Hi there!

[Maverick707]

I wanted to say hi to everyone, as I'm new to the site. I'm doing a gear swap in my 03 Subaru WRX and while it's down I'm "driving" (aka fixing up... lol) my step dad's 74 J10. If I have the story correct, he bought it off a coworker about 3-4 years ago, noticed it was leaking fuel one day and the same day, the bed fell off. Well since then it's been sitting, 3-4 years later, it's now my project.

From what I could gather and from what friends have told me, it looks like she has the stock v8 with a carter carb, a nice edelbrock intake manifold, a chevy bed, a body lift, and what looks like custom dual exhaust with headers. I say custom because the pipe going down the center of the truck is completely ground down to a flat edge from rubbing on the drive shaft when the bed has a load in it (I hope it's just shot shocks, which I'm going to replace soon, so hopefully that's an easy fix). The only stock gauges working are the speedo and voltmeter. The previous owner installed aftermarket fuel, volt, oil pressure, and water temp gauges, but seemed to have never hooked up the fuel gauge. The steering is clunky when turning the wheel left and right.

So far, it has new motor oil, coolant, thermostat, fuel, fuel filter, a rebuilt carb, a new air filter, and it has gotten sea foamed in the engine and fuel tank (very fun stuff btw).

From what I could gather from searching the site I'm going to check the ground wire on the sending unit on the gas tank because it appears to be a plastic tank. Also, I'm going to check out the u-joints, eye bushings, and leaf springs to try and track down where that clunk is coming from.

Welp, sorry for the long post, just thought I'd be as descriptive as possible, and now for some low quality camera phone pics (sorry again). :-)

[chr1s]

man, one day im going out west with a flatbed and coming home with a couple rustless FSJs!

Welcome to the board.. I LIKE that truck

[Headhoncho]

Yeah, must be nice to have a ton of questions about mechanical issues and not one mention of any rust.

Chris, let me know when you're driving out because I'm riding shotgun.


JR (I figured if I lift my truck high enough the rust couldn't get to it)

[jeeping1974]

WELCOME TO THE CLUB MAN!

[jeepfan93]

Welcome, get some rust and you'll fit right in

[Kali]

rust free jeepers unite!

nice truck, thats an interesting look with a non-jeep step side bed

[Maverick707]

ha, thanks for the welcome, I'll work on getting some of that so called "rust" you keep talking about :-).

So I was messing with the fuel tank sending unit yesterday. I made new gunk-free terminals on each end and cleaned the grounding point, but it still did not work. I wasn't sure if it was wired correctly because the ground wire was connected to the sending unit itself and the power wire, coming from the front, was connected to one of the screws holding the sending unit to the gas tank. Is this how it should be wired or should I switch the wires so that the wire coming from the front is connected to the stud sticking up out of the gas tank and the ground wire is connected to the screw?

Also, does anyone know of a good place to find a wiring diagram for a 74 J10? The headlight wires aren't getting power, only my front left and back right blinkers work, and in all positions but the one for the right blinker, the right blinker light is illuminated. I have no idea where to start in the wiring rat's nest under the dash.

Also (again, sorry, lol), would it be easier to just wire in an aftermarket fuel gauge, instead of trying to get the stocker working?

Thanks much!