Recent content by BIRD

FINALLY got the then and now pictures.. 55 years later.. Pictured with my Mom ( 102 years young) my 58 Chrysler Windsor in front of the home I grew up and my Mom still lives in.. She was quite tickled to do the photo shoot. ( May 1967 & May 2022)

Car is running well now.. I believe it was the condenser that was this issue .. Has about 2 hours of run time with no obvious problems.. Accelerates briskly under full throttle with no hesitation. Idles smoothly. Discovered a a vacuum leak once I had managed to get it running. After having...

after cleaning and re-gapping plugs, ensuring timing was where it should be, checking the points gap, and the condenser.. actually had the original condenser saved on the shelf , tested it and replaced the new one I had installed last year when I did the major tune up. Result was.... car started...

Will check.. but everything is new.. could be defective i suppose... have a spare older set which was on engine from 25 years ago

Gas was/is fresh... will go out tomorrow and remove clean plugs and check gap again. do compression check.. check and adjust points .. check timing with the marks and ensure distributer is properly in the right place. keep my fingers crossed.

Heads were magna fluxed to check for cracks.. When the car was first started after 25 years, ran well with one tick ( one lifter needed to be replace as it was broken) and white smoke was present from right hand side exhaust.. New head gaskets solve that problem... wanted heads checked to see...

Car was running fine.. started a short journey and engine performed nicely... after about 25 minutes of easy driving the engine stated to "buck" and then miss .. I managed to keep it running for a short time by pumping the accelerator.. may be cause of this action it started to backfire though...

It has been a while since I posted (July 2021) my first real journey with car ended in a breakdown..had driven the car for about 15 miles and then while driving at about 30 mph on level ground, engine started to miss, shudder and then began backfiring through exhaust and carb.. had carb...

Thanks for posting the link properly for the kijiji ad.. my computer skills are not the good. Thx Rudy

Will let my brother know you liked his car. It used to belong to a long time buddy of his, who passed away a number of years ago, He bought it from his buddy's sister who ended up with it in the estate. He restored it in honor of his buddy.

A few more pictures showing the engine. I am not familiar with all the performance parts on the car, heads ,intake, carb, headers, ignition system was all upgraded. The car has been dyno tuned but I do not have the figures that were achieved. It has basically his toy and trailer queen.

Nice little MOPAR up for sale. Car belongs to my brother in Ontario Canada. With vaccinations and Covid hopefully under control, the borders should be opening up. will try to post the link to Kijiji ad. link...

Thanks .. just picked up license plates yesterday.. so am good to go driving:thumbsup:

Appreciate your compliment. Looking forward to having the picture taken with my Mom and driving the car. Cheers Rudy

It's a wrap. Insurance appraisal done this morning.( pictures from appraiser) All good... time to do some paperwork ,get insurance coverage license plate and validation sticker and should be driving next week:steering::thumbsup: