My current obsession!

[brentsydlik]

got one piece of good news. it was a florida car until about 06... fella says his wife stopped driving the car when the door handles started breaking in fear of not being able to get the grandkids out of the car. ill get a starter today. find out saturday if she runs.

[Whuntmore]

I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes.

[brentsydlik]

picking up a starter tomorrow and saturday i want to go over and pull the ignition switch, put the starter on, and pop in a battery and see where we go from there.

[brentsydlik]

well guys i have her... well i have a piece of paper that says shes mine. i will pick her up at about 8am tomorrow. 400 bucks and a promise from a fellow polock that it runs. i bought the starter and a battery today for 116 bucks with a 12 dollar core on the battery so if she runs im in for 502 bucks... i will get her assembled tomorrow morning before i go to the lane automotive car show in watervelitemichigan... heck of a car show if youre in town. im sure ill be on again shortly after i get her home tomorrow.

[El Matador]

Awesomeness.

The list of "bad" items you mentioned earlier seemed mostly minor, so this may not be as much of a project as you think.  Then again, you always find more things to repair as you start going through a car in detail.

At any rate, congratulations on getting it and hopefully bringing it back to life.

[brentsydlik]

got her home... put the battery and the starter in and tried a coffee can full of keys... none worked. my buddy is gonna bring his keyring over later. if i still cant find one i will try something else. the whole underside is still coated and no real sign of rust.

[rollguy]

Could you just "hotwire" it using a jumper wire from the battery to the coil?  The starter solenoid is on the fender, making it easy to crank with a screwdriver.

[brentsydlik]

best news yet! after another hundred or so keys i have 2 working door keys. since i couldnt find a ign. key i just decided to pop the key cylinder out... an hour and a half and two bloody thumbs later leaves me holding a pair of needle nose pliers and staring at the steering collumn thinking that if this thing dont start the little miss wont be very happy... so here goes... long story slightly less long, she cranked, i shot a little either, and she fired. didnt run long at first being that she probably had a lot of laquer for gas but after 10 or 12 tries she just kept running! If i wasnt so darn tired and sore from today id still be out there working. i figure i will go out first thing in the morning and put the drive shaft back in and feed her a gallon or 2 of fresh gas and put her in gear.

[vangremlin]

Congrats!  Another Eagle saved!

[shanebo]

Congratulations!! Theres something about hearing that 258 come to life tht puts a big grin on ones face . Eggs for your persistence.

[brentsydlik]

woke up this moring and put the drive shaft in and drove down the road. still got a bunch of work to do but does drive and shift and steer and stop. i think i want to remove all the pollution control stuff and get a new exhaust on her. oil change and all that. im thinkin remove the catalytic converter and run a flowmaster and 2 3/4 pipe...

[Whuntmore]

Congratulations!! Theres something about hearing that 258 come to life tht puts a big grin on ones face . Eggs for your persistence.

X2.  I know it did for me!

[shanebo]

Thats awesome!! Im glad to hear everthing is on the up and up.....I sure wish I could get my eagle that I just bought to start...not getting spark. Hearing about yours just gave me a boost of motivation to get out there tomorrow and get to working on it.

[brentsydlik]

yeah the only prob i had was that the solenoid stuck a few times. but that seems to have stopped happening. really hope you get it figured out.

[brentsydlik]

well i got the roof rack off and just about got all the holes patched up. i was gonna put it back on but the fiancee likes it better with out so if any one wants a pretty good roof rack and wants to pay shipping there ya go... also got rid of the chrome ribs on the roof. Started pulling useless crap from the engine bay and soon foun out that im not the first one to go messing with all that but i think i got it all sorted out. Cleaned all the trunk coating out from the spare tire area and got some driving lights installed. should have the exhaust most of the way done this weekend and then on to the brakes.