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[bgood70]

Originally Posted by bgood70

Finished couple more things over the past couple days. I filled in the holes for the wiring harness connection and also speed odometer cable hole. Now I just need to figure out how I am going to run the wire harness. I am open to ideas!!

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Took the cut out from the firewall and I am making a custom bracket for the wire harness. I will mount this up under the dash for the harness to connect to. More on this as it progresses.

[mcbassin]

Originally Posted by bgood70

Took the cut out from the firewall and I am making a custom bracket for the wire harness. I will mount this up under the dash for the harness to connect to. More on this as it progresses.

This looks like a pretty cool idea. I'm interested in seeing how you use this bracket.

[franky69c10]

Look'n good

[bgood70]

Got some more completed this weekend. Filled in the speaker vent in the dash. My doors already are cut out for speakers I may reuse them or buy kick panels. Also filled the opening for the original gas fill tube. Will relocate this to rear.

[bgood70]

Had a good friend come over and with his shrinker and stretcher this weekend to help me cap the firewall gutter. I want to thank him as he has provided great guidance. Please check out his build if you haven't already.... Project Jezebel

Firewall before we started


Picture of us fitting it. Tedious process stretch, test, shrink, test, test, stretch etc./


Cap tacked in place


Completed welding it


Finished cap ended up pretty good fit and makes the firewall looked finished.

[bgood70]

[franky69c10]

[mcbassin]

Cab and firewall look great! keep it up!

[chevy88]

Looks like you have plenty of patience, nice clean work so far.

[VA72C10]

nice! Love the firewall cap (the way I did mine also)

[bgood70]

Originally Posted by chevy88

Looks like you have plenty of patience, nice clean work so far.

Doing this can instil patience into anyone after a while ..

[bgood70]

Cut out my AC vents and the opening for a 2 DIN DVD,NAV,GPS unit. Used Vintage air templates for the AC locations. Pretty much done with the metal work on the cab. Will start body work and getting it ready for primer.

AC vent cut out and 2 DIN cut out.

[Deenice21]

Had to chime in. Great Work and he is in Florida too .

[Dieselwrencher]

Very nice work! Where are you getting your radio? Or what is a good one?

[bgood70]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Very nice work! Where are you getting your radio? Or what is a good one?

Thanks for the comments. I am looking into this company. They are overseas and make units for almost all makes and models. They have have all the dimensions online also.

http://www.autodvdgps.com/

[Dieselwrencher]

Thanks for the link. They don't look to horribly priced either.

[mcbassin]

Hey buddy, in this picture are the holes left the only ones needed for the brake booster and steering column? I notice your wire harness pass though hole is gone. Are you moving it? Where?



I still have a bunch of holes and don't know for sure which ones to fill?
take a look at mine:

[vanceman]

Any Updates?

[bgood70]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Hey buddy, in this picture are the holes left the only ones needed for the brake booster and steering column? I notice your wire harness pass though hole is gone. Are you moving it? Where?



I still have a bunch of holes and don't know for sure which ones to fill?
take a look at mine:

Mcbassin missed your comment sorry for the late reply. Yes the holes left are for the break booster and the steering column. In previous posting I showed how I cut out my wire harness holes. I will be relocating it under the dash and coming out near the fresh air vent. I have also filled in all the EBrake holes and am removing it. I have been working on the body work for the firewall trying to get ready for primer so have put off the wiring harness relocation temporary.

[bgood70]

Originally Posted by vanceman

Any Updates?

Finishing bodywork on firewall. Will post pics next day or so.

[72SWBChevy]

Looking good so far!!! Great job.

[mcbassin]

Originally Posted by bgood70

Yes the holes left are for the break booster and the steering column. In previous posting I showed how I cut out my wire harness holes. I will be relocating it under the dash and coming out near the fresh air vent. I have also filled in all the EBrake holes and am removing it. I have been working on the body work for the firewall trying to get ready for primer so have put off the wiring harness relocation temporary.

Thanks for the explaination, I'm interested in seeing some pics of this too.

[bgood70]

Bodywork on the firewall is pretty much complete. I will be looking at priming the cab hopefully this weekend. Just need to get my wire harness bracket completed.

[bgood70]

Ok so this is what I ended up doing to move my wire harness completely under the dash since I shaved the firewall. Feedback is welcome as this is my first time with this and am hoping that it will not come back to bite me .

I cut out the wire harness area from the firewall and made a custom bracket out of it so the harness would mount right back to it. I move this under the dash in similar location as where it was located in the firewall just set in 3.5 inches. This allows me to get the 2 piece harness on.

I have cut 2 holes near the fresh air vent for the wires to enter through. Then 2 more holes in the bottom of the vent to exit and then they will continue inside the fender and routed from their as needed.


Picture of the area and the 2 holes that I put into the fresh air vent.


These are the holes put at bottom of vent for exit.


Picture of Bracket installed. I also rounded the bottom corners as they were pretty sharp after I took the picture.


Picture of what the harness would look like installed.


Picture from different angle showing the back of the bracket.

[VA72C10]

cool idea for the panel/wiring. Firewall looks really good!