Recent content by signalsparks

THANK YOU for the part number! I'll see what I can grab and solder up. Maybe as a backup. Unfortunately I've been blackballed from Paypal since 2003 so I can't buy that rt-eng device, but it looks nice. I purchased something legit from a site that apparently sold something not-so-legal (no...

Question first: Can anyone verify whether the '68-'70 NON-Rallye gauge cluster circuit board has diodes and capacitors on it or not? IF they are normally there, what are the values on the diodes? *Edit* I figured out this array of components must be a substitute for the voltage limiter device...

So if I understand you (and NHTSA), if your car came off the assembly line with sealed-beam headlamps, it must always and forever have a one-piece headlamp. It can never have a lens/reflector assembly with a removable bulb like most modern US-market cars since ~1986 and most Euro-spec cars...

Seriously, can't someone make LED headlights that: Euro-spec and/or DOT rated as required by the customer Fit the existing buckets without modification (Identical form factor to incandescent/halogen sealed beam) Work with existing wiring with anything from a significant decrease to a minimal...

Nice, is that EF8 Green?

Thanks for that tip! I hope I can see the list and check that against what I already have lying around. I changed out the ball joints and half-shafts on a 1991 Nissan Sentra a few years back, I have a few air tools...

I'm running on stock steel wheels, stock suspension height. Front end seems ok (I've driven everything from a 1955 VW Bug to a 1986 40' Blue Bird bus, a 1980 Ramcharger, and beyond.) The rubber everywhere in the front end looks old and cracked, and there's clunks in the front in parking lots...

I'm 100% with you on that. I would have bought one of those 4 x 10 plates that have two 3" cones and a tweeter instead, but the price ($15) on the pair of Cerwin-Vega 4 x 10s was too low to pass up. I'm saving my pennies to rebuild the front end, replace the factory A/C (the compressor threw a...

Grew up riding in a 1977 Buick Skylark with the windshield antenna. Never had a problem with it until a crack in the windshield. Also had a 2006 Scion xB with the antenna built into the rear side glass. Worked great.

The dash speaker is a 4 x 10. I have seen at least one 'radio delete' car that actually had a speaker installed there at the factory! I think the rear speaker option was only a 6 x 9, and the 5 x 8 hole was for the rear defroster? Of course, the paper cones turn to dust after a couple decades...

I was planning to magnet or velcro-mount under the middle of the dash. All the switches you see (except the power switch on the bottom) are momentary. Just soldered to where the push buttons were on the original circuit board.

OK. Be nice, everybody. Here it is , I still have to put a 4-pin microphone connector on the side for power and speaker, and a Line In plug, too. On the back, you can see the Motorola antenna plug. It has an FM tuner function, too. The circuit board came out of a smashed Blackmore BRS-1104...

That amazon thing is great, but doesn't fulfill #3 and #7 on my second list.

That's more than I've got into it, besides a few hours of labor (mostly looking around for a solder sucker, flux, and copper braid that I had SOMEWHERE).

Why would I want to snap a picture of my homebrew setup and expose myself to ridicule for how the switches aren't centered, the labeling isn't nice and neat, etc. etc.