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Bit more at the weekend .................

Dash is stripped, Ru gave it a rub down and a prime.
Heater was taken out and dismantled as some of the flaps had seized (probably never moved off the cold position all it's life).
All cleaned up and parts moving fine now
Heater motor works a treat
We even stripped down the washer bottle motor. Seized solid. Bit of TLC soon brought it back to life

Good Stuff Jules...
its a big difference how easily the older Mopars come apart...my 63 Fury against my 73 Cuda ...got the heater out of the Fury in minutes on the Cuda it was nearly an Hour and a lot of swearing

But thats a great find Jules should be cool when its out and about...taking them both to wheels day 66 and 68

great stuff keep the pictures coming

Well done. Lovely car. keep the photos coming.

Looks as though someone at some point has bumped something into the back of the car
Thankfully the only damage was to the trims going across the trunk lid.
I thought they were cattle trucked for sure, but my mate Ru said.........Oi!!! ..... You!!! ......... No!!!!!!!!!!

They ain't cattled me ol' china

So, to prove what a clever old stick he is, he took them off last weekend and repaired them.

Don't know about you but I was well impressed with the end result
The only way you could tell that they'd been repaired was if you turned them over and looked at the rears.

Absolute superb job there Ru
Well done mate!!

Next job on the list to do is the steering column.
It's all stripped out ready for a good degrease, rub down and re-paint.
All the bearings are good, but some of the electrics could do with a sort out turn signal wise.
I guess 45 years of cooking in the sun don't do the contacts any favours, but it'll get sorted

cracking work jules and ru.

Good work men, coming on a treat.

......Update

The steering column's taken abit of a back seat this week as I've been sorting out my workshop.
I had the roof replaced the other week as it leaked like a sieve, and so FINALLY I've been able to sort out
a work bench and some shelving etc. inside and get the rest of my tools, paints and spares etc. out from storage.
At last, a retreat I can finally - well - retreat too

The other reason the steering column has taken a back seat is because we need to get the paint matched for it.
So because of this.... we started on the dash instead

This was something else that needed a good sort out.
When in the car, the only thing that worked was the Ammeter
After stripping it apart we briefly put a live feed direct to the other 2 gauges, and hey presto, they worked a treat
Temp and fuel both started to go straight to the full / hot positions, so there's nowt wrong with them

So, why didn't they work while in the car all wired up

Well I guess the fuel gauge was simple........the tank was empty
This doesn't explain though why the temperature gauge, oil light or turn signals didn't function
So our little investigation continued......

The little voltage regulator on the rear proved to be good, as did all the bulb holders and bulbs.
So a check of the circuit board was done, which proved to be where the problem lied........

After giving us the run around for a while, we ended up testing sections at a time for continuety.

It showed up that all the faults were in roughly the same area under the black coating.
After rubbing it away we found a series of hairline cracks across the copper routing.
1 route had a section missing of approx 1mm. No wonder nothing worked!!

There was no visible damage to the board at all. No warpage. No scratch marks or anything like that.
Haven't a clue

Do any of you guys have any ideas???
Have you ever had this problem with yours before?
Was it a problem on these circuit boards of these years?

Anyway, after warming up the soldering iron, we did the repair.
After more continuity tests, all circuits proved to work fine.
After cleaning up the outer casing, and a few coats of paint dabbed over the solder for protection, she's good to go

To Be Continued......

Brilliant work guys, keep the updates coming!

I have a lot of trouble with the dash on my Truk, I may well have somthing like that wrong with mine. Thanks for the posts fellas!

Hi Jules and Roo.

Wonderful work there Fellas!
This Mopar is in safe hands with you guys.
Good to see such care and attention, make do and mend!!!

Most resto folks just order new parts from the States and moan about the cheap Chinese ill-fitting copies they end up with LoL.

Happy Christmas from Bacca.

baccaruda wrote:........Most resto folks just order new parts from the States and moan about the cheap Chinese ill-fitting copies they end up with LoL.

Funny you should say that Jon, but I did have a look last night on ebag after posting the above pics just for a giggle to see how much they actually are

$150 for a replacement circuit board, I'm glad we did repair it

I emailed it to Ru for a laugh..... I've had no reply
Perhaps he fainted and hit his head



Merry Xmas mate

looks like the copper was plated on and has slowly come off or never worked ever from new??

modern boards have a layer of copper and you remove what you don't need leaving just the tracks you do want

looks like the reverse was done in the old days.

all most worth taking to bits doing a photocopy onto acetate and making some new ones up. the drilling takes the time really

they'd cost a lot less than 150 each to make

undercut the price by $40 and you'd sell a few I'm sure


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/x4-4-x6-Coppe ... 1e68f5cd3c


dave

looking good, neat repair on the dash