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Projects & Restorations / Re: 1978 Y88 Restoration

« Last post by wheels78ta on Today at 08:42:29 PM »

Motor and tranny are installed.  Tranny is being held up on a jack stand waiting for the crossmember to go in.  Maybe tomorrow. 

All I can say is............Wow.   

The excitement continues.

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Second Generation 1970-1981 / Re: Fuel and brake line clamps

« Last post by wheels78ta on Today at 08:35:51 PM »

Nice job Ben. 

What type of oven are you baking these in?

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Projects & Restorations / Re: 77TA Resto Reboot - a long journey to an LS swap

« Last post by stros on Today at 08:32:46 PM »

Pics of the new grills on the kick panel speakers that clear the parking brake much better and also included a pic of the DSP windows app in case you’re interested (this is a generic image not my current settings).

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Projects & Restorations / Re: 77TA Resto Reboot - a long journey to an LS swap

« Last post by stros on Today at 08:13:09 PM »

The stereo project is done.  As mentioned in another thread I also decided to swap out my center dash speakers.  That was a bit of an effort but in the end not that bad.  Added two 4” Infinity reference speakers to the dash in addition to the 6.5s in the kick panels and 6x9s in the rear deck mentioned earlier. 

I still have the JBL Fuse split subwoofers hidden in the trunk with the dedicated SSL amp ($90 1000 watt 2 channel amp off Amazon). 

I added a new JBL 8 channel DSP amp to power the 6 new speakers.  Using 6 of the channels as it doesn’t have enough power for my subs.  A pretty good deal for <$300.  The DSP allows you to specifically tune every single speaker separately.  Given the unconventional speaker setup it’s really great at allowing me to put different amounts of power to each speaker so they sound better together.  It’s a bit complicated to dial in but I think I’m happy with my settings now.  I’ll continue to fiddle with it. 

The DSP amp has no presets and it has to be adjusted using a windows laptop.  Would’ve been nice to adjust it on your phone instead. 

I have a couple of issues I decided to deal with some other time - my quartz clock died again…it was working fine before I removed it.  It’s a repop Classic Industries tach that I’ve had replaced under warranty due to the last clock dying.  This one lasted a few years.  It seems super fragile.  I’m going to live with it not working.  Maybe an excuse to go with digital gauges for a future project.  My light socket behind the fuel/battery gauge - which wasn’t working earlier - also completely snapped off when I was trying to replace the bulb. 

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Electrical / Re: Clock Power

« Last post by roadking77 on Today at 05:19:35 PM »

OK, I will keep that in mind. Its not urgent as the clock has never worked. Being that it was rebuilt I assumed it picked up power from my tach that I knew was not hooked up. IF I ever get the 79 on the road I plan on putting the 77 in the shop for some freshening up.

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Electrical / Re: Clock Power

« Last post by b_hill_86 on Today at 11:56:43 AM »

I’m editing my previous post after some thought. Im not sure a charger would be a good idea. Instead, a couple spare wires and alligator clips or something similar with one of your car batteries would work better.

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Electrical / Re: Clock Power

« Last post by roadking77 on Today at 11:54:55 AM »

Didnt think about that, Could I use my battery charger with the positive and negative lead on each post? 
I have used that method before to test other components like the blower motor, window motors etc.

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Electrical / Re: Clock Power

« Last post by b_hill_86 on Today at 07:08:49 AM »

If you were to remove the cluster you could fairly simply connect power and ground to the clock directly to test

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Second Generation 1970-1981 / Re: Fuel and brake line clamps

« Last post by roadking77 on Today at 06:56:22 AM »

Looks good to me!

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Electrical / Re: Clock Power

« Last post by roadking77 on Today at 06:54:56 AM »

When I restored my 77 I sent my clock out for a restoration service. It was rebuilt as original although he did offer a quartz upgrade, new stem etc. It has never worked, although everything (well almost, no speedo and no tach) else works the clock has never worked?