Hey guys how's it going hey this project i bought about. Six months ago i got the first video of buying it's a 1970 mercury cougar basket case that someone took out of a uh, a garage or barn after it was crashed back in 1977. He went through the process of restoring or going to the process of, restoring it and, i think, just kind of ran out of gas on it and i bought it as a basket case with everything apart everything in boxes and bags and coffee cans and that kind Of thing well, it's six months later i have been picking away at it. The paint needed a bunch of love and it's basically a big puzzle, but this puzzle has extra pieces and missing pieces and no instructions or no picture to go by as far as putting it together.

I've been kind of working on it by myself here i'll get you walking around while i'm talking and not filming anything, i just kind of wanted to take a project and kind of enjoy the process of assembling it without having to worry about turning the camera on. So that's what i've been doing. The paint was probably the biggest issue. It was really orange peely.

I think i have a clip, maybe from the previous one i could show, and so i've been wet sanding that back down he painted it. He was not happy with it. He actually took the car back apart and was going to repaint it. I decided to work with the paint that is on it and that included a bunch of wet sanding.

I see a bunch like days and days of west end, but it's come out decent. I could i've done better. There was some still some scratching on the. I guess.

I'm gon na call it horizontal surfaces, there's my setup in the bucket right there. The only thing i really screwed up on it was the driver's door. I ended up wet sanding through right in this area i wet sanded through and then down below in the corner. I wet sanded through, so i ended up reshooting that door.

Fortunately, the car came with a half a gallon of paint that matched it, but unfortunately there's a slight difference. I don't know if the camera's gon na pick it up and shade between the two of them. Well, i need my lift. This thing has been sitting on there for a long time.

I got some uh my daily drivers that need a little bit of love, so i got to get them on there. This car has not run. I've never run this car, so i figured. Maybe we can go do that during this video and i'll.

Just give you an update on where it is. I've been working from the back to the front uh again, nothing was on the doors weren't on it, half the glass. Wasn't it the back. Glass wasn't in it, and i've been taking care of everything i haven't.

Had a glass company or anything come out and do anything i've been doing it all the molding around the doors. This was fun getting this molding in there with the clips all the lights. Everything in the trunk, the trunk itself, the weather, stripping the chrome aligning the doors, so i've had the fenders on and off probably a dozen times, because you got to align the doors to the quarter and then the cowl to the hood and then the fenders fudge In between there's only two bolts in the front fender, but just trying to get all my body lines to match all my windows to match correctly and roll up all the belt line. Seals installed all those little things.

Oh we'll get to that in a minute. All right, so you get up in the air i'll take a peek underneath you guys haven't seen underneath the car. Yet neither let's go check out the underpinnings, so you could probably use like a poor 15 on the gas tank and i don't know if you did that on the rest of the frame or not, but it's all been painted underneath most of it looks original. I do see uh one of the quarter.

Panel dropouts and extension have been replaced. One side. Yes, one side, no transmission is dripping, but again it's been sitting a long time. Sometimes the torque converter will leak down when they sit, looks like it's leaking right at the pan, gasket though, or at the linkage right there and another thing i noticed too, when i went to go put the car up on the lift and i put it in Park the park pin clicks, it does not hold it in parking lots.

The torque converter has been dripping. What happens is talking about a round circle, that's filled with fluid and then there's a point in the center of it. That goes back into the transmission that spins out over time. Sometimes the upper half of that fluid can drain out and sitting around the seal and leaks out put a new rack in all the hoses.

Look like they're new exhaust is new. He had the engine out. He said and sent out and the transmission sent out everything does look very clean, new front-end components. The rack is near the idler arm.

Pitman arm tie rod ends sway bar controls. It's like all the ground. Wires power leads motor mounts starter. Oh that's been replaced.

It's an ac car, so it's got tinted windows. Exhaust looks little kitty, whompus huh that one's needing a little bit of adjustment with a floor, jack and a piece of wood. Now, if the light's gon na show it, i think it is yeah. It's that one right.

There so that quarter panel extension has been replaced and then the bottom of the quarter panel on the inside of the trunk. You can see it's been replaced, but i believe the driver's side is still original. If you put a driver's passenger side door and fender on it at some point, yeah we'll, probably configure all the brakes and everything your new shocks are new. That kind of thing looks good.

It's a nice clean car for our area. This is a very clean car. Again, it got taken off the road. I think it was 1977..

You done looking all right. Let's go back up top show you a quick little peek of the interior and we'll get on to seeing. If we get this thing to fire up and move, let's go check out the inside. So again i work from the back to the front just because i had to go pick a direction to go and everything was just taken apart.

I figured that probably be the easiest and get the seats. The kick panels done the back window. The rear defrost vent. That's up inside there.

He already put a new headliner in it. So that's why he had all this stuff taken out again. Uh window regulators window felt you know the seals that go on inside these seals. This part getting the windows to adjust correctly, because this side was replaced with a a different there's, an early in the late 70s and there's some differences with the glass and the door.

So this side has an early on one side. I think that's an early and then the passenger side is late, not that it will look any different when it's once it's all. Together all the door pieces speakers, the door over there again is xr7. This one was off of a not an xr7, so i had to go.

Cutting the metal for the speaker run wire harness through it. Didn't it wouldn't have that light in there on a standard, all the seals, the chrome that goes around it's just slow, plus. Everything is like, like i said, in coffee cans, you're picking through trying to find what you need. So you think it's simple, okay, i'll put the door cranks on it.

Okay, go find the screws for the door, cranks that is 47 coffee cans to go, try to figure it out each time you do a little bit like here. You go, you know each time you do a little bit of something you go through and you you memorize, where the hardware is in different locations and you go to put something else together later on like oh, i saw that already. You have a general idea. What box to go? Look in and the fenders are just sitting on it.

While we were doing the interior, that's all so yeah. I had uh a 69 cougar when i first got my license. This is a 70 again and same color combination white with a black top. I had blue on bluish green interior and was the standard, not the xr7, so this is just a card.

That's on my bucket list that i want to uh bring back and have all right. Let's go open the hood how's that dash huh, there's a wire or two to get still assembled there yeah and the windshield i'm gon na have installed. I'm not gon na install that that's glued in and with the chrome and all the trim and everything. Although i'd like to try everything for the first time myself, i may pass on trying to go.

Do that so for some reason, all the plug wires are off on this side, they're all laying back up up there. For some reason the plugs are in it, but the wires are off. I don't know if they're working on something down in this bay or working on a manifold - i don't know i he may have said i just don't have a recollection. I have not ever even put power to this car yet so we don't even know.

What's going to happen, it may just go up and smoke all right. Let's get you set up in the stand, let's see if we can grab ourselves a battery, see what comes to life and see if we can go get her to fire up. Let's go check. Fluids, first might be a good idea huh.

I would think this would be clean, oh yeah. He said he drove it, i'm not sure when you know with no windows or anything yet i don't think he just, but he did put it around. It looks like we're a hair over better hair over than hair under transmission. You got ta do that.

While it's running, i have a feeling. That's already gon na be low, we're just going to go to the jumper pack for now in there, without beating up on the pink. That's the other part of it too, trying not to screw anything up didn't draw any current, so i don't think anything's on. Let's go inside, let's go anything light up, we got a directional clicking away there we go and i think we should be in park and we're having an issue with that.

That's like part of the console, let's give a quick bump of the key, see if we'll do anything, nothing. That is a good sign all right. Let's go start looking again, who knows wiring wise what is connected and not connected. It looks like the ignition switch is plugged in though those wires are all right.

Let's go find out what's going on and anybody who's ever owned, an old ford knows crossing the solenoid trick, which is going to be right there. So you want to jump that to that. This is the signal coming from the key latches at relay, and this is power going down to the starter. So if we cross them, we should get a there.

We go. Let's listen to. It actually sounds like the key is off, but it sounds like it's got. A little bit of spark you hear ticking going on, let's uh address whatever is going on with this.

Actually, let's go, throw a spark plug in it real quick. I thought i heard spark clicking pick any one of these. I guess that can be long enough. Yeah.

Let's uh, that should be a good. It's a boats for hours should be able to use it yeah. Why does it have spark and the keys not even on something's wacky here yeah, i would think with um half the wire's, not even being hooked up that it would not have sparked why it has crank and not spark. Somebody may even have those crossed.

Maybe that's uh all right, i'm just looking for a jumper. If anybody ran a jumper to the coil, the hot lead of the coil, which i think is going to be this side, there's that going into the harness the harness and away it goes, hmm yeah. So the key was always was in the off position and it would have been crank unless there's nothing. That's this harness going down it's plugged into the main harness.

I do see this weird jumper wire. What does that have to do with anything? It's not going to be a fuse issue, it's just going to be powered to something that shouldn't be having power going to it at the moment, and it's just odd ooh. This is going to be fun to put together getting the dashes, and then this is the dash cluster plugs into that. I do not see anything that is it's like stereo, not sure what that is.

I don't know what that is: uh console lights, maybe all right. I'm gon na go put the key in the opposition. I'm gon na give it a crank and see if it has spark see if something's, maybe flipped, around yeah, so the keys in the on position. Now, let's see what we get where's the plug again watch it fire up on those four cylinders.

They're still hooked very interesting. I wonder if something's off, maybe on the tumbler part of the key and where the ignition switch goes down, it's not turning the electrical connector on it, and it's just left in that on position. That's why it won't crank too. You know the steering wheel is just sitting on it.

Let's see, if that's the case, if we could see anything anyway, not sure where i'm looking at what i'm looking at, where would be see anything i'll get a little light. I'm gon na go peek around down the side there see. If i can see anything doesn't look like that was ever taken apart. Probably all the original stuff doesn't look like it was painted or anything neither so or the column was out.

It's just weird. That has me a little confused too. What's going on with that, that's not just not exactly factory! So i'm guessing it had a problem in the past, because this is the ignition switch. So when you turn the key, you can see the rod going up and down.

So that's: what's making the electrical connections is this stuff right here you got two heavy leads a couple of small ones. I do see some tape up on there and it looks like somebody tried, maybe modifying it to go out, but it went to a different wire. Let's go get a test light. Let's go poke around.

What's going on on that and see if we can figure it out, i hope you can see. So what i noticed is so this right here is the ignition switch part of it. You turn the key up and down. There's a rod going up inside here.

Making these different contacts and again that's when we were kind of questioning what was going on with that wire nut that was on there. Let's go look at that test, light up see if we could find ground and uh, let's go poke around a little bit and see if we can see what does and doesn't work or make power or not power or with any power coming in. So that has power coming in so that turns on and off. I think that would be powered to the fuse box.

Maybe, and then one of them should be a crank, should send power out to one of these for crank. I should probably looked up colors again. I'm willing to bet it well there. It is that one's crank right there, but it's not going to the starter, so that is red with a blue tracer and that is going to the wire that is jumped.

Oh we're onto something. So it's red with a blue tracer and then it got cut off and then it goes to this, and does it go back to red with a blue tracer? It does let's go probe the other side of this, make sure we got power going through it over to this eye. When we turn the key and survey says in there, let's get that nut right off of there. We still have ground yet yeah.

We got power going through, i'm gon na go probe by the solenoid. Also we could go check the fuse box. I took a quick peek, the fuse box is there and it has fuses in it whether that's any good or not, could be questionable. So we're under the car.

Looking at the starter, i was up top looking at the starter relay and the battery post and the other star. The other side of the wire going down to the starter, which would be this wire big heavy wire coming down, are both on the same side like well. That doesn't make any sense. So i looked underneath it has another solenoid.

So it's not what the factory setup would be, so they have a weird kind of combination going in this wire has to get power for the crank the starter, so we may still have a problem with that starter relay up top not doing what it's supposed to Or just not wired correctly, let's go look back into there, we'll go see if we get a signal from the key to fire that solenoid up top and chase that a little bit. This is definitely just throwing a definite another wrench into the into the works, though i don't want to lose you on this, but i got ta, try to explain it so all right. This is the battery side coming in see the little plus side going in. Normally you get a this is a ground, and this is 12 volts.

Coming from the ignition switch, you turn this. It fires a coil inside makes that output input go to that output. That output goes down to the starter. Instead, this has the heavy power wire coming in heavy power wire going out to the starter, and then they just took a little wire going down to put signal down to the starter, that for the starter, to crank the other solenoid down below that's a different system That we're i'm normally used to so that would need 12 volts, like i said, if you go to bump, put that 12 volts to there.

It cranks like it should um, but we are not getting a signal from the key and we still don't know why. We have spark uh, maybe you don't have spark when it cranks it's hard to say i just don't know quite what's happening. Let's um check for spark we'll jump, get a jumper wire from here to here. We'll jump right across it, not energize this wire and see.

If it still does the same thing, all right keys off, let's go steal 12 volts, and we need that plug wire, no spark. So it has something to do with how that's tied in there. So the keys off no spark. If i just go to try to crank around the starter, what a weird setup well, this one's got me going a little bit now, rightfully i got that wire off.

I should turn that that light should light up. That's the signal coming from the key see if we get anything nope, let's go check fuses. You know what i got an idea. I have a feeling.

I wonder if we're dealing with a neutral safety switch that is not set up right, we're not plugged in or the remember i said it wasn't feeling like it was in park right. Let's go. Try wiggling that shifter around a little bit, i'm feeling it possibly. We might have an aha moment, it's all the way in park and should be a neutral safety on some of that.

Let's go try. Why is the column moving? The column is moving while i'm uh trying to shift to a get i'm going to prop you up. I'm going to try wheeling and shifting around while i got the key one could still be that hmm there it is now it goes all right. We got that figured out good, let's go and get those plug wires back on there and square it away and see what we can do to get her to fire.

Well, at least the firing order should be easy to figure out. I have a pretty good feeling that that might be how they go get them on there. Well, i finally hung a light in the engine compartment that might help things a little bit. So it's got a fuel filter back here it is bone dry.

I don't know if there's any gas in the tank or not, i probably should have taken a peek, but let's go dribble a little bit of fuel in it. Let's go crank her over and see if she stutters to go fire. I also would think that there is a vacuum or should be vacuum leaks. We got ta, look for vacuum, hoses that uh the headlights and a bunch of other stuff underneath the dash are controlled by vacuum, and i i know a lot of that's not even connected.

It's like a vacuum: canister! That's not hooked up a lot of this stuff, so i would think that somewhere on the intake, manifold, there's a tap or off the carb, so we'll put if it's running weird when we go to fire it up. That's probably why i don't see it right off the bat to you this one here that looks like it goes down to the the kick down for the transmission. Well, one thing i want to do is get the rear axle off the ground, because i do not trust the shift pattern of this thing. I can see me starting it up and it running full throttle and running us over, although that would be entertaining maybe for a few seconds.

It's sure gon na hurt like hell for me. So let's good as long go. The tires are off the ground right back by the tank, and it's got a little drain on it, see if that'll move for us see if we can gas out of it and what it looks like if there is hopefully it's dry, because i don't know how Long this car has been sitting. There is something coming out of it.

I'm gon na get a cup, let it fill up and take a peek. What color it looks like. I do have a drain pan down below too. In case i lose the plug and put a bit in there come on get started, it's pretty dark, pretty cruddy.

Looking i'll show you that's not a good sign, though, is it i'm gon na go, try persian for a little while actually looks like it's even got water in it. I'm gon na try purging it a little bit see if you get to go clear. If not, i'm gon na drain whatever's in there we'll try to get some fresh stuff. I don't want to contaminate the carburetor if it's not already happened to it, yeah! Listen with that key for a little bit until we get in there all right, i'm gon na.

Let that settle in the pans you get any water sitting in there and go clean, my armpits that are full of gas yeah. Unfortunately, i would say that it's definitely passed its sell by date. It literally has water kind of going around the bottom too. I got ta drain all that crap out.

Hopefully it's not a whole tank. I sure hope there isn't 20 gallons in there, because i think this hopper is about 15.. I have a feeling: that's a fairly full tank, though we'll just have to put that in my neighbor's car tonight when they're not looking, please slow down, oh boy, why would you fill the tank on a car, so you haven't put together yet stuck a jack on The other side to tilt the car towards the drain eat the last little bit looks like i made it with about two inches from the handle still have to get that out of there, though it's gon na be entertaining, and yes, of course, i dropped the wrench Into the bucket tightening the drain plug all right see if we can make a mess out of this nothing wrong with that gas, that is uh definitely past morning, piss, yellow. Definitely, i would say, a good light, coffee or dark tea come to me.

I thought i was gon na stick my hand in there. Didn't you, i believe, there's a way to lock the cap. I figure how that works. It's got about a half a gallon of good stuff, so i hooked up a uh start trigger.

It just goes across that solenoid. I took the fuel line off, you see if we crank it up enough to start getting some fuel, and i want to run it till it gets a clean color coming through. You can push all that crap out of there or it doesn't go into the carb. Hopefully the battery jumper pack holds up.

Let's go find out. That was violent. I think i got to go clamp that a little bit better in the cup or at least tilt it down a little see how that works work. I would not expect that fuel pump to give that much of a shot every time.

I guess i'm used to little four cylinders. Let's go get that banjo back in there. Hopefully he's exit right up right out of that. Let's try it again yeah.

So i want to do that. I'm going to do that cup, i'm going to do that. So we get a little bit of a better color of fuel coming up to it, brown two something longer than i thought you know it's not helping it had that big fuel filter underneath it that probably holds a cup worth of fluid in itself. Looking better and look at the filter, i can see it it's looking a little clearer.

I think that might be the last one. We need to do at the end. They're still looking fairly decent, come on. Yeah sure got it this time, i'm gon na say that's close enough ain't perfect, but a lot better than what it was all right.

You ready, i am keys on. Let's give her a little i've upped, my fuel bottle size just a little more to match the engine size keys on. Let's go give her a crank. I think we are all set we're gon na go find out.

If that is my throttle. No, that's not my throttle. That's my throttle popping gas up. We have no spark when i let off that's what's happening as soon as i let go, it cuts out so that still needs to be addressed whatever that issue is well i'm getting impatient.

I really want to hear it run because i just barely heard it run we're going to just put 12 volts right to the coil. No, that's the wrong part of the coil there, and now it should stay running should see we get and we need a battery. Come on you're almost there yet so close, i got ta. Let that charge up suspense or i could just use that battery.

That's sitting on the floor down here that i forgot i had. Hopefully it fits and a real battery. Let's say it has a charge. Let's go find out come on baby a bit of a kick to.

It might have an intake leak like i said, though. Yes jeffy got a loop to her to find out which cylinder skipping, maybe even the firing order that i screwed up there we go shut. Her down figure out what we got going on, you tell them. You set air cool cars.

Whenever you check to see what i have for coolant, hey family, it is green, it's a tinge of green. Getting on there right now. Is it perfect? So i'm going through the firing order and lifts up on the plugs, and these two aren't even on there, neither they're just sitting there. Are they all like that that one's on yeah, so the three on this side, we're kind of like laying on the spark plugs but not connected and i'll, make it right on one side again, yeah actually ran really decent, for you know what it was all right.

Let me get them on there, yeah i'll, give it another shot. I don't know, maybe you stole the wires off to put on another car, i'm not quite sure why that would have been like that. I got ta get down anywhere pop them on a little better. All right now they're all popped back on in place.

Let's get meter hot wire to the curl and hit it again. I got nothing. Why do i have nothing? I got no cranky okay, so i got no. Now there you go.

That sounds a little better grab. Her up a little still a little lopey, we'll let it run for a minute i like it, we got for exhaust down, sounds pretty good. Here's what i meant by park. That's the park, pin bouncing off.

I have a feeling whatever is going on with that console. Is what the issue is go pop it in gear? Should we reverse there we go neutral, go for drive, don't know. What's making that noise go hit the brakes, it sounded better yeah, she's, missing, now cool i'll, let it cool down a little bit, make sure everything's doing okay. They just burn all the crap off this coming off around the engine from old seeps and leaks and new paint, everything's still cold.

That covers got a little bit of heat and valve covers, let it run little wobble on the power steering pump. I looked to see if it had oil pressure. If i had gauges well, you might as well go see what the underside looks like that makes me happy sounds pretty good. I think you just need to run a little bit.

I'm sure there's probably a little bit of crap, that's in the carb due to the fact that it was uh, you know had fuel in it and then it sat just like the regular part, so it might be a little varnished over sounds good, though whole thing Shield we get for leaks after i wipe some of this stuff off and see if it continues to come back, i might have to just go. Hang down a few little loose ends. We're in about 10 minutes now could be almost up to temperature. That's more like it right back to an idle and smooth i'm gon na go, try see if we can get it to go fire with the key whatever's going on.

Maybe you have to go shift around put it in park. Something's! Not right with that, though, that right now should have spark and it doesn't. Let me go prop you up yeah. So it's still the same thing even with the key you go as soon as you're off a crank.

There's there's a primary but no secondary, so something's going on with that. It could be even part because that the dash components aren't in it and maybe looking for feedback from something i'm not sure, but at least we're to the point where it runs and actually sounds really nice. I'm really happy about that. So i think guys we will cut this one right here.

I'm going to go continue to keep picking away it's it's too much to to film. You know: okay, let's go put a dash pad on and go look 45 minutes for the screws that fit it and put six screws in it. It's kind of boring, so i'm just going to kind of bring you in and out as i get to different levels of the car and uh. This was one of them, so i hope you enjoyed it.

I did i'm glad to uh first be able to fire the thing and uh now that i've owned it for six months. I've never even heard around. So i'm real happy about that. If it's a lot of things in check uh the the clicking with the park, i have a feeling just because all this stuff is loose and flopping around.

I didn't expect the linkage to come back to the steering column, but again all that being loose. I have a feeling it's not allowing the lever to go all the way in the park and that's the only issue with the park pin hopefully, but if not we'll find out on another video right all right guys with that. Thanks for hanging out with me appreciate it i'll see you soon bye, so i don't know where i left off, because this has been filmed over months and months and months anyway, she's looking pretty good, it's all together. Paint still needs a little bit of love.

I'm gon na go chase that later nothing's been detailed. You know the top's all dirty, but everything is together on the car, except for the windshield. That is happening in about 10 minutes. We have a glass guy coming over to have all that done, but it really has come out nice.

It's really good. Looking car take a quick walk around again still needs to be cleaned, and i got to work the paint some more. It does have some boo boos. I got some paint to go, fill in a little nicks and scratches that uh.

When i go to compound and uh, i'm gon na probably wet sand it again and then compound it one more time that should really get the best of you can see the chalkiness in some spots on the paint. That's where we are our bits and pieces are ready to go all prepped. All you have to do is get the glass in. I did not trust myself with gluing the glass in so he's going to take care of that.

So hopefully, the next bit that you see will be the windshield. It's a nifty, little grease gun, huh, oh yeah, and you want those save it and get any of this black crap on all right position. Keep one hand on this side. Okay and what we'll do is when we get up there, we're just going to lay it over it.

You know we're going to keep it right in that angle. Yeah. We have control right there and lay it right on it, nice and softly i'm going to adjust it from there, but i always keep my hand on it. So i don't know we'll go to that top side for us to bring the top tip right down the top going in first all right now.

I know the funeral fans out there. It you get about um. I mean probably 10-15 minutes before it starts getting tacky gotcha, you know before you got ta get in there, but you know this thing should be pretty strong within an hour like you would you'd have a hard time pushing it out catch it. As a matter of fact, you wouldn't be able to push it out unless you went like real, slow and hard, but you break the glass before okay, that's not good! I think that dream had a little bit of a dent right.

There, too, see that little bit of a yeah, you see that dub or something sticking out yeah, there's a there's a screw going in on the corner there. That's why the dent was there from the factory that i knocked out. Yeah there's a little dent in the trim. I'm like wait.

Let me go fix that it was right there and now we know why you can even see the little bump. That's still in it. Oh yeah. We should have took that out of there, but let me just see if we can bend these down put the dent back in it, i'm trying to get below it, though.

Oh you want pop it back off i'll put the dent in it. If you want, if it's really going to fight us, you can't take the screw up and you're going to have a hole yeah in there. So we don't want to do that. But let me see if i can get her.

I almost had it right then, and that's the factory too. That's that top's never been on. Oh man, this one right here can't get her to clip huh yep. Ah damn it there you go.

I had a little tv, yeah yeah, see what happens when i put the middle down. That's the only thing yeah a little bit more. We got, but i may try working that later. You can get it to keep dent itself and put it back in.

You have to kind of run up underneath it kind of drive it up, and i should do that this piece. You won't try to just knock it up. Slowly, i mean yeah, oh yeah, that's better! So this one we cut off the tab on the corner, because that was here wouldn't come out. What's that you can see the metal it's probably broke, maybe oh yeah yeah the metal still yeah but um.

Well, i do believe today is the day that we get to go. Take her out for a spin get your cop a little bit. I did get the rest of the windshield components and wiper blades and that kind of stuff button back up the front is all nice and tidy. That's a bit of an improvement, and i ran around the building.

A few times worked with tweaking the front end by eye. As far as the alignment it was really pigeon toed outward pigeon to it, means uh hold on i'll get you there just bent out like that so kind of tweak them in by eye. I still have to go, get an alignment, then i ran it across the street and filled the gas tank that's about as far as we got because there's a bunch of salt on the roads. Well, we've got heavy rains.

The salt is gone. I think it's time to go for a spin. Let's go cold starter backer out of the building and go for a little ride. Shall we there's a little dash all nice and put together? I should get you out to where the light is.

You can see her. Let's go cold starter, that's my low fuel light, but i have almost a full tank in it. So that might be an issue yeah. I think that semi unit or something is kapue skipping and stuttering a little bit.

I've not really done anything with the tune-up stuff. On it, so i'm sure i'm paying for that, whatever it was set up like is how is we're going to run it, but i want to kind of get out on the open road and fog it flog. It try not to smash into anything. It's kind of tight we're going to hug the lift as close as possible and we'll hope on the other side.

How's that items that are airway, i have no passenger side, mirror hit the garage door, we'll let her get her out the door and let her warm up a little bit and then we'll go for our spin. I'm gon na go pay attention to what i'm doing. Instead of the camera i'll bring you back in a second when we're on the road, let's clear her out a little bit: okay, very lopey, i do know he's got an aftermarket cam in it, so that might be part of that loopiness, but we never pulled that Card apart and that fuel was not exactly the prettiest, so that might be an issue kind of gone on even brighter yeah. So i'm not sure.

What's going on with that worst case, we just unplug it don't really need it. As long as my gas gauge works, which looks like about what i thought i put in it, i think i put like 15 gallons in it right around there. It was like 30 bucks, it's pulsing a little too huh. Now we wait till we get a little bit of temperature in it.

I'm gon na go out close up the garage move some stuff around then we'll go for it, i'm back in the garage. I hope that is coming out just out of the muffler just water. Coming out of the waffle, actually i see it on both sides good and that wasn't giving me confidence, definitely still kind of wanders around you got ta keep correct. It doesn't want to track very well, but it has a bunch of new front end components again.

Never been set, caster and camera are not set. Toe is definitely set by eye kind of looking at the front tire and looking at the back tire and doing your best to square them up with a little bit of toe in and there's a little. It is an older car too, so see how she does over the bumps. You're gon na go over a set of railroad tracks, seems like the transmission downshifts, a lot too, not sure if that's normal or not it's quiet over the bombs that that seems fine for maiden voyage.

Pretty good seems like when i turn the directionals on to me. See if i can try it again, i'm gon na turn the directionals on it seems like that gaslight goes out nope. I thought i was like a round issue before the other side. I just got lucky earlier when i made the turn as soon as i turned the light, the directionals on the gas light went off, and then i turned it back off and came on just a fluke charging looks good.

Oil pressure is decent, temperature is good and all of them are straight up and down tax working, the clock - even works, hd ac will have to get charged so in the summer. I'll worry about that. I'm just glad all the salts washed off the road. So we can take her out and have a little bit of fun.

I want to boot it a little bit get on it, i'm going to come up to a four-way intersection up here. I want to see how it idles see if that improves a little bit. I have a feeling i got to take that car apart and clean it yeah, i think, yard yeah. There's no cops up here, we'll just we'll kind of floor to floor through the intersection after i stop.

Let's just see what she does. That's still back huh or if that's trans go. Oh yeah, i'm not a rolling start too. If i was from a dead start, i would have smoked.

Him sounds good though huh slow, her down, we'll boot. It again knock her down to about 20 or so and hit it a little bit opinion. I did put a 93 octane in it. Nice sounds good.

I like it, it's like all the old car chase movies. Doesn't it just do to get up here? Let's go uh got a car coming up behind me, plow truck. Let's go got ta stop here and boot it. I don't wan na try to spin the tires, but i don't wan na hear the acceleration.

Basically, we got ta go bump that time in a little bit. That also could be part of the carb issue. Yeah she's pinging definitely brings back old memories instead of at 17.. I had another car right.

When i got my license, it was actually a chevy pickup, but it literally broke down every single day. Every day, every 50 miles was 50 bucks. That was a lot back then. So then i took a loan off 1200 bucks and i bought a 69 mercury cougar.

Actually alone, that was a lot for that. That was, i would say, that was 1980. 81, probably 81.. I had gotten that i terrorized my town and pretty much as you get older when i relive those those moments, i guess and that's what we're doing with this car we plan on doing with this car, but my remaining days, but i must say for something: that's Been off the road since what 1977? I think it was 76 right around there when it got wrecked.

It's doing quite well. Yeah. It's got a weird downshift kind of thing to it kind of hear it as it let off. I don't know if that's normal, for it to shift down in a second, as you're approaching, doesn't seem right.

I might have an issue there, there's a hose that kicks down a um. It's got a vacuum, kick down, sometimes that diaphragm leaks and fluid goes through and it makes it do kind of weird stuff. So that might be an issue drag the sun out of your eyes, of course. Now i won't do it you let off you go slow down, it'll downshift right there.

Why is it downshifting stop and it grinds yeah? I don't think he's supposed to do that. Will that fix it? I do think we've got a transmission issue, i'm glad to go. Be something he had to send out. He said he had it done.

Apparently he didn't do a very good job. It has all the gears. I don't see a problem with that, but what would grind now, essentially just a bunch of bands that tighten up on on different circuits clutches that slip torque converters, nothing in a torque converter, that's gon na grind. Get me a little park.

Pin is not gon na. Do nothing when it's not moving? It's like you know it has that kind of sound like a park. Pin that you, you shoved it in park, doing 40 the pins making that vibrating sound. That's not it because it's doing it when it's sitting still well guys.

It's uh two thirds of a tank down on gas. Now i've run it through oh 50 miles yeah. I got 50 miles on two thirds of a tank, but i had fun doing it and it is i'll give you a walk around of what almost the finished product is again. I still have some more detail on the paint to do.

I got a couple of uh nicks and chips to go and take out of it, but the ones that were in it from the original you can barely tell where they are had some in the trunk. I think too, like i said i still have to go around. There's that's just us, but here's where a couple of them are were and open the trunk. That's all finished.

I got to grab a spare, i don't have a spare for it. I do have a jack that i just have to paint and detail put that in there every light works on the car, except for one reverse light. I got a bulb out on this side. Body looks real nice for what it is all new bumpers, the original vinyl top and all the interior lights.

Work in. It's got toggles up here too, to turn on extra stuff, little map lights and door lights and back pillar lights and really came out as a nice car, it's gon na be fun uh having some fun with it. I still have to do the uh seat belt, upper seat belt and there's like a hook that mounts up there like a coat hook. I have a little diagram where they were i'm kind of questioning where they are.

Maybe during the summertime at a car show. I go take a peek, i want to get a better idea and grab the measurements, the original clock works, and what do you say? You reupholstered the seats and put a new headliner in it other than that. I think all the rest of the car is original. As far as the interior is concerned, it looks real, sharp all the door.

Jambs look good. I got ta go chase some hardware, some hardware i have in places that is not correct, but that's all right. I had nothing to go by, i didn't take it apart. It was a fun project to go.

Do but um. I did not take it apart. I got a light out slacker and the biggest issue right now is the tires. Uh tires the transmission.

It is making that grinding noise when you're stopping gear, and i haven't quite figured out what that is - that that weird downshifting thing he had that transmission rebuilt. I don't know if this is the original one. I went back and looked at the original footage. That again was from 10 months ago.

I forgot most of what he had said and uh. He said he put a rebuilt transmission in it. I have a feeling: it's not the original one and made it sound like he possibly traded one in and got one back. I'm not sure, but a car with original 27 000 miles.

Originally, you wouldn't think that would have an issue, i'm not sure. If there's supposed to be a mat up above the hood or not, i should probably show you the headlights, huh, the hideaway headlights and the sequential tail lights so go check out the back. I love that when i was 16 and a half 17 right when i got my license thanks at 17 right around that point, i bought as a 69 cougar and it was 1200 bucks. It was a 12 years old at that time.

Yeah the car was about 12 years old and i was at a dealer's law used car dealer and when i saw those tail lights, go like that, like. Oh that's the car for me who everybody else has a mustang, they don't have. One of these can't wait to get one of those, so i did i spent 1200 back then. The funny part is this.

Car has been off the road before i even bought that other car. That's how much time frame there was that this one sat so closer up to get a full look. Sounds like we're getting a delivery sexy thing so there it is it's glory and see what the focus does here and that's what it looked like when it got raptured when it got picked up. What do you say? 2000 early 2000s, so about 17 years ago after it was put away in the barn in 1977, when his son wrecked it and he took it away from him and it was next to cows.

I guess that's what all the the rust you see on the bottom down. There is from cow piss. He said she definitely took a he bought it as a parts car. I decided to save it so shout out to mike for doing a lot of the hard work i just had to go basically put a big puzzle together and uh.

He did all the other grunt work up and get all the bits and pieces together so congrats to him for the work he did and i will throw congratulations out to what i did too before and i love seeing that. Okay, so that's gon na, be it i'm gon na go sign off uh, at least for now. I think we're gon na have to revisit this one. As far as the transmission is concerned and again when summertime gets here, we actually get to go tooling around because the weather's changing real, quick on us, they're gon na be putting salt back down the road.

So i'm not gon na run this one anymore. I did get to run a little bit of time on it, which was very enjoyable. I uh got to do some fun, so to speak with it. I can see it needing tires in this near future.

Although those are new, i think it's going to be some new tires. If you know what i mean all right guys with that, i'm going to sign off and thank you all for hanging out with me. I know i didn't get to do much of the work on this one on camera, this one i kind of took for myself to enjoy and not film and just pick away a little at a time and make a little improvements on it and bring it back From the dead, so i apologize for that, but sometimes you have to do those things in life to keep it interesting. I guess on that note we're gon na go cut.

It take care. Bye, got ta warm up me laughs.