80's short box, "S.E.R.E." Box permanently attached to the cab.

[cybrfire]

Got quite a bit done yesterday.

Took the hydraulic assist cylinder apart and got a bushing put inside it to limit its stroke to 7". According to my measuring, my high steer tie rod sees 7.125" of travel. Decided I'd rather have the cylinder be the limiting factor rather than the steering stops. Went to put the cylinder on an discovered a lot of clearance issues. Gona have to build a custom mount for the cylinder and come up with clearance for the other end anywhere I can.

Back to the wiring, I found two mistakes in what I had wired up so far. Had a duplicate wire label in my harness. Got the mix up traced back and corrected. Totally forgot one wire off the aux. alternator regulator so I got that added into the harness. Rock lights were wired up as well as the light bar and Air compressor pressure switch and air compressor clutch.

By the end of the day I had lights turning on as well as horns honking and electric clutches engaging. Nice to get some of the harness tested before getting to far out there.

After that was all said and done, I spent some time getting some of this stuff written down so over the course of the next week I can diagram it all including wire colors. I hope to be able to make a picture that details what route each individual harness takes through the vehicle. This would be nice for trouble shooting. I could also detail things like where spare wires end in the harness.

 

[76zimmer]

Got quite a bit done yesterday.

Took the hydraulic assist cylinder apart and got a bushing put inside it to limit its stroke to 7". According to my measuring, my high steer tie rod sees 7.125" of travel. Decided I'd rather have the cylinder be the limiting factor rather than the steering stops. Went to put the cylinder on an discovered a lot of clearance issues. Gona have to build a custom mount for the cylinder and come up with clearance for the other end anywhere I can.

Back to the wiring, I found two mistakes in what I had wired up so far. Had a duplicate wire label in my harness. Got the mix up traced back and corrected. Totally forgot one wire off the aux. alternator regulator so I got that added into the harness. Rock lights were wired up as well as the light bar and Air compressor pressure switch and air compressor clutch.

By the end of the day I had lights turning on as well as horns honking and electric clutches engaging. Nice to get some of the harness tested before getting to far out there.

After that was all said and done, I spent some time getting some of this stuff written down so over the course of the next week I can diagram it all including wire colors. I hope to be able to make a picture that details what route each individual harness takes through the vehicle. This would be nice for trouble shooting. I could also detail things like where spare wires end in the harness.

Detailed wiring harness....great idea, that way I can check it out!

 

[JoshHefnerX]

I've wired a car before, and didn't have your dedication to labeling. Have gotten better about it. But the fact that you are making diagrams make you 'da man' !

 

[78K30]

You will definitely love that in the future should something happen! Could you kindly show the people at AGCO how to write good schematics when you get a chance? Because they suck at it

 

[mtnman]

You will definitely love that in the future should something happen! Could you kindly show the people at AGCO how to write good schematics when you get a chance? Because they suck at it

Just rewired a Deutz-Allis 9190.... I totally agree!

 

[cybrfire]

A Christmas gift from the wife. This will be considered a permanent part of this trucks outfitting.

Pretty sweet little cook stove. Very small and light. Maybe larger than you'd back pack with?? Not sure on that but excellent for the pickup gear. It's a forced air cook stove. Charge once initially and from then on the heat from the fire charges the battery so, if used once every six months, it should never need to be charged again. Heat creates enough charge that after a few minutes of burn time, you can put a charge in a cell phone or what have you. Check 'em out here,

www.biolitestove.com

 

[cybrfire]

Got my wiring harness terminated at the firewall.

Started on the portion of harness that passes through the firewall and expect to have that done over the course of this weekend. Thank god for holiday weekends.

 

[stump_puller]

Very nice harness. so clean. way better than what I would do for myself. I always seem to do way better jobs for other people than myself.

 

[campfire]

A Christmas gift from the wife. This will be considered a permanent part of this trucks outfitting.

Pretty sweet little cook stove. Very small and light. Maybe larger than you'd back pack with?? Not sure on that but excellent for the pickup gear. It's a forced air cook stove. Charge once initially and from then on the heat from the fire charges the battery so, if used once every six months, it should never need to be charged again. Heat creates enough charge that after a few minutes of burn time, you can put a charge in a cell phone or what have you. Check 'em out here,

www.biolitestove.com

I like that stove!

 

[76zimmer]

nice job on the wiring Kert.

 

[JoshHefnerX]

I've almost gotten one of those stoves a couple of times. When you use it post up a mini review on it.

 

[cybrfire]

Very nice harness. so clean. way better than what I would do for myself. I always seem to do way better jobs for other people than myself.

I used to be that way to, always short cuttin' my own stuff on account of time or some other influence. Not this time! I'm putting some effort in to every single piece on the truck.

I like that stove!

I do to. Wife really caught me off guard with that one for Christmas. Had no idea I wanted one till I got this one. Gona order up a bag or back pack for it so I can pack all my cooking equipment into one convenient "kit." Then, store that in the back of the truck at the ready.

nice job on the wiring Kert.

Thanks Dave. Had a few minutes today to start working the harness through the firewall. Probably finish that up this weekend and if I'm lucky, i'll settle the steering assist cylinder.

 

[campfire]

I used to be that way to, always short cuttin' my own stuff on account of time or some other influence. Not this time! I'm putting some effort in to every single piece on the truck.

It shows.

 

[cybrfire]

Thanks!

 

[cybrfire]

240 watts if memory serves me.

Got the steering cylinder and all the mounts tacked on. Might make a change to this one yet.

 

[cybrfire]

OH! and I did get the wiring harness though the firewall. Now i'll make a disconnect point on the inside of the firewall so in the end, there will be a short bit of harness that stays in the firewall, or rather in the firewall plate that is removable.

 

[truck-oholic]

I don't know if it's just the angle of the pic or what but that ram looks like it's really close to that spring plate and running over damn near the middle of it. This makes me wonder two things. 1) Where are you going to put your bumpstops? 2) Are you not worried about the play in the tie rod ends letting the ram bracket and bolt get into the spring plate? They always seem to want to twist a little even if you set them up perfectly straight to begin with.

BTW, on an unrelated note, I've been trying to get Ian Johnson to use some of your parts for an upcoming 90 Suburban build that he is starting for Xtreme Offroad. Hopefully he'll be giving you guys a call. I am sure he will be using some ORD parts but it would be nice to see DIY4X be represented too.

 

[cybrfire]

It's really damn close to the spring plate. Closer than I'd like it to be but not sure there is much I can do about it. Got it as far away as I can. Only thing I could do is take it higher and then we're getting closer to the oil pan.

Unless...

I suppose I could go in front of the axle underneath the tie rod. I'll have to look at that. I guess that's why I just tacked things together. Not 100% happy with it right now.

EDIT: as far as front to back, it's over top the front leg of that ubolt so that's some angle you're seeing in the photo. It's tight for a bump stop. Possible but tight!

 

[truck-oholic]

Yeah, going into my build I knew hydro assist high steer was going to mean tight packaging. That is one of the reasons I went reverse high steer with WFO arms to get the tie rod and ram out of the way more. Do you really need the high steer or could you live with crossover only and move the tierod and ram down to the stock location and use one of your diff cover ram mounts or just roll that ram tower down?

 

[cybrfire]

Staying with high steer, I don't think I have many options. Going in front of the axle under the tie rod, the leaf spring itself will be in the way.

I could go with low steer, just would rather not. I intend on driving this truck to and from the wheeling events as well as some off the beaten path hunting/camping excursions so a bent tie rod would be a bad deal. I suppose a person could carry another one for a spare.