Buying from afar

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I used to have a green 68 and a red 70 charger so this is a nice combo of the 2. Over 200 pics on the inspection so I hope they didn't miss anything. Shes not a perfect car but everything looks manageable.
 
They put a comp cam xe274h in the rebuilt motor, rebuilt the trans and used a holeshot converter, other than that shes pretty much stock.
 
69conv said:
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Awesome…..simply awesome! Great job Wayne, patience, using eyes in the prize and making a sound decision. This car should take you places for years to come! Awesome!!
 
Car arrived today. The good news. Motor sounds good, no major rust, fan actually works (was told it didnt), top looks great, tires are NEW. The bad news. A lot of the electric is screwed. No dash lights, head light doors open but not close, no blinkers. The speedo is loose in the dash. The battery cables were loose. I think the tick is an exhaust leak. And thats the first 1/2 hour. Car is drivable now so I'll have some fun and tackle projects as I go along.
 
Winter is coming, sounds like you have things to tinker with? Glad you got your dream car
 
First order of business is the electrical stuff. Right now no dash lights, no speedo, non functioning headlight doors.
 
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Got started with a mini wire brush and some dielectric grease and now it works like new. Now I need to figure out the headlight switch and the door motors. 1 step forward...
 
69conv said:
Got started with a mini wire brush and some dielectric grease and now it works like new. Now I need to figure out the headlight switch and the door motors. 1 step forward...
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You should just have one motor for the headlamps, mounted at the center of the car behind the grille. If you remove it and take apart the gearbox, you'll find contact points inside it that are operated by a plastic cam. Clean it out, steal one of the wife's emery boards, and file those contact points flat. It's very easy. Nothing even tries to fly out at you or out of place. It's a really simple design. While you're in there, clean and lubricate the gears.

Decades ago, I had a '72 Charger SE which used the same motor, or very similar (to the point of interchange). The doors worked but there was a horrible buzzing sound coming from the dash. Outside the car, when it was buzzing the doors were open, but vibrating like they wanted to close. I replaced the relay and nothing changed. I took the motor out and cleaned those contacts, and that solved it. Since that time, it seems that every headlamp motor I've dealt with needed the points cleaned.

I know they used that motor all the way through the 1983 Imperial, so replacements aren't impossible to find. While I don't think it's visually correct, I believe the door motors used on FWD New Yorker/Imperial work as functional replacements. The arc of travel on LeBarons may be too far, which might just require swapping in your gears.
 
Thank you so much. Was looking for a youtube video or something for a heads up and you just gave it to me. Opening that puppy up is my next step. What did you use for lube? I have some synthetic wheel bearing grease I was thinking of.
 
Man, that's going back a minute... I did that job in 1994. I believe it was Lubriplate white grease (the stuff in the toothpaste tube). I didn't know if petroleum-based grease would attack the gears. I ran that car daily for a couple of years and never had another door issue. It was still working like a champ last I saw the car in '98.
 
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