Attention MODS, I accidentally put this one in the Spotlight section by mistake, so here it is again in the proper section. I am not trying to pull anything, my fingers sometime work faster than my brain. LOL! Please delete the other one. I appolgize for any inconvienence.
Let me introduce you to “Safely” My 1974 Plymouth Fury III.
I finally got the lead out today, and moved everything out of my storage building, and brought her out. Time flies, I hadn’t realized the old girl had been in there so long. The tags expired in 2000! Now I feel like a bad parent. Back when I put her up, I had just gotten married and had some medical issues, so I put her up until I could do the work properly. Unfortunately, “Safely” has begun to lose oil pressure, I suspect the main bearings. Fortunately with a battery, some fresh gas, and some air in the tires, she cranked right up. A few minutes later, she backed out into the light of day for the first time in 7 years under her own power.
Not only that, but I had forgotten how good the engine sounds. After she had warmed up a while and nothing sprung a leak, etc, I had to let the neighbors know that she was still alive and kicking.
Here she is still wearing 7 years of dust. That is after I cleaned windows off a bit so I could see out, and blasted it with compressed air from my compressor.
She’s got the 360 small block with a mild build. Back in 1997 I put in a motor home style cam, hypoeutectic popup pistons for a 10:1 compression (big mistake) and dual exhaust. In 1998 I had the transmission rebuilt with all heavy duty parts and a shift kit for (you guessed it) a motor home. Needless to say most days the tires have a firm grip on the pavement, but at 75 this thing gets 20+ mpg, which is almost unheard of from one of these old boats. Sadly 75 is just where it really starts to wake up. I have never had it maxed out, but once before I had the trans rebuilt (2nd was going and 3rd was all but gone) I got her up to 115 in second gear on the Broken Arrow expressway between Muskogee, and Tulsa, OK. I don’t have a tach, but it really wasn’t wound up all that tight (4000rpm?). I really should have sprung for rear gears since the stock ones are something like 2.38 IIRC. If you hold it to the floor when taking off it won’t shift out of first until 55. Even with the tall gears, it will tow a house.
I hosed took the water hose to it and rinsed the worst of the mud off, but a thorough detailing will be required. It got dark on me before I got around to that, plus I still needed to put everything back in my building before the mosquitoes packed me off.
In a few days/week I’ll post the before/after pictures.
After she gets a thorogh cleaning, I might be hauling her up to visit Turbo2256b for some engine/suspension work if he's still interested. Whaddaya say David?
Also, does anyone out there know of a good Mopar forums that have a Gmn type atmosphere?
If not that, at least a good tech section.
Thanks.
Let me introduce you to “Safely” My 1974 Plymouth Fury III.
I finally got the lead out today, and moved everything out of my storage building, and brought her out. Time flies, I hadn’t realized the old girl had been in there so long. The tags expired in 2000! Now I feel like a bad parent. Back when I put her up, I had just gotten married and had some medical issues, so I put her up until I could do the work properly. Unfortunately, “Safely” has begun to lose oil pressure, I suspect the main bearings. Fortunately with a battery, some fresh gas, and some air in the tires, she cranked right up. A few minutes later, she backed out into the light of day for the first time in 7 years under her own power.
Not only that, but I had forgotten how good the engine sounds. After she had warmed up a while and nothing sprung a leak, etc, I had to let the neighbors know that she was still alive and kicking.
Here she is still wearing 7 years of dust. That is after I cleaned windows off a bit so I could see out, and blasted it with compressed air from my compressor.
She’s got the 360 small block with a mild build. Back in 1997 I put in a motor home style cam, hypoeutectic popup pistons for a 10:1 compression (big mistake) and dual exhaust. In 1998 I had the transmission rebuilt with all heavy duty parts and a shift kit for (you guessed it) a motor home. Needless to say most days the tires have a firm grip on the pavement, but at 75 this thing gets 20+ mpg, which is almost unheard of from one of these old boats. Sadly 75 is just where it really starts to wake up. I have never had it maxed out, but once before I had the trans rebuilt (2nd was going and 3rd was all but gone) I got her up to 115 in second gear on the Broken Arrow expressway between Muskogee, and Tulsa, OK. I don’t have a tach, but it really wasn’t wound up all that tight (4000rpm?). I really should have sprung for rear gears since the stock ones are something like 2.38 IIRC. If you hold it to the floor when taking off it won’t shift out of first until 55. Even with the tall gears, it will tow a house.
I hosed took the water hose to it and rinsed the worst of the mud off, but a thorough detailing will be required. It got dark on me before I got around to that, plus I still needed to put everything back in my building before the mosquitoes packed me off.
In a few days/week I’ll post the before/after pictures.
After she gets a thorogh cleaning, I might be hauling her up to visit Turbo2256b for some engine/suspension work if he's still interested. Whaddaya say David?
Also, does anyone out there know of a good Mopar forums that have a Gmn type atmosphere?
If not that, at least a good tech section.
Thanks.
Need engine and interior pix too!
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