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Geez!!! I can't believe he was to his feet and watching the ned of the crash after getting ejected! WOnder what he had for seat belts that let him exit the car? The dash looks great! I like the little switch panel with key in the center! I like your choice for turnsignal switch too! Looks familiar!
insert red wire A into slot d.... I know I'm not normal but I really enjoy running wires. Now that I see the interior again I can't remember if you ever said what you were gonna do with the interior? are you gonna make aluminum or steel door panels or make and cover panels with vinyl?
If you use a standard paper clip as a tester between the teeth its perfect size. Good progress Plumbid, keep at it !!!
Boy isn't that part fun?!!! I've done a couple for friends and a couple for myself, and it's never as easy as I'd like, but it does get easier with each one! I've found that I cut almost all the factory wire ties, except the last one or two. Then I start running groups to their general area and loosely tie them nearby to hold them up. After everything is near it's location I start working the wires down to their exact terminations, and cut up a bunch of shrink tube to slip over each wire splice. Then it's just stripping, soldering, heat shrinking, and finally dressing them all down, and final securing. I use a few rolls of cheap black electric tape to loom the groups also, so they lay better, and look nicer anywhere they might show, but not until it's all tested and I know it's complete.
You need a larger heat-shrink tubing, or the kind that wraps around & sticks to itself and melts together. I've tried other things (stretching, etc) and they don't work. If you could crimp the whole length of the stripped connecter, would the heat-shrink fit? The old way of course is black electrical tape or friction tape. It works, most of the time, depending on environment - but failures are very painful (no lights at night doing 75 MPH, whee! )
Nope, never did use that method in 35 yrs. as an electrician. I guess that portion of the female spade is as thick as the barrel. My only concern would be the small area where the female spade necks down to the barrel, as far as streength; since I've had some break there. But I think the heat shrink will stengthen/support it and be fine.
All my cables are gray, except the short ground cable from the block to the frame. I use the fine strand "machine tool cable" or "welding cable" that is pretty flexible and has a high cut rating on the insulation. Once I had them all made up I just slipped a short piece of red shrink tube over the end and shrank it down to identify it as positive.
While you are at Fleet Farm, get the 2/0 cables for connecting multiple batteries together...I used (3) of these to ground the cab to the frame, the engine to the frame in the front and back.... they have them in like 8" to about 16" length, are cheap and really flexible..... love fleet Farm.. Tom
Nice work. I always try to use the male-female connectors reversed so I can't hook it up backwards if and when I take them back out.
looking awesome... not you... the car...lol.... we have missed your regular posts....and always look forward to them... Roy
Great looking dash, and you're getting the tough part first! The rest should be a snap after the dash wiring!
Nice shiny new parts! I love it when the brown truck shows up with parts, or a swap meet comes up with anticipation of parts! I've been gathering parts for my next project for weeks now! I bought the neighbor's '63 Falcon, and yesterday purchased a 454 Chevy to drop in it. Got an Econoline straight axle, and Super T10 gathering dust in the shed too! A pair of Edelbrock Performer aluminum heads that will fit the BBC perfect! Now if I could just get a break from remodeling the house, so I could do real fun work! I envy you building the '37!!!!!
I love it when you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel......I've been sanding and body bumping all winter, and think it will never end.....
If you're like me, I take off 80% of all the filler I put on! Never have gotten the hang of putting filler on and sanding!
I used to be pretty good at taking off only a little bit... now I've found that covering a larger area and blocking off most all of the filler goes quicker....chasing filler spots is the worst.... now most all that goes on ends up on the floor, on the benches, in my ears, nose and butt-crack....... Sorry for off topic Plumbid..
Looking great! I got my Plymouth the year my son was born so you can imagine how big hes gonna be when mine looks as nice as yours... Sent from my DROID device using the TJJ mobile app
I love that grill....just think, another 8-10 years and your son will be burning the tires off that thing... ..........I have a son that does a pretty fair job of that for me.... LOL Tom
Nice that they were willing to let you look around. So many chain stores seem to not be willing to go through the steps on anything that doesn't fall into their computer screen. I usually end up at our local performance dealer and make a coat hanger template of the shape I need. Then take that along with the diameters, and see if I can find something common that I can use, or rework.
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