Building a 61 Willy's Wagon Rockcrawler

looks real good!! What color are you going to paint it?

 

alright heres links to videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNL8IVeu4A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQiTBk_ccQ

 

Sounds healthy!

 

Not sure what color I am going to paint it. Probably whatever I can get cheap

 

Nice Job...

 

Very nice build, i read through the whole post and i am very impressed, you have done a great job and should be very proud of what you have accomplished. I will probably see your rig around town, more likely in the mountains and trails, i too live in denver and also have a willys project that I wish would come together as quick as yours. Mines a little different it was already modified with a 1/4 ton pickup bed and a welded 40's cab, so basically its a cj3a pickup, heres a pic



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I have only found 1 other jeep that looks like this so it be 1/2 custom 1949 cj3a

 

Hey thats cool!

where in Denver are ya?

I am down near Holly and Dry Creek in Centennial.

 

Ineresting . . .
My brother lives between Quabec and Yosemite just south of Dry Creek!

 

Thats kinda funny i live on around qubec and colfax, just on the border of denver and aurora.

 

Fantastic results on your project,,,makes me feel bad that mine is taking sooooooooooo long!

Again,,great job, reminds me of a time 10 or more years ago I had a chance to buy a Willys Wagon, already had a 350 Chevy and (I think) saturn overdrive installed,,,guy wanted 1000$ for it, but as I was living in an apartment at the time I had no place to keep & work on it so I passed,,,regret it from time to time.

But,,,,,, I could do a solid axle swap into my daily driver 2002 Liberty,,, 9 inch fords with discs all aroind,,,and 4.88 gears with lockers,,ohh-ohh,,and coil overs all around,,and,,,38 inch boggers ,,and,,,

ok,, Im getting outa control here,,gotta focus on the current 80 CJ-5 project before starting another.

Nice work,,definately somthing to be proud of.

 

Your project is looking good, Nice work........I can see the kids driving it now

 

As soon as they can reach the pedals

 

looking and sounding really good,
i bet your kids love riding in it too!

 

Armouring has begun.

The biggest thing with this rig is that it is going to be seeing a lot of rock abuse, and as a result of this I need to make the body as resistant as possible.

I have gone over several ways to accomplish this, but ended up just going with some plate steel on the rear panels, some rocker guards (yet to be made), and tube fender (yet to be made).

Heres some shots of the driverside rear panel. The panels are bolted into the body and also welded to plate at the bottom that is sandwiched between the cage footer in the cab and the cage tie in plate outside the cab. Does that make sense?







backing nuts washers and nuts

 

some day it will be painted and actually look nice

 

Tere's a man with a vision! Sweet wagon

What is the length of your axles WMS to WMS? :?

I also cannot see many of the early pictures in the thread, just see red x

 

hmm not sure about the red x's....

Not sure of the WMS but they are full width 1 tons!

 

what proportioning valve are you using?

 

stock 2wd chevy pickup..early 90's sierra 1/2 ton

Will probably go junkyard a 1 ton one of these days