New Stuff
Been very very busy lately and I haven’t gotten nearly as much done on the truck as I had hoped. But a lot has happened! So I’m going to spread it out over a couple of posts lest it end up being six pages long. First things first:
The welder looks like he is going to work out perfectly. In fact, I already have all my panels and I’m ready to take him the truck – I just haven’t had the time to do it yet. Funny thing happened on the way there, though. I had been working extensively on the electrics under the dash – rigging up some new lighting for the instrument cluster (more on that later). All the dash items were working fine when I got done – I swear. I got up early to take it over to the welder and see what he thought. I started her up and headed to the highway – which requires a turn or two. Yeah, that’s when I noticed that the blinkers weren’t working. About 15 minutes later I realized the windshield wipers weren’t working either. Ha ha! Excitement. So I made the hour long journey with clinched butt cheeks praying that it wouldn’t rain (which it seriously looked to be wanting to do). I got there and he looked it over and gave me an estimate – $600. Sounded good to me – so I said I’d be calling him soon. I then spent an hour being chased by a rain cloud on the way back. It caught up with me about a mile from home – but I squinted a lot and made a distressed face to protect myself, so I made it ok.
Somehow – and I’m really unclear on this – I managed to fry like 5 of my fuses. They pass a continuity test fine, and their resistance is fine – but for some reason they weren’t working. I replaced them and everything is good now.
It was exciting at least.
Next post: dash pad restoration.