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WHN · 06-06-2018, 12:32 PM

The old barn find! Great.

Looks good, and it was your Great Grandfathers, outstanding.

If it was running when put away? I would take spark plugs out, put a strong shop vac on each spark plug hole and see if anything comes out. Than put some Marvel Mystery Oil in each cylinder. Clean oil pan and oil pump screen. Oil distributor, generator, and grease water pump. Put in 5 quarts of new motor oil, and some fresh gas also with Marvel Mystery Oil. Clean points and new spark plugs. Than give it a shoot. If it starts and runs, now there are a whole group of other things that you should look at before driving car.

I many years ago found a 1929 Sport Coupe that had been sitting in a barn in Up-State New York for 34 years. Put in a battery, some gas, and water with some air in the tires. Car started right up. Clutch was rusted to fly wheel so I couldn’t drive it home. Still have that car today. Keep us informed on how things go. I hope to someday give our 29 car to our Grandson. Enjoy.

06-06-2018, 12:32 PM	#2
WHN Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Connecticut Shoreline Posts: 1,841	Re: Sport Coupe Resurrection - Debris in Bores The old barn find! Great. Looks good, and it was your Great Grandfathers, outstanding. If it was running when put away? I would take spark plugs out, put a strong shop vac on each spark plug hole and see if anything comes out. Than put some Marvel Mystery Oil in each cylinder. Clean oil pan and oil pump screen. Oil distributor, generator, and grease water pump. Put in 5 quarts of new motor oil, and some fresh gas also with Marvel Mystery Oil. Clean points and new spark plugs. Than give it a shoot. If it starts and runs, now there are a whole group of other things that you should look at before driving car. I many years ago found a 1929 Sport Coupe that had been sitting in a barn in Up-State New York for 34 years. Put in a battery, some gas, and water with some air in the tires. Car started right up. Clutch was rusted to fly wheel so I couldn’t drive it home. Still have that car today. Keep us informed on how things go. I hope to someday give our 29 car to our Grandson. Enjoy. Last edited by WHN; 06-06-2018 at 12:39 PM.