As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
OK this is proof that all of our work on Two Chiefs has a living engine.
You will notice the pop bottle filled with gasoline to prime the carburetor which they say not to do, the new fuel pump, the new fuel filter and whatever as I do not have a carburetor shroud as the Indian cut that into pieces.
He is finicky as hell in you have to choke him and leave the choke out until he warms up almost to hot, then he does ok.
I don't know if you can see the throttle linkage coming off the pedal at the top, but that was broke, welded and it is not right, so it idles too fast and you have to pull the foot pedal up to get him to idle down. That is future tense, as the point of all of this was to get him running.
As I told TL, I do not think the Indians or junk dealers ever thought this Ford would ever move 10 feet on it's own ever again. We drove it and discovered more shit in the steering couple will have to be replaced. That Silly Pony did not want this pick up ever to live again, but as I said this is at the point now of going through things and fixing them as I do not have donations, so this takes time as we have to eat, and you can't eat pick up parts.
The video shows it all, but you do not hear it all, as this Samsung phone does not capture the low throaty growl a Ford V 8 made back in the day. What you are hearing in that "tick" is not the engine, but the Samsung picks up the hot gas coming out of the muffler pipe as that has a hole in it. Actually makes the pick up allot louder, as it sounds rather quiet in this video.
Now Two Chiefs goes into the fixing when I have time category as I have to start on the Big GMC as I need that one running and working too.
I look at the fixing though, and the postives are, we have an engine that runs. which would not run. We have a transmission which is good. The rear end is good. The drive train is good. The clutch is good. The body is not rusted out. The things left are incidentals and not that major or something I can get a mechanic to fix as there are some things, like brakes that I do not want to deal with.
OK so that is your Lame Cherry movie extravaganza, rated 12 X as the Indians did allot of murder and torture at the Little Big Horn, and there was allot of violence heaped big on Two Chiefs in being one abused pick up.
We paid 400 dollars for him. In collectors terms, he is now worth about 3000 dollars as he runs and functions. I keep getting him further along, and his price will keep going up in value.
That is all I'm doing in posting though as am tired and it was hot today.
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