engine and drivetrain scored some tii struts, with a car attached

[jgerock]

Interested in selling the steering wheel and hub and also the thing that holds the ignition wires in the "pipe".

what exactly it the thing that holds ignition wires you speak of?

The plastic tube spark plug wire holder fastened to the valve cover. I think these are used on E21s.

[Collinster742002]

"I ran that thing for 22 hrs at a time, stopping only for fuel and urine breaks on that trip."

Did you not have enough urine?

No coffee yet response...

You have to buy that stuff for new diesels with urea injection for cleaner emissions. Wonder when someone will invent a car seat with built-in "sump pump" and filtration system for replenishing the tank.

http://www.schoolbusfleet.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21267

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1042727_adding-urea-to-clean-diesel-cars-can-i-just-pee-in-the-tank

I'm sure someone, somewhere, has done it however. Gotta love the truck drivers.

Back to the 2002, looks like it used to be a nice car. 72 or 73? I don't think I saw anything about the year. Shame it got so rusty, Virginia mountains/Northern US car? Looks a lot like the scabby 76 sitting in our driveway, a Boston/Pennsylvania car. Died of rust in 1990.

[jgerock]

73tii VIN # 2763484. I went over to the former owner Sean's place just after he had it sent down from the Boston area.

Note the missing front snorkle on the air cleaner..

I had a spare one so I gave it to Sean as a "welcome to the club" party favor. I originally bought it from Paul Wegweiser when he was still in MD.

Rear tail panel may be used on my 69.

[John_in_VA]

from http://www.kingsborne.com/index.htm. Maybe they can sell you one without the wires.

[baller908790]

You can get these new from BLUNT it would be cheaper to buy used rather than new!

[Kidasters]

Cool Beans Marshall.

Kind of nice, keeping it in the family.

Although, won't this be the 2nd car you've cut up?

Your house is going to become the 2002 boneyard...

[Collinster742002]

Are you going to attempt to buff this one out?

[M3M3]

Are you going to attempt to buff this one out?

LOL...i have already washed it....

[ray_]

I bought a red 2002 for the interior.

:-)

[ClayW]

Score!

I have the same gas cap on my car. Works really well and is nice and flush.

[M3M3]

Starting to take the car apart

I can’t stand working on greasy cars, so first up was pressure washing under carriage and engine. Got about 2 of the 10 layers off…

Then had to fix the brakes. The front calipers were frozen, making it impossible to push the car. bunch of banging and prying after pulling the brake pads out got the 8 brake pistons moving again, car rolls!

Then pulled the bumpers off. I always thought the chrome bumpers were light. The front is dang heavy due to the brackets.

Took it for a drive up the street and back. Amazing that everything works. Clutch TO bearing is shot, but all tranny gears work fine.

Gauge pic after driving and idling for 20 min. temp great, idle smooth, engine sounds good.

Then parked it and started taking it apart.

This has to be the RUSTIEST 2002 that has even been successfully driven. Holy crap.

LF frame rail…gone. Replaced by tin.

RF frame rail…gone. Replaced by air.

LR subframe…completely unattached to anything. Where it should attach is gone.

Spare tire well and LR shock tower. Yikes.

RR shock tower. This sets a new bar for damage. Shock tower almost completely severed.

And then I pulled the rear seat out and found this. Wood firring strips jammed in the rust hole to for the top of the spring mount.

Then kept taking it apart…

Several thread for general parts and specific things for sale should be in “parts for sale” section soon.

[MikeWooldridge]

WOW. Thanks for the info.

[Colin]

Meh. That' not rust. I don't see anything a little JB Weld and Duck Tape wouldn't fix before you could track the car.

[M3M3]

engine really did sound good. no issues reving at all. cold idle worked fine, settled to idle at 1100 rpm. probably needs tune up, valve adjust, idle adjust, new plug wires (two of them are loose). one or two of the exhaust studs leaks oil onto manifold. simple fix.

i ran it up the street specifically to check the tranny for you Mike. would suck to put an unk tranny in your car then find out it didn't work....

(yes, Mike is the new owner of the tii driveline)

[M3M3]

Meh. That' not rust. I don't see anything a little JB Weld and Duck Tape wouldn't fix before you could track the car.

yeah....it will probably just buff out! :-)