Here we are cleaning out the water cooling channels etc... and putting new oil in the engine. When opening the thermostat, which was not easy as the bolts where very hard to undo, we where surprised to see how much gunk was sitting on the thermostat. Luckily that gunk was stopped by the thermostat and going into the channels to much, but we needed to clean the whole engine out anyway. The carburettor was a problem as it is completely stuck and even after putting it in an oil bath, only a bit of the mechanism was working again but the inside mechanism would not function enough. On line i found a lot info about carburettors and people with the same problem and all recommended to replace it with an Edelbrock 1406. I bought one on ebay and let it ship over. I had to use an adaptor, which was included, cause the valves where just touching the intake holes and this seemed to be with most engines.


 After installing the carburettor, hooking up to a good battery and new fuel, it turn around very good but would not want to start. The fuel pomp would not get enough fuel up. So a friend of mine loaned his electric fuel pump and it started and ran for a few seconds. We could not start it again, as the starter motor had suffered to much after starting so often. But my dad still has some other starters from Chevy and so, where we can use the inside mechanism from. Now that the engine started, we sort of know what we all need to do to it and want to take it out soon and install it onto an open home made frame where we can work on it and let it run.

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