Recent content by PHOENIX-GER

The next for customizing was the Battery Mountingplates. We bought the truck in 1995 without Batts and missing Mountingplates. So we had always used customid plates by ourself. For the Vartas we bought 2021 didn't we adapt the old plates as he gone in Frame-Off-Restoration. The old plates was...

It took a lot of hours specially the doors. These are aftermarket doors we bought 1995 after purchase. Original the truck had a lot of dents of his army time. So he got new doors, new fender and a new hood in 1995 before he was paint in red as business truck for our metalcompany. Nothing is more...

This small 2 to shop crane does always a good job for us Could be more exactly adjusted but it's not possible between fenders, doors, front and cowl to vent....

Continue to prepare the hood assembly. This will be a difficult job by just 4 hands. The vent to cowl assembly needed some customized pins as the original was gone I found some used in the USA for sale but with import fee and tax not worth that money as its the same condition like ours. So i...

4 weeks ago we was already at this point and than the horn failure occur and had some minor other annoying problems with it. Now all is solved - we really have now enough of electric mysteries... 🤣 The adaption of the mil speaker for the cb radio work well. The dashboard speaker for the...

On wednesday we got the new switch. After assembling we had a headlight Failure. No more headlights passengerside, no more highbeam both sides, Parklight avaiable both sides 🤨 I thought i got crazy. After control and measure the result was no failure inside the truck.... so we search between...

During solve the mess under the dashboard occurs a new failure The light switch is gone Looks innocent but don't work anymore. Available in Germany for 80 Euro or i import myselve 45 Euro all taxes and shipping include for an ACDelco Switch

The horn is working nicely now This small bad boy was the cause it seems 45 years ago was the relais without a diode and this was added on the connection. After i noticed the new relais have already the diode include was it just a cut off from this old bad boy of the past Now where the...

After checking every possible cable connection, I finally located the horn relay with a faulty diode. I had already suspected it, but since it was so difficult to access, I saved it for last.😂 After running out of time again yesterday, I've postponed the repair until next Thursday (Christian...

The panels come out not exact matching but it is the best result. Next RAL Code is darker We start measurement about the horn "problem" but couldn't solve it today. About other duties could we check today just two possible reasons. First the horn button at the steering column work like...

The mirrors come out perfect and the black screws look much better I opened the cableplug for remove it The day ended with detecting an electric failure. The horn have always power. I start on the steering column. All switches and connection work correct. Next week i will continue...

The weekend is "save" Next goodies delivered I have a lot of new relais in the shop but none fit. You use 3pin relais. We use here 4pin relais for the horn and it fit in different "connectors". So i need to order the correct one. The cable for the handset which need to be customize with a...

Thanks and Good evening 👍 It is much more effort as expected but we like what we do. Find out i can connect the cb radio complete on speaker and the handset. The original plug was available and i ordered immediately before it is out of stock. We will miss than the freehand function but i am...

Going on with a lot of small issues First clean up the wiring at the steering column. We don't install the cover as we wait on the horn relais. The speaker is now complete with the control lamp. We need to customize a cable with the correct connectors between cb radio and speaker to got it...

We could solve the speakerproblem with a special mount in the area behind the instrument cluster. The speakers are already small with just a standard sound. As smaller the speaker as more lost in soundquality is the result. We could only find 9 cm speakers with half of the power from ours with...