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Turnkey.....you find pb a BC-325 and he will commit you wuth a task of setting it all up he has. The back is FILLED with all kinds of wire crap.headphones. morse code ticker thingies. Stuff with knobs all over them. Oh yeah more wire stuff. Breaker Breaker 19.
I listened to THE GODFATHER commonly known around here as IFS.
Anyone posting recently no worried fellas.do not have to go back far to see what set me off. I am not appologizing.
Someone decided to push the envelope which i never expected them to do.
I will listen to IFS and carry on.
Its NOT an ICE CREAM TRUCK.
Signal Corp personnel were front line personnel and almost in front of the front lines to secure communications - hardly out there selling ice cream cones during WW2.
There are plenty of YouTube videos of SCR folks in the fight. Most of them are outstanding of their...
Shot off a video clip to pb of it running just to make sure he did not think he was halusinating last time.
Just lots of little things to keep working on one at a time and not get caught up overwhelmed by it a ll.
When PB first posted the K - I already saw it in finished condition - no BS ---the rest was just to get it to that condition step by step.
Let me put it this way if you can hang on:
I went to a taxidermy show one time a long time ago.
When I went down the aisles of displays of the folks work -...
YOU FUNNY GI.
All the driveline is filled and greased - starting circuit ran through test memory from received wire harness and what it needs to FIRE UP aside from hot wiring everything like I did - cause everything else is lighting circuits and addition to Turn SIgnals and parking lamps. The...
Lets see.....Life expectancy of a WC 1942 was what? Surely not to survive the war.So the time..care..patience TWM has in restoring this far exceeds the pin point quality the mfg stuck in it.Plus i doubt he's going to go shoot rounds through it or blow it up.
Anyone that's been nuts enough to read the entire thread OR followed the K from the start might remember this - and it falls into what Mike learned.
Following the scr-197 radio is what pinpointed WHAT the trucks exact use was for. This also led to more info about the K18-C only by reading...
Do wood.....**** no only when i have a fresh package of hotdogs that needs a good bonfire to roast em up. Or shoot my pellet rife into for a target background.
As you can see it was just another morning of rain - so I tinkered with the exhaust header pipe to at least keep the fire and flames off the side of the engine and frame. Still ran out in the rain to keep taking measurements and fitment - then when it finally quite I put it on.
Played with all...
Gotta had to o'reilly here at 8 and pick a rubber tube from that carb swirl piece to the air filter. 4.....1154 bulbs and a piece of exhaust pipe i can rebuild the adapter to the ech manifold....use my play sand and heat and bend me a exhaust outlet pipe...i see some welding today also.
AHHHHHHH suppose I should - but - see how PB wants it I guess and that is the way it will be - never touched them cause it kind of breaks up the asthetics of it all in the cab ??????/ Then I would have to paint all the knobs - switches and anything else that protrudes from the dash - LIKE PB...
This evenings update.
Here are those lamps painted OD (yes Chaplin the surface before painting was handled PROFESSIONALLY). Optical illusion they look smaller cause their the same size but just not chrome anymore. Headed tomorrow morning to get 1154 bulbs for front and rear cause it LIGHT TEST...
Brakes are adjusted before lowering it back to the ground.
The bullet BO light was the only survivor and it was already broken off - BUT - with the addition of a turn signal switch it called for Turn/Park lamps - I hunted all over for bullet ones but they were only forward facing lenses and...
Was only able to get a little bit done last night before the monsoon rolled in again for another night.
Brake adj to get done yet and lower it. Then get back onto that wiring-testind and lastly tad bits of body work that's bugging me the more i keep looking at it.
Back onto brake shoe adjustment after some fine tuning tonight and a little bit of trying to get Turn signals - park lamps to the front end - this is yet to be resolved of what I chose - either way it all works out in the end.
Back onto electrical tomorrow after adjusting the shoes is finished...