Willys M38 Build

Took the body tub home to strip over Labour weekend.  Boring and filthy job - I came up looking like I'd been in a coal mine each day!  I'm really pleased with how it's coming up, strip the bed liner and first coats of paint with the heat gun then attack it with an abrasive strip disc back to bare steel.  Tight areas and corners can be slow going with sand paper.  The whole inside of the tub is pretty much done to the top of the firewall.  The outside is all done so just the underside to go.  Hope to knock it out this week.

I had a local engineer spline up and flange some axles against samples out of Dons '42 that is full floating already.  After a couple of teething issues (and the standard bit of assistance from Don) they're in and the whole drive train is now sealed.  In fact there's nothing really stopping us from going for a cruise in it apart from bleeding up the brakes. I hope to take the body tub home from the workshop to strip and prime it in the next couple of weeks.  The only other big job I can think of apart from panel and paint is the roll cage.  That'll be done before it goes green as I'm sure there will be some scratching involved while we sort that. Sort of coming around on to the home straight.  Exciting stuff!