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The tires actually looked like they were decent on it... He said they were bald, but maybe I just looked at the right side of the car where the tires were in better shape than the ones I have on my car! But it was dark and cold and I was using a flashlight to look at them so I could very easily be missing lots of stuff. And the car was rough enough in the DARK to turn me away from it... I was just scared though mostly like when we got the car to finally start, and the carbs were leaking fuel onto the exhaust manifold...
But yeah, so after quite a bit of cranking, we got it to start up and it was leaking fuel a bit from the float bowls. But, it did start up, although very rough, and it was about 35ish degrees outside, and the pistons were VERY hard to lift. While we had it running, I tried reving it up a little bit to see if the pistons would lift on their own, and they wouldn't. So after I found that out I just said cut it because of the fuel dripping down onto the exhaust. Another thing that I've heard and he guy selling the car said was that the carbs work a little better when they have some resistance, like coming from some air filters. The car does not have air filters, but I have a couple of old ones in my trunk from all my junk, so I can bolt those up to it when I go back up there. I just need to get a couple of screws that are long enough and will work in there.
The thing I'm worried about, is the fuel leaking, and the brake system. I'm sure we can get the engine to run well enough and be driveable, but I want to make sure the brakes are good enough to make it down. And the tires too of course. I'll send him an email asking about the condition of the tires and what not. Also, the OD isn't connected, so I wouldn't have OD most likely, unless I bring a switch and then hook it up and magically it works. We'll see.
As far as rescue buddies, (just from portland to seattle, I'm down in corvallis but first step would be getting the wagon to portland where I can work on it a bit at my parent's house), I will hopefully bring someone along with me so I can drive the wagon back down, but people are looking pretty scarce for a day full of wrenching on the wagon before making the drive back in seperate cars. We'll see.
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Kyle E.
VP of Membership and Website Administrator
Oregon Volvo Tuners
Portland/Corvallis, OR - 1968 142 - 71b20b SUs, m40, ask me for more info...
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