RSMS
Active Member
I had a pretty good afternoon playing with the GTX and I thought I would share a little progress since last night and include a couple pictures that would reflect upon it. I haven't mentioned that the engine was frozen as I didn't know to what extent. I find this to be the case pretty often when I'm buying barn find cars or cars that have sat for many years. Remember, this car was last driven in 1989, so it was very expected by me to not be able to turn it over. My typical protocol in doing these cars is to pull the plugs out and immediately get either some marvelous mystery oil or my own mix of diesel and transmission fluid in the cylinders as to not break a ring or damage a cylinder when trying for the 1st time. I always try to turn it by hand without using ape **** crazy force. The old 440 would not budge, so I increased the volume in all cylinders and let it sit over night. This morning it was the same off the snout of the crankshaft, nothing. I decided I would bring a fresh battery home tonight and start giving it a couple light bumps and on the 1st bump it sounded like it moved. I immediately got a piece of tape and marked the top of the A/C compressor and gave it another quick bump, it's turning effortlessly now. I'm now confident it's going to run without having to come apart, I will now get the excess oil out of the cylinders to not spray it all over everything or hydro lock it when the plugs go back in. Pretty cool it came free so easily, I have a 61 Fleetwood with a 390 I'm also playing with currently that sat since the late 70's and it took me about 2 weeks to get it to let loose (still haven't got around to starting it but that's another story) Now I can start working thru the ignition and fuel systems and get this old girl to kick over. Hopefully you enjoy the picture of the passenger seat I pulled out to get the Broadcast sheet from underneath of and a engine bay- 3/4 front clip shot of the car. More to come as I continue to play around with it
