Hello everyone,
I hope the weather allows for a fun Memorial Day ride.
Probably many of you are in parades and other events
this weekend with your cars. Happy motoring!!!
Well, an update on our engine problem. I spoke with
the last owner of our second 56 Belvedere. The car
was a one family car with 56,000 when it started
having problems. Wouldn't run well and lost power.
Son-in-law (mechanic) worked a lot on it. New cam
shaft, valve springs, rebuilt carb and distributor,
plug wires, etc. Couldn't get it to pull it's weight.
Idled rough too. Something wrong they couldn't
identify. He thought it might be in the trans or the
tourque converter since it would run (although rough)
in nuetral but as soon as you put it in gear, it would
bog down. (the mechanics disagreed) He could get it to
go on the flat road, but it wouldn't pull up hill.
Anyway, he just couldn't afford to do anything else
with it so it sat for 9 months before we picked it up
in Texas and brought it to Illinois.
I went back yesterday (after one week of sitting with
WD40 in the cylinders) and low and behold...it turned
over!!!
Since it is not frozen, I'm thinking about trying to
get it to run. If I'm successful, I'll probably have
the same problem the last owner had. No power, runs
rough.
I have several offers of engines from list members
which I am still considering, but if I can get our
other one working, that would save me quite a bit (I
think).
Any thoughts?? Does the problem with the other engine
sound like something anyone recognizes? Am I barking
up the wrong tree?
Thanks again and sorry for being so long winded.
Joe and Jason
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