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

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Originally Posted by cffisher

Your saying the spring and bolt are stainless RIGHT. the bracket would be aluminum?? As I'm not familiar with early ford stuff. Looks great

Charlie only the bolt & spring are stainless early ford, yes the bracket is aluminium fabricated.

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Steve,
A question in my mind. How did you protect the core from the heat of welding the tabs, or is there no concern in that area on the tank? I've been putting off a mod on my upper radiator fill connection (I tilted the radiator back about 20 degrees, making the fill a slow process) for fear of messing up the core at the top.

Originally Posted by rspears

Steve,
A question in my mind. How did you protect the core from the heat of welding the tabs, or is there no concern in that area on the tank? I've been putting off a mod on my upper radiator fill connection (I tilted the radiator back about 20 degrees, making the fill a slow process) for fear of messing up the core at the top.

No problem on an aluminium rad Roger as its of tig welded construction and I just tig welded the new brackets to the sides which do not contact the core, however if yours is a brass/copper construction you have to be careful as you can easily melt the solder joints, solder melts at a much lower temp than aluminium.
But having said that I often tig weld brackets to ordinary rads without any problems as the have steel sides

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Bit of a wasted day today as been stuck on M25 most of the day, thought I would do a quick run to the airport to pick peoples parts up

Did get a bit done though, I trimmed off the top of the new firewall and trimmed the corresponding area on the cab, got them all lined up and secured with bits of aluminium sheet & self tappers.
There is a very good reason for making the cut here as the swage line below the windscreen is different on a 41/42 and this cab is a 40.








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Originally Posted by roadster32

No problem on an aluminium rad Roger as its of tig welded construction and I just tig welded the new brackets to the sides which do not contact the core, however if yours is a brass/copper construction you have to be careful as you can easily melt the solder joints, solder melts at a much lower temp than aluminium.
But having said that I often tig weld brackets to ordinary rads without any problems as the have steel sides

Good to know. Mine's a PRC aluminum radiator with the filler neck welded to the top tank. When I was talking to PRC about welding on a support bracket to the very top they cautioned about keeping the heat away from the core, but it sounds like they were being overly cautious or simply limiting their liability.

You are moving right along it looks like a nice match

Originally Posted by cffisher

You are moving right along it looks like a nice match

Yes Charlie its getting there gradually, just need to try the door inners for fit and I can start glassing it up, I think its gonna be a cool little truck.

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I love trucks I think they are the coolest mode of transportation

Before I can start glassing the cab sections together I needed some rear cab mounts (the front ones are the original mounts which fell just right)

Made these from some 4" x 2" x 1/8" box section, I originally made them like my coupe ones with an angle but decided I had done that way before so decided to put some shape into them, the top plates have 4 holes as this is where my cage will bolt in.










Heres some pics for the welding perverts amongst us














Oh and I polished my rear lamp brackets so heres some pics for the shiny perverts amongst us





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Hell, I haven't won Lotto yet but if I did I would be posting the Bucket over to you Steve so that you could replace most of my shitty chrome bitz with highly polished stainless bitz. I am one of those Shiny Perverts and don't mind polishing but get depressed when I look at the chrome stuff on the Bucket going rusty already. It is a damn nuisance living on a small island nation surrounded by salt water and air. Oh, just proof reading this and as I don't gamble, I think you are safe with your work load at the moment Steve so you just keep us upto date with your awesome built.

I sure dig your welding skills sir. I'm a shiny and weld enjoying geek too!

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Hell, I haven't won Lotto yet but if I did I would be posting the Bucket over to you Steve so that you could replace most of my shitty chrome bitz with highly polished stainless bitz. I am one of those Shiny Perverts and don't mind polishing but get depressed when I look at the chrome stuff on the Bucket going rusty already. It is a damn nuisance living on a small island nation surrounded by salt water and air. Oh, just proof reading this and as I don't gamble, I think you are safe with your work load at the moment Steve so you just keep us upto date with your awesome built.

Hahaha, cheers Whip, I look forward to you being a winner

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Now I had the rad mounted I decided to fit a fan, was gonna use a flex fan but went with a thermostatically controlled electric for reliability.
I decided to make a fan shroud for it in aluminium sheet and mount the shroud 1.5" off the rad so the fan would pull from the whole core, made up the shroud and it looked a bit boring so add some stiffening plates to make it slightly more interesting.
Small round tapped bosses were welded to the sides for the shroud to bolt to.









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Looks like you'll be pulling all the air you can with that. Nice fab work

Definitely a nice touch with the stiffners! Nice work.