To be able to figure out electrical issues on these cars is one thing, but to be able to figure out someone else’s hack job is another. Great work my friend.
I struggle when I have to jump in the middle of a project where I didn't do the disassembly but my uncle, with all of his years of experience, could put damned near anything back together from a jumbled heap. That's an old pro right there.
Agreed. I'm enjoying the viewing, because I'm sat here in a comfy chair, beer in hand, watching someone else contort themselves to reach in under the dash to work!
@@FishFind3000 the new harbor freight icon light is a streamlight knockoff but it's actually pretty nice. Was gonna buy a switchblade but the icon fits in my back pocket better for work. Way better than that cheap Braun light
On a farm truck the H doesn't mean high. It means Hantavirus. Mucho caution there bub. That flurry of turds was impressive!!! There is a factory circular on those vintage trucks that states in no wish shall the proper screw be reassembled after it's first disassembly. You can put anything you want back in, except the screw that came out. My personal favorite was a slotted stove bolt with a square nut behind the dash. Suitably cross threaded. That is the vintage, enviro-friendly red locktite equivalent.
@@davidcolesr.8628 We've seen too much not to laugh about it. Have a great weekend Senior!! I had a bud in elemenetary scruel named David Cole. He could turn his eyelids inside out. Spooked a teacher doing that once.
no farmer truck is complete without a healthy heap of drywall screws, self tapers. on the wiring side, it cant be a true farm truck IF there isnt at least a dozen wirenuts sprinkled in somewhere distracting you from the nightmare of the dozens of scotchlocks
I take some perverted pleasure in watching others do wiring. It's comforting to know I'm not the only one who...falls into those rabbit holes of WTF-ery... Great video Wes thanks for bringing us along!
Having done fleet maintenance on that era of Furd trucks, I feel your pain. I see you even reinstalled the original factory installed rattles. Nice job.
My sister parked her Infiniti Q80 Platinum down at her country place last year over winter. A few rats got into the engine and chewed everything up and then some made it in to the interior by chewing up the air vent slats. They made a nice winter home under her leather seats. Tons of rat feces, urine,torn wires, leather, destroyed seat controls including the ventilated and heated seats. Total cost of repairs, $4380. She had a laser system set up to keep the rodents at bay and I suggested a walk the plank trap...several of them. She thought she was smarter. Homeowners paid for repairs though. That was a fight.
WES! It IS fun to watch you hacking away - I've been there and failed so it's GLORIOUS to watch you suceed again and again. I could watch it all day brother.
The fact that you even took the time to put the 1990s vintage JVC stereo back in the dash, is incredibly admirable. I would have exorcised it with a wrecking bar and done my best imitation of a shotput with it out onto the county blacktop. The maze of wires, the history of rodent ravaging, the absolute under-dash anarchy--and you still managed to make it work. Hats off to you, Wes. Nice repair.
For those of us living in the I-States grain trucks and fire trucks are the next best thing to "southern rust free" You missed a perfect opportunity to tie little colored ribbons to the blower vents
Last summer I helped figure out the electrics of a 1950s tractor. Now that was amazing! According to the owner, the electrics were an aftermarket kit, which made finding schematics absolutely impossible. The base model of these tractors sold with a crank handle and instead of a glow plug it had a metal tube that you stuffed lit cotton buds into for preheating the engine (single-cylinder diesel). The fancy kit offered four fuses, electric starter, glow plug, brake lights, number plate and rear lights and side marker/low beam/high beam headlights plus a horn. The brake light switch was held in place with and operated by some baling wire tied to the chassis and brake pedal. Most of the wires didn't go anywhere but we did manage to trace everything over the course of two evenings. The OEM schematics for the luxury spec did confirm some of our suspicions and gave us directions on wire sizes. The factory wiring had six fuses for the same stuff, one of them was for the sole purpose of feeding the high beam indicator on the dash 😀 A dedicated 8 amp fuse for a little dash light!
Well Wes, I have commented numerous times.., you “re-wiring” skills (cut, splice, crimp, shrink wrap) are second only to your electrical “gremlins” diagnosing skills… I could watch you spicing skills for hours (yep, I know.., I am a bit touched in the head)… Great video, Thank you sir.
The mice used to find the Coast brand soap under the sink downtown and chew it up. I replaced the soap with the chewed-up soap in traps. Got every mouse in the place over the next 3 days. Must be the fillers in it that they love.
As a 22 y ear old trying to teach himself about cars thank so much for taking some time to explain what youre doing. Iv'e always heard that a bad resistor can make a blower not work right but never knew why.
It's not just cutting and crimping wires it's re-asserting order in a world of crap repairs chaos! Watching Wes Work is the title of the channel, we don't really mind what the work is!
Hi Wes, your comment at 17:00 about "it must be riveting watching some guy cut and crimp wiring" is actually spot on because its not about watching you do that. It's about watching your thought process and your diagnostic skills which is something we can all apply to our daily lives. I found your channel by accident about 6 months ago and as an older DIY home mechanic have found if very useful for chasing down faults with my R170 SLK320 project car and My Girlfriends 2009 mini convertible (and our children's cars!). Keep up the good work and the amazingly detailed videos you do. PS. Your channel is much more informative than "The car Wizard".... shhhhh dont tell him I said that ;-) lol
Seeing all that leaf shrapnel blow out of the vents any time you dared go above low speed takes me back to the good old days of owning a 1986 Ranger that had been parked under a tree for a year.
As always Wes you are willing to go where no man has gone before and tackle jobs a lot of shops would most likely pass up. Good to know you will take any and all problems your local customers bring you. Keep up the good work.
Every time I see a New Wes video I expect to see at least: A) Max and the rodent report; or B) The standard White Knuckle Towing service we all love. Good video as always, thank you.
Man I work in Commercial and Industrial electrical and I feel your pain on the hack job. I swear people go out of their way to do things incorrectly sometimes.
What DOES work against mice and it's really worth putting in your truck are those scented glue cardboard traps you can buy for a few bucks in most supermarkets. Just tape them to the floor where they don't get in your way and check every once in a while if they caught anything so you don't get foul smells in the cabin.
Those glue traps are bulls$%& just put a regular trap in there no sense in an animal dying that way on a cardboard glue trap if you cant kill them sufficiently and quick dont bother.
Just bought an 86 F150 Grandpa truck Wes. Not only did it have the super cool "dice" door lock pulls, it had the even cooler musical horn, 2 sets of fog lights, an inoperative JC Witney style "universal intermittent wiper control" and 3 speakers and an amp behind the seat. I guess he wanted his Vic Damone tunes nice and loud. The former owner was either the next Tesla or a budding mad scientist. The sheer amount of wires under the dash was staggering. What was even more impressive was the number of wires cut out of the factory fuse block so her could run power, apparently anyway, to the fuse block from a 91 Lebaron he attached to the firewall with a 3" sheetrock screw! I channeled my "inner Wes" and unhooked the most dangerous looking stuff and ended up with about 17 1/2 feet of wire in my scrap metal bin. I should have the whole thing fixed good as new about 2077...
Thanks for the upload, I am so damaged internally Ive worked as a tech for 10 years spend my days wrenching and my evenings watching other people wrench but hey I love learning how others go about it you allways learn something new
This is a Great Network of Similar, like minded people. Your not alone in this, I’m not a Tech but I am an Excavator Operator of 25 plus Years and Equally Damaged. Including but not limited to, the Dysfunction of unwinding by watching Wes Work. Keep coming Back & Keep It Safe Out There
It’s one thing to find and fix a OEM problem but when I start digging into a problem and find a shade tree electrical person has been practicing his skills I call for help. Wes you are so patient!
Wes, you drastically underestimate the amount of boring things we watch on youtube. Your commentary and occasional tips are what I come for and rarely am I disappointed.
I find you riveting and exciting. Although, I'm 71, divorced, with a bad back, and obese so I'm easy to please. I do love your sense of humor and I'm learning about cars. No kidding, I really enjoy your videos. God bless you for entertaining us oldies but goodies.
Universal = "One size fits none" And yes, it's riveting to watch someone *else* elbows deep in a dashboard trying to find & reconnect wires, makes me feel a lot less alone in my suffering! 😁
I watch all your videos. The repair of vehicles others appear as they can't fix them. If I speed up the videos to the very end, is like magic. All fixed and all working. Literally, inch by inch, tedious, slow, patient, precise, hard working, troubleshooting and eventual repair. Your experience and craftsmanship is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
I consider it a minor miracle that you can SWAG your way through that mess of wires and make sense of it all. Not only that, but it all works in the end. Your are truly the master of the FUBAR wiring job. Congrats and Kudos to you. Thanks for sharing.
Wes I love watching you strip wires and crimp connections back on. 1st- is your hands appear to be as large as my own, and I know what I go through in most cases. Typically if I have a hand in there trying to sort out what's what, then I can't see anything. So cutting crimping and reconnecting is all done in braile. 2nd- I'm not the one doing it, so that means I am not paying for it, and it's not mime. All the best reasons for watching you logical brain in action sorting out the toothy critters, from the I wanna be's damages is rather stimulating in a strange way. Irsh Springs soap, potty mouth critters, can't say I ever heard of that home deterrent for the little bas___ds. We have field mice here nearly as big as full grown cats, so looks like house mice got to him. Difference is here, they typically chew the wires too if they take to it, and it's typically the whole harness is compromised. We won't even discuss tree rats we've got to deal with, but being in the middle of a corn patch, you should have a variety of all of the above mentioned, plus several others.
I have found that dryer sheets tucked under the interior carpet in various places will work in rodent retention as well as a mix of peppermint and water in a spray bottle to spray throughout the engine compartment.
19:00 that rubber boot is important, it provides cooling air to the motor so it doesn't overheat and cremate itself. Had a guy bring me a truck that was going thru blower motors. 1, the intake was full of leaves and crap, and 2, it was missing the hose. I ordered one like wes did, and no more issues.
Retired 20 years lead wiring tech for the Air Force. Then ASE certification in 12 volt electrical systems from Ford after high school. I still love wiring. It’s not glamorous at all but I loved getting stuff in shot all to hell and getting it flight ready again. Or chasing down bugs in cars and trucks. 🧐🤔😍 Your allowing me to relive some memories. Thanks and hi from Texas. Oh say hi to the white knuckle towing service please 🙃!
The #1 problem with trucks like that is that it seems absolutely nobody can get near them without messing with the wiring. Then sooner or later, someone has to fix it. It's somehow comforting to see I'm not the only one who gets jobs like that.
Watching some guy do electrical wiring and diagnosis actually calms me down as i do like doing electrical work myself 😊 youre helping keep my BP down 👍🏻so dont stop making wiring vids 😁
Believe it or not,watching you do tedious and annoying jobs helps me unwind.considering I do alot of the same throughout the day I'm not sure what to make of myself.Thanks for the video.
Had a 8.2 Detroit in my rollback tow truck. F 600 . Hauling a car on back it got just under 25 mpg. I loved it . They need rebuilds more often but they are a lot less expensive to rebuild than Cummins international etc . The fuel savings over 50,000 miles is seems like it was about $20,000. Don't get the turbo 8.2 because they are prone to fail faster than non turbo. Non turbo motors is slow but Love those POS 8.2 . Commercial fisherman are the biggest competition for buying old trucks with 8.2 Detroit's they buy them for the motor
Having worked on a few of those junk grain trucks, I feel your pain. Allways a pleasure. We had a motto where I worked. We the undeserving, haveing done so much, with so little. That we are now qualified to fix anything, with nothing. Some jobs were likned to wiring blindfolded. Great video btw.
You cleaned up the mess of spaghetti and made the heater work again plus you put it back neatly on the dash and figured out the hatchet job fine detective work
Not a waste of my time, I watch Eric O. cut/splice/crimp wires all the time! It never ceases to amaze me the amount of effort 'the other guy(s)' take to hack a job together, when it would be far simpler to just do it right.
There's an old saying "I love work. I can watch it for hours!" It seems your activities qualify as work, so we watch it :) Thanks for doing the videos for us :) :) :)
That beautiful old truck is in such a great condition, it's worth a lot of effort to get the electrics right. When it is maintained well, it will run for at least 30 more years.
Having just spent half a day upside down in an Isuzu powered 2005 GMC 5500 chasing silly electrical and blower problems id say that watching someone else go through similar is just what the doctor ordered :)
Having to do all my car repairs myself out of necessity I somehow find it interesting to watch someone else figure things out and get them done . Even repairing the wiring is entertaining , can't say why . At 67 I mainly watch but , if the need arose I'd still have to repair my car because , there's nothing in my budget that would pay a mechanic's charges .
I learn something every time I watch your video, I had no idea the blower motor speed resister was negative, I couldn't ever figure out my Dodge truck a/c blower and ended up straight wiring it through a house hold light switch, what can I say this is Florida and I had to have the a/c blower working and it did. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
First, thanks for taking the time to share with us. Next, it's only a guess but it's possible that the have power going through multiple contacts on the switch so as to divide the load and the heat dissapation. Lastly I get a shall we say a sadistic pleasure from watching someone else splicing together wires in and under a dash instead of me. Lol. Again thanks for your videos, I both enjoy them and pick up useful tips. Well done Wess.
Ugh another one of those vintage F700/ 800's. The tree service I worked for had one and it was loaded with issues. When my boss figured out that I was a tech he was gung-ho on me digging into that thing as well as our bucket trucks, other chip trucks, chippers, etc. No Detroit in ours though, just the shitty gas one that makes like no power, similar to the one you worked on before in a previous video. Always hated fixing someone elses hackjob. What a nightmare. Some folks should just not attempt things and keep their hands off of tools. Yup, I agree, probably an 'AssPLUNGE' truck originally. LOL. Thanks for sharing Wes, from a 25 year tech, to another. You get the 'benefit' like I do, working on such WONDERFUL rigs! 😆👍
I love the videos Wes. You say this is not exciting; but I'll tell you this, I no longer have cable tv anymore. The only thing I watch on tv now is the weather report in the morning to see if I need to wear rain gear. My choice of entertainment is videos like yours and other fix--it kind of stuff. You're much appreciated. Also I always want to but the tools you show, but I really have nothing to work on that needs them. Keep it up.
I suck at electrical crap. You're blowing my mind on how you are doing this. I HATE electrical issues and always walk away from those jobs and when they happen to my vehicle, I give it to someone else to do.
Nice touch. I was nearly riveted but a little disappointed in the lack of crap coming out of the ducts when you fired up the blower. A grain truck? You should have been peppered with soybeans, or something, I would have been. Along with a whole new mess to clean up. Good fix, i understand the old stuff. Best regards from Indiana.
Well I always find electrical interesting. I buy early Jeeps and putter with getting them back on the road. I do the same thing you do. Clean up a home grown mess built by others. I see many throw up their hands and go buy a new wiring harness. The only problem there is that if you can’t fix the original stuff you can’t install a new harness. I have had only a couple in which I had to completely rewire the Jeep. It is pretty amazing that no matter how archaic the design, you can rebuild it with the right parts and it works. I appreciate your dedication to correct parts and quality work. From the dry banks of the Underwood Branch, thanks for the fun.
You sir are the man ! Dedication & determination & the ability to figure out other people's butchery/hack jobs is truly a gift from God. Thanks for taking us along on the journey. Oh yeah, you offered me a gift last time but, I am not that smart about computers. I am a 67 year old retired long haul trucker who's mind says I can but, my body says you better have yourself a seat. All the best to you & your family from Brooklyn N.Y..
To be able to figure out electrical issues on these cars is one thing, but to be able to figure out someone else’s hack job is another. Great work my friend.
Absolutely! Well said!
@@Watchyn_Yarwood sorry i am dutch my English writing is not so good, i can understand it but writing is an ather thing 😵💫
Very true words!
I think the best thing was there were no electronics to chase. Just simple wiring and fuses.
I struggle when I have to jump in the middle of a project where I didn't do the disassembly but my uncle, with all of his years of experience, could put damned near anything back together from a jumbled heap. That's an old pro right there.
As a retired farmer,. It is very relaxing to watch you strip and fix wires. Because I don't have to do it. Thank you for the video
Have you seen the telehandler with the drilled out harness video?
Agreed. I'm enjoying the viewing, because I'm sat here in a comfy chair, beer in hand, watching someone else contort themselves to reach in under the dash to work!
Watching your videos is NEVER a waste of time Wes!
I'll second (or third, fourth, or however deep in line I am?) that!
agreed...one of my favorites
Sidenote: we're crimped, not riveted 😁😁😁
Whoever sent the switchblade light deserves props! We all get to benefit from it. Thanks much! Oh, and you too, Wes.
Guess they didn’t like his junk harbor freight light
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Harbor freight has a new one out that is better Icon brand
@@FishFind3000 the new harbor freight icon light is a streamlight knockoff but it's actually pretty nice. Was gonna buy a switchblade but the icon fits in my back pocket better for work. Way better than that cheap Braun light
I own a few streamlights, but I haven't seen one of those. I will have to try to find one.
Never underestimate how much we enjoy hanging out with you, Wes...even if it's just watching some guy cut and crimp wires. Thanks for the content.
On a farm truck the H doesn't mean high. It means Hantavirus. Mucho caution there bub. That flurry of turds was impressive!!!
There is a factory circular on those vintage trucks that states in no wish shall the proper screw be reassembled after it's first disassembly. You can put anything you want back in, except the screw that came out. My personal favorite was a slotted stove bolt with a square nut behind the dash. Suitably cross threaded. That is the vintage, enviro-friendly red locktite equivalent.
Classic Comment, I got a Helava Laugh! Happy Friday to you , appreciate the Chuckle
@@davidcolesr.8628 We've seen too much not to laugh about it. Have a great weekend Senior!! I had a bud in elemenetary scruel named David Cole. He could turn his eyelids inside out. Spooked a teacher doing that once.
no farmer truck is complete without a healthy heap of drywall screws, self tapers. on the wiring side, it cant be a true farm truck IF there isnt at least a dozen wirenuts sprinkled in somewhere distracting you from the nightmare of the dozens of scotchlocks
I take some perverted pleasure in watching others do wiring. It's comforting to know I'm not the only one who...falls into those rabbit holes of WTF-ery... Great video Wes thanks for bringing us along!
I shulda filmed the cat d420 I did with diesel fuel wicked all the way to both fuse boxes for ya!
Having done fleet maintenance on that era of Furd trucks, I feel your pain. I see you even reinstalled the original factory installed rattles. Nice job.
“factory installed rattles” lol ain’t that the truth
The company I work with had a fleet of them too but three where the 370 Lima engine boy where they a headache
My 1974 F600 has the factory rattle package, too!
@@Le_Comte_de_Monte_Felin But is also has one of Ford's best looking instrument cluster and gauges.
What’s exciting is watching someone who knows what they’re doing actually apply that knowledge and provide a solution for the customer
Never underestimate what you pass on and I thank you for it.
My sister parked her Infiniti Q80 Platinum down at her country place last year over winter. A few rats got into the engine and chewed everything up and then some made it in to the interior by chewing up the air vent slats. They made a nice winter home under her leather seats. Tons of rat feces, urine,torn wires, leather, destroyed seat controls including the ventilated and heated seats. Total cost of repairs, $4380. She had a laser system set up to keep the rodents at bay and I suggested a walk the plank trap...several of them. She thought she was smarter. Homeowners paid for repairs though. That was a fight.
There is a strange curiosity and satifaction watching someone who is good at what they do 🏴
Still the most honest channel name on YT.
Love all the nuts being blown out of the pipework once you hit full speed!
WES! It IS fun to watch you hacking away - I've been there and failed so it's GLORIOUS to watch you suceed again and again. I could watch it all day brother.
“None of this is right” “somebody’s been in here”
You always say things so nice ;)
The fact that you even took the time to put the 1990s vintage JVC stereo back in the dash, is incredibly admirable. I would have exorcised it with a wrecking bar and done my best imitation of a shotput with it out onto the county blacktop. The maze of wires, the history of rodent ravaging, the absolute under-dash anarchy--and you still managed to make it work. Hats off to you, Wes. Nice repair.
For those of us living in the I-States grain trucks and fire trucks are the next best thing to "southern rust free" You missed a perfect opportunity to tie little colored ribbons to the blower vents
It is interesting to see how much hacking goes on in these old farm trucks.
Nice repair and thanks for sharing!
Makes me feel not so bad about my hack jobs haha
Especially truck probably changed hands 3 or 4 times -hacking the hacks but our Wes to the rescue as usual fine work Wes.
@@stevedibiase728 Wes, does nice work for sure!
Last summer I helped figure out the electrics of a 1950s tractor. Now that was amazing!
According to the owner, the electrics were an aftermarket kit, which made finding schematics absolutely impossible. The base model of these tractors sold with a crank handle and instead of a glow plug it had a metal tube that you stuffed lit cotton buds into for preheating the engine (single-cylinder diesel). The fancy kit offered four fuses, electric starter, glow plug, brake lights, number plate and rear lights and side marker/low beam/high beam headlights plus a horn. The brake light switch was held in place with and operated by some baling wire tied to the chassis and brake pedal. Most of the wires didn't go anywhere but we did manage to trace everything over the course of two evenings. The OEM schematics for the luxury spec did confirm some of our suspicions and gave us directions on wire sizes. The factory wiring had six fuses for the same stuff, one of them was for the sole purpose of feeding the high beam indicator on the dash 😀 A dedicated 8 amp fuse for a little dash light!
The more the vehicle is hacked up, the more I like Wes’ videos. You’re truly a craftsman.
Well Wes, I have commented numerous times.., you “re-wiring” skills (cut, splice, crimp, shrink wrap) are second only to your electrical “gremlins” diagnosing skills… I could watch you spicing skills for hours (yep, I know.., I am a bit touched in the head)…
Great video,
Thank you sir.
The mice used to find the Coast brand soap under the sink downtown and chew it up. I replaced the soap with the chewed-up soap in traps. Got every mouse in the place over the next 3 days. Must be the fillers in it that they love.
As a 22 y ear old trying to teach himself about cars thank so much for taking some time to explain what youre doing. Iv'e always heard that a bad resistor can make a blower not work right but never knew why.
Find a old wrench and see of you can help for free to learn the trade. You might land in a gold mine of info and hands on knowledge
The reason we watch is it’s the next best thing to wrenching on stuff with friends.
With our world on fire, there is something so awesome about being in a garage and isolated working on stuff. Gods blessing.
It's not just cutting and crimping wires it's re-asserting order in a world of crap repairs chaos! Watching Wes Work is the title of the channel, we don't really mind what the work is!
Hi Wes, your comment at 17:00 about "it must be riveting watching some guy cut and crimp wiring" is actually spot on because its not about watching you do that. It's about watching your thought process and your diagnostic skills which is something we can all apply to our daily lives. I found your channel by accident about 6 months ago and as an older DIY home mechanic have found if very useful for chasing down faults with my R170 SLK320 project car and My Girlfriends 2009 mini convertible (and our children's cars!). Keep up the good work and the amazingly detailed videos you do. PS. Your channel is much more informative than "The car Wizard".... shhhhh dont tell him I said that ;-) lol
Seeing all that leaf shrapnel blow out of the vents any time you dared go above low speed takes me back to the good old days of owning a 1986 Ranger that had been parked under a tree for a year.
I watched every second of this video. As a DIY amateur mechanic, I learn something new from every video. Thank you for sharing!
Doesn't need to be super exciting, Wes. We come along for the ride, and the destination.
As always Wes you are willing to go where no man has gone before and tackle jobs a lot of shops would most likely pass up. Good to know you will take any and all problems your local customers bring you. Keep up the good work.
Whats exciting is i learn something new every time I watch one of your videos!
"i have no idea" is such a hilarious answer to asking if the radio works in a truck someone has been driving for years.
Every time I see a New Wes video I expect to see at least: A) Max and the rodent report; or B) The standard White Knuckle Towing service we all love. Good video as always, thank you.
Man I work in Commercial and Industrial electrical and I feel your pain on the hack job. I swear people go out of their way to do things incorrectly sometimes.
What DOES work against mice and it's really worth putting in your truck are those scented glue cardboard traps you can buy for a few bucks in most supermarkets. Just tape them to the floor where they don't get in your way and check every once in a while if they caught anything so you don't get foul smells in the cabin.
It's a grain truck, the operators step in "foul smells" 🙂
Those glue traps are bulls$%& just put a regular trap in there no sense in an animal dying that way on a cardboard glue trap if you cant kill them sufficiently and quick dont bother.
@Sherlock you need help
@Sherlock or Snickers
It’s never a waste of time watching your videos, all good stuff
Just bought an 86 F150 Grandpa truck Wes. Not only did it have the super cool "dice" door lock pulls, it had the even cooler musical horn, 2 sets of fog lights, an inoperative JC Witney style "universal intermittent wiper control" and 3 speakers and an amp behind the seat. I guess he wanted his Vic Damone tunes nice and loud. The former owner was either the next Tesla or a budding mad scientist. The sheer amount of wires under the dash was staggering. What was even more impressive was the number of wires cut out of the factory fuse block so her could run power, apparently anyway, to the fuse block from a 91 Lebaron he attached to the firewall with a 3" sheetrock screw! I channeled my "inner Wes" and unhooked the most dangerous looking stuff and ended up with about 17 1/2 feet of wire in my scrap metal bin. I should have the whole thing fixed good as new about 2077...
Your ability to deal with chewed up airing from past idiots is amazing
Wiring not airing
You may think that it’s boring to watch but it is very enjoyable to watch and listen to your comments.
Thanks for the upload, I am so damaged internally Ive worked as a tech for 10 years spend my days wrenching and my evenings watching other people wrench but hey I love learning how others go about it you allways learn something new
This is a Great Network of Similar, like minded people. Your not alone in this, I’m not a Tech but I am an Excavator Operator of 25 plus Years and Equally Damaged. Including but not limited to, the Dysfunction of unwinding by watching Wes Work. Keep coming Back & Keep It Safe Out There
@@davidcolesr.8628 The same to you sir! Thanks for the reply
Wes,
You made that truck nearly new again.
I hope the owner is grateful.
It’s one thing to find and fix a OEM problem but when I start digging into a problem and find a shade tree electrical person has been practicing his skills I call for help. Wes you are so patient!
Interesting. Your deep sadness when describing botched previous work is deeply satisfying to this viewer.
Speaking as someone who's here for the electrical content.....I love it cuz that's what I'm weak on.
For some reason it IS interesting watching you cut and crimp wires! What I really like it the diagnosis and troubleshooting you do!
Wes, you drastically underestimate the amount of boring things we watch on youtube. Your commentary and occasional tips are what I come for and rarely am I disappointed.
I find you riveting and exciting. Although, I'm 71, divorced, with a bad back, and obese so I'm easy to please. I do love your sense of humor and I'm learning about cars. No kidding, I really enjoy your videos. God bless you for entertaining us oldies but goodies.
Universal = "One size fits none"
And yes, it's riveting to watch someone *else* elbows deep in a dashboard trying to find & reconnect wires, makes me feel a lot less alone in my suffering! 😁
Wes! I could watch you cut ,,strip,, and crimp wires all day!
Thank you for another great video!
I watch all your videos. The repair of vehicles others appear as they can't fix them. If I speed up the videos to the very end, is like magic. All fixed and all working. Literally, inch by inch, tedious, slow, patient, precise, hard working, troubleshooting and eventual repair. Your experience and craftsmanship is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
I consider it a minor miracle that you can SWAG your way through that mess of wires and make sense of it all.
Not only that, but it all works in the end. Your are truly the master of the FUBAR wiring job.
Congrats and Kudos to you.
Thanks for sharing.
It’s very therapeutic watching you on this video, I found myself nodding off while watching you changing the wires, but it was after midnight!
Wes I love watching you strip wires and crimp connections back on.
1st- is your hands appear to be as large as my own, and I know what I go through in most cases.
Typically if I have a hand in there trying to sort out what's what, then I can't see anything.
So cutting crimping and reconnecting is all done in braile.
2nd- I'm not the one doing it, so that means I am not paying for it, and it's not mime.
All the best reasons for watching you logical brain in action sorting out the toothy critters, from the I wanna be's damages is rather stimulating in a strange way.
Irsh Springs soap, potty mouth critters, can't say I ever heard of that home deterrent for the little bas___ds.
We have field mice here nearly as big as full grown cats, so looks like house mice got to him.
Difference is here, they typically chew the wires too if they take to it, and it's typically the whole harness is compromised.
We won't even discuss tree rats we've got to deal with, but being in the middle of a corn patch, you should have a variety of all of the above mentioned, plus several others.
Not that I still work on anything automotive, but I have learned so much from watching your videos.
I have found that dryer sheets tucked under the interior carpet in various places will work in rodent retention as well as a mix of peppermint and water in a spray bottle to spray throughout the engine compartment.
19:00 that rubber boot is important, it provides cooling air to the motor so it doesn't overheat and cremate itself. Had a guy bring me a truck that was going thru blower motors. 1, the intake was full of leaves and crap, and 2, it was missing the hose. I ordered one like wes did, and no more issues.
When I saw that birds nest of wires - I thought NO WAY - but you came through again . Know the feeling with the radio !
And that is why people take their electrical problems to Wes. They know he will fix it!!!
Retired 20 years lead wiring tech for the Air Force. Then ASE certification in 12 volt electrical systems from Ford after high school. I still love wiring. It’s not glamorous at all but I loved getting stuff in shot all to hell and getting it flight ready again. Or chasing down bugs in cars and trucks. 🧐🤔😍 Your allowing me to relive some memories. Thanks and hi from Texas. Oh say hi to the white knuckle towing service please 🙃!
Never is my time wasted watching you, Wes. Greetings from Germany.
Thanks for the smiles. You're producing a brand of humour to rival even the great ThisOldTony. Every video an absolute treat.
It was great to hangout with you on this exciting repair! Until next time!
The #1 problem with trucks like that is that it seems absolutely nobody can get near them without messing with the wiring.
Then sooner or later, someone has to fix it.
It's somehow comforting to see I'm not the only one who gets jobs like that.
Watching some guy do electrical wiring and diagnosis actually calms me down as i do like doing electrical work myself 😊 youre helping keep my BP down 👍🏻so dont stop making wiring vids 😁
Believe it or not,watching you do tedious and annoying jobs helps me unwind.considering I do alot of the same throughout the day I'm not sure what to make of myself.Thanks for the video.
Those mid 80s ford's from the F150 up to the F800 are my favorite trucks. Especially the diesels. They purr so good
I finally got around Sunday morning to watching your video. Great way to spend my unmotivated Sunday morning. Love your videos, keep them coming.
Had a 8.2 Detroit in my rollback tow truck. F 600 .
Hauling a car on back it got just under 25 mpg.
I loved it .
They need rebuilds more often but they are a lot less expensive to rebuild than Cummins international etc .
The fuel savings over 50,000 miles is seems like it was about $20,000.
Don't get the turbo 8.2 because they are prone to fail faster than non turbo.
Non turbo motors is slow but
Love those POS 8.2 .
Commercial fisherman are the biggest competition for buying old trucks with 8.2 Detroit's they buy them for the motor
Having worked on a few of those junk grain trucks, I feel your pain. Allways a pleasure. We had a motto where I worked. We the undeserving, haveing done so much, with so little. That we are now qualified to fix anything, with nothing. Some jobs were likned to wiring blindfolded. Great video btw.
Nice work on all of the wiring and replacing the plugs @Watch Wes Work
You cleaned up the mess of spaghetti and made the heater work again plus you put it back neatly on the dash and figured out the hatchet job fine detective work
You under rate yourself. Its your diagnostic and thought processes that make you interesting
You're just one of us.... getting by.
Wes, I don’t know about other viewers, but this ole Texas boy was totally into your repair of that wiring rat’s nest. Great video as usual
Not a waste of my time, I watch Eric O. cut/splice/crimp wires all the time! It never ceases to amaze me the amount of effort 'the other guy(s)' take to hack a job together, when it would be far simpler to just do it right.
Nothing brings more joy than opening a hood or dash and seeing the same colored wires used for everything.
only thing that makes it even more glorious is the over abundance of wirenuts and scotchlocks holding the same colored wires together
There's an old saying "I love work. I can watch it for hours!" It seems your activities qualify as work, so we watch it :) Thanks for doing the videos for us :) :) :)
That beautiful old truck is in such a great condition, it's worth a lot of effort to get the electrics right. When it is maintained well, it will run for at least 30 more years.
Holy cow I haven’t watched your videos in alittle I come back and you have a beard
This was my first video
You've got to appreciate how easy it is to change these blower motors. My work van is like that. Try changing one on a range rover.
Having just spent half a day upside down in an Isuzu powered 2005 GMC 5500 chasing silly electrical and blower problems id say that watching someone else go through similar is just what the doctor ordered :)
That's the first 8.2L that I've ever heard that's still running and not locked up. Thanks Wes!
Having to do all my car repairs myself out of necessity I somehow find it interesting to watch someone else figure things out and get them done . Even repairing the wiring is entertaining , can't say why . At 67 I mainly watch but , if the need arose I'd still have to repair my car because , there's nothing in my budget that would pay a mechanic's charges .
I learn something every time I watch your video, I had no idea the blower motor speed resister was negative, I couldn't ever figure out my Dodge truck a/c blower and ended up straight wiring it through a house hold light switch, what can I say this is Florida and I had to have the a/c blower working and it did. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
Total Florida move, Can confirm, Floridian here.
Wes, I have been there cuttin' and splicin' more than once in my life, trying to fix somebody's quick fix. My sympathies bro.
Imagine if you did get the radio to work and the customer never uses it at all! Good job Wes great video thumbs up.
Polishing turds is an under appreciated art! Good job.
Every time i watch one of your vids , i learn something new ..you are never boring..Thanks
First, thanks for taking the time to share with us. Next, it's only a guess but it's possible that the have power going through multiple contacts on the switch so as to divide the load and the heat dissapation. Lastly I get a shall we say a sadistic pleasure from watching someone else splicing together wires in and under a dash instead of me. Lol. Again thanks for your videos, I both enjoy them and pick up useful tips. Well done Wess.
Ugh another one of those vintage F700/ 800's. The tree service I worked for had one and it was loaded with issues. When my boss figured out that I was a tech he was gung-ho on me digging into that thing as well as our bucket trucks, other chip trucks, chippers, etc. No Detroit in ours though, just the shitty gas one that makes like no power, similar to the one you worked on before in a previous video. Always hated fixing someone elses hackjob. What a nightmare. Some folks should just not attempt things and keep their hands off of tools. Yup, I agree, probably an 'AssPLUNGE' truck originally. LOL. Thanks for sharing Wes, from a 25 year tech, to another. You get the 'benefit' like I do, working on such WONDERFUL rigs! 😆👍
I love the videos Wes. You say this is not exciting; but I'll tell you this, I no longer have cable tv anymore. The only thing I watch on tv now is the weather report in the morning to see if I need to wear rain gear. My choice of entertainment is videos like yours and other fix--it kind of stuff. You're much appreciated. Also I always want to but the tools you show, but I really have nothing to work on that needs them. Keep it up.
Following along at 5:30A/M And enjoying every second. Thanks Wes 👍👍
You're never a waste of time, Wes.
Wes-you and Eric O are the 2 best wire guys on youtube!!!Remember,if you can do it- I can watch it-thanks for doin it!!!
F800 wiring to blower motor was great. Mainly because you are doing it right.
I suck at electrical crap. You're blowing my mind on how you are doing this. I HATE electrical issues and always walk away from those jobs and when they happen to my vehicle, I give it to someone else to do.
Nice touch. I was nearly riveted but a little disappointed in the lack of crap coming out of the ducts when you fired up the blower. A grain truck? You should have been peppered with soybeans, or something, I would have been. Along with a whole new mess to clean up. Good fix, i understand the old stuff.
Best regards from Indiana.
Well I always find electrical interesting. I buy early Jeeps and putter with getting them back on the road. I do the same thing you do. Clean up a home grown mess built by others. I see many throw up their hands and go buy a new wiring harness. The only problem there is that if you can’t fix the original stuff you can’t install a new harness. I have had only a couple in which I had to completely rewire the Jeep. It is pretty amazing that no matter how archaic the design, you can rebuild it with the right parts and it works. I appreciate your dedication to correct parts and quality work. From the dry banks of the Underwood Branch, thanks for the fun.
You sir are the man ! Dedication & determination & the ability to figure out other people's butchery/hack jobs is truly a gift from God.
Thanks for taking us along on the journey. Oh yeah, you offered me a gift last time but, I am not that smart about computers. I am a 67 year old retired long haul trucker who's mind says I can but, my body says you better have yourself a seat. All the best to you & your family from Brooklyn N.Y..
I remember you worked on this truck before and were impressed with the condition it was in then, She's a beauty.