recently it has been the close issue as I was kinda having trouble seeing!...
this will probably be good, as I will be able to get it painted and completely finished before I slap it on. Since I'm still waiting on my wiring shiz, I did do some basic work on the flatbed and am almost done at this point. Shortened it from 8' to 7', cut out the old supports that were falling off (po's welds sucked!
), welded in new ones, welded on my angle iron lip for the wooden deck, and got the d rings and side rails completed on 2/3rds of it. Taught Dad how to run the cutting torch, so he was having fun doing demolition duty!
I will have to head into town today as my oxy/acetylene tanks are almost out. Once I finish the passenger side of the flatbed, I will be changing out the center support bearing in the truck, as the old one looks, well, old! oh, and the trailer is done for now!
don't have a big enough socket to get the yoke castle nut off, so I'm headed over to my neighbors for some help on that. I called about my wiring order and finally got some info!
ordered on the 10th, and they didn't get it shipped out until the 20th! it should be here tomorrow or the next day...
step two: don't tap the bearing on with a piece of tube as you will crush the flimsy metal cover. Step three: if you have failed at the above, rectify it by prying the rubber housing off (not fun), swapping the crunched metal cover with an old one, and using your knife to modify the old housing to fit.
basically, the rubber housings were different and the new one was causing the bearing not to turn, so I had to cut some of it off. it is still rubbing a smidgen as I'm getting this weird chirping noise and there was a slight pile of rubber dust on the bearing crossmember. I'm hoping that it will go away.... Since my wiring didn't show up until yesterday, I made my new exhaust! have to go into town and pick up some new exhaust donuts and bolt the front portion back in and it will be done! My huge box of electrical goodies arrived just as I finished the final touches on the exhaust so I took a pic for ya'll. Off to workin on the binder!
decided I could build my own on the cheap so I did! I'm going to pick up a hevy duty plastic container for it tomorrow and mount it on the drivers side inner fender. Already got my battery cables cut to length for the solenoid install. So far I ripped all the wiring out and discovered more melted blue wire! don't think it would have lasted 10-12 hours on the ride down south!
I have the engine wiring harness done and I discovered that my coil kill switch works as it was off when I first tried to start it... got the wipers wired up with 14ga wire and man do they move now! Everything has been upgraded in a wire size by at least 1 as I couldn't bring myself to use f'n 18ga! 12ga for the headlights should brighten them up a tad! I ran 8 ga wire from the battery pos to the fuse block for power and jumped off it from there, so I should have maximum juice for all the circuits! I used an old od green box to hold the fuse block in and I think it fits right in with the era of the truck. Since I was ripping everything apart I figured it was time to upgrade the starting circuit as well, so I got a 4 post (Ford) solenoid and used some 2 ga short welding cable lengths that I grabbed from work for the new battery cables. IH sure makes me scratch my head a lot trying to update the wiring as it seems they always have way too many wires to do the job!
so something obviously isn't right.... I have a delco 10 si and ran a 10 gauge wire from the batt terminal on the alternator to the battery +, the large wire on the plug to the battery terminal, and the smaller white wire to a stud on the ammeter. I have a wire coming in from the igition switch attaching to the other stud on the ammeter. When I hooked this up and turned the ignition on, the alternator started smoking so I figured I did something wrong... I was using this wiring diagram which is towards the bottom of the page: 
back to wiring!have another electrical question for ya'll. I was hooking up the alternator charging circuit/ammeter and when I turned it all on I got some smoke from the alternator....
the delco 10-si and 12-si alternators
The only thing that is different is I'm using the ammeter instead of a charge light. Any help would be appreciated.
finished up the exhaust and it sounds great! Real quiet when I'm runnin down the road and a nice drone at idle. I'm still getting a very slight vibration going down the road from the driveline, but I'm optimistic that it will go away in time once the bearing seats itself... Got the main body of the harness put together and mayben you might recognize it...
if that is what needs to be done, then I will do it. Got the wiring 95% done yesterday. I have to figure out which wire does what for the rear lights and wire in the idiot light for the alternator and the trucks main wiring will be done.... Next will be the trailer.
so by replacing the center support bearing I have to balance the driveline?
since I only have 2 options from the ujoint I will drop it and turn the driveshafts 180 degress and reinstall the ujoint. If it still vibrates, the I will go get it balanced. Thanks for the clarification.
I loaded up the orange truck on the trailer this morning and the old bellevue/warn 8000 drug it up on there and over the fenders without a problem! Since my steering bell coupler is in the Scout now, I had to use the highlift to jack the tires to the right/left in order to maneuver it! it was raining pretty good and then let up right as I was finishing! I started packing last night and will be rolling out early Saturday morning. Unless of course, my driveline needs balancing...
