Old car build thread

[Randimus Maximus]

Looking good!

[Howie]

Are those back up lights as bright as they look in the video?

[Popeye the Sailor]

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. 

I figured they'd be useful-I live in the woods.

[KnightofNi]

reading this thread brings back images of chaos that I both love and laugh about

[Popeye the Sailor]

Are those back up lights as bright as they look in the video?

Yesssss 

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.

[Popeye the Sailor]

reading this thread brings back images of chaos that I both love and laugh about

Burrito runs in the Falcon!

[Popeye the Sailor]

Most of the underdash wires are now secured.

[ducpainter]

Yesssss  

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.

[Popeye the Sailor]

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.

[Popeye the Sailor]

Funnt how that shit matters.

There's a lesson here somewhere.


I didn't write that down, either.

[Popeye the Sailor]

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.

[ducpainter]

There's a lesson here somewhere.


I didn't write that down, either.

Heat of the moment...

[Popeye the Sailor]

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:



On

[ducpainter]

It's called a front valence...

Basic part # 17779...IIRC

[Popeye the Sailor]

It's called a front valence...

Well I never.