Some days I think Julie loves her animals more than she loves me. I am just glad it was her cat that was supervising and not one of her goats!

Thank you very much. We are super excited to have it. I don’t think we will venture too far from an original style restoration on this one. I am looking forward to the finished product. Thanks for your excitement, it’s contagious!

Isn't it though? She is a bit self conscious about it, but it is one of the many things I love about her.

Thanks Greg, that means a lot to us. Julie and I both appreciate you taking the time to watch.

Thanks Jeff. I am ready to see Julie laying some rubber down in our final video!

Thanks! We are super excited to see how she turns out. Thanks for watching!

Yeah, Eleanor was a pretty sweet ride! I was born and raise a Chevy guy, but it seems like all I have any more are Fords. I am up for working on anything that is available and a decent deal. I appreciate you watching our videos. I have wanted to make videos for a long time, but have been nervous actually doing it. Julie has been encouraging me to go for it for a while now and I am glad we have. We have made some really bad stuff. Like you said, we have recorded some stuff that wasn't even worth editing. We still have a long way to go, but with practice I feel like the videos are getting better.

For sure! Those jack stands are nicer than any others I have ever had. We are happy to have them.

Those cats are Julie's babies for sure. The shop location is about a mile down the road from our house, so every evening she goes and locks the cats up in the shop so the coyotes or owls won't get them and every morning she lets them out to roam. They are pretty spoiled, be we love em!

Thanks Jordan. I am not sure how successful it was from the transmission's perspective, but that will give us a reason to rebuild the transmission in a future episode.

Yeah, those cats were just begging for an opportunity to go rat hunting inside the car. Thanks for watching.

I just googled up a gold one, and man that color scheme sure is a good looking combination. I told Julie I would leave it up to her on what color she wants to paint it. I will definitely show her a picture of the gold option to consider.

@FlatlineGarage beautiful the raised part of the hood was black and all the stripes was black beautiful car

We want to take a shot at painting this one ourselves, and I would love to paint some black stripes on it, but I haven't got a clue where to start with laying them out. I have a lot of learning to do between now when she is ready to paint.

Yeah, that is a great point! It would be a bad day to mess up a carb by running a bunch of trash up into it. Thanks for watching!

Thanks man, I appreciate that. We are way past due for putting out another video, so hopefully we can get one out soon. Thanks for watching.

Thanks, I appreciate that. We are pretty excited about it.

Thanks for watching, liking, and subscribing, we really do appreciate it.

Thanks! Since we were outdoors it never even entered our minds that breathing that nasty stuff could be bad, but I can totally see it now. Thank you for pointing that out. We will for sure be wearing masks when it comes time to tear out that rat infested interior.

For sure, deep cleaning is coming up next. That thing is disgusting inside and out.

Man, that would be a bad way to end the video!

Yeah Buddy!

Thanks! I have had several people suggest to change the fluid and filter. I will give that a try. Hopefully it fixes her right up. Thanks for watching and subscribing!

Yeah, I am looking forward to the end result. I am sure it will take us much longer than we would like it to, but I can't wait to see how she turns out.

Man, we tried that, but we couldn’t get the tester to fit on a spark plug because the boot on the tester is a 90 degree boot and the exhaust manifolds restrict that area so much that we needed a straight boot to get back to the plug instead of the 90. I honestly didn’t realize she was touching the metal connection when I hit the button, but it sure made for some good video footage!

next time go to the distributor side of the wire and try it there@@FlatlineGarage

I appreciate that! Thanks for watching.

Yeah, you never know when a good old pipe wrench might come in handy.

yes a spanner wrench of any type is worth its weight in gold @@FlatlineGarage

Thanks Thomas, we haven’t even started on her yet and are already looking forward to getting her finished. Thanks for your support!

I bet your mustang was a lot of fun to drive. I have always heard of the infamous 351 Cleveland, but this is the first one I have ever been around. I can't wait until she is road worthy so we can see how fast this one is!

@@FlatlineGarage I did 150 MPH the car is built for 5 people. I had 6 people. in Death Valley. in the 80s!!

@@FlatlineGarage it was Red. sat low with 70s in the front 60 in the back. you sat low with a dash like a jet. I tore it up I ruined it!! I was young!

That's awesome! I have travelled that Vegas to Reno stretch a few times and I can see where you could open her up on those long straight stretches, but 150 mph would scare the shorts off of me. It sounds like a really cool car. Julie is really drawn toward the red and black combo, so I have a feeling that is where we are headed with this one.

I just checked out your channel and had to subscribe as soon as I saw the 68 coupe to fastback transition that you are working on. It sounds mean! What engine does it have? I totally recommend teaming up with your wife, we have had a lot of fun working together on this one.

@FlatlineGarage I run a 1970 2V 2 bolt Cleveland block with Australian 302 2V quench chamber heads. 2.190 intake valves and 1.710 exhaust. It's 11to1 compression, and I run 93 octane fuel in it.

Yeah, that is super cool. Hopefully we cross paths one of these days on a power tour or something, cause I would love to see it in person.

@FlatlineGarage Have you heard of NoNameNationals? It's an AHRA event for content creators with at least 500 subscribers. I will be there with the Fastback this September 19-21 at Sikeston, MO.

I haven't heard of that, but will check it out. We don't have 500 subscribers yet, but should reach that goal soon. Even if we don't have the car road worthy by then it would be fun to go and check out everyone's vehicles. Thanks for mentioning it.

Of course she did! She is a mechanical genius now!

You and your girl makea great team

Yes Sir! Oiling the hood hinges was one of the first things we did. It would be a bad day to ruin a hood like that.

Thanks Craig! We sure have had fun finding a project that we can work on as a team.

The auction company had it listed as a 302 car, so I didn't take a good look at the engine before I bid, I just took their word for it. I was happily surprised when I got it home and saw it had a 351C.

@@FlatlineGarage I have a 71 351 Cleveland I rebuilt the engine an. The interior paints old but it runs like a rapped ape

Yeah! They advertised it as a 302 car when we bought it, so I was excited to see it had a 351C in it when we popped the hood.

It rolled on and off the trailer just fine, so I don’t think the brakes are stuck. We have had a lot of suggestions to change the transmission fluid and filter, so we may give that a shot before tearing it down for a rebuild.

We do, but the shop is a disaster right now because I am building Julie a chicken coop inside of it. The chicken coop is almost done, so as soon as we can drag the chicken coop out we plan to put cars in there so we can start making some consistent videos.

Yeah, that gas was nasty. I’m not really sure how long the car has been sitting, but it must have been sitting for along time. The grandson of the man who owned it told me they hauled it from Arizona to Oklahoma 10 or 12 years ago, but the license plate is from North Carolina. I’m not sure how long it was in Arizona before it came here. The tags on the plate are too faded to read the year it was last tagged. I really wish I knew more about the history of the car and all of its travels.

Nice! What color was your car? We are still trying to figure out what color to paint this one when we get her all fixed up.

Baby blue

The inside was all black

Man, I bet that was a pretty color combo. Don't you hate the thought of letting them go? Back in my teenage years I had a 1967 Chevy truck and a 3rd Gen Camaro that I wish I had back.

Yea make me sick wish I still had it

The key was on the whole time, but we noticed after the first start that one of the spark plug wires wasn’t connected good, so it was only firing on 7 cylinders for part of the video.

Or 400m

@@DaPenceman I know it's not a Cleveland has more rounded value cover's that's a it's a modified im not hating on it I've just had both engines they were both fine engines

It might be a 400m. I just assumed it was a Cleveland, but I think the thermostat for both the Cleveland and the Modified are in the block instead of the intake, so it could be either, judging off of that. I haven’t checked the casting numbers on the block, but I need to now, cause you have me curious about it.

Thanks Eric. We are past due for putting out another video, we just have too many irons in the first right now. Hopefully we can get more videos out soon.

We have been unhooking the power to the coil to shut the car off, but I didn’t realize that leaving the power wire hooked up would burn up the coil. Thanks for the advice!

That’s interesting that you are having the same issue with the same car. We haven’t figured it out yet, but haven’t had much time to look at it since we posted the last video. This summer has been super busy for us, so unfortunately we probably won’t get to pick up work on the car again until August. When we do I plan on videoing the whole process to post on KZfaq, so when we figure out the key issue we will be sure to post it. Are you making any videos on your rebuild? If so, I would love to follow along.

The VIN shows that it was originally a 302 car, but someone has done an engine swap at some point to put a 351 Cleveland in it.

If that’s the case get the numbers off the block you may have a 351 boss is the intake aluminum or steel

I will have to get the casting numbers off of the block and check it out, but unfortunately I don't think it is the Boss block. The heads have the 4V stamp on them but the intake is steel and the casting number on the intake shows it to be from a regular 351C.

I'm all subbed up on your channel. I'm not gonna lie, I had to listen to some of your music before I ever clicked on the car videos. I played in a bluegrass band back in my teenage years, so your music excites me as much as your pony does! Your Mach 1 is coming along nicely too, I can't wait to hear her run. I would love to go on the Hot Rod Power Tour one of these years. Maybe we will have our Mustang ready to go by next June.

@@FlatlineGarage I love some BG music. Not much down here in south Alabama. Te band I played with for years is out of north GA, around the Blue Ridge area. I had one more question for you. After you got it cranked, did you check the transmission fluid on the stick again? It sounded a lot like it was low on fluid. FMX or C6?

The door sticker says the car originally had a 302 with a C4 transmission. I am not sure if the transmission was swapped when the 351C was dropped in or if it will has a C4. I put all of the transmission fluid I had at the time in it and it was still low, so I do think most of our issues are fluid related. I am thinking this weekend I might make a video changing the transmission fluid and filter to see if that will fix her up.

@@FlatlineGarage before you change it, add to the full mark with it running. A lot of people will tell you not to change the fluid and filter on an old transmission, unless you know it's been serviced regularly. I would get it to idle below 1K RPM before you drop it in gear too. Revving it as high as you did may have done a lot of damage that could have been resolved with fluid. Good luck with it and holler if I can help

I hear ya! Unfortunately we have much more passion than money, so I am hoping we can make some content of the cheaper end of things while we save up to tackle some of the more expensive work down the road.

I’m gonna give that a try. Several people have thought that might fix our problem. I hope it works. Thanks for the advice.

Back in the late 1980's we used b&m trick shift if I remember right. On a transmission that would not move . Ran one bottle in transmission after letting it flush through trans . It worked really well. After about 20 miles it quit working . So we pulled out filter and replaced it. Trans was working like new. To bad motor chucked a rod around 6000 rpm. Good luck

That’s cool. I’ve never heard of trick shift, but it looks like it is still available today, so it must be good stuff.

Yeah, we need to look into the brakes a bit more. It rolled off the trailer just fine, so I didn't think I had one locked up, but maybe we do. Good point on the idle speed to, I agree that we should adjust it down. Thanks for watching and giving us some feedback.

Yeah, I think you are right, I need to get the rpm adjusted down on it. She has an automatic in her instead of a manual. I am hoping it is just a fluid issue with the transmission, but it may need to be rebuilt.

Man that wouldn’t have been good. She never would have let me live that down if that would have happened. Thanks for pointing that out, I will remember it in the future.