55 HT project page 29
Some Electrical Stuff ....
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Decided to go with new gages....
Ordered this setup from Dakota Digital....
It's quite a nice looking digital setup with analog display,
Another challenge to get it working the way I want....
It's listed as a VHX 55 CKW
It arrived !!
With some other dash flash....
Pulled out the American Autowire kit and started studying....
Had to put in a long bolt here to mount the fuse panel
A mounting plate for the fuse panel goes here....
Got the fuse panel mounted....
Now there's wires everywhere....
A challenge !!!
Pulled wire for the rear of the car,
waiting for the AC, wipers, other under dash
parts to arrive before working on the wiring there....
The tailight assemblies were in bad shape,
rust, lots of problems, pulled them out...
Want to run these full coverage taillight lenses...
But need to replace the backup light
with a socket that will run both taillights and brake lights
The upper sockets in both lights are good,
but the lower sockets are gone, so will replace
both with two circuit sockets that will accept 1157 bulbs...
Here's what it looks like assembled...
A bit different than the norm around here for '55's
Those lenses were originally off of a '56 Buick Special
Cleaned up the housings, drilled, tapped, and mounted the lower
sockets to take the 1157 dual circuit LED bulbs....
Have used both white paint and silver paint in the past with good results...
Chose silver for this build....
Hooked up all four circuits, a brake and a running light both
on top and below, flipped off the shop lights, it's bright !!!
Decided to just solder the wires at a lot of the connections
and cover the connections with shrink tubing...
Put shrink tubing on the connections,
Pulled the wires through some rubber tubing up to the connections....
Ane started wrapping with elec. tape....
More Later,,,,
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