How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Jordan


Took a while to find it but here is the Service Bulletin I was remembering.


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Interesting the addition of flex lines not found on earlier CMPs. Just shows why we find all sorts of configurations on things on CMPs as time goes bye that are not necessarily shown in the manuals. It is interesting that these little change do show up in the parts books.



Bart Vanderveen was able to narrow down the date of construction of certain CMPs by what combination of special or different parts using the different dates on of publication for the parts book.


Looking through the parts book it will have little notes like "after serial number ?????? use part number ?????." But then again you can find a particularly early CMP that has every single update done to it.


Cheers Phil


PS- What did you use to seal the gasket around the fuel gauge sender unit? The ethanol containing gas has plagued my trucks with weeper leaks that come and go.

[Jordan Baker]

Hi Phil.

Funny enough Brian Gough and I were just talking about that same thing of narrowing down build dates just the other day.

As for sealing on the fuel tanks I think I made gaskets from 1/8” neoprene.

[Jordan Baker]

Picked up the parts yesterday and spent most of the afternoon painting. Today I finished the painting and got all the bins installed. I managed to time my painting of POR and the SCC2 paint so that I could spray the SCC2 directly on the almost cured POR. I find the topcoat of paint really bonds to the POR and you get a very strong paint.

All of the bins painted and installed really changes the look of the truck. I like it

[Jordan Baker]

I also worked on my side and tail lights. All new wiring as I won’t use original 75 year old wiring on the truck. The socket bases were new made and they worked perfectly for installing the braided shielding. Lastly I found one of the original blackout disks that was fitted to the side marker lights. As if these lights didn’t give off much light to begin with.

[Jordan Baker]

Things are moving along nicely. The antenna mounts have been mounted to the roof. It’s odd punching a bunch of holes in the canvas. I also got the convoy light rebuilt.

[Jordan Baker]

Here is the truck as it stands now. I really like the look of the 2 gallon POL can carrier mounted at the front end of the box.