74 power wagon dream truck...

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Just for something else for you to loose sleep over, the radiator support is also body color, no Chevy black on Mopars.
 
sireland67 said:
Just for something else for you to loose sleep over, the radiator support is also body color, no Chevy black on Mopars.
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I can assure you I won't lose a wink! LOL..
I'm sure Ma Mopar never painted their divorce transfer case gold LOL or their transmissions black. Anyways it's more of a resto mod than an OE restoration...
Thank you for the heads up though...
 
mpgmike said:
Makes you appreciate different colored wires. Had an issue on a Freightliner with the electric side mirror. Kept writing it up for repair. Eventually, the shop mechanic showed me the wiring diagram where every wire was white. I relented that I could live without the power mirror functioning.
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OH i found this out when i started working on school buses, all wires are white with numbers stamped on them ,what a pain in the A#* its hard to read the numbers, and im only 50..
 
So I've been running everything out of the passenger side. The upper White wrapped wires are for the front and you can barely see the lower ones go to the back. The two top hoses are water and the two bottom ones are for AC.. I have a little check valve for the water coming in and I'm kind of back and forth whether I want to put it under the dash where it could be reachable or just out in the engine compartment... Being reachable it would be in the driver's compartment and probably turned on in the winter and turned off in the summer... So really having it in there isn't doing me any good for the most part but offering two more places for a potential leak which I wouldn't want on the inside... I would think it would be easier to install on the outside as well and still be hidden inside the fender... I plan to run all those hoses kind of inside the fender as well. I was also hoping to put the AC dryer inside the fender...
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Also I put up a search for these critters I knew I had them somewhere. I've got stuff stuffed all over the house so I've got to look high and low. I did look high and low and couldn't find them and just a little while ago was playing my guitar and looked down in there they were lol..
And now I doubt if I'll put them in I just don't see any need for them...
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Are you going to fire up the engine when you get the wiring sorted out ?
 
fishmens67 said:
Are you going to fire up the engine when you get the wiring sorted out ?
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One of the few things. But also like to get the exhaust finished... I got a set of generic long and bent pipes to start the fabrication of that but still got a ways to go with the electrical.... Course I want to put relays on the headlights and I don't want my snowmobiles to weep too much over the next 2 months..
 
j par said:
So I've been running everything out of the passenger side. The upper White wrapped wires are for the front and you can barely see the lower ones go to the back. The two top hoses are water and the two bottom ones are for AC.. I have a little check valve for the water coming in and I'm kind of back and forth whether I want to put it under the dash where it could be reachable or just out in the engine compartment... Being reachable it would be in the driver's compartment and probably turned on in the winter and turned off in the summer... So really having it in there isn't doing me any good for the most part but offering two more places for a potential leak which I wouldn't want on the inside... I would think it would be easier to install on the outside as well and still be hidden inside the fender... I plan to run all those hoses kind of inside the fender as well. I was also hoping to put the AC dryer inside the fender...
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This guy is not screwing around wow like a new truck!
 
4.7Light said:
This guy is not screwing around wow like a new truck!
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Thank you.. I caught myself the other day laying underneath the truck looking at what I was going to do with the exhaust and then my eye catches this and catches that and the next thing I know I'm just laying there admiring the work LOL...
 
I like how you're runnin the coolant and A/C hoses. So many people just run that stuff right over the top of the engine and it looks like dried up, roach infested, rotten dog ***. That's gonna look good.
 
RustyRatRod said:
I like how you're runnin the coolant and A/C hoses. So many people just run that stuff right over the top of the engine and it looks like dried up, roach infested, rotten dog ***. That's gonna look good.
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Thanks.. there's no way I can think of to hide them or make them disappear. So I'm just running them all together straight down towards the passenger lower turn signal and up and around tucked up into the passenger fender...
 
j par said:
Thanks.. there's no way I can think of to hide them or make them disappear. So I'm just running them all together straight down towards the passenger lower turn signal and up and around tucked up into the passenger fender...
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Naw, nobody's figured out how to do that yet, but that doesn't mean they caint be neat as possible. That's the one main reason I won't build a turbo slant. Not one single turbo slant build I've seen looks very neat. Lines and hoses and wires runnin all over. Ain't doin it. lol
 
A little more progress..
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The fender wrapped in front of the hoses and wires like I wanted. I still may put a little 6-in piece of that white braiding over those black houses to kind of hide them as they come from the firewall and Tuck behind the fender...
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Just in case you or anyone else wanted to go to manual brakes, here is a video I made about it. Hope it helps somebody
 
I put a good 7 hours into the wiring and it almost "looks" like nothing was done...
But to make it "look" simple, a lot of slow tedious work needs to be done...
 
I like how all those hoses are gonna be outta the way. That's gonna look real nice.
 
could you please paint the wheel, it's ruining the affect. :thumbsup:
 
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