Squeak, squeak, squeak'um

Today I continued on the list.  Most of it really wasn't picture worthy except my resolve for getting the emergency break cables off of the leaf springs.  This is a technique that I developed in college for connecting braided cable with out bolts.  First make a tight wrap with bailing wire, then carefully braze it flowing the brass throughout wire into the cable.  The nut acted as a stop in the existing frame bolt hole.  The cable provided a flexible/adjustable hanger for the emergency cables.

I tightened up the motor mount bolts, put in the front light lens's, tied up the wires and break lines under the cab and bed.  The idler pulley has been squeaking like crazy so I dismantled it and discovered it was a sealed bearing, so I greased what i thought might be squeaking and put it back together again.  Damn the luck.  It still squeaks.

Something has been causing the motor not to crank over after it has been running for a while.  The starter wire at the solenoid starts to smoke and it just wouldn't go.  Upon inspecting the starter wire, the ends had been drilled out reducing the contact and that doesn't work well for amperage.  So I replaced the wire and the solenoid and so far it seems to be working well.

The emergency break adjustment was a whipping.  Nothing hard but some times what is suppose to be easy isn't.  I dismantled the lever mechanism under the truck and chased the threads with a die and presto!  It works now.

Tightened up the motor mount bolts (the big ones on the rubber pad) which seemed to take an eternity.  I used a grade 8 nylon locking nut.