Cooter
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Barely got them home...
Had someone come up to me last week while I was leaving the junkyard & ask me if I could use 2 more Diplomats. He "just wanted them gone & out of my yard, you could have them"...I said "Sure!".
I had a few tire problems arise w/my Ram so we used my buddy's '94 Grand Cherokee 4x4 to go get the cars.
The first one we grabbed was a brown '82 w/blown motor.
We dragged it out of the weeds, & changed 3 of the tires & happened to notice the left rear was seized up. Figuring it would break loose on the pavement, we took off....me steering the '82. Long story short, the tire never broke loose, the tire blew & flew off the car later & ruined the rim (this is all on the backroads...90% of the trip is over gravel). All we had to put on was another junk tire/rim...so we did & let the left rear slide along on the flat tire the rest of the way home.
Then we went back & got the '86 w/bad trans. The owner couldn't find the keys & I didn't have a key that would work, so we ended up breaking the lock on the steering wheel enough to steer it & disconnecting the column shift rod & putting it in neutral that way.
Dragged it up in the owner's driveway to change THOSE tires....the left rear on THIS car is seized up too!
....unfrigginbelieveable...
So we got the wheel off, & spent about a 1/2 hour whaling on the brake drum & finally got it off & dragged it home.
More details: the '82 is pretty basic, but w/tilt column,tan Salon interior, & my buddy said it had a rear sway bar (I didn't look)... 7 1/4" rear, but the thing is getting scrapped. The driver's side fender is paper thin & even the inner fender is all rusted to hell.
The '86 is basically the same thing, small rearend, 1/4s are starting to rust & only 1 of the doors opens & closes nicely. It does have power windows/locks, Red Salon interior/bench. We tried starting it, but the carb is seized up.
I'm still going to get a good look underneath at the framerils etc. to make sure he '86's are ok.
But as of now, the '82 is getting parted/scrapped & the '86 will more than likely get fixed.
Not bad for free & 5 1/2 hours work for about 40 miles in 2 round trips lol.
Had someone come up to me last week while I was leaving the junkyard & ask me if I could use 2 more Diplomats. He "just wanted them gone & out of my yard, you could have them"...I said "Sure!".
I had a few tire problems arise w/my Ram so we used my buddy's '94 Grand Cherokee 4x4 to go get the cars.
The first one we grabbed was a brown '82 w/blown motor.
We dragged it out of the weeds, & changed 3 of the tires & happened to notice the left rear was seized up. Figuring it would break loose on the pavement, we took off....me steering the '82. Long story short, the tire never broke loose, the tire blew & flew off the car later & ruined the rim (this is all on the backroads...90% of the trip is over gravel). All we had to put on was another junk tire/rim...so we did & let the left rear slide along on the flat tire the rest of the way home.
Then we went back & got the '86 w/bad trans. The owner couldn't find the keys & I didn't have a key that would work, so we ended up breaking the lock on the steering wheel enough to steer it & disconnecting the column shift rod & putting it in neutral that way.
Dragged it up in the owner's driveway to change THOSE tires....the left rear on THIS car is seized up too!
....unfrigginbelieveable...So we got the wheel off, & spent about a 1/2 hour whaling on the brake drum & finally got it off & dragged it home.
More details: the '82 is pretty basic, but w/tilt column,tan Salon interior, & my buddy said it had a rear sway bar (I didn't look)... 7 1/4" rear, but the thing is getting scrapped. The driver's side fender is paper thin & even the inner fender is all rusted to hell.
The '86 is basically the same thing, small rearend, 1/4s are starting to rust & only 1 of the doors opens & closes nicely. It does have power windows/locks, Red Salon interior/bench. We tried starting it, but the carb is seized up.
I'm still going to get a good look underneath at the framerils etc. to make sure he '86's are ok.
But as of now, the '82 is getting parted/scrapped & the '86 will more than likely get fixed.
Not bad for free & 5 1/2 hours work for about 40 miles in 2 round trips lol.
