Lifted the front on a trolley jack and drove further forward until the front was about to come off. Did the same with some timber until if could be jacked up and the trailer driven right out and lowered down on to another pair of wheel skates.
So at long last it is down in the corner of the nearly finished workshop. :)
Of course the dog and cat had to check it out!
Decided to give it a bit of a clean out. Didn't look too bad before I started I thought.
But I didn't even know there was a steel floor under the timber planking! This
barrow showed only some of the dirt etc that came out of it!
Even found the original under the floor pivot brake and clutch pedals as well as the
wiper pivots and crank handle I suspect?
The cab floor was pretty good. Only a few small holes with the biggest the size of your pinkie. The firewall is a mess though having been butchered to fit a Ford V8 farmers style at one point. Thinking anyway of replacing it with the donors vehicle one including the floor to get all the brake and seat mounts etc. All depends on how much difference there is in the width after the cab has been widened. Might still not be wide enough.
Had to try what the spare tyre from the trailer looked like under it. Not bad at this height but that is a 30" tall tyre and not sure if I will be going that big yet.
Dropped on the bumper I imported already from the US over the front of the chassis rails. They normally sit way further forward than this but quite like the look of it like that. It also has 'Willys' pressed into the centre of it as well.
Tried the wheel on the back too but that has to come down some. It is only sitting on the wheel skates right now. A quick measurement shows the chassis rising 9"-10" from the low point under the cab. Hope that will be enough kick up to get it lower still?
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