It was a busy week and weekend and I got alot done. Most of it was electrical but there was plenty of other things to work on too. Installed new knuckle boots, installed a return spring on the Emergency Shut-Off arm, replaced the rusty dropside hinge pins with grade 8 bolts, installed a 24V to 12V converter, installed a 12V outlet strip on the side of the shifter with 3 outlets and greased every fitting on the truck.
I finished installing and wiring all the new led marker lights. Added 5 to the rear, 5 to the front and replaced the 6 side markers. Also installed the parking light adapter cable from Erik's and did some troubleshooting to get my front blinkers to blink. TIP: If your LED parking or tail lights won't blink and your grounds are good and the blinker unit is LED compatible, remove the indicator bulb from the blinker switch and see if that will fix it. If it does, then replace the indicator bulb with an LED. The blinker will still function without the bulb installed and will prevent backfeeding in the system. The backfeeding confuses the flasher unit causing them to brighten but not blink. I have Truck-Lite in the front, Grote in the rear and the parking light adapter installed. The Grotes blinked fine but I had to remove the incandescent bulb from the blinker switch to make the Truck-lites blink. I them replaced the bulb with an 24V LED bulb with a BA9S base.
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Finished installing and wiring all the front and front-side area lights. I ended up replacing the switches in the picture with some waterproof ones. I'll be working on adding the rear and rear-side area lights next.
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Mounted some fuse blocks under the dash for 12V and 24V hook ups.
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Installed a new PCB. The old one went crazy and gave me multiple problems with starting, ABS, charging and a few other things. The new one fixed all this. What a complicatedly simple little box.
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