Re: My 70

["amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "HEL" <strlcuckoo_46@xxxx> wrote:
> Just thought I would share news. I tried to start my new 70 Gremlin 
> with the battery from my 74 withouot luck the other day so I went to 
> WalMart and bought her a battery and hooked it up. Two squirts of 
> starter fluid and she fired right off! She had a half tank of 'who 
> knows how old gas' so I added some boost to it and she kept on 
> firing, though rough. Now I don't think this car had moved under its 
> own power for, oh say ten years(88,000) on the odometer and all 
> orginal interior. So I added brake fluid and tranny fluid and SHE 
> MOVES AND STOPS though I won't trust her until I do a complete brake 
> job and tune up and tranny service. But I am stoked. Now to drag my 
> other new Gremlin to where the donor hornet sits and swap out the 304.
> Hal


Congrats. I know the thrill of getting one running after many years. My yellow Hornet sat for 8 years without runing once while I was sick. It started right up but the lifters were frozen and clattered like all hell. No matter what I added to the oil I couldn't get them unfrozen. A tribte to AMC engines is that I have driven the car for 7 years and put 5,000 miles on it with the engine runing this way while I worked on the car. Hopefully the new engine will come this comeing spring.
"Doc"