ABANDONED Dodge Challenger Rescued After 35 Years Part 2 Engine Removal

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It's compact lightweight. You can take it anywhere with you so again link in the description Below discount code is McCool check it out, so the challenger's got two flat tires in the back and a locked up drum Let's fix that Show you my technique for busting up these old drum brakes when they're stuck so sing wouldn't wobble before Take a good old hammer There's dad Working loose now No pad and it spins stole the spare out of my 72 dark swing 15 by 6 maybe 195 60 15 so it's a baby tire So that has a sneaking suspicion that the keys have a chance of being in the trunk So what I'm doing right now take the back seat out and see what we can find Bet you build sheets under here No such luck guess we'll take the top of the back seat out now see if we can find something in it I've already taken the bolt out of here out of here. Let's give it a wiggle These are original seats the bags are still pretty nice There it is you see that There's the build sheet covered in spiders so back in the day whenever you would have a new car come down the assembly line You get a broadcast sheet and what this does it tells you all the different codes? That would come with your car so like say they have here's the time it was went down the assembly line you see time Tells you the fan code that it came with that's pretty cool tailpipes. What else the battery? Master cylinder, so it would tell you the code and what what it came with and whenever the code the number was That's what type it was so pretty neat to have all this information right here. I don't have the fender tag It actually rusted away, so I'm not going to touch this I just wanted to show you guys what a broadcast sheet looks like because another charger didn't have one But I want to show you guys that they are still in there. You can still find them There's a trunk lock mechanism see how the right and bolt is gone one of the left is still there About to take out the left one So far Got this ignition cylinder laying here So that's kind of weird one of our original hubcaps Had three in the car There's a fourth That's so weird that there's an ignition cylinder here though Still no keys Floor is pretty shot unfortunately But looking up from under the car the extensions are still pretty good Something weird about this car that was one of the only options that it came with besides the rally gauge cluster Was this rear window defroster? That's pretty rare especially around here. There's really no reason for it, but guy ordered it new and he wanted it so you can see Looks like it's all pretty much there. Just took one of the factory speaker holes, which is why it's got speakers up top, so pretty interesting To prevent this from happening again For the trunk so you can hang on to it if we get new keys. I'll be able to use it But that's okay, so now we can Disengage you with a screwdriver bolt it back on trunk a latch We'll do that later check out that factory color though Really pretty back in the day Rust in it. Oh Well Well the unfortunate part is I did not find the keys so What I've decided to do will pop the steering wheel off And we'll tear it down to the ignition lock cylinder And we'll just disengage it that way I can just kind of route the ignition switch outside of the column we can still activate it and We'll be able to steer the wheel That's really the biggest problem right now because I want to be able to make this thing to where it can roll that way I can push it in and out of the shop because it'll roll pretty easily it just Had those two wheels locked up and then steering column does not want to steer So that's what we're gonna. Do with this one. We'll just pop this up the steering wheel off and Interestingly enough These are a nice wheel and not my favorite. I've always been a fan of tough wheels, but this wheel is pretty nice So I'll probably hang on to it like it is I really want to leave a lot of this stuff Kind of the way the factory did it you know the best I can I kind of like the fact that it hasn't really been been touched There it is I want to put it back together quick if I can Check out what we can do now nice Now I'll be able to roll this thing in and out of the shop. No issues. We'll work on it when we can That's the biggest battle was to be able to have this thing move under its own power But at least I can move it under my power now All right, so what you see here is I mentioned in the last video if you haven't watched it go check it out It's in the top right right now. Anyway. This is a 318 2-barrel this is from what I understand the original engine. I highly doubt it's ever been touched and Unfortunately, we will not be able to make this thing start because of the lack of spin ability and by that I mean it will not spin over no matter how much pressure you put on the crank to make it turn over will not turn Filled up all the cylinders with automatic transmission fluid and Marvel mystery oil, and it's been sitting like that for a month still won't move so I really don't know what else to do besides pull it out And you could actually go through this engine and fix it But I've got so many 318s out in the barn that we could actually make this thing work the shame of it is Rockers look just about brand new you can see there. They look pretty much Untouched I mean, they're so clean they change the oil it looks like and I hate that that never survived It's just not gonna happen and we can reuse some stuff on it for sure I'm sure it's a low mile engine But the problem is we just don't have the capability to make this engine run the way it sits regardless It's really gonna have to come out if we actually want to keep this thing running safely You'd really need to pull it out. So what we'll do is go ahead and do that Like I said, I've got so many 318s we could replace it with and then whenever we pull this thing I'll actually let you guys take a look on the inside and we can find what the problem was Because I really don't think it's a stuck valve I have a really good feeling that it's a ring in the cylinder wall that just fused together And it's so bad that it just does not want to come out this thing sat under a tree for If it sat for that long 35 years, there's no telling what got down in the carburetor into the engine So it's just full of junk full of rust. So it's basically shot, unfortunately, but we can fix it nasty tiny radiator very tiny But it didn't trick Another pro tip keep your bolt box as little as possible Put any kind of bolt you can back where it came from like these Radiator bolts stick them right back in the door support. I know exactly where they are when I need them Check out the inside of the distributor cap see what kind of stories it can tell us Probably was never taken off Cap doesn't look too bad You guys take a look in there There it is Don't look bad. It's pretty clean on the inside Honestly, I bet it would have fired the Rotor button doesn't look too bad either But it doesn't want to come out It rotates freely though. So I don't think there would have been anything wrong with the distributor. So oh well, we've got a Decent used distributor we could probably take and put into something or we could you know Take it apart rebuild it and put it back in this thing save us a little money It's pretty easy when the wheels aren't stuck So this is only the mess that we made just to remove that engine most of its dirt and rust it just fell out of The car over the years of its sitting You can see here. This is the original engine and it is in fact a 318 And I can tell you the year of it and then it's actually an original engine Right there see it's a is it August of 72? So that would be a very early build for the 73 year model. So this is one of the first challengers for 73 and over here If I can get up in here, if it's not covered by the tire should be able to see 318 see it just right there You see that? 318 so it is in fact My best guess the original engine have no reason to think that why it wouldn't be anything else besides original and We've got some good parts here, but our clutch whoo, it's shot pressure plate looks pretty nasty. So There really wasn't any saving what was left. So I'm thinking what we might do is Flywheel for these is pretty expensive. So I might just resurface this one and I don't know. We may pull this engine apart and find something good with it You know, we might be able to reuse some a lot of good stuff on it But as of now, we're just gonna put it up and not touch it I've got a lot of 318s in the barn that we can go through and actually have something that doesn't need a lot of work to put in the car just to make it drive and I've even got a 360 that I might consider So on the car itself and push it over here What we're gonna do is actually take and pressure wash under the hood Clean all this grease and dirt and rust out from under here all these leaves that are packed up I want to get rid of all that so it looks nice whenever we actually go to put the new engine in See all that grease and rust it's built up and all this that's all gonna have to come out So we might as well make it clean while we can, you know Clean up all the paint make it look a little bit more decent under the hood Take a good look of everything before I start a spray some degreaser on a lot of these heavier parts Main thing I really want to hit right here on these tie rod ends I really want to clean those up because that's where I'm gonna be working here in the near future You know clean up the steering box and you know Do all this kind of stuff and just make it look a lot more manageable And then maybe we'll try and pressure wash on the inner fenders the firewall just get all this junk out of here You got all this stuff right here. So we'll clean it up and make it look a little bit more presentable Engine bay is looking a lot cleaner now and I took a few things off of the firewall and The the inner fender here you can see I took off the the charcoal canister For the emissions and then removed the washer bottle because it's actually busted on the bottom So it's actually cleaning up a lot and I'm liking the way that it looks so It's next biggest step We need to tackle is really start to tear into this front suspension Because I don't want to drop in our engine before we get into it, but I want to show you really quick What the engine will be? So what we have here is a 360. It's a stock cast-iron block. That's been bored 40 over We have Keith black hopper eutectic pistons and check out that all the compressions right there boys got two valve reliefs in it and Worked out I think with a stock cast-iron head we can probably manage about nine and a half to one that any work done to the combustion chamber and We might even get you know A smaller combustion chamber head something's been milled or even a thinner head gasket one We can bump that up just a little bit But right now this thing looks amazing the blocks been done all the machine work is done. He's got new rings new pistons everything's just been reworked and redone all new bearings and Brass freeze plugs in the block But like I said, they really did a good job of cleaning up everything and making it look nice I bought it last year at a car show and then I just let it sit because I didn't know what to put it in but then all of a sudden the Challenger popped Up and that means that we need to put it in there now what that will entail being that the 318 is Internally balanced and the 360 is externally balanced. We will need to find a 360 balancer for external balance and then a 360 ten and a half inch flywheel for external balance because like I said the 318 Will be internally balanced and that will be our differences, so we'll have to make that work But believe there's a ten and a half 360 flywheel laying around here somewhere surely enough and I can find a balancer so we can make everything work But this thing is going to be really nice. I don't want it to be ridiculous. You know it's going to be a nice engine a good little small block and These lightweight pistons are going to make the world of difference with it So it's going to be really awesome and have all this done, so I'm not into this engine a lot I think I paid 500 bucks for it because the guy was just trying to get rid of everything and The the engine is just like I said all it needs to be is have something put in it You know it needs to have heads intake all the front Accessories and just throw it in a car. That's really all we need but this engine is going to look sick It's going to perform really well, and you know still not break the bank. That's the best part about it Sometimes you just got to sneak up on a deal like this So that's the engine that's going to go in the challenger, and that's going to do it for today's video guys I really hope you enjoyed this one was a lot of fun We got a lot done. We got the trunk open by pulling out the back seat We found that build sheet in the process We got all of our wheels rolling and we were able to turn and move the vehicle freely inside and out the shop We then were able to pull our engine and get everything sorted out And we're going to start working our way in the opposite direction Hopefully here soon in the next video Where we tear into the front suspension and we eventually will tear into that 318 and figure out what went wrong as to why it would Not turn over so again guys. Thank you so much for watching if you liked the video Please leave a like down below if you have any questions for me feel free to leave a comment You can also ask me a question by you sending it to my email to the very end of the video You can also send your submission for a project at the end of the video to that same email Order your t-shirts and your stickers guys. Thank you so much for watching I really hope you enjoyed watching the progress in the challenger and next week we're really going to start diving deep into the front suspension and Totally upgrading it and updating it and making it the best that we can but first we got to tear it apart And that's going to be the fun stuff right there, so thanks again guys go check out your cove command speaker Use the discount code McCool, and you will get 65% off I highly recommend the speaker sounds great, and it's also fun on long road trips when you don't have a radio So that's all I got for today guys. Thank you so much stay tuned for the next one. I'll see you then