With the radiator in hand I was able to get some actual measurements and figure out how I’m going to build the mounting brackets. From the looks of it I’ll be able to run a mechanical fan (my first choice). The mechanical fan means I also want to use a fan shroud. The radiator is set up for an original style shroud, so I took the easy way out and ordered a new reproduction (which are readily available and cheap).

While I’m waiting on the shroud to get here I went ahead and got the grill shell wired. I’ve always enjoyed building my own harness. It’s probably not a whole lot cheaper than buying a ready made harness but like I said I enjoy doing it. Of course when I checked my box of terminals I needed to restock that and I only had about half of the colors and gauges of wire I needed.

I was actually planning on using the headlights that were on the truck but my luck was holding true and it turns out they were 6 volt. Knowing that the truck is going to be taken apart for paint and body at some point I decided to go ahead and use plugs for everything so the harness won’t have to be cut and spliced back together to get the lights out.



The harness itself was fairly simple (headlight, turn signals, parking lights and horn) and really didn’t take that long to build. I terminated the harness with a 6 circuit plug just a little bit past the grill shell so that if I ever need to take the grill shell out it’s just unplug the one plug.






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