I mounted the other headlight. It rained some more, so I started on the Seatbelts. I cut an access hole and mounted the upper shoulder point for both sides. I have a plan for the lower shoulder point, but that will be for another day.
I spent a couple hours trimming down the headlight wiring harness, then 4 more hours installing it. In that time I also cleaned up the park light lenses, and modified the buckets for dual filament bulbs. I had spray painted the buckets black, and the inside of the buckets a bright white. The dual filament sockets that I installed over 20 years ago were a bit rusty. I had modified them to fit inside the buckets. This time I mounted the new ones on the back side. I added a ground wire to one of the socket mounting bolts with a second nut. I used a ground wire that was in the ’88 wiring harness. That harness had the right bulbs ground to a grounding lug, left bulbs to a separate lug. I attached each lug to the frame on each side with a self tapping screw. Still need to secure the harness and attach the other end to the wires coming through the firewall + dimmer switch. They still wont work until I get the switches connected.
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SeatbeltShoulderMount.jpg (110.65 KB, 92 downloads)
Shoulder seat belt mount in a '47 panel truck
DualFilamentBulbMod.jpg (212.08 KB, 89 downloads)
Dual filament bulbs for the front indicator lights in an AD truck
ParklightLens.jpg (97.74 KB, 92 downloads)
Original park light lens'
FrontShot.jpg (80.88 KB, 94 downloads)
Front lights done.


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