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I bought this Chevy 2 a few years ago after bumping into a guy at a car show, who said he had a Chevy 2 he used as a parts car for his son's nova. Yet he couldn't bring himself to part it out. after a few weeks I brought it home. The only history of it I know is, the guy I bought it from owned it 12 years, he drove it from where he bought it to his shop and it smoked horribly.
The old girl sports the original 194 and 3 on the tree. Shortly after looking it over, I put in a order for a bunch of parts and started doing general maintenance. I wanted to make sure it was safe also so it received new shocks, and all new brake components, short of the steel lines. I pulled the carb apart after having troubles trying to load it onto a trailer in order to go get it inspected, to get a tag.
Once I swapped that accelerator pump out it ran pretty good so I started driving it
This all led to the tank getting shook up, which led to a bunch of junk clogging my filters. SO I cleaned it with some water and marbles and shook out a lot of junk.
With some luck I found a fender and bumper in Tulsa, and another fender in Oklahoma City.
Neither fender was great,but needed them to help hold the head lights in. One needed a bit of body work to even do that
a little hammer and dolly work and some cheap white spray paint got me to the point I could get another head light on.
Did some trading and wound up with some split headers and a 4 barrel intake
On my way to work, on my birthday of 2015. My first car and daily at the time broke a rocker arm stud.
So the 66 had to step up, unfortunately driving it a bit more stirred more things up in the tank.
I then placed an order on a new tank, and took up driving my sisters car.
Once the tank was in I was back to daily driving the 66. On one trip into Wichita I started hearing a ticking noise, which progressively got louder as the drive went on. I tried checking to see what it was when I got to my friends apartment, leaving there in his car thinking it was an exhaust leak. On the way home I noticed that it would come and go. The next morning I pulled the valve cover to find out one of my rocker arms was loose, when it shoudl of been depressing the valve.
I pulled the push rod, and it was straight,So naturally it came down to the lifter or cam. Panic mode started as this was my only running car at the time ( the 78 was down as I foolishly put the smaller flex plate off of the 305 in on the 350, which required the larger flex plate)
The lifter looked good, but wouldn't pump up, not wanting to put a brand new lifter in and take that chance of eating the lobe. I took the little C clip off the top of the lifter and took it completely apart. I shot a ton of brake clean in, to which some orange ish brown colored liquid came out. To my luck after reassembly the lifter pumped up. Back in it went, threw some motor honey in the crank case and off I went. To this day if I let the car sit for more than a few days that lifter or another will loose a little oil, but after the engine runs for a few seconds it pumps back up.
The old girl sports the original 194 and 3 on the tree. Shortly after looking it over, I put in a order for a bunch of parts and started doing general maintenance. I wanted to make sure it was safe also so it received new shocks, and all new brake components, short of the steel lines. I pulled the carb apart after having troubles trying to load it onto a trailer in order to go get it inspected, to get a tag.
Once I swapped that accelerator pump out it ran pretty good so I started driving it
This all led to the tank getting shook up, which led to a bunch of junk clogging my filters. SO I cleaned it with some water and marbles and shook out a lot of junk.
With some luck I found a fender and bumper in Tulsa, and another fender in Oklahoma City.
Neither fender was great,but needed them to help hold the head lights in. One needed a bit of body work to even do that
a little hammer and dolly work and some cheap white spray paint got me to the point I could get another head light on.
Did some trading and wound up with some split headers and a 4 barrel intake
On my way to work, on my birthday of 2015. My first car and daily at the time broke a rocker arm stud.
So the 66 had to step up, unfortunately driving it a bit more stirred more things up in the tank.
I then placed an order on a new tank, and took up driving my sisters car.
Once the tank was in I was back to daily driving the 66. On one trip into Wichita I started hearing a ticking noise, which progressively got louder as the drive went on. I tried checking to see what it was when I got to my friends apartment, leaving there in his car thinking it was an exhaust leak. On the way home I noticed that it would come and go. The next morning I pulled the valve cover to find out one of my rocker arms was loose, when it shoudl of been depressing the valve.
I pulled the push rod, and it was straight,So naturally it came down to the lifter or cam. Panic mode started as this was my only running car at the time ( the 78 was down as I foolishly put the smaller flex plate off of the 305 in on the 350, which required the larger flex plate)
The lifter looked good, but wouldn't pump up, not wanting to put a brand new lifter in and take that chance of eating the lobe. I took the little C clip off the top of the lifter and took it completely apart. I shot a ton of brake clean in, to which some orange ish brown colored liquid came out. To my luck after reassembly the lifter pumped up. Back in it went, threw some motor honey in the crank case and off I went. To this day if I let the car sit for more than a few days that lifter or another will loose a little oil, but after the engine runs for a few seconds it pumps back up.
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