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Hi, there all of you that visiting me.
I have jacked up the Willys for the winter sleep.
Before that I took some photos. It was already dark outside
– three a clock in the afternoon.
I let the roof lamp light when I took the photos.
Enjoy also one more video clip that I made before closing up for the winter.
I have some more photos under “Other Willys cars”.
It is John Scales Willys 8-80 Coupe 1930.
I wish all a Merry X-mas and a Happy New 2008.
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Hallo!
Look at the video clip list!!!
More to come….
The toolboxes are now ready .After cutting and gluing the pieces together the next step was to carve in the Willys emblem in the mahogany. I have not made interior in the boxes yet.They match the intarsia emblem good.
The wheel covers is mounted and chromed. I have mounted the rear mirror on the covers.
I tried to make an emblem in the rubber mat on the floor in the drivers side the logotype is similar to that one I have carved on the boxes. That made me thinking of to make some to the footsteps rubber. I have only begun to translate the picture into CAD to get it cut by a machine.
The summer in Sweden has been much rain but not so many hours of sun.
The valves is adjusted to the recommended measures .The engine sounds well.
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Since April I have driven the car and having trouble with speed and acceleration.
After that I adjusted both the breakers and for low and high speed. The sparkplugs were cleaned and adjusted. The carburetor was then adjusted so I got the right sound when accelerating and for the idling. After having done that the car seems to go like a watch.
When feeling that I have done the most of adjustments we (me and my wife) took a trip for about 150 km .All went ok except the amount of gas…..
The problem with the water is still there it is “boiling” when I am standing still and accelerate.
I have mounted a trip meter for bicycle on the left rear wheel for knowing how far I am going when driving around.
The spare wheel covers came from the chrome shop. I have mounted the together in the same strap with the rear mirrors.
The next thing that I have began with is to make two tool boxes in mahogny for the rear trunk there is still some work to be done there.
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Since last I have done new knobs for the H and S in harder plastic.
The letters on the knobs is also new. The knobs have been painted in the same way as before.
The carburetor is still in the shop.
The wheels covers is in the chrome shop for chroming they said that it would be ready in late April.
I have bought a NOS windshield vacuum wiper .I have mounted it in place. The copper line is in place but not attached to the body and the manifold yet. I shall also buy one more wiper blade with parallel stay and pivot.
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This year began with dismounting the carburetor. I have swapped one more so I have three now. I went to the shop that helped me before with testing and cleaning the carburetor .I took all three with me and I am expecting to get one good with full functioning accelerator pump out of the three.
The wheel covers in steel was made by a shop after my measures. Here can you see the results after I have fitted them in place. There is some chroming work to be done also.
I have mounted the thermometer with the sensor in a test bench to see within what range it is working and looked after possibilities to get it work even better. But I could not do anything about the instrument. It is not showing hot when the water is boiling so I have to remember where I have the boiling point on the instrument.I do not have the correct sensor
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