all right look at that thing standing up there crane ready to drop big old cummins in there
ready to put the axle in all kinds of stuff it's getting closer
all right folks well this is going to be a very uh casual update i mostly have just
been running around this week but anyways i've got a few things to show you so let's get at
it
okay well i've been very busy uh this week uh with stuff outside of the shop i've tried to get in
here at least um three days i think maybe more and lots of ordering parts and just dealing with stuff
like that but things are starting to come along and i'm setting up for uh quite a bit of stuff to
do next week okay so first of all i have got new piston rings these are the uh mahle clevite ones
um which will obviously match for those lovely pistons sitting over there i've also started to
dig into some wiring i just disconnected those two connectors which is these here i pulled the split
loom off i mean it was just crusted with dirt and crap so it might be hard to show but right here
this wire is just completely exposed and god knows how many more there are back here i'm
gonna have to start picking through this stuff and just sort of replace what i can
okay so uh having a look at this wire loom that goes back to uh the tail lights and stuff like
that uh it's just not gonna be feasible to just put it back in this has to get replaced
so i've got uh these two connectors here that plug in over by the cab like i showed you um this comes
down i don't even know how those two got detached or what that's even for but that's a problem as
you can see there's a bunch of these easy tap things that somebody put in for god knows what
um heading back here that goes to the fuel tank and then heading on back here
we have got i'm not 100 sure what that one is quite yet but we've got the stuff going over here
for the left tail lights and reverse lights and then the stuff going over here for the right uh
sorry this would be the left and the other one would be the right i'm pointing at it backwards
here and then we've got that one and that one i'm pretty sure those would be going back to
the license plate lights and then we've got this stuff here which is probably like some kind of tow
package for trailer brakes or that kind of thing or for trailer stuff when i bought the truck it
had this just dangling and uh i would assume that and that were uh talking to each other so anyways
uh it is officially time for me to start jumping into electrical stuff right now aside from that uh
i can't put the front axle in because i'm waiting for new upper and lower control arm bolts and i've
ordered those they were actually really expensive it was like a hundred bucks something like that on
ebay was the best i could find so uh we've got a new set of those coming
um but i can't really do much with uh other areas of the truck until that stuff gets in so i think
it's time for me to keep picking away at little projects but time to really start jumping into
some wiring i've just gone to the parts store and purchased about 175 bucks worth of wire
you know i've just ordered red for this one and black for this one and what i'm gonna do is uh
that harness uh plugged into this here so what i will do is kind of go up these this still looks
really gross here but uh maybe i'll go up a ways and maybe i need to go further than this but i
will uh do away with these connections and then just kind of uh you know wire connect and shrink
wrap and just run um new sort of wiring harness right to the back or new loom or whatever you want
to call it yeah this particular section of wiring there's just no way i could put that back so i'm
going to have to just do my best on each end of the original wiring i'll leave the original colors
there and then i'll color match them as good as i can size match obviously that will be done
but that way if there's ever any diagnosing most likely i'll be able to just go to either end and
just confirm what the actual color of the wire is so it'll match up to any uh
electrical schematics in the factory service manual these trucks are currently in a really uh
interesting time in history um they're this thing is 25 years old so if you think about when i was
a teenager let's say in 1997 a 72 chevy was 25 years old and by that time they had already been
pretty firmly cemented as classic trucks but for some reason these ones are still really lagging
behind i'm not sure if that's partly to do with the fact that so many of them are diesels and
still kind of running strong or just what it is but they're at this really awkward point
between old junker and classic vehicle that makes it challenging to get certain parts for
it that's really something that's a tricky part especially with the wiring you know you think
about like painless performance and those kind of things where you just get a new harness and click
everything together like i don't think there's anything like that available for these right now
so i'm going to redo as much wiring as i can in the next little while and uh i think possibly
down the road you know if need be um hopefully there will be an aftermarket uh wire harness
come out for these but i don't know it's really quite a strange situation the only thing you can
seem to find is um just used ones on ebay and i think most of them are very year specific
so you know it makes it quite tough all right well i got uh the u-joints back in the rear drive
shaft um these were brand new just months before i started this rebuild so that's all good to go um
also as you can see i did some creative art with rtv on that rear diff cover so that is definitely
a mess but hopefully she's good and sealed and then over here i got my airdog 150 gallon per
hour lift pump uh reinstalled so that's all good to go okay so not a big thing but i got the pcm
installed as well uh this reminds me i need to get those tools to pull the ac lines apart and
i'll need to get new lines okay so i should also mention that i just ordered some new main bearings
for this little beauty right here i cannot wait to start putting this thing back together
um everything is uh freshly bored and honed and the deck here the block is decked and this thing
is good to go all right well i've been pulling some of this split loom off and just having a
look at stuff these are the connectors that go back to that rear harness as you can see
it is very gross but you know you come up here a bit and i don't have a problem with that at all so
i will probably just do away with that connection and uh you know however much stuff it takes um
this is the under hood fuse panel and with the exception of this one little part here
that was pretty dirty everything inside here was pretty protected and then you go up here
just little ways and everything seems fine so i think a lot of the wiring is still probably
okay all right well super quick video today for those of you that are following along i'm gonna
try and keep you in the loop of whatever happens every week even though it's not a ton this week
but getting a lot of stuff ready for next week which is nice uh the wiring should be in tomorrow
and also the main bearings should be in tomorrow so um you know got to get a head gasket and some
other stuff but this motor can start going back together very soon which is really exciting
so anyways i'm just going to be jumping into this today and trying to get a bit more wiring um
ready and sort of get myself familiar with it but anyways just want to say thanks for coming along
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