I haven't really been doing much with my mini bikes because of this '78 F150. Finally got plates for it yesterday and today it's getting tires. Really only gotten my 212 built and on my small bike and the 107ss installed in my Briggs model 13. It's been a desire to have a truck for truck things for a long time and it's been taking up most of my free time.
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Well, this thing turned into quite a project just to get it fully rolling reliably. It has gotten a new aluminum radiator, new v-belt water pump (the one that was on it was for a serpentine belt and pushed the wrong way), temp sensor, thermostat and housing, and temp gauge. Which means the entire cooling system has been replaced and it hovers in the middle of the N on normal of the temp gauge when driving now instead of attempting to overheat after a few miles.
The exterior lights all work as well now. I ended up running grounds from the lights ground connection points on the body back to the inner fender on the passenger side with a ground wire back to battery negative. I've also replaced the signal switch in the steering column since the one that was in it had been hacked on and was corroding apart at the crimp connectors. Both flashers were swapped out to timer based grounded types with polarity swappers, since Ford apparently wired the fronts weird and requires them for the signals to work with an LED swap.
As of writing this it has travelled a good 90ish miles without issue going to work and back once as well as the yard waste site a couple times.