1971 GMC 9500 started after 26 years Now will it drive 1767 Miles (I make BAD choices) (PT1)

foreigner I wouldn't call this spectacular, but it's some of my best pool noodles running like seven trucks in the ditch here at The Last Mile, this guy just opened his door, so I'm thinking about that one, that one just happened now same. Yeah, he's just piling up and sifting through the rubble, that's bad business, I bet he's not happy. Well, as you can see in the mirror, we have had a sad ending. County, we can say it louder, let's do this. Yes, so where is your country? Life has been, uh, I've been busy, I've been, I have to work the day job too, you know, uh, so I could probably show you a little shot of the video, but here's the interesting thing that we went to do and it's going to start. with this. we got it from eastern Washington, it had been on a defunct watermelon farm for 20

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, you guys can see it's a pretty clean truck, right, right, I'll show you I've had it good, the starts are a lot of fun, right ?

The reason we're not going to do that,

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it start with this thing? I'll show you right now for demonstration purposes, right, sorry, I'm going to grab the manifold, it's really cold, okay, so, ice cream, listen to your audio. In mind, the inside is covered with a thousand

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of dust, so that's it, you saw it. I wanted to do it. Begin to? I put fuel in the fuel filter. I checked the rack for a second. I played the key and However, this thing is so out of tune that it runs on about 100 horsepower and what we've done is install a hitch which I guess I could have made a video on, but this is coming back to Wisconsin here in a couple of weeks and I'll share with you the video and it

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bring our little hunting camp with it it will just bring our little outdoor farm camp with it so I will update you as we progress overseas thank you we have one loose you have one loose yes no Do you think the valve cover has ever been removed?

It has to have been because it's so fun to take it off, but it has to have been taken off at least once. Because? Why would you remove the valve cover from this engine in this truck? I have no idea, call me a picture, that's how you know it's never been an office because all the paint on the knobs, yeah, if it was taken off, it wasn't cool by a long shot because Seeing there's no Jake in there doesn't mean we don't have to take it off either. the cap every week to fix the Jeep wash, come on baby, give up Yes, this valve cover gasket is a lump of carbon that has now been in our pee while we Well, come on, maybe this is unpleasant, so which I'm going to leave this here for the moment, nothing obviously strange, nothing obviously strange, yeah, I might as well check out the Rockers before I get too far, it seems pretty normal, nothing like that, so you're just. checking to see if the rocker pins are out, uh, yeah, because that gives you an idea of ​​the condition of the engine and the hours and all that, let's see if it had been rebuilt shit like any other, each rocker arm would be a different experience because rebuilt things.

It doesn't have the same hole in the wall because it will hang there, so what are you doing? You're taking the. I'm running at high speed and then I'm going to release the idle screw. Nice beach foot adjustment, this will ensure that it doesn't go smooth on us later, we probably picked it up at 200, it'll probably turn 25, now what do you want it to turn to where it doesn't blow up at all, so the idle adjustment? you can screw it down enough that it interferes with the gap in the regulator so what you do is take the idle plunger and push it in and

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sure it still has a gap and when you push the high speed plunger back and once that works, you can adjust it up to that point, you have to check it every time you put the little springs in them, these are the light springs because they become a problem and it will be done, yes, you have to take that and move it. because it's on the road again, I see that looks good right there.

Governor Gap is still horrible in ways you can tell because it's too lazy, no, it goes out and stops and you could double that Y2K indicator about 15 times, okay? let's see if we can do this without taking away from setting the nose gauge, if the injectors are halfway, they actually work well that way because you can especially and if you put the grille on correctly, you're just setting and Sorry, what did you put ? Would you say you're saying that too? 14.90, which is about 5,000, so what it's supposed to be and

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it slow so we can start it in the winter.

You can make it easier. One of my brothers drove one of these and I tuned it and set it where it was supposed to be, oh my gosh you should have heard him cry, just what

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out with no power, does this, does that and I go hey I put it where It's supposed to be. I didn't say it was okay, I didn't say it was okay and I didn't say you were going to like it, well it's like this is the first guy, well you can imagine your first big critic will be one of your relationships this late at night the tune up is gone uh it sounds good it's purring good uh Joe is underneath putting on the brakes right now uh obviously I have some electrical things to fix and then we're going to get them home so uh just giving you guys a quick update on what is happening Greetings, well the sun is catching me, so this is what I'm into right now, I'm going to get there, it's this impossible dust on this thing, yes, throw the oil out of the ruins, this to make sure.

We didn't have any big offensive chunks and we didn't pump it all the way through the power divider until it comes out the hole which isn't going to work. I have to twist a rope hmm, even easier if we could have done that. no all the other screws are like on the outside except this one ok well the good news is the seats the bad news is this is not going to work I'm on the roof with the seat all the way down so a lot for comfortable travel uh back to the drawing board on that one yeah so you can see the base isn't quite aligned the seat is too far forward hey yeah yeah that was a good idea but I realized that if I can achieve this.

To click here, the torsion bar is not secure, it's hard to get this to click, the torsion bar is not necessarily broken and it may be in this seat, but as you can see, remove my big meaty palm from the way, the adjusters turn. It's not, it's not sitting there like it should look, there's a little closure there that it's supposed to be on. I wouldn't call this spectacular, but it's some of my best overseas pool noodle work. adventure, I've mentioned that I have little doubt about the outcome here, listen, I know we're safe, we've checked all the wheel bearings, differentials, brakes, engine transmission, right, that's just some of the other things, it's a little sketch, okay, okay.

Well, here it's around the maximum Cobble, but I guess I can show you this, so we have these little heater vents for the defroster and I had to rebuild the heater fan. I didn't really show it to him because it's self-explanatory. just take the blower off and uh, take it apart, clean it, put it back together, works fine, check the brushes, but the little hoses in there, which of course I went to like three stores to try to find a two-way hose inches, there is no such deal, so I had to do it on a dryer hose by cutting it and then putting some duct tape on it, so yeah, when I looked on the dash, the heater was just a wire in there, the fabric was gone, so this is what I love.

You know it's like you look at how it starts, yeah you can make them run like you want to

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it, that's a different story you know, so we'll just keep working on this and hopefully this will get us on the road, right? Well, he probably killed my life so you guys could see. It's eight at night, it's 30 degrees and we're doing an oil change. I'll probably give them a well. I'm down here. I'll give you an Update on everything we're seeing with this beautiful girl, okay, for some inexplicable reason and she had a hole in the exhaust that we had to do our best to solder.

She's got some leaks, as you can see, and I'm going to move. Up here, it's definitely drained the oil already, but it's spitting oil out of the blower, which could be blower seals, and oil is coming out freely, where are they there, the air box drain when idling? So, Mr. Joe and I had a slight debate. but he thinks flying out of there is a lot of it, so Mr. Joe's opinion of turning my headlight back on here is that that's because they put the wrong oil in here and let it idle too much now, my adventure current as you can.

Look, it's removing this filter, which I have loose now, but I will tell you that it was a colossal operation, yet it is a kind of two-handed operation. The old man, uh, cut a hole in that trick and used a screw

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r, it didn't work well. I need two. hands, so you hear it like a trot like that, it's because we have a long and incorrect idle return spring, but what I wanted to show is that the battery was dying and this thing like I said, is the reason we did it. I didn't do the Willing jump start because the Dagon just came to life, uh, but the battery was a little low, so I just wanted to do the old voltmeter test to make sure we're in good shape with the alternator.

It's turning off 13 and going up, so I feel good because the altar I feel it, I feel good because the alternator is good, trying to figure out what I'm going to do with this chair, so I still have the spine when I get back to the farm um, Let's assume I'm not in jail or worse, but uh, yeah, as it warms up, you can see the idle goes down, so listen, this sounds pretty good, we just purr, uh, we juice the butts , so listen, I think we are. preparing quite a bit for Anna. I'm going to start thinking about how to get it going.

No, she does not. You know we are traveling by truck through the mountains. I'll show you my setup here in a moment, but I'll give you just a couple. minutes of Jimmy's transmission, if we're turning the one at about 2200, we're doing right at about 60. So we've done about 1776

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, about 40, we've topped off with fuel, right at dusk, the headlights are working on the cabin. lights or non-directional or not, but we're going to move on, uh, try to put like five six hours in the night and then we'll turn it on until the morning, still wait, we should work and then drive again tomorrow night.

We'll get there when we get there, see you in a moment, give you some updates, what do you have? We have crossed our first snowy pass at Mountain Pass. The road is a little wet, but not bad. I'm just going to try. Follow this fence trying to follow this patch in clear air back to Wisconsin. A lot of reviews about the headphones, so this comes in a one year and two year version. There is a one year old piece that I can remove. I just forgot. to bring it with me right now, I'm running into one of your version, yeah, so we haven't gone too far and to be honest with you, I felt like the lights were getting pretty dim, so I stopped. and get to the rest stop and when I tried to get going again, the truck did the old click, click, click.