FORGOTTEN 1969 Chevelle Will it RUN AND DRIVE 500 MILES? - Vice Grip Garage EP82

Hi, welcome to another episode of I script Raj and here at the Minneapolis airport, a subscriber named Ken came up to me and said, Hi Derrick, how would you like my

1969

Chevelle shipped? And of course, I immediately said yes, his body fell. on the Internet and you have never seen it. I guess there are two of us now and of course it hasn't worked in 20 years. Brilliant. I checked the bag full of miscellaneous tools and there's an eighty-six point seven percent chance it won't work, but I have my backpack here. I have a pair of socks calling town shirt.

Toothbrush and a Waylon Jennings tape that seems like enough. I'm going to get on this plane here and fly from Minnesota to Pennsylvania. I'll try to get this car going and then I'll

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. 500

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to Kentucky and deliver it back, then catch another plane and shoot back home to Minnesota, this should be easy. I mean, there's a lot of room for error here, no, no, there's not a guy who just landed in Pittsburgh, this place has a city. of ghosts, I've only seen a couple people, I have to go see if my tools made it, probably not and then I rented like a Yugo or something and I have about a two hour

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to Altoona now I don't know anything, it's a town . two hours in the United States, well, a guy gave her an alley in a small town in central Pennsylvania, right there is what appears to be a really nice 69 Chevelle, the guys actually keep their distance here because she's got some shine and frankly I'm getting the I already have anxiety, how can you work on them when they're so bright?

But anyway, you bhadiya guys are probably thinking we're going to do something special here if you went all the way to Pennsylvania just to jump-start a car, especially if it's not even yours, but actually, not every car has a story to tell. , and this one has it too. It was grandma's car, unfortunately it's no longer with us and the grandson is tired of him sitting here, just rotting away, frankly, and wants to see him go. good use and go to a good house and that's where the new owner can come in and I'm going to get this thing working, put a little shine on it, hopefully, take it for one last spin and then hand it over to the new owner so she could enjoy it again.

What do you put on the side of the insects or how do you lean on them? Guys, you're pretty spoiled with this one. I have electricity. I have digital controls. I have this nice little living room in the back. I can just hang out and do whatever she wants and the car here, she even has keys. I mean, I don't want to touch the raft, but this could be pretty easy, it's a 307 car, not sure what trans, but we'll figure it out. In a minute they painted it, I think it had quarters, some other work and then it was quite stolen by the man Tynin.

He was parked at all three and has been here since we see what the license plate says. I think they received an inspection sticker. status: yes, only three, it has been sitting, the good thing is that it is on this concrete, so it is always better than sitting in the weeds or grass, let's remove this cover and see what it looks like. Elvis hairbrush, this is really cute. medium blue metallic, I think they called it, which is like paint code 52:53 I don't know, it's in the '50s 55 somewhere in there, well, here's an annual windshield sticker.

I think it's a state thing, not a park pass that says "old three us." I got a black vinyl honor and it seems to be in very good condition so far. It is in good condition. The rear looks good too. I was quite surprised. I didn't think there would be any rust problems here, but everyone says they have salt. They're as bad here as Minnesota, but obviously this thing was well cared for, it's been under old buildings. I mean, there's no evidence of rust so far. The new owner this morning put different tires and wheels on it because the others were just completely shot up, I didn't have any chance to drive it on it but I've never delved into it but this top looks great, back here it looks very Okay the chrome on the bumpers, maybe needs a little love, but that's a nice car door. the panels look new with no carpet or seat bolts the floors are there here you can see the replacement room or the skim you probably already know knock down right behind the thief there is no other the bottom is there Maybe I can just cut that base Malibu 78,000

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, has songs on it, it's the deluxe model, overall pretty good, a couple of cracks on the dash but it's not bad, the guy always likes to start on the body carrier, it just tells you a lot about the platform, esp.

If there are pieces missing, what do you have? Nothing. I have a spare. I just never saw the lack of weight reduction. They put a replacement tray in, but nothing. Oh, I may have rooms full. Otherwise you usually see that seam groaning. Up here, up there. There's that seam I was talking about so they rubbed it on both sides so he got a quarter drunk obviously painted a nice car there are no engine parts that's always a good sign if there could be a block here, you know, with heads, the rest. I'll find out, but I need at least that, please, please, oh, thank God, well, you've got the original lead.

I mean, this looks pretty good. The guy has no reason to believe this isn't the original 307. I don't see any evidence of a Craigslist rebuild, you know, no, I lost the receipts, all the factory extruders, oh yeah, there's a tunnel in a sticker that still respects the smallest battery cables I've ever seen press one more start late, oh my god, I wonder if he has any energy left. iffy Barry, some juice in there, that's good, you can see the body guy actually removed the fenders before spraying them, that's already hard to find, let's see what we've got under here, oh yeah, this looks pretty cool, that It's all I need.

Well, it's been a good start. I mean, everything a guy needs is here. You know, you know, for the first time in a long time, the guy could be heading east and down by dinnertime, except he technically needs to go west, but anyway, this isn't about a guy. team, so I have to do this differently today I have, you know, maybe I worry a little bit normally. I just put them out and see if there's a fire, but you know, based on the humidity around, I just saw a mosquito pass out. 15 A few minutes ago it's like Florida.

I'm not kidding. I'm going to assume there's some rust on the surface and then cylinders in there and all that, so I'm going to shoot some juice in there and let it soak in while I change. If we take the batteries out, we'll free it up a little and get things moving, maybe even increase the oil pressure a little, and then see if it pops. What do you think about this? Yes, I was reflecting on her and I didn't. I don't bring any hoses and I'm sure I'll have to figure it out because these are the May Pop hoses, you know, they made them in the '70s, they're not going to last at all and I have some plugs. and wires and we'll do the typical ignition stuff, but first let me put a key in there and Oh mom, she's got a solid, oh, there you go, turn.

I thought she might have a fan clutch, but she's direct. Oh she Drives 300 turns of the engine, we're in business, yeah, yeah, hello, hair, where did you go? I just saw you fly, yeah, ah, come on, well, sit back and watch them. I don't care, I can tell they have modified cylinder number one. On the old lightning rollers that shoot out to the sprue side, you usually want to line them up with the number one cylinder. I would come Chevy's is up front here, but I'm going to rip off all the new light hoses and then leave the one attached. when I put the new wires in I know exactly where to start and it

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be a piece of cake oh they're just sealed tight here yeah outside of there these look like threads don't they?

Yeah, yeah, hips, hips out, oh, there's blood Wow, this one has so much control Do you think I don't know? That didn't go as planned. I can not believe it. I'm already sweating. That is this? The weather around here. We are not that for you. Well, maybe we are, he's fine. I have the shiny ladders retained on the NHRA 300 folded offering and we have some issues to work out, they are all really contaminated with rich carbon with the exception of this one which is very lean so it is a very bad specific intake leak but it most likely a blown valve unfortunately, and this one is very suitable for oil, probably a stuck or faulty ring, unfortunately you get something similar when the valve seals break, but you really need a constant leak for it to be so stuck, so I mean, good news, we can make six of these cylinders fire like crazy, this new water displacement on the 40th attempt has the flex-a-lite rear juice nozzle, honor, they just bend it where they need it and what guys do any kind. of fluid management, whether it's something like this or ETF or whatever you use, you have to remember that these blocks are tilted, you have to try to recover them like that flight test and that way she runs through the Pistons, not just it keeps. getting a song, let's see a wheelie, then well, I guess in a guy's checkup on dinosaurs before he goes to town, he has a minute, I mean, he has some good enough viscosity left to try it and then Lo I

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change, the water pumps were changed to, actually, everything is rusted, so you have no paint.

An easy way to know what has been changed. Well, let's throw a battery in it, turn this thing around and blow. that wd-40 okay this is tangled up in this thing now Wow help me understand what this is like yes there is a very specific reason why I chose this drum set and if you are a fan of the channel you just said it out loud , has a golden handle. on it, plus it says "super start", that gives me some confidence, you know, wow, there's that cable again, it's back, you have to go up here and then get to this side, well, it's not cutting here like , yes, that seemed to do it.

Nothing, I think we're back, let's see the old litmus test, you just have to breathe them for a minute when you put a new battery in them. Well, clearly, I have allergies today. Oh my goodness, we got a new drum kit and a nasal trumpet, yeah, well. put on a cape and see if the starter motor works and what a good spin we give its legs. I'm stuck under the headlights, no guys, legs just don't fit without tilt, well we have lights, let's check this right now, nothing good. she's cranking, we've got a lot of crank, you probably can't see the fan turning up there, but we've got a lot of crank, äj-- the starter motor works, so let's run some shiny new Durand wires, internal breaking news.

Niagara Falls has been relocated, it is currently running out of stock. the guy in the back wants to plug AC Delco plugs into a Jeb whenever possible, otherwise it's like riding a horse with shaved hair, it's just ridiculous. I use it in ten hundredths per hundred cubes, so I'll leave them separated for tickling. Over 30, yeah, you can see where that juice shot up on the fenders here and there, and that's what a guy tries to avoid when using that etf; otherwise it looks like a scene from Tales from the Crypt under the car you know everywhere.

In this region, guys have to start thinking about a fuel plan. I'm definitely going to shoot some jerry can. I got it marked that way, the fuel gauge said half a tank, so I gave it the old jiggle jiggle shake jiggle, are you sure? enough, I can hear it sloshing, of course, that gas will be like a stain on the deck from the 80's, that's what I'm not going to do 500 miles even in a boat tank. I mean, I would stop every 80 miles or whatever. Math, I would stop a lot, is what I'm saying, so maybe I have to use 97 fuel filters, pour some good gas into this thing and start mixing it and hopefully put enough premium in, you know, take it out, let's see.

What does the lightning worm have to tell us? Hello, what are you saying? Oh, this is to say, I was replaced not long ago, Derek, this seems a little irregular. Points could even be built. I have the storm ignition levers connected. the engine turned perfectly or if I turn on the fan here we will see the open and closed points and we should listen and maybe even see the spark there hear that Shh listen she doesn't listen so she has spark so I'm going to try to save her money for a guy he will leave the points.

I'm just going to take my knife, scrape the end off, put the cap back on and then we'll put new lightning hoses on it and see if we can get her to shoot. that guy will probably end up with one eighty four three six five seven two on my tombstone it's actually a really good idea for someone to write that longer Irish mean longer than less longer than medium that's how a guy likes to make my hoses , as? make your own, you should repeat it in the comment, it's just curious, mark the cover or tear them all off, make themone at a time or how do you do the cables now that it's done, we'll move on to the fuel. here and I think we'll just cut a piece of hose and run it right into a canister here and I'm not even going to put a filter on it yet because I know it's good gas and then we'll see if it fires. of that and then we have to solve this fuel tank.

Only I don't have anything to drain at the end. I wish I had maybe I could go look for something. I don't know. I didn't want to check the fuel situation, so I cut this off and we had a geyser like Yosemite and I took the filter and I equipped it, we have fuel coming in here, so I'm about eighty-seven point nine six percent sure the needle is going. jam. I want to wear my Tonya Harding. and just coax or about that according to the specs there and we'll see if we can start making the squirter work instead of pulling things down, you know, one guy brought a digital pump, just in cases where he could go around Walley's world and just grab another five gallon jug, although there's probably more in it, maybe I'll have to get it twice and then, like you know, pump it into that. and then refill or back up with the jugs I just bought, it's not a very cheap process, but that would give us fresh gasoline from the beginning.

You know, I usually mix a little bit of two-stroke oil into my gasoline when I'm trying to bottle. -feed them that way she doesn't run me I didn't spend a whole day washing and lowering the cylinders I'll be submerged if my left didn't get hooked on this I don't remember what my right eye was doing, but anyway this is 40 to 1, she's already mixed and she's got two high octane and she's got no corn, so I'm going to try to feed this vent up to here and now we're just going to splash. a little in the throat which should be enough to start a fire, well one guy decided to go ahead and dump 58 pounds of dirt on his eyelid, but I managed to get my I'm alone with the 6000 trigger attached and these come in handy.

I'm getting a little nervous because the last '69 Chevelle rescue I did, she fought me until the last minute on the last day, but here we go, 17 years goodbye. I think she made a little more juice, she tries to get more through the vent. The thing is going to work, bring on the Thunder, come on, it's hot in the fire. What do you want? Less strangling. I don't know, more strangling. You probably don't need more juice. Well, I'll give you a little more than we have at stage 9 smoking. Here I mean that's getting pretty bad. What I'll be hearing when this fire goes out is that we're going to have some valvetrain noise and that's normal until these hydraulic lifters pump, but we want to hear any background noise if it sounds like a B&E in progress we have to turn it off. maybe I flooded it now let me take some laughing gas come on now don't do it right, you're stopping my little devilish stream, you're starting to work, that's good news, sometimes I just have to rebuild them, okay, come on, oh oh, the starter is not happy, try the key, yes, now I have to jump on my knees and tickle the starter.

Duncan, a tickle to tickle train four or five, let's go with eleven, that seems about right. I do not do it. I don't hear any knocking, stop playing. Beltrán is chattering as normal as possible. I'll be submerged 17 years sitting here idling sitting here idling like I never took a nap in the first place, a little valve train chatter, but we'll fix it with an oil. changing her runtime sounds pretty cool, she's smoking aggressively, but we hope those rings work. I think we'll wait and see what happens there. I'm going to let it run maybe a minute or two more on this fresh gas and I'm going to turn it off and drain the oil, it's probably hard to see, but it's got 48 gallons full of smoke in here.

I have to let her breathe a little. I want this to cool too before I spill the oil and burn my face and have to go get it. a belt, a couple jugs of gas anyway and then we'll move on to probably the transmission, see if the gear selector works. I checked the fluid before shooting. You don't want them to dry out. I will burn the bomb. in the blink of an eye and then the least and last thing to worry about is the brakes, you don't really need dolls, they're just pretty convenient, well I could tell you about central Pennsylvania, to the extent that there is a store of chainsaws every 200 yards, most companies have wolves. or note the name and I just saw a guy order tacos on a four wheeler through the drive thru so basically I'm liking it I think I'm fitting in well let's do this oil change the flutes of music must have been played.

Yeah, just before I parked, you look pretty good, there's a Fram filter up there, this thing was taken care of there, well, it's still hot, that's good, upper ball joint, one shot, Tyrod seemed fine behind it, he was flying, I have a leak, I'm a while and The cover will keep your eyes watching that leak in the power steering. I mean, everything else is you know it's good enough. I look pretty good. I didn't cut the filter open, but I didn't see any metal shavings, they are ten millimeter casings. I'm going to throw in this hotel a 1540 diesel oil, this Camden asuras flat pusher and vitamins that we can get and this will do that and I put a wick filter in there.

I want this thing to turn on again later idle basically while that racer let me there heat up these head gaskets again to see if we have any cooling problems and then all the oil gaskets see what's leaking first. I had a platform on a small fuel system here. I used a boat primer. I removed the fuel from the tank. and then I put this branch of Eatle with a little bit of clicking on Clocky here and then I connected it, you know, the purple wire for positive and then the purple wire for negative, that makes sense and I want it to be working when I do this because this is The only battery I have and I don't want to run this pump and drain the battery, so while it's running and pulling new fuel out of this jug, I'll actually be taking the bad fuel out and dumping it into that jug and then I'll be able to put some back in. of new fuel here and also all this is happening.

I'll double check the transmission level there and maybe even put in a little bit of snake oil and then we'll test the gears here in a little bit by the way, this is some of the gas that I took out of the whole tank and it's nasty, okay , let's get her shot again, the fun is really good, then activate the clicky clack bomb, I have no idea if that feel good thing works, she says she has a tingle beyond the middle of the editing spot on the temperer doll late in the - wait, but more exactly, I don't have it full of vomit, that feels good, but I think it's okay, my bad gas delegate stolle, I'm going to change that. you know, and I'm almost out of good gas, so now I'm going to move it to the side, fill it with good gas, and then I'm going to put a filter in here and see if it can get the transmission out of the tank. it showed up a little low, but I had it on a slope so it's probably fine, but I'm still going to put some of this in there and rebuild the transmission since we've come this far to get deeper sound and better and better radiators.

That nine D thermostat opens up so it's cooling and I had it go down all the cylinders, they all have a door knocking there so now I think I'm going to tune the carburetor a little bit, we know that from reading the spark plugs before and she was running very tasty and good, basically my eyes are burning so I can confirm that these

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s could be a pain to put fuel in unless you are at the pump with the old nozzle. Later I have a funnel here, but I just don't have the angle I need, so I screwed this hose onto my gas can.

This will work fine and then I'll turn it into an upper radiator hose here in a minute. Some people say I'm a bit old school, not too much and honest by ear and then a fydd doesn't sound right to me. I'll hook up the back can to measure after that I have my turns here and we'll take it to the other side. I have a vacuum leak. Too many turns, let me sniff for a vacuum leak and then we'll try again. Well, I figured out it was a vacuum line cutting into the old air purifier disc and threw in a 5/32 allen wrench. and turn that off on the right so let's try again so the left screw was originally supposed to be five and six turns and the right side screw was only one turn so that's why the engine was doing this and it also had dirty spark plugs so I turn the key now.

It should work fine, yes, a thousand times better. Oh, beef tips, yeah, look, now I have to put that Idol down. I'm not even going to put the vacuum gauge on it. I know it's true, some of that smoke from before was from that premixed fuel. I was fucking her, but not all of it, because she's still sitting there smoking, so I'll give her an Italian fit. A couple cans of barium and vitamin B12. This is great. Clean the valves, combustion chamber and me. I've even released sticky rings, so I like to throw it straight down the throat.

Now I wanted to move south, it's so hot it's like breathing fire and you know, I wonder if a guy can just shoot the rear end up on jack stands and then I'll just crank it up into gear to see if the transmission spins the tires, what do we have here for a low driving taste, so it's a power slide to accelerate? Okay, I'll do that, let's do it. Oh every time my leg is just tied here oh here we go metric hey Bob Liz I think I'm going to skip this time the battery cable tight here we go different approach in reverse I hear things moving and it just doesn't sound very hot Ouch , drive, oh yes, most! of the letters sit like this, do their thing, she has an open difference, well, it's finally that time, check the break, I got like nine percent great, you hear any fluid shoot out, so well doer, is there anything on the front? been in this position a hundred Sometimes I'm just going to drop a little juice in there.

I really should bleed the brakes, so I'm going to do the right thing and not do that, and this is why I'm just going to remove the bleeders and then do the wheel cylinders. on the wheel cylinders, I'm going to tear the brake lines because those arrested then I'm going to patch the brake lines on the center line and if I'm lucky, that T-joint won't rot so I'll just have to take what I can get and get on with it she's full let's see what we got yeah hey it's a problem running okay the front brakes do 70 percent of the stopping anyway well I guess the guy's gonna go ahead and take his gasoline funnel. and turning it into a top radiation hose is now easier to do here than on the Blue Ridge side of the mountains.

I went ahead and replaced that too, replaced that belt while I was there and then worked on it too. on that water pump a little bit and the snow has a wild aligner, but it still doesn't come out of that hole, so I'm just going to run that one. I think this is pretty buttoned up and I'll put an air filter in it. It was last minute, but we're good here, we have about forty-nine percent brakes, it's changing gears, so I think it's time to turn the wheel bearings, learn my lesson on that a couple of times and it's not fun to do it on the side of the road and it seems like with these bodies you go through the bearings very quickly and then you're on the axle, then you're doing a complete axle replacement and that's not good, so I'll bring it up and just take all of this out quickly and inspect them and maybe repackage them quickly.

Hopefully they'll be okay because I don't have any guidance with me and well, it's getting pretty late. I think the parts store has been closed for a long time. Well, the good news is that I can. Tell him someone's been here before because he hit like a taxi and screamed or I'm out of dust cap so I gotta take all this off come on let's go this way there you go so put all this on and give it a whirl there a lot grease cotter pin looks pretty new Cotter Cotter nail I don't know I think I'm getting tired What are they called?

Put it there in the comments. Straighten me up. I have to get this out of here without breaking it because I don't have one of these either, I should probably make some red eggs or something, but there's a lot of dirt and stuff in here. I think we can clean this up and make it a little better. New, I'll be immersed, oh, that explains it. I just can't believe it. I guess I did. I'm looking at it guys, it was pretty good luck here. They may not be able to see it, but. We're still in that race so that's new and then I found out here, this wheel cylinder looks new so someone put it in and probably the brake shoes.

Yeah, while you're on your miles, we'll put the bearings in, so this. It's all good, well, I'm going to clean these bearings. I mean, that's pretty bad. clean them,fantastic last few days, tears of joy, laughter, I even snuck in a hug with mom, it's been so much fun and this is exactly what I feel like I should keep doing, so thank you all for watching. I hope you enjoyed the adventure a lot if you are not subscribed. I'd appreciate it and I'll also touch on that little bail thing down there. See you next time? You know what?

These are the tires, they stay a long time, get out of here, smoke.