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The parking brake fully installed.

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Test fitting the headliner & rear cab cover. The template supplied by the vendor is not to scale so I kinda buggered it up, but I figure I can address that when I have it covered. Went ahead and ordered an extra set of the deco inserts and modified the rear cover to match the doors & headliner.

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Man I HATE wiring!

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Not much progress, currently in diagnostic mode stymied by the rear wiring. For some reason the fuel pump activates when applying the brakes & the tail light leads are hot but wont blink. I am running LED's front & rear and I switched to an LED flasher but it didn't help at all. When time permits. I'm going to have to trace it down.

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I usually find when you get weird outcomes like that it turns out to be a bad ground somewhere. start at the battery negative and run through all the ground connections for each part. each electrical part needs to have a dedicated ground to nice shiny bare metal frame ground. don't rely on body parts to supply a good ground. I find that when one circuit does something weird in another circuit it is because the ground isn't found in one of those circuits so it is finding a ground by running through another electrical componet and using that component for a ground. I usually ground all the lights out back to the actual truck frame, the lights out front to the actual frame and then the stuff in the middle thats not in the cab-also directly to the frame. the cab gets a seperate large ground wire from the engine or the frame to the main structural part of the cab. then the stuff iside the cab gets grounded to the main structural part of the cab as well. bare shiny metal, star washers and anticorrsion on the ground connections.

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it seems that the trouble is out back.try disconnecting the lights out back and then see if the fuel pump is still turning on with the brakes. while the lights are disconnected try your test light on the wires and see if the signals suddenly work. sometimes the problem is inside the light so simply disconnecting one light at a time and testing after each disconnect can reveal where the problem is coming from.

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is the fuel pump ground shared with the tail lights?

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AAAAAHHH!!! You may be onto something! I need to check the EFI to see if it has its own dedicated ground. It's on a completely different circuit but I may have spliced the grounds that feed that system. The pump itself shares a ground with the sending unit. I'll separate those as well.

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Yup. A ground is as important as the power feed. It's like building a freeway going west but only a dirt road going east.

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All grounds were good. Turned out to be a bad connection on the steering column. It’s a Flaming River unit, but the plug didn’t seat properly with the plug from the wiring harness. Ended up splicing the wires together individually and that solved most of the problems except for the emergency flashers. I’ll work on those when I find some time.

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well, at least you know now.

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I was off all week and had plans to spend as much time as I could working on the truck. In the end, I was only able to hook up the fuel filler and mount the tail lights. I changed course on lights in the roll pan and installed stock styled LED’s.

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Not perfect but much improved!

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I've been scratching my head trying to figure out where the puddle of brake fluid was coming from on the drivers side around the front wheel. All the lines were checked & double checked & after closer inspection it appeared that it was coming from somewhere around the master cylinder so I set up me camera to see what happened when I applied the brakes and was shocked to see that the pressure switch on the proportioning valve was gushing fluid, not from the threaded connection but from around the front section by the plug. Somewhat surprised that this would fail especially since it's new.

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sometimes being new can be worse than using the old part, lol.

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True! I wasn't using it anyway, so I just capped it off.

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Added a set of LED headlights. These have built in DRLs & turn signals. Can't figure out what the emergency flashers don't work though. I Hope to be able to test drive this thing soon!

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Tucked the bumper in a bit & extended the splash apron.

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Going to have to upgrade the cooling system, it got pretty hot running in the garage. I can’t recall how much cfms the current fan has but it’s not up to the task. Any suggestions?

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I pulled the single electric fan when mine did that and went with a dual fan. It increased the CFM's some and it now runs about 180 degrees.

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a dual fan set up can be wired to start off with only a single fan running and then boost to the second fan if things continue to heat up. a manual switch is always a good thing too, for heavy stop and go traffic on hot days.

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You found a dual setup for an AD? What did you use?