1950 Willys Truck re-rebuild by 50wllystrk

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You guys are giving me flashbacks of many years ago.

Back in the '80s and "90s I was spending most of my time in the shop. My creative thoughts were very active back then. I had a yellow chair, don't ask where it came from, but I spent alot of time sitting in it just trying to picture my next move on a project. As a matter of fact, the Willys was built through images captured while sitting on the chair.

People who came to visit understood the chair, the chair became a standing joke. If time passed between their visits and I did some good work, the comment always refered to "looks like Jim spent some time in the chair again."

This time, I layed on the creeper and looked up at the exhaust for a while, so yes, I'm with you guys, sit (lay) back and enjoy your work, absolutely.

On the project now I'm at a standstill for a couple days. I've been waiting for the copper gaskets that go between the cut out flanges to come in, they finally made it. I held off welding the completed exhaust until I could put them inplace so everything was as it will be when done.

I had a mild cam in the engine, but decided to go with a new grind by comp cams. Now that I'm the primary owner/driver, I want a more agressive sound. Comp cams has a new series called "thumper" that is focused on having a rough agressive idle, yet good streetability caracteristics, I look forward to hearing this thing run even more now.

Otherwise, I have a couple yard projects to take care of also. Hang in there, I'll be back with updates as soon as possible.

Thanks everybody for your enthusiasm.