1950 Willys Truck re-rebuild by 50wllystrk

4 minute(s) of a 620 minute read

Progress check...
Now that the spring perches are fully welded, the leaf springs are in place, and after all the frame welding it's always a good thing to reassemble all pieces a couple times through out the process. If there's gonna be any issues, now is when you want to find them, not after the painting process.
The one thing I am noticing is how much higher the rear is getting. Looks like the old springs were sagging more than I thought. I put a jack under the front bumper and it looks like the front needs to got up about an inch and a half.
Today I ordered the new yoke from Randys ring and pinion, and I googled monroe shocks and found the size and dimentions page to find the shocks that'll fit where I want to mount the shocks. The parts store in town had them in stock so I should be able to begin making the mounts for them this week.

Thanks for the support everyone. I wasn't getting much feedback lately, I appreciate it.


Wacki33, it seems like there's always that one thread that say's you just got to get involved, I know what you mean.

mudcrawler90, I look forward to seeing the video, I did right when I saw it posted, I clicked on it. my computor laughed at me. I waited about 4 minutes then it said "error in download, try again later". Oh the dial up, ya gotta love it. I will try again, I do want to watch it.

The teaching part... I've reached an age to where I feel the need to teach all I can, if I can. I've heard other people make the statement "I won't teach you all I know so you won't be smarter than me" or simply "I'm not gonna teach you everything". I just don't live by that philosophy. There's no comfort in that for me.

I see teaching as a ripple effect. If I teach a trade or skill, and that person perfects it, that's double satisfaction for me, and so on and so on. So I'll keep dropping stones in the pond, and watch the ripples grow outward.

Hey MikeC, I've known for some time those rear springs were looking bad. My problem was exactly the parts you mentioned along with the springs. I was googling willys parts and I found the willys kaiser parts place. Then I hoped there were a real place doing real business. I called and they had all i needed for the rears and recently the fronts.

The 57 in the background has a sad story behind it, my dad passed away last year as we were building it for him. I'll finish it as a memorial. The one good thing was that because of it, we spent alot of hours together that we wouldn't have otherwise.