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

[langy]

No I agree pal, longer ones are nicer you jimmy git, err well done

Might weld the spacers on for an industrial look, don't know yet

 

[Gritineye]

Clicked the 'like' button for the first, now need a 'like even more' button for the second..

 

[langy]

Been working on another project last few days but kept thinking something was missing on my firewall gauges, then I had an eureka moment and it came to me in a flash

They needed a frame to set them off, so over the weekend I plasma ed some more aluminium, i'm happy now

 

[p0689109]

Brilliant, as usual.

 

[mike os]

so got with the programme again have we?

 

[langy]

so got with the programme again have we?

Yeah somebody bumped my coupe thread out of the blue, proper confused me, its not hard

 

[langy]

Still on light duties so I got to thinking about glueing the door skins in place, until I realised I hadn't fully finished the outside door handle mechanism whoops !!!
A simple plate is laminated to the inside of the door skin, its fitted with a pair of rivnuts for the handle to screw too and a holder for the outer cable, The cables are stainless steel bicycle brake cables which are more than up to the job and are cheap !!!









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[langy]

Not had chance to do much on this recently but I had some vapour blasting to get done on a customers car so thought I would get the inlet finished up, the blower plate supports needed welding on to the intake and I just knew it was gonna be a pig job so popped into Garys to see if he had any good ideas on approaching welding the poor casting, It didn't go well at all as just kept getting black crap coming out of the casting and the welds were not the prettiest so ended up smoothing them out.








Here's the intake finished








Before the plenum was fitted I needed a gasket so cut one from some Reinze boiler door gasket material.








Here's the intake bolted up












I also got the gauge spacers vapoured as well




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[Wallace]

The brackets blended in nicely and look the part. The vapour blast finish looks close to satin chrome or anodising, very smart.

 

[anjum]

Damn, even your gasket looks like perfection!!!!

 

[Parm]

Hello Mr Langy, the gasket is impressive, will you share how you cut the oval holes??

I take it the bolt holes were made with the correct size hole punch

 

[langy]

The brackets blended in nicely and look the part. The vapour blast finish looks close to satin chrome or anodising, very smart.

Yeah it's a nice finish, it closes up the pores too so is easy to keep clean, yeah the brackets are ok but I would rather have left them just welded, one was pretty good but the other looked like a dogs breakfast !!!
Possibly the worst casting we had seen for crap coming out, but it is 55 years old !!!

 

[langy]

Hello Mr Langy, the gasket is impressive, will you share how you cut the oval holes??

I take it the bolt holes were made with the correct size hole punch

Thanks, the oval holes are easy, a holesaw and and a pair of aviation snips
Bolt holes are drilled and countersunk.

 

[Parm]

Thanks, the oval holes are easy, a holesaw and and a pair of aviation snips
Bolt holes are drilled and countersunk.

Yes I can see the counter sinks now, but as usual you make it look too easy, it looks like it was stamped in a factory

 

[langy]

Yes I can see the counter sinks now, but as usual you make it look too easy, it looks like it was stamped in a factory

Hacked out in Watford

 

[langy]

Not much I'm afraid as I'm at the arduous & tedious body work stage.
I wasn't entirely happy with the bolts at the front of the intake so changed them for studs & castle nuts, I machined in a pilot on the studs as it makes the nuts easy to start and has a nice finished look to them.










While I was there I fitted a direct temp gauge into the water runner, it's tight on clearance but fits snugly.











I also bought a Fenton fuel block back from the states which matches the Fenton intake nicely, fitted it with brass fittings to match the rest of the hardware on the truck, it sits on the firewall behind the blower which made the Marshall pressure gauge hard to see so a quick rummage through my spare fittings box and I found a 45 degree elbow, now it just pokes out from behind the blower and can be seen easily.











I didn't want to use modern jubilee clips on this build and really liked the look of Wittek thumb screw tower clamps as they look old and dead cool but they were really difficult to find but luckily somebody I know in the US put me onto someone that collects them (yes a very interesting old chap) and while on holiday I paid him a visit, unbelievable !!! He had tens of thousands of them !!! No cars just Wittek clamps !!!
After a bit of persuasion he said he would sell me some as long as I was putting them on an old car, I showed him a pic of my truck and everything was cool , I didn't mention it was fibreglass.
They are all stainless and hopefully I've got all the sizes I need.

 

[Coo]

Cant see you ignoring this mismatch of inlet and flange....

Great update though, love the moon direct temp guage!

 

[langy]

Cant see you ignoring this mismatch of inlet and flange....

Great update though, love the moon direct temp guage!

Sorry not quite following you ?

 

[Wallace]

Sorry not quite following you ?

Think he means the manifold casting doesn't blend into the thermostat housing.

 

[langy]

Think he means the manifold casting doesn't blend into the thermostat housing.

There is a gasket to go in there yet but this project is not about perfection, If you see what I mean,