Timothy's
1951 Ford F1 Pickup
Tims
nice 1951 Ford F1 Pickup is getting fresh wiring throughout.
As with any vehicle we wire, we will be replacing ALL of
the wiring in this truck.
You
can email me directly at:
Stan@AutomotiveRewire.com
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Timothy's
1951 Ford F1 pickup before we started to rip out all of
the old wiring.
Place
mouse on the right pic to see the dash finished!
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Looking
at the interior and exterior, you wouldn't think that this
truck needed anything done. Open the hood, or look under
the dash and you would notice the brittle, original wiring
that needed to be replaced.
Place
mouse on the right pic to see the rewired engine compartment!
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The
truck was already upgraded to 12v and a 1-wire alternator.
This will make things easier for us.
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The
dated wiring will all be replaced and most of it re-routed
to look neater and keep it out of harms way. The wiring
in the headlight buckets were just waiting to cook!
Place
mouse on the left pic to see the rewired coil!
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With
the headlight buckets removed, you can see more problems
lerking behind the buckets. All light sockets will be rebuilt!
Place
mouse on the left pic to see the rewired headlight bucket.
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Front
running / turn signals . . . in need of some blasting, paint
and rewire!
Place
mouse on the right pic to see the blasted and painted turn
signals.
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the new wiring in this project is the 175 amp mega fuse provided
in the kit from American Autowire. On the right, you can see
the new ignition switch is re-wired. |
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| We
removed the heater blower motor so that we could rewire and
check to see if it is 6v or 12v. |
We
lucked out . . . the heater blower motor was upgraded to 12v
so we won't need to reduce voltage here. |
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| The
new headlight switch would not fit behind the dash because the
back side of the dash has a large lip that got in the way of
the larger headlight switch. |
We
cut the nose of the old switch off and welded it to the new
switch to provide us with the spacing required to install the
new switch. Place
mouse on the pic above to see the switch installed. |
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| Here
is a shot of one of the headlights. Fresh wiring all of the
way to the terminal ends. |
The
headlight bucket is installed and the new plug installed. Let's
see how much brighter the lights will be now! |
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The
new fuse box is installed and wiring is being "roughed
in".
Place
mouse on the pic to see the completed fuse panel!
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Here
is a shot through the speedo hole. From this view you can see
the headlight switch and 2 relays. We decided to install 1 relay
for the fog lights and another for the spot light. |
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| This
is a closer look at the headlight switch and relays. |
This
is a shot of the ignition switch installed. Need to get these
shots before the gauges are installed because all of this good
stuff will be hidden if we wait too long. |
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| Here
is a shot of the new headlight switch, and 2 new toggle switches
for the fog lights and spotlight. |
This
is a shot of one of the rear tail lights with new connectors
crimped and soldered. |
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| The
fog lights use the ring terminal to attach to the light bulb.
As you can see, the connector is crimped, soldered and a double
walled heat shink is applied to completely seal the connection. |
Here
is a shot of an original dash light plug, and one of the ones
that were rebuilt. As with any light bulb socket . . . we make
them almost like new! |
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| We
found a radio sitting in the glove box. We built a box to house
the radio and provided a shelf above the radio for stuff! |
Here
are the gauges all wired and ready to go. Notice that the gauges
have plugs so they can be easily removed if needed. Also notice
the old wires, socket terminal ends and light bulbs that were
removed. |
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| We
removed the steering wheel to sand and repaint. We also purchased
the internal horn parts to make the horn button work so we could
remove the horn button that was clamped to the column. |
The
51 is complete! The fuse box is tucked up under the dash on
the driver side for easy access, but out of site! |
