A little project update on Chug A Lug

Looks fantastic! Your level of detail is impressive as always.

SO today after work I had a little inspiration. Almost 20 years ago I got the wild idea to make a Billet Gas pedal for my 66 Chevelle Hot Rod project (since sold off to help afford the work on CHUG) When I sold the Chevelle I didn't let it or the fancy throttle linkage I made.

Well tonight I wanted to see if the Pedal could be adapted to CHUG. This is what I had and a Willys pedal to compare to.



As you can see the Aluminum pedal is much larger. But I got to looking at the design and came up with a plan. A little masking tape made it easier to see.



Then a few min with the bandsaw and my Belt grinder and I had a suitable Willys gas pedal. No longer do I have to look at all that work just sitting on a shelf now I can enjoy it.



I'll trim down the base section once I get to installing it. I'll have to add a ball joint or clevis attachment point on the back. I plan on creating a whole new Aluminum and Titanium throttle linkage to go with the Weber DGV carb I'll be using anyway.

I also got a great idea of how I am going to be doing the Radiator strut to jazz that up a bit too.

Haven't decided what I'll do with the Clutch and Brake pedals at one time I was going to take 1/2" mesh Hardware cloth and wrap it around the pedals on a 45 degree angle to give them some purchase. I might still do that.




Edited by Mark W. - 03 July 2017 at 3:49am

I'm old lol

If you called it "chicken wire", people would say they know what it is, but it's not chicken wire...

I swear (a lot) that kids these days come out of school dumber than when they went in.

Every year when my kids went back to school my wife would always (against my will) drag me to the school open house to meet the new teachers. On the way home she would always say "I'm never bringing you with me again", she finally caught on. I have 3 sons and none of them ever had a problem communicating their opinion to the teachers.

SO a little off topic but as we all know sometimes we have to do stuff not part of our project to get the time to work on our projects.

SO to that end since my lovely wife had the 3 yards of top soil mix dumped right in front of the doors to my carport Jeep shop I have had to do the associated yard work to get it the hell out of my way.

I need to roll my chassis out spin it around and then roll it under the Tub to check and drill my body mounts after rebuilding and creating a whole new tub.

SO yesterday I got the two new raised garden beds all ready to seed (both took 4 wheel barrows of soil mix as well as a 3 cu ft of Miracle Gro Garden soil mix). And today I just got the last of the soil mix put into the front yard we are reseeding. I then spread 14 bags of a reseeding soil mix and some Scotts new lawn soil mix. I then rototilled it a could times and its ready to rake out and grade then tomorrow I can seed it.

SO now what to do with the CU YARD of soil mix crap left in my way. The new neighbor said something about dumping it in the Alley way between our properties to help level it out. The city vacated the alleys last year and we both gained a stip of land 5 ft by 105ft. Big enough I can expand the lean to on the side of my carport to hide our trash cans and store my off road trailer once its built.

SO as much as I wanted to work for three days steady on CHUG I had to get this yard work crap done.

Always more to do outside this time of year, my wife always says why don't we do this and why don't we do that. I think we all know who we is.

I'm that neighbor, move a lot of snow for free too. The town fair used to be in the big field behind my house, my father has a 42 foot telescopic construction forklift, we used to build a real impressive bonfire out of pallets and slabs from a sawmill. They used to have tractor pulls a car show, woodsman events , moved it to the other side of town though but I'm still one of the judges for the pie baking contest.