[John2001]

 

[Mihlfeldl2005]

It's a fucking catalina wine mixer!

 

[John2001]

 

[firehawk]

Highest of fives!

 

[jbsjunk]

Scooterbuilt?

Nah. No bambalance.

Nice start.

 

[Gunsworth]

Scooterbuilt?

Nah. No bambalance.

Nice start.

and assuming these photos do not span the course of 10 years, he has made about 12x as much progress

 

[green50gt]

This will be epic if the dude says nothing the entire build - just posts pictures!

 

[John2001]

I figured picture were pretty self explanatory. The Econoline chassis was 177" I cut it down to around 118". The engine runs, I've got a C6 and NP205 waiting to go on, I need to make brackets for them. The truck is clearly rusty so I'm replacing what I HAVE to nothing more because I like the paint.

This project is only a couple weeks old.

 

[John2001]

Out with the original willys chassis and onto the econoline chassis .
This is what she looks like right now, I'll be getting back to it Wednesday. I still need to pin down a front axle, that's the last big piece I'm still missing.

 

[whiterhino]

It is cool.......

 

[John2001]

I pulled 2" off of it today. It's not a huge difference but I don't want it to be a mile in the air before I lift it either. It's already sitting 83" tall and as a reference my dodge in the above picture is at 84" with a 6" lift and 35s

 

[John2001]

What I'm working with is a 89 Econoline it has a Dana 70 axle. It only had 34k miles on it. A couple weeks prior to that I bought the 52 Willys. I uploaded pictures backwards of how the progress has been coming.

 

[jbsjunk]

You keeping this 2wd or are you going to 4x4 it?

 

[John2001]

4 wd. I've got plenty of work to do before I'm worried about it

 

[jeepers48]

Nice build. Good job on the floor with the sheet metal.

 

[1x1_Speed_Craig]

Looks cool. Subscribed.

 

[jbsjunk]

You'll never find one in budget. They cost to damn much. Just keep an eye out.

 

[John2001]

I started fabbing my transmission bracket yesterday and finished it up today.




The solid POS transfer case mount, that's not going to stay that way. I just tossed whatever bolts I had laying around in everything to hold it together for now. I'll get the right sizes and grade 8s later.

 

[John2001]

 

[John2001]