I picked up the rear driveshaft a couple days ago and had been working on installing the shifter for the transfer case. I finished it all up yesterday. Well except for making a shifter boot for it. Below are various pictures of the modified fuel tank mount, shifter, shifter linkage, etc. The shifter and shift linkage came out of a early to mid F250 and I had to modify it a lot to move the shifter closer to the center of the truck. I didn't take any pictures of it but I wish I would have because I made the arm that the shifter mounts to. The old one was about an inch and a half longer.
I spent the whole day today tracing wiring in the dash harness. The reason is because there were a few things that weren't working. One was the heater blend door. I could turn the heat on and have it blow on the floor but it would blow cold. Another issue was the controls rear blower motor weren't working. The final issue was that the digital temp/compass in the overhead display wasn't working. I figured that there had to be some wires in the dash harness I installed that didn't match the one from the donor truck. It turned out that they were all the same. So I started looking at the wiring diagrams that Phil printed up for me. I started with the blend door actuator and found the the power wire didn't have power. After some trouble shooting I ended up finding this:
That's right, I spent the whole day on an incorrectly installed fuse! When I pulled this harness from the wrecking yard it already had fuses in all the ports. So I just used my DMM to make sure none of them were blown. The ones that were I replced. Well this one wasn't blown but someone installed it crooked so one side had power but the other side didn't. So I replaced the fuse and now everything works. I just need to charge the A/C and I have heat and air again. Next up will be getting the BAR certification!
Seems the one in my truck would work well, i'd find one of those.
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That's where the rubber dust boot came from but it was just too big for me to use the whole thing in my truck. I'm going to pick up some material to make a boot out of and Amy is going to sew it up for me.
I need to get with you now so that we can charge the A/C.
One of these would work well I think.
Before the refinish
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lee
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him
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Even if you cant use the whole base the rubber portion comes off by removing the little metal tabs.
Let me know a day when you want to charge it.
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lee
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him
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That's what I have. I pulled the rubber boot off and am using it as the dust boot. I know in your truck it doesn't seem that big but in my Explorer it is. Right now my leg hits the shifter when it's in 2 wheel drive. I don't want to take up any more room. I just want a simple shift boot.
