Will It Run 1959 Cadillac Sedan DeVille A Turnin Rust Extra

Join in and follow along as they continue their quest of saving rusty relics. Giving the past a future while serving God and building rods. Here at Turning Rocks brought to you in part by Maxxed Trailers. So a little while on back you guys might remember us perching this 1959 Cadillac. We bought the car sight unseen and don't know a whole lot about it. The weather's been really rainy really nasty around here so we haven't had a chance to get in and shop and work on it yet. So right now we had a real pretty day we're going to dig into this thing and see what we got. The previous owner had told us that this car was a running and driving car right before they parked it. The reasoning of parking it was a lot of wires that caught fire up underneath this thing and as I'm looking around we can tell this is a major issue there's a lot of melted wires up underneath here. Not sure if it was an electrical issue that caused it or maybe a backfire out of the carburetor that caught them on fire but there's a lot of stuff up underneath here that we're probably just going to go ahead and try to bypass just to see if we can get this car to crank up today. Basically all I'd like to do today is just hear the thing turn over and possibly try to crank up and idle if we can but most of these wires have been burned up so maybe we can just I don't even have a key to the car so we're gonna have to hot wire it just run a wire down to the starter or something. You don't think any of them those wires up here are gonna cause any problem though? No no we'll just bypass them we'll run the wire straight down from the cool to the battery just connect it and disconnect it when we need it to run or cut off and as long as it's not looks like it's not froze up so that's good. If you want to we'll get down there and try to connect the to the starter solenoid see if we can't get a wire ran up to the battery. Yeah because it's gonna be hard to reach down from above. Yeah let's check I'll grab some wire and start there I can't even see it though uh can you see my hand see the wire there yeah oh you're not near far enough yeah whatever this will work this is negative if you want just hook this up and then just touch that we'll make sure it's turning over and let me make sure it's not in gear all right we're good touch it over yeah turn it over yep now we should be able to just run a wire straight down from the cool over to the battery the same way that'll give us power to the cool I have to clean the points or something after it's been sitting for quite a while but yeah a little gas see what she does yeah I think we can use this wire out here it looks like it's in pretty good shape it's not burned up or melted or anything so yeah if it's long enough just run off of it straight to the positive posts there and I'll go ahead and well we can try to see if the points are firing but if they're not we'll pull the cap off and clean the points and go from there so all right we can get a little gas there's a little gas to our system we ran a wire just straight off the starter solenoid straight to the battery just to see if the car would turn over I knew it was turning over by hand didn't know if we had a good starter or not but the car turned over just fine dad found a wire that's coming off the cool here that looks like we'll be able to just run it straight to the battery pretty simple on these cars if you got the starter turning over you got a hot wire end to your cool and a little gas they should crank up if everything's right so that's what we're about to try out now got a little gas we're just going to prime it with hook those wires up and see if it'll sputter do something all right you got spark there cranked up too easy yeah so it does run I think maybe if we can get some fuel around to this thing see if we may have pulled the carburetor off obviously it doesn't look too healthy and clean it up but let's get some fuel around to it and see if it'll stay running a little longer than just priming it I don't know if that if that jug over there's got gas in it or yeah I'm gonna have to get a hose clamp off that that hose is too big you may want to put it up here okay on the back do the famous turn and rest of gravity feed the fuel into the carburetor little gas tank is I think it's made it into every episode after I say it's quite the many of vehicles for us I'm gonna grab some gas that'll be good enough I think that's good yeah should be ready yeah we're not squirting any gas yet I don't think we got enough gas yeah it should be good contact well I was not expecting this thing to crank up that easy I mean most of the time when these old vehicles set for a while it's just a known fact that you have to clean the points I did notice that they put a new set of wires on here at some point in time so I'm betting probably they replaced the points as well and that probably saved us that step but it's cranking up it's running it's idling I don't know how this carburetor looks terrible I'm going to try to throw it in gear and see if it'll move around there was a couple brakes that have been locked up on this car maybe they'll work their way loose but really happy we got it running today mark that off our list I don't have any brake pedal but it feels like the emergency brakes working so that's all you need I think I can limp it down there to the other shop yeah let's get that wire where it don't hit nothing all right with me I'm gonna go ahead and lock up this well this is the first time this car's moved under its own power and who knows how long it's burning off all the old oil that's been built up on it over time really happy that this thing cranked up and we were able to move it when we bought this thing I knew it had a lot of potential but actually hearing it run and moving down the road it just got me really fired up to move forward with this thing it needs some tires it's got a whole lot of shaking going on right now so we'll just mess with it more and more as we have time but really happy with the overall progress today thank you