Lurker OrrieG Progress Pics

[OrrieG]

Fixed the 4wd "in" light, I had the LED wired in backwards, which should have been a duh because diode by definition allow current to flow one way (red wire in, black out to ground for LED). All wiring is checked and good EXCEPT the HEI which I have faith in.

[focusedontheprize]

@OrrieG

Is your dome light as stock setup or did you do the LED modification?

[OrrieG]

Stock, decided to see how it looked, plenty bright for me. I will take a pic with it on, but not pointing at it.

Tried to start the truck today but having starter issues. It came with two starters, but the PO of the donor (daughter) had been having issues. former hubby had ground down the teeth on the starter and flywheel. I replace the flywheel but grabbed the wrong starter (shiney newer one but with ground down teeth). I pulled it and replaced with other (bench tested it to make sure solenoid was engaging and it spins) but it engages but will not turn the engine. I can turn the engine with a 9/16" wrench on the flywheel bolts so that is not the issue. Reading think it is shimming, will tackle it tomorrow.

[OrrieG]

Originally Posted by focusedontheprize

@OrrieG

Is your dome light as stock setup or did you do the LED modification?

I tried to take photo but my camera is not good enough. It is bright enough to see around the cab but would not want to read a novel using it.

[6BT 56]

Its been a while since you have seen the old girl make smoke i bet ! Must have felt good. Even if it was a bit short lived . Nice job on the electrical ! Looks great .

[OrrieG]

Yeah, big milestone for me, its been off the road 15 years or so.

[chevy_man5]

Way to go!! Everything is looking great!

[Wheelie]

Looking good and coming along nicely as always!

[OrrieG]

Start up video. First attempt at loading video. Sorry for it being sideways, phone interface issue.
http://s1156.photobucket.com/user/Or...ipped.mp4.html

[hsdropout]

Congratulations!!!! Good job man.
Major milestone; long time coming eh?
I got mine to move on it's own today also.
Thank you for the continuous inspiration.

[oldman3]

OrrieG, Congrats on the engine, glad to hear it running..Jim

[Kim57]

Congrats on getting it running.
Kim

[OrrieG]

Thanks guys I appreciate the feedback. I just pulled the hazard fuse, I think it may just be an issue with some feedback because none of the turnsignal, tail or brake lights are hooked up. If not then it might be something in the switch internals, if that is the case then looks like I will be going old school without the hazard feature I am not going to go back into the column or replace it unless it affects the turn signals. For all I know a bug could have crawled up in there for the winter and is causing the problem. Once had that happen with an old house thermostat, earwig got trapped between the contacts and when we went to turn on the heat for the first time in the fall he fried and furnace would not start. Little clean up and point file and I was good to go.

[mechanixman]

Great story about the earwig!
Is your camera have a bad microphone, or is the truck really that quiet?

[OrrieG]

I put on the longest Dynomax mufflers they had, this one I want to be relatively quiet for stalking thru the woods! And to keep the navigator happy. I have found the phone mic is very selective depending on the frequency, I was surprised how quiet it sounded on the clip too. If you listen right at the first you can really hear the alternator, but standing next to the truck I cannot, but my hearing is compromised in certain frequencies too.

[OrrieG]

During short test drive in and out of garage I noticed ebrake was not working. Turned out that I over estimated how the portion with the coiled spring would work and instead of it compressing in a gentle bend as the brake was applied it just kinked where it came out of the sheath in the frame. I checked the 74 truck manual and instead of the cable being perpendicular to the frame like I did it, is needs to be more parallel.

I made an oblong hole in the frame between the clutch shaft casting and rear spring saddle. Then fabbed a bracket to get the right angle. When that was done the cable ended up shorter. I ditched the frame pulley, shortened the stock back cable again and used a turn buckle as a connector and adjustment. Here are photos of the stock back piece, turn buckle, cable thru the frame and bracket before paint.

I hated removing the nice frame paint, hope I can get a good match back. Also the turn buckle is covered with a piece of heater hose, there was slight interference with the brake booster. Brake now works fine.

Also notice the th350 is leaking from the shifter shaft and another adjustment point on the passenger side. I am not going to worry about it until I have some miles on it, hopeful that it will seal it self back up. If not I hope the seals can be change from the outside...

[Denee007]

Awesome Orrie! I found this tool on Ebay for replacing the shifter shaft seal, but I don't know about the other seal that may be leaking, but maybe time will heal it!
Great work! I know you'll have it repaired in no time flat!
dne'


http://www.ebay.com/itm/190529677849...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

[Tx Firefighter]

The tools that Denee linked above work fantastic. I used to be a mechanic for the Post Office and put in thousands of shift shaft seals with a set like that. It takes about 5 minutes start to finish with them.

For a one time only deal, you can work around buying the tools by using little screws to pull the seal and a piece of conduit or socket to drive the new one in.

In the first picture, you can see where I drove two little tiny screws into the old seal and grabbed them with dikes to pull it out.



New seal tapped into place.

[oldman3]

TxFirefighter, you blow my mind sometimes with your repairs, seems there's nothing you don't try, and it always works, just great....Jim

[OrrieG]

Thanks for the info, will not be the first time I used a nut and stacked washers or socket to install a seal. Here is the other place it is leaking on the other side, does it have the same type of seal?? At first it looked like maybe one of the line fitting above was leaking but they are dry.

[OrrieG]

When I started up the truck I found that the throttle linkage conflicted with the HEI wiring. I bent the pedal arm, but then could not get full travel to open the secondaries. Solution was to take off the heim assembly, weld a tab to a coupling, and use a T nut to make a much thinner end.

[oldman3]

Nice job...Jim

[_Ogre]

just read where you have it running
yoohoo! orrieg

[jed971959]

the spot your tranny is leaking from looks like a pressure tap
it's just a threaded plug pipe tape or silicone should fix it
jim

[OrrieG]

Thanks Jim, sounds easy to fix.