If your patina rigs are that nice, I'd bet your Aqualu trucks would kill 'em all.
Builds Powda Blue 74 Build - Tilda Bogue Service Station
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I’d rather do a steel CCOT body personally but I doubt this one gets saved. Will see.
If you wouldn’t mind, what are the wheel specs of those fifteen 52? I really like how the 285 works with a 40 series
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Catching Neutral
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Hooked and I can’t stop staring
Best build on mud I’ve seen in a while, hands down!
middlecalf
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So far I’ve only seen some hood and cowl rust.
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- #148
I don’t really want to sidetrack this thread more with that 78 but you know I know how to make a rusty truck work and that 78 is beyond screwed.
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When this thing came in nothing electrical worked. I’m guessing it was a hard short somewhere and the crusty fuse box.
Now it’s all coming back to life.
The rear was/is hacked pretty good. Trailer wire hell im
Guessing.
EPS is wired and control box mounted. Horn stolen off the 78. Got the wipers working.
Good morning. Good morning.
Now it’s all coming back to life.
The rear was/is hacked pretty good. Trailer wire hell im
Guessing.
EPS is wired and control box mounted. Horn stolen off the 78. Got the wipers working.
Good morning. Good morning.
tlaporte
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Are you working on the harness in place? (in situ, for all of you Latin fans) Or did you pull it?
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Bogged down wiring but it’s mostly up to date. The only things I can’t get to work are the blower switch (frozen but blower works), brake switch ( no click/what a bitch to remove) and individual blinkers.
The blinker relay is working because I get a good hazard but there is not enough ground it seems to make the side only blinkers work. I tried the roach clip on my Power Probe to the metal back of the front blinkers to ground it direct to the battery but still no flash. Open to ideas. May just need the rest of the ground cables. Dunno.
The aftermarket rear lights come with a plug that does not fit the harness and I tossed the old OEM plugs. Don’t do that.
Overall it was a very productive day. Very glad most everything works as advertised.
The blinker relay is working because I get a good hazard but there is not enough ground it seems to make the side only blinkers work. I tried the roach clip on my Power Probe to the metal back of the front blinkers to ground it direct to the battery but still no flash. Open to ideas. May just need the rest of the ground cables. Dunno.
The aftermarket rear lights come with a plug that does not fit the harness and I tossed the old OEM plugs. Don’t do that.
Overall it was a very productive day. Very glad most everything works as advertised.
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It’s in great shape and with a lift it’s easy to get everything at eye level. The rear was chopped up a bit from a hack trailer harness but I got all that crap loose.
The windshield wiper plug was dry rotted but I got them plugged up and taped up with fancy Toyota loom tape.
I suspect that on my '75 truck, the blinker issue that rarely pops up is related to the hazard switch, and some moisture from the cowl seam. If I work the hazard switch a bit, the turn signals function is restored. However, I can't report if it is a no light, or no blink issue, I forget. I'm a newbie at switch restoration, but basically all those brass-looking contacts really got to be serviced for oxidation from time to time.
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It’s a new blinker switch on the column and all new lights.
Are you saying that it could be in the hazard switch?
I know that having both on is a “stronger” signal and often overrides the bad ground of an individual side being activated but in the past I’ve been able to add a ground to the fender lights to override the weakness. I’ll crack open the rear light and see if grounding one of those will do it
Most certainly, on a '75, the hazard is the power source for the turn signals via the blinker slot (ignition on). A switch will direct power from 'stop' fuse slot for the key-independent hazard power situation. Or, so this is how I understand it.
Hi Nolen,
where'd you get the new windshield-to-firewall/cowl rubber gasket ?
where'd you get the new windshield-to-firewall/cowl rubber gasket ?
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- #158
City Racer or Cruiser Outfitters can’t remember
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Took the day away from Powda Blue yesterday and did some day job work.
This AM i built out the front seats. Lined the cockpit and bolted in the rear seats.
We got a OEM FJ43/4 mat during the Mustard project that we did not use. I’ll trim the length after the wrinkles come out and use it on this one.
This AM i built out the front seats. Lined the cockpit and bolted in the rear seats.
We got a OEM FJ43/4 mat during the Mustard project that we did not use. I’ll trim the length after the wrinkles come out and use it on this one.
