Recent content by qualityhardware

Pure, unadultered laziness compounded with indecisiveness. Toying with giving it a VN guntruck paint job or making it a civilian high-angle rescue truck painted up like the old Squad 51 truck from EMERGENCY!

Outstanding work, Gunny. Beautiful truck. [thumbzup]

:grin: Thanks DeuceDriver. Got the carburetor and fuel pump rebuilt and she's running like a dream now. Some pics. Here's the rig:

Well, I solved my own problem with judicious drilling and very light taps with a hammer. Turns out there was some rust in the cylinder wall.

Rebuilding my ETW1 carburetor in the dis-assembly phase, and the pump plunger piston is just plain stuck in the upper housing of the carburetor. I am at a loss for getting it out. Tried putting the whole assembly in the oven for a while and then using ice on the piston shaft to cool it to see...

One more update. I cheated and bought some regular 14ga wire and 14ga waterproof connectors from Autozone. Rigged up a new headlight harness and the waterproof connectors worked perfectly with the Douglas metal shells and bakelite connectors. Some propane torch work made everything shrink wrap...

Closing the loop on this. I pulled the headlamp assembly and the bracket under the fender that sheltered the headlight harness. Yanked the headlight harness for the passenger side and wires 17 and 91 had completely rotted rubber in multiple places exposing bare wire that touched fenders. Getting...

I checked everything tonight and used a different ground than the official ground at wire 91. Wires 17 and 18 came in at 22.9 and slightly above for voltage when grounded directly to the frame. Am going to disassemble the ground wire and see what I can do to clean it up, as I think that is where...

Will recheck. Followed the wires from the headlight into the main light switch switch and didn't see anything obvious, but will try that again and look harder.

Yes. Checked the generator and many other wires and everything else checks out at 24v.

Over the past few weeks, my 1961 M37B1 has been eating up headlights on the passenger side. At first I thought it was just bad 24v headlights, but after the third one died in a two week period, I checked the wires feeding the headlight. I am not getting a current through the bright light wire...

Will give this a shot. Thanks for the guidance.

Grounds are good to go. Checked and double checked with a meter and everything. That's part of the frustration.

My driver side brake light is operating inconsistently. Whether or not I have the lights on, it will not illuminate when I step on the brake pedal. If I run the left turn signal, it flashes without a problem, and then the driver side brake light will work as it should. Pulled the whole tail...

Hella great job. Looking awesome. Can't wait to see more.