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- June 14, 2017, 7:39 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: why are those 2 tiny wires hanging there
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3615
Re: why are those 2 tiny wires hanging there
Luckily Brian, you are an uber smart guy with a lot of friends/contacts. McGyvers like you usually come out on top when problems arise. Me? I spend 2 hours dismantling the instrument panel before it dawns on me to check the fuse. Presto! Hazards, courtesy light and cig lighter all back on line, LOL.
- June 14, 2017, 7:20 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Pulling my 352
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8377
Re: Pulling my 352
Hi Dan, I haven't been on the forum for a while but I'm getting the '65 ready for a local show which got me thinking about all you guys again. Your project is coming along! Congrats on diving in like that. Takes me back to my starting point where i was using a putty knife to remove 50 years of oil a...
- August 25, 2016, 7:46 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Neutral safety switch deamons
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1143
Re: Neutral safety switch deamons
Yeah, good point, Paul. The emergency brake is there for a reason, after all. I'll look into the linkage, good idea. Thanks, guys.
- August 24, 2016, 10:08 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Neutral safety switch deamons
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1143
Neutral safety switch deamons
I seem to be having trouble with my neutral safety switch (cruise-o-matic automatic). With the shifter in park it will sometimes pop out and into reverse. I also have to jiggle the shifter to get it in just the right spot to start the truck. Because of this I have been putting the truck in neutral b...
- June 3, 2016, 10:50 am
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: ebay prices what are they smoking????
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1342
Re: ebay prices what are they smoking????
Hadn't been on eBay for a while but I didn't think the prices were insane, just overpriced. I checked things out after reading your post and GEEZE! I found what I thought was a windshield with chrome trim for 299.00. O.K. Not bad so I checked what it would take to ship something that big...$15???? W...
- May 31, 2016, 8:37 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Wiring for hazards
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2134
Re: Wiring for hazards
I sure did. The schematics were really important. Of course, they illustrated just one of the many ways the hazards could be wired and my hazards didn't conform to that. I got my biggest help from a '66 Mustang schematic that I found on the web. Maybe I get spoiled with Utube and all. It seems like ...
- May 29, 2016, 6:02 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: todays score
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2959
Re: todays score
Geeze, what a score. I got 2 of mine in a town about an hour away, 1 from North Carolina, 1 from Tom and a nice guy on Craigslist shipped me one from Wisconsin. It only took 6 months to round all 5 up.
Julie
Julie
- May 29, 2016, 5:52 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Wiring for hazards
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2134
Re: Wiring for hazards
Good advice. With the new wiring harness, the wires are the same size. I took it to the back of the lighter because it was easily available and it shows that configuration on a '66 Mustang schematic that helped me figure out the wiring. As a side note - it took me longer to get that infernal hazard ...
- May 28, 2016, 9:54 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Wiring for hazards
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2134
- May 28, 2016, 9:48 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Wiring for hazards
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2134
Re: Wiring for hazards
That's for sure, Brian. It seems that there were at least 4 ways the hazards were wired in 1965. They were an option so the dealership could add them after the sale. I did figure out how to wire my particular hazards harness to the column plug to get them to work and I'll share that here for anyone ...
- May 27, 2016, 8:49 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Ford 223 Exhaust - Intake gasket
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1403
Re: Ford 223 Exhaust - Intake gasket
I have been told by a respected and experienced old Ford mechanic that there were no gaskets on the exhaust manifolds when our trucks were built. I followed that up with some research on-line and did find some supporting info to that effect. Since my '65 is over 50 years old it seemed to me that the...
- May 27, 2016, 4:27 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Wiring for hazards
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2134
Re: Wiring for hazards
I may have winnowed a bit of info from a Mustang site. As I understand it, power goes into the flasher can and out to the switch. The switch then has 3 leads that go to the front left turn signal, front right turn signal and rear brake lights. Does this make sense? It almost seems too simple. The tw...
- May 26, 2016, 6:51 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Wiring for hazards
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2134
Wiring for hazards
I am down to the last sticky issue with my new wiring harness. The company I bought it from offers no help with wiring the hazards, saying that there are too many configurations for them to be able to adequately offer help. So, what I did today was to make a wiring diagram of the little hazard wirin...
- May 20, 2016, 5:11 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Aftermarket Wire Harness.........?'s
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1417
Re: Aftermarket Wire Harness.........?'s
I just finished re-wiring my '65 with a Kwikwire 14 circuit kit. I have never done anything like that before so everything was new. I needed some help from this forum on a couple of points and the company was very good at answering questions. The only thing that is unfinished is the hazard lights. K...
- May 19, 2016, 9:46 am
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Turn signal indicator wiring
- Replies: 8
- Views: 894
Re: Turn signal indicator wiring
Got it!!!! It finally hit me when I re-read Toyz post that said "With the custom cab dash, the bulb grounds thru the opposite circuit". I was totally stuck wondering where the ground would come from if I used both wires on the socket for power input. Since the ground comes from the opposit...
- May 18, 2016, 7:48 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Turn signal indicator wiring
- Replies: 8
- Views: 894
Re: Turn signal indicator wiring
No such luck on the jumper wire. This must be my missing link. How did the wiring go?
Julie
Julie
- May 18, 2016, 7:37 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Turn signal indicator wiring
- Replies: 8
- Views: 894
Re: Turn signal indicator wiring
Hi Paul,
Every socket that was on my old wiring harness was a single wire if it was a metal socket and 2 wire if it was plastic. The second wire on the plastic is to ground, right? I think I need either a 2 wire metal or a 3 wire plastic?
Julie
Every socket that was on my old wiring harness was a single wire if it was a metal socket and 2 wire if it was plastic. The second wire on the plastic is to ground, right? I think I need either a 2 wire metal or a 3 wire plastic?
Julie
- May 18, 2016, 6:46 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Turn signal indicator wiring
- Replies: 8
- Views: 894
Turn signal indicator wiring
I have conquered most of the demons in my new wiring but I have one that really confuses me (there will probably be others but I'm getting close). How do I get the turn signal indicator to indicate both left and right turns? At first I spliced both left and right together going into the bulb. That m...
- May 18, 2016, 5:43 pm
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Brake line vibration coil
- Replies: 4
- Views: 973
Re: Brake line vibration coil
That's what I had figured but when you have a bunch of guru's who have been through it all before it would be silly not to ask. Thanks for the input.
Julie
Julie
- May 17, 2016, 10:04 am
- Forum: Truck Talk
- Topic: Brake line vibration coil
- Replies: 4
- Views: 973
Brake line vibration coil
I have replaced nearly everything in my brake system while retaining drum brakes all around. I added a dual pot master cylinder and ran new brake lines putting a vibration coil on the front brake side out of the MC and on the back line coming from the MC I slipped a piece of rubber hose over the lin...