It was going to be my project to restore my baby. My second car, first one that I had for any length of time (at least 8 years). I lost my storage last week, and put in a good effort to fix it (throw out bearing trashed) but ended up cracking the transmission housing and essentially trashing the trans (it wasn't in great shape to begin with). Irregardless, I'm now out of money, and out of time. So, the car must go. I am trying to sell the car whole. Repeat, I want to sell the car whole. If it's not gone by next weekend, I will strip it and send it to the scrapper, and then I will return on here with what parts I saved. Here is the car:
86 2m4 5 speed with 211k miles.
Paint is crap. Only panel worth a darn is the passenger side door panel
Trans is toast
The duke was in surprisingly good condition. I took the head off Cleaned it up and cleaned up half the valves before I messed up the trans and stopped. The cylinder walls look amazing for the miles. Makes sense I suppose as the engine ran like a top. about 3k miles or so before the bearing went I spent the time to change the timing gear, so that's steel now, not fiber. It has a brand new distributor. I bought new rod bearings, new piston rings, and a complete gasket set (since I had the engine out of the car I figured I would refresh it a bit). Engine ran on synthetic or synthetic blend all its life in my possession (about 80K miles)
I have a new clutch kit.
Just before the throw out bearing went I put in Rodney's slave cylinder, his adjustable banjo, and refreshed the clutch arm bushings and banjo pivot pin (thinking I was fighting a hydraulic issue, which was only partially true).
The car is sporting SS brake lines, and brake hoses.
All four calipers have been changed at some point or another. The passenger rear was re-manufactured wrong, and the e-brake doesn't function properly. (when the cable is pulled it releases the brake, instead of applying it). The e-brake cables were working. It's been sitting a little while though, so I'm not sure if they are still loose or not.
The steering rack was changes a couple of years ago with a reman.
The front ball joints are quite new, again Rodney Dickman joints.
The front bushings upper and lower control arm are all quite new, moog.
The headliner and map visors were recovered (tan interior BTW)
It has a CD player and a CB radio nicely installed in the dash.
Door hinges have been refreshed.
Rodney strut kit on decklid.
Brand new, and I mean brand new struts installed. Shocks have maybe 3K miles on them.
I'm asking 500 for the car and parts, since that is about what I've put into parts in the last 3k miles or so. Not to mention all the rest of the good parts it has on. The car is very much fixable, but I have run out of money, and have no place to store it. I will sell it for less ($300) if I keep some of the components (the gasket sets, clutch set, distributor, CD and CB). If you buy the car for 500, I'll toss in a brand new catalytic from Rodney as well for $50.
I suppose I should mention the frame too. The rust has eaten away at the cradle and the upper rear frame rails. The rest is in decent shape. The trunk corners are missing. When I first bought the car, the previous owner had gotten in a front end collision with it. I straitened the metal and reassembled the car. So, the front of the car is a bit crinkly, but it is not rusty. I cleaned that up and painted it, so it is in decent shape there.
I would rather not scrap the car, but they are paying well for steel around me. If you give me scrap value, you can get a good amount of parts. Or give me a little more and get a lot of new parts too.
Thanks for looking.
[This message has been edited by 86fierofun (edited 08-01-2011).]
