1947 wdx complete overhaul

[penski61]

well turns out i had what they call a bakers cyst on my knee that ended up rupturing . doc still hasn't ruled out a tare but gave me a cortozone shot for now to see if that will take care of swelling and let the body absorb the fluid from the rupture. for now no heavy lifting , kneeling or going up and down ladders ,so in the mean time taking it easy doing little stuff
got the steering column put in but ended up having to offset it a little to clear the headers and still was a tight squeeze

[penski61]

got more done today and im running out of room in the cab , had to end up bending the shifter so it not in the passenger seat in 1st gear . also swapped out the single u joint for a double and added another support which gave me a little more clearance

didn't like the way the shifter turned out so went to the junkyard and pulled another , modified the shift gate and added the shift knob

[penski61]

so far knee isnt too serious (no surgery) but still waiting on the swelling to go down then i can start fully walking and putting weight on it, ive been using a roller chair in the garage so i can take the weight off which has been helping . I was able to get the the rest of the cross members finished up and made trans skid along with t-case skid . also got the return and supply fuel lines ran just need to get a pump and filter

[penski61]

exhaust shop was able to get duals in with x pipe
still a bunch left to do , plan on doing boat sides then the majority of fab work will be done and yes that is uni strut so i can move it around until i get the truck running to use the hydro ram

[penski61]

[Matthew Welcher PWA]

The more I see this, the more I like it. What is your wheelbase?

[penski61]

thanks , wheelbase is at 114" didnt want to go any longer than that and couldnt go any shorter because of how short the driveshaft would be . I did get a few more things done , got some headlight buckets installed then took the body back off (for the last time hopefully ) and fabbed side mount for np205 . also made sliders with a step for the wife and a thin skid plate

[penski61]

[penski61]

few things left to do then complete tear down , clean up and paint or powdercoat

http://vid190.photobucket.com/albums...psgsutwr6j.mp4

[penski61]

[W_A_Watson_II]

Nice!

[penski61]

got the frame back from powder coat , also cleaned up the axles and painted those along with all the links . pretty much done with the assembly on the bed and drive train minus driveshafts . next step is get the wiring laid out for lights in the back , fuel pump , speedo and over drive

[penski61]

[penski61]

got the wiring pretty much all done in the bed and under the cab so went ahead and put the cab back on then got the radiator support secured down . started on the wiring in the engine bay , got the reservoir mounted and made some mounts for turn signals . figured while i had it out to clean up the garage id get some better pics , sitting on the bump stops right now

[penski61]

Decided to take a chance on a ford truck radiator, little bit of cutting and fabbing it worked out pretty good. Saved about $300 by using this instead of buying oem replacement
Need to re work the top of the shell for the cap but overall I'm happy with it