Can We Fix an ABANDONED 35 Foot Limo?! - EFI Revival

ladies and gentlemen welcome to another episode of junkyard diggs today we're going to be seeing if we can bring this lincoln town car back to life we thought we'd switch things up and try a fuel injection in the rival to see if they can sit just as long as carbureted cars and still be nursed back to life now of course like i said this lincoln town car has been sitting for a long long long long long time 20 years and 35 and a half feet we bought a limo what are we doing all right let's let's begin damn you had to buy a larger camera lens for this one so like i just mentioned this is a 1986 lincoln town car ultra limousine this sucker is 35 and a half feet long it's got three couches inside there's three tvs in there it's got tandem rear axles and the whole thing is powered by a 302 don't know how it's supposed to move but it's supposed to move i can do the whole intro to the vehicle while walking and i just now get to the bumper let's check out the inside where all the good stuff is this is going to be so ridiculous so yeah coming inside we have ourselves a mooc get out is this your house yep so we'll start our tour at the rear of the car we have your typical entry-level bench seat right here for the poor bastards in the back it also folds down into a queen-size bed surrounded entirely by mirrors and there's a bloody hand print back there one thing you guys won't pick up on camera is the awful mouse piss smell uh and all the stains all over everything we're gonna need a lot of d germ but moving forward from the rear bed seat we have the full bar equipped with a television a phone and all the decorations when it was last used in like 2000 because it's been in a barn for 20 years our cameraman sitting on the center seat in front of the main bar moving forward we have the mini bar with the other tv and mook up on the 90 degree couch up front the whole thing's surrounded by awesome mood lighting and speakers i like how we all have our own couch yeah we all have our own like living room sized couch what'd you find these what the hell is this i don't know i can't read remember what does it say there was a holiday light tour in like 93. wow wow i was expecting plastic it's not luke we're gonna have new glasses for our house what an upgrade all we had to do was buy a limo there's some expensive ass cups all right we're going to cut the camera while i walk to the front of the car and we'll be back tomorrow to see the driver's compartment before i can even get in i'm finding stuff i've never seen before check this out this looks like there's a thermometer right here integrated in the mirror that it's a it's a ground speed indicator through wind bring her up to seven knots for the interstate captain put this boat to sail all right let's check out what we got in inside incredibly unergonomic sitting position for this poor bastard well he's probably getting yelled at by drunks in the back oh hey drunks in the back hey i want mcdonald's [Laughter] you don't really feel like you're driving a 35 and a half foot limo except for you can move all you want and the car does not move it doesn't shake i got some sweet light things here hey hecker i will put this partition window up give me that please deal everything here is still 86 lincoln town car uh with a thousand buttons on the door and then just an absolute beyond 90 degree seating position looks like we're marking 31 000 miles on the clock we have a fuel gauge a temp gauge a clock about that big and a speedometer and that's it you go straight up and down with that thing gotta get to church and get the whole congregation in the back and go to a different church oh well now we can get some dates off of this it looks like a 93 mouse nest i don't know a move oh good year from ice nest or these business cards ultra limousine incorporation des moines iowa i'm actually going to turn this over my camera man to give you guys a quick history of what the hell ultra limousine is mcdonald's sorry no it was last insured in 01 so it's been off the road for 20 years all right so let me look over my knees definitely didn't google this last night all right so many many years ago some guy named vinnie bergman he moved to l.a went to jail because that's what everyone in la does apparently once he got out he started making one-off cars for celebrities all this custom fabric and he was damn good at it so good in fact that he started making limousines his first one was a 78 it was a lincoln continental or a lincoln town car i can't remember at the time limos had 30 to 60 inch splints in them and with his first car he decided to just throw nine feet of extra car this car was 20 feet to begin with so now we've got a 30 foot boat and he just decided let's just throw in a hot tub and another axle at the back and thus ultra limousine was born this one's quite strangely optioned out as it has the gold trim everywhere it's got tvs it's got an extra sunroof it's got an extra long-ness to it and the tandem axle but yet it still has cloth seats and not leather but yeah oh it has the vinyl roof are these cigarette burns and everything factory yep probably well thank you jesse for that oddly specific insight that you somehow learned overnight at probably like 1am while googling things and now you're a limousine professional 130. let's throw some batteries in this big ol sumbitch and see what happens we got tang tools out here in the middle of nowhere somewhere south of marshalltown iowa where we're surrounded by farm equipment yeah so it's a bit of an odd find a limousine being on essentially a tractor junkyard it looks like but uh either way tank tools six door roller cabinets gonna help us get this thing back on the road we brought some gas an external tank a couple little pumps with us uh being an 86 ford most ford's that era ran a dual pump setup they had a lift pump in the tank the fed into a high pressure on the rail i have no idea if this is like that it might have six higher pressures to keep the fuel moving i don't know uh hopefully our fuel lines aren't rusty the guys were buying this from pulled it out of a barn and flat towed it here they said the brakes work so that shouldn't be a problem if it is a problem i'm gonna have to go buy out every part store worth of connectors and rolls of brake line we get from the front of the car the back of the car to fix that but we'll get to that when we get to that this is a dual battery car but it should crank just fine off one if i had to guess one runs the motor one runs accessories unlike a diesel but we'll see oh no it's coming pricey guys actually hey i just found another c right here uh supersonic of merle hay somewhere down by like des moines looks like the last time to put gas in it was 03. that's that's definitely enough to kill fuel pumps that takes like four years so yeah so you yell out the chickens yeah they won't he responded [Music] jesse talked about this but i don't think we showed it enough real quick before his real battery in check out this grill gold grill gold hood ornament gold lights and gold stripes all the way down the side this thing is pimpin numbers it's probably the d.o.t because this needs a chauffeur license to be a commercial vehicle but we're not gonna it's not for hire so whatever no no no no that's the boat registration you recall from number diesel service center we recently noticed your car's extended warranty was going to expire and wanted to give you one final courtesy call before your warranty is fired this would make you financially responsible for all service repairs sure yeah let me oh i hit the red button sorry anyway i'm gonna say my joke again because it's funny that's the boat registration number there is ten 000 wires in this car on every side like look at that i don't even know what that box is model 10 130. oh no that's the best model why this car i mean maybe that was the only car you get with a v8 back then that was classy and large but damn i would have put a 351 or a 7-3 in there or something how is this thing moved on the road well with a lot of their custom 90 some feet cars they put a cat like 500 in them because i would imagine can we put the perkins in it if this video gets a million views we'll put a twin turbo ls in this with with turbo sticking out the hood that's up to you guys i want to get rid of this because we don't have anywhere to store it because it is the length of our shop but if this sumbitch gets a million views we'll put a turbo ls in if we get 750 000 quick we'll put nitrous on the 302 and see what happens is that a fire extinguisher that's actually a great spot for that all right here we go oh it did a spin it did a spin i'm dumb i tried to listen for a fuel pump but i forgot it's a football field away i'm not gonna be able to hear it don't crank it we gotta check the air box it's fall but it's gross if it's full okay let's make sure we don't have any mouse houses that are gonna suck into the motor here i think these are speed density motors so we don't have to worry about this really being on honestly oh that's fine you want me to go a mile that way and see if i hear a pump or anything yeah if you want to go off there on the horizon and lay under the back of the car i can't even get the back of the car in focus oh just shoot me a phone call if you hear anything i can only mail a letter she's in a different post oh yeah hey we got different zip codes ready moot yeah if there is a word it's very very quiet all i hear is a click let's see if it cranks holy crap this is the first car we've ever owned the clock works in look at it go lower motor oh it does please turn off that's probably stinky orders supported by tight domestic supplies and solid domestic demand that actually sounds really good you got three of the four now you got two of the four which makes sense oh these are these lights rope lights this middle one doesn't do anything oh wait yes it does in here oh it does and the bottom switch does these oh in the back what's this red one [Laughter] that switches between tape deck and radio oh oh yeah this was owned by a church so the partition kinda works is it made of cardboard [Music] i'm not gonna say no but i'm also not gonna say yes do you think i can get netflix on these tvs i can lower the seat oh my god did you hear that the seat goes down can't not hear it holy penetrating into my soul that tied pitch squirrel you never seen a tube tv they gotta warm up sorry i was born in this century back right now this car was parked what about the one back here it works at least the screams wait for the tubes to warm up see if there's a tv picture yes oh my god static i haven't seen that in years [Applause] is there a knob there just it don't work all right well that's enough goofing around let's see if we can get this thing running and then really continue to goof around yes that's not the end of the goofing around all right come on out it's time to talk attack oh actually i just found one more thing we have to look at before we start working on the trunk button oh my gosh what you got holy it's got a subwoofer what dude this thing probably bumps oh it's got two it's got a kenwood amp and some other brand of amp that i don't know the zombies is wired for subs we got ourselves an air tank power steering fluid brake fluid oil and umbrella 9 000 wires of jack which i feel like that would do nothing for this car all right so fuel injection revivals basically if we have spark and we have fuel uh the sun's gonna run like poop and but it might potentially run as long as the injectors aren't hung open or something dumb is happening i anticipate all the sensors to be clogged up and probably not gonna know what the hell to do with themselves they might get better as it goes uh it probably needs to relearn its mapping for sure once it gets running but we should in theory be able to maybe make this thing run first thing i need to do is find the schrader valve to test our fuel i don't want to say pressure but presence test our fuel presence seeing that it was refilled last in o3 that would have been probably ethanol maybe uh so our fuel's probably completely ate in anything submerged in it being the pump and we're probably going to drop a tank which i looked at that before we bought this and it looks like it should be pretty reasonably something we can like actually make happen out here in the field because you can just kind of i'll show you there's like a little fort in the back of the car by the tank that you can crawl up into all right schrader valve there you are alright turn the key on mate yeah i mean i don't know what i'm listening for it's literally like 70 feet of line here and back go ahead do it again a few more times off okay i guess first thing we need to do is figure out what kind of fuel system this is if it's a high low pump or just a high pump in in tank let's see if we can find ourselves a fuel pump relay and make sure that's running first turn the key on again move [Applause] fuel pump really should shut itself off after a few seconds uh off again back on this one so one more time yeah that's our fuel pump relay he seems to be working he's going on off so he's good um i'm seeing purple white yellow and red those are our fuel pump wire colors at that point we just start tracing them back looks like they immediately disappear into this pile so those are gone forever does the horn work hey does the horn work this thing is a train and it has a train horn and that only makes sense all right we need to find our fuel lines where they go down see what side of the car the fuel lines are on and then start following them back for 35 feet the drive staff has like seven sections so i think these are our fuel lines they're pretty rusty they might be okay but it looks like they run on the inside of this rail as far back as i can see with no pump so yeah dude this thing was pimping you look like you're high i think i am i just bought this luke's now gonna crawl into the fort that i was talking about it's getting cold out by the way that's why i heard they're up it's like 45 today or 40. 41. there you go activities i told you it's like a fort down there i am sitting under a limo it also gives us access to our tank right there so we can just kind of chill under there out of the wind oh born from a limo hi you can buy these filthy dirty sweatshirts he's got a wiggly tooth quality with a k so the way these tandems work is the front axle's driven like a regular car and then the rear sits on airbags and uh it's supposed to just ride around back here look what this is made out of this is made out of scrap metal there's two like k-bar looking k-member looking thingies nope never mind it's just square tube with a plate welded at the bottom welded in the middle up here is like some spindle looking thing but right here and there are just two big ass one-inch pieces of steel rod booger welded in here like there's a little like 3 8 rod right there for filler this is just slapped together and thrown out the door what a freaking nightmare this is dual exhaust though so that makes up for it right uh trace the lines all the way back and i never saw a high pressure pump so this might just be an in tank pump let's go ahead and crawl under there and see if we can drop that tank i don't know where any of the pump wiring is um this is just like bits of random steel just slapped together right here let me let me bring you in here underneath the car for a little tour so this side's got square tubing holding the fender skirts this side has rebar this side has whatever the hell that is that side's a piece of angle iron there's like a watts link type thing going on in here uh here's our airbags of questionability here's our fuel tank which looks like i can just reach up and pop these two bolts off and drop our fuel tank nice and easy here's some more random metal built into a structure this thing this is terrifying all right looks like i need 9 16 wrench and some pb blaster and we can get this tank out so assuming we can get this running today and we drive it all the way back to ames and live in part two we're going to resume with the story of this limo we're going to wash it vacuum it out to the best of our ability and then do things with it what we want to know is what things you guys want us to do with this limo similar to the idea when this thing was built in a cocaine fueled rage what crazy ideas do you guys have that you wanted to see us do with this limo i'm thinking go through mcdonald's take it through a car wash uh just try to drive around town you should go to menards and buy really long like pieces of wood so i want to see down in the comments what do you guys want to see us do and we're going to do it minimal drama and maximum effort has given us wait for it a fuel tank oh it's a filler there we go filler neck just failed that's one way to do that first we must remove the car from the gasket uh this is actually a new tank that was replaced in 2000 so that's interesting let's get our multimeter in here and see if we're sending power to this pump and then we'll know if our pump's bad or if we have an electrical problem and our pump's probably still bad yep 12 volts that means we have power so if we have power it's not an electrical fault rather is a mechanical fault and our fuel pump has failed all right i've got a fuel pump on a chocolate hose we're going to drop this down in the tank to the fill neck pump all the old poop ass out and change our sending unit and put some new poo bass in assuming a nearby o'reilly's if there isn't nearby o'reilly's has ascending unit if not i brought a pump from a lawnmower he'll be okay we'll be fine would you like some apple cider i think i'm good to think sure yeah i thought it would be fine apple's had a tough night of drinking the night before oh i mean they're in a limo oh yeah oh yeah that's a big no dog i don't know what i'm looking at junk well there's the problem this just rusted off let's just hook that back up and throw her back in surely this will move fuel things aren't looking good for the inside of this tank but they might be looking good enough for what we're trying to do well time to start coming around see if anyone has one of these unfortunately it's two to three days to get one here so we don't have any pumps available i did bring potentially a higher power pump that we could try to finagle in there uh so let's go do that and see if we can make the same move fuel yippee somehow we're going to i just thought of this we have to flush all the rust out of the lines we're just going to clog up all the injectors usually i won't worry about that too much but there's 900 feet of line and i don't think there's a fuel filter do we think that that line actually doesn't have holes we're gonna think that i have rigged up the john deere fuel pump anyway because 17 psi is the highest pump we got on is right now and that might might still be enough to make that motor run well not well but it might run nothing else we'll know if we have leaks in the lines so we're gonna get this hooked up and we'll be back all right moose can hook this up i'm gonna hit the shredder valve up front see if anything happens all right move go for it yeah oh that looks like it might do it it's only gone okay let's hit the key all right i'll plug it get some fuel down this thing's throat see if she's even got spark i guess i just assumed see what that does all right unplug yeah soon we don't spark oh yeah spark there okay you're good all right crank it up she's got spark why actually no go boom i let off crank it weird doesn't really sound like it has a lot of compression all right go ahead mook yep [Music] it was like twice where it tried ever ever so slightly to run they got a little higher pitch yeah i was like vdd i gotta wonder if someone before us or or us ran old gas through this and the valves got sticky and they're not closing in time i've got the throttle closed and the brake cleaner wide open through the little hole in the throttle plate that's how it's trying to run what is going on go ahead flip i'm out that was a whole can of brake cleaner we need a fuel tank and a fuel pump hey luke hello ready for day two yes it's much warmer today yeah it is we got no clouds good old hunk of sunshine shining down i was up there a new gas tank and a new fuel pump which o'reilly is overnighted for free from the website just their standard shipping service let's get this tank assembled and get that sucker slap back under the car and then start dealing with everything up front i thought about it a bit and i think our piston rings are just stuck and we have like no compression which hopefully after we cranked it to oblivion in back it sat there with some heat in it and they might have freed up otherwise we are going to be probably pulling the spark plugs and trying to get atf down the cylinders which looks to be really difficult because you can barely reach the dang things that is a noisy chicken yes should we get to it i'mma heck it up go hit that thing up i'm just kidding i'm not it'll probably heck you up yeah [Music] yeah get out of here all right let's do it i got the collar oh [Music] puppy hi no he i don't think he does wait come back all right let's get this sucker flap together oh my god one thing we never got was a gosh dang fuel level sender oh we'll have to pop the old one out there cut it up into pieces and use it as a plug let it on fire no it's redundant but sure let it on fire faster and bigger all right we got the batteries hooked up uh we're still putting our tank together we're going to throw that in but i just want to make sure this thing still cranks nothing dumb happened and see if it sounds different after sitting see if it builds a little more compression oh it just ran heck might be a little more promising today let's get that tank in and see if this thing just magically lights off all right bolting our new tank back in there's a lot of broken welds down here it's kind of scary that happens when you use a arc welder and scrap metal to build a limo let's see if it holds gas you never know so yeah i'm gonna put this in and we'll key the fuel pump a few times get stuff moving around and see if it runs there she'd be and then hook up this fuel line and we're going to run the key a bunch and flush out that uh fuel rail the rest of the way so the way these early ford obd1 systems work is that when your key goes on two relays close one is the ecm and the other one is the fuel pump the ecm tells the fuel pump to close so if your ecm relay has a bad connection you'll hear no clicking and nothing will happen if you hear one click and it goes click and stays on that's the ecm but if you're two clicks or one louder click and then a second click a second later like we showed you the other day with this fuel pump relay it means your fuel pump relay's working so it'll be like lock unlock here click click so what we're going to do is replace that fuel pump relay with a wire these two need a touch for the fuel pump to be on and there we go we're gonna run that to get a good stream nice clean fuel there we go all right plug our fuel relay back in put our schrader valve back in and see if this thing fires ready yep i ran for a little bit i don't know why it would have stopped might have had more air in the lines or something [Music] let's see if she cleans up so oh just a shower of rust coming out of both oh and a mouse nest it is running on a couple cylinders at least it's like this under there [Music] it kind of runs let's let her sit for a sec after i got a little heat in it let the rings do their thing maybe so while kevin was running the engine i came back here to make sure there's no fuel leaks and sure enough there's a fuel leak we think it's the return it was on the driver's side all right right there you can see that it's wet everywhere so we probably need to go up there and place a trunk with some temporary rubber hose all right there's our fuel line repair i actually did have to end up cutting a section out so i bet this tab out of the way and pulled out here where i could work on it just put these clamps back down and just bend those in into shape i realize you can't see it very well earlier but here's a better look at just the freaking scrap metal this thing was built out of just junk there's cracked welds all over the place structurally terrifying this is just too i don't i don't even know honestly what i'm looking at all right moot kia let's see if we leak so again okay i think we're good let's see if we get this thing to run a little better [Music] listen to this sidle down yeah no leaks so far you need like a team to look at the whole car but i don't see anything sitting there island now what i'm gonna do is you clearly have some cylinders that aren't very happy because it's shuttering so it's in balance i'm gonna pop one wire off at a time from the cap and see which one doesn't make a difference it'll shock you that one made maybe a that one difference a difference that one made a difference that one made a difference that one does not that one does that one does that one looks really good the one two three we have three cylinders that aren't very happy that could be fuel could be spark it could be uh compression or valves so let's figure out which ones those are and see what we can do okay so we know we've got three dead cylinders let's go ahead and pop those plugs out and start with a compression test uh main reason i'm starting with compression today is because this one is dead and these two are dead and they're next to each other so that makes me question maybe we have a valve issue in that area or we have a head gasket blown between those two so i'm gonna pop them out hit them with the old compressor meter and see uh see what's what would you call a compression tester one's a bronchometer uh little fuel injection tank if you don't know anything about fuel injection vehicles the fuel system runs from the tank there's a high pressure or a low pressure pump depending on what style it is and then it's fed from that through the line uh if it's a low pressure in the tank it's fed to a high pressure pump in the line which is some mid 80s fords did it's terrible and then it's fed up through the fuel filter to the rail which is right here all these injectors are on the rail and at the back of the rail there's a pressure regulator that runs through the return in the tank that's why fuel injection systems are a little bit better than a stock carb system well arguably way better but they handle heat better than a stock carb system because they return fuel to the tank and flush out that hot gas basically if you're not getting fuel follow that system backwards or start at the back forward it's either gonna be a pump a filter pressure regulator might be bad letting all the fuel run back uh injectors might be clogged blah blah it's it's all the same stuff as carburetors but with a hundred thousand more sensors to make the engine operate as if it was a carburetor that's literally what obd1 is is it gets rid of the air flowing past the venturi to exactly meter the amount of fuel it needs if it's set up right and turns it into there's a big ass pile of wires that we're gonna make stuff just barely operate enough to run because it's 1986 and we don't really have the computer technology for good fuel injection anywho here's the spark plug if you're looking for a little more in-depth uh example of fuel system repair and specifically one of that dual pump setup i mentioned mook just put a video out a couple weeks ago with her 89 f-150 and we redid the fuel system on that sucker so what i'm going to do for this compression test is remove the coil wire so the vehicle won't start and i'm going to hold the throttle all the way open so that it can breathe properly that's something everyone screws up in compression test is they don't hold the throttle all the way open it doesn't matter what kind of engine it is except for a diesel because they don't have a throttle plate it's got to be wide open yeah that chicken's coming back for me what the hell what was that i was running like the chicken they run like this crazy bastard go ahead moot we got plenty of compression in that cylinder that's a good healthy motor so it's not a compression issue which is good [Music] that's all good so we got a good plug we've got plenty of compression um it's either a bad spark plug wire or a bad fuel injector while i'm dealing with plugs let me mention something people get an engine that runs kind of rough and they'll be like oh i need new plugs and they'll put plugs in most of the time even if plugs are all rusty and old and they got a bunch of miles on them as long as the electrode is flat and the uh the ground strap looks good as long as like the structure of the plug is good and it's not cracked and it properly sparks like that one it's gonna run the same as a brand new plug you're just throwing 30 bucks away for no reason so like i don't think we've ever put a set of plugs in a revival engine before i could be wrong uh oh i think we did in the gold cutlass just because that motor sees oh i still could be wrong i don't know i think i think we did once or twice but long story short you don't usually need new vlogs it's not usually the problem people are just loading the parch cannon and letting it rip towards the motor versus properly diagnosing if i had a gas it's either that spark plug wire or the fuel injectors not working properly either way let's move on to the next one anywho heck off belly button no no no no no just this plug wire i don't need to know if my belly button has continuity i think the world wants to know kevin luke's going to ohm out this plug wire what does it say 4.9 yep good plug wire so it's not a spark issue it's probably a fuel injector blue and either we just run them until they start working or go get new ones all right just for shits and giggles and to be sure of things i've gone ahead and scraped off all the points in our cap and rotor they were a little crusty not terrible and i thought i didn't like specifically check but i thought i heard spark when i was jumping the gap with the wires earlier so now we know it's good to go uh luke's gonna throw a court of type f in this thing so we can see if she actually goes in gear and stays in gear and we'll try it again i went through and smacked those fuel injectors with a bashing device to maybe free them up i don't know man let's see if it's any better actually it looks better [Music] so that uh cap and rotor being dirty might have been our problem that's like unreasonably smooth let's see if this makes a difference again it's still a little shaky but you'll have that that one still doesn't do anything this one that one does something now that's running pretty okay honestly i think maybe smacking those injections might have shook them loose so i don't think it was really a spark problem i mean i mean it could have been the cap and rotor as well the exhaust is just blue oh my gosh i can't see it it's literally too far away that motor cleaned right up it's running pretty damn good now it's actually a pretty healthy sound in 302 though we might have ourselves a driving 35 and a half foot limo should we try it yeah all right it runs all the fluids are topped off let's see if it'll drive one car length back so you know like three football fields [Applause] [Applause] i can't even get the whole car on the screen here we go there we go we traveled one car length back and forward i think we've got four miles on the pedometer i guess at this point we uh put insurance on this pile of junk if we even can and then see if we can take it up down the road see how bad our brakes really are all right heck are you ready for this i'm standing under your hat i'm ready oh boy here we go i don't think i've ever been this scared about driving a car on the road for the first time in 20 years it doesn't feel like this vehicle's been off the road for 20 years but i know that number is real and that's why i'm scared it's 35 and a half feet of sledgehammer and i'm up front and of course the one road we have to drive on right here is like a busy highway so this might be the last time you guys see junkyard you're in the back you'll live you'll just go no it'll be like a slide hammer i just go bam secondary impact i'm like oh i mostly lived and then i take a mook to the back of the head yeah and then you die well anyway i guess this is it we're about to drive a 35 and a half foot limo that's been off the road for 18 years from a tractor lot in a corn field in the middle of iowa right this way ma'am thank you mind the poop and your head hey this is as far as your camera zooms i'm too old and fat to actually turn around all the way to see anything behind me okay dang it it started again helping it just dying oh fashion seat belts actually don't mind if i do oh here we go i'm turning and nothing's happening it's not like it turns it just meanders over are we going to mcdonald's driver don't make me come back there it'll take an hour there's a cemetery to the north that seems appropriate for the first drive we're actually driving 35 and a half foot limo down the road for the first time in 20 years we're gonna die let's just this is redundant but let me set this more so to make sure mook doesn't fall out despite the tires being new they have some flat spots uh how's the ride ma'am it's a little shaky it's a lot shaky are we are we coming apart are all the tires bolted on this is terrifying holy crap it's rattling so hard i think there's some flat spots in the tire i've never been in a foreign war purple is my favorite color no i don't want any ice cream thank you i'll take the third one it's not as hard to drive as i would have anticipated i mean it's just big and you got to predict where it's going but ain't that bad it'll either crack the rest of the welds or smooth those tires out on the way home either one is a solution i'm willing to accept all right we're going for it pepperoni it's actually not as bad as i thought for getting out of its own way like it's totally drivable besides this part what is going on why is that so bad this window won't go up so it's a little windy and there's poop in my face oh we're getting fast we're just trying to not die it's awful it's got awful the brakes have gotten better hey what this isn't mcdonald's i mean there's a chicken over there but it's alive and it's a chicken damn it stuff um i'm sorry ma'am i can't hear you i'm going to put the partition up now no you're not leave me alone i mean the ergonomics of driving it aren't nearly as bad as i thought it just shakes your teeth out i'm sure it was really bad back here since he had four tires yes it was one of like the what are they called decanters or whatever yeah they're just like smacking the wall well i guess let's clean up our mess and get this mess on the road before it gets too dark yeah back to amps all right odometer 31 907 no bull crap we're actually gonna drive this thing this is just ridiculous looking back at like that i'm moving that right now here come the shakies there's got to be a sweet spot on the speedo here where it doesn't shake as bad oh my god it's not 45. oh it's it's frame beaming right now oh geez i'm gonna die so 45 is a no-go the whole thing starts the banana i'd be surprised if dash is still attached by the time we get home all right i'm going to shut up and concentrate and stay alive now we'll see you at the gas station assuming i could even get in to get gas there we go pulled up the first time missed the fuel pump by 10 feet weights or didn't go far enough so i figured out you park your driver position like again feel at this pump then you go that pump and you can put gas in all right onward yes you ready for this yeah i got my snackies yeah gonna need them we're taking back roads so it'll be like twice as long probably probably all 45 miles back so let's do it i gotta keep around 35 or else it starts frame beaming i bet holy the cruise control works i hit the buttons a bunch and she came to life and she's holding 35 like it's nothing or should i say [Applause] all right passing the eight mile mark i think the bar is about ready to jump out of the car it's shaking so much back there but we're making our first turn heading towards ames finally rubs a little that's fine coming at him oh listen to it girl this poor motor is like why am i in this car i'm a 302 i'm meant for light passenger cars and fox body mustangs and single cab short bed f-100s that's it well not 35 and a half foot limos this should be a 351 or a 460 or a 6 9 or a inline 300 would have been better for the torque range but nah 302 in this all right tires smoothing out a little more not to say it's good because it's like it's definitely not uh there's a big little freaking tractor up here just gonna keep sending it you know you know what we're all gonna die someday so i might as well go out with a statement all right next turn 14 miles on the odometer now temps looking good brakes are getting a little better it's also getting louder so i don't know if the mufflers fell off or what time for a little gravel travel to avoid down four miles here let's see how we do oh man that's a hill what if i high center on that like it's just a normal hill but that's a real possibility 35 feet long i hope i don't blow this stop sign i don't know if i'm gonna stop on time i should really start a band gravel travel's going well about the past 20 miles this thing's a lot better on gravel because the gravel you can't feel the wheels being nine and a half inches off center and out of balance whatever the hell is going on so not bad we're gonna hop on the old lincoln highway and head back that away for a while 25 miles on the odometer everything is looking nice really impressed with how well this runs for having sat for 20 years oh my god i don't know if i'm gonna make this turn i about died all right time to see how she handles one of one of the things i kind of want to do is take this to a road course full of people but i don't think there's any track in the world that probably let me do that with people in it oh god high stakes the exhaust is definitely getting louder it's not bad like i'm really really surprised how easy this actually is to drive also how dirty the camera lens is now that we've been driving on gravel whoops there's somehow no body roll i think that's just because it's so long that it defies the laws of physics and can't roll since the suspension's not on one parallel plane 33 miles state center iowa just gonna keep on keeping down oh hang on yep brakes still work i don't know how that's terrifying kind of scary honestly because whatever weak points didn't fail sitting in the bar are going to go out when i'm doing 70 mile an hour down the road this thing's going to basically turn into an icbm and take out a city block it's the veda we've done it the last step now is to navigate through the uh the town part of town and then we're at the shop call it a win and disregard all this scraping but there it is we freaking made it 48.7 miles not bad for the first drive in 20 years and trust me there's no uh no way we could have faked this and like put a car in a trailer and drove it home and then popped it off at intersections once in a while and driven it around because not only have i showed you the odometer but also because i literally don't own anything that could tow this i need to get out my back freaking hurts this seat is just straight up and down it's terrible i don't know if i can put us and the car all in one frame all right so that's gonna do it for episode one of our ridiculous limo revival so at this point we want to see down in the comments all the ridiculous dumb ideas that you guys want to see us do with this limousine drop them down there we're gonna do them before we get rid of this thing as for now that's all we'll see you guys next week make sure you subscribe the channel subscribe to junkyard mooc and all our other friends we will see you next time on junkyard digs peace bye you

Channel: Junkyard Digs

Views: 2,149,558

Keywords: abandoned, revival, first, start, first start, run, drive, and, will, it, can, we, vgg, junkyard, digs, mook, limo, limousine, home, 20, years, road, kill, tandem, ultra

Id: QarJ22H1f98

Length: 57min 48sec (3468 seconds)

Published: Sat May 01 2021