Cale, when I started my truck I had less experience than you. With the help of
the guys here, you should do just fine. I'll be the first to tell you your best
friends will be a shop manual and a factory assembly manual and you can get
both at Chevy Duty.
1) If the grommet is in good shape, there is no reason to do anything other
than to replace the knobs and cables as you suggest. You will no doubt have
issues with the throttle cable. What you will find is that if you pull the knob
out, the accelerator spring tension will pull it right back in. I think the
original cables had resistance built into them. I solved the problem by
CAREFULLY kinking the cable slightly with a pair of needle nose until the
tension seemed right. However, reality is that you will never use the throttle
so no real need to mess with it.
2) Once you have the channel cleaned out, the new rubber seal should lay right
in the channel pretty as you please. A bit of 3M weatherstrip adhesive should
hold it in place.
3) The dual filament bulbs have two different candle powers. You will want the
brightest to be your turn signal or it will be washed out by the other one.
Trial and error is the only effective way to tell which is which. On the set I
got one wire was green and the other was black. I quickly learned that the
brighter filament was connected to the green wire on one light and the black
wire on the other. Unfortunately, I can't remember which bulbs I used but I do
remember it wasn't hard to figure out. I just took one of the lights with me to
Pep Boys.
Roy
----- Original Message -----
From: cale_seavers
To: old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 9:01 PM
Subject: [old-chevy-truck] Minor Repair preflight checks
Just a few final checks before enbarking on new projects,
For those of you who haven't figured it out yet...I don't really know
what I am doing. The rest of this group is pretty well versed in
working on trucks. I've never worked on a major resto project before
(but I have helped/watched my neighbor rebuild old triumph TR-6's)...I
however have worked on rehabbing houses and I learned from my father
in law that the best way to learn to fix something is to break it
first. I'm trying to avoid that as much as possible on my truck.
These questions are basic but any input or advice would be
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
1) My hand throttle is stuck and my choke knob is not original. I
have new knobs and cables from chevy duty. It seems to me that they
feed through the main grommet in the firewall and hook up to their
respective places. I was going to disconnect the old ones and simply
re-run the new ones in their places. I wasn't going to replace the
grommet because it has other things running through it and seems to be
in pretty good shape. Any pointers?
2) My top cowl vent was replaced by a pretty rough looking bead of
silicone caulk. I have a new gasket from chevy duty. I was going to
clean out all the old caulk and install the new gasket. Any help with
getting the new gasket into place? Any lube needed?
3) I have the two contact kit from chevy duty to change my park lamps
to turn and park lamps. I already have turn lights mounted on my
fenders and the wires are not far from the park lights. I am going to
splice the wire so I can keep my current lights and still convert the
park lights. I'm pretty good with electrical so that part is not
hard. I'm confused because I don't know which lead the park connects
to and which lead the turn connects to. The socket just has two
connection points and two black wires. Does it matter which one I
connect it to? How about what bulb to use? Do both bulb filaments
have the same luminosity output? I have a 6v system. This is the
project I have the most questions on.
Again, lots of words for three simple projects but I appreciate the
help and support. Thanks for allowing me access to years of experience...
-cale
51 chevy 1/2 ton
St. Louis MO
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