Thanks! It looks like yours in the perfect candidate for the same style. Looks Good!

 

I have to keep my head low when I work on it. Every once in a while my wife will ask something like "and this is the 'driver' you bought?"

 

Keep your head up, she'll come around......

 

Well we're getting close to having this build thread current, but there are a few things we've done and documented. Here are a couple more links:
The first one is for the cowl vent install. Here's a few photos first:










And here's the link to the thread:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...-tutorial.html

And the next one is a12v wiper motor install:








And here's the link for that:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...d-pile-on.html

Most recently though we've been re-wiring everything, such as: Headlights










Running lights:














Taillights:








And Turn signals, to name a few.






Even the dog loves the truck enough to groom it.....




These are all works in progress, so no finished products. I'll have more photos and better explanations (and a few tutorials no doubt) when we start to button things up better.

 

I love what your doing to Old George. Looks like the dog has
found the smell of an old road kill. Isn't any skunk up your
way, is there. None down here, or porcupine.

 

Thanks Arctic Y for the kind words. We're having a great time, and hope you're enjoying the show.

This week we're back to the grind stone with work/school/both kids in sports.etc, but we managed to get a few things accomplished.

I have a line on some T5s so I wanted to know for sure what gear set I had instead of getting close with the spinning the back tires and counting the revolutions of the drive shaft. I also need to replace the fluid:






Chocolate milk....... so good






I couldn't figure out how to get the whole assembly out, so I took off the pinion gear so I could at least count everything




I have yet to 100% ID what I have other than I know it's a Ford 9".




From what I understand, a sure fire way to tell you have a 9" is that you will not be able to attach a socket to the bottom 2 nuts. I used this ratcheting wrench. There is not enough room to hand tighten the nut and then slide on the wrench, you have to put the wrench on first , then hand tighten the nut, then wiggle the wrench over the nut.




While I was prying on the case to get out the fluid and attempt to remove it I apparently stripped a couple bolts...... not enough room to get your handle in there so I had to improvise. Lets just say it took a while....


It turns out I have 2.75 gears back there,and so I'm currently trying to figure out if/what to change to.

 

Another project we've been doing is cleaning up the gauges and getting them ready for rewire. I needed new glass and finally have it back together:



I love these 3M connectors with the heat shrink and adhesive!






I chose not to repaint the needles so as to maintain the original faded theme.

 

Looking great! I'm going to try the same thing with the ebrake on my '49. I put in a 2000 Explorer diff. Any pointers, send my way please!

 

Thanks Doug! I've been following your build as well (lookin good). I did a little tutorial, not a lot of detail, but it may help some concerning my ebrake install. Here's the link:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...-tutorial.html

Keep up the good work, and hit me up with any questions.

 

We made some pretty good progress this week. All the lights are working including the turn signals (thanks to FTE's help). Note to self; when you have a turn signal unit you DON'T need to run a brake line! For some reason I thought I needed to run a brake line and turn signal lines...... but it's all good now thanks to some good folks on here. Here's some of what got done:



Been soaking these in vinegar




Here's what happened after a couple days




This is about a week






Had to do just a bit a grinding to fit in my new turn/running light




All cleaned and painted




A little tip: as soon as you take something out of vinegar it needs to be rinsed and either dried/painted or covered in oil right away or it will start to rust






Installed a 4 position headlight switch from Painless. It's a little loose as far as finding the positions, but so far it seems ok. I had to do some bending and tweaking to get it to fit.





Testing the headlight/harness:
Another bone head mistake I made was trying to test the H4 headlights with relays using a 6v battery I had laying around..... use a 12v






Gauges are in




Lights even work






Love the heavy duty headlight harness with the H4 bulb. Amber running light #1157 with clear lens cover


Thanks to some good fellas on here I'm running a fuse box, but I wanted to find a nice place to hide it that I could still get to it when I'm too old to stand on my head and look under the dash. I wanted to put it right next to the driver door and I thought an old tin box would be cool to place it in. I searched and found some old emergency kits that Ford made but they were pricey, so I found a fairly old Medical kit. It was plastic however and I was telling a buddy about what I wanted to do. He had bought some old medal med kits at an estate sale and asked if I wanted to use one of those:


The one on the left was the first one I found,and the one on the right my buddy gave me (for the price of a beer that is)








Should work pretty good.


Stay tuned.....

 

Nice work.

 

What a great idea for a fuse box hide! I have the original metal Ford 1st aid box and have hung onto it looking for a use. Found it!!


It's a little more rough than yours, but I think it's a great idea!

 

I'm jealous Doug........ That's awesome though! I shoulkd be mounting mine this week, and I'll let you guys know how it goes. Off to work (real work that is)

 

Well the Good Lord gave us this today:


So I got 1/2 day off work. Guess what I did with all that extra time. You guessed it! Got some misc things wired like gauges:





Yikes!




Help....




Put the fusible links in at the Alt and Solenoid


Then I got started on the fuse box:



Here's where it will go. Notice the 2 magnets from Lowe's. I was going to use those to mount it so I didn't have to put anymore holes through.


Then I remembered I had this Otter Box with a nice strong magnet that you can mount to the box:






Once it was mounted I covered it with tape because it picked up every single piece of metal in my garage/house/block. Do that first if you follow suit.



Didn't want to get rid of these hanger tabs, but they were in the way:




I wish the box was more like the plastic one in the sense that it is deeper and has a shallow lid. That would have given me more room for the wiring on the inside. Here's how I ran the wires in though:



Middle is for the power and the outer 2 will feed the box on either side.


Mock up:






Wiring started:



I had to bend the tabs up a bit so they would clear the sides. A little tight, but not bad.





The best thing about using the magnet is that you can move it to a more convenient spot when you need to change a fuse or work on it:





Here will be it's final resting place. Still need to dress up wires, but you get the idea:



It rests on that support,and I don't think it will ever fall off. If it does it won't go far anyway.....


Someone let me know if you think the magnet will affect anything concerning the wiring. I know magnets can do weird things, but I've never heard about it affecting electricity. Thanks!

 

The magnet will not affect your wiring. Nice job on the box.