With the fenders on and having rebuilt the headlight buckets, it was time to install the headlights and parking/turnsignal lamps and proceed to wire everything up. I ran all of the wires up to the front in plastic split wiring … Continue reading
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I little while ago I insulated the sides of the body prior to doing the wiring. Now it is time to finish up the insulation task. I am using two different types on insulation, mainly because a good friend of … Continue reading
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A Few More Details …
In between waiting on parts to arrive, I decided to tie up a few loose ends. 1st up was installing the front and rear speakers and getting them wired up, now was a good time to do this before I … Continue reading
Time for another big task! Finishing up the wiring and getting all of the electrical systems up and verified, and then buttoning up the dashboard. The 1st thing I tackled was wiring the switches and doing the preliminary routing and … Continue reading
One of my original ideas for the wagon was to install power door locks on all four doors much like the set up I had put into our 1939 Ford. Sometime ago I had bought a power door lock kit … Continue reading
My plan of attack at present is to install all the bits and pieces that need to be wired prior to beginning wiring the wagon. I had thought I was all done with the dash board but something kept nagging … Continue reading
Finally I get to install some of the new parts! I hauled all of the Dakota Digital Gauges out of the box and mounted them in the dash along with the new A/C outlets. I then installed all of the … Continue reading
As part of the ‘Lets Wire Stuff Up So I Can Start The Engine’ sub-project, I decided to install the battery before things got too carried away. Way back a long time ago I decided that I would have to … Continue reading
Before I could finish up wiring the engine and transmission, I had to install the sensors for the temperature and oil pressure gauges. The Dakota Digital Gauge set requires that you use the sensors that they supply with the gauge … Continue reading
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Mounting the Fuse Blocks
One of the last major pieces of the puzzle that must be solved prior to beginning to wire the entire wagon is to locate and mount the fuse blocks for both the computer system and for the rest of the … Continue reading