Congrats Ron, it sure feels good to get her started. It will feel even better once you get her to her new home.
John L. ACES #5597 70 LS5 TRIBUTE http://chevellfan.com/index89.html http://www.larueclassics.com/gallery/gallery%20pages/lodanier-chv70.html -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Zeppin Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:26 PM To: The Chevelle Mailing List Subject: [Chevelle-list] It's ALIVE!!! Well, I snuck over to the storage yard where the '68 Malibu I just bought has been for the past several years... We'd tried for the past couple of days to get it started, but 6volts in the battery wasn't going to cut it. Brought it home, charged it up, went over yesterday, still no go... My buddy met me over there today and he figured it out... Neutral Safety switch was bad... we jumped it, and it turned over...primed the carb and it fired right up, but as soon as the fuel got up around the carb, we noticed a fuel leak where the rubber line attached to the dual feed line... rubber was like plastic. Ran across the street to Autozone to pick up some line and a new fuel filter, my buddy called and said to get a fuel pump too... it was rotating where it's supposed to be pinched together... got back, threw the pump, filter and lines on. We noticed the fuel was bad... smelled funky, be we didn't see any harm in trying it... reprimed a couple of times, fired up and ran... quite a bit of smoke. Motor hadn't been run in probably 4 years. kept it at as low an idle as I could for a few minutes, then rev'd her up to clear the crap out... she seems to run a bit rough, but we're attributing that to the bad gas and more than likely needing a new set of plugs. I'm going to get a right front tire tomorrow, and hopefully get her home where the major cleanup will start. It's got Flowmasters on it...not sure what models, I think 40 Series... it sounds awesome at idle, but pretty darn loud when your revving. Release the hounds!!!! Ron
