

It was raining first thing so decided to clean up the front brake back plates, they are original 56 F100 so had a fair bit of pitting on them, i had them blasted and then sanded them fairly smooth, then epoxy primed, hi build primed and then shot them in Black, they came out pretty good.








It has stopped raining so next up was to see how the master cylinder and brake pedal was gonna fit now I had the column in, straightaway I had a slight issue with the brake pedal fouling the column on half stroke, I had 2 solutions and the first was to put a crank in the pedal or move the pedal onto the outside of the pedal bracket, the first was a bit tricky as the pedal is made like an I beam so I decided to move the pedal to the outside of the bracket.
Once this was done I drilled the master cylinder mounting holes, the firewall is 1/2" thick at this point but I put in a strengthning plate at the rear inside the firewall.
Not much for 8 hrs work but its still progress.







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Thanks for the positives, i'm trying

 

Yoda said "there is no try - only do"
I'm more that reasonably certain you've gotten to "do"

Every time I open your updates I'm amazed. Mostly I look for inspiration but to be honest I might steel that column drop of yours. May I ?

 

No problem mate, but alter it slightly in some way to put your own spin on it, cheers and thanks for the kind comment.

 

The trick is not to get any

 

Been collecting the parts for the braking system hydrulics, I really like the old style look of brass fittings and copper pipe, obviously copper is a nono for brakes so I will substitute Kunifer (Cupro-Nickel) for that.
I thought it would be easy to find all the fittings in brass but it appears a lot of them are not about, well not in imperial anyway, Anyway I found brass imperial 3/8" unf tee's easily enough, not so easy to find unf tube nuts though, anyway long story short I bought a selection of hexagon brass bar and popped into my mate Brians who just happens to have a small CNC setup, anyway poped back next day and he had produced me 50 x 3/8"UNF tube nuts Not only that but he copied the bleed screws that were in the cylinders too

The other problem piece was I wanted to use thru the frame fittings so these too had to be made on the lathe, these were made from 3/4" hexagon brass bar, they were turned down to 9/16" and threaded 9/16" -18, nuts were made from the offcuts.







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Been collecting the parts for the braking system hydrulics, I really like the old style look of brass fittings and copper pipe, obviously copper is a nono for brakes so I will substitute Kunifer (Cupro-Nickel) for that.
I thought it would be easy to find all the fittings in brass but it appears a lot of them are not about, well not in imperial anyway, Anyway I found brass imperial 3/8" unf tee's easily enough, not so easy to find unf tube nuts though, anyway long story short I bought a selection of hexagon brass bar and popped into my mate Brians who just happens to have a small CNC setup, anyway poped back next day and he had produced me 50 x 3/8"UNF tube nuts Not only that but he copied the bleed screws that were in the cylinders too

The other problem piece was I wanted to use thru the frame fittings so these too had to be made on the lathe, these were made from 3/4" hexagon brass bar, they were turned down to 9/16" and threaded 9/16" -18, nuts were made from the offcuts.







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Holy cow am I late ! Dunno' how this one wasn't spotted prior. Fabrication here is frekn' stellar man ! Awesome for the Y block too. Sharp, sharp, sharp. Just a fan sir....carry on please !

 

Thanks dude, appreciated

 

I also followed your other builds. Just found this one. You are one talented machinist love your work. Keep it up I'll be following this one.

 

Love the engine choice and the motor mounts. I do have a quick question for you. Where are you going to mount your generator/alternator? If you put it in its orginal location you will have clearance issues with the engine mount.