Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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I had a few pm's (not sure why the question wasn't asked here ?) asking why i didn't mount my ladder bars parallel, so thought i would answer here.
Parallel is fine for the strip but this is a street car so no good for the street in my opinion, What you end up with is basically a big antiroll bar that can't articulate without binding, On the road this will unload the tyres and all sorts of funny handling issues will happen.
With the triangulated setup it all moves sufficiently without any binding.
Hope this helps someone.

Steve, have you considered drilling, or having drilled a Chevy bolt pattern into the existing axle flanges? Dan wanted to run 40 Ford wheels on his 9 inch Ford rear and we sent the axles and drums to Currie and they redrilled them to the 5.5 pattern. It looks like you have enough meat on those flanges to get a 4.75 bolt pattern in there. You would put the new holes between the existing 4.5 pattern.

Just a thought.

Don

Chevy bolt pattern? I know a guy who's got the wheels that would make that girl sing! (without the tacky white walls of course)

They are nice Bob !!!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Chevy bolt pattern? I know a guy who's got the wheels that would make that girl sing! (without the tacky white walls of course)

Well i'm at the stage where i needed the engine & trans in, Main problem is that the engine & trans is in the lockup up the road and weights 900lb odd, While pondering this small problem this morning my mate Charlie turned up in his Ranger pickup Within a short while we had loaded up the engine crane and was on our way Thanks Charlie !!!

Once back we unloaded it and jiggled it into position and put in a couple of temp supports, First thought was that the oil filter was going to be a problem but once we dropped the engine an inch everything was cool

I knew i would have to put in a curved piece in the gearbox crossmember as it needs to be raised 1" but without the engine in couldn't be pre determinded, Not a big problem really.

Hi Steve
Fancy meeting you here!

Chassis looks great.

DaveC

Hi Dave, how did you find this site then ???

Its real nice here, everybody is real friendly and helpful, My good mate Don is here so its nice for keeping in touch.

Originally Posted by Hotrodbuzz

Hi Steve
Fancy meeting you here!

Chassis looks great.

DaveC

Yes Don can do that easily but having a set of adaptors around is useful, These are my setup shafts, they have been cut to length a few times, When the car goes together i will order new Moser shafts with the correct Chevy pattern in them.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Steve, have you considered drilling, or having drilled a Chevy bolt pattern into the existing axle flanges? Dan wanted to run 40 Ford wheels on his 9 inch Ford rear and we sent the axles and drums to Currie and they redrilled them to the 5.5 pattern. It looks like you have enough meat on those flanges to get a 4.75 bolt pattern in there. You would put the new holes between the existing 4.5 pattern.

Just a thought.

Don