1932 Willys...barn find to runner in thirty days.

Hey, the Knight enignes were patented AND were used in a lot of cars. Whoever used the Knight almost ALWAYS ballyhooed that it had a Knight! As good as Continentals were in the ealry days for so-called "assembled" cars, the Knight was about the KING, even into the '20s and early '30s.

John North Willys certianly recognized their market value. Jordan & Graham-Paige made out OK with Continentals (though Graham engineers always hopped up the crate Continentals). Knights iddn't need much at all.

 

Fun with wood and primer. Okay so maybe the wood was not quite as good as i thought. Thanks to Ken ,Bob , and Charlie for the wood work. If i can't weld it i can't work on it. Hopefully many more photos this weekend. Buying the paint Friday, stay tuned........

 

Just a couple quick photo updates. Tried to pick an old timey blue for the car.

 

I hope the Rear Brakes are Correct,"Damn Ford" ... Man that was a small job alone LMAO!

 

So what did you end up using for your front brake set up?

 

Looking good! Glad to see another 32 Willys soon to be on the road. Love the blue on the engine. Keep up the work!

 

Still going.....

 

A couple more.

 

Ralph, i completely wussed out and bought a 4 inch dropped axle and Ford spindles. I will be working on the Willys axle this winter because it appears the kingpin bosses are at the same angle as the the Ford axle.Thinking i can open up the bore to accept Ford kingpins and spindles.By the way congrats on getting your engine freed up. I'd use either straight 30 or 40 weight and non detergent oil. That way the carbon thats in there should stay there. Hope you make it to your carshow, and good luck.

 

Nice work so far.
Blue is a good choice.
Jeff

 

Oh, Where did you get your axle?
Speedway?

Jeff

 

Yep, Speedway Motors, in the last couple weeks i think they love me.

 

Can't say my friends don't get into my projects! Neat little photo of the current and future projects to come. We are making steady progress and looking forward to lighting up the rear hides shortly.

 

Tell Bob that's not Doreen lol

 

Yea, I did the same on my 32 project. I had planned to use one of the 37 axles I had and drop it myself/ drop the spindle arms, etc. And I wimped out and went with a chassis engineering heavy 32 with a 4" drop and cut off my spindle arms and went with the speedway dropped arms. But I did keep the 37 bones and split them. Maybe on the next project.

 

Now i don't feel so bad!

 

nice car

 

Howdy, well after mocking up the fenders and running boards welcome to the "Munsters Coach". After careful measuring and being a life long fan of slammed cars ,this ain't gonna be one! Do i leave it as is, or i can get ahold of a 7" dropped axle to lower the front end 3 more inches? Let me know what you think. As far as the rest, the steering is handled and the brakes are about 2 hours from done. Hope to fire it up and get some primer on it this weekend. Tuesday is "D-DAY" so hopefully things go good this weekend.

 

Thats It.. My 4in Wide Cragars are going on the front lol

 

That's just sick. I'm in love. Nice job!

 

wow you kicked this builds ass you got more done in almost 30 days than i got done in thirty months

 

Thanks, there's something to be said about working smarter , not harder especially for a couple of old farts. We've had lots of help from friends on top of what the two of us have got done. We got to thinking and wondered what we could get done if i wasn't working 45 hours a week at my real job and Triken working 20 at his. After this weekend we may slow down a bit !!!

 

Paint it green and call it the Mantis.

 

I vote for the 7" drop axle.

 

milwscruffy, I never doubted your WILL, but I wouldn't have bitched if you'd run over a few days or a week . . .

BUT, YOU DID IT! "Barn Find to Runner in 30 Days" !!! Now, THERE is a car you can take exceeding pride in! Good work.

 

Thanks, but we're not there yet. Hopefully it's running sometime before the weekend is over. Yep pretty proud of this and how all the old friends pulled together and lent a hand, that means more than the car does.

 

this is a great build and congrats on making the progress that you've made.

concerning stance, it appears as if you have un-reversed spring eyes at the front frame horn location and at all the rear locations as well. reversing the spring eyes should be good for around an inch and a half in front, and if you relocated your shackle pivots higher in the frame, who knows?

 

Would it be possible to flip your u-bolts on the front axle to mount the axle over the springs instead of under them to get the front lower?

 

like on an econoline axle? yes, i've seen that done

 

Yeah. It's hard to see from the pictures, but it looks like there is enough room for suspension travel if the axle was flipped to the top of the springs. That would lower it several inches.