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[Music] 1970 Dodge Charger RT 440 Magnum automatic transmission 1969 Dodge Charger 440 automatic transmission graveyard Motors is open for business that's right folks honest Mark coming at you here from beautiful sunny downtown Springfield Oregon letting you know we are officially open for business I have partnered with Cottage Grove Chrysler and together are bringing you this w variety of mopar you got a Mopar you want to sell you call h a mark you got one you want to buy cter Challenger charger Road Runner whatever it is you call me up I'll find the one for you that's cuz it's graveyard motor been waiting a long time for it and we are back now you want a charger a challenger or Road Runner or GTX you tell me this water coming down is a blessing I call it holy water from Heaven itself telling me I am doing the right thing so don't hesitate call up graveyard Motors order your Peach low mile one owner check the Carfax just kiding it wasn't around back [Music] in beneath the fog behind the rust Sometimes they come back there's only one internationally recognized Mopar Master Mark Warman joined by his friends family and dream team the ghouls nobody wants to take on the stuff that we take on Reviving The Past 100% untouched Survivor resurrecting the icons of American Muscle We Are The Shaolin Priests of mopart uncovering stories it's the baddest car we have here and restoring dreams the most iconic muscle car on the planet putting cars back where they belong on the road here we go beyond a passion oh that's wild one man's obsession with Mopar Perfection this is graveyard [Music] cars one of the very first cars I bought so far for graveyard Motors is this 1970 Cuda this is an original 1970 Cuda 446 six barrel automatic transmission one of 853 made it's loaded with good stuff it's an axle package car 355 gears am8 track it's got the rally instrument cluster it's got the standard white seat like we just did in Cindy Dago's car most importantly it's fc7 in Violet so it's a good car the car has a great history to it there's a photo I've got of that car in 1972 with the graduating class from a military school standing around it is a neatest picture I I love that kind of History the whole town knows about this car where it came from that car is worth around 40 to 50 Grand the way it sits right now now this car sat in a barn in Michigan for many decades and it was not well protected and as a result of that we have a seized up engine if it turns out that the engine is not savable take that number of say 40 to 50 Grand and make it 20 to 30 grand because it doesn't have the original so I've got Doug and Marty disassembling and finding out where is the stuck point is it up high in the valve tram is it in the cylinder heads is it down below the deck is it the Pistons and the cylinders is it the crankshaft this car looks like it was not well protected and we're going to find out definitely been rodents in here by the looks of those wires rodents yeah there teeth marks all over them they've all been chewed in half huh oh it's coming off in one piece when we first got the car in I did have dug take a breaker bar out there to it and try to at least see if it would move or budge it's very important that an engine turns over and rotates it's not all there though well I got 90% of it looking at it it looked like it was drug up off the bottom of a rivered so I really had no hope that it would turn over and it didn't at this point what I'm hoping to do is continually take Parts off of the engine to a point where we can get the assembly to rotate we can take a look at the valley make sure it's not freeze cracked things like that so that I can describe it accurately when I go to sell cuz if I tell you something's rebuildable it needs to be rebuildable cuz I stand behind all of my sales if I sell you a car and it isn't what I said I'll give you a check right back and pay shipping both ways I don't play games I'm here to sell the cars and make people happy make sure that they know what they're buying and that it truly is what they're buying some Critter's been in there stoking away for uh winter snacks I'm not sure what kind of nuts those are my guess is it's been parked in a bad environment for a long time with rodents all over this thing nesting throughout the car relieving themselves at will that's why things like the valve covers are rusted completely [Music] out I suspect a raccoon Honestly by the size of the feces squirrels and rats and mice are really common I have found some snake skins a few times no Al snakes thank goodness but it makes me a little nervous sometimes working on these cars that come from all over the country what kind of spiders am I find I haven't found any deadly spiders but I'm I'm always keeping my eyes open for something I don't recognize coming out from underneath the dash where do the biggest spiders come from probably Midwestern tarantulas their legs are bigger than the big spiders we have here in Oregon okay here's our plan now Marty okay I'm getting some bigger tools oh I love that tool we're going to try to pry this exhaust manifold off just be an animal and take it off no we're going to add some heat so in this case one of the exhaust manifold bolts was fused to the manifold itself so the the only way we could get this apart was to use heat from a torch I like fire okay so what we're going to do get the torch going we're going to melt that bolt out of there and pry that exhaust manifold off there that's our goal let's see if it works wish us luck we're going in hot we put some we put some tin down here on the floor so we don't melt concrete too bad hopefully Sparks are probably going to travel so [Music] got a pry bar ready Marty are all the bolts off the back Marty yep it's not moving yet there it moves I got to stop smoking woo I got it thank you Marty nice yeah that's one way to get a manifold off where's the marshmallows at so you notice Mark isn't here to enjoy the aroma of all of the burning rat urine that's coming out of this engine as we're heating it up I guess he's working with Josh in the metal shop right now that's real convenient isn't it all right the operation was a success I'm impressed I I I wasn't sure that was going to work okay so we got your side opened up now let's see how my side goes right here we go see if mine will pop off there sweet two for two look at that I love it I love it when something actually happens right yeah yeah that was nice when a plan comes [Music] together you know how um these engines aren't exactly in the middle of the car that side's a lot closer to the shock Tower than this side is oh you're saying my side was easier no what was well yeah your sh definitely was easier it's a steering box the steering box causes the Eng to have to shove over to the right right couple inches but um my manifold won't clear the studs on the side of the head ah going have to lean the motor about a quarter of an inch to get that manifold off of the studs so that we can get to the head bolts cuz the head bolts are right underneath that exhaust manifold that is correct thank you Marty for that hey another valve cover off look at that it's all in one piece I don't think we can salvage this one more junk today Josh is going to be installing the firewall and upper cowl panel on a 1970 Cuda this is originally a 383 four-speed car we've featured it in past season several different times as we go through all the different metal work it's just such a large project that we wanted to be able to share with the audience exactly some of the steps that we've had to do on this car and how to do them so just to set up a quick reminder on what car this is Doug and I a few years ago had found a Cuda in the Craigslist at online and it was in Eugene so we went over and checked it out and that's the car the one that we bought and drugg back now when we got this car it was really rusty uh as I had mentioned we did a lot of metal work we've shared a lot of it with you last season we replaced the main floor step Wells under seat pan I think at that time Josh uh showed everybody how the p15 works we had thought the right frame rail in the rear was okay originally but it was buckled at some point and straightened out and they they can lose their integrity so we very carefully had him dissect that rail out of there and install the new one without affecting those other panels but that kind of Catches Us up to where we are now so now that we have the car structurally sound with those panels replaced we can take out the firewall and the upper cow panel which need to be replaced we have a slight advantage over the way the factory did it in that we're only doing one car right we're not doing a million cars originally those panels in between the upper cow panel and the firewall had very little paint on them and that's why I like this one rusted out we have the advantage of going through there and scuffing it and painting it and jamming it all pretty that's not OEM but it's nice and it's going to last so before we marry the two panels together we had will mix up the fj6 jam all the parts get them ready and now it's back out and that's where we're at right now with Josh so right now I'm throwing some screws in our upper cow and firewall this is going to go ahead and set it it in place I've already done a preit now that I've preit it I'll go ahead and weld them together before installing them in the car this way I am able to weld completely across the front cuz I have full access from the bottom that way it'll have the factory appearance that this was never replaced this is a new thing for me this is the first firewall I've had to replace while I've been here this car is extremely rusted out and this is one of the casualties of all the rest but uh it's turning out really good I'm really happy with it all right now that I've got this all screwed together where it needs to be it's time to weld it together so the first thing I'm going to do with this is I'm going to do a couple spot welds on the bottom and the top of this to Anchor it in place I can't just go ahead and straight weld it if I weld from one side to the other there's a good chance I could break a screw from the metal moving and then all my pre fitment would be worthless now if you go back and you look at any old footage of the manufacturing plants for these cars they had big spot welders not like the stuff we have stuff that we have works great but it's designed for repair it's not designed to be building cars when you have a spot welder that's designed to be building a car and a million just like it it's a huge piece of equipment that can get anywhere it has long tongs that can reach anywhere what we have to do because we have the advantage of those panels being off we can can duplicate all those spot welds just like it same effect just not the exact same process so we can go through now very carefully and put all of the factory spot welds in all the Factory locations so you'd never know somebody was there all right now that's all welded time to get it installed so what you're looking at right here is the replacement new firewall from about here down well what you can see is this lip all the way down to here this is all brand new the upper cow panel is his original upper cow panel but has patches in it in different areas because it did have rust some of these pieces along here are even new he had to metal finish him off so that when we were finished with it we still had his original numbers as original panel but it would have all the rust repaired on it and it would go on and fit like it's supposed to now when you saw us do the catalog Cuda the 71 Hemi Cuda that one was different because we weren't preserving anything on it except for the inner structure for the roof this one we had a lot of metal that we did want to even though it looks like we're doing a ton we still had a lot we wanted to preserve so this kind of threads together more like a puzzle and that's why I want to show you this firewall new upper cow panel original but these two normally like on the catalog Cuda we put this on then we put this on we did it in stages stacking layering like building a house in this case I wanted to be able to preserve if we can the original spot weld look it was these were spot welded across here from the factory if you go out back and you look at any of the cars you'll see that these are Factory spot welded so now when you're done you have all the factory spot welds in the factory locations this whole look through here is Factory that's a beautiful look when you can obtain that but the only way you can do it is by having the upper cow panel and the firewall done at the same time not on the car because you could never get around it with the pinch weld like you can right here the spot welder wouldn't get those areas they're not accessible if you turn to the side you can see is going to be doing some welding but this can't be welded yet for the simple fact the only area that this welds into is the cow side panel or the hinge area so he has the provisions there for it you see a lot of scratching that's because he's preit this thing about 50 times he's been bugging me to get this done so he can put the car together flip it around again look at the nice look for the factory spot welds that you wouldn't get with a MIG welder these are just really well done you can see it's pull the metal in in all these areas that's what a spot welder does that's how you can tell it hasn't just been welded and ground down again something important to point out we still have his original cow panel so his numbers are there but because these two were separated at one point we were able to get in here and do all the jam work so will has it painted The Sassy grass green inside here the bottom side of this panel this yeah it's not OEM but it'll never rust I promise you that so overall what you're looking at is a complete firor wall and upper cow panel that needs to be grafted onto the car and there are so many intricate intersecting points when you put in assembly like this in where you still have original aprons and you still have original cow side panels that I wanted to show you exactly how that threads into place and then I can cut him loose and get that welded up now the firewall and upper cow panel they're going to come over here it's going to take two guys I'm probably going to end up helping him at this point if Wills doesn't have time it's got to go up in the air and it's got to come down as a unit it has to be woven in between the inner Fender and the cow side panel it's going to weave down come down through here wrap around this thing that's where all those spots are I was showing you that needed to be welded are this is the most difficult way of doing one but when you're done it's also the least obvious way of doing one the the less footprint that we were ever there see normally like I said on the on the catalog coua these were all new new front frame rails new AMD inter fenders new radiator support new everything so at that point you can put the cowl in get it all in place do all your spot welding and then move forward in this case these are great established values they're good original parts we're going to try to do the old bewitch trick where you pull the tablecloth out and leave everything sitting there we're doing the reverse we're going to take the upper cow panel and the fire wall and we're going to slide them into here the intersecting points are here some of it will also be Mig welded but this welds to the cowl and upper panel as well as this stiffener brace gets welded in you can see where they were originally this is the windshield reinforcement or the a pillar reinforcement area right through here now it'll weld down through here which is your a pillar Corner this is the upper part this is where the hinge goes on you can see these are the hinge mounts right here this is the area that usually rusts out on a lot of ebodies and B bodies and a bodies so we put the entire piece on here all the way down through the cow side panel all the way down to the bottom where it's going to meet into this right here which is your floor pan and the same thing on the other side because this ain't no GM poop box this is a unibody Chrysler product in every single one of these areas collectively build the structural Integrity of the car each one relies on the other one to get stronger and stronger and be able to resist to Collision hold the door Square in the car the things that have to happen so once we get that cow panel in place I'll show you how we're going to weld it together you can already see a lot of the plug weld holes Provisions have been made but you can also see a lot of the original spot weld holes that he's gone offc Center on and here to hold this thing established before he cut the original Cal side panel out you see he's welded in this angle iron brace it goes from a pillar to a pillar it's exactly in place and welded while the cowl is in it you don't want these things collapsing a little bit or going out because then you would have to remeasure rehang everything to be able to move forward this case we know what we had in the way of an established value so we're going to run it over there we're going to put the cow panel in it get it welded into place at that point he can move forward with fitting doors and fenders doing final welding on wheelhouses and quarter panels so I will go get him and get her [Music] done all right so how many times would you say you fit this on there so far oh man I've probably had her in 20 or 30 times oh no hang on a second let me get my hand under here okay so I go to the inside here weave this down through here oh look at that just falling together and you got your alignment holes falling in yeah Bo that Sure Fit nice good job oh thank you very much so you go ahead and set your screws there all [Music] right so what he'll end up doing is getting this thing screwed into place with the holes that he's already got and then once that's in place he use some clamps to pull the metal nice and tight and that's when it'll start welding this is the proper way to do one of the this is what it's supposed to look like that's how it goes in all right thank sir sure like these Square heads a lot better oh me too they don't strip out very much and one thing folks you can go too much with these when you're using Electric Tool these guys are professionals you could run it in so far that you strip it out they're just sheet metal screws then you got to make a new hole cuz it won't hold so if you just hear me just barely letting it ratchet at the end that's because I don't want to strip it [Music] out okay so we've got it screwed into place are you going to use vice grips on the side here um yeah I'll use vice grips on the side and then I still got a couple screws along the bottom it'll hold that in place and all right so what I'll do is uh if you want to go ahead and put a clamp on this one and one on your side then you won't need me out here babysitting anymore sounds good that he really needed me because I don't even know what I'm doing I just look good on camera a't that right oh yeah I mean you know what you're doing you've taught me a lot already ah you just saying that sure I'm a metal Craftsman well yeah I'm a metal Craftsman here's a mycri for that site thank you sir now these guys are light years ahead of me they maybe I teach them one thing they teach me 10 so it works out pretty good at the end of the day it's a good team right [Music] 13 so I'm okay to blast out of here you're going to do some MIG welding on the big holes spot welding where you can so he's going to come through here where you see these big holes and he's going to do MIG welding again he's going to get it nice and tight up against there and then once it rounds this panel here where the upper cow panel meets the cow side panel he'll spot weld all the way through here and then he will call me back out he won't need to but you can go ahead head and put in your bath holes okay and now once you have your bath holes in place and you have course what you're saying you're going to start moving towards the back which is putting the quarter panel on right wheelhouse fitting it to the Wheelhouse all that and the only reason he hasn't done that yet is because he has to have the door in space where it belongs and to do that you have to have the fender in space and to have the fenders in space where they belong you got to have the cow panel in place oh so we did it a little bit unorthodox but this is so much better repair than if you just panel for panel for panel cuz right now you'd never know that we put a cow panel or or a fire W this no I mean I've got her look in as Factory as possible so I am going to leave you with that M friend sounds good thank you for your help I always appreciate it you're welcome kind of stuff we [Music] do after removing the valve covers we have to take the rocker shafts off so that we can get out the head bolts to pull the heads off I'd love to hear the history on this car I've worked on cars that have been underwater and flooded and this is kind of what this seems like to me but regardless we're moving forward this engine is just nasty it's the nastiest one I've seen I mean we've had them packed full of stuff before but not quite like this those are some really rusty push rods they're almost rusted in half man those really have some junks out of them they they were almost rusted into the lifters I think the lifters are rusted to the cam shaft how many years did you get loose and both yeah all of well no there's five of them that are behind that exhaust manifold we're still going to have to get that out of the way okay there are things that are crucial that block is crucial the Pistons I don't care the crank I don't care all replaceable stuff that Block's got to be good is that the exhaust falling off yeah [Music] nice another nut that one's kind of pretty what is it an acorn huh kind of nut what is that I think it's an acorn you guys know what kind of nut that is what was the answer stay tuned stay tuned what kind of nuts are these when you're selling a car you want to get the highest dollar that you can for it and you also want the people on the other end to know what they're getting my thought is put a car together so it looks like a car people can see what they're buying I can walk around it inventory it and describe it honestly so that's why I'm putting these cars back together again just for the purpose of selling them but we're not restoring them looks to me like both of us have got a stuck valve on one of these heads yeah on each of these heads I am really curious what the cylinders are going to look like in this yeah and the bottom end I'm not sure where this thing's been sitting but uh I'm also curious what's going to come out of the oil pan with this having been open wonder if it even has oil in it nope oil lots of rust there's a lot of rust on that dipstick dang no oil somebody just didn't love it right that's for sure whoever had this for a while fell out of love with it oh I guess people get busy in life right yeah I don't know how they could have fallen out of love with this thing though no kidding oh my God no way I can't believe that it came loose look underneath that head here we go we'll see what's inside oh wow God look at the corrosion in those cylinders look at that something's missing ho ho you were right about the valve I've been working on cars my whole life and I got to say I've never seen anything like this each one of the cylinder heads was missing a valve and one of them I can't even see it inside the cylinder anymore maybe that's why it got parked I think it just rusted and fell off personally I can't find the valve it's not there oh look at that piece what is it that is a flake off of the top of that mouth metal head gaskets look at that Marty that's pretty cool I bet that's original Oh I would guess this motor's never been taken apart okay sorry Mark I broke it man those sparkl wires are tougher than you'd think yeah they are not too tough for a squirrel right nope coming up douge and Marty are going nuts to save this 446 Barrel engine there's a lot of rust in there too meanwhile in metal Josh continues to forge ahead on a different 1970 Cuda while the Team battles the ravages of Rost on two different 70 cudas Mark wonders if the investment car he's been banking on is going to pay off if I didn't know about a block I wouldn't pay for Num car all right so today getting ready to weld the firewall in you saw me and Mark throw it in yesterday went extremely smooth a lot of that looks really easy because I've taken so long to preit this move all the metal that needed to be moved so it fit just how it needs to fit now I'm going to throw a couple extra clamps on there get the metal nice and tight for my Mig welds then after we get her anchored in place with the Mig welds we'll go ahead and get her spot welded in so time to get to it all right after this there's no going back she's going to be in [Music] place something that I've grown to appreciate a lot is the metal shop team these guys are from all over the place in the world of collision one guy was a specialist on Chevrolets another one did Hondas but they bring a lot to the table when you you have that much experience I still learn things today ways to get things done that are the path of least resistance and the best end result that's what you see when you see all of these guys working on a car together so now I got the top all welded in going to go do a couple plug welds on the bottom get that all anchored and then it's time to spot weld [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh that went perfect now that it's all in place not going to move anywhere time to go ahead and spot weld this thing in so I liken building a car to like building a house it's making sure that the foundation the thing you start with has to be square and Plum and true right if that's perfect then you can go ahead and build up that's what we have now with our lower structures time to build the walls in this case on a car perspective the walls are the quarter panels the rear body panel the vertical lock support that that holds that those are all collectively make up the walls after that you can put things like roofs on and the roof's a roof whether it's a roof on a car or a Dutchman panel that's the roof and that comes after [Music] this the quarter panels have been on back order for the 70 and 71 cudas so what you see Josh doing now is converting the 72 to 74 which is available and we have in stock over to be a 7071 style and the only difference between them is the side marker so what we do is go out back cut out an old quarter panel that we know we're going to replace the whole thing on cut that out and graft it Metal finish it off nicely on the [Music] quarter was it hard to get the heads off it was challenging and your exhaust manifolds come right off well we worked them [Music] out looks a lot of cocka in there there's a lot of rust in there too yes good grief God dang I've seen some bad ones but I don't know if I've seen one that bad before you think that's pretty bad you think that's Prett where are the heads by the way yeah yeah check these out this is pretty cool mark this is pretty cool check this out we got holes it's got holes in the head at that that's crazy huh where's The Vow where's the piece you got two of them out well I'm already got one but I didn't I didn't get so lucky my valve was gone missing an action what head am I looking at this is passenger that is driver so it was the number three cylinder yep what we're looking at folks there is it would appear that at some point perhaps a broken timing chain we're going to find out shortly something sent the valve kening can I use that word kening yeah into the Piston beat the hell out of the top of the Piston but didn't break it broke the valve and then after that it continued to run and it disappeared dissolved yeah well there may have been a remnant of it left in the cylinder not after 40 years of this you need some carbon I don't need any carbon you want to do a carbon dating on that look all we want to do is be able to say when we run an ad for the car that the engine does crank over there doesn't appear to be any signs of freeze braing that's very important but we got to get at least where it'll crank over now in my opinion if we can get it to crank over then why not replace the cam and the lifters with a use one out of a junky motor Outback I want you to go ahead and take the front end of the engine apart you grab a vacuum cleaner suck everything out of the here everything you can possibly get out scrape the walls clean it vacuum it get them as clean as you can Mystery Oil by that time he should have that cam darn there ready to come out of there and we'll see if we can get this thing to turn over okay meanwhile I'm going to go back and I'm going to work on a 1970 couet tribute car that's getting a lot of metal work on it all not gentlemen come get me when you're done I got work to do I'm a business man [Music] I definitely think the reason for a spot welder at the manufacturing level was the best penetration of metal so it was the strongest but it was clean and that's what you can appreciate when you look at this car and you see the cow panels as they're married together look at how sanitary all of the the low spots that are supposed to be there from spot welding are there you don't fill those you go out and look at a factory car that's welded up they're all full of that Ripple look that it's factory but it's clean it's sanitary standing back and looking at it you can appreciate why the manufacturer did it the way they did it and why we're trying our best to emulate what the manufacturer did all right so one of the first Parts we're going to put in is the rear body panel that's going to give us that rear structure that we need for the quarter panels to have some support in the back right after you put this in place you want to put your vertical lock support in place you can see very clearly that's just going to weld to the floor going to weld in through here and it's going to go something like that I'll show you that now because once you put the body panel on you won't be able to see it that's basically how that will go but in the meantime we've got our rear body panel if you look we have all of our provisions and everything these are the wire loom Provisions good job by the way why why'd you grind all these off for so I can spot weld it so he can spot weld it I like that yeah yeah he cleans the metal off anywhere there's going to be a spot weld or if there's there's going to be a mig weld so that's why you see all these through here up here you see all of these holes this is for the sole purpose of plug welding is that correct yep yep and then of course when we go up here classic 7071 tail light panel there's nothing in here because this is our trunk opening eventually our trunk comes down and closes over that are you ready to place the first piece yeah I'm ready and In fairness he has preit the heck out of everything but this is our last preit and then weld so why isn't this ground down if you're going to spot weld in between here how come this side isn't ground it'll burn through the paint then why would you do that side so because I need the spot weld on the outside and the inside where it's going to connect well you're the boss okay so that goes right there and then I got my screw hole okay so that gives us our rear structure from the standpoint of the quarter panel supports this is the vertical lock support so the trunk latch goes right here in case you're wondering that's what's going to grab this up here okay so with that he's going to install the vertical lock support that actually slips up underneath this lip here and then he installs the screw in it okay so he has the vertical support in place he's not going to weld it down I think he's just going to screw it down so we have a little strength right now again our goal is going to be to preit all the sheet metal for the last time and if it's preit right take off what you need to so you can can begin the final W is that correct he's the best perfect ready to do the quarter panel front's got to go on first folks got to lap around that front corner and through the belt line there's a area there where there's a tab okay I'm looking good so far here good and that's perfect okay so he's going to set a few screws and our process is we're going to do the left quarter the right quarter the Dutchman panel once those are in place then we can do the fine-tune the last fine tune things that we have to do and he can get cut loose welding okay ready to do a right-and quarter now right hand quarter goes on I'll let you start at the front as always I'm looking good back here beautiful this got to come a little yep how you looking looking really good right on the money honey and that's the way you do it when you pre fit it he's going to set the screws for it next part we're going to put on is going to be the Dutchman panel and that's the key piece we'll check our door gaps we need to put the Dutchman in place and check it against the reveal of the trunk lid plus the trunk lid against the reveal of the quarters if all those are lined up he's ready to go and start welding yeah did you just stare at the camera again also I like your style I like your style let's do it together though just for fun right that was good all right let's put a ding panel on all right okay so this is going to be the Dutchman he's going to pass it through to me we can't close the trunk lid right now so he's just going to pass it through go up under here and slide it right just a little bit the slider on into place and it's got to come back over this lip okay hang on hang on get crazy you guys who body men get so damn crazy okay I'm I'm in position beautiful so it had a nice fit on your first preit a real good dish to it fantastic okay so once I get that clamped into place we'll have nice tight gaps get these quarter panels sucked in the rest of the way and they'll be ready to weld okay so basically where we're at right now is he can run his screws and his clamps back into place once they're in place you get the lines where you want them I will come over and we'll do a final sign off on it we'll check the door to quarter Gap dut Dutchman to trunk Gap side to side trunk opening gaps and if those are all good I believe at that point we can go ahead and weld it up and then all this left is a roof skin and this can go over to Mud yep it'll be all done I'll be in my office torturing people a sounds good thank you thank you for your help you bet here we go we're going in so without knowing what's going on in the bottom of the engine Mark wants us to get the lifters and the cam shaft out of the way to determine what is actually causing causing the engine to be frozen in place I have no hope that we're even going to be able to turn this engine over until we rip it completely apart you ever do this Marty um vacuum out your engine I'm I don't think that I've ever actually had to do that to any of my engines this looks like the remains of a campfire it does get get as much of that out of there as you can cuz I want to soak that with uh some penetrating foot and see if I can get any of those lifters to come loose that cam is not going to come out there we don't get those lifter to move man that piston is all the way down and it was practically full of that white W how we looking this in there okay what are we going to put in there some magic oil magic oil magic oil I'm going to put some of this on the lifters okay I'm going to add a little bit right here pour in some of this miraculous marvelous Myster serious oil made a mess it's full it's full perfect and people talk about stuck lifters right yeah stuck lifter are stuck all right oh no look at that this always happens when I say it can't be done well there's only 15 [Music] more still to go can dugey and Marty achieve the miraculous it's not a waste exra time because we know what the answer is but is this engine headed for the salvage yard at this point I just need to sell it and tell him what we got will Mark recoup the costs of his investment when a numbers matching mobar may be dead on arrival if I didn't know about a block being rebuildable or savable I wouldn't pay for Num car find out when graveyard cars returns yeah so it's not a waste of time because we know what the answer is that we're going to have to take the engine out well two things I could put the car online for sale right now right and just say we don't know about the block well somebody if I didn't know about a block being rebuildable or savable I wouldn't I wouldn't pay the extra money you're going to pay for a num car so we're going to take the engine out send it to our guy up in Washington that's doing our engines let him go ahead and bake it take it apart mic it and uh do a magna flux and just find out does it need to be board 30 over can we save the cylinders do it needs eight sleeves we just want whoever it is buying it to know now at that point I may have already sold it who knows but I will sell it with the numbers matching engine if the engine can be saved and if it can't then I'll sell it as a non-numbers matching engine but either way at least now we can give the honest answer to whoever is going to buy it so it wasn't a complete waste of time take a bow you guys did good bow sure there you go yeah thank you we clean the mess up you can take that out to the rack get the engine out of it we'll call our guy up north and see if we can can't get that engine rebuilt so so our 70 Cuda he now has all of the back sheet metal on it and is ready for me to sign off so that it can do his welding he's doing some final adjustments on the hood so I can sign off on that in a minute I just saw a couple of things earlier but I wanted to show you what I come out here and look for to make sure he is okay to do the welding on it I walk up to a car like this and I eyeballs it I gets my eyes on it I walk around I make sure that my reveal from the bumper to the rear body panel is the same from side to side and it is which is better than the factory ever did by the way this by the way isn't the final bumper that we'll be using but it is an original bumper we wanted to make sure that we had the fit to an original bumper although the AMD bumpers are beautiful I still like to fit everything to an original part just for the fitting purposes how does it fit against the trunk lid we have the trunk lid in place how's our line our line is great let's look at the bottom the other portion this crazy bance panel how does it fit coming this way how does it fit going that way it should have a datam plane where it just comes up in here like that right there and ends in the bottom of that bumper that's the way it's supposed to be shaped so when I stand back and you guys take a look at that everything is symmetrical the bance to the bumper to the rear body panel to the trunk lid so I know it's good however what if he compromised how the quarter panels fit on the car and we don't have good door gaps or the back window or the Dutch those are the things I have to look at so yes I'm good on the back end of the car side to side this is a good Gap they may have to use a little bit of filler in there it doesn't show on TV but I can see there's just like maybe a half a millimeter here and there that would need to be cleaned up but that's what they do in mud there's plenty of room to do that same thing on this side I've got a good line from side to side so that tells that quarter panel is matching up with that trunk lid very nicely now we can kick it over to the mudroom we won't have any complaints from them because all of this work has been done so originally my plan was just to send the engine out to the machine shop let him bake it alive and and get everything freed up but I but I know for a fact I'm not going to build the engine myself I don't want to if I sell the car to somebody and they want me to restore the car a different story but at this point I just need to sell it and tell them what we got so we need the Pistons out so I decided we would get the engine out of the car put it on a stand I cut dugy loose with a drill bit and we begin drilling the Pistons and then you could collapse the Piston down on the wrist pin get the shards out of there and free it up we did get it all cleaned up numbers matching engine no cracks in it anywhere three of the cylinders probably will need a sleeve the rest of them look like they would bore 30 or 60,000 and be fine so now I can at least say you've got a numbers matching engine that's rebuildable so it was well worth taking the time to do it because now I can advertise a car that reflects exactly what you're buying

Channel: Graveyard Carz

Views: 50,008

Keywords: Graveyard Carz, TV Show, Mopar, Chrysler, Dodge, Discovery Channel, MotorTrend, Restoration, Muscle Car, American, The Office, Christine, Mark Worman, Allysa Rose, Will Scott

Id: U7wNCnWz7LY

Length: 43min 37sec (2617 seconds)

Published: Wed May 15 2024