Work on My F8, No. 11

[Jim Price]

It's been a busy week! We accomplished the following:

Installed the front bumper and brush guard.

Reinstalled the headlights; had reversed them when we installed them originally.

Installed a pair of front running lights/turnsignals. (These are definitely not period and will be changed out for a pair of original lights and repositioned when I've found/made some wiring plug-ins for the original fixtures which I have.)

Installed a pair of rear turnsignal/brake lights under the bed as well as a pair of parking/running lights.

Installed the driver's side interior panels.

Ran the wires for all up to the area of the control panel. I'm having a set of the eight metal "labels" that identify what the 4 switches control made up by a local trophy shop and should have them early next week. With those riveted in place we can then complete the wiring of the control panel. I've placed a new decal on the speedometer face and purchased a new cable which we'll install next week. (Will need to take the truck over to a speedometer shop to have the correct gear installed to calibrate the speedometer.)

I've purchased several voltage reducers (Runtz) for use on the 6 volt gauges that are in the speedometer grouping. We'll wire them up this coming week as well.

We finished the wiring for the brakes and the turnsignals and all worked just fine!

Measured the space for the battery box and drew up plans based on those I found on a search of the MLU Forums. Thanks to all who contributed to that thread!

That's all for now!

Regards,
Jim