66' F100, Modern Tow Pig

[laextreme5]

good stuff man, I can't wait till I can rewire my lexus when I go standalone eventually.

Thanks man. Im using this as bit of a practice run before i have to make the harness for the mustang.

I wish I was closer, one day with two guys and every circuit on that car could be replaced and you'd have all of your electrical squared away! Were the wires replaced by the PO from what you can see or do they look original? Here's a basic diagram to go off of, only reputable one I was able to find since "some-data" doesn't go back to 66' lmao.



Also it seems as if all of your lighting in powered in series, this means both head lights share the same power source and when the circuit is open or has resistance both will go out, if one light bulb is bad the entire circuit won't work. The wiring on this car seems to be super easy and will help you get real good with electrical basics. Have fun!

Totally forgot to thank you for that diagram. it helped a bit verifying things were run correctly and when where i thought they went. Hopefully this sucker cranks back over when im done haha

[190Evan]

good stuff man, I can't wait till I can rewire my lexus when I go standalone eventually.

[laextreme5]

Picked up some wiring supplies to finish up the wiring the other day.
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To finish off the mechanical side of things i threw on the new spark plug wires and the new fuel pump. Now all thats left is to change the oil maintenance wise.


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With the wiring supplies in hand it was back at it to get her running. Was not only repairing the wiring but i wanted to run it together and out of site, just to clean it up a bit. Also had my little man outside with me helping again.


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I also picked up some new plugs for the headlights and the front blinkers. The originals had seen much better days.



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[BozoBubble]

Yeah i fully intend to do a show quality job on it. Wifes already picked out the colors (she loves the old trucks and always wanted one). Besides she decorated our whole house and we get compliments on it all the time.

She is wanting to do a blue-ish teal outside and creamish-tan on the inside. Wheels likely a silver or grey with a brushed lip of some sort, no wooden bed as I intend to use this thing as a truck.

Not the greatest representation, but this is my dads car. Its a good indicator of the level of paint work i want to achieve, Flow coated, abotu 7 coats of clear i think, then color sand and polished slick.


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Man, if the paint ends up half as good as that Willys, we're all in for a treat!

[laextreme5]

your dad is cool

He has his momenets lol. He built that car from the ground up. fiberglass reprodunction shell and chassis. cage and such all by hand. Actually about to cut out the rear 4 link and put in a more race oriented one as the one that came on the chassis doesnt have enough adjustment.

[190Evan]

your dad is cool

[laextreme5]

Ah, well as a body shop professonal I can see why you can't leave the patina. On the bright side, that means it ought to have a killer paint job . I'm definitely in for this.



I wish I could claim the squarebody, alas, I found it on the net. I plan to eventually replace that sig with my own '75 Ford Supercab, but it's probably 1-2 years out from getting any work done on it. Unless you consider allowing it to continue setting in a field for those years as "building its patina"

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Yeah i fully intend to do a show quality job on it. Wifes already picked out the colors (she loves the old trucks and always wanted one). Besides she decorated our whole house and we get compliments on it all the time.

She is wanting to do a blue-ish teal outside and creamish-tan on the inside. Wheels likely a silver or grey with a brushed lip of some sort, no wooden bed as I intend to use this thing as a truck.

Not the greatest representation, but this is my dads car. Its a good indicator of the level of paint work i want to achieve, Flow coated, abotu 7 coats of clear i think, then color sand and polished slick.


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[BozoBubble]

While i like the patina as well, the wife hates it lol It will get repaired and painted in time. But its our last planned step so it will be a while. I work/help run a body shop so its kinda against the grain for me not to use my skills to bring her to beauty.

Ah, well as a body shop professonal I can see why you can't leave the patina. On the bright side, that means it ought to have a killer paint job . I'm definitely in for this.

Sorry for the quick thread hijack, but loving patina myself, is the truck in your sig yours? And if yes (or even no) is there a build thread somewhere for it?

I wish I could claim the squarebody, alas, I found it on the net. I plan to eventually replace that sig with my own '75 Ford Supercab, but it's probably 1-2 years out from getting any work done on it. Unless you consider allowing it to continue setting in a field for those years as "building its patina"

We now return to you regular thread programming.

[heeter_33]

As a fan of patina trucks, I'm more down with this than you can possibly imagine. Consider me sub'd.

Sorry for the quick thread hijack, but loving patina myself, is the truck in your sig yours? And if yes (or even no) is there a build thread somewhere for it?

[laextreme5]

As a fan of patina trucks, I'm more down with this than you can possibly imagine. Consider me sub'd.

While i like the patina as well, the wife hates it lol It will get repaired and painted in time. But its our last planned step so it will be a while. I work/help run a body shop so its kinda against the grain for me not to use my skills to bring her to beauty.

[BozoBubble]

As a fan of patina trucks, I'm more down with this than you can possibly imagine. Consider me sub'd.

[laextreme5]

Alright so on my day off today i was able to get a goo bit of work done today.

I started out by pulling out the engine bay wiring, going through it and sorting it out. I lost count of the amount of cut, spliced, damaged, and but connectors that were in the harness. It was atrocious.


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With it all unplugged, organized and label, i started to lay it out how i wanted to route everything, I decided on routing it down and along the frame rail, across the lower core support, and then up to the other side headlight/battery/altenator where ever the corresponding wire terminated.

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I still need to pick up some supplies to finish the harness. Some heavy gauge wire to make the positive/negative wire cables to the starter solenoid and starter, some wire loom and such. After messing with the wiring i started on the mechanical side of things. First order of business was to get the rad out. Im pretty confident in saying this was the original rad that i took out. There was SO MUCH gunk build up it was insane.

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Once i had the radiator out i had a chance to check out the inner fenders where they meet the core support and the core support itself. I had a good feeling they would be rotten in those areas and sure enough they were when the rad was out. I was planning on changing the core support in the future anyway, but it looks like I'm going to do the inner fenders as well. Its not too big an issue as they bolt in. Also found there glorious screws holding in the blinkers lol


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With the rust checked out and the rad out it was on to the spark plugs and spark plug wires. Nothing special here. typical easy plug change. New wires will look nice once on with everything else cleaned up too. Just wish there was an easy fix for those shitty run brake lines.


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[190Evan]

I wish I was closer, one day with two guys and every circuit on that car could be replaced and you'd have all of your electrical squared away! Were the wires replaced by the PO from what you can see or do they look original? Here's a basic diagram to go off of, only reputable one I was able to find since "some-data" doesn't go back to 66' lmao.



Also it seems as if all of your lighting in powered in series, this means both head lights share the same power source and when the circuit is open or has resistance both will go out, if one light bulb is bad the entire circuit won't work. The wiring on this car seems to be super easy and will help you get real good with electrical basics. Have fun!

[laextreme5]

Looks like a good start, I wish we could find old trucks with only that much rust around here. Excited to see where this goes!

believe me, there are some buckets of rust around here as well lol I actually found a bit more rust on this one. Needs a front core support, and the cab floor isnt too great. Could use a full front half floor pan. Need to pull the carpet up all the way to see just how far it goes. But for now im focusing on getting it runnign right and rust repair is down the road a bit.

[CTeunuch]

Looks like a good start, I wish we could find old trucks with only that much rust around here. Excited to see where this goes!