Interesting. I've never heard of that before. If you would like better pictures let me know and I can help out with whatever. The inner structure is slightly janky, but it works, and i'm out of money. lol

 

That's a great use for pipe hanger. I use it all the time and I always have some in my tool box.

Edwin

 

I have done the same with cut out strips of old fender sheetmetal. Used the exact same way.

 

While your at it, seal those cracks too. A lot of rusty floors in these 1st gens am sure comes from water leaking through the cracked areas.

 

Yeah, but I don't have a 40 acre farm of old fenders so I have to make do.

 

I was being a nice guy last month and was helping a friend move from downtown Denver. The truck died in the middle of the road. After about a 6 hour venture between towing it to a parking lot, fixing the fuseable link, unloading it, driving home, and fixing it a few times along the way I finally made it home. Frustrated I just disconnected the battery and left it to decide what I wanted to do. Combed through the wonderful wiki on here and got a game plan on fixing it. Ordered the fuse block that has illuminated led's when a fuse is blown, and set out on removing the rest of the fuseable links. I used a 150 amp reset-able circuit breaker for the alternator wire (which I still need to fill with solder and heat shrink which I will do Sunday). After that I just took off all the extra tape, and rancid connectors others have used over the years, and soldered/heat shrunk every connection then re-wrapped the harness and plugged everything into the new fuse block. The fuse block is rated for 100 amps total and has an 80 amp maxi fuse currently protecting it. I will be ordering a 100 amp circuit breaker to replace the fuse, but for now i'm very pleased with how it turned out.

 

 

This is the fuse block I am using. In the hand it seems to be built pretty well. Time will tell. The fuses to come separate, but all in all i'm maybe $30 into this repair/fix. The piece of mind knowing that I can replace a fuse on the side of the road instead of dealing with a fuseable link is priceless.

 

I was trying to figure out what that large black connector was on your fender, since I don't have one on my 93 wiring harness, nor have I seen one before on any 1st Gen's....then I looked at your truck listed in your sig.....Ahhh it's a gasser 93!

 

It sure throws people for a loop. lol. Now it's on to the next thing on the list.. Still have a laundry list of things left...

 

Some unfortunate things have happpened recently and now i'm going to be moving from here in Denver to Arkansas. about a 14-15 hour drive with a car. So i'm stuck trying to do some last minute things to get the truck as ready as possible. Just dropped the tank last week to get the fuel pump replaced. I underestimated how much gas was left in the tank, it easily had 12-15 gallons left. I cut out the old pump and wired it up to pump what was left into my winter beater. It's soooo nice to have a working fuel guage again. While under the truck I noticed the front u-joint and slip yoke had some play (i've had a driveline vibration for a while now). So I pulled the driveline had a local company put on a new set of splines, yoke, both u-joints and rebalanced. Silky smooth driving now. Going to need to update the trailer wiring before I leave. The current trailer plug is all corroded and nasty. I've got 3 toolboxes and some household stuff to be taking with me. Fingers crossed the ol' girl makes it alright!

 

What happened in the insurance settlement from the accident? Do you still have a good title or a salvage??