Wife says I created a monster. Willys Jeep build

We had this jeep tail gate filler/eliminator that came with the first jeep he bought. It’s 16 gauge. We chopped it up into a center floor riser/crossmember.

 

****py ole HF bead roller did ok

 

Very neat beads. I bought an al-cheapo bead roller to make some ally door trims. Hope they turn out as well.

Cheers,
Harv

 

That is some pretty stellar work, should keep the young guy interested.

 

If you brace up these cheap rollers that do a good job.
We also made a fence out 1 inch angle to get these straight

 

Anthony thats some cool stuff! You make it look so easy but I know it isn't.

 

If you can fold and unfold a box, you can do sheet metal work.
The hat channel is tricky.
Cut some 1 inch wide s**** strips the width we needed. Took a couple tries to figure out the sequence. It’s easier if we had a press brake. We used a regular finger brake. Most straight brakes are too wide on the clamp side to do a narrow channel.
These are 9/16 tall. The minimum for the brake we used after removing the angle brace from the brake.
This weakens or reduces the brakes capacity.
I plan on modifying the brake so we can lower the angle brace to accommodate the room needed for a reverse bend.
For this bend, the outside fold was first, flip and do the inside.
Rotate and flip, do the second outside bend. Flip and do the last center bend.
Instant hat channel.

 

One homemade floor

 

Any updates on this?

 

He’s in school now.
We’ll get back on it summer brake.

 

Ah! School…it’s been a long time since I had to do that…

I’ve been working on this for mine and remembered you guys were working on one so thought I’d check in!

Nice work!

 

We’ve got the crank turned.
Need to get the block done and we’ll be putting it together

that looks great. I’ll show it to him for inspiration

 

Kids back at it with school out

 

Kids making parts

 

Since this is back up again…
https://youtube.com/shorts/GhMxu_BfoFo?feature=share

 

One piece at a time . Very cool . Thank You for showing the progress being made .

 

That kid will be somebody someday with such a good teacher ! Keep it up !

 

Hope so. He’s a great kid.
Full time college. Works full time in the summer for a commercial roofing company. They have some nice sheet metal equipment. Hess getting good with a break.
This stuff will be a hobby.

 

Tailgate mounted.

we’ll make a new bottom piece for it. This ain’t no resto. It’s a make a solid and functional woods buggy.
Kid making patches.
He’ll figure out why I prefer radiuses instead of 90• angles. He is file fitting the patches.

 

He made these 2 pieces.


I’ll show him how to finish it out a little better

 

Not bad for a first timer

 

Really good!

 

Great work. Great Teacher

 

I’ve not made much progress on mine. How’s yours coming along?

 

Nice work. Kid gets his looks from his mother? Good of you to give up that real estate in your shop. I tell mine- someday all of this could be yours…

 

Not much.
He still in school and works when not at school.

 

Put you and your son in a box and mail it to me! I have Jeep you can fix for me! Nice work!