2016 at the Hammond Barn

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Bob

Good progress, I had this nagging fear in the back of my mind that you were going to say I had missed some important wire, or miss labeled something.

So now you have wiring lights whats left before the critical test?

Cheers Phil

[Bob Carriere]

Finish the door with paint and new inner skins..... paint the seat frame and install and waiting for the 30Ohms senders for the fuel tank......

...... than road trip!!!!!!

It sure made my task a lot easier to have a "perfect" wiring loom to work with. I followed your practice and did soldered joint on all connections then skrink/heat wrapped. Connectors in the mid section were coated with di-lectric grease during assembly.......all carefully clipped to the frame....especially near the master cylinder......

Will be installing a manual turn signal system which uses a large switch similar to the fuel gauge switch.

I will be running "roadster" style like you without a top and plan to install the original rusted out cargo box as fenders are required....sort of a "work in progress"

Top needs a lot of small bumps to be removed and replace about 6 inch strip near the middle joint.

The cargo box will be reverse enginered later on...... I have 3 rusted hulk to work from.

One question on the harness you supplied Rob for his HUP....did you use the same wiring diagram or did you make a "one off" for his HUP????

A thousand thanks

Bob C

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Bob

Pretty sure I used the Pattern 13 wiring diagram http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...Harness(1).jpg

Later version so it may have wires not used on the prototype.

Hope you can give us a video of the first official road trip. Driving these things as roadsters is way to enjoyable, doubt my Pat 12 will ever get its roof.

Cheers Phil

PS - At some point know we have posted the Pattern 11, 12 & 13 wiring diagrams for both Ford and Chevy, if anyone knows the threads how about posting or starting a thread called WIRING DIAGRAMS under restoration and we can all post diagrams for what ever vehicle as reference to others.

[Bob Carriere]

Good idea to have a special thread just on the wiring diagram and issues.

I used the MB-C2 that grant got copied / enlarged to 17 inches..... makes it easier to read and male notes in the margins.

I will make a point of posting that diagram them include the same diagram with the modifications I made to accomodate the flashers, the manual flasher and the alternator and voltage reducer on the fuel tank gauge.

First road trip will definetily be a U tube video..... and having too much fun with the roadster style maybe a problem. Have you ever considered desiging a simple jeep type canvass roof???

Reason I was asking about the HUP wiring diagram is I may try to give Rob a hand at finishing is wiring.

Man it's only 4 C this morning....will need to fire up Lucifer in the barn.

Plan to jack up the truck on 4 jack stand and bleed the brakes ( brake fluid is 4 years old) and do a fine touch lining adjustment.....easier with all wheels free turning.

Today will change the brake hydraulic switch and install the horn ring on the steering wheel and rebuild the wipers.
Vacuum wipers-s-s-s have be stripped down to selct the two best and new gasket made using the scanner from the computer.... they are all piped in place but need to be finished and tested.

Weather permitting will be sandblasting the seat pans and the tool box next week and paint the doors.....

Cheers

PS we used the same wiring diagram from the MB-C2..... my cab 11 has no side lights (yet) and the Brigth light on the diagram is shown as connected when the lwo beams are on....... I will do a cut and paper paste over the original diagram showing what changes I made.

[Stuart Fedak]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

First road trip will definetily be a U tube video.....

Cheers

Bob, when you are ready to fire your truck up and if you want to get some video, please send me a direct e-mail and I will bring out my camera and try to record some of this event. It may take me some time to do the final editing....

Cheers
Stuart

[Bob Carriere]

Will take you up on that.

Should be early June.

Re-adjusted all the brakes today and purged all the 4 year old brake fluid out with new more of the same synthetic fluid.

Greased everything except the U joints and that is for tomorrow.

Doors not fitting real nice....close with a solid clunk!!!!!

Wiring all done except for fuel tank sender on back order and turn signal switch.

Stay tuned.

[RHClarke]

With the enviro-nuts running the asylum in Ontario, spraying anything other than government approved herbicides (weak at best) on your lawn is verboten! This results in the proliferation of millions upon millions of dandelions. Pretty little yellow flowers that chokes your grass to death. And when they are ready to procreate, we get dandelion fluff blizzards. It is a sight to behold! Ask Bob.

This past weekend we decided to take advantage of the good weather and paint some parts out of doors. There was no wind, leaving just the Hammond Airforce to bother us. That is until we actually put paint to metal. Then the breeze picked up and the dandelions began their mating.

The result of all of this fluff is seen below. Bob was not impressed, and I am sure he can add commentary later on.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Hi Bob,

Sorry for not getting back to you earlier; My question regarding pictures was just out of curiousity to see the current status of your truck. The only real specific question I have regarding the wiring at the moment is what type of clips you have used to keep the wiring loom in place(?). From what I have been able to learn from my C8 is that the wiring in the engine bay does use some pre-welded clips on the inner panels of the nose..., as well as around the radiator....the wiring for the headlights are also snugly fit in place....but the loom going through the right chassis rails to the rear lights....seem to just "lay" in position without any clips originally? At least I haven't been able to find any remains of bolted or clamped clips on the frame rails.
I have bought some clips that can be clamped to the chassis rails (not used yet as I sill have to start wiring), but I wonder what others have come up with(?)

starting a thread called WIRING DIAGRAMS

Excellent idea Phil. Wiring seems to be a subject that comes up on the forum quite regularly, so it wouldn't hurt to put some of this info in a separate thread.

Alex

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Alex

I found a number of small 1/4 inch holes along the bottom of my frame and have used them with rubber covered P shaped clips.... in other area I found at a vintage car show old style spring steel clips that worked beautiful and also made use of long through the frame boltd holding for some of the tank and other brackets and added P shaped clips and and extra nut.

The welded engine side and rad tank clips do come in handy.

I still have to run the two wires to the fule tank and will make use osmaller spring steel frame clips..... I believe they are readily available in trailer supply shops for people rewiring their car float trailers...... I even got myself the old fashion cotton black tar impregated electrical tape from EBay.

Everything works, lights, ignition and a very growling loud 6 volt horn running on 12 volts.

I installed a voltage reducer RUNTZ on the fuel gauge and it works...... none needed for the amp metere and works well with the new alternator.

Cheers