How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

Interesting find with the wiring diagram. It makes sense that the plug socket wouldn’t be live unless the switch is on. I’m not sure how the pigtails worked or what the purpose for them was being so short.

As for the Arkless switch. I picked up a few take off lights from a few different sources and they had those switches. The switches had been over painted with paint matching on the wooden base. I found the rest of my switches on eBay.

[M.Morren]

Dove into my manual again and found that the switch wasn't even mentioned in the parts/equipment list. It was added manually in this one.
Equipment list mach-zl dome light.jpg

I also found some more proof of the originality of the ARK-LES Heavy Duty switch. A switch, which closely resembles the one you found, was drawn In one of the 3 "Location Of Equipment" drawings. (on the left side of the dome light)
location of equipment mach-zl dome light detail.jpg

This is enough evidence for me to start looking for them.
Thank you for sharing the info on the switches (And everything else in this thread!)

[Jordan Baker]

It’s been a long time posting any updates on this truck. Partly it’s been that most of the truck is done and there is just small details to work on. However 2022 has been mostly spent on building a new home for the vehicles. I’ll post a separate thread on the shop shortly. But for now a teaser……

[Bob Carriere]

....looks like 30 x 50 with a full second floor.

Make sure it is fire proof!!!!

[Jordan Baker]

This past year and a half the truck has not been out much. The last time it was out, the carb gave a lot of issues. So tonight I decided to pull it apart for a rebuild. Well I’m glad I did, as the bowl and passages were full of rust flakes. The lower body was totally stripped down. This is now currently soaking in a tub of Evaporust. Hopefully this will get the passages cleaned up

[Jordan Baker]

After soaking the lower body in evaporust over night I’m happy to report that the majority of the rust is gone. This morning I took the parts over to a friend’s shop as he has a vapour blasting cabinet. He uses it for rebuilding snow mobile and motorcycle engines. The parts cleaned extremely well and the top parts look like NOS parts. The only down side is that the cast lower bodies flash rust. However I’m doing another 24hrs in evaporust.

[Bob Carriere]

Are you not running a fuel filter on that truck.......??? I am a great fan of the glass bowl fuel filter of the early 50s......immediately before the carb.......

I do use an original frame mounted filter on the C15a but this one I can see.....same applies to my old 40s Allis Chalmers tractor..... you can see the dirt and the water in the bottom of the bowl......which reminds me to drain the frame mounted filter next time I grease her up.