It was one of those 'Well, Duh!' moments at the shop. I put new bulbs in the turn signals up front, and finished assembling the grill. Then, with flashlight in hand, I took a look under the rear of the truck, and found that the wiring harness for the tail lights was disconnected. I never plugged it back together after removing the bumper. Problem solved.

The rear seatbelts are in, and the MTX 5604 amp is out. I'll test the amp on the bench, re-test the wiring in the truck, and research repair or replacement.

The front seatbelt catches are bolted in, but the actual belts wont be bolted in until I find the two bolts that hold the upper portion of the belt. Once that is complete, I can wire-tie the plates in place, and run the truck over to the gas station if the price per gallon starts to go back up again.

Next up: Finish seatbelts, headliner, and start on the doors.

A semi productive night. It can be simplified into cleaning the workbench(more time than you would think, I should probably do it more frequently), identifying parts, drilling two holes, adjusting a cable, and installing a grill.

I have finished the installation of E-Brake cable relocation bracket. Along with this, I had to re-adjust the ebrake cables. I converted the rear brakes to discs a while back, with a kit from SSBrakes. The calipers need the ebrakes adjusted correctly for them to work. I wondered why I had soft brakes for a while, then I got the adjustment correct on the ebrake cables, and it was much better.

I put the painted-black grill back in, along with new black corner lights. The Dash LEDs fit the running lights in the front, so each corner has a blue light. The turn signals will still be the stock orange, once I buy new lights for all four corners. Neither turn signal was working in the rear, and the front lights broke trying to get one out, so I am going to replace all of the bulbs, and the troubleshoot the rear. As I am writing this, I think that the rear lights may be missing a ground, since the rear bumper was removed, and the trailer socket is hanging in dead air. (smacks head)

I also put cable ends for the 'electronics' battery, so the PC will stay up until all of the software/hardware is configured. It will run continuously on a 1.5 amp trickle charger, but will not boot unless I use the 2amp charger. So the truck currently has two chargers hooked up. The large one set at 2amps, and the maintenance charger on the new main battery.

Seat belts and passenger seat installation next. With stretch goals of getting the doors covered in sound deadening, and the door panels installed.

I will either try and smooth out the dent in the lower part of the third door, or leave the sound deadening off until I get that done.

Here's a few pictures of the table in progress.

One side of the X-Axis is functioning. The other side has been drilled, but nothing mounted so far. The Y-Axis has been put together, and is sitting on the X-Axis Slides, but not completed.

It's a work in progress.

I have made some progress on the LinuxCNC table.

One side of the X-Axis has the motor mounted, and turning the Roton ballscrew.
I have tested the EMC2 software with one motor so far.

I have gone through and finished the wiring on the Xylotex 4-axis control box. I put Molex connectors from old ATX power supplies on the one working motor, and on the four connectors from the board.

I have completed 90% of the Y-Axis setup. Utilizing L-Brackets that were formerly designed to bolt compaq racks together. The main part of the Y-Axis was built from a two-post aluminum rack.

I got the linear motion bearing blocks from cncrouterparts.com

I had to order more pillow blocks for the X-Axis from MSC Direct. Originally I thought I would use one block on each end, but with the sag in the 10-ft screw, and to keep the alignment as straight as possible, I went with two on each end. They are self aligning, and bolt to the side of the table frame.

When I get this project completed I will post a complete parts list, and pictures of the completed pieces.

Todo:
Drill and bolt on 4inch wide steel for linear motion on the X-Axis.
Drill and bolt together other side of X-Axis.
Wiring on the table
Mount motor on Y-Axis
Mount Y-Axis
Cut side pieces to mount slats across table width.
Post pictures of project.

I went through the lights in the dash last night and tested all of the LEDs.

If you havent been following along, all of the lights in the dash were removed, and replaced with blue LEDs. They will use less power, but more importantly, the dash has a nice blue glow now, instead of the harsh white. The turn-signals and other indicator lights were replaced as well. I removed the light for the air-bags, since the dash one has been removed, and the steering wheel one will go soon.

Once I completed the testing, I secured the HD radio receiver inside the dash, verified that all of the wires are in place, plugged in the LCD screen, and popped the dash back in place. I think it all looks like it could have been factory, but we'll see what other people think. Some non-car people have asked if it was a factory option, or if I bought it somewhere.

On to the next task......