ArdWrknTrk Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 You must be real proud of the inside of that hood!!! It did come out pretty good for the under side. I do see a little dust and 1 bug, had doors open but did not feel any breezes. I was kidding you about posting the SAME picture three times... Crap When I copied & paste I had to add the pictures back guess it did not copy the link right? I will fix it. Dave ---- It wasn't a criticism, just an observation. Sorry if I had a laugh at your expense Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 You must be real proud of the inside of that hood!!! It did come out pretty good for the under side. I do see a little dust and 1 bug, had doors open but did not feel any breezes. I was kidding you about posting the SAME picture three times... Crap When I copied & paste I had to add the pictures back guess it did not copy the link right? I will fix it. Dave ---- It wasn't a criticism, just an observation. Sorry if I had a laugh at your expense Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 It wasn't a criticism, just an observation. Sorry if I had a laugh at your expense Dave LOL I did not know I did that till you said about the same 3 pictures, guess that is why you said I was proud I just did not pick up on it. Guess I need to check my posts when they post. Dave ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 It wasn't a criticism, just an observation. Sorry if I had a laugh at your expense Dave LOL I did not know I did that till you said about the same 3 pictures, guess that is why you said I was proud I just did not pick up on it. Guess I need to check my posts when they post. Dave ---- Well..... that's why I put the rolling head emoji. It does look nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 Well..... that's why I put the rolling head emoji. It does look nice! Only a little work done today. Being the bed was off I wanted to test the wiring for the fuel gauge to both tanks. Being the sender plugs also have the ground in it I took a jumper between them and turn the key on and ..... nothing? Check my jumper connections even tried the other tanks still nothing! ????? Flipping switch back-n-forth thinking bad contacts, nothing. Cant find my test lights should have at least 2 so pull out the meter. It is giving me some strange readings of .5xx of a high and bouncing around? Start checking if I have power to the rear light plug where the tail light harness plugs in and get the same readings? Time to check fuses but the oil & temp gauges work, all look good and only missing the 25 amp for the cab lights, replace it any way. So thinking I need to see if I have power where the main harness plugs into the frame rail harness and found the issue! Never plugged in the frame rail harness and I now have fuel gauge for both tanks. By this time wife shows up going out for breakfast so I put her to work real quick. I get under and have her flip the fuel switch to see if I can hear / feel the fuel tank valve switch ...... nope! No noise of can feel anything so pull out the meter and I get power to it when on front tank IIRC so power is good, switch valve is bad and need to pick one up. I did look in up and it is not a cheap as I thought but thankful it is not the 6 port valve. BTW auto zone, rock auto, advance auto all say it takes the 6 port valve? advance auto I can get the 3 port but have to order it. After a little breakfast I tackle the intermit wiper switch & control box install I got off Ebay. Hardest part was finding a screw to fasten the control box to the lower dash frame and sanding said spot for a good ground. Last thing I worked on was the filler plates used on flare side on the back of the cab to finish off the lower corners because the bed is narrower than the style side beds. After sanding them better I found someone drilled 2 extra holes so pulled out the MIG and filled them in and ground them flush. They also have some rust so I brushed on 2 heave coats of Eastwood's rust encapsulator and hung them in the 90* paint booth .... garage and called it a day. Dave ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 Little more work done to the truck. Last weekend I ordered parts off Ebay, 3 port fuel tank switch valve, Lic. plate light to fit the flare side plate bracket and a radio, so I would have them for this weekend. Checked to make sure the new (open box) fuel valve worked and switched out it out. Had to do a little re-wire job as the new valve did not have the same connection. With the valve in I then added 5 gal. of gas to the rear tank. This tank is the default tank if the valve should fail. Removed the gas can under the hood and hooked up the tanks fuel line. Gas Gauge moved from below empty to the empty mark and that is just fin with me. Good thing the bed was off as I seen a leak at the hose to tank. I took up on the clamp and hope that will fixe it. I also checked the other clamps. I also want to replace the 2 roll over / vents and rubber grommets because 1 is loose and I am sure will leak with more fuel in it. It now runs off it own tank! The lic. plate light & bracket will need a little "fitting" to bolt up but not too bad. I picked up the light socket pig tail for the light on the way home from work today and why I got a late start on it. I then fitted the cab filler plates used on flare sides to the cab and pop riveted them in place. I fitted the radio to the opening and it fits pretty good and even the cut up bezel I have only needs a little fixing to look good. I gave a quick look for the truck side for wires. I have the speaker wires and the dash light wire but cant find the power wire. I also did not know what the wires did on the radio side so did not want to test it, they did not know if it worked but it was cheap enough and has all the mounting brackets I can use on another radio if I have to. I have done a search and now have the wire colors and what they do so may give the radio a test tomorrow but still need to find the power wire on the truck side. The truck side the wires were cut but the radio came with a "pig tail" of the truck side I can splice. I did not like the trailer hitch hanging so low and could get it up higher if I flipped some brackets around. Thing is some of the bolts use locknuts and don't come off to easily. I broke 1, cut another off after welding them to keep from turning and the other 2 did come off. Got the hitch back on the truck but need to pick up new grade 8 hardware and tighten it all up. Dave ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Little more work done to the truck. Last weekend I ordered parts off Ebay, 3 port fuel tank switch valve, Lic. plate light to fit the flare side plate bracket and a radio, so I would have them for this weekend. Checked to make sure the new (open box) fuel valve worked and switched out it out. Had to do a little re-wire job as the new valve did not have the same connection. With the valve in I then added 5 gal. of gas to the rear tank. This tank is the default tank if the valve should fail. Removed the gas can under the hood and hooked up the tanks fuel line. Gas Gauge moved from below empty to the empty mark and that is just fin with me. Good thing the bed was off as I seen a leak at the hose to tank. I took up on the clamp and hope that will fixe it. I also checked the other clamps. I also want to replace the 2 roll over / vents and rubber grommets because 1 is loose and I am sure will leak with more fuel in it. It now runs off it own tank! The lic. plate light & bracket will need a little "fitting" to bolt up but not too bad. I picked up the light socket pig tail for the light on the way home from work today and why I got a late start on it. I then fitted the cab filler plates used on flare sides to the cab and pop riveted them in place. I fitted the radio to the opening and it fits pretty good and even the cut up bezel I have only needs a little fixing to look good. I gave a quick look for the truck side for wires. I have the speaker wires and the dash light wire but cant find the power wire. I also did not know what the wires did on the radio side so did not want to test it, they did not know if it worked but it was cheap enough and has all the mounting brackets I can use on another radio if I have to. I have done a search and now have the wire colors and what they do so may give the radio a test tomorrow but still need to find the power wire on the truck side. The truck side the wires were cut but the radio came with a "pig tail" of the truck side I can splice. I did not like the trailer hitch hanging so low and could get it up higher if I flipped some brackets around. Thing is some of the bolts use locknuts and don't come off to easily. I broke 1, cut another off after welding them to keep from turning and the other 2 did come off. Got the hitch back on the truck but need to pick up new grade 8 hardware and tighten it all up. Dave ---- Dave - That's a landmark with it running off its own gas tank. Congrat's! But those leaks are a serious problem. You have replaced all of the hoses, right? I didn't and had a leak that caused the truck to stall after several miles on each run. On the radio, I assume you have the wiring diagram, but just in case: http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/radios.html. As for the hitch, was it yours or Ray's that was hanging so low? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted August 4, 2019 Author Share Posted August 4, 2019 Dave - That's a landmark with it running off its own gas tank. Congrat's! But those leaks are a serious problem. You have replaced all of the hoses, right? I didn't and had a leak that caused the truck to stall after several miles on each run. On the radio, I assume you have the wiring diagram, but just in case: http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/radios.html. As for the hitch, was it yours or Ray's that was hanging so low? Yes a land mark to have it run off its own tank. All the rubber supply lines are new when I put the tanks back in, even the small vent rubber hoses to the canisters up front. I am reusing the rubber filler hoses and it was 1 of them that was leaking at the tank, think the clamp was not tight enough. Only other thing I did not replace are the 2rubber grommets for the roll over valves and I will do them before I put the bed back on. On the radio wiring, I gave a look but only found the part numbers for the radios & speakers and doing a search found nothing. I went to that other site did a search and found what I needed just need to get out and test this radio now. It might be both of us that had the low hitch, I do remember someone else had it low also. When I put mine on I did it per the paper and after I got the bed on and then the bumper I did not like it that low. Before the flip Dave ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzFace2 Posted August 4, 2019 Author Share Posted August 4, 2019 Dave - That's a landmark with it running off its own gas tank. Congrat's! But those leaks are a serious problem. You have replaced all of the hoses, right? I didn't and had a leak that caused the truck to stall after several miles on each run. On the radio, I assume you have the wiring diagram, but just in case: http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/radios.html. As for the hitch, was it yours or Ray's that was hanging so low? Yes a land mark to have it run off its own tank. All the rubber supply lines are new when I put the tanks back in, even the small vent rubber hoses to the canisters up front. I am reusing the rubber filler hoses and it was 1 of them that was leaking at the tank, think the clamp was not tight enough. Only other thing I did not replace are the 2rubber grommets for the roll over valves and I will do them before I put the bed back on. On the radio wiring, I gave a look but only found the part numbers for the radios & speakers and doing a search found nothing. I went to that other site did a search and found what I needed just need to get out and test this radio now. It might be both of us that had the low hitch, I do remember someone else had it low also. When I put mine on I did it per the paper and after I got the bed on and then the bumper I did not like it that low. Before the flip Dave ---- We were to have rain since Firday night and be cooler ..... They should fire the weather man he was wrong on both counts. Sunny and 94* in my garage at 12:30 so called it a day but let me back up a little. Got out there about 7am and started cleaning out parts I had stored in the cab so I can blow it out really good before painting. I pulled the radio from the dash, no screws or wiring so was easy, so I could bench test it as the Ebay listing said "do not know if it works"? I am happy to report it does work, did not try the tape part, so for $60 I think it's a good deal. The radio came with pig tails so I pulled them from the radio. I did a little digging and found the yellow power wire, I have the others and did what was needed to solder & heat srink them to the trucks wiring that was cut when they PO removed the radio & HVAC controls. Think it took longer to find screws used to hold the radio to the dash. I want to use the wood grain bezel but it was cut a little to big but does not look to bad but it is made for the clock at the top and I don't have that so would need to close them off some how. I do have a black weave "Custom" that came with my truck that was also cut but I would need to open it up a little more and do some other repairs then try and get wood grain on it to match the gauge bezel & steering wheel. Before I installed the radio I made a trip to the hardware store to get the trailer hitch bolts but they were still closed till 10am and was not sitting around for half hour till then so on the way home I got 5 gal of gas for the front tank, never made it in got to hot and called it a day. That is when I went for the hitch bolts. When I got home and put them in the garage at 1pm it was now 96* yep time to call it a day besides I got to get up a 3am for work so I should rest a little LOL. Dave ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 We were to have rain since Firday night and be cooler ..... They should fire the weather man he was wrong on both counts. Sunny and 94* in my garage at 12:30 so called it a day but let me back up a little. Got out there about 7am and started cleaning out parts I had stored in the cab so I can blow it out really good before painting. I pulled the radio from the dash, no screws or wiring so was easy, so I could bench test it as the Ebay listing said "do not know if it works"? I am happy to report it does work, did not try the tape part, so for $60 I think it's a good deal. The radio came with pig tails so I pulled them from the radio. I did a little digging and found the yellow power wire, I have the others and did what was needed to solder & heat srink them to the trucks wiring that was cut when they PO removed the radio & HVAC controls. Think it took longer to find screws used to hold the radio to the dash. I want to use the wood grain bezel but it was cut a little to big but does not look to bad but it is made for the clock at the top and I don't have that so would need to close them off some how. I do have a black weave "Custom" that came with my truck that was also cut but I would need to open it up a little more and do some other repairs then try and get wood grain on it to match the gauge bezel & steering wheel. Before I installed the radio I made a trip to the hardware store to get the trailer hitch bolts but they were still closed till 10am and was not sitting around for half hour till then so on the way home I got 5 gal of gas for the front tank, never made it in got to hot and called it a day. That is when I went for the hitch bolts. When I got home and put them in the garage at 1pm it was now 96* yep time to call it a day besides I got to get up a 3am for work so I should rest a little LOL. Dave ---- Dave - Yes, that bumper is really low. But perhaps that's the way they were designed as I think Ray's is that way as well. However, they look odd. Hope the flip helps. As for the heat, that's way too warm. Hopefully it'll cool off in a few days and you can get back to it. But you do have the bolts and screws to make good progress when that happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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