How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

A little bit more progress has been made on the wiring hookups for the Wire3 box. I’ve been working on making up the various wires that connect to the Charging Board. Today’s task was to make up the wire that is connected from the Chorehorse to the board. I pulled the modern wire through the metal braided loom. I’m not sure if the original had this but I figured it would. I also hooked up the wires for the interior lamps. That wire is a single one with the return/ground via the braided shielding. Once I had everything hooked up I figured I’d do a test. Out came the jumper cables to connect the 12v battery to the Battery No1 terminals. I then hooked up my homemade tester (red led bulb) to the 12v Output terminals. Everything worked as it should. I love the fact there is no modern electronics in this setup. Just a bunch of manual switches and hard connections.

I did up a short video to show all this.

https://youtu.be/UCiB2FMnhSc

[Chris Suslowicz]

Most (if not all) of the charging switchboard wiring is single core, rubber insulated (and labelled with the actual cable ID). Connector, Single, No.24A-F rings a faint bell, and the actual make-up will be listed in the WS19 parts EMER, FZ256-3 (for the Canadian Mk.3 set). I can't remember if the actual cable purpose is listed anywhere - possibly on the installation print - though.

I have a switchboard and a selection of the cabling, one of these days I'll have to see how it fits together and if there are any surplus cables (it was bought piecemeal, over a period).

Chris.

[Jordan Baker]

Working on making up some new Battens Terminals for the truck.

[Jordan Baker]

Today I made time to take the truck to the local Cenotaph and I timed it to coincide with the Lancaster Bomber flying by.

https://youtu.be/vl7-08MOBjE

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Well done Jordan.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Well done Jordan.

I agree....the truck looks awesome.

[Jordan Baker]

Well I was unable to do a Christmas Day drive due to working, but I did take it out for a short Boxing Day 2020 drive.

The truck drove well until I hit some soft spots off the road under the snow then I felt the back end dig in. So I put it into 4 wheel drive and 1st gear and it pulled right out. Once I got back onto the road I found it very hard to get it out of 4 wheel drive. Nothing grinding, but the lever didn’t want to move back without some force. But then I did go back and I drove home just fine.