What have you done to your CUCV today/lately - Part 2

[Tinstar]

You can make a new fuel feed hose with 3/8" fuel hose and some split loom. It will be a bit longer but it will work fine. I made a few. I have done a few updates with a new metal line. A few look like the engine was pulled while the fuel line was still hooked up. Bent the metal line up and then kinked it. They just hammered it down. I removed the line and made a shorter metal line with a barbed/beaded edge fitting like the original one. If you want see pictures let me know. But I would remove the old line. Check it closely. Cut the ends of the hose off where the clamps were and reinstall with fresh clamps. Good Luck. But if the pumps wet. You may as well change that.

Already have a new Delphi fuel pump on the way just in case.
Filter was just changed when I installed new injectors. Their dry.
Good tip on that weird hose.
Will do that for sure.
Hopefully it’s just the fuel pump and my IP didn’t crap out.
Will troubleshoot when I get back.

HATE being gone and can’t work on it!!!!

 

[DREDnot]

FLIRone thermal camera plug in for smartphone.

 

[olly hondro]

installed an analog clock. All the finest vehicles have them

 

[olly hondro]

Glove box fell off. This 19" instrument rack blank fits well enough.

 

[olly hondro]

Put LED work light where the ginormous turn signal goes. Will re-lamp the little blackouts for turn signals.

 

[computer54]

Nice but is it right to do in your state.

 

[Rutjes]

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So that's why it gets so hot in the cab. Makes me want to add heat insulation... then again, winter is coming...

 

[computer54]

yea and it's cold now 55 deg. here in Nashville,TN. so there and I need the heat to go to work and back home.

 

[cucvrus]

View attachment 707681Put LED work light where the ginormous turn signal goes. Will re-lamp the little blackouts for turn signals.

Think real hard before you do the B/O light hole as a turn indicator. From a safety point of view. Can people see that small light blinking? NO. Can it cause and accident? Yes. Why? Why risk life and limb? I tried it once. I went and got a grille from a quad headlamp system and that was the answer. That hole is too small for a park / turn indicator. At night the headlamps over power the small LED amber light. This is an opinion. Do as you wish. I would save the ticket or the accident and put something on that is visible. You still need to come up with a front park lamps also. Good Luck. Better yet go with the LED headlamps. Have a great day.

 

[olly hondro]

In my state, its OK to stick my arm out the window to signal....hey, I might have to add a window ?

 

[olly hondro]

cucvsrus, Thats what I'm thinking, right there. I like it.

 

[olly hondro]

Nice but is it right to do in your state.

"off road use only"

 

[Recovry4x4]

You could sub a better light for the blackout and probably be successful. I have some smaller Whelen lights that are pretty bright and may fit the hole.

 

[TechnoWeenie]

You could sub a better light for the blackout and probably be successful. I have some smaller Whelen lights that are pretty bright and may fit the hole.

400 series should fit.

 

[olly hondro]

winch

I know that where I came from was good road..............

 

[olly hondro]

short range comms

One for me, one for the spotter. Charades-type hand signals do not communicate anything useful to me, I prefer to hear words.

 

[olly hondro]

studying the wiring diagrams

I recall a famous line from 3 Stooges episode (A Plumbing We Will Go), Curly grabs a length of electrical conduit thinking its a water line : "No wonder it doesn't work, it's plugged up with wires, nyuk, nyuk". As I repurpose the GND bus to a +12 V bus, I encounter various plugs/sockets that do not connect to anything. I am removing any wiring that serves no purpose for my trail-rig application, starting with the diagnostic port. "Oooooooh, a wiiiiise guy"

 

[DREDnot]

Gear tray/jerry can mount...





Recovery equipment in a 1989 german insulated food can. No rattles.



Cell phone pocket



LED magnetic dome light.

 

[computer54]

Looks good and were did you get the German food can.

 

[DREDnot]

...where did you get the German food can.

It was a random sportmans guide offering some years back.

They had these inner cans that held the stew