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  1. Raider L

    Ignition switch wiring help

    @belcazzo, Does it look like anyone before you has replaced the wiring? Especially look at where the wiring comes to the switch from the fuse panel. There ought to be a #12 green wire coming up from the neutral safety switch to the ignition switch to. I can't imagine anyone changing the wires...
  2. Raider L

    turn signal only on one side

    See, I've been up to my eyeballs with wiring stuff for over a month now, and I just couldn't believe it today when the turn signals didn't come on. After I took the steering wheel and all off, I could push on the turn signal part with the lever on it, and even took the lever off and those...
  3. Raider L

    turn signal only on one side

    @rusted nuts, Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, that was the second thing I checked after I checked the bulbs, and also checked the condition of the contacts on the bottoms of the bulbs to. Sometimes they get mashed down and loose contact. And corrosion in the bulb socket will also cause the...
  4. Raider L

    turn signal only on one side

    Well, this sounds so much like some of the rest but it is different. Today I was going to the grocery store and turned my right turn signal on and I had no turn signal light in my dash. So I tried the left and it worked fine. I got to the store and left the engine running, turned the right...
  5. Raider L

    Alternator?

    @mxer147, Hey, if your battery has lasted for ten years I want one of those! Ha, ha. What brand is it?? I suppose though that it's becauise you haven't been driving it all the time and it's been in the car for ten years. Is that close?
  6. Raider L

    Turn Signal Troubles

    @Cyamus, I came across your post about removing all this junk wiring out of your C30 and I had to laugh. I pulled a lot out of my C10 but it sure wasn't that bad. That picture is great!
  7. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    @SirRobyn0, Yeah, I do the same. I looked at that page in the maint. book and thought, "Now, when the heck would I need something like that?" Heck, I'll just hook an ohm meter to it. There's only like a million videos on checking stuff electrically. Yeah, I'm the same about starting. That...
  8. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    @SirRobyn0, When you do your amp. gauge just remember the only wires you hook up to it is the red alternator wire and the battery cable, actually. The way these trucks with amp. gauges are is one wire goes over to the junction block where the alternator wire is, and the other wire goes down to...
  9. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    @SirRobyn0, Wow! That's amazing! I can see where it would be a good tool around a shop though. I don't think I would get much use out of it since I may only use it once or twice. But you know when I worked for the airlines I bought tools that I knew I would only use once or twice a year or...
  10. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    @SirRobyn0, That was what I couldn't remember last night, "CA", cranking amps! I knew there was another designation but I couldn't recall what it was. And that is correct, a "carbon pile" is what the factory maintenance manual says to use to make the alternator put out all it can put out...
  11. Raider L

    Broken shift tube?

    @Dieslie212, It's my understanding that these two tubes need to be separate so that the inner tube, which turns in shifting, must not be welded together. The outer tube with the slots in it is exactly that, the outer tube that all the upper parts attach to, i.e. lower column housing, upper...
  12. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    @SirRobyn0 , Yeah, sorry 'bout that and I'm sure it is important to understand what I need. It originally was a 55 amp alternator, and that is with all I have in the truck now which is no more than when I had the 55 in there. Well, this new alternator is a 68 amp. So I would guess the battery...
  13. Raider L

    replacement of Autometer gauges

    Well, tonight I got to where I was ready to crank the truck, one, to see if I might need to switch the Amp. gauge wires, and two, if there was anything weird going on I needed to take care of. The first test for the Amp. gauge is to turn the headlights on to see in which direction the needle...
  14. Raider L

    replacement of Autometer gauges

    @Zelph, When I was making my lists of stuff researching before I started rebuilding my truck I was thinking on choosing VDO gauges. And I like the Stuart Warner gauges to, they've got that old aircraft look to them. But I decided not to get them due to the chrome bezel around the front. I...
  15. Raider L

    How to prepare a new Autometer gauge for install

    Today i am going to install the last of three new type Autometer Sport Comp gauges in my truck instrument panel so they will match all the rest of the Autometer Sport Comp gauges that are already in the panel. Below is how the back of the gauge looks. It has screws and spade tabs for whatever...
  16. Raider L

    replacement of Autometer gauges

    In the hole you can see the bulb holder hanging out. This is the old type press-in bulb holder. I must have caught it at the cut off point with Autometer because my new amp gauge had this type holder with a plastic type bulb holder in the box. So I tried the left over bulb holder and it fit...
  17. Raider L

    replacement of Autometer gauges

    Here I cut a leg off the new bracket because I don't have the room behind our panel to fit the whole bracket. Cutting the leg off will afford me the opportunity to shorten the leg until it is the needed length. In the pic below, the white housing gauge above the near shinny hosing, I tried...
  18. Raider L

    replacement of Autometer gauges

    I'm replacing my old Autometer gauges with new Sport Comp style ones to match all the other Sport Comp gauges I already have in the instrument panel. Back in 1995 when I restored/customized my '74 C10 I had bought one of those three gauge clusters you could get to just give me something to keep...
  19. Raider L

    How much more power can a 5.3L make without hurting road manners or gas mileage?

    In last months issue of Hot Rod magazine there is Part 1 "Project Groundhog" of a 5.3 they are building up to be driven on the street with not buckets of horse power. And this months issue of Part 2 where they finish the engine. I haven't looked at it yet, I've got it but haven't got to that...
  20. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    I've already gone over all this. So, I won't repeat myself. So, today after cutting out that #16 wire and putting back in it's place the #12, since I drove the truck like that for over 25 years and never had a problem. So I guess there never was a problem with there not being a #16 wire, as...
  21. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    And this is what I did to it. At this point I soldered it to the alt. wire part of the amp. gauge install. But i later changed that as I studied the schematic further. If you go to April 28 of this thread you'll see the small wired "fusible link". It's been changed, again. I put a piece of...
  22. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    Today I fixed a wire in the engine compartment that since I did it, it's been bothering me. I kept looking at the schematic and comparing what I found when I was undoing tape from the factory wiring at the junction block and alternator wiring and those factory splices. I was preparing to route...
  23. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    @Ricko1966, Yeah, thanks for your response. And yes, you are right, spare parts is the way to go. The new or newly remans. are getting just to expensive. But unlike yourself I didn't have a bunch of spare cars to rob from so instead I had a couple of bags in a box of all kinds of spare...
  24. Raider L

    Extra wire connections

    @Randy De Oreo, @idahovette, My son always says, " Dad, your truck is always broke down.", or " You're always working on it.", or "Your truck is unreliable." No, what his problem is, is he has no conception of what "working on the truck." means. In my case having a hot rod truck, it is always...
  25. Raider L

    Alt. signal wire

    I borrowed my son's car today to go to the doctor and run errands, but tomorrow I will hit the truck hard. If I can trust what I've done to correct the problem, just think of it though, you're going down the street and smoke statrts coming out from under the dash. Now if it had been a wire...

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