MuuMuu101's 68 Dart, A Learning Process...
Well, took half a step forward and about 5 steps back. I put the battery on the car on a battery tender to make sure I have a charge as the car has been sitting a lot this past year. Luckily, the battery was good and still had 75-100% juice left. I reinstalled the battery into the car and started the car up. It took a couple times to start it, but eventually I was able to get it going. I had the car idling for about 10 minutes and I noticed my engine started to get very noisy (lots of metallic sounds). Well, when I went to the front, water/coolant was squirting off the top of the water pump. Hopefully, I didn't damage/overheat the engine. When I checked my water temperature gauge, after I shut the car down, it read 160F.
I'm pretty bugged as I was just going to load a bunch of my tools in it and drive it to my new house this Friday so it can sit in its permanent home. Now, I can't do that, but glad this didn't happen when I was driving. All of the hoses are 2-3 years old. I think it may be this rubber plug on the water pump spout. It's cracked to hell. Anyone know of a good replacement? Hopefully not rubber.
After my wedding and honeymoon, in a week in a half, I was planning on slowly changing leaf springs and replace the rear trans seal as that's been leaking. If everything seemed good, I would slowly convert the car to EFI aiming for a driveable car by Spring Fling. That was already a pretty aggressive goal for me. I'm really hoping the engine didn't get damaged.
This car seriously hates me. Honestly, I'm pretty disheartened. Idk what I'm going to do with the car. It seems to cause me more grief than pleasure. I'll just have to pray and think about it.
Well, took half a step forward and about 5 steps back. I put the battery on the car on a battery tender to make sure I have a charge as the car has been sitting a lot this past year. Luckily, the battery was good and still had 75-100% juice left. I reinstalled the battery into the car and started the car up. It took a couple times to start it, but eventually I was able to get it going. I had the car idling for about 10 minutes and I noticed my engine started to get very noisy (lots of metallic sounds). Well, when I went to the front, water/coolant was squirting off the top of the water pump. Hopefully, I didn't damage/overheat the engine. When I checked my water temperature gauge, after I shut the car down, it read 160F.
I'm pretty bugged as I was just going to load a bunch of my tools in it and drive it to my new house this Friday so it can sit in its permanent home. Now, I can't do that, but glad this didn't happen when I was driving. All of the hoses are 2-3 years old. I think it may be this rubber plug on the water pump spout. It's cracked to hell. Anyone know of a good replacement? Hopefully not rubber.
After my wedding and honeymoon, in a week in a half, I was planning on slowly changing leaf springs and replace the rear trans seal as that's been leaking. If everything seemed good, I would slowly convert the car to EFI aiming for a driveable car by Spring Fling. That was already a pretty aggressive goal for me. I'm really hoping the engine didn't get damaged.
This car seriously hates me. Honestly, I'm pretty disheartened. Idk what I'm going to do with the car. It seems to cause me more grief than pleasure. I'll just have to pray and think about it.