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nice truck! always a 7ord kinda guy?
Thanks. No, our first. My FIL always had them on the farm. My Step (real) dad always had GMCs and Chevys. He had a '66 GMC that was fixed up by his son who owned it first that looked great. Stollen from the bad neighborhood we lived in at the time.... Our first truck--now that no family members own one. But I'd buy another in a heartbeat.
 
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Just out of curiosity, is that yellow ground wire attached to the neck pot? It sure looks like it’s pulled loose.

Everything's all attached, I did poke around in there.................... :laugh:
 
Ok, now have 9.5 kohms on the pickup. Any suggestions on easiest way to run the wires back into the control cavity? The tunnel takes a 90 degree turn and everything I try catches on the turn.

Get some string and get it passed thru, tie one end to the pickup wire and pull it through.
 
Ok, now have 9.5 kohms on the pickup. Any suggestions on easiest way to run the wires back into the control cavity? The tunnel takes a 90 degree turn and everything I try catches on the turn.
What was the problem with the wiring?
Can you run some fishing line through or a bent piece of thin wire, tie/loop that around the end of the leads and pull them back through? Run some string into the other end, suck the end through with a vacuum cleaner hose, then do the same? Train a bug toi pull string through?
 
What was the problem with the wiring?
Can you run some fishing line through or a bent piece of thin wire, tie/loop that around the end of the leads and pull them back through? Run some string into the other end, suck the end through with a vacuum cleaner hose, then do the same? Train a bug toi pull string through?
Haven’t tried the vacuum trick.
 
What was the problem with the wiring?
Can you run some fishing line through or a bent piece of thin wire, tie/loop that around the end of the leads and pull them back through? Run some string into the other end, suck the end through with a vacuum cleaner hose, then do the same? Train a bug toi pull string through?
It appears the hot lead was penetrated by a solder hair. Pulled the lead up off the back of the can, cleaned underneath, and then put a small strip of electrical tape under the lead.