CadiRat adventures

[Ugly1]

Duuuude....
That thing is mint.....
Throw a few rust blisters on there and you'd have mint chocolate chip🤔
I'd wheel it👍

They’re there you just can’t see them hiding under the tree sap🤣. Believe it or not what you see is after I pressure washed it at car wash!

 

[Ugly1]

Parts chasing only day today. Had the water pump come in. That is a major concern as the front bearing on it literally sounds like the belt slipping. And front swaybar bushings and links.
Had to spend about an hour or so find the front strut rod bushings so the front end can get aligned at some point. Plus ordering tires. The ones on it are dry rotted BAD! Still holding air though 🤣

 

[78Delta88]

Brings back memories. I had a 70 Sedan DeVille senior year.

 

[stew86MCSS396]

Pops had same year smaller 425 cid circa 1990. He let me use it to go to work when my first gbody '81 Monte wasn't playing nice.

 

[Ugly1]

Brings back memories. I had a 70 Sedan DeVille senior year.

And everyone fit in your car to go somewhere!

 

[Ugly1]

Pops had same year smaller 425 cid circa 1990. He let me use it to go to work when my first gbody '81 Monte wasn't playing nice.

And you didn’t dare scratch it too!

 

[olds307 and 403]

Cool car, you would need a city block to park it. Best part about cars from the mid 70's is their price, cheap. The 500 Cad is a good motor and throws down massive torque even in that cars neutered state. Plus highway mileage should be surprisingly good. In town, probably single digit but that car is meant for the open road in luxury.

 

[Ugly1]

Cool car, you would need a city block to park it. Best part about cars from the mid 70's is their price, cheap. The 500 Cad is a good motor and throws down massive torque even in that cars neutered state. Plus highway mileage should be surprisingly good. In town, probably single digit but that car is meant for the open road in luxury.

Oh it’s single digits! The quadrajet loves drinking from a standstill!

 

[Ugly1]

So being that the rain decided to go away for the day, I decided to change the plugs. They weren’t to bad but it had seemed to feel like it had a skip. I had already changed the cap & rotor, cleaned the wire connectors in the pigtails (it sat so long and there was a lot of corrosion on a number of other wires) spending a little time may save headaches for later.

Went under the dash to replace the dimmer switch and pigtail as well as to see if there was a fuse for the electric choke. When I tried to see if there was power to it I got zip. Been trying to figure out why the choke won’t close. The two vacuum pull offs aren’t healthy and change there vacuum hoses as well. Pulled a couple of unnecessary fuses for now. Don’t think A/C is really important and clock/ cigarette lighter is not important. And so the adventure continues…

 

[Malibu795]

Nice