My 1950 Willys Trail Rig

[OWEN]

im sure....haha at around 3-400 a piece probably good idea to doublecheck
....did you cycle the suspension,yet? it almost looks like if there was a way to move the area where your hood latch is out a bit ,you might get the clearance...again pics always play tricks on your eyes until you see it in person...

I still have to cycle it with the shocks, was going to do it sooner, but I welded the shock mounts on the axles wrong the shocks came in 2 boxes, all the misalignment spacers were in one box, and it was not the first box I opened. I was going to make spacers so I spaced it to what I thought would work, but I was wrong... Oh well the new brackets are here, I just need to take the outers off and cut the old ones off and weld the new ones on correctly.

In the mean time I did some stuff with the rear
Crossmember for the rear... This one is lighter and more compact than the old one... my old like setup used a crossmember to mount the lower links, which I didn't use this time.


Lol installed, you can kinda see it

[kracker]

no worries, always appreciate input, thats why its on here. I have setup shock mounts before and had dented shocks shortly thereafter... I need all the help I can get, don't want to dent these

im sure....haha at around 3-400 a piece probably good idea to doublecheck
....did you cycle the suspension,yet? it almost looks like if there was a way to move the area where your hood latch is out a bit ,you might get the clearance...again pics always play tricks on your eyes until you see it in person...

[OWEN]

wasnt bustin....just the angle was playin tricks on my eyes...lol love the shocks....BEEF!!

no worries, always appreciate input, thats why its on here. I have setup shock mounts before and had dented shocks shortly thereafter... I need all the help I can get, don't want to dent these

[kracker]

I think I should have enough clearance... I haven't really finished them yet either, they are only tacked in. I use right triangles to figure out a lot of stuff, so I gotta do some calc's, and then flex it to be sure... definately will post finished results. Thanks for the input

wasnt bustin....just the angle was playin tricks on my eyes...lol love the shocks....BEEF!!

[Ruepart Hoaxley]

I heart this thing.

Finish this so I can on it.

[OWEN]

i dont know if its me or the angle of the pic......it looks like it would hit where the hood latch is when fully compressed ? could we see front view angle? looks sweet though...

I think I should have enough clearance... I haven't really finished them yet either, they are only tacked in. I use right triangles to figure out a lot of stuff, so I gotta do some calc's, and then flex it to be sure... definately will post finished results. Thanks for the input

[kracker]

i dont know if its me or the angle of the pic......it looks like it would hit where the hood latch is when fully compressed ? could we see front view angle? looks sweet though...


Digging the backhalf,too...

[Henchman]

This thing makes me

[OWEN]

Youre welcome. I didnt even know i had that aluminum

Haha, sorry to say but you are not the only Chris in my life!

Came in to get a beer, figured I would add an update.

Backhalf.
Start



Some tube



Then I got distracted making some shock loops

[Customjob]

Youre welcome. I didnt even know i had that aluminum

[Ruepart Hoaxley]

I can't wait to see this thing in action.

[OWEN]

are you dovetailing it? whatcha gonna use for rear shock setup?

It was dovetailed before, going all tube this time. Going to skin over what I can, my friend Chris just gave me about a 3'x20' piece of 14ga aluminum I was going to skin it with. Rear shocks are Fox 2.0x16" Air Shox mounted somewhere on the tube.

[kracker]

are you dovetailing it? whatcha gonna use for rear shock setup?

[OWEN]

just saying might be good thing for some newbs to see how its done...and judging by his thread ...seems like he knows his shit...and hes very humble,too..pretty rare these days

I am a relative newb myself, this project has been a great learning experience for me.... thanks for the kind words.

I have been too busy to update this past week but got a few things done. Tommy, a few others, and myself tossed the cage in, 5 guys total, went great.

Got some bolts in it and immediately started using some masking tape... this stuff works great!



This is going to be tube.


New body line


Hacked off the rear section of the frame.



Cut some unneeded tube out, set up the rear axle ~107" wb but that could change, I have to start messin with the 4link calc again.

[clean4drxj]

just saying might be good thing for some newbs to see how its done...and judging by his thread ...seems like he knows his shit...and hes very humble,too..pretty rare these days

you're absolutely right!