Weather or Not

The temp was in the mid 70's yesterday and was suppose to be (according to the scientist who think they can out smart mother nature) in the high 60's to day.  The best we saw was high 50's for half an hour.  After a failed attempt at painting the steering wheel, I bundled up and with help of Doug we worked on the front lights.

One of the things I first saw starting this project was a heavy duty harness and relays for the head lights in LMC Truck.  The decision was made a long time ago that this was going to happen because of my fond memory of weak head lights back in the day.  The made in China harness was simple to install but difficult to install properly.  We ran the wires from the battery through the radiator support thus causing a couple of attempts at fishing the wire through.  If you don't run the wire into the hole for the horn speed nut on the passenger side, it won't make it to the other side with slack enough to plug into the light.

Grounding the driver side light almost caused us to take the grill off but I was able to sneak in through the grill to get the parking light nut off.  I spent about 30 minutes trying to get this done.  The relays were tucked in front of the battery as was the power wire.  Unless you knew what you are looking for, you wouldn't know it was there.  And HECK YEA the lights are much brighter.

The parking lights got new gaskets, the head light doors got new plastic anchors, and the wires were wrapped.  I put some time in on the automatic choke and I am having a difficult time understanding why it doesn't seem to be working.

I put on the return spring on the carburetor and now realize that I am going to have to find some kind of linkage for the throttle because the one that was on there ain't going to work.