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Battery cable flag to crossmember on the way to the block. My '87 has a braided strap from the drivers floor pinch weld to the front cab support, in addition to the wire from the wiper motor to the intake manifold bolt.

You can use anything you like. I don't need attribution. Though I'm sure you can get better pictures than what I have.

Yup, bricknose trucks have a seatbelt retractor in the lower rear edge of the door jamb. This caused me some trouble when I had to replace the B pillar 'shoe' because Tabco only makes the bullnose version. Lots of details, like the vent window/front track, door handle, etc... are different

"sender" is a single wire resistor to ground for the gauge. "sensor" is two wire for the computer. The terms are different.

I don't have it on my phone and I don't have a pc any more. I know I've posted the number (and probably the text) on FTE before. If you care to search my user name and 'wiper speed control' or 'governor module' -or some combination- I'm sure it will pop up.

The whole cab would swap, but the harness is different where it all comes through the firewall. And the lower fender mounts are in a different spot. And the blower plenum. And.... If you got the title with the cab the truck could become a '87-'90, but Idk what that would mean for emissions and such where you live. ETA: the '87 dash is also a completely different contour where it meets the door panels.

The reason the governors are mounted in foam rubber is because in a manual truck the shock of releasing the parking brake causes the heatsink inside to crack the solder joint. Says right on the case "Do Not Drop" And that expensive (over $100) little component is toast unless you know how to fix it. There is a service bulletin outlining this procedure. Mine has been wrapped in foam and zip-tied up behind the fuse panel for this reason. Haven't had to replace it since I did that.

Yup, pretty close to me. I used to have a girlfriend in the Wallkill/Walden area.

The rubber piece would need to be the size of the green backer in order to clamp the bezel tightly to the dash panel. That is, if the bezel is the same thickness as the panel, and I don't know if you could go thin enough to make it work otherwise.

Nope. Not an engaget page. This is from the MIT website. http://news.mit.edu/2015/centimeter-long-origami-robot-0612

I guess i cant figure out how to work the YouTube *inbed from my phone. Search 'CSAIL Origami' and it will take you to an MIT page with the video *Edited to change auto correct more relevant to a fortune cookie than our 21st century on the web.

Not to get too far off on this tangent. Shape-shifting is already happening. It's pretty easy to imagine something the size and thickness of a matchbook slipping under a door or crawling through a knot hole like you see in the video. Just take a look at a humanoid robot doing a backflip or a semi wheeled robot racing up and across a table. https://www.bostondynamics.com/robots All this is very early days... The sensor suite on AV's and their processing power can detect 'threats' like a car braking a few cars in front of it. There's a video of this in an IRL situation avoiding a rear end accident. It would be trivial to have *every* AV logging *every* license plate, with GPS location data, and the travel direction and velocity of each plate. Combine this with the situational awareness of 5G meshed autonomous vehicles and a small dose of AI... Skynet becomes a reality with the suggested nationalized 5G system, just like the "Total Information Awareness" 'predictive policing' of the Bush administration *has* become a reality. Almost every one of us carrying a location transponder with facial recognition, banking history through Apple/Google Pay or PayPal in our pocket. How many people have 'trained' their Alexa, Bixby, or Google Assistant to recognize their voice? Does anyone doubt that Amazon does dynamic pricing based on an algorithm of their purchasing habits? How about adchoices or purchase suggestions revealing a teen daughters pregnancy? Or??? It's a feature, not a bug! Those cameras when you walk in to Target, Walgreens, or the supermarket are all tied to their facial recognition database of known shoplifters. (Don't ask why I *absolutely* know this. Just know she isn't my problem, any more) The latest disclosure of fitness trackers revealing the layout of secret military bases and other places where phones are not allowed due to security concerns is more than a bit discomforting.... I'll end my paranoid rant with the suggestion that data is only data in isolation. When meshed with every other bit of data and teased out by powerful algorithms at a server farm In Bluffdale, Utah it is a picture of 1984. It is also a more intimate picture of you than even you are aware of.

I'm intrigued by the whole 'robot printing a robot printer' bootstrapping thing started by MakerBot.

Just like Janey saw the r right away.... The leg on the bottom of the 'L' looks too long. This will/is throwing off the space between G & L. Definition is much better in acrylic. Gary, since you have it in hand, what do you think of the result? I've got no dog in this fight because none of these will fit my bricknose dash anyhow but if it were me I would want the height and corner radii to match the dash regardless of what it was from the factory. Concours originality would not be a reproduction in any case.

If you put flanges onto what's left, where will the muffler(s) be if you decide to change them? Under the passenger's feet? Or is that cut at the back of the cab?

If you're trying to make it easy go with a big 2x 2 1/2" in/single 3"out muffler like I have. BearRiver makes them in stainless (in a few lengths) Mine is a Walker from their heavy duty line. 14Ga., fully welded with dome ends intended for an IH school bus.

All 250 7.5 efi from 88- would have a converter. They welded the glasspacks right where the flange should be.

That looks factory. The 450 has a real Wye (collector) and the O2 bung in the single pipe. I think I posted pics of this and offered it to you back then. But I'm going to go with it as soon as I get some traction

Behind the wye???? Wouldn't you just use a single 3"?

Isuzu Rodeo/Honda Passport. There are all kind of flanges available from companies like Walker, Nickeson, and others. I will just cut the flange off the old muffler because it's in decent shape. I ended up making one for my truck last year because I wanted to keep the stock carbed configuration. Yeah, the EFI flange is massive. If you want that flange you might see if the mid-pipe for extended wheelbase comes with a single (dual) flange. If you want dual Magnaflow's you can choose a gasket, then get 4 flanges. Put everything up in place and tack them. Take it down and weld on the bench.

Not much of anything to *my* truck lately, but I did come down to PA and sorted a few things on my nieces truck. Mounted a pair of LED fog lights and got the relay working. Had to redo my harness because I didn't take polarity into account, and had just run it the way it was. Put new spring shackles in the rear. And bought some new Hanook M&S radials. Replaced the muffler and tailpipe. I should have paid more attention to the converter flange! I guess there's always another day.... Chased a missing ground in the dash. But the sun has set and the wind has been blowing through me so I packed it in.

There is definitely something weird going on if the blower (which always has power) is using the taillights for ground. Is the blower functional on all speeds? Do you have taillights if the blower is on high? Do the wipers work? (checking another circuit that always has power in 'run') Scotchloc connectors are an abomination. . And camper/trailer wiring is the cause of many nightmares. But I think the ground issue is somewhere up front, where the blower ground is. Check the lighting ground for power, with the lights off and the blower on. Potential on both sides of the bulb will cause it not to light up. (this is how the charge indicator works)

If it has the extra deck height it has to be a 351. I can imagine when the P.O. put the engine in he put back all the 302 emissions stuff and it would look legit.

ColorFabb is in the Netherlands. I know metallic filaments are available here. *And* that none of these bezels are filament printed. Just the idea of changing colors in the middle of a print..... or changing the color *of* a print (selectively) is what gets me. Anyone remember having one of those ballpoint pens in the '70's with like a dozen colors you could choose???? Every tech has to start somewhere.... It was not long ago that BD's first stumbling, noisy, and tethered robots were presented. Their Cheetah and Atlas are just what we know about, now. AI, fuel cells, smaller computers, lidar, and all the other tech is advancing at an exponential pace. Who knows what kind of dyes will be developed, or what kind of resolution will be available in the near future? Will some shapeshifting colorchanging mashup of Terminator and Predator be far behind? /S but maybe not really

Gary, I was looking yesterday at ColorFabb's metallic filament. And thinking about why the silver border and letters of the bezel couldn't be incorporated into the print itself. This of course led me down a rabbit hole that found this which is from MIT's CSAIL. You know, the ones who brought us Boston Dynamics, the somewhat horrifying dystopian robot manufacturer that was started with funding from DARPA, spun off from MIT, sold to Alphabet (GoogleX) and then bought by SoftBank, the Japanese Telcom who has a controlling interest in Sprint..... Anyway, I think the new color changing 3D printed tech from CSAIL's lab is really pretty cool. They also have printed objects that fold like origami.... closing the loop back to Japan. Imagine if you could control shape or color of your printed object like an octopus can change its color and texture! /geek