Thread: 41 Willys pickup project

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yessir this was running hot, I found my issue to indeed be underhood temps. I'm fabricating a spacer for the hinge to help vent the hood up near the window. The radiators are doing their job, as I turn the fans on they pull the temp down drastically and pretty quickly. I may add an electric waterpump later on down the road. Its all a work in progress kind of like everything else. I may not have it perfect yet but its getting there.

Thanks for the comments though! Its been a long tough road to get a vehicle this nice. It was nice to be able to break into the hobby at a young age, I've learned alot the hard way. Sometimes thats the only way to learn. I stumbled across my 69 mustang when I was 24, it was in pretty decent shape as well but needed a motor. I ended up doing a 351 swap on it since it was the original motor that was in the car. It had a 302 when I purchased it. The T bucket was a blast with a 440 chrysler big block and a 727 torqueflight, it just wasn't practical enough for what I wanted.

Here was a picture of it with the Willys right before the new owner came for it.