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1985 4x4 KC from Sweden


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Yes. And I don't know how original it is. It was required by law in Sweden until we joined the european union in the 90s and had to change a lot of our special regulation for vehicles. However this truck is a grey import, sold new in Germany and imported when it was some months old, and Germany did not have a headlamp washer law...so it may be mounted as an afterthought when it was first registered here. Since they don't need to work anymore, I doubt that they are even connected.....

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I was going to put the washer nozzles back when I suddenly did remember why I didn't do it before, they were broken.
As always when rare car parts breaks, Volvo parts can be adapted to fit...
Took those from my S70 that is going to the junkyard and carved a bit in the plastic, so now I finally have a working washer again.

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Well, it's a bit hard to say really, I have some electrical issues that makes the light dim on the drivers side that I have to fix first...
But since the reflectors were almost brown on the old lights, they didn't do much good......No wonder since it was almost an aquarium in each one of them... So at least it is a bit brighter....but I come back when I have fixed the wiring too.

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Wait a minute here, you switched to different headlights, are you sure the headlights are wired the same as the square headlights the 720 has, I found when I switched over to round headlights on my 720 I had to switch two wires, the headlight plug forms a "U" shape, the bottom of the "U" stays where it is, but the sides of the "U" have to be reversed, I made a pigtail from another headlight plug for both sides.

Do not add a ground to the 720 headlight circuit, it has no grounds on the headlight wiring side of the relay, if you add a ground everything goes bad and your battery could drain over night and then it will not start.

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I would measure the voltage on the dim proplem side.

Jaop cars/truck have 12volts to the lamps all the time. ground the negative on volt meter than measure the + side and see if its same volatage as batter or is it say 11 or 10 volts. Then you know you have a voltage drop soemwhere and can work on that. or ohm out the ground side using the ohm scale and see if high resisitance there. compare using the good working side as a example

 

 

On my 521 truck I have a H4 harness(cheap made in China) but the connections have burnt a few times and I will get a dim light. I just recrimp or sand the connections till they work.

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Well, since this one already had H4 headlights, nothing has changed in that way.... It was almost impossible back then to get the truck registered in Sweden with sealed beams, the safety inspection really didn't like them, sure they have become more forgiving nowadays, but it probably have had halogens at least since it was imported to Sweden, I don't know if they were sold with halogens or sealed beams in Germany though....

But the previous owner made a mess out of the headlamp wiring when trying to "fix" some problems that was caused by some short circuit in a bulb.... So I had no high beams at all... It worked for a while when I installed new wiring that was connected like the original, but I have some problems again....probably my own fault...was too much in a hurry to make it pass the safety inspection....So, I have to take a look at it again.

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First of all, excuse me for all the pictures that is dead.... :(

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Swapped in the first Ford Escort seat today, started with the passenger side if it would cause any problems, now I know what to do on the drivers side… I guess that this will work well, it is about the same height as the drivers seat (Mazda 626) now, but the Mazda seat is adjusted all the way to the bottom, the passenger seat from the Ford is not adjustable and is about as high as the drivers seat are in the highest position, so probably I will gain some centimeters if I crank the Ford drivers seat all the way down…

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Got the cans of paint today so I stole a picture of someone elses truck because I am lazy, and started doodling...  ?
Swedish M90 camo in the planning, and the colours are a fair bit off, I know puke green aren't a very good camo colour...  ?

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A possible design for the front bumper. Turn signals/parking lamps are probably going to be swapped out for BMW E39 (5-series mid 90s-early 00s) side indicators since they are available with both white and amber lenses and have quite a neat format. Amber parking lamps are not allowed in Sweden.

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Yeah, of course that's one thing to consider, on the other hand, when running a diesel in this climate you rarely get cooling problems anyway.... 😄
One could of course always drill some holes in the middle part of the bumper and get some airflow that way.
Three auxillary lights in front of the grille is almost standard equipment on vehicles here where there is almost six months of darkness in a year 😛

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