How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

Hard oil lines made up today. The flaring tool from Eastwood sure makes these job easy.

[Jordan Baker]

Lastly for tonight. I’ve got a couple of the electrical filters. I know where the small regulator filter mounts. However where does the larger one go? It was in a box of miscellaneous parts that came with the truck when I first got it years ago. I’m wondering if it mounts on the cab frame right below where all the wires and such go to the dash. I’ve got an extra set of holes there and the holes match up.

[Harry Moon]

I found mine originally in the location you spotted!

[David Dunlop]

That was fast, Harry!

Now all you have to sort, Jordan, is the correct orientation.

David

[Jordan Baker]

Well I managed to get the wiring all done. Everything checks out using an ohm meter making sure no shorts. The only issue I had was my fuel gauge had an open ground between the two prongs on the back and the case. This was causing my lighting circuits to be open with the grounding of the truck. I ended up taking the gauge right apart and replacing the two rubber grommets inside the case and the two on the holding clip. This fixed the issue.

Today I finally got around to cleaning up the oil filter. I also made up a set of the special standoff bolts.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Jordan, wouldn't the oil filter can be black?

[Jordan Baker]

From what I’ve researched there where a few different ones. The early ones were light grey. The later ones were simply satin black. This one, once all the grime was removed was shiny olive drab that had been over painted in flaking black paint. The decals were just visible.