Finally Running

To begin with, I had to show the picture with the Walter Larson Ford emblem original from the dealership. It's fun that it was still on the car and salvageable.

 Mike and his dad got a lot of front end stuff done. We got the driver side fender back all nicely touched up.

 I had gone to bed at this point but got up this morning and came out and saw all the progress last night. It really is looking like a car now. The bumper does still need to be put on though, and of course the hood.

So a couple nights ago we tried to get the engine running. We put fluids in and inevitably had every type of fluid leaking. So after tightening and fixing a few things we got most of the leaks taken care of. So then we moved on the starting the car. First we had problems with the pertronix. So Mike had to go back to using points in the distributor. After that it was a matter of trying to get the timing right which wasn't working out so well. We eventually ran the battery dead and called it a night.

So tonight Mike came out determined to get it running. He had thought it over and thought maybe the engine place had put a different cam into the engine then what it originally had. So he decided to try a different firing order. So after switching all of that, it fired up right away. It was exciting hearing the car running. There were some more leaks so Mike is now changing out gaskets and tightening things so we can try to stop the leaks. Hopefully it will help and it wont leak so bad, although I have been warned that there are always leaks of one sort or another. Especially with the transmission.

So I took video of the first time the car started... and here it is...

And just for comparison sake... here is the video from the first time we started it after dragging it home from St. George when I first bought it.