so anyway despite the difficulties, it is up and running again, the worst was the gas gauge, I had to drill out the itty bitty hole in the needle so it would sit farther down the shaft as it hit the "picture" frames inside the gauge panel. Then I couldn't get it to work, turns out there was a bad connection. but the starter sure does spin. It looks nice, I redid an old voltage regulator so it looks right, but it isn't actually a regulator anymore. got the nice 2 speed wipers while I was at it. Thinking about putting my stereo in it....when I got the truck it had an old tube radio in it. It ended up in the trunk of my old mercury meteor when it caught fire.

Last edited by brokenhead; 05/07/2017 3:57 PM.