woodsnake
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- Joined
- Apr 28, 2011
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- Location
- Colorful Colorado!
- My Car
- 1967,68, and 69 Cougar,
and of course the 71 I am trying to sell!
http://s819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/woodsnake4462838/
I made it through about ten pages searching, and didn't find what I'm looking for..
So here is where I'm at. I bought my car with out an engine or trans, back in 2011. I had enough small block stuff laying around I thought it might do a "Christine" and heal itself....I was wrong. So I pulled an engine out of an 84 F-150, and found a C4 with the correct shifter linkage. Put a bunch of new parts in the 5.0, new oil pump timing gear set, etc. No "performance" parts, no new cam. I installed a duraspark ignition set up, with a new 600 Holley on an Edelbrock intake. I had a set of headers laying around, and so I threw them on to finish it up. I started the car for about a minute, just to make sure it would run.
Now, all these years later, I am back on it. Since the work was originally done, I also replaced the missing ignition lock and tumbler set.
When I try to start the car with the key, I get nothing. The engine will "try" and start by jumping the solenoid and dumping some gas in the carb, but the battery cables get hot fairly quick.
Is there a switch, at the bottom of the steering column that could be a player? I have NOT tried to start it in neutral yet. I only had an hour or two of daylight yesterday when all this happened.
Thoughts?