1980 Two Door Vic

[marquisman]

i was starting to wonder on the progress on this car. glad to hear things are still rollin. if your choke is screwing up, just tie it off to stay open for the time being.

[Brandon]

Yeah. Thanks man. I also put the dash pad back on and all. didnt care to fix the stupid shifter indicator since I will be going with a floor shift anyways. LOL. But I'll try to get some pics of it tomarrow. My 91 looks plum funny with those small 14's. LOL. I was going to put something under the tires to get it off the ground but couldnt find anything. I still got my windsor for it to build as well if I can quit buyings projects. LOL

[91waggin]

Thanks Brandon. I will definately check them out. I'm going to try my damn bestest to get up there tomorrow or Saturday. Hopefully my pay is good.

Anyways I cranked up the mean green machine and noticed that fuel was spraying out of the fuel pump. The mechanical pump has a little hole from factory and it spraying out fuel there. kinda weird. I could see it if it was the line. It was spraying against my oil filter. I called Advance and one is going to come in tomorrow. I've already taken it off.

Also I noticed my alternator light has been on. The alternator has been replaced but I guess it went bad again? I let it run and unhooked the battery cable and it immediately tried to stall out. So my guess is the cheap Advance alternator went out. Kinda werid too.

And I forgot to mention that the guy I bought it from said he replaced the heater core in it. Said it was a PITA and took him all day. I just hope he didnt fuck something up as when I turn the lights on my left turn signal comes on too. It stays on with the lights. kinda strange too.

If you put a single filament bulb in the front marker, it will bridge the contacts and make that happen. Make sure you do a 3g upgrade!

[andymac0035]

That's a nice car!...Me likey!

[85crownHPP]

awesome find! Im sure you can get those issues straitened out!

[LTDMan83]

Did you ever go get that Trunk Lid, mang? The one that I seen there was pretty nice and rust-free. If not lemme know, and I can pick one up for you the next time I go there, and you can just drive down to my shop and get it.

[1987cp]

Hmm, must've missed this when it was first posted. I was going to post and say early '80s tudors suck, but your $500 car looks nicer than my $500 car, so I changed my mind.

My old 80 ltd 2 door had a FMX, but my '80 lincoln has an AOD.... Wait hard to tell but that speedo head looks like its out of a newer 80s vic...might have been replaced

Really! I didn't know any Panthers actually got a FMX, just the possibility of a C4 for '79 and possibly '80.

I might be way off here, but I had a similar problem with my montego, try replacing the flasher and the light fuse/bulbs, that made it go away for me.

Just an Idea,

George

Reminds me, I need to try the same thing. My funky taillight was fixed by replacing the screwy bulb that wasn't making contact correctly, so hopefully my weird front signal lamp is the same deal. (I also have the left indicator and only the left indicator come on with the headlights, and the left front turn signal is the marker filament and not the brighter blinker one).

EDIT: Bad ground. Ground to the socket is good, ground in the socket is bad. Figures.

[1987cp]

Update: replaced socket with good spare, problem fixed. No more indicator lit with marker lights on. Hopefully your problem is this easy!

[Brandon]

Did you ever go get that Trunk Lid, mang? The one that I seen there was pretty nice and rust-free. If not lemme know, and I can pick one up for you the next time I go there, and you can just drive down to my shop and get it.

Hey man. No belive it or not I havent had the time to get down there and get that thing. I want to just havent had the time. But yeah if you happen to go down there I would be much appreciated for you to get that for me. I'd pay ya for ya time and all.

Here are some pics I have taken of the car with the wheels. I think it looks alright with the hubcaps. Kinda goes with the car. But of course later on it will definately get some aluminum wheels. These pics are taken at my work yard. Where I part and junk these cars out. The Cadillac you see there in the first pic is where I had just pulled the North Star all aluminum engine block out. Of course it had blown head gaskets.





The 91 with the 14's on it


The 89 with Turbines that I havent updated with the wheels New tires at that

[LTDMan83]

Hey man. No belive it or not I havent had the time to get down there and get that thing. I want to just havent had the time. But yeah if you happen to go down there I would be much appreciated for you to get that for me. I'd pay ya for ya time and all.

No prob mang. I'll PM you a few days before I go, to make sure that you still need the lid.

I'm liking the tudor mang. If you ever need a hand working on something lemme know! I do mech work as well.

[Jason_GMQ91]

yikes! you need to clean the carpet! LOL. Your tudor looks great.

[hemihotrod402]

methinks that car would look killer if it had a set of Coys C-5 polished Aluminum wheels (aka my wheels only polished)

Awesome find mang!

EDIT: Also, I officially want your bumpers lol

[1987cp]

Yes, '80 front bumpers are full of win.

[79lincolnlover]

Any more up-dates for us?

[andymac0035]

really? The shift points say P R N OD 3 1

How would I go about telling the difference? Which is better of the two? AOD?

My 1981 CV had P R N OD 3 1 on the cluster also, and I know it had an AOD.
Had the "automatic overdrive" badge on the trunk lid as well.