Hello my name is Paul, I recently bought my 1961 Tbird, 3 month ago, did some cleaning to interior and engine bay, want to make it start, still no luck.
The car is in really fair shape, it didn't run since 1988, the tag says so, got it real cheap, no rust, accept battery tray, the car is 95% complete.
It used to have so many owners, whos start to work on this car but fails, I want to finish it.
That is also so many new parts that I find in the trunk, newer was installed, just right amount to make it runs and drives.
I can't start the engine, it spins by the starter but not firing up, start to dig deeper, open the upper case of the carburetor, and find a tons of black gunk, all the jets are clogged, now I am at the middle of rebuilding of the curb.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUrP_kTbMXs
Remove the old spark plugs, also black gunk on them, made some compression test, 4 cylinders have around 100psi, 2 have 30psi, 1 has 60 psi, and 1 has 10 psi(that upset me so much), pure some oil into cylinder with low compression, no improvement means bad valves?
Also cooling system full of rust, freeze plugs are completely rusted out, no brakes and so on.
Questions:
1.How do you remove the gunk out of your carb, try to soak in diesel, with added seafoam, but still cant remove it completely.
2. Will it starts with such a low compression(took the measurements on stone cold engine)
3. Can compression be improved if I make it running( it was seating for 20 years)
4. How engine need to be adjusted to work better with the unleaded fuel, or I need any way to follow original specs(timing, spark plug gap, valve clearance)to avoid this http://squarebirds.org/images_FE-valves/index.htm.
5 Is any special fluid has to be used to fix the lack of lead in fuel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKxYtOy5nyU
6. Can I adjust the valves to get the compression in the bad cylinder.
7. Can I change the 6 of the freeze plugs, without removing the engine, I see 2 of them covered by the motor mounts.
I try to do 100% of work by myself, and keep it budget project as much as possible , I fix a ton of modern cars with fuel injection, but never work on classic cars, time to learn something new to me.
Sorry for my English, originally I am from Ukraine.
Thank you, for your help.
The car is in really fair shape, it didn't run since 1988, the tag says so, got it real cheap, no rust, accept battery tray, the car is 95% complete.
It used to have so many owners, whos start to work on this car but fails, I want to finish it.
That is also so many new parts that I find in the trunk, newer was installed, just right amount to make it runs and drives.
I can't start the engine, it spins by the starter but not firing up, start to dig deeper, open the upper case of the carburetor, and find a tons of black gunk, all the jets are clogged, now I am at the middle of rebuilding of the curb.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUrP_kTbMXs
Remove the old spark plugs, also black gunk on them, made some compression test, 4 cylinders have around 100psi, 2 have 30psi, 1 has 60 psi, and 1 has 10 psi(that upset me so much), pure some oil into cylinder with low compression, no improvement means bad valves?
Also cooling system full of rust, freeze plugs are completely rusted out, no brakes and so on.
Questions:
1.How do you remove the gunk out of your carb, try to soak in diesel, with added seafoam, but still cant remove it completely.
2. Will it starts with such a low compression(took the measurements on stone cold engine)
3. Can compression be improved if I make it running( it was seating for 20 years)
4. How engine need to be adjusted to work better with the unleaded fuel, or I need any way to follow original specs(timing, spark plug gap, valve clearance)to avoid this http://squarebirds.org/images_FE-valves/index.htm.
5 Is any special fluid has to be used to fix the lack of lead in fuel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKxYtOy5nyU
6. Can I adjust the valves to get the compression in the bad cylinder.
7. Can I change the 6 of the freeze plugs, without removing the engine, I see 2 of them covered by the motor mounts.
I try to do 100% of work by myself, and keep it budget project as much as possible , I fix a ton of modern cars with fuel injection, but never work on classic cars, time to learn something new to me.
Sorry for my English, originally I am from Ukraine.
Thank you, for your help.
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