John,

I just ripped my out. It was a black wire that split the harness behind the left rear tail light. Not sure if it was the original wiring or not, but it certainly looked pretty old.

Paul

 

Should be white. It does come out in the cavity that holds the left tail light assy. then goes outside underneath and back forward to the tank sending unit.

 

Since mine works, and it did not before, I have knowledge in the fuel sending unit and accesories of the Jeepster. The wire is indeed white, the reason some mistake it as black is because it is under the vehicle or unprotected, and it gets 30 years worth of grime. The white wire attaches to the very top and center of the sending unit via a screw that is a phillips head. Then it travels through a protective sleeve up to the drivers side tail light bucket. Here it goes into another protective sleeve accompanying the tail light harness, up the the drives side kick panel. Then it goes through a series of connectors untill it hits the gauge panel. Here it finds power and is all in the solid state electronics of the gauge panel itself. That is your wire, treat it carfully, if you do not have the luxury of a jerry can, that sole wire can kick your rear. ie: walking with an empty soda bottle to the nearest levi. (I have never used the word levi, and am not shure on the spelling, but I heard the term in a song once, thought I might use it sometime.)

John
yes, my user name is a typo, go figure.

 

Song was "American pie" by Don Maclea(?) about 1970-71. Lyric was "bye bye miss american pie drove my chey to the levee but the levee was dry. Some good ol' boys was drinkin whiskey and rye, singin' this be the day that I die." For you youngsters it was about the day Buddy Holley died.

 

That is the song, thanks. I like that tune, guess I better wake up and kick the levis, appearently a levee is a gas station, not clothing.

John
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Hurcules

levee is an earthen berm used for flood control (I'm a hydrologist -- thats the fancy name for a water boy) -- Levi is of course a traditional hebrew name or the name for the denim pants mfd by Levi Strauss (sp?).

 

Shure, I built a levee once. The oil was just gushing out of Hurc when I brought her home, I had to build a levee to keep the oil from sogging the entire barn, but then I put in a drain and the levee made of old Jeep parts and shop towels was no longer needed. I still say a levee is a gas station, any non-whippersnappers out there? Walt? Can you fill in the lack of knowlege here? Man, I need to reduce the vocab here, I am going to wind up in trouble.

John
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Youngsters? In here? I'm only 21 but after all the crap that this jeepster has put me through, I feel a bit older. My right arm goes numb all the time from the vibration of the shifter, my left leg always hurts from driving in bumper to bumper traffic, and I get horrible headaches from all of the gas and oil pouring into the cab.

Jesse
Chicago, IL
72 Commando

 

They get younger, but indeed, I do feel old working on this thing. Pull out the heater, or get down there and bang on it, you will get a real taste of the 70's. I am immune from gas and oil smells, I have adapted to my Jeepster, and where my Jeepster did not adapt to me, I forced it. Vicea versa too!

John
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Sounds like a script for Christine II. These things take you over.
M

1967 Commando SW
A labor of love, (mostly labor)

 

Hurcules,
better watch what you say about oil spills and such. My wife threatened to call the EPA about putting a superfund designation for the floor of my garage. Fortunately there were enough craks in the floor that the oil never pooled up & I had the added benefit of knowing that I was returning a little bit of petroleum to the earth from which it came. Wife says about every evening, "Smells like you've been working on (under) the jeepster again," when I drag in about 11PM after an evenings roll on the floor of my garage. Finally after I painted the jeepster and covered up all the oil spills with a nice coat of green acrylic enamel the oil smell died down. Now it smells like acrylic enamel.

 

My family just does not comment any more. You smell the same working on the thing as you do after driving it. I guess that is just how life is, but then again, while I am driving it, I am always working on it too. I think I am the only person in history to sucessfully adjust a Jeepster clutch cable in the Avon wal-mart parking lot.

One note: Talking to Walt today he mentioned driving his Jeepster to piss off other Jeepst that don't have one. Well today I am working on the Race truck, and I peep up to see this yuppie tan YJ with a 4" lift and 33's. The guy has a big AAA sticker on the back, no spare, and is waxing and buffing his Jeep. (If you would call it that.) Well, I see him eyeing my drop dead beauty, Hurculina. I maze my way out of the trucks frame where i was working on the fuel pump and walk over to my Jeepster well aware that this guy is watching me. I open up my tool box, whip ou the saftey red spray can, rattle the sucker and start to touch up my Jeepster. I make it all shiney, put back the spray can, and get to work on the truck. The guy comes over and asks why in the world I would spray paint my Jeep, and I replyed "Its a Jeepster thing....You woulden't understand" I liked that, you would have had to have been there.

John
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Yep - you're right - it must be a trait peculiar to Jeepster owners. My wife calls it obsessive \ regressive. Now another gas tank question. My new tank from the Jeepsterman (Mr. Sensitivity, Morris Ratner) has no place for the return line. There's a filler tube, a vent tube that runs parallel to that and a threaded port for the fuel pickup. I'm outta holes and I still have the return line left. There is no hole on the new sending unit except for the fuel gauge wire. Ratner says plug the return line. For obvious reasons, I'd like a second opinion. Thanks.

Walt \ K-town

 

Hey Hurc. What do you think is wrong with my fuel sending system if my gauge only goes up to 3/4 full when filled then drops real fast down to empty..like within 20 miles?

 

I would have to say you have a loose connecton or something is shorting out. Replace the wiring, or just take some new wire and run a real temporaty setup, see if that changes anything. If not, there are only sengers and gauges to blame, but always start with the cheapest solution possiblilty, with any luck you will relpace everything!

John
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