I fixed the gauge lights had a few bad wires behind the cluster and installed 3 oem gauges that had broken needles.
Only issue still with the gauges is the temp will jump all over the place at times when moving,but after a while it will balance out. Still working on the speedo when disconnected...
Finally fiqured out the hitch. An old farmer came by work tonight and while we talked about the truck I asked him,and soon as I open the picture he said it was a cushion hitch great for hauling trailers. Also said it was about 600 bucks back in the day for one of those.
So the plan is to remove...
I was thinking the same thing maybe the fittings pressurized something ? From what I was told by the second owner I bought the truck from the orginal owner used the truck pull horse trailers,but I can't trust something mechanical that I don't understand or know how it works.
Building a chicken...
So I was fixing some wire to rear of the truck..previous owner routed them under the rear end over the top and on the exhaust pipe and then duct tape them to frame ,also while wiring in a trailer wire plug held by scotch tape.
So while under there soldering and heat strinking wire I was trying...
I've tried looking on lmc , parts store local , eBay ,amazon , usa 1 industries , brothers ,summit pretty much all reproduction sites. The ones with cruise years start at 1984.... also can't find the turn signal switch that's in the column for my year model.
I used the diagram above came up with this to control the passenger side window from the passenger side and it worked window is now down so I don't sweat to death.
but what would cause it to work then stop just below half all of sudden. I did wash the body of the truck about 2 weeks ago but other than that no other events or changes ? I ran it bone dry and then filled it up and gauge reads the same ?
I'm off Saturday temp are 97-102 here right now in South Ga. going to try and work on the above two issue and see if I can chase down the brown wire for the parking lights.Then onto the gauges the fuel gauge stop working is stuck right below half a tank and the speedo isn't working but does move...
Also I have been working on the window switches the passenger side wasn't working when I bought the truck from the driver side main switch or the passenger switch.Then one day I was able to move it from the driver side only,but the window would stop moving half way down and need help to go all...
Haven't had a chance to dig into the parking lights,but have been working on the no start in P but will in N. I pulled the neutral safety switch from the column.When the peg that goes into the steering column is pushed all the way to the right the truck will start,if moved to the left at about...