New Hampshire CMP Barn 2011- 2012 HUP Overhaul

[Phil Waterman]

Well after spending 2 days cleaning up and setting up the other engine, I started it this afternoon. After the smoke cleared from all the oil put in the cylinders when I put the engine away it settled right down and ran just as smooth as it did before it came out of the C60S Beauty.

But to the big question oil flow and pressure. Looks to be exactly the same as the rebuilt engine. So maybe what I was worrying about is actually their normal state of operation. Got to fix a couple of minor coolant leaks and then I really give it a long run to double check everything.

The work to get the engine completely setup just as it came out Beauty is not wasted. Now I have the original engine from Beauty all set up.

Cheers Phil

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

I had put the wiring harness in several weeks ago, but this week I started actually connecting everything up and powering up the lights. Wiring harness is a duplicate of the original harness that I made up about 20 years ago. So things went pretty smoothly other than dirt or fading made reading some of the color traces hard. Took two days to get the dash and rear lights all connected up and working.

Only problem that I have not figured out is that the when the brake lights come on they are not brighter than the tail lights. Bit of a problem only way you can tell that the brake lights come on is that two more of the little tail lights come on.

While in the big modern tail light assemblies that have two element bulbs 1154s. When the only the brake is on that element is noticeably brighter than the tail only but when both are on together there is no difference. So I suspect a cross connection or poor ground in one (both) of the tail light assemblies.

When I made the new harness I used all the correct color codes and sizes (modern wire but with cloth covering) it is copper wire instead of the original steel strand wire. I have the original harness all pinned out on a 3x8 piece of plywood with all the wires labeled. Is what I have used to make wiring harnesses and as a large reference.

Cheers Phil

[Harry Moon]

If your taillights are the bigger rubber ones you can get 6 volt LED bulbs to fit in them
i used LED on my brake lights on my CMP when it was 6 volt the work on a 2 bulb circuit but not a 4 bulb circuit. It did make them much brighter than the running light.
Now though I switched the battery and the voltage regulator to 12 volt and put LED bulbs in all the lights including the dash lights. I put a pencil light as the running lights on the back and the larger early rubber lights for the break lights, cause I had a pair available at the time.

I was out working on my 20 CWT trailer, all set up and making progress when my wife dropped by and whispered in my ear, "there's water under the hot water tank".....