Abandoned_F250_Revival_First_Start_in_26_Years_Part_4_1e5He30L_s0_135.mp4

All right, let's see if she runs any better. Better? Still not right. I don't think we have a clutch. Why do I have this job? I don't know. Today is the day this truck drives out of its grave. This is what you guys have been waiting for and it's finally here. We're going to start off by airing up the tires and then see one last time we can get that clutch freed up and then explain a couple other things that we discovered and freaking bring this thing back to life. Hopefully drive it out of here. See if it's leaking. I don't think it is. I think it's actually taking air. All right, that's good Luke. Give her a kick. Boom! That's kind of what I would expect to happen. Yeah, we really only have a few more things to do. We obviously might try and make the clutch work, but you know some mice lived in there for a while and all their bedding and their nest is kind of packed into the clutch pack down there so you really can't move it around. Plus with them living in there there's a lot of moisture and everything rusted up pretty good where normally you wouldn't have that. So we'll try and dig some of that out today and see if we can get a working clutch. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm hoping. So you know I've been gone here, but basically you know you work things over, rewired some stuff. Some idiot set the point gap not quite right. This guy. So in hopes that I'd have more dwell, I had it too close together and it was jumping the gap instead of going through the plug wire. And that wasn't entirely our problem too. We have discovered while we were working on it here when the camera was dead the other day that the ignition or the timing chain is junk. Yeah we can turn that crank a good what 20 degrees before the distributor moves either direction at all. Even more than that and basically what you have going on there is it just creates a situation where you have late valve timing. So that's why that's why we need so much fuel to run is it's not the piston or the valve's not open the whole time the piston's going down so it doesn't have the proper vacuum signal. Yeah really your valve events aren't at the right time. So it's just filling the intake full of fuel and then it's able to run. That's kind of our band-aid. Yeah we it'll idle with the choke on so but basically with late valve timing again your valves aren't opening and closing at the right time so you're bleeding off a lot of compression and that's why we had super low manifold vacuum which we'll show that again today just how low that was which creates a whole host of problems with tuning where you're getting into your power valve and a whole bunch of other stuff. So a quick test you can do to determine the wear of your timing chain which you can do on any engine is you can turn the crank and if it takes you you know some amount of rotation here until your distributor starts your rotor starts turning your distributor you know that's just kind of about how much play you have in your timing chain and it's a good representation of how much wear you have. Now if just install a timing chain if you were to do this on a fresh chain as soon as I turn this crank my rotor would turn because my valve train is connected to my crank by that timing chain so the amount of movement we have here before our rotor turns is the amount of play that's in that chain again. So on this engine it's pretty extreme we can get quite a bit of rotation in there before that rotor wants to move so we go all the way and then it just starts to think about rotating there. So this timing chain is pretty worn out and again that might be the worst one I've ever actually seen and it could have even you know jumped a tooth at this point. So yeah I think that's definitely our idling issue. Oh yeah definitely our idling and our tuning issue I think our carburetion. I was moving that distributor all over and nothing was happening. Yeah it's pretty darn near impossible to set ignition timing when it's off let alone when it's this bad so yeah everything gets parked for a reason I guess and with how this would run in that scenario just there's no way it would have ran right and I'm sure you know that's why Ron he ended up parking the thing something to do with that that's pretty aggressive and there's there's just no way it would have ran right. All right so I'm gonna work on a fuel system while you mess around with the clutch a little bit and then we'll see where we can go from there. Yeah it should be fun it rained all last night. Oh it poured yesterday. Torrential downpour so everything's nice and muddy all the oil that was dry on the engine is now not so much dry and you get kind of covered with it so. All right so Luke's still down there plugging away at the clutch trying to get some of that crap out there see if we can get it freed up. I've gone ahead and with my masterful zip tie skills secured a gas tank in there and then secured the hose even into the gas tank so we have a fuel system we have a coolant system that surprisingly even through the whole weekend now has held water it didn't leak the duct tape worked we have a charging system and we have a battery used a piece of wire that was on here originally to hold down this side and once again good old classic zip ties hold down this side and that's not going too far. I'm not gonna say it's not going anywhere because I could be wrong. All right so what we got going on here is basically I think our old throw-out bearing is good and seized onto the shaft of the tranny we got this ratchet strap on here and I've tried just about everything and it's pretty rusted up or it's not gonna move so maybe as we move it around move the vehicle around maybe it'll free up but basically there's a shaft on the tranny that's going to go through this hole in the throw-out bearing and it's completely seized onto it where it won't slide back and forth whatsoever even with all this tension and putting the clutch pedal on it and everything so I don't think we're going to have a clutch at least initially I've done everything within my power here so that's pretty much that all right this is it this is the moment this truck drives out of its grave you ever think that we're stupid all the time all right towards you and uh reverse me out of the hole are you ready we're gonna go for it two pumps choke go you got the choke on yep I'm gonna do it again we almost drove out of the hole we kind of I can't get out how do we get out of this thing you're gonna ******* rip your asshole open oh I grabbed the glass in the back okay all right so it kind of ran out of its hole more of a depressing roll and then we got locked inside do you have carb cleaner yeah let's push it all the way back I'm gonna take that air breather off because it seems to affect it when we put it on yo there is also the option of jacking it up dropping the jack and burning out I like that better all right so roll starting it was not really working so we're going to do something even more dangerous and stupid pretty much yeah you want to reveal to the populace what exactly we're going to do all right so roll starting it does not work it's the engine's just not strong enough for the bad timing chain to really fire off and we got to go uphill so that doesn't really work yeah so what we're gonna do a much better idea clearly safer yes I've gone ahead and ripped the back piece out here so they can climb in without gouging my hand open any more than it already is what I'm gonna do is Luke's gonna fire it up get the tires spinning and we're gonna drop it on the ground and I'm gonna jump in and probably die or maybe just run after him and follow him I don't know yeah we're just gonna make it up as we go I'll see how fast you go if it's too fast I'm just gonna walk out behind you yeah let's hope I can get it nice and slowed down we'll see all right contact all right ready count from five three two one go all right round two fire it up first gear hold it decent throttle I'm feeling really good about the gas being right in front of me you're fine that's fine kind of okay here we go and then go for it 26 years cool now we're gonna walk that part today on junkyard digs we go for a run after a truck that left me behind quarter mile sprint yeah oh that was really sketchy but it did it I just sprinted like quarter mile dude hey the heater core is leaking this is oh yeah I feel like I end up climbing out of windows you know the doors work oh what fun is that a lot more I feel like I'm inhaling cancer right now I cracked a few jokes about you running I ran a long ways at a full sprint I was like quarter mile imagine what you could do if you actually had a clutch decent tires and uh if we had windows clutch and brakes we'd drive this into 26 years this sat abandoned for 26 years and we drove it out of its grave and down there we put a mile on it with junk we didn't we really didn't do anything but throw some battery cables on it we probably didn't even need plugs and wires but well we really didn't it was the dwell was off yeah just seemed like the thing to do but I mean you had a timing chain in this thing a clutch in this thing and work the brakes over and you could have drove into town but yeah literally yeah 26 years seems like it's got plenty of power if you tow into it yet so imagine if the engine was all up to snuff oh my god it'd be amazing yeah and it's pretty solid honestly that's the whole reason I bought it so if anyone wants to buy a truck there you go I mean most people probably just trailered it home but which is what we're gonna do but we couldn't just leave it there no we I mean why wouldn't you just do what we did yeah that was awesome we spent three days really only needed two we really didn't even spend two cold days maybe like six hours total hey it was awesome hey we survived we did it not the smartest thing we've ever done but how many people say I did that not the smartest but one of the coolest I enjoyed it that was awesome what else am I gonna do with my time what time you're not wrong well I'm going home see ya yeah I'll see you around man I'm gonna go sleep in my uh little kid's house yeah well maybe I don't know how big is it how many beds well I usually keep my pet raccoon in there but I can move them out you think so yeah well we'll be seeing you okay I'll see you around man I'm just gonna get my truck and drive home there it is we actually did it we succeeded entirely at driving this thing out of its grave and it was completely safe it was yeah that this thing sat for 26 years windows busted out hood open on an abandoned farm here in rural Iowa middle of nowhere there's a cornfield right there if you guys have any barn finds in your area I suggest you do the same because this was a lot of fun yeah yeah like really it only took us both together six hours to do the thing so yeah it took a couple six hour days and we were good to go the old carburetted stuff super simple you know you turn a few wrenches and you can drive down the road less to fail it's just that easy make sure you follow junkyard days on instagram and youtube subscribe here like his channel thunderhead 289 link in the description gonna be a lot more stuff like this coming out soon got a datsun got a fiat stuff's been sitting for 10 30 years you got a lot of resurrection stuff a lot of resurrection stuff a lot of cool stuff the f100 even gets finished here believe it or not you just need to get your videos made yeah i just gotta get videos made i'm heading overseas here in a little bit for a year gonna be a little bit dry spell right at the end i'll try to space them out for you guys make sure you subscribe below check out his channel like i mentioned follow me on instagram whatever you gotta do make sure you get it done i will see you guys next time on junkyard digs peace