I got the a few more things done than above, and then paused cause of the cold and kinda never got back to it. She sat for around 2 years.
I got the AC mostly resurrected, by throwing money at it.
I'm having the circuit breaker issue, tried a modern 30a circuit breaker instead of a fuse, and the wires got -Super hot-. So I'm going to try the fuse swap next, but I'm pretty sure, no matter what I'm going to have to replace the blower. I'd like to rebuild the old one, but don't have a source for brushes. I could probably muddle my way through the rest.
but if i just run the AC one notch below high (extra-medium) the breaker doesn't blow, so I have AC, after a fashion. Good enough to get it driving in Texas.
The truck got some work done in 2010 way before I bought it, and then basically sat in a field for 10 years, because of an unsolvable over heating issue. Lots of issues to fix because of that.
I have liquid head gasket in it now. It's not a pretty fix, but the over heating seems solved, till it goes out again.
The leak was all top end, no coolant in the oil, so liquid head gasket was a reasonable gamble. It's good enough to figure out all the other problems.
In the last 2-3 years, the furthest I've driven it is the corner gas station (about 2 weeks ago), so It'll hold for a bit. if it goes again, I'll limp it home and learn how to do it right. Right now I'm focused on all the other things that is wrong with it.
I put in an electronic battery controller that keeps the batteries separate and charged, but if you can't start switches to the spare battery. Better than the old Boat switch.
I fixed all the stuff you saw above and a few more,
I cracked the radiator so I swapped to a 3 or 4 core aluminum one (I can't remember)
Split the fan shroud.
The truck got a recall gas tank like less than 100 miles before it was parked, but it was parked with no gas in it, so the pickup tube had a hole, and the fule level sender was frozen up , got both of those replaced, (it took alot more work to diagnose it than that sounds like) but i have the ability to use my whole gas tank, not just the upper third, and i now have a functional gas gauge. (YES!)
I did some wiring work, that I need to finish. swappede unwanted spots to switches. So lots of switches now, most of which are blank plates.
In the process of swapping to stainless battery trays, because I have a thing for stainless.
I cut the obnoxious rifle rack that took up the whole back cargo area of the truck, i need to go back and get the stubs out.
But once I fix the hyper flash issue, (just because LED vendor lied to me) I'll be ready to take her on the road for trips around town.
She's 2wd only because the front output seal was shot, I got it replaced so the xfer case holds oil, but the bearing is shot too, so I need to take it to get rebuilt.
But the cool thing is, I'm excited about working on her again, and getting a little bit done each night again. I'm super stoked about Ac+fuel+flash, as that's my driver her line.
Thanks,
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