Hot Rods BChrismer's Survivor '40 Ford Convertible

Would blue dots stand out more at night?
Are you using the 6 volt wiring for the rest of the car or have you converted to 12 volt wiring?
What else is required to run the LED's with 12 volts?

 

You never know what you WILL learn when you open up a thread on the HAMB.... This is a good one . I am enjoying your frequent progress reports Brett.

 

Oil Pressure gauge works, but reads lower than what the capillary tube gauge read. Good enough for me, though. I just want to make sure there is pressure.

But this is a FIRST for me. I had never wired a '40 Voltmeter before. I had soldered a 60ohm resistor into a wire that feeds off of a 5amp fuse to my volt meter. Just for kicks, I started the car up and it worked without me having to attach a ground wire to the other terminal.

No pictures under the dash, as the wiring I did is messy, because I was just trying to get things running to get it to the exhaust shop. This winter will involve some remounting of the fuse panel and tidying up the underside of the dash. (if I get around to it)

 

Just to be open and not hide my idiocy, I have a confession to make. Sometimes I forget to do things that are really important.

Last night, I took the convertible over to fill the tank. It wasn't this morning, until I walked out into the garage that I got a strong whiff of gas fumes. I looked under the car to see a small pool of gas and a tank dripping. That's when I remembered that when I was swapping out the fuel pump, before going to the muffler shop, I had unhooked the fuel line to break the siphon that was drawing fuel through the fuel lines. NOT GOOD!

I rolled the car back, jacked up the back, took an oil drain pain under there, and fought with trying to line up a fixed fuel line to get it threaded back in and tightened up.

Currently, I have a fan in the window and the garage door cracked so I can blow the fumes out of the garage. Glad to find this BEFORE leaving for Bartlesville. LOL