1991 C1500 in Florida

HotWheelsBurban said:

after two sessions of working on it and a trip to the yard(to see how the doors work inside)

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Sometimes admission the U-Pull it yards is worth it just to see how things come apart and go together. I learned a lot from my last trip!

I got the AC working good now!!!

I started replacing the blower motor/fan assembly and found the reason that it didn't work so well... some genius had the power wire on the ground terminal and the ground wire on the fan power terminal. So this would only let the fan run on low speed (actually a lower speed than that). I replaced the fan anyway, since the one in it was noisy. Not an easy task... found all the hidden cracks in the lower part of my dash too. Anyway, it's much quieter now and plenty of cold air blows out of the vents. Victory!

FLGS400 said:

I got the AC working good now!!!

I started replacing the blower motor/fan assembly and found the reason that it didn't work so well... some genius had the power wire on the ground terminal and the ground wire on the fan power terminal. So this would only let the fan run on low speed (actually a lower speed than that). I replaced the fan anyway, since the one in it was noisy. Not an easy task... found all the hidden cracks in the lower part of my dash too. Anyway, it's much quieter now and plenty of cold air blows out of the vents. Victory!

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Blower motor was running backwards so the squirrel cage was just beating the air and not moving it.

Well I put about 60 miles on the truck running local errands this week. For not being "professionally" aligned, it seems to go down the road and handle really good. I'm still going to get it aligned at a shop though, soon.

I really like the sound of the exhaust and it is 100 times better inside the cab when driving it. I can actually hear the radio and talk on the phone when I'm on the gas. The AC works really good too, which is really important to me here in Florida!

Tonight I took care of a few small things on the truck.

First, the door panel clips were wasted, and the door panels kinda flopped around and vibrated pretty bad. A couple days ago I bought some clips from O'Really Auto Parts that I thought would work, and they didn't. Found these clips on the jungle web site and they worked perfect! Door panels are nice and secured to the door now.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN14YVH9?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

New ones on the left and the few trashed old ones from the left door, are on the right. Picture didn't turn out so good for the new clips...




Next, I fixed a front 2357, amber bulb that was out. I had one in my tool box. No pictures of that, though.

Last thing I did was put the heater vent cover thingy on. I had picked up a used one at the salvage yard a few weeks ago. Mine was missing. Some gorilla (previous to my ownership) broke the center part out of the vent assembly where the screw goes in, so I had to drill a couple holes and put some speed clips on the duct assembly, with a couple extra interior screws to hold the heater vent cover on. Turned out really good and the vent door clears the screws.


Next up, I'm putting mechanical water temperature and oil pressure gauges in it. Waiting on 1 gauge cup, and some LEDs for the gauges, to come in. I need to get a piece of aluminum from Home Depot to mount the gauges to, under the dash.

Door panel clips. These work pretty good. I've bought them twice now.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NE7TJ8/

Erik the Awful said:

Door panel clips. These work pretty good. I've bought them twice now.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NE7TJ8/

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That would have been a great alternative, too. Thanks!

Weekly update:

I've been working since the last update, on putting the AutoMeter oil pressure and water temperature gauges in the truck. Been waiting on parts here and there, as this mod is fighting me all the way (it's always the simple ones). Oil pressure gauge was easy, even though I gacked one of the brass ferrules and had to buy a few new ones. The copper line kit only comes with 2. Ace Hardware for the win! I ended up going with the port above the oil filter for installation. It was easier to get to than the current set-up on the top, behind the intake. I'll add a couple pictures later, when I get home from work...

The water temp gauge... The passenger side head has that extra port in the head that is plugged and not used. The recessed square is not a normal 3/8 or 1/4 size. I had to order a special 14mm pipe plug socket for it, as no one had one in stock around here. Even with that socket, it rounded the square when I tried to remove it. Now I just ordered a right angle cordless drill so I can get in there to drill it out (without lifting the motor). Another delay... I could not find anywhere else that I could mount the sensor for this gauge to. I wanted to keep the stock gauge operational so I didn't want to move that sender, and all of the thermostat housings I found with the NPT port for a sensor, have the outlet pointed to the driver side of the truck (mine is straight forward). Anyway, once it get that pipe plug drilled out and the gauge installed, I'll be happier...

Pictures:

Oil pressure port above the oil filter


Here is where I had to replace the ferrule


Inside done and wired up


Oil pressure gauge works great.