My 1976 Jeep J10 build. I dub thee RUST BUCKET

[candymancan]

So i got this J10 3 months ago and mentioned it here and there.. So i decided to make a build thread. Bought it for 800$ with a spare th400 and quadra trac transfercase.. brush guard.. both bumpers etc. Its deff a pile of crap but its my pile of crap. Most J series tbh are. They all have bed rust. Floor rust.. some sort of frame rust i noticed. I liked the blue interior on this and the color of the Jeep overall. Has 84k miles on it. Vin decoding shows its a 8ft J10. With a quadratrac with no 4 low. A 360 with the 175hp 2bbl version.

EDIT: If you guys want to follow along my progress my youtube channle is here. Just look back at my other vidss to see the progress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENGDUaunGuk


Here is what i started off with.. oddky my pics go from last to first dunno why

[candymancan]

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[candymancan]

More. This is where i am at currently.. the floors and floor supports are done. The bed has a new bed floor from a 1990 dodge d250.

I just need bed supports and to cut the rust around the bed walls off and rebuild the rear crossmember. And install the bed and supports and weld the walls to it etc..

To the ppl who said it couldnt be done Yea.. it can...

[SJTD]

You have more vision/ambition than but it looks like it's coming along.

Only about a third of your pichers are showing, at least for me. The rest are just big squares of color. In both posts.

[candymancan]

Weird.. they all show for me

[devildog80]

All showing here, and I say yes it could be done, and you did it!
Good work

[rocklaurence]

I can only see about 40% of the picture

[tgreese]

The OP is posting these pictures with a large black field top and bottom. If I copy/paste into mspaint, I can crop away the superfluous black borders.

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I expect you viewers aren't missing anything. There's a lot of extra real estate included in the posted pictures that is black.

The bed floor material was a great find!

[SJTD]

Ah, I see it now, so to speak. One wonders how that happened.

[candymancan]

I have to screen shot my own pics because this forum only allows pics like 500kb in size or somethung thats why. But i dunno why you cabt see em. I can. But i have no idea why there is so much black on the lics.. that is weird.

The bedfloor is from a 1990 Dodge D250.. and yes i got extremely lucky. Someone sold it to me on fb marketplace for 100$... 100$... lol and it has all the spot welds drilled out so it isnt (cut) out.. Its litterally a perfect sized floor too.. 51/98 inchs. It lays right in there.. Its lile 18ga or so though. The original jeep bedfloor is 16ga litterally 2x thicker.. much much thicker. This one i can bend.. So i will need to add more bedfloor supports for it

More pics.

I had to fix the bench seat. 7 springs were broken.. So i had to weld them and i lainted the slrings with rust reformer to stop them from rusting. Suffice to ssy welding with that 70s foam made spectacular fires haha.

Put the seat in and used a cleaner called moldstat in my garage from the 90s never opened from prior owners lol.

I cleaned all the door panels and dash pad and bench seat with moldstat and a soft brush, after i first wiped em down with soapy water and a rag... That rag was BLACK many times.. the interior was so filthy.. So much mold on all the vinyl. But look how nice this interior is now. I just need to order carpet. And im not sure what color factory carpet was.. was it a light baby blue like the dash and door pabels. Or was it a blue like the painted floorboards ?

Which would look better.. carpet to match the seat/door panel and dash.. or a blue carpet like the floor and metal on the doors

Next project is cleaning the carburetor and putting a gas csb on the hood to test drive it for the first time around the 14 acres. Then park it and i gatta start working on the bed.

[devildog80]

I would match the upholstery color with the carpet, as the darker blue on the metal, would accent from outside transitioning to the inside.

[candymancan]

Ya. Hopefully the last 2 samples i have coming closer match the light blue

[candymancan]

If you guys want to follow along my progress my youtube channle is here. I am now working on my bed cross members sand have many vids on how im doing it .. Just look back at my other vids to see the progress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENGDUaunGuk

[candymancan]

Well here is pics of the bed. And framing i did.

I used the green U channle sign posts for the Cross members. I had to raise them an inch or 1 1.2 inchs in various spots to line up with wjere the original bed floor sat as these are shorter than Jeeps cross members.

Then i cut the inner bed wall about 1 1.2 incjs to get the rust off the lower section tjat ruated off from the old bed floor.

Then i bolted and welded the new U channle corss members. And put the donor 90 dodge d250 bed on. Then spot welded it to the cross members. I did 6 cross members like dodge had it. But i realized after walking on it. That it bends down with my knee or foot in between those cross members.. which are spaced every 19 inchs apart.

So i decided to weld farm fence t posts to the bed in between those 19 inch U channle cross members and weld those to the U channle. SO basically its like an capitol I shape now.. T posts are 3/16 steel in a T shape.. you cant bend those even if you tried. Now the bed floor has 9 cross members.

Ive seen old dodge neds that dip into a U shape between the cross members.. because theyre bed floors are 22ga... and this will happen to me if i didnt do this. Jeeps bed floor is 16ga.. vwey very Strong but heavy.. its sad to see how poor quality even the dodge beds from the 70-90s were.

But i made sure it wont ned with me.

I then cut the 4 corners needed to fill those open corner voids. Two front corners in black on my pics are the original bed floor i did save that was still good.. so i reused that.

The two by the tailgate are juat 16ga flat sheets. Like Jeep did. I alao then cut 1 to 2 inchs strips of 16ga steel to weld the bed wall to the floor which had to be done because rmeember i cut 1 to 2 incjs of the wall off to get the rusted metal off.

So i had a like near 2 inch gap from the floor to the walls.

Its all welded in now. I spot welded it first then bead welded it 1-2 inchs every few incjs. I am not gonna bead weld the entire bed. It doesnt need it. Those 1 to 2 inch bead stripa are more than strong enough.

I need to clean and paint. Then ima use seem sealer on all it. Then ima sand the bed walls and floor down.. and use a roll on bed liner.

[candymancan]

Another pic.

For those of you who doubted me.. and said it couldnt be done.. I give you this... !!! It can be done.

[devildog80]

Nice job candymancan
Looks like this will serve you well for many years of hauling.

[candymancan]

Thanks.

Another pic cleaned up and painted on the welds. Juat gatta sand it all and seam seal it and put a bed liner on it like a roll on type. Still gave lots more rust to fix like the other bed walls where it typically rusts on these things. Gatta clean up the wheel wells inside. And so forth. But for now ima take a break on that stuff.

Taking the carb on tonight and cleaning it. So i can run a small fuel can to it and do its maiden test drive.

Before and after

[candymancan]

Got er running !!! Rebuilt the carb.. first time doing that. I found out later after the videi that the reason it was running poorly is i forgot to hook the pcv line up haha so i had a giant exhaust leak. I did notice with the pcv unplugged it had a lot of pressure/exhaust coming out of the oil filler neck.. Not sure if thats bad or not.

Ive never had the pcv off on these engines before. After i hooked the pcv up it was sucktion through the oil filler tube instead.

This thing is catless with true duel exhaust scat packs.


https://youtu.be/Ao3URSk2esE?si=qjHsJJhyyBQAEm7x

[tgreese]

Giant vacuum leak.

Should be some pressure in the crankcase without the PCV sucking on it. If compression is bad you'll get vapors out the oil filler tube anyway. When it gets really bad, there can be atomized oil coming back into the air cleaner. The filler cap should provide filtered air either via the air cleaner or an element in the filler cap.

Bed looks good. That tan floor steel was a big win for you.