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Reviving Old(new) Engine

serIIalpine

Donation Time
Please don't slam me for posting this here but I need your suggestions sooner than later and another catagory might not get the traffic this one does.

Thanks in advance.

Here goes:

The son of a friend of my wife just bought a 1984 Dodge Charger GLHS.
It's the one Shelby tarted up for Chrysler with a handling kit and a turbo.
This is the issue - the car had it's engine and tranny replaced 10 years ago and the owner was so upset with having to pay for the work as the car was 1000 miles out of warrantee he parked it in his back yard and there it sat for 10 years! ( the new engine has 31 miles on it!) Other than dried out paint and interior the car is in pretty solid shape and if the new-car-for-a-16-year-old-kid gods are looking down on Jonathan the engine is in good shape too.

What we would like to know - as this is and injected AND turbocharged car- what should we do to get it up and running again? Any special precautions or processes you would recommend?

Thanks alot.

Eric

'62 SerII
 

Bill Blue

Platinum Level Sponsor
Eric, I'd drain the gas tank, put in a few gallons of fresh gas. Remove the fuel line at the engine, turn on the ignition to let the fuel pump flush out any old gas remaining in the line. Reinstall fuel line. Remove plugs, give each cylinder a shot of oil. Change oil. With plugs removed, crank engine until oil pressure gauge comes off the peg or idiot light goes out. Install plugs, sacrifice a virgin and fire that baby up! Don't rev the engine for a minute or so to allow oil to make its way to the turbo.

Bill
 

husky drvr

Platinum Level Sponsor
Eric,

If you can do so easily, you might pop the compressor ducting loose and check if the turbine spins freely. The turbo may not have been replaced with the engine.

Just a thought,
 

jumpinjan

Bronze Level Sponsor
I would say the injectors had dried out, but I'm sure you can remove them and have them serviced by a specialist.
 

bulldurham

Platinum Level Sponsor
Reviving old engine

Having recently revived an 81 Volvo that had been sitting 5 years I would add that you may want to closely check the fuel distributor. I didn't and ended up w/ unwanted gas in the sump as the valve in the distributor was stuck in the open position.
 

RootesRacer

Donation Time
Having recently revived an 81 Volvo that had been sitting 5 years I would add that you may want to closely check the fuel distributor. I didn't and ended up w/ unwanted gas in the sump as the valve in the distributor was stuck in the open position.

No american car ever had a fuel distributor.

A dodge of that vintage would have been single point electronic fuel injection, which means only one really expensive injector.
 
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