Today was airbox day.
First I made a template and sprayed a shadow so position stays correct.
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Then measured and centre punched for holes
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And then later in the day drilled them out as both kids played in the truck thinking wiper blades are entertaining going up, down, up, down.
I then start painting holes with P.A.10 to protect the bare metal
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When I see a little smoke I look up and see across the engine bay the loom glowing red and smoke everywhere.
FIRE DRILL TIME!
I run around the truck telling kids to turn it off and I pull the negative lead of off the battery (as I knew it wasn't tight) and then send both kids outside to find fresh air.
FIRE DRILL over.
Then when the kids are in bed I finished mounting up the air box.
It looks great I reckon.
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Oh, the fire drill you ask?
Let's just say Fu missed his boat for seeing the tidy wiring.
Sorry mate.
Basically when running grounds last week I bridged the 2 terminals for both grounds on the R/H fender plug (engine bay side) so they would help each other if one earth was a bit questionable in years to come etc. I've done the same on the other side to try and give all grounds as much crossover as possible.
Problem with last week's one though was instead of going bottom right plus one to the left, I went plus one above (which coincidentally was a black wire, but for the park lights.)
DOH, my bad.
And right next to the wiper switch was the park/head switch which the kids obviously used next.
No fault of theirs. If you can't play in dad's 50y/o truck and wiggle the wheel (make tyres fart as my boy says and laugh's) and flick switches, then what can you do??
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Now I need to run a new park light wire from the switch to the joint which is just above the radiator, and back to this plug. Redo some of the ground wires. And check that these hot wires haven't damaged any adjacent wiring - which of course I had just packed all into tight looms, lol.
Then tidy it all up again.
Hurray for educating my kids about fire safety