Grand Willys Project

[bruggz351]

That lanolin is good stuff. Very popular as a pre-beach spray too...

Thanks for the vid Gojeep.

cheers

[Gojeep]

This is the stock cowl and door together and feel things can be improved for them to better match each other. The cowl looks rather plain stock next to all the detail in the door.


Firstly will extend the door sill pressing all the way to the end and then thinking of adding this Willys pressing to line up with the middle of the three ribs at the bottom of the door. Similar to what you find on a CJ5 etc where they have Jeep instead.


Also have to add an intake for the A/C so fresh air can be sucked into the cabin. Got a pair of louvers sent to me before the scrapper took the rest of the FJ Landcruiser tub. Thanks to Twisty and his friend for organizing that for me.


Beat out the folds it had and cleaned it up. I will be adding one to the other side as well as will be needed to make up the volume I need. Will be a bit more than required so thinking of removing one louver to leave 6. That matches better with the two lots of three ribs on the door as well. The bottom louver will line up with the top of the guard/bottom of the bonnet/hood. The cowl seam will be welded up as well as does not line up with anything at all.


Got a fair bit of work to do to repair the rust here at the bottom of the cowl on both sides. Will be able to get rid of most when extending the door sill pressing to the end and will cut away the factory joint which is all twisted and full of lead. There is also a patch that has to be cut out where the original mirror I think was ripped out leaving a big hole. That was later fixed by them backing it with some 1/4" plate and arc welding it to the panel steel! Caused a lot of distortion and fatigue cracking.

[cruiserfied]

Should have grabbed the kick out a/c from the cruiser. I loved them on mine.

[ACJ]

It's been to quiet

[Gojeep]

Still working on it from time to time but thought I would wait until I had a few more pictures together before posting.

[Gojeep]

Haven't had as much time of late and a lot of little stuff that needs to be done is not worth showing like repairing the hinge pockets and welding in little patches here and there etc. Just thought I would put up a bit to show some thing is happening anyway.


This ugly repair needs to be cut out as the heat warped the whole panel and cracking around it from fatigue has occurred.


I reduced the amount of louvers by one and now laying it out and the Willys pressing to be square with the door edge.


This is what the back of the nasty repair looked like.


I want to do a better job of this junction too.


I welded the whole cowl seam just with the mig and then cut the flange off the back so I could planish it flat. Also made a patch for the repair spot after shaping the piece with a mallet on the beater bag.


Fully welded and the louver is just sitting there as will leave that until last so it does not get damaged when the rest of the repairs get done.


I started with the worse side of the cowl first so I had something to reference back too. The other side showed this to be flat but this was already bowed before starting any repairs, most likely from the arc welded patch at the top.


Using mainly the shrinking disc on the 9" grinder, and then cooling straight away with compressed air, I was able to get it quite flat again. As more repairs get done it will have to be repeated again a number of times no doubt.

[bruggz351]

You must be getting tired of hearing it Gojeep, but your a wizard with tin mate.
Keep up the good work....

Enjoying every bit of it, look forward to your updates,

cheers