Well It Is A Start, MOPAR Fire. Missy Lumpy Lives And Moves After 8 Years!

[69rtse4spd]

Fantastic, just finished reading the whole thing, great. Hops your wife is better, glad you got a better job & getting your foot taken care of. Sounds really good for sitting so long, an inspiration to us all. Congrats on a successful rebirth of a classic. .

[Tilar]

She sounds strong and ready to go out and kick some ass.     Thanks for posting the videos.    

[firefighter3931]

Good job Ken 

No power to the coil points to the Ballist resistor.....that's where you should start. 


Ron

[cudaken]

 Hey Folks!

Boy I am still stoked!  

I have been replaying the videos over and over and over listening to Miss Lumpy   Man, I let her sit way to long. I had forgotten how much I like the sound of a V 8 with a cam in it!  

Does Miss Lumpy sound like I remember? No, she not as Lumpy as I remember! But she has not been set up yet to drive. Sunday or Monday I hope to hook up the throttle, kick down linkage and return spring. Next adjust the idle, float level and air fuel mixture.

Then, it is time to see if she will move! Not a lot, maybe a foot to get her a little straighter in the driveway.

Next, get the 8 year old gas out of the gas tank, hum I think I have a idea. Hook the fuel pump up to the gas tank, run the pressure line to a 5 gallon gas can and gravity feed the 750 Holley. I will install a inline glass gas filter to the line that goes to the gas can to see how much crap is in the line and gas tank. If not that bad, hook up the gas tank and get some fresh gas! Then around the block we go!  

After that get her in the garage and do a Exorcism on the Electrical Demons. Then on to the fun stuff, Body Work!   I love bodywork!  

By the way, I would like thank all that have posted on this thread! You folks have helped give me the encouragement I needed to get off my fat ass! Special thanks to Allen (41 Husk) and Jim! I am looking forward to getting to know Jim better! He has a lift in his garage!  

Cuda Ken

[A383Wing]

good to hear yer excited.....hope the rest of the car goes this easy.

I need to at least start the 3 cars here in the garage that have been put away since about a year ago....put some fresh gas in them and at least put a few miles on them before fall hits again. I just ain't been very motivated this year to do anything on the cars.

Bryan

[cudaken]

Bryan, did you ever get the video to work?  If not I will E mail them to you if you like.

Your Friend Ken

[Budnicks]

Congrats CudaKen it sounds pretty good too... 

[TruckDriver]

Congrats Ken   

Sounds awesome too 

[rt green]

keep us posted. love seeing this happen.  great thing not selling her.

[tan top]

      awesome !! job !! great stuff  CK 

[General_01]

She sounds great!! 

[Tilar]

Hey Folks!

Boy I am still stoked!  

....Then on to the fun stuff, Body Work!   I love bodywork!  

By the way, I would like thank all that have posted on this thread! You folks have helped give me the encouragement I needed to get off my fat ass! Special thanks to Allen (41 Husk) and Jim! I am looking forward to getting to know Jim better! He has a lift in his garage!  

Cuda Ken

You love bodywork? Hooboy could I make you a happy man with my cars. 

[cudaken]

You love bodywork? Hooboy could I make you a happy man with my cars.  rofl

Dave, yes I do! While a running car that plants you back in the seat is great! But I dislike wrenching. Well adding the blower to the Charger was fun 

Now taking a pile of rusted junk and making it pretty again! 

When I got out of the army I was wondering what kind of school I was going to use my GI Bill for, Mechanical or Auto Body?  I was changing out the 727 in a friends garage and found my self laying in 8 quarts of Dextron II. My mind was made up!  Try getting that crap out of your hair! 

On the other hand, I can blow dust out of my hair! 

Dave, where do you live? I really do enjoy bodywork and be happy to help!

Cuda Ken

[resq302]

Congrats on getting her fired up!  Glad we all could encourage you to get this far.  Now we just need to keep you on the straightened path to mobility with the car!

[nvrbdn]

man ken she sounds great. what a thrill to see you and allen hooping it up. he is a great guy to have around. im happy for you.  

[cudaken]

Yep Jim, I am glad I waited till Allen was here! To bad you could not drop by.

Ken

[41husk]

It was great to hear her run again, glad to be able to help.

[nvrbdn]

now, what about those trains?                have they started being disasembled yet?

                                       will the beast own the garage for the upcoming winter?     

      for answers to these questions and more,


           tune in for the next episode.         same ken time, same ken channel. 

[451-74Charger]

Hair? what Hair Ken?

[mauve66]

 
boy i miss that healthy v8 sound too, thanks for the memory update

[Tilar]

You love bodywork? Hooboy could I make you a happy man with my cars.  rofl

  Dave, where do you live? I really do enjoy bodywork and be happy to help!

Cuda Ken

I appreciate the offer, I really do... but like mentioned earlier I'm in north central Ohio. I can do some things but it would be fun to learn from someone that actually knows what they are doing.   

[cudaken]

You love bodywork? Hooboy could I make you a happy man with my cars.  rofl

  Dave, where do you live? I really do enjoy bodywork and be happy to help!

Cuda Ken

I appreciate the offer, I really do... but like mentioned earlier I'm in north central Ohio. I can do some things but it would be fun to learn from someone that actually knows what they are doing.   

Dave, never said I knew what I was doing! 

Hair? what Hair Ken?

I still have hair 451! Mainly in my ears now but it is still hair!

Jim, With you being a train person as well you know it will be hard for me to take down the layout. Till Miss Lumpy can move on her own, I am keeping the trains layout up. Now, when she can move which will be soon then I will take the layout apart. My plan is to take the part of the layout that goes across the garage door down and move stuff around. Then build a lift out section so I can get Miss Lumpy in and out of the garage!

boy i miss that healthy v8 sound too, thanks for the memory update

Mauve66 Wait till I get her tuned!

Jim's post does bring up something I have been thinking about!  When should I let this post die?  I have a long road to travel till I get her back on the road and looking good!

1 After she moves?

2 When I can drive her?

3 When the Electrical Demons are gone.

4 After the bodywork and paint is done?

  While I know there is a bodywork section and kind of like to post it here. I am wanting to do something a long AMX story line about doing bodywork I did years ago. Here a link.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,4803.0.html

For me, it is all the same story. I am just wondering what the folks here think that have been following my quest to rekindle the fire, The Mopar Fire! And Baby, The Beat Goes On  Anyone one under 50 will have no idea what The Beat Goes On means! 

Cuda Ken

[JB400]

I see no sense in letting this thread die unless you just want to.  Stu keeps the same threads going about each of his project cars.  It does let others keep track of your progress from start to finish, instead of jumping from one thread to another.  As a newbie, I do find it a little disappointing to read up on someone's last project, and then have to find the other corresponding thread to find out what all was done.

It is your call though 

[Bob T]

Nice one CudaKen and Husk  Good effort and yeah, it does sound lumpy 
Wait'll those old hard tyres start leaving some lines in the street 


Might as well keep the thread going with your bodywork , its been a good one so far 

[rt green]

Plymouth... the beat goes on.       also plymouth makes it     mopar advertising!