73-87chevytrucks.com - Crew Cab Project

[chevyman350_82]

Didnt think so but figured I would ask...I cant find any used wheels around anywhere and cant really afford new ones right now

[Captkaos]

Sunday Jun 12th 2011: Drove the crew the day prior to cut some grass and parked it in the yard.  Went to move it and it didn't crank.  After fiddling with it for a while pulled the air cleaner and had Jamie crank it over, No fuel coming out.

Saturday Jul 25th 2011: Dropped the tank, replaced the fuel pump, moved the bed back and reinstalled the tank.  Attempted to start the truck and found that it was getting no power to the pump.  Search the wiring harness and may have found the reason it won't stay in 4th (OD) and now it won't crank.   Now its stuck in the yard and I need to start tracing burn wires...

[Captkaos]

Saturday Sept 3th 2011: Pulled out the main wiring and cut out some nice burn wires.  Truck had a problem of cutting out under a load and one of these wires was the distributor timing wire.  Not sure if that is going to fix that problem but I did replace 2 wires.




Saturday Sept 17th 2011: Lifted up the bed and pulled the sending unit out to verify pump was working, check ok.  Checked for power to the switch ok.  After chasing it by myself for about 2 hours, a buddy came over and we were messing with both relay wiring and sending unit wiring.  While he was messing around with the relay, the pump came on.  Put it all back together and tried again and not working again.  Started messing with the selector switch (daughter was playing in the truck and flipped it) and it started working again.  Apparently with all the checking I apparently shorted out the sending unit so I have no idea how much gas I have...

Sunday Sept 18th 2011: Put the bed back on buttoned everything up and drove it around the block, checked ok.

[Captkaos]

Saturday Sept 24th 2011: Went to drive the truck (for verification) and it wouldn't prime, again.  Messed with the switch for 5 minutes, nothing, gave up and drove something else.

Sunday Sept 25th 2011: Checked it again and decided to pull the switch apart as per detailed here: Selector switch refurb  Put it all back together and it primed and cranks now...

[jt1200r]

get a new relay. i had the same problem.

[Captkaos]

Relay was the first thing I ruled out.  Put one from my Suburban (daily) and my R10 and no change, there is a wiring short somewhere, on top of the fact the switch contacts were gone.

[bake74]

     That looks like a mess.  Nothing worse than spending your saturday chasing down electrical issues.