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Well, it's been a while since I have posted but work on truck has continued.

I've determined that my sewing skills suck, but I'm going to keep working on them. In the meantime, I have been working on the wiring. Santa had brought me a wiring harness for Christmas a couple years back but when I was cutting the Motorhome off the frame, I saved all the wiring and thought it would be easier to just put it back together than start for scratch. After spending several days unraveling, the old harness, and testing it, it was apparent that 90% of it was junk that I didn't need or want and the rest spotty at best. I hate to give up on plan but sometimes you just got to call an audible. I had cut a hole in the firewall for the factory fuse panel that didn't work, so to utilize it, I ran all the circuits for things outside the cab (i.e. taillights, head lights, engine wires) though the hole that I had cut. I wrapped the cut out with rubber pads to protect the wires. from there I ran the wires in flex tube to their perspective locations. Then I bent up a sheet metal cover to cover the hole in the firewall and to protect the wires. I will paint it to match the next time I mix that color.

All the wiring outside the cab is landed and works well. I added a second battery along with a diverter switch to run all the secondary accessories like the hydraulics for the rollback, the winch, the stereo, a backup camera and additional lighting inside the back deck for loading at night. Would hate to be stranded after a race or show with a dead battery.

I'm working on installing the gauges and all the interior wiring but wanted to do something to clean up the fuse panel so when I was making the cover for the firewall I made a cover for It also. It gives me easy access and hides all the internal wirers until they get up under the dash.

Thanks for the support and stay tuned.