HM 1081 NorJak Hurricane

[Paul Proefrock]

Ken
is that a "custom" bucket seat I see the turn signal switch resting on?

I drove my 55 Chevy with one just like it for about a month 

Paul

[Fuzzy]

Naw Paul, I have a lower one made out of old 2" x 4"s that's more suited, this one puts me over the windshield. However the flex in the plastic helps a bit when it falls off the jack stands during "vroom-vroom"

[BIGDADDYFROG]

Keep on chuggin Fuzzy , my bowtie has 6500 miles on ya and aint missed once. I know you will have the time of your life with it once it's on the road. Dont give up and I'm still waiting on that plane ticket.
BDF

[Fuzzy]

Been slogging along quietly as I got password problems and stumbled along for a month or so...all back on again thanks to Paul P. and others.  Been doing the dash for quite some time now.  Got most of it figured out, still missing the switch shown in the manual for the headlight dimmer and a place to put it into.  There  don't seem to be any loose wires to attach any dimmer switch to so need to sort that out.  I put in a Dakota digital gear indicator on the far right, wired in two separate indicators for left and right turn signals and added a blue LED warning light for the brights in the middle.  Both turn signals are LED as I didn't get any lights for the dash at all.  Mind you, that doesn't mean Hurricane didn't ship them, all my boxes got opened here at the warehouse and I lost a heap of stuff so trying to find things as I go along isn't always easy here in Indo. As if trying to find Inch size bolts in a Metric country isn't enough.

[s_reynolds]

Fuzzy, didn't see this post until after replying on your glove box post, but from the pic it looks like your glove box door fit is very good. The alum glove box HM provided has to be the largest glove box I've ever seen. I've never had one this large in any of the cars I've owned. The headlight dimmer switch is just a toggle switch. I have an extra as I used a different switch for my windshield wipers and I think it is the same switch. If it is feasible (don't know how you can get stuff like this thru the mail) I could sent it to you if you can't get one locally. Let me know.

Regards, Sam

[Fuzzy]

Hi Sam, the switch is no problem, there just doesn't seem to be any place to plug the one in that was shown in the manual.  As far as I know, there aren't any loose wires from the lights.  There are light wires going to relay and wires going the other way into the  harness.  Worse comes to worse, I'm going to wire my own with a separate relay and a foot switch on the floor.  I have wipers but not sure I am going to put them on, don't plan on driving in the rain, never know.  I might have to pull off the dash and sort through it all again, got in too much of a hurry and forgot to find that one before mounting the dash.  Usual  work, attach, remove, attach again.  At least I'm consistent...

[Fuzzy]

Pulled the dash today and where there should be three wires going to a switch, I have three wires dead ending at a relay with only one wire exiting, a ground wire.   I'm thinking I can just pull off the relay and wire in a switch but then I didn't see any lighting wires heading in or out of a relay so I could wire in a relay and work it out on my own.  Attached is what I got instead of the pictured light switch on page 125 of the manual.  Any thoughts would be appreciated before the smoke starts.   :-/

Note from Jan. 2015.  I wired the loose wire to a switch and grounded a new wire on the other post.  When you flip the switch, the high beam lights will go on or off and the low beams will work as they should.

[s_reynolds]

Fuzzy, sorry mine looked like the pic in the manual. I did add relays to the high and low beams as have several others on the forum, but I had to buy the relays and add them myself. If you don't get an answer from anybody on the site, I think Ken at Haywire has access to the forum and I can call him for you and see if he can respond to your question.

Regards, Sam

[Fuzzy]

I'll give them until the weekend then call if needed.  If you guys wired from there, I can do the same, I have some new 40 amp relays and wired up my old beater roadster before.  Just didn't want to close it all up permanently then have problems again.   thanks for the offer Sam.
ken

[mandmGuys]

Hey Fuzzy, hope you and your family are alright after the quake? :-?

[s_reynolds]

Just saw the news about the quake. Hope you are not near it. If you are, hope all is ok with you and your family. Let us know as soon as you can.

Sam

[Fuzzy]

Thanks for the good wishes guys, we live on the North side of Java island, about a half mile from the coast.  The  ring of fire follows the south side of Java so we are protected by the whole width of the island, its a big island.  We do occasionally get a shake now and then but nothing damaged or cracked except a water pipe a few years ago.  However, they say by 2020 most of Jakarta will be under water due to the tide  getting higher each year.  Its gone up at least 14" higher in the 12 years we have been here.  Our house sits up about 5 feet above the high tide line now so  maybe later we can put a dock out front and buy a boat.  Jakarta is like New Orleans only in the way that 40% or more is below sea level but there aren't any dikes here.

[Fuzzy]

I dragged out the radiator box yesterday and slipped it in, however I soon realized there were no holes drilled in the radiator top or bottom to use to bolt it in place.

[Fuzzy]

Got a simple question for you guys:  I'm going to run Water Wetter and anti corrosion anti freeze in my radiator, its seldom below 85 here, 90+ on the warm humid afternoons.  What radiator cap pressure are any of you running trying to keep these things cool?  I will start with the stock fan and my motor puts out about 350 hp out of a SBC (not a typo) 350.  Any suggestions other than dropping the boat anchor first?   

[mandmGuys]

I admit that I looked at a map after my post and realized that the quake was not that close, but glad you were not affected. Unlike New Orleans with there dikes and pumps, you get to watch as the water rises slowly. New Orleans the power goes out instant 12' of water yikes

Back to Cobra stuff, I will look mine over this weekend but I would think that the rad should mount in with some sort of rubber insulator. Also if the fan mounts are the same as what Hurricane is currently using I take pics and dimensions they will be easy to duplicate just a little Z bracket. On the Rad cap, I would run around 15-16 PSI. 8-)

Mark