Waking up a 1974 Dodge dart after a 5 year slumber.
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- This is a car I'll never have the time and money to restore like I want. It has to go, but before it does we need to make sure it's capable of driving.
unfortunately the initial footage of the carb rebuild, fuel tank clean and prime was lost due to corruption. The video picks up where I successfully got it to hold an idle.
now you get to see the rest of the clips edited together showing a very abbreviated version of getting it driveable again.
My first car was a 1975 Plymouth Valiant with a slant 6. This sure brings back memories. Thanks for posting!
Slant 6, one of the TOUGHEST engines EVER made! My granddad had a 300 Massey Ferguson combine that had a slant 6, and it was TOUGH!
Yes good motor. just replace the distributor gear it's plastic.
Yes I totally agree my dad one in his 81 le baron
Slant 6 was used in some forklifts.
No hay nada mejor que lo ANTIGUO que carrasos, como el MUSTANG 76, pura CALIDAD en todas sus partes siiiiiii 👍👏😁
I had 2 slant 6's, one in a 1970 Plymouth Duster and one in a 1977 Dodge Aspen, The one in the aspen had a 2 Barrel, They called it " Super Six " That car would Vapor Lock bad in hot weather!, Never had that problem with the Duster, Dad had a 1966 Plymouth Belvedere with a slant too, They were good engines, Too bad they never got Fuel Injection
Hi JP. Seems I missed this one. Love the slant sixes. Great trouble shooting. All my best. Oh I hope you found a buyer for the car.
Haven't yet, but am enjoying driving it to the car shows until I do!
Enjoyable and educational video to watch, Jordan.
There's this Estonian guy on RUclips, Flexiny, whose channel is all about getting cars that have sat around for long time running and driving. I first thought this was his video. :) A nice car there, hopefully it gets a good new home.
Try out "vice grip garage" channel.
Slant Sixes are some of the most reliable engines ever made and there are no shortages of them or their parts. IIRC, the slant six was used from the late 50s to the late 80s or early 90s. Very good engine. A dog, yes, but still a great engine.
It was used from 1960-87, Then the 3.9 V6 replaced it in the Dakota first then in full size Ram Truck and Van
@@jdpinbaytown Thanks. Was going by memory. (EDIT: They made them up until 91, but discontinued them earlier in automobiles. They used them in marine applications till 91)
@@tarstarkusz True!
That short piece of rubber hose from the inline filter to the carb scares the shit out of me. I had a car catch fire under the hood once from those rubber hoses.
Hi temp fuel injection hose. It's all good.
@@JordanPier That would be good! Had me concerned when I saw it. ;)
Learned to drive in that exact model back in the day when car dealers loaned out cars for Drivers Ed. We had a 66 Ford LTD. You know a lot about a lot of things. I never would have diagnosed the coil circuit like that. Ohms matter for sure! Excellent!!
I remember that car you had to keep a spare “ceramic ballast” in your glovebox so when the car wouldn’t start, you’d replace that little devil located on the firewall to get it going. That was my first car I drove after getting my drivers license:) ya big back seats:) oh happy days in a dodge fart oops l meant Dodge Dart! ( or did I?)
Cool old ride love the leaning tower of power
She’s probably got a thirst for some 1970s leaded gas
I could see you did a great rebuild of the carburetor ..shame you lost that footage....but it is still a good video...thanks Jordan
What a nice old classic, it would be great if the next owner restores it.
From what i could see of the underside, it didnt look too bad.
i thought it would be bad rust but not really bad.
Spark plugs and the distributor/points would need changing.
The great thing is it has no annoying computer 😀
Yes i noticed you had gone quiet, but your job and home life is more important than youtube.
i appreciate all your effort.
Thank you for that great video jordan :-D
If the distributor has mechanical advance lobes, make sure that they move freely. After many years the lubrication on the pivot points dries out and restricts movement. Also make sure that no dried grease is in the slots of the counterweights is cleaned out and renewed with appropriate new grease. Some distributors have vacuum advance pots on them and that is another potential failure due to cracked diaphragms.
Is the bottom of the car clean (good rockers, good floors etc)? I hear California is pretty good to cars. There are 4 year old cars out here with more rust than this thing. Leaving a car sitting in a field for even 5 years is damn near a death sentence. They sink into the ground and the whole bottom of the car rots. If you like cars from the era of the cold war, check out Cold War Motors. It's a great channel. If like mopar, which I assume you do, check out Uncle Tony's Garage. He's building among other things, a slant six drag racer.
Yes, the body is decent minus the front window pillars where the landau top allowed moisture to build up.
I watch UTG alot. Definitely an old world mechanic who loves mopars
5 years in Southern California does less damage than 5 months in the Rust Belt!
I love old Mopars. Had a '71 Challenger back in the day. It was awesome but needed a bit of work.
My first car was a 1963 Dodge Dart with a 170 slant six. I drove the wheels of that thing.
I have a 1971 Dart Swinger. Great cars
great job jp i had a 75 gold in colour tan roof vinyl
Cool to see a old Dart stil alive and running. I had a 75 Custom 4D with the 225 slant 6 for about 15 years. It was a fun and unusual car to drive around in here in Norway. Had 6 or 7 cars with the 225 inn them. Great Engine. Was that a 64 you had sitting there behind it?
I'm glad to see you back. I've always loved Darts and Valiants---they weren't fancy, but they ran forever. I like the approach you took, much like servicing a broken stereo receiver; it's all about the diagnostics. And yeah, that carb needs replaced. The throttle shaft bearings are shot; it's leaking both gas and vacuum
Despite the quirks this car has, it’ll be a lot cheaper than today’s ugly s***mobiles that loose value as soon as you drive it off the lot. If cars were still all mechanical, there wouldn’t be any issues with production since cars back then didn’t use any computers but sadly people literally need a computer in every damned thing you can think of but 23 year old me would be perfectly happy with driving and owning cars from the 60’s and 70’s.
Why is the dash melted
Poor vinyl from the 70s and years of baking in the hot California summers
Best engine and transmission combo were the Chrysler slant 6 engine and Tourqeflite transmission. They ran forever!
Seriously chrysler "merica were still using a slant 6 in 74 we got the hemi straight 6 in 70 in valiant's in OZ as the slant wouldn't pass pollution regs back then & all OZ 6's from t big 3 had a stromberg craby except some chrysler's which had an email craby which were crap, as for the instrament cluster it's very close to a 68 valiant except the gauges were rectangle to match the speedo & all in one.
Northing beats the old cars 🚗
Do the roof white. It would look sweet.
Damn mate thats a big car, why are american cars so big lol, damn you have the same car stereo as me the pioneer one, damn good sounding stereos they are
And this was considered a mid size for it's time!
A full size would have been 20 feet long and 6+ feet wide and had a 6 litre or bigger engine, lol.
@@JordanPier lol damn
Ah yes, the Holley 1945, I knew it very well. Total POS carburetor.