For Those Who Have Purchased a "Non-Running" Mopar/Other
Recently I purchased a 69 Polara convertible. At the point of sale I went to start it and nothing, seller popped the hood and wiggled the very questionable fusible link connector, fired right up. They put the car on a lift so I could inspect the floor and see anything else. The exhaust was cobbled together with no less than 20 pieces and was ready to fall apart in spots. And there was a c-clamp holding the starter on.
I did a test drive and even with the well worn suspension it drove quite nice so I was good with going for it on a 540 mile drive home.
On the road the questionable fusible link connector failed, repaired it and then wouldn't start, bad starter relay.
Most of the way home with a couple big grades still ahead of us the car starts struggling up the smaller hills like it was running out of gas, we persist. At the large grade the car comes to a crawl and we crawl up the hill and maybe 4 mph. The next day I pull the fuel filter and cut it open.
While working on it I find a piece of wire on the intake, to realize it was a make shift accelerator pump rod that had fallen off.
Even after totally rebuilding the exhaust and fuel system I still had issues with it running bad, no where as good as the initial test drive.
Went to check the distributor and found it only had one clamp, it was that way when I got it (looked at old pictures).
Fixed that and much better. Now it was getting almost impossible to start, rebuild the carb, wasn't much left of the accelerator pump.
Runs great now, great power.
All that and I made it 540 miles home?
Alan
Recently I purchased a 69 Polara convertible. At the point of sale I went to start it and nothing, seller popped the hood and wiggled the very questionable fusible link connector, fired right up. They put the car on a lift so I could inspect the floor and see anything else. The exhaust was cobbled together with no less than 20 pieces and was ready to fall apart in spots. And there was a c-clamp holding the starter on.
I did a test drive and even with the well worn suspension it drove quite nice so I was good with going for it on a 540 mile drive home.
On the road the questionable fusible link connector failed, repaired it and then wouldn't start, bad starter relay.
Most of the way home with a couple big grades still ahead of us the car starts struggling up the smaller hills like it was running out of gas, we persist. At the large grade the car comes to a crawl and we crawl up the hill and maybe 4 mph. The next day I pull the fuel filter and cut it open.
While working on it I find a piece of wire on the intake, to realize it was a make shift accelerator pump rod that had fallen off.
Even after totally rebuilding the exhaust and fuel system I still had issues with it running bad, no where as good as the initial test drive.
Went to check the distributor and found it only had one clamp, it was that way when I got it (looked at old pictures).
Fixed that and much better. Now it was getting almost impossible to start, rebuild the carb, wasn't much left of the accelerator pump.
Runs great now, great power.
All that and I made it 540 miles home?
Alan
