1989 F-250 7.3 Project

[chillman88]

Wonder if that seatbelt bolt had the red loctite on it. That stuff you have to heat to release. I've had them tight before but never that bad!

 

[hacked89]

I'm going to start visually documenting more what I'm doing via youtube.

Goodbye to the wiring mess from the beginning of the thread.
Overall went well. I have to print the electrical diagrams from AllData to figure out a few things and I will update with the details as an FYI once I know.

Check out last Sunday.

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[saburai]

Looking good!

 

[Jimbanjer]

I like the music!

 

[hacked89]

Steering column removal

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Curious things:
Five wires pulled out of the harness and ran to an always hot block.

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Someone replaced the column plug:

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Mid-Atlantic girls are more fun:

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[Selahdoor]

Curious things:
Five wires pulled out of the harness and ran to an always hot block.

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Hot block? Can you get a pic of that?

And where's the other end of those wires?

 

[hacked89]

Hot block? Can you get a pic of that?

And where's the other end of those wires?

Yea it's a fused 12v distro block ran right to the battery.

This is most of the mess I cleaned up from it and alot of it was providing hot-sides to relays.

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Here's a pic:

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It's the primary accessory/interior harness that terminates on the large ganon plug. Driver side firewall.

While we are at it..
2 leads off the distro block were tied into the back of the primary fuse block. To jump hot access.

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And a terminal on the manual glow plug relay had both hot intention and ground on the same post

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[Selahdoor]

I like that block. But what a mess!

 

[hacked89]

A nice ornament showed up at my desk from Ford today.
I'll be at a wedding all weekend so no more truck till next week. I did place the order for all the sheet metal and support metal today.

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[onetonjohn]

Nice, and you have routing references in case you can't remember where all the fuel lines go.

 

[bbjordan]

Are you a CCIE, or are you planning to get it?

 

[hacked89]

Are you a CCIE, or are you planning to get it?

CCNP currently, was going to shoot for IE written in a couple months but it cuts it close. When Cisco announced the track updates last month I'll wait till that gets sorted and take the new written exam.

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[hacked89]

I'm not happy with the fitment of the pre-fab metal. I knew I took semi risk in certain pieces like the rear outer floor, rear door pillar. Etc but even so things like the floor pans, the cab mounts support which I dont see yet how they fit, and front door pillars aren't that close. I could have fab it all myself for half the price or less than half the price. I paid the 500 bucks to save time and get close but looks like I will be chopping it up this weekend anyway.

Attached the cab mount support as an example.

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[Thewespaul]

I’ve got some super clean rust free cabs here, road trip?

 

[hacked89]

I’ve got some super clean rust free cabs here, road trip?

I wish man. Going to bite the bullet and fab through it this weekend. Trying to get back to the mechanical and electrical items which interest me more.

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