I am just completing rewiring a 1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle. It has taken me for ever though the guy that owns it does not understand why. The wiring loom was the original and totally shot/serious fire risk. All the insulation had hardened and crumbled away. Over the years it had been cut and redone. I tried to copy it but finally gave and went back to wiring it from scratch. Various problems arose such as the light switch had half the screws missing so connections had been looped off others. The dip switch was jammed though I did manage to get it free and working. The horn push in the column has been broken and badly repaired the stator tube is beyond repair. I have had to mount a horn button on the column tube. When I got the loom out of the car it looked like a pile of brambles!! The car had been retrimmed fairly recently in the 'States. Sadly they had attached the trim panels to the wood trim frame through the loom!
I have tried to make the loom look original. Thanks to AES Ltd in Tenbury Wells (nice friendly folks) I have virtually achieved it. The total cost of the parts ie wire, connectors, 'P' clips and the 6 volt battery are over £200. If I charge the guy what it has actually cost me in hours I think it will be suggested that I combine sex with travel! Would I do another one? Combine sex with travel!!!!
1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle
Re: 1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle
Have you slipped up and told us all what one of the cars on SOS will be? 
Fixing other peoples fixes is always a pig of a job, after 4 years of ownership I still come across cable ties / scotch locks / twisted joins in my loom.
Fixing other peoples fixes is always a pig of a job, after 4 years of ownership I still come across cable ties / scotch locks / twisted joins in my loom.
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: 1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle
That does sound rather nightmarish and makes some of the wiring bodges I've come across seem but minor inconveniences by comparison. SOS is brilliant too, a proper car enthusiast programme, I just wish there were more episodes.
Re: 1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle
No this isn't a Car SOS project this is a customer of the workshop where it is filmed. I was asked if I would be interested in doing it and I said yes. Sometimes you wish you had stopped and thought about it before answering!!
Re: 1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle
but if you had said no regardless of how much of a PITA it is, you wouldn't be able to say you had worked on one.
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: 1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle
There are somethings you should not admit to!
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