How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

Phil, On your HUP where do you run the fuel line from the filter to the fuel pump? My filter is the same as yours on the outside of the frame.

[Jordan Baker]

Not much of anything has been done on the truck since January as the shop isn’t heated. However yesterday I did fire up the engine for the first time since I installed it. Things went very well and it runs great. I’ve got a few little things to sort out such as switching over the wires on the ammeter (when I honk it shows a charge). I also have a small drip coming from my oil guard line at the union above the engine.

Anyways enjoy the YouTube videos. They aren’t Hollywood quality but better then the high school specials.

https://youtu.be/jn8E1ceLJM4

https://youtu.be/92aZhmHNGBM

[David Dunlop]

Nice milestone to reach, Jordan. Congratulations!

Transmitting from the back of her next?

David

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Phil, On your HUP where do you run the fuel line from the filter to the fuel pump? My filter is the same as yours on the outside of the frame.

Hi Jordan

I'll dig out some photos showing the original routing, I made some minor changes when I added an electric fuel pump.

Enjoyed your video, it is great when you get to this point in the restoration. When I was doing my HUP the engine had been well run in on test stand and then I painted the engine and installed it in the HUP and it would not run period. At first it would not even crank over, took a while then I realized that the paint was a good insulator. Little cleaning and adding a heavy ground strap from the chassis to the engine and things started to work and it started.

Cheers Phil

[Jordan Baker]

Thanks for the compliments. As for transmitting from the back.. well that will still be awhile.

Yes Phil I to had the issues with over painted parts. I picked up a brand new heavy duty 6v battery from a supplier the other day and then when I hooked it all up nothing. I even put in the external toothed washers to give me a better connection. Still nothing. Then it dawned on me, too much paint. So a sanding drum in the Dremel and i cleaned off the paint where the main ground goes. Hooked it all up and voila the engine cranked over nicely and it fired up once I gave it some gas.

I also added another ground from the bottom of the starter down to a chassis cross member. Conveniently there was a bolt hole on the cross member. Ill be adding a few more grounding straps as I do find they work very well. Plus this truck, being a wireless one seems to have been covered in them.