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K10: Built HP60/241-205 Doubler/tons of tube

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1970worthog said:
Damn your garage set up is nice.



i seriously need to upgrade :haha:
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Wish it was mine. I'm 23 and still live at home. The rent is CHEAP, the food is free and I get two of the three garage stalls and the side yard so I can't complain. My parents are actually really cool about it all so for now I'm staying here. :waytogo:
 
I normally hate anything but the stock dash and gauges, but I like the way your dash turned out.

Are you happy you went with the EFI?

Martin
 
Awesome job, Man. Love the dash and the wiring. :waytogo:


If ya don't mind, where did you get the windshield defrost vents. With my cage dash bar, I need to reconfigure mine and those would work out great. :thumb:
 
82355 said:
I normally hate anything but the stock dash and gauges, but I like the way your dash turned out.

Are you happy you went with the EFI?

Martin
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For sure, so far in my driveway wheeling its been great! :)


NorCal69 said:
Awesome job, Man. Love the dash and the wiring. :waytogo:


If ya don't mind, where did you get the windshield defrost vents. With my cage dash bar, I need to reconfigure mine and those would work out great. :thumb:
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They're off summit. It's part of a defroster kit that they sell that matches their summit heaters.
 
Just trying to get final stuff buttoned up in the evenings.

Ran into a snag with the cable for the new shifter. I ran the 5' cable that came with it and it was about 8" too short. :doah:

I talked to Polyperformance because that's where I bought the shifter and he was honest enough to say he was going to be 1.5 weeks out which just isn't going to work with my timeline so I went to a local power transmission and cable business and they hooked me up.
Cost a bit but they made me a new identical cable today. Dropped it off at 7:45 before work and picked it up on my lunch break. Now that's service. :D

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Then we hooked up all the sending units and ran wires for everything up into the cab by the dash so tomorrow night I can bolt the last panel in and make a few quick connections and we'll be in business.

The oil pressure sending unit gave me trouble because it wouldn't clear the intake manifold and I couldn't extend it up because it would hit the bottom of the distributor. I ended up finding an 1/8" NPT 45* male to female fitting that kicked it out at enough of an angle to make it work...

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Tomorrow and through the weekend I'll finish the gauges and build the new trans crossmember to ditch the factory one I've been using all this time to hold it in place. Then Monday it's off to the trans shop for a new TV cable and to have it and this shifter hooked up and adjusted.

Then it's test drive time! :D
 
Glad you got it all figured out with the sending unit. You weren't kidding about the big o honk of cyl at the end. 2 more weeks
 
I had the same problem when I got my new gauges from JJ... had to get a 45* fitting and was all set. Looking good man!:waytogo:
 
It's a little late now, but I know on my sidewinder shifter the part the stuck out towards the back that held the cable could be re positioned. You may have been able to point that down and then the cable would have been ok. Truck looks awesome on the new tires!!
 
Dash is done! First time I've had a full set of functioning gauges in this truck!




 
My red top died last night, it spiked up to 16 volts and then started hissing. I took it in this morning and they gave me a new one so I put that one in and it charges at 14.8 volts at the battery and off the alternator stud so I guess we're good now.

I'm trying to get my lights working again and am running into a snag. I left the stock switch under the dash for now and when you turn it on the headlights work but no tail lights. Brake lights work too.

I traced it and I have three wires going to the back, dark green for one side, yellow for the other and black for ground. Anyone know much about this setup? Just trying to get the tail lights to kick on with again more than anything. If I power either the yellow or green it turns them on but not sure if that's the right way to do it.
 
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Avery4jc said:
I'm trying to get my lights working again and am running into a snag. I left the stock switch under the dash for now and when you turn it on the headlights work but no tail lights. Brake lights work too.

I traced it and I have three wires going to the back, dark green for one side, yellow for the other and black for ground. Anyone know much about this setup? Just trying to get the tail lights to kick on with again more than anything. If I power either the yellow or green it turns them on but not sure if that's the right way to do it.
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You sure about the black? On my '74, I remember a four-wire harness like trailer wiring, of light green, dark green, yellow and brown. This runs down the inside of the driver's side frame rail.

The ground is at the tail lights to the body, not part of the factory harness.

But I forget, did you do an aftermarket harness?

Totally unrelated, are you gonna do shifter knobs for your T-case?

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There is not a ground in that wire harness. There should be a left turn, right turn, tail light, and back up light. The lights get a ground at the left tail light area. There should be a short ground wire there stock. I'm not sure if you wired in your lights with the stock harness in the back or if you ran new wires to the back.
 
dremu said:
You sure about the black? On my '74, I remember a four-wire harness like trailer wiring, of light green, dark green, yellow and brown. This runs down the inside of the driver's side frame rail.

The ground is at the tail lights to the body, not part of the factory harness.

But I forget, did you do an aftermarket harness?

Totally unrelated, are you gonna do shifter knobs for your T-case?

-- A
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streetrodchev said:
There is not a ground in that wire harness. There should be a left turn, right turn, tail light, and back up light. The lights get a ground at the left tail light area. There should be a short ground wire there stock. I'm not sure if you wired in your lights with the stock harness in the back or if you ran new wires to the back.
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Yeah you guys are right. I posted that while eating lunch. Afterwards I looked up the schematic in my book and it shows the ground at the lights. The brown wire is for the tail lights. I energized it at the switch and they came on so I guess it's something wrong with the switch. Weird because they've always worked but for some reason they aren't now that I plugged the switch back in after all this work.
I'll have to mess with it this week.



dremu said:
Totally unrelated, are you gonna do shifter knobs for your T-case?

-- A
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Yeah eventually. Just trying to get the major stuff done before I go back through and do little things like that. I'll machine up something cool at work for them.



So it looks like the battery was the culprit of the voltage spike. I ran it a couple times today and it sat right at 14.5 - 15 volts at the alternator stud and battery posts. I'll keep an eye on it once I start driving it just to be safe.

I pulled the stock "W" shaped crossmember and started building a new one. I'm going to build another one further back tomorrow and start on some really basic under body protection mostly for the range box since it's aluminum.

It bends back so it passes under the CV of the front shaft. It's fairly close but since it's right under the CV even under extreme droop the front shaft won't rub.

Made it to here and ran out of wire!


So a 9:00 trip to Home Depot and I was back in business... finished...



Just used a couple of Kert's panel tabs for it. I have a poly trans adapter mount with a few tapped holes in the bottom so it sits on the tabs and a bolt runs up into it.

 
I love your dash, simple but very functional. Wish I would have done that to mine. Oh well I can always do that with the full vert k5 when I get it. I do believe I am going to grab one from you cali guys. I'll let you know when I am ready to pull the trigger.
 
jekquistk5 said:
I love your dash, simple but very functional. Wish I would have done that to mine. Oh well I can always do that with the full vert k5 when I get it. I do believe I am going to grab one from you cali guys. I'll let you know when I am ready to pull the trigger.
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For sure. My friends and I will find you one and make sure it all checks out before you even thought of making a trip out or paying for shipping.:waytogo:
 
Out with the old...


...and in with the new. I'm going to build another one further back and tie them together to make a skid for the range box and trans pan as well. Just need more time so for this trip it'll probably stay just like this.





For no body lift it tucks the cases up pretty high though. Way better than what I used to wheel with, that's for sure.



Loaded up and ready to go to the trans shop before work in the morning! He's going to run a new TV cable and hook up/adjust the linkage for my shifter. Should be doing a legitimate test drive tomorrow night.

 
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