72 Satellite Gen III Hemi Restomod

[supergluehero]

I was able to determine my wire lever nuts were just bad. I swapped them out for a different set of wire nuts and that did the trick for everything except the antenna. That still wants to be unplugged and plugged back in to work. I'm going to install a switch that I think will solve that problem and also allow me to put the antenna down when I'm streaming from my phone. That will have to wait though since I'm dropping off the car tomorrow to get the AC lines made up and the system charged

 

[70chall440]

Wire nuts?

 

[supergluehero]

Wire nuts?

I used a style similar to the Wago style lever nuts.

 

[supergluehero]

I got the car back from the AC shop today. They created custom lines for me and charged the system. Now I just need to wait for a hot day to test it.

It has also come to my attention that there should be a clip to hold the mixing valve cable to the lever arm on the HVAC arm. I'm not one of those purist, so any ideas to make it stay on since I don't have it?

 

[supergluehero]

I bought a cheap switch for my antenna. Now when the antenna fails to deploy, I toggle the switch on and off and it works. I can also lower the antenna when I'm only using maps or streaming from my phone and don't need it.

I found a spot under the dash next to the steering column to hide it. I fabbed up a bracket. I've got paint on it drying now. I'll post some final install pictures when I'm done.