How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

Finished making up the muffler and tail pipe hangers today.

[Jordan Baker]

Thais to the help of another MLU’er, I made up the two battery box mounting trays for the back of the truck. I still need to add a few small things but all the big work is done. I also tried one out to see how it looks with the battery box in place. Lastly I installed the tail pipe and hanger bracket.

[Jordan Baker]

I got a nice package from John Bizal of Midwest Military today in the mail. Brand new made flexible fuel lines.

[Bob Carriere]

two for the selector valve.....

two for the frame mounted fuel filter and one just before the pump?????

Am I correct??

I used fuel lines for Jeeps some from de Bella some from Brian A.

On New Years day roll out, I discovered that one of my fuel tank cap was off and dangling from the chain.......how much evaporated is a mystery but will need to suck out the remaining gas for parts washing and refill in the Spring.

Cheers

[Jordan Baker]

Three for the fuel tank selector valve and one at the fuel pump.

I’ll be remaking my hard lines tomorrow. Somehow I made them from 5/16” tube when the manual clearly calls for 1/4” tube. Not sure how I mixed that up but oh well.

[Jordan Baker]

Well I never did get to making up the hard lines. Other events called me away for a few hours. But I did get three of the flex lines installed on the change over switch. When I was removing the elbow from one of the fuel tanks it cracked the pickup tube off the tank. Thankfully it was an easy fix. Everything was re-soldered into place. It was interesting to see just how this piece was made and functioned.

[Jordan Baker]

They aren’t the best pictures. However I did finally get the hard lines made up and installed this afternoon. Now I just to sort out the route for the hard line from the fuel filter to the fuel pump. Does the line come down into the chassis or stay up with the cab frame?