Grand Willys Project

[bodgie]

Another step closer. Looks good if you ask me.

[Gojeep]

Thanks mate.

The non exciting, but necessary work continues.


I had planned to use the moulded carpet from the donor as I have used its floor.


But as you can see the wedge shape of the Willys cab means it is a lot wider at the rear, even though the carpet fits at the front.


Not the easiest floor to lay carpet over with the front seat support, foot rest and rear air-conditioning duct to go over.


I started by levelling the floor some by cutting around the duct etc using some heavy compressed felt with a tar like backing at the front and some new automotive felt carpet underlay as well.


Then put a whole one piece complete layer of the new felt over the whole lot. To get it to sit flat next to the end of the front seat support, I cut a wedge out and then pressed it down on some carpet joining tape.


The join disappears, not that anyone would see it! The double layers of underlay add up to nearly three times that of the donor. After paint I will also stick down directly to the floor a heat barrier as well.


Getting a cat scan done! Seem to have passed the comfort test at least.


Very little of the rear half will be seen at all as covered by the bucket seats and the centre console.


Looks good enough to be OEM and is functional, so will do nicely.

[SeaComms]

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[Gojeep]

Lisa and I roped in the windscreen together. Used PBR rubber grease in the seal slot along with the rope which came from some old curtain track. Also notice the front face of the seal has been heavily greased as well and makes a big difference in pulling the seal lip over.


To help Lisa have enough hands on the inside, I used some clamps to makes sure it couldn't fall back inside. Not a problem for other vehicles that don't have their screens put in from the inside.


What I did find useful this time is using a cotter pin removal tool to help the seal over in tight areas.


I'd tuck it in and with a seesaw action could lift the bottom of the seal lip up in front of the rope and up and over the pinch weld lip.


Got the templates size right, windscreen is stock height but 9" wider, as sits in very well. All up from setting up and fitting the seal to the glass, it took an hour including clean up.


Windscreen wipers fitted. New stainless steel ones for a Mini Minor.


The rear window is also now in place. Stock height but 10.5" wider than stock due to the extra cab width.

[bodgie]

How long will you drive it without paint? Did you end up deciding on a colour?

[Gojeep]

Originally Posted by bodgie

How long will you drive it without paint? Did you end up deciding on a colour?

I thinking until May. Was hoping to go to a few shows on dry days with it, but they are all getting cancelled!
Maybe MotorEx?
https://www.motorex.com.au/

[Gojeep]

Well back from holidays and thought I would tackle the headlining. Just thought to do a section at a time to see how it went using Permatex Headlining Adhesive.


Didn't go well as wrinkled in the corners more than I wanted.


So cut each side off and see if I could rescue what we had already done.


Just slid the cut off section up to it to see if it would work this way. Looked bad so it was all stripped off. Made the hard decision to have it done for me and hope they can do better. The first time in the whole build!


Made up some quick covers for the seat belt reels.


The hot summer days here left the rear wall baggy! It is because I was forced to use the wrong foam during lock down which I couldn't use glue on without it swelling up. Can even see a bit of over spray below the window how it reacted.


So stripped it all off and bought the right foam and glued the foam to the panel and the material directly to the foam. Looks like I wanted in the first place now!


I knew the same thing would happen to all the other panels I had already done as well so stripped the material off and then scrapped off the foam. Wire brushed the self adhesive glue off that was left and hand sanded it.


Glued down the new foam from the upholster and carefully lined up the material doing half at a time to line up all the holes etc.


Pulled the overlap through the holes and glued that down.


Ready to redo all the rest!


Re did the other door panel and kick panels as well.


Another lesson learned is do not use acetone to get old glue off the material! Can see how it discoloured the bottom corner. So all this was had to be stripped down yet again and the foam and material replaced. One step forward and 2 steps back it seems this year! Found old glue comes off better with mineral turpentine or even using an eraser.