Over the past couple of days I’ve continued to make progress. I’ve got the headlights and taillights installed. The headlights had an unexpected complication: It turned out the modern 5 1/2″ bulb wouldn’t sit correctly into the 50 year old mount, so I had to encourage a better fit with my grinder.
NOTE: One set of items I don’t seem to have are front turn signals. I’d like to find a set of the cone turn signals that I believe were on a mid 60s Willys truck like these. If you know of any, please let me know where I can find some.
With the lights attached, I started the wiring process. My main goal is to make it as easy as possible to unattach the body for painting or repair purposes. So, for example, after installing the taillights I ran a flexible tube along the body using some sheet metal screws so that all the rear lighting stayed attached to body. Anytime wiring needs to cross from the body to the frame, engine, etc, I’m trying to bridge it with some kind of plug. So far so good.
