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Well today between Christmas shopping with momma, a trip to the bank, two trips to work for Heater hose (idiot me should have paid attention to the heater core and seen the hoses are 5/8 and 3/4) and bringing wood up to the house, I was able to get some more done on the truck.
I got the interior put back together, and the hoses run and radiator topped off. The heat is about enough to run you of the truck now. I need to replace the heater ducting next but what I’ve got will be just fine until then. I drove it around this evening running some errands, when I realized quite quickly the battery was dying. The ammeter works intermittently, and apparently it wasn’t working tonight. I went to pick up dinner and it almost didn’t start when I got back to the truck. Went straight home to find the battery was below 12 volts. Poked around some and discovered the ring terminal had broke off of the charge wire on the alternator. Easy fix back up and running with a charged battery again. I’m sure we all know how it goes on these old trucks, if it ain’t one thing it’s another.

As a side note I talked to my buddy Ernie today, he’s turned the corner and gaining his health back steadily. He said he hopes to be back to working on my stuff by the end of this coming week. That’s by far the best news of the day. The good lord looked after him well.