There has not been a lot of Studebaker work this summer because I have been working on this: We build a new 40’x26′ shop with a BendPak lift. It is going to rock but has sucked up all of my … Continue reading
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I have wanted to do this for a couple of months now so when I got a sunny warm day to work with I jumped on it Everything is ready. The oil drain plug is 1″ on this car and … Continue reading
My mom has a box of my Grandfather’s pictures and letters. We started organizing it on Thanksgiving and we found a picture of the Studebaker dated 8/26/1952. The car was parked in 1953 for 30 years but it was still … Continue reading
After work I went out to troubleshoot my issues from yesterday. I started testing the driver’s side headlight bucket with a meter and could not figure out where the problem was so I pulled the entire bucket out. I cleaned … Continue reading
I only had a couple hours today to work on the car but I got into testing. Of course there are problems… First thing to do was the driver’s side headlight. There was some surface rust in here so I … Continue reading
I have been less than thrilled by the quality of the 1-1 connectors that came with the new harness. One of the original factory connectors was broken so I took it apart. The brass insert is much thicker and better … Continue reading
This is the first free time I have had this week so I went out to work on the car for an hour or so. The goal is to get the old main chassis harness out. First I disconnected harness … Continue reading
For my future reference and maybe to help others this post will have the terminals on all the switches on the car. I have taken thousands of pictures of this car so you would think I would have better ones … Continue reading
I had a about half a day to work on this so my goal was to get as far as I could under the dash. It actually went very well. First I checked out the wiring on the ignition switch … Continue reading
After a week I got back to work on the wiring with more work under the dash. Lots of labeling and disconnecting but finally was able to start pulling the harness out through the hole in the firewall. Yes! Harness … Continue reading