Questions on 54 C-1 truck project

[888]

1 hour ago, Los_Control said:

Is there room to slide the wires one at a time into the loom?

Seems like I might have pried on the edge of the loom myself and slid the wires in that way.

 

Hard to remember what I did .... mine was basically junk and missing the mounting brackets and had to rebuild a lot of it ... I have had the loom off the truck and changed wires with it though .... yes you are correct they designed them to slide the wire through and then assemble the ends .... possibly they did not have boots on them in that era for the trucks.

Nope, I might get one of them through but that would be it.  It's pretty stout and the channels are fixed in location so not going to be able to bend it.  I really don't need to move the coil till I find an oil filter so I'll just get some of the standard wire looms for now.

 

[Los_Control]

Had to go out and look at mine to remember what I did .... If I did it, we know it is not right   

 

 

First of all my generic plug wires are too short. I just ordered 6 universal plug wires the same length from RA.

Just something to get the engine started .... never did change them.

 

I cut slots in my mount for the wires .... it is easy to take off and on as needed ... not very often.

I have had my coil bracket off several times before finally decided on electronic ignition, and it is in its final form now.

If the wires were long enough, I think they would stay where they belong with no problem .... only 3 wires on each side.

 

Or you can install the wires, cut to length and do final assembly in place ... hope you do not need to remove later.

[JBNeal]

If that was a universal plug wire set, then the boots and crimped metal contacts on the distributor cap side can be carefully removed.  Run them wires through the looms as required, then reinstall the boots and crimp the contacts back on.  The molded spark plugs ends are not original, but are practically required to keep that contact sealed to the plug...Mopar even marketed an Evr-Dry kit to upgrade original plug wires for performance gains.

Edited 20 hours ago by JBNeal
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[Watash]

Roberts Motor parts has remanufactured hub cap copies.

[ggdad1951]

I took my boots off and reinstalled after.