1983 w150 with 1993 body and wiring need help.

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Poseidon89

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i have a 1983 w150 with 318 carbd someone put a 1993 body on it with the wiring harness cut off with 6 inches of slack and only lights wiper blower harness intact. i need to find all the 1993 wires and then make them work for the 83 motor i only need temp/oil/fuel speedo it has the 83 wires for sending unit but have 93 tank and sending unit. any help would be appreciated.
 

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if you got a 93 tank fuel tank and and sending unit you will most likely also need a fuel pressure regulator installed. also i am pretty sure any 91-93 harness would be about the same for what you need as long as you are keeping it carbed. you could even look at 86-87 harness also since it would be closer to what you would need but you would still most likely need a few 91-93 connectors and sensors to work with the 93's cab harness.
 
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i have a 83 frame motor trans transfer case some one put the 93 cab and tank on before me i have a mech fuel pump on block i have no clue what wires go where there just cut off at the plug in on fire wall all 50 of them. i just need to get my gauges working now the 93 cab is vss speedo the 83 trans is cable i have tail lights headlight turn signals and brake lights wired now i have wired the motorwith push button and toggle switch.
 
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what all do i need? i assume be better to just buy a full harness and ecu (for speedo) then use 93 sensord ( oil / water temp ) ill need the speed sensor would it be easier just to re wire from cluster to sending unit or figure out the 5 off the 93 to the 3 from the 83 harnes.
 

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a 93's gas tank should have a fuel pump in the tank so i don't think a mechanical pump would be able to pull thru it but i could be wrong. you would also need the connector for the fuel pump and sending unit. as far as the gauge go it would be easier to wire them to the connector under the hood. pretty much all the sensors under the hood have the same resistance's even tho they did change a bit. you can use the 93's speed sensor. you just have to run a single wire the the bulkhead connector and it should make it work. i will see about posting a 93's bulkhead connector diagram in a bit
 
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Thanks someone removed the in tank and added line so it will pick up that's why the mech pump is there
 
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Do the sending unit wires just go to the gauge?
 

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ya they just go to the gauge. pretty much everything on these things just go to the gauges. you might have to also ad a ground to the fuel tank sending unit along with the fuel gauge sending unit wire
 
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ok thanks any way you or some one might have fuel sending unit wiring diagram theres 5 wires
 
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thanks im going to just rewire the gauges i geuss the bulkhead connector wires arent the same does anyone have a gauge diagram or can i not just wire to the gauges.
 

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do you have a picture of the bulkhead connector you have they only used 2 different one. the one i posted is for a 93. they used the same style connector since about 85 just different wires and they used a slightly different connector from 81-84
 

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