Edit... Resto mod FIRST DRIVE

[SoFlaFiat]

Yes I am Mark,



While the dash face is fixed, the top is removable. So access is relatively good.

[toplessexpat]

Ok Andy! Done!
I decided if the amp in the dash didn't work it would be a miserable job later so I took it all out

and routed constant power, switched power and front speaker wires to the rear package shelf. Better in the end, I'm sure!

You'll feel better about it for sure.....

.... mine's probably going under the rear shelf, possibly under a small hatch if I think about it right, or perhaps behind the back between the speakers. 12v USB quad port behind the front console (which I'm replacing with a coupe one, and used the air vents for a couple of extra gauges as a man can't have too many... A/F mixture gauge wired to a dash mounted toggle on/off so that I'm not driven insane by the A/F mix with my carb'd car!)

[vandor]

> so that I'm not driven insane by the A/F mix with my carb'd car

Too late

[SoFlaFiat]

> so that I'm not driven insane by the A/F mix with my carb'd car

Too late

Im betting he's got you there Andy!

Maybe you should go for something completely redundant like the "excitement meter gauge"
Get one of those and you can leave the switch on all the time!!

[toplessexpat]

At least I have nice translations on my dials.....

Ah, Csaba, no need to comment there......

[SoFlaFiat]

calibro di eccitazione

[SoFlaFiat]

So between the wiring diagrams, and instructions, from Painless, Advanced Keys, MSD, Brad Artigue and BaltoBernie (thanks Bernie for the write up!!) (and thanks again Brad, for all the info you have made available on wiring Fiats!)




I THINK... I have everything hooked up right...
With any luck I will be able to post some video of "start up day" before the end of the weekend.
Wish me luck, cross your fingers!!!

[vandor]

Keep a fire extinguisher handy

[SoFlaFiat]

Is that your idea of wishing luck? you sarcastic Hungarian!!



If I had never lived in Maine with an Austrian mother, I wouldn't understand such dry humor!!

[toplessexpat]

Maybe a pair of extinguishers....

[SoFlaFiat]

Maybe a pair of extinguishers....

Obviously, my "start up" video will begin with the filming of BOTH my fire extinguishers!!

and hopefully end with them both in the same place they are now!!!

Go ahead Andy, make another comment! I'm looking for my bitch slap button already!!

[toplessexpat]

How about a hard wired fire suppression system.... Just in case...

[81SPIDERMATT]

I THINK... I have everything hooked up right...
With any luck I will be able to post some video of "start up day" before the end of the weekend.
Wish me luck, cross your fingers!!!

getting ready to do initial start on a 3 year scout II project .... it is very exciting and nerve racking at the same time .... I have crawled under over and in every corner of that truck three times at least .... I wake up at night thinking of something ..get dressed go out with a flashlight and look at the reason for my nightmare only to find everything is fine

hoping that if something is wrong it will only squirt or drip some type of fluid and be fixed by tightening a bolt or something ... praying for no sparks or smoke or big sledgehammer noises

fingers crossed for you big time

[SoFlaFiat]

fingers crossed for you big time

Thanks Matt!! I'll unfoe you for that!!

Is that even a word?

And good luck, fingers crossed, for Scout start up day!!

[SoFlaFiat]

Oh so close...
Exhaust back off with the last bits welded on



I hooked up the starter and alternator, installed the clutch cable, filled the differential, installed the exhaust and started with fluids. I filled the oil cooler first



Then the filter, and then the rest.



Still lots to do tomorrow but maybe, just maybe I'll hear it run.