Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Frames are sweet when they start to come together finished . But I think the flowers in the back ground brings it out more >


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Originally Posted by bluestang67

Frames are sweet when they start to come together finished . But I think the flowers in the back ground brings it out more >


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Cheers Bobby.

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Got a call from my mate the chromer today to say my axle was done

I only gave it to him on friday as an emergency job so has done a brilliant job. Don't know why but the metal is incredibly hard to polish, I know its forged, Anyone know why its so hard to work ???



I did the roughing out polishing and he finished it off, Its bl00dy heavy and he said he wouldn't want to do another one ever !!!

Hopefully get it bolted on tomorrow evening.




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Well i started to refit the frontend last night but it started to rain so knocked off work a bit earlier today and got it more or less back on the car

Came across a couple of small problems though , my mate Allan kindly milled a couple of castor wedges, It would appear that the taxi only had 1 degree of castor and i wanted 7, the problem was the stainless U bolts i got were a bit short once the wedge was in place, solution was to ditch the nylok nuts (didn't like them anyway) they came with and make up some barrel nuts , I only had enough material to make 4 so if anyone has a bit of 3/4" hexagon stainless bar i could put it to good use












The other small problem was the locating stud on the springs was a different size to the hole in the axle, axle was 5/8" and spring was 1/2", solved this by turning up a piece of stainless bar with the size on either end, worked a treat








Heres the progress so far, hope its dry tomorrow as i want to fit the front calipers and rear drums.










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