PopTheClutchPillay
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- Vancouver,BC
Ryan's $350 Wagon Resto-Mod! LOTS OF PICS!
Hello all fellow TB'ers!
Yup thats my 850 5 Speed
Previous owner said he parked it because it was hard to engage gears. He never got around to try fixing it, and it ended up sitting there for 11 years. He also mentioned that several times him and his son tried to get it running and it would only run on starter fluid. So $350 later, she was home!
Heres home for a few weeks in my aunts carport while I get her running then bring her home!
I had a spare battery lying around so I put that in, sprayed some starter fluid into the intake and sure enough she fired right up! I figured that since she would fire up on starter fluid, I assumed that spark, compression, and timing were all fine and so I narrowed it down to a fuel delivery issue. I bought a new fuel pump relay and tried that, but unfortunately that didn't do it so I then moved onto the fuel pumps. I had my dad turn the key and I listened in the tank and under the car for priming sounds and nothing, so I tested voltage at the main pump outside the tank and it was getting power, just not working. So I went ahead and replaced that pump with a bosch pump and sure enough she ran!! I changed all fluids, etc. The next day I threw a permit on her and headed to aircare (Smog/Emissions) Here in Vancouver BC, you can not buy insurance unless you have passes the emissions tests (Aircare).
Here she is the day she had a permit and ready for aircare!
Here she is at aircare while I nervously waited the results
Unfortunately she failed due to higher Nox readings. It was about 300ppm over the limit. I tried a few things including chinese water torture, and she still failed another 2 times. Being summer I really didn't want to fool around with aircare I just wanted to cruise her! So I planned on buying the maximum 3 months allowable insurance so that summer could be enjoyed
A few days later I cleaned her up really well. I washed it in the pouring rain, it was a labour of love
All cleaned up!
Just like the owner had stated, absolutely no rust. All body panels were clean and straight. I was amazed and fell deeper in love with her
Well just like the previous owner had said, it was really hard to engage the gears. The clutch literally engaged at the floor. Had a few friends drive the car and said it was either a bad clutch plate, or bad pressure plate so I embarked on a 2 week journey of replacing the whole clutch assembly. I got really lucky on this one. I had a lot of great friends that lent me the required tools. I had told a few people about what I was getting into and they were pretty amped to see it when it was done! One day I got a text message from a good friend of mine saying " Dude I think I have a clutch kit for your car ". Low and behold he did! He had purchased the wrong clutch kit for his car, but it was the right kit for my car! I know my friend had been looking for a flathood for a while, and I found one at a junkyard that just recently got a '76 242 in the lot. i told him about it, but due to his hours he couldn't get to the yard so I offered to grab it for him. I grabbed the hood, and traded him the hood for his clutch kit, win win.
I don't have many pictures of the clutch job as I wanted to get it done fairly quickly. Here's a pic of me holding the M46
2 weeks later the clutch job was done! The day she had gotten done, I immediately got plates for her and drove her home!
Everybody at the gas station had a puzzled look on their faces as I walked around and continued to snap pictures of the wagon. Maybe it was because of the huge smile that was on my face. The M46 was shifting smooth as butter, and the clutch engaged in the middle right where I like it
The day after I put plates on it my dad decided to take it to work. At 11:00 in the morning I get a phone call, "Hey I dont know what happened but the wagon stalled". I got dressed and went to where he was, and it turned out to be a bad alternator. I took the alternator to a shop to get rebuilt while I waited a couple hours with the car on the side awaiting the shop to drop the alternator off. I figured this was a good time to put some decals on
I am so blown away with how far shes come.
I have only one complaint about her. She is SLOW. Very slow. Being a non turbo b230f in a heavy 740 wagon, it is slow. But not a problem, a +T or b230ft swap is in the very near future!
Here's a couple more pictures
Hello all fellow TB'ers!
Yup thats my 850 5 Speed
Previous owner said he parked it because it was hard to engage gears. He never got around to try fixing it, and it ended up sitting there for 11 years. He also mentioned that several times him and his son tried to get it running and it would only run on starter fluid. So $350 later, she was home!
Heres home for a few weeks in my aunts carport while I get her running then bring her home!
I had a spare battery lying around so I put that in, sprayed some starter fluid into the intake and sure enough she fired right up! I figured that since she would fire up on starter fluid, I assumed that spark, compression, and timing were all fine and so I narrowed it down to a fuel delivery issue. I bought a new fuel pump relay and tried that, but unfortunately that didn't do it so I then moved onto the fuel pumps. I had my dad turn the key and I listened in the tank and under the car for priming sounds and nothing, so I tested voltage at the main pump outside the tank and it was getting power, just not working. So I went ahead and replaced that pump with a bosch pump and sure enough she ran!! I changed all fluids, etc. The next day I threw a permit on her and headed to aircare (Smog/Emissions) Here in Vancouver BC, you can not buy insurance unless you have passes the emissions tests (Aircare).
Here she is the day she had a permit and ready for aircare!
Here she is at aircare while I nervously waited the results
Unfortunately she failed due to higher Nox readings. It was about 300ppm over the limit. I tried a few things including chinese water torture, and she still failed another 2 times. Being summer I really didn't want to fool around with aircare I just wanted to cruise her! So I planned on buying the maximum 3 months allowable insurance so that summer could be enjoyed
A few days later I cleaned her up really well. I washed it in the pouring rain, it was a labour of love
All cleaned up!
Just like the owner had stated, absolutely no rust. All body panels were clean and straight. I was amazed and fell deeper in love with her
Well just like the previous owner had said, it was really hard to engage the gears. The clutch literally engaged at the floor. Had a few friends drive the car and said it was either a bad clutch plate, or bad pressure plate so I embarked on a 2 week journey of replacing the whole clutch assembly. I got really lucky on this one. I had a lot of great friends that lent me the required tools. I had told a few people about what I was getting into and they were pretty amped to see it when it was done! One day I got a text message from a good friend of mine saying " Dude I think I have a clutch kit for your car ". Low and behold he did! He had purchased the wrong clutch kit for his car, but it was the right kit for my car! I know my friend had been looking for a flathood for a while, and I found one at a junkyard that just recently got a '76 242 in the lot. i told him about it, but due to his hours he couldn't get to the yard so I offered to grab it for him. I grabbed the hood, and traded him the hood for his clutch kit, win win.
I don't have many pictures of the clutch job as I wanted to get it done fairly quickly. Here's a pic of me holding the M46
2 weeks later the clutch job was done! The day she had gotten done, I immediately got plates for her and drove her home!
Everybody at the gas station had a puzzled look on their faces as I walked around and continued to snap pictures of the wagon. Maybe it was because of the huge smile that was on my face. The M46 was shifting smooth as butter, and the clutch engaged in the middle right where I like it
The day after I put plates on it my dad decided to take it to work. At 11:00 in the morning I get a phone call, "Hey I dont know what happened but the wagon stalled". I got dressed and went to where he was, and it turned out to be a bad alternator. I took the alternator to a shop to get rebuilt while I waited a couple hours with the car on the side awaiting the shop to drop the alternator off. I figured this was a good time to put some decals on
I am so blown away with how far shes come.
I have only one complaint about her. She is SLOW. Very slow. Being a non turbo b230f in a heavy 740 wagon, it is slow. But not a problem, a +T or b230ft swap is in the very near future!
Here's a couple more pictures
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