Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Got them from Rick at Radir Wheels Don, they sell a few different sizes, have a look here Welcome to Radir Wheels!

Well i sort of wasted a few hours last night modifying a Beetle winding mechanism to work in the Willys drivers door, Got it all done and dusted and realised i had done the passenger side got to wait till monday now for some more to arrive

The beetle unit is really good and adaptable but needs modifying if the window travel is over 15" but its very easy to do, heres how i do it , It takes about 1.5-2hrs to do each side.

This is where i cut and extend, I use an old unit cut up for bits.









I slice the end off at the slot in the split tube








Then a piece is cut from an old unit for the extension









Everything is clamped to a piece of angle to keep it aligned, the surface needs to be ground clean for welding, Its not nice stuff to weld even when ground.








Here its welded and smoothed out, the joint needs to be smooth for the plastic runner to slide over it.








Next job was to move the winding gear, the rivets holding it together were drilled out and the gear housing split into 2 halves.









Then you just recut the slot that the gear sits in wherever else you need it. Cut with the cable removed.









Then reassemble, final tweaking can be done by carefully bending the tube the cable runs in.









A piece of plastic tube is slid over the end to keep the inner cable clean.







Heres the completed modified mechanism ready to bolt in.