For Those Who Have Purchased a "Non-Running" Mopar/Other

Another one, but not one that I bought.

1967 Dart GT 440/727. I went and looked at it and then a friend of mine bought it for $1,500 (late 1980s). Guy told me that the engine had very little compression so he rebuilt the heads and that didn't fix the problem. So my buddy bought it. It ran, but ran like crap, spit and sputter. I drove it once and swore that the engine was sound OTHER than this lack of compression (no smoke, etc.). Car was at my house for a few months while he was with his Navy squad in Japan. I'd start it periodically. It was very difficult to start and would just about kill you with the unburned gas coming out the exhaust.

He got back and picked up that car. Called me one day to tell me he had fixed it. One of the previous owners (probably the guy he bought it from) had bought a pushrod kit and made EVERY ONE OF THEM SLIGHTLY TOO LONG...Doug put a set of stock 440 pushrods in and it ran great...