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Strouty

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LX, my buddy runs a website that sells some cool wiring stuff, I just did essentially what you have been doing except in a forklift.


Shameless plug for him:

www.12voltconnection.com

Here is what I used for a fuse panel, it is made by Eaton. The cover is weather sealed and the wires are all use rubber seals as well. I think this one is good for 100 amps, but I can’t remember. It is nice because it offers fuse and relays all in one small space.

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LXCam

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That's a nice small unit bud, thanks for the link - shameless or not :p

I'm pretty sure I got the point across that I was juuust slightly annoyed with him blowing off my suggestion of a new harness. Hell had he gotten one I'd have done the motor and gauges too just to keep every fresh and hopefully free from blame. I even dug thru my extensive collection of power control centers from shredded rides and thought screw it, I'm not going to deal with it as I only needed (in a perfect world) 7 fuses circuits and one relay to be 100% cool. So he got what oriellys had on the shelf and I doubled up on a couple things but sized the wire correctly. Unfortunately right size or not, it's all red or black. Haha.


So today's adventures started with a trip to the salon my wife does the books. Needed to repair a lock on a filing cabinet and snake the drains for the hair wash stations. Holy ****, my snake is now coated with black hair die, obviously bleach blondes don't do business there, whatta a mess. And then it was off to my daughters to fix some plumbing the sperm donor jacked up. I don't mind in the least doing it but his constant "I know" everything gets really old really quick.

Two months ago she tells me the instanta hot is leaking water big time. So I look at it and it's the pop off that puking. I then find out he was jacking with the main pressure regulator and damaged it. But he's going to take care of all that so I leave it alone. Last week she asks me why her utility bills doubled and I lay it out why. Then on Thursday the wife tells me that sperm donor told my wife I didn't know what I was talking about and there's no way the constantly puking water heater could cause this. She also lets me know that he has shut the water off so now whenever my daughter will two little kids in tow needs to use anything, she has to go outside and turn it on and off. I try not to ever stick my nose in anymore but that was more then I could take.

Sorry guys for the rant, but I needed to get that off my keyboard ;)

During a little break between house calls I reached out to the BIL letting him know I need to start on another project and if there was a problem parking the truck outside in the rain. Well you probably guessed it immediately but I'm going to have to tarp it.

Great :rolleyes2
 
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gofastwclass

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Very cool looking truck. Can't tell you how many older vehicles I've seen cobbled together the same way underneath. I've met people exactly like you describe and you have done an admirable job for the circumstances and pay. As they say you can lead a horse to water...
 
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LXCam your last post was awesome as it summed up a regular day for me. LMAO and I totally understand the need to rant!
Dave
 
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