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

While I was on a roll I thought I would tackle the lower switch panel, thought it was gonna be a fiddly taxing job but it went easy, don't often get that happen !!!

First job was to cut a couple of strips of 1.5mm aluminium and drill the switch holes



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Once cleaned all the edges up the top was put over the bottom plate and the various switches replaced, I havn't welded the edges yet as I ran out of gas and all the suppliers are shut bacause its bl00dy xmas !!!



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Sexy! You've got a great eye for design, and the ability to bring it to reality creating something unique. Really like watching the innovation you bring.

Great work! I like your style and how you come up with stuff so nice and quick! Congrats on the parts sales increasing. I wish you luck it keeps going so you can buy more hot rods to build so we all can watch a long! :LOL:

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Sexy! You've got a great eye for design, and the ability to bring it to reality creating something unique. Really like watching the innovation you bring.

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Thanks for the kind words Roger, glad you like it, this theme I have going I think is very much like marmite, some people love it but some hate it.
I hope all the guys here have a happy and prosporous new year.
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I popped into my mate the chromer this morning and he presented me with my heater control panel parts, all nicely replated

This is how they looked when I got them



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And now replated



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Nothing like nice shinny chrome

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

This may help others hanging doors Willys, the original Willys hinges are £400 a set so quite spendy, an alternative I found is the Speedway budget hinges which are available in steel or polished stainless but are slightly lighter duty, built my coupe and the truck with these hinges but I noticed the hinges flex which allows the door to drop ever so slightly which is slightly annoying !!! Anyway I found a solution

My fix was to double up the thickness which is not a problem as the original willys hinge is thicker anyway.
The hinges tend to flex by the hinge point shown in the pic below


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Next I cut a piece of 3/16 stainless flat plate and tig welded it to the existing hinge flap, a bit of blending and fettling and it was done.



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I only strengthened the flap that fits to the door as the body side has inherent strength due to the shape, bolted them back on and got zero flex

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Well a bit of an update, been poncing about with the crap that loosely resembles the doors !!! these are probably the worst mouldings i've ever come across, there is no way they would ever have fitted the cab, they resemble willys but are so far out of shape its soul destroying, anyway after a few weeks of adding bits here there and everywhere and moving sections of the door around they finally fit pretty well, you can see where parts have been added. The gaps are set roughly and require final sanding but are basically there.


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Heres a short video of the doors working


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Wow! Very smooth!

Hell, that is amazing the amount of extra work you had to put into those doors. They sound just like steel doors now closing and once paint all the same colour, will look excellent.

As always your glass skills and metal work are impressive.

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Hell, that is amazing the amount of extra work you had to put into those doors. They sound just like steel doors now closing and once paint all the same colour, will look excellent.

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Yes mate they were pretty awful fitwise, makes you wonder how they cocked up the mold so much, yeah they shut nicely now and once the various parts are back on should sound nice.

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Steve, Great job on the hinges and how the doors are operating!
I was very pleased to see you post again. I was having withdraw...

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Great job on the door! It definitely looks like you've redone every aspect of that shell! Nice to see you back on here again!

I'm a bit behind with posting updates but had a bit of free time today so here ya go.

I missed this job out ages ago so its catch up time, the window gap was massive so the gap was closed up by adding glass and then trimming to suit.



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Next i added a return to screw window fuzzys to, I used 3/4" aluminium angle and slit the ends and curved to match the shape, then the slits were welded up. They are bonded to the underside with PU adhesieve



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The nasty pressed steel alternator pulley was bugging me so made an aluminium one to match the other pulleys.



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The nut was pretty nasty to and would rust before anything so a nice brass one was spun up, while i was there I addressed the water pump spigot, they always seem to go rusty so made a cover in brass, didnt have one big piece so made it in 2 bits out of scrap from the bin.



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More top notch work from you sir! Thanks for taking the time to share with us!

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More top notch work from you sir! Thanks for taking the time to share with us!

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Thanks Ryan

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Bit of a small update, I finished a job ive been meaning to do for ages, Because I didnt want to cut the firewall back too much I had to notch the front for the radiator, just 2 small notches, I had left them but it bugged me so got the glass & resin out and blended & fettled the notches to look a bit more in keeping with the rest.


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AS IT IS NOW



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It is all these little details that you go to the trouble of improving that makes your builds so damn awesome Steve. Now if you were building a car for somebody else, they may look at the bottom price and say," F..K, How the hell do you justify charging that". Yet these little job you have just shown us would of taken a few hours of work and as the saying goes, nothing is for free.

Steve, that looks very nice! I hope things are going great for you down there!

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It is all these little details that you go to the trouble of improving that makes your builds so damn awesome Steve. Now if you were building a car for somebody else, they may look at the bottom price and say," F..K, How the hell do you justify charging that". Yet these little job you have just shown us would of taken a few hours of work and as the saying goes, nothing is for free.

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Your right Whip, this job took 4 hours to sort
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About time I did an update I guess, not done much as been a bit ill and had a big operation but I have been able to do small light jobs, first up was i've seen some rocker cover wing nuts on a few Y blocks in the states but the prices were stupid so I decided to make my own. So I bought some 12mm butterfly nuts to get a decent size, the valve cover studs are 5/16" unf so I spun up some adapters and welded them into the butterfly nuts, the welds were then sanded smooth and the ears trimmed, these need to be polished yet.



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I did a hell of a lot of sanding on the panels but its difficult to continue so my buddy Brad has stepped in and helped me out, he is a very good pro body man so it will be top notch I know. heres a few pics, its actually a lot further on but I havn't taken any pics recently.



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Seeing as we were getting towards the painting stage I chose the colour, It looks grey in the pic but it has green in it also, It will be shiny 2K straight colour, originally it was going to be a satin red/brown oxide, but the panels are now so very straight and it deserves a nice shiny colour, I chose something that would look an older colour



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Now it was all stripped down I had to repair the cutouts in the front panel and trim the horns back 3", the main spring leaves are being shortened 3" and the front shackle re positioned 3" further back to keep it all behind the front panel. exactly the same as I did on my coupe
First the horns were trimmed and boxed off, the drivers side horn has the towing eye in it so a nut was welded on the inside of the capping plate, once this was done a piece of studding was ground to a point so I could mark the hole in the front panel and drill out with a holesaw.



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Good to see back at it Steve and I hope your recovery continues to go smoothly. You got the Chevy truck all legal yet ?

Lotsa good stuff there, Steve. Heartland prayers lifting you up to defeat the gremlins bothering your health. Positive attitude is a big, big plus!! Tell Sue "Congrats" on her Best Hot Rod award for the RPU, too! How cool is that?

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Good to see back at it Steve and I hope your recovery continues to go smoothly. You got the Chevy truck all legal yet ?

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Cheers whip, well its all insured, has an mot so just waiting for nova to arrive and i can register it

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Lotsa good stuff there, Steve. Heartland prayers lifting you up to defeat the gremlins bothering your health. Positive attitude is a big, big plus!! Tell Sue "Congrats" on her Best Hot Rod award for the RPU, too! How cool is that?

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Thanks Roger, i'm very positive and not gonna let this bother me to much, Sues pot was very unexpected.

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Steve, great to see you back on here! I'm sorry to hear of your health issues but I also wish you a great and speedy recovery! Don't over do it. It sounds like you're gathering quite the collection down there too.

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Steve, great to see you back on here! I'm sorry to hear of your health issues but I also wish you a great and speedy recovery! Don't over do it. It sounds like you're gathering quite the collection down there too.

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Thanks Ryan, I might as well come out with it and let you all know unfortunately I have incurable prostrate cancer that has got into my bones and lymph glands so I wont be fully recovering, Good news is it can be controlled with hormone injections and some chemo therapy but i'm told i'm unlikely to be as strong as I once was, I'm very positive though and won't let it get me down as got too many cars to build LoL

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Wow Steve sorry to hear this news. I glad you are remaining positive, and pursuing your passions!

Ditto, Steve. The Power of Positive Thinking is a proven fact! Even when the Doc's say they don't know what to do next keep plugging, convince them to use their brains and push the envelope! WE NEED MORE BUILD THREADS FROM YOU!!!! :-)

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Thanks Ryan, I might as well come out with it and let you all know unfortunately I have incurable prostrate cancer that has got into my bones and lymph glands so I wont be fully recovering, Good news is it can be controlled with hormone injections and some chemo therapy but i'm told i'm unlikely to be as strong as I once was, I'm very positive though and won't let it get me down as got too many cars to build LoL

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Steve, I'm so sorry to hear this but I'm so glad you have a positive attitude and are going to keep doing what you can and love to do! I'm rooting for you, keep at it and take care!

That's not good news mate.
I've been following your posts and have thoroughly enjoyed them.
Let's just hope that the doctors can do sufficient to keep you fit and active for a long. long, time to come.
All the best from all of us downunder.
Kia kaha - be strong.

Been plodding on and got some parts back from vapour blasting and powder coaters, popped the gauges into dash insert to see how it looked, love it !!!


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Got all the suspension, bracketry, seat frame and steering bits done in satin black, no shiny here, least it will all be ready for when I need it, working on 6P principle


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The seat aluminium sides got welded up together and welds blended and fettled then off to vapour blasting with all the other aluminium parts.



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It is after all a workshop truck you are building and you certainly wouldn't want the other Willy's dropping her front lip in jealousy because she has to share driveway space with another shiny beast. I think the mate finish with the aluminium will look fabulous.

I got the chassis out of storage yesterday, it has been blasted clean but unfortunately got done just before I went into hospital so has flash rusted slightly, it makes doing the last bits of welding easier though, once all done I will get it freshened up as the blaster is only a couple of miles away.


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The centre section front legs were a little tight on the trans, I tried to alter what was already there but it was too time consuming so chopped the old ones off and will get some new metal folded tomorrow.


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I had previously made some of the ladder bar front mounts but hadn't finished them, so that was today's job


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Very Nice!

I got the new legs folded up but the only had black steel so had to sand them clean before doing anything !!!
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for some reason I didn't get the rear shocks fitted so I got that done too, they are MGA levers off a friends race car that went telescopic, they are re valved so much stiffer.


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Also enlarged some of the existing chassis holes and cleaned them up



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Dammed, what I love about you is you always make it seem way too easy! In the process you make it look like it was always that way.

Had a couple of hours at the bench tonight and the seat vapour blasting came back so put my seat together, it can now go off to my mate Tom for trimming, diamond tufted is the order of the day



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i Ali made up some shock mounts studs



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