Will an Old Chevy Start After Sitting for 20 Years??

[Music] this is how you do your intro no no it's not ladies and gentlemen welcome to another episode of junkyard digs today's a special one it's the first time we're finally doing a chevy truck revival we just bought this 75 c10 for 500 bucks it's been sitting here for i don't even know how long let's go ahead and put a battery in it and see if we can make it run are you ready to move yeah so based on the title this thing was placed in storage in the year 2000 which was 21 years ago which means that this thing has been sitting here for i would say at least 20 years the owners affectionately called it the what was it the patch quilt chevy the patch quilt chevy because as you can see it's been totally patched together this whole piece is a patch iowa tailgate looks pretty good more patches on this side some patches in the door cab corner the front of the door and it looks like we got one good fender the hood's already got a bit of a kink in it so that sucks uh the hood liner's falling down i fixed it and here we have a v8 chevy can you do those the honors and see if that thing even spins over i sure can oh a little something oh i saw it move a tiny bit yep we'll go ahead and say that that's uh that's totally free and that should she'll run i think we should call this the pumpkin patch oh my god that's genius it's bright orange and it's all patched together this thing is totally sunk in the ground we've got four flat tires on it the rim is below the dirt there's a bunch of bugs crawling around no bugs grill looks like it's okay everything seems to be here looks like it was a power steering power brake truck what's going on on the inside here look at the gooey steering wheel that is gross we've got a split bucket seat going on here i don't know if these are original through the truck or if they're from a blazer or what the deal is there's no floor whatsoever oh it got goo on me i i can't see how many miles it has oh 78 it has 78 miles i like the shape of the stash oh this oh that is nasty did we bring d germ they put hairy goo all over my leg you touched a chevy [Laughter] we got an oil pressure gauge a fuel gauge a brake light a temp gauge typical chevy stuff dash looks really nice beautiful orange dash beautiful orange interior this is damn near the same orange as my f-100 actually now that i see the inside where it's like the paint's somewhat okay everybody thinks your f-100 is red yeah red orange red orange i'm sure this bed liner is pretty much the last thing holding it together oh my gosh look at rubber queen this oh there's so many jokes to be made here but they just they're writing themselves better than i could write them i tell you what i found a bunch of band-aids for when we heard ourselves did you yeah oh yeah and everything looked in there oh no i put my hand on the steering wheel hold on let me see the camera real quick and don't move what you've got a bunch of seat on your butt do it oh my god this is cheyenne i realize that now because it says cheyenne oh here's our door card this is important get get get get out oh yeah i've located our door card i'm going to sacrifice my pants to sit in here and read it we've got a sliding rear window all right we're off to a good start turbo hydromatic trans which was apparently rebuilt right before it's parked the color's crimson red ah here we go v8 engine 350 cubic inch so yeah we've got a 75 chevy cheyenne with a 350 chevy v8 in it what do you say we get a battery and see if anything comes to life oh i found another plug for the installation oh son of a [ __ ] the batteries bolted down and it's also rusted the hill heck wow well that's one way to fix that sounds really crunchy i want to loosen it with a wrench and it won't move so i just grabbed it and bent it out of the way and now we're free okay all right new battery does it even fit let me just clean up our terminals a little bit i don't hear any any noise i see no fires same let's go to the cab and put this set of keys in it and see what happens you know what's concerning this radio is called the spark-o-matic it's supposed to be a radio not a death wish oh our coolant temp went the cold and the fuel went through all of it what in the chevy's going on [Applause] that's amazing this is a safe station boy buys a cheyenne immediately is taken out to the wild west hey wow we are working wipers how about headlights yep yep right left yep there's the left yeah no horn damn it well we paid too much for this pile of crap there's no horn comes with kevin powered windows i sure do oh what about a blower i thought you turned the radio back how do you make it stop well you broke it this is just always on there's no off stop touching it you're making it angry stop it all right we're gonna get into the good stuff now yummy bunk oh we got an hdi distributor back there looks like most of our plug wires are intact now that we know our air intake is free and there's no mouse poop or anything in here does our car move i do oh here's oh looks nice and clean oh it's yeah it's actually pretty good i need absolute silence for this precision work move i did it i have a phone case with my truck on it what where can they find one of those um if you watch part four of my green 78 here you can figure that out all right you want to go in and hit the key yes all right ma'am go ahead well she spins over wow sounds like you might have a couple soft cylinders but uh i guess we just hit it with some brake clean let's see if it makes noise yes let's do that you could check for spark and hei by pulling uh one of the plug wires and checking as it rotates over but we're just gonna go ahead and throw some brake clean down and see if it pops out this should be enough to do something all right hit it [Laughter] [Music] something seems to be ungood it's like it's stinky we've got some fun things going on with the uh choke there which means that the valve train might not be happy let's make it a bunch of goofy noises and uh it's only trying to fire on like one cylinder once in a while so maybe we should back up and kind of reassess and start from further back or we hit it again and see what happens yeah that one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hmm does not seem pleased with wanting to be alive interesting um it's too bright to see if we have sparks so i'm just going like this crank it over move that uh that means they're sparking now the question is is there compression kind of seems like the answer might be no let's go ahead and disconnect our fuel so that if things do start working we don't fill our carburetor full of poop thank you to whoever sent those these knives in the mail even quite useful you guys want to send us stuff in the mail um what's our p.o box address mook our p.o box address is either junkyard digs or junkyard mooc p.o box 1623 ames iowa 500100 kevin always puts it in the description too in case you didn't catch that with that being said if you guys want to see uh your shirt worn on the episode go ahead and send us your shirts we wear them i i only wear shirts i usually get for free or make myself fun facts i'm wearing a knoxville driveline shirt which was free on power tour and what else you wearing i'm wearing junkyard digs merch which you can find at junkyarddiggs.com actually mooc has more to add on that i do i'm here to let you know that all thunderhead289 merch on our website his logo and the trailer park f-100 shirts are on clearance this means that they are 30 off and they are limited supply so when they're gone they are gone all right that's enough the shame was plugged let's see if we make this thing run so we know i have spark on cylinder one but we don't know if we have spark on everything and how strong it is we're gonna go ahead and pop the cap and rotor off clean them up and make sure that we're getting sparked everywhere needs to be our plug wires look good the plugs don't look terribly old so uh i don't think it's anything that's an issue down there then beyond that it's probably gonna be compression things which is gonna be fun yeah yeah i really thought the first small block chevy we'd come up to would be like you know put gas in it and go because it's a small block chevy and they're immortal but so far now time for that cap to come off oh pretty poop ass oh okay oh yeah that's probably a problem i'll take that screwdriver please there you go thank you go ahead and get those cleaned up we'll try it again oh what did you do nothing are you okay no do you need a hug yeah i could use a hug and once again a dentist scrape it off black you need a brush for chevy yeah gosh don't forget to floss okay our cap and rotor is reinstalled mook if you want to hit it we'll try it again seems to have a definite change go ahead what the hell is this thing doing right now i tried to run it popped real loud and now it's just all over the board she cranking uh let her cool i think we might have flooded her out somehow i don't know if the car had some stuff in her what but either she flooded out of the the piston rings are getting some oil and it's building compression in two cylinders this thing's gonna fight us alive i think i can make it run i'll try this vice grip garage style where we show the entire truck question which shot do you guys prefer when we're doing this do you prefer seeing the engine up close and seeing stuff spin or do you want to see the whole car so you can't really tell what's going on but you might be able to see some exhaust smoke let us know down in the comments let me know what your favorite color is [Music] [Applause] but nothing else you know i didn't bring cookies and what else i didn't bring another carburetor you know what else i didn't bring what spark plug socket oh what the heck all right so this is a good example of an engine that's been sitting for a while and doesn't want to come back to life i thought this was going to be an easy revival but it turns out it's not what i'm going to do is start popping out plugs what may have happened is they were burning oil before it was ever parked and they all got gummed up and they're not going to make spark after sitting for that long or they are flooded right now or who knows what so i'm just gonna pop them out we'll take a look at what's going on and then reassess another option we may have is the valve train is all gummed up after sitting for 20 years it's very much a possibility these are way way older than i had anticipated so that's that's a thing these plugs are looking okay i think what we're really fighting right now is valvetrain which we just cranked it a bunch and then went and got lunch for a half hour so it might be good to go now you want to throw that away yeah there's definitely some crap on them but there's no reason these shouldn't be running i can test one i'll go crank it you tell me if that light's on fire okay they're sparking yeah [Music] i think we've lost our battery on top of everything else all right i'm gonna put these plugs back in and we'll just try it again with a fresh battery see what happens so we'll be back when we got it all back together are you dancing to the birds yes fun fact i can't say wasp very well wasp wasp nest wasp finesse waspiness wasp wasp nest yes wasp finesse oh no same with dish soap that's just the minnesotan coming out this soap this is so this dish minnesota all right let's crank this thing see if it comes to life slash see if our other battery has any charge in it dish soap there's soap okay whoo smoking turns out it wants more fuel and more uh more go more go i think we can get her going now do you think we can get it going with dish soap dish soap no but we can definitely get it going with a wasp nest wasp nest cracking oh oh my gosh pumps started working oh that's big stink god bless you all right we need to take a quick break and uh plug that fuel line and then maybe set up our own fuel system i think this thing's gonna run after all i think it was just a bit of cranking speed issues there wasn't any oil on anything we had to get it going around but now that the rings are getting some oil we're building compression and she's gonna come to life this is a public service announcement kevin is a butt connector what all right we've got a fuel pump hooked up here it's got a freaking accelerator pump that works one thing i will say those carburetors right there in my experience are better than the ford two barrels ford's auto light two barrels are trash all right mook head on in and crank it let's see if she comes alive whoa thought about it do it again go again hang on it's on fire awesome try it again cranking it idles kind of i'm like you know four cylinders yeah very well chevy very well you're a little ready oh i killed it oh i have killed the chevy that's probably very much on fire hell yeah mook hell yeah now i guess we'll get some air in these tires and see if we can get the move step number next see if we can get air into these tires probably not but i can be hopeful oh thank you we'll have at least one that come out of the ground you might be wondering kevin why do you guys not do square body chevys very often this is literally the first one i found affordable that was like still abandoned these were popular 15 years ago and they all got bought up like they're gone at least in our area it's hard to find these trucks i've been wanting to do one for a long time because i i kind of like square body chevys they're essentially the same thing as the 70s ford i mean obviously they're both in the 70s but they're that nice awesome vintage of truck there we go come on girl although we do mostly fords on the channel i'm not actually totally partial to ford i enjoy chevys and mopars and all of them a car is a car and as long as you're out here bringing it back to life that is what counts all right hey two out of four there's three out of four it's growing [Music] kevin look yeah the differential is finally out of the dirt oh it's got mud on it there's like two inches of mud on it holy cow this thing was buried the last melon you know what this fender might be okay so we got a good fender and yeah a mirror no i think it's going this is the part where it rolls down the hill yeah there's a huge fold in the tire right here see that yeah all right let's see if the transmission works and see if this thing will drive out of its grade heck yeah i really like your custom steering wheel there kevin yeah that's my uh my sweet anti-goo steering wheel cover these are available on junkyarddiggs.com why didn't i put them all to the inside that would have been smarter these rust patterns back here look like an agate are you making more minnesota references over there heck off eggs are so pretty well it's coming along arts and crafts day here at junkyard ta-da well it's been five minutes and this is already flat so that thing's done for okay here we go hook up the fuel let's see if this thing dries don't catch on too much fire pumpkin patch just a little fire please [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] there you have it that right there is a running and driving 1975 chevy c10 cheyenne that's been sitting since 2001 20 years off the road two hours of work and she's back to life never said i was happy about it but it's back to life power steering worked the brake pedal actually moves revs out pretty good sits there and idles fires right up now it's a pretty good truck i mean it's not it's a total pile of [ __ ] but it's all things considered it operates pretty well can i stand like way up here yeah now we are the same size hey look i'll be your kid mom mom we rescued this 1975 c10 that we named pumpkin patch been sitting for 20 years and we got it going it was buried in mud and worms i'm not talking to you talking to them yeah mook pretty much wrapped it up there it is that survival of our first ever chevy truck we're now going to take this home and hopefully find a new owner for it so we can get the attention it needs or be disassembled to help put other trucks more deserving back on the road yeah make sure you guys subscribe to all my friends junkyard mook thunderhead 289 dylan mccool classic mustangs 429 the boss garage vice grip garage cars and cameras golden rust and bust the whole gang we'll see you next week right here on junkyard diggs for another great something something revival peace yeah that's a wrap kevin's retiring this is my channel now we're gonna rescue all the caterpillars and a wheelbarrow and we're probably hopefully going to avoid the wasp nests nest wasp nest with dish soap subscribe to mook to see more this chaos and caterpillars and microscopes foreign

Channel: Junkyard Digs

Views: 374,523

Rating: 4.9514179 out of 5

Keywords: chevy, revival, first, start, in, years, first start, abandoned, neglected, forgotten, vgg, jyd, junkyard, digs, sitting, old, cold, drive, from, the, grave, vice, grip, garage, suggested, square, body, squarebody, mook

Id: HZdCfq3Ephs

Length: 28min 17sec (1697 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 18 2021