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« Reply #360 on: May 26, 2020, 07:38:39 PM »
Looking good!
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« Reply #361 on: May 26, 2020, 09:13:49 PM »
Are those back up lights as bright as they look in the video?
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« Reply #362 on: May 27, 2020, 02:53:27 AM »
Yeah....but convincing the inspection station of that is a nightmare. They refuse to believe a stock military truck had no license plate light. I'm sure that's exactly what they wanted on a military vehicle-a way to illuminate the target.  Roll Eyes

I figured they'd be useful-I live in the woods.
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« Reply #363 on: June 03, 2020, 08:23:35 PM »
reading this thread brings back images of chaos that I both love and laugh about
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« Reply #364 on: July 23, 2020, 01:27:58 PM »
Quote from: howie on May 26, 2020, 09:13:49 PM
Are those back up lights as bright as they look in the video?



Yesssss  Cheesy

Got the heater in. Surprisingly unwieldy.




The stock heater hoses (what I have) do not fit this car due to the V8 swap.

The lower one needs to go through the firewall and make a little joggle, like this:



NAPA came through-found an old guy and he found the hose I needed. It was too long so I had to snake it through the firewall, unsnake it, cut it, resnake.

All heater hoses now installed.

Heater motor wired-now with multiple speeds!

All heater control cables hooked up.

Defrost vents installed. Ducting installed. It now defrosterates more better.

Glove box is in. For the record the correct order is radio, heater hoses, heater body, ducting, ducts, heater cables, glove compartment.

There were many iterations of me installing things in the wrong order.

Next build I'm keeping a notebook.
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« Reply #365 on: July 23, 2020, 01:28:21 PM »
Quote from: KnightofNi on June 03, 2020, 08:23:35 PM
reading this thread brings back images of chaos that I both love and laugh about

Burrito runs in the Falcon!
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« Reply #366 on: July 23, 2020, 01:29:20 PM »
Most of the underdash wires are now secured.
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« Reply #367 on: July 23, 2020, 01:31:02 PM »
Quote from: Davey Two Tractors on July 23, 2020, 01:27:58 PM
Yesssss  Cheesy

Got the heater in. Surprisingly unwieldy.




The stock heater hoses (what I have) do not fit this car due to the V8 swap.

The lower one needs to go through the firewall and make a little joggle, like this:



NAPA came through-found an old guy and he found the hose I needed. It was too long so I had to snake it through the firewall, unsnake it, cut it, resnake.

All heater hoses now installed.

Heater motor wired-now with multiple speeds!

All heater control cables hooked up.

Defrost vents installed. Ducting installed. It now defrosterates more better.

Glove box is in. For the record the correct order is radio, heater hoses, heater body, ducting, ducts, heater cables, glove compartment.

There were many iterations of me installing things in the wrong order.

Next build I'm keeping a notebook.
Funny how that shit matters. Grin
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« Reply #368 on: July 23, 2020, 01:31:10 PM »
So....the rear carpet is in and nicely stuck down. Looks good.

Console is in and wired up. Static happens on the radio if you have the phone both charging and using the aux jack. I'm told that's a ground loop issue. I was also told this with some sort of vague assumption that would mean anything. I don't think it involves when I looped Paula's dirtbike, but in my defense, I'm a horrible rider.

Front carpet. Doesn't fit. Passenger front side? Fits.

Driver's side front carpet? No fit. Not even close to fit. There's an extra bit of carpet on the left side of the driveshaft hump that looks like...a fat man's beer belly. It just has nowhere to go? Squishing it down just moved it to under the accelerator pedal, which could then no longer be depressed fully, and once pushed down, would get stuck. Wrong kind of excitement.

Cutting the carpet and trying to overlap it resulted in more ugly than a Rolling Stone's group photo. Just, hideous. Clearly, something went wrong here.

This car is a stick shift. I bought a carpet for a stick shift car in the hopes that meant they had a shifter hole (it didn't). But apparently the cars that were originally manuals had a rather large kickout on the driveshaft hump which is what this extra carpet was trying to cover. Except this car was an automatic originally and thus does not have said kickout. This results in a carpet that does not fit.

So I learned yet another thing. I ordered an automatic carpet and now I have some nice spare carpet scraps to kneel on.
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« Reply #369 on: July 23, 2020, 01:31:46 PM »
Quote from: ducpainter on July 23, 2020, 01:31:02 PM
Funnt how that shit matters. Grin

There's a lesson here somewhere.


I didn't write that down, either.
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« Reply #370 on: July 23, 2020, 01:32:54 PM »
I bought a ground loop isolator instead.

My ground loops are totally isolated and I can now both charge a phone and listen to it at the same time.

Luxury.

She lives.
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« Reply #371 on: July 23, 2020, 01:34:29 PM »
Quote from: Davey Two Tractors on July 23, 2020, 01:31:46 PM
There's a lesson here somewhere.


I didn't write that down, either.
Heat of the moment...
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« Reply #372 on: July 23, 2020, 01:37:07 PM »
I found the stone guard.

Apparently the bumper doesn't cover it and it's visible. I really thought it wouldn't be seen later.

And I had forgotten it had one.

So...need to make it blue. Bit bent in the middle.





Less dented.



Blue:



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« Reply #373 on: July 23, 2020, 01:43:10 PM »
It's called a front valence...

Basic part # 17779...IIRC
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« Reply #374 on: July 23, 2020, 01:44:26 PM »
Quote from: ducpainter on July 23, 2020, 01:43:10 PM
It's called a front valence...

Well I never.
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