I've been slowly making progress and finally got around to posting pictures.
This will be the last of my wiring updates (hopefully). In general I've found that I can move wires from one plug type to another to make the transition work. One tool that I stumbled across which has made re-wiring so much easier is a small set of tweezers from a cheap knock off swiss army knife. Really it's just a couple of small strips of stainless that fit perfectly in the slot of each wire connector to release the wire from the connector. Here's a picture of the tool in use.
Because the '82 luv wiring harness ran inside the cab and then back out on the passenger side, another hole needed cut.
After the grommet is in place, it looks fairly stock.
Worked on the parking brake a bit. As you can see in the picture, the cable was routed in a different manner on the '82 and would run smack into the shock absorber on the '75.
So after cutting the original mount and moving it to the left a couple inches, the cable housing now lines up with the '75 parking brake cable mounts. Alhough it ends about 2 feet short of the bracket. Anyone with ideas on lengthening a cable?
On the topic of brakes, I found it oddly convenient that the two pieces of flex hose for the service brakes simply connected to each other. Does anyone see a problem with this? I'll tie it up so it isn't hanging down but from a braking perspective?
Since the '82 had a wheelbase that was two inches longer than the '75 I had to have the drive line shortened. Turns out because of the way the driveline tapered at the rear-end u-joint, the old guy at the driveline shop said it would be better to just retube it. Not sure if he just wanted to make a couple bucks more on me or not but the new drive line fits nice and it even came painted.
And lastly, I had searched locally for a radiator for quite a while and finally found a new remanufactured one out of Portland. In case anyone goes shopping for these, '73-'75 are core number 642 and '76-'80 are core number 643. Those numbers didn't hold significance to me but they are industry standard numbers to radiator folks. '72 wasn't listed so not sure if it is another year specific item or not. Another freshly painted part on the truck.
Next update should have it running and a functioning hydraulic clutch after I get my learnings from AZDUDE.
Eric Q.
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'75 body with '82 diesel running gear
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