It's alive!!!!

[irdave]

Well, almost.    Running on a couple of cylinders, but running!

 

2761023 is on the way back.

 

Thank you all for your help so far.

[irdave]

Ok!  It's really alive this time.  Idling and running on all 4 cylinders.  After cleaning the fuel tank / changing the rubber lines / new fuel filter / cleaning the injectors / new plugs / finding all the cut wires, it actually idles really nice.  Big order going in to Ireland Eng. here directly for all the basic things that should be replaced, but I was able to gently drive the car around the block yesterday- first time it's moved under its own power in at least 15 years, and maybe longer...

 

Huge thanks to Rob Siegel for his step by step process to get this thing back up and running, and everyone else that helped with ideas on the problems I've had so far.   And Mike McCartney- I've been hauling that book around for almost 20 years- and I finally picked up an '02.

[BarneyT]

great work / news / color now enjoy it and continue to improve it...Barney

[1974_Verona]

AWESOME! What a great find. Glad you have it back on its feet. If you are ever in COS, stop by. 

[Simeon]

Now on to stopping, steering and driving it like you stole it. 

[irdave]

8 hours ago, Simeon said:

Now on to stopping, steering and driving it like you stole it. 

You mean quietly, calmly, following all laws and drawing no attention?!  Good luck!  Ha!

 

Put in big order with Ireland Engineering.  Get all that in, maybe a little suspension work (I'm a suspension guy- I have a hard time leaving it alone...)  Then maybe some wheels and tires...  Hopefully the snows not early.  Figure some interior work / rewiring once the snow gets here...  I'm really excited, I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

[ray_]

Guess what?

 

It's going to be a lot of fun!

 

;-)

 

Cheers,

[zinz]

Fantastic Dave!  So glad to hear the good news. Congrats on getting it going. 

 

Ed Z

[yeewiz]

great job, car is looking good!

[irdave]

Thanks so much.  You know what I think I like most about this whole thing- that you can actually fix it.  All the modern cars (and everything, really) is becoming so disposable- this thing, you take it apart, clean it, fix it- and it works just like it's suppose to.

 

So now back to cleaning it up before all the IE parts get here...

 

Thanks again everyone.