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Here are the final installation photos with everything cleaned up and in place! Driving around with an intercom makes cruises a pretty unique experience. It's nice to have the outside noise sealed out and be able to talk to passengers without yelling. I have been hooking up my ipod to...

It's all starting to come together now that the intercom components are going on!

Getting closer to the finish line and some details before the soft top goes back on. I put some trim-loc rubber edging on all of the sheet metal edges that were not hemmed so that the top wouldn't get rubbed thru - it also gives the panel a nice finished look. With the panel mounted &...

On the passenger side of the panel the wire to the battery goes through a rubber grommet, out over the roof tube elbow, and the into a grommeted hole I drilled in the side cab support. Now the wire is hidden inside the tube and is heading straight for the batteries.

The wiring for the courtesy lights is basic and pretty simple to put together. I used all military connectors and wire (14 ga.), but the bulb receptacles used 16 ga. connectors. The wiring goes from the battery to the circuit breaker then to port A on the switch. Port B (taillight...

Now I'm into the really fun stuff - detail lettering! The two options are to apply a decal or paint the lettering on. The decals seem cheesy and would probably not last as long as the painting option so I went to a graphics design place to have them cut out the words I wanted in vinyl with...

Next up is assembling the courtesy lights. The bulb receptacle gets inserted into the bulb holder and then the bulb is installed and then the taillight cover is attached to the front of the panel. The bulb receptacles are simple two wire, dual contact, BAY15D pattern base units made for the...

I did a mockup of the cabling before painting the panel which allowed me to locate the cable hold downs and get some holes tapped in the hem of the sheet metal. Now a couple coats of 383 green and some black plastidip.

There was a lot of TIG welding being done to this panel and it's all finished. I can't take credit for the welds as my coworker who loves the challenge of surgical grade and cosmetic welding did all of the welding for my panel. He did an awesome job! The flange corners got welded closed, the...

I brought the panel home for a quick mock up to make sure it fit before welding on any of the tapped blocks or the switch cover. It fits well and looks good! Now it's time to get the parts welded together.

Thank you! I'm hoping I thought of everything so it should turn out fairly nice.

Grommets would be a good way to quiet the cab up a little more. Mine just has drilled holes and 2 plastic body plugs. I layed a bead of gasket maker glue to the under side of the roof rod to make it quieter.

OK, I got the pieces laser cut and had the CNC press brake fellas make all the bends I needed. I made everything out of stainless steel because of the amount of moisture in my cab and because all of the welders at work are usually set up for welding stainless. The panel, bulb holder and the...

Yes, the CVC helmets ( the TMs call them helmets not headsets) are shown in the VIC-1 diagrams as being interchangeable with the H-161 headsets. That's cool that you're so close. I would love to stop in and maybe get a glimpse of their restoration processes.

Since the plan is to laser cut all of the parts, I need to model everything up in 3D. With the VIC-1 components and the taillight covers on hand I was able to model them and then create the actual panel to match those pieces and get all of the holes cut in the correct location. I wanted to use...

The ears are straight up with no water markings anywhere. Could that mean that the internal coating may not withstand fuels? It smells like the can formerly held gasoline.

Given the amount of noise in the cab of these trucks and wanting to be able to talk to the person next to me without yelling I resolved to install an intercom. I looked and asked around the forum and other places but did not net much responses for what folks have done in their soft top cabs for...

Thanks for the compliment. Yes, I have been putting a lot of time into it lately - my wife has noticed this also...

I put my truck in its first parade and it did great! Gave the crowd a chance to smell diesel exhaust without after treatment (a rarity these days), and blared the horn a few times. I was in the back behind 3 WWII flat fenders and an M37 w/trailer - low turnout this year for MVs. Most folks...

The word on the street is that diesel in a galvanized can or fuel tank is bad because the diesel dissolves the zinc which gets into your injection pump. So I have this 1986 USMC can that is galvanized on the outside for sure but the inside has a smooth slippery tan coating. The can is stamped...