I'm Patrick, 23, college student studying mechanical engineering. Wanting to get into cars and learn a lot more than I know now!
Before I got it my brother had it and was doing little things to keep it running. Drove it for a few mins like once a week. His 2nd kid is about 6 months now so he passed it to me since he has a lot less time to work on it than I do.
It was our grandpa's car, had it since new, just rolled over 100k miles about 1500 miles ago. Trans was rebuilt a year or so ago by a shop.
I've been driving it more so it has fresh gas, I think he said it hadn't been long since the oil had been changed. Have not checked for leaks yet so I will do that.
He said he checked to make sure it wasn't a squeaky belt and found that it wasn't. Hes been working on cars for years now and is currently a diesel mechanic.
What he told me is that he was removing the emissions stuff, I'll have to ask what all is still left of the emissions stuff but that's as far as I know right now.
He replaced the radiator with an aftermarket one and fans. New air cleaner. Pretty sure he said he had a guy either rebuild or rebuild and tune carb. He changed all of the gauges to aftermarket ones.
I'll prob give him a call here in the next few days and get all the details of what he's done and all.