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finally had some time work on it...spent a few hours on it over the last couple of days.
the car has been sitting since 1983 in the desert. every piece of rubber is completely dry. the engine was not seized, so I drained and replaced the oil. I removed the carb, and gave it good cleaning. ran over to pepboys and bought a new coil and spark plugs, and grabbed a spare set of plug wires I had laying in the garage.
I removed the starter and cleaned the contacts on it....checking the operation of it, of course. the starter worked. I checked the compression on all of the cylinders....good.
anyway, after about 2 hours of monkeying around with it, I shot some ether down the carb, cranked it over, and sure enough, it fired up and ran on starting fluid.... time to dig in some more...
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-mike
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