Silly me, forgot to mention to check the grounds, these things are 40-some-odd years old... clean clean clean makes it work better, & makes the other tests a bit more valid.

PJ

Simple checks w/o disconnecting anything... Grab the handy-dandy digital multimeter, read the battery voltage with nothing on. Should read about 12.2-12.6. A reading of 10 something is a dead cell, generally, or a discharged battery. We'll find out shortly. With the engine running, an alternator wil...

I have played with some to put in as the turn/brite indicators, & came up with some numbers for my use/amusement. 4.7 K was about right, and about as small a resistance value as I would use. More resistance was dimmer, less caused it to let the smoke out (that was the amusement part). Have not f...

Thanks for the answers, that is what I was looking for. I had fears that because this was a state contract truck there were some oddball parts, but it makes sense now, that the oil pump was a factory change. BlackAgatha, you are correct, it's a 5/16". Big M, the 300 dizzy I had the first go aro...

Did the last year of the 223 ('64) use a bigger oil pump? Bad advance and coil wire in mine led me on another hunt, they do not sell just those parts apparently, so I ended up with a rebuilt from Cardone. The first one was incorrect, for the 300. It was a Load-o for sure, but the base was wrong, had...

Yep, that twisted chunk on the brake/clutch mount is my plan... I have the terminal strip laying on the brace running from the cowl to the steering mount directly above it, straight up, straight down, an insulating layer or two or three of rubber & tie-tied for now. It is a straight shot with a ...

Had a similar problem re-doing the lil'red pick-em-up, silly stuff I've added/redone since getting the truck, then the pecker-headed thief wrecking things. I mounted a 10 position terminal strip in, extended the ignition switch wires to it for run & acc, & re routed everything to this. Got t...

Uncle Skip I figured that would be the route I'd have to take, I just had to know that was going to work. About 8V is what I want then... Peck**(()$) cut the switch plug as well as everything else he could reach, I was hoping to rebuild stock. But, hey, it's all open(s) now. Black Agatha Yes, you kn...

but bad choices... This past weekend, someone decided they needed to go home in a classic. Several hours later, after failed attempts at the classics that are here at my apartments, a motorcycle disappeared. This was after busting a vent wing on a nice '70 C&*## & being stopped by a kill swi...

I am looking for the ignition resistor wire, the pink wire, for my lil' red pick-em-up. A little story behind it, I'll probably get into that in another post, but mine was cut this weekend ( as well as a bunch of other stuff) in a failed theft attempt. The local parts houses (when I have the time to...

C is run position, goes to the red wire with a green connector, to the pink resistor wire. B is ACC, to fuse, gauges, et al... It is hot in the run position as well as the acc position. I think A is the common batt in, I have back-up beams and a spotlite hooked to mine, just another common tie point...

Joey, which shifter did you use? I have the Mr Gasket 7667 in mine, & it likes hanging in 1st at the most inopportune times, or a 2-1 shift. Have the car version in my Fairlane & does the same thing (hanging in 1st), so I always thought it was a junky shifter. I see shifter bushings in the D...

You have to pull the divider bar to get any slack in the vent frame, which means at least pulling the window down. Three screws hold the vent frame in, one is to the divider bar. Then there is a twist trick to get the vent wing frame itself out. The DC catalog from '06 has a "how-to" on pa...

Texas will allow it as an antique, YOM (year of manufacture) tag, as a registered antique vehicle, or as a "vanity" tag on a regular registration for $15/yr. You must bring it in to the county registrar for examination, if it looks correct, they will allow it.

I am running a late 90's Ford van radio under the seat, it fits snug on the floor. The big button controls were just what I wanted. One knob for the volume, big button presets, all reached from driving position. For the antenna, I ran bell wire up to the back window and under the seal. A pair of out...