Sunday, May 1, 2016

Wiring= lights! Dash in, electrical working

Went through the wiring, sorted out some stuff, now the B starts on the key, and has interior courtesy and some exterior lights.  I'm replacing the front headlight harness with relays.

Dash is in, fuel and temp gauge works after grounding the voltage regulator.
need to fix license lamp, probably a ground. And left side marker red wire.

the lights at night- are big and bright

deep in the heart of Texas!

I just ordered some speedo and tach lights. Suprisingly this is all that doesn't work. 
  At the multi- ground junction behind the dash I soldered in an extra 14 ga ground wire that was run to the metal radio support. 
Need to check reverse switch. With power to the green/ brown wire the reverse lights work, just not in reverse.
Putting in the center dash vents I kept knocking off the rheostat wire- not a lot of slack.
The brown wire junction behind the glove box got redone as a brown wire was frayed from the crimp that would have cooked the entire harness. Just saying- if it's something that you can fix easily now instead of behind a bunch of crap later...well you get the idea.

The turn signal plug had a problem in the past and had a new plug had been crimped into the switch side, and a blue/white wire out of the harness side that was quickly fixed.

The steering wheel boss was wire brushed and looks magnificent, and the column cover was screwed back together. Starting to look like a car again...

I used some mag/aluminum polish and a wire wheel on the steering spokes and the came out fairly shiny.

As for the leather that looked like it was left in a field for decades...
I used leather furniture conditioner soaked rags and left them wrapped around it overnight.
The next day there was a distinct subtleness to the leather.
Then 3 coatings of black boot conditioner .

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