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

Yeah unfortunately Sue knows me way too well she knows I couldn't resist dragging my ass out there !!!

 

Wow, Steve, I didn't know about your foot ! That looks painful ! Listen to Sue and let it heal.

Truck is looking great..........now you have His and Hers Willys !

Don

 

Always entertaining to read through your threads mate very nice work, the small details are great and as a sum make this one damn nice truck! Keep it up!

 

Thanks, hopefully I can get back on it very soon as just had my archiles problem sorted, hopefully !!!

 

Finally got sorted at the hospital last friday at long last, foot aching but pain gone I did 3 days of resting but couldn't stand daytime tv anymore so ventured out to the workshop to find something I could do sitting down !!!

I still needed a water pump pulley so found a bit of 6" x 2.5" round aluminium, took a few measurements and started turning, ended up with a pulley.















I had a bit of swarf to tidy up !!!








I was originally gonna bore a hole in the timing case for a breather/filler as the Tbird covers have no holes but thought why not use the redundant fuel pump hole, A 1/4" stainless plate cut to shape and some bits of 1.5" bends and straight welded together, capped it off with a chrome breather cap, I will paint it satin black later.















Had to go in as bloody foot aching !!!

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Nice work but take care of that foot and don't push it! If she finds out...SWMBO will take your lathe away too!

 

Clever lad you are! That pulley shows off your mad lathe skills but the oil filler breather thingy just shows off your twisted mind. I mean that in a good way! Be careful or you may end up back in front of that TV......

 

Good to see you back at it again Steve.
Aluminum chips in the face sure beats TV huh!
Time to get whittl'n on that shifter handle.

 

I didn't catch that alternator tensioner bracket before, that is a neat touch!

 

Yeah Sue has been on my case already !!!
The workshop is like a drug to me, I just can't resist it lol

 

Even pain is better than TV mate, thanks for the kind words.

 

love the details and 'can-do' attitude, keep at it.
Cheers,
Drewfus

 

Steve,
Give the TV a chance. Daytime soap operas like Days of Our Lives or General Hospital have great 'social redeeming value'. If your Mum deprived you of these, it may be the reason you turned out to be a Hot Rodder.
Over here you could sue her.

 

Thanks for the positives bud

 

Hahaha

 

Been doing some more sitting down jobs A previous owner of the body had done a hack job on the area where the door card sits and only left 1/2" so first job was to repair and build out the flange.










Next I started thinking about door cards, I had tufted diamond in my coupe so decided to do something different on the truck, decided on aluminum
panels that would match the seat, first job was to cut a piece of 2mm sheet to size, anything thinner would drum & resonate on a street car,
Next the holes were marked for the handle spindles and attachment bolts.










Next a piece of aluminium was plucked from the scrap bin and gave up its life to become finishers for the handles. holes were drilled in the panel to hold these in place with 5mm button heads with filled heads to resemble rivets.












Next I cut the top layer out with the plasma cutter and cleaned up all the edges with a flap wheel, added a few holes to make it tie in with the seat and be a bit more interesting.








Here it is assembled.






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Since you mentioned you don't like the LIKE Button, I will just post to say I LIKE what you did right there Langy!

 

Hahaha, its killed the art of conversation here in my opinion.

 

Simply marvelous old chap

 

Love the door cards, have never seen them like that, and you've got my mind working on a combination of aluminum and upholstery for a friends 55 gasser. I really enjoy your details in all your builds, and you continue to prove that "traditional" can be unique and creative too.
Thanks


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You almost sound english !!! thanks bud

 

Thanks, I did consider trim panels in the top and bottom cut outs but thought it might look busy.

 

Somebody pm'd me asking how the handles were held in place, dunno why they didn't ask here ??? Anyway there is a tapped hole through each handle where a grub screw screws in to hold it all together, access is through a small hole underneath each handle.




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Those door panels look very nice! Ill bet a contrasting color under the frame/overlay would also look great. But less understated, and I know thats important for this truck
Nice to see you back and making progress

 

I know what you mean, I tried satin black but it looked a bit busy, thanks for the positives

 

As always Steve, great work and tech. coverage
You already know my thoughts on this subject so I'll just use these instead.

 

I think I can see a small change of plan coming, cut the windows out last night and the Red is not very see through unlike the Orange on my coupe

 

I had dark red windows in a 46' chevy bobber pick up I build in my younger days. I found that it made headlights register as tail lights when I wasn't paying close attention. I finally changed them out before I caused a wreck.

 

Well more or lees the inner doors are now sorted windows go up & down really smoothly so turned my attention the the outer skins, as usual one of the former owners had done a hack job on the window opening returns, most of it had been chopped back, they couldn't even cut straight ffs !!! makes you wonder why ??? they needed extending inwards, not much about 1/2" but the gap to the window was massive !!!

First job was to key the old glass all the way around and feather the edge.










Next some cardboard (I favor Fruit & Fibre boxes as the resin don't stick to them and its nice with cream on it, but any will do) was taped into place to support the glass to be added.








Once cured the cardboard and tape is removed and this is what your left with, I usually give it a key and add one layer of mat on this edge. then finally trim to size required. I shall be adding a return for some window fuzzys at the bottom.







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I prepped the topside of the window opening by feathering and laid up one layer of glass mat, this was then sanded smooth and a quick coat of primer to see how it looked, came out ok








next I laid the skin on the inner and marked it to give a 1/4" gap on the window, the excess was cut off and the edge sanded smooth, looks much better now.






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