Easy fix! Remove the iron duke. Find a healthy 3.8L Buick from a fwd. Replace the half shafts with aftermarket half shafts that fit. (you can find them) Make sure your brakes are in great condition. Try to drive conservatively but don't forget to have some fun!
@@Mauscmkwk My bad, I should have mentioned that. I do know that a 3.8L supercharged Fiero is a pretty quick car, no, very quick. Search ' 3.8L Fiero on TH-cam '.
I have an 88 fiero. It did the old fiber timing gear strip once I replaced it with a metal gear from the fiero store. I’m in the process of swapping a 3800 supercharged in mine. It was my first car mine has the lotus designed suspension it handles like a dream.
JT, Always liked the looks of the Fireo. Yours seems to be in pretty decent shape. I have spent a lot of hours in these vehicles during development in the 80's. The steering is most defiantly the Armstrong type. Blind spots are well designed into the P body. Also make sure the drivers floor mat can't slide. They had a tendency to wedge under the acc pedal and hold the throttle full. Good luck and hope it works out good for your daughter. What a dad. Boe
Well JT, I seem to have the same mental affliction as you. Yes, although I've never had one, I've got a soft spot for the Fiero. My son's first vehicle was a Sq Body short bed I picked up for $300. Bent, rusty wore out😢. Replaced doors, straightened the vent box side and painted. Then the inline six went. Swapped for a 72 Impala 400!😮 Then the tranny went😢. Rebuilt that. Tires, brakes, suspension,....... I bought my daughter a 82 Regal with a rod knock 😢. Believe it or not I was able to "clam shell" the engine and transmission and drop the crank, with the flex plate, out the bottom. Ran like the devil until she totaled it in the snow!😢 Anyway keep at it and she'll always remember the experience. She may hate you but she'll remember!!😊 Thanks for sharing!
Right on! I sure miss the older vehicles, and am thankful that I can pass my knowledge along to my kiddo. She may never use it, but makes me feel good!
Great video and it’s good to see your daughter helping on har car to many girls don’t want to get there hands dirty and most can’t even change a tire keep up the good work
Win some lose some. That’s what some will say, I say what a great Dad and daughter project. She is lucky to have an old man that has enough grey matter up top to get her a cracking car that’s also going to be reliable and safe. Great channel J.T keep them coming fast & furious 👍😁
Well, unfortunate it came to that but you will get it running again and your daughter will love you for it and that is the most important part. Never owned one but had a high school friend that ended up with one many years ago. It was fun to ride in.
I saw a Fiero up on Lansing have the front end get rannover by a 2.5 ton Army truck. I was following in another one when he did it. Needless to say that car was trashed.@@jtsbarnngrill6873
Nice to Have a BOND with an Offspring....TRACTORs🚜🚜🚜🚜jUst weren't Cutting-It for Her...My Uncle was a Designer for Transmissions&Rear-Ends @ the GM PROVING-GROUNDS...and Back in the Day He Brought the BEST of Them to FARM and His BUDDYs @ Work RACED-Them @ Tracks👍🤣
Not sure if anyone has already mentioned it, but there is a TH-camr named Ronald Finger that did a TOTAL tear down and rebuild of a Fiero just like that one! It might be helpful to you to watch his trials and tribulations as he did his project.
Good Morning J T, Hey I'm really impressed, you are a real MECHANIC ! WHAT A GREAT PROJECT. I can't even spell MECHANIC ! 😅 Can't wait to see the rest of the SAGA. By the way, I find that I get sidetracked and confused on a daily basis. Have a Great Weekend. 😊
Great video as always,I bought a brand new S10 in 1986,it had the same engine.At 42,000 km a head bolt broke and blew out the head gasket,2000 km over the warrenty and the dealership said tough luck and would,nt fix it under warrenty so my father and I fixed it ourselves.
Had one of them in 2005. A fella passing through town bottomed it out and punctured the coolant tube thus overheating it and blowing a head gasket b4 he realized anything was wrong! He brought it to me to fix and after I told him parts and labor he said never mind. Told him it would still be $150 for the time I had in tearing it down to verify head wasn’t warped and putting it back together! He signed the title over and left it in my mailbox with a bill of sale! I replaced the coolant tube and replaced the head gasket after having the head resurfaced. Ran like a champ , sold it for $900 and a 89 s10 that also needed a head gasket !
Check the junkyards for a sunfire turbo and rebuild that engine. it fits right into a fiero and makes it pretty zippy without mucking up the balance of the car. Fieros are made for mountain roads.
.. had an Iron Duke in my '76 Pontiac Astre(Vega)....2bbl, 4spd....owned it 9 years...sold it with 109k miles....never used oil....replaced the rear main seal, timing belt, water pump, radiator.... made 5 trips across the US.... a few years after I sold it, saw it still on the road.....
look at the throttle body as you crank it . if its pisin gas it's flooded. unplug the fuel pump fuse crank it till it starts riuns and dies then put the fuse back in. it'll start.. It'll start uintil the next time it floods then you have to do the fuse thing again. This sounds dumb, but the temp sensor is probably bad. that's how we solved the non start issue on mine. Never had problems again after we changed the sensor.
Excellent video JT :) , your daughter :) help on her her car and bet newer model motor and plus to ! Also JT don't feel bad my late mother had brand new in 1994 she bought out hard working job money saved and strange part she had 4 motor jobs in up till 2009 when got rid of it! Also so many things had that car go wrong with it and was big lemon ! But 3 others vechiles her and my dad bought were better one's! But can win them all that correctly said!
No war is won without a few lost battles. Replacing a motor? In 40 years of projects, maybe 2 or 3 didn't need a motor swap. Motors were my "thing." Strip 'em down, build 'em up, Better. And for everyone else. Anybody other than me think, "Wow! JT has a ponytail!" Also, I think the V^ was the better engine in those cars. Pretty sure that's what a co-worker had, but it was a little newer, '87 or '88? Good work JT and "Little Miss JT", we're waiting to see it rocket down the hardtop.
A coworker bought one brand new. She put three bags of groceries behind the seat and they were half cooked by the time she got home. Might look at adding an extra layer to that firewall while you have it apart.
Owned one loved it. The ac could almost make ice cubes in the middle of the summer. The stereo was fantastic with speakers in the headrests the ride was fantastic. Never had a problem with the cab getting hot, behind the seat, maybe she put groceries in the trunk behind the engine.
You can here the bad cylinders when turning over,,take out the iron duke engine and put in a 1.3l hyabusa..In a small car like that,,It would be peppy,,,
From what I’ve seen it was because of the oil pan being 3 qts and it ran low, spit out a rod and caught fire on what was left. This one will be checked daily
One recall was for oil leaks from valve cover getting on exhaust manifold and catching fire because of low airflow in engine compartment. The exhaust manifold on this car has the deflector that was part of the kit installed so recall was performed. Be sure to replace the timing gears when freshening engine. They were a real problem on that engine as you mentioned. Worked at dealer 87 to 92 did several of these plus grand am's kept us busy. Worked all the problems out by 88 and then couldn't sell them. 88 v6 5 spd was pretty fun to drive. Good luck.
I had one for a brief time never did get it to the point of being road legal but did do some gravel road driving with it and they are terrible to handle at any speed over 40-45 mph as the front end is so light it wouldn't stay planted to the road. I did plan on fixing it up but a friend made me an offer I couldn't refuse and i still regret selling it.
Do the 4.6 Northstar swap. Well not exactly a swap but big performance upgrade. Just make sure the 4.6 either had the head studs redone or it was a later one that wasn't prone to the problem.
Nice one j.t. ok the engine is bad. Ok not great but saying that I would say that's great. Because you know the engine you're going to put in should last a long time. But if other one did run then went bad just after you're daughter starting to enjoy driving it then it let go not great for her. So saying it was bad luck but to me it's a great time for it to happen. So when you get done she can enjoy the car fully. All good really.if you think about it. From Andy in uk
My son in law has 3 of those cars, he and his youngest son are still trying to get one of them working. His cars have V6s there really hard to work on. No room.
I think this is a cool project but totally off the subject; where can a guy get some of those red tractor Christmas lights like you have stapled to the beam in your barn? Looking forward to the collaboration with Bendin’ Wrenches. 👍🏻👍🏻
2.5min in and you start talking about nylon timing...that was my imediate thought when you said, dead on road, will almost start, but wont catch. had a 307 back in the day with nylon timing that did the exact same thing. now lets watch the rest and see....guess i was wasnt wrong, i was way wrong
It's got a gallop when you are turning it over showing its compressions issues on two of the cylinders. Could be valves not sealing or struck open somewhator piston rings
The 1984 Fiero suffered the same issues that the 1960s Corvairs had... they were highly susceptible to Overheating.... the cooling system was not in a good place... the engine was a great engine but not in the fiero.... that is what probably happened to this engine... I kinda had a suspicion you might have to replace that engine...
I like the fellas idea of the robust V6 install but seems to be a lot of figuring out.. my only recommendation is DITCH that stupid TBI and go with a carb.. She will runs better..longer and less headaches for 1980's computing power..
JT, u almost got the motor to start, butt u wasn't holding ur mouth the right way.. oh well, so it was a bad head. toush in another head and let's see if it will start.. did Fluffy like the red Fiero??
I would definitely like to see your daughter's arms and hands doing a little bit more a little bit more hands on I know she probably don't want to be seen on TV with those easy way to get around that just film her arms and hands doing things does kids nowadays need to learn this stuff they're so far behind God forbid if anything ever happened to this country they wouldn't know what to do
@@jtsbarnngrill6873 I'm glad to see she's out there most kids sit in the house all day on their phone I was born and raised a farmer so now it's like with me watching kids nowadays just makes me sick do they have no ambition unless that damn phone is in their hand you know exactly what it was like because you're about the same age as me I'm a little bit older than you Louise to go play in the woods and go fishing and be outside riding our bikes and nowadays it's takes too much ambition
Easy fix! Remove the iron duke. Find a healthy 3.8L Buick from a fwd. Replace the half shafts with aftermarket half shafts that fit. (you can find them) Make sure your brakes are in great condition. Try to drive conservatively but don't forget to have some fun!
Now we’re talking!
How about add a super charger to that v6
@@Mauscmkwk My bad, I should have mentioned that. I do know that a 3.8L supercharged Fiero is a pretty quick car, no, very quick. Search ' 3.8L Fiero on TH-cam '.
That's going to make that little woman a cool little car to run around in. Nice to see you doing that for her.
I hope so! Thanks!
Great video, nice to see your daughter out helping you. Hope you show us the rebuild of the motor. Thanks for sharing.
You bet!
As always a beautiful video thank you for taking the time to share. Lovely to see you and your daughter working together thank you
Thank you so much!
I have an 88 fiero. It did the old fiber timing gear strip once I replaced it with a metal gear from the fiero store. I’m in the process of swapping a 3800 supercharged in mine. It was my first car mine has the lotus designed suspension it handles like a dream.
Right on! I’ve been told that the 3800 swap is a good one on these cars
I'm glad you added the fact of it doesn't always work out
It definitely does not!
JT,
Always liked the looks of the Fireo. Yours seems to be in pretty decent shape.
I have spent a lot of hours in these vehicles during development in the 80's. The steering is most defiantly the Armstrong type. Blind spots are well designed into the P body. Also make sure the drivers floor mat can't slide. They had a tendency to wedge under the acc pedal and hold the throttle full. Good luck and hope it works out good for your daughter. What a dad. Boe
Thanks! I’ll watch for that
Well JT, I seem to have the same mental affliction as you. Yes, although I've never had one, I've got a soft spot for the Fiero. My son's first vehicle was a Sq Body short bed I picked up for $300. Bent, rusty wore out😢. Replaced doors, straightened the vent box side and painted. Then the inline six went. Swapped for a 72 Impala 400!😮 Then the tranny went😢. Rebuilt that. Tires, brakes, suspension,....... I bought my daughter a 82 Regal with a rod knock 😢. Believe it or not I was able to "clam shell" the engine and transmission and drop the crank, with the flex plate, out the bottom. Ran like the devil until she totaled it in the snow!😢 Anyway keep at it and she'll always remember the experience. She may hate you but she'll remember!!😊 Thanks for sharing!
Right on! I sure miss the older vehicles, and am thankful that I can pass my knowledge along to my kiddo. She may never use it, but makes me feel good!
Great video and it’s good to see your daughter helping on har car to many girls don’t want to get there hands dirty and most can’t even change a tire keep up the good work
Thanks 👍. I have her work on stuff with me as often as possible
Win some lose some. That’s what some will say, I say what a great Dad and daughter project. She is lucky to have an old man that has enough grey matter up top to get her a cracking car that’s also going to be reliable and safe. Great channel J.T keep them coming fast & furious 👍😁
Right on! Will do😉
Fun little cars, I learned to drive in an 84 with the 4speed. Slow as dirt but handled good and felt cool!
Right on!
Well, unfortunate it came to that but you will get it running again and your daughter will love you for it and that is the most important part. Never owned one but had a high school friend that ended up with one many years ago. It was fun to ride in.
Right on!
I saw a Fiero up on Lansing have the front end get rannover by a 2.5 ton Army truck. I was following in another one when he did it. Needless to say that car was trashed.@@jtsbarnngrill6873
Nice to Have a BOND with an Offspring....TRACTORs🚜🚜🚜🚜jUst weren't Cutting-It for Her...My Uncle was a Designer for Transmissions&Rear-Ends @ the GM PROVING-GROUNDS...and Back in the Day He Brought the BEST of Them to FARM and His BUDDYs @ Work RACED-Them @ Tracks👍🤣
Very cool!
Not sure if anyone has already mentioned it, but there is a TH-camr named Ronald Finger that did a TOTAL tear down and rebuild of a Fiero just like that one! It might be helpful to you to watch his trials and tribulations as he did his project.
Hey Jt , great to see your daughter getting stuck in as well done 👍👍
Thanks 👍. I figured since it’s gonna be her ride 😉
Stood in line to test drive one of those in Atlanta, Ga back in 84.
Right on!
You always have a great honest faith and that make you very convincing. You will rule that car ready in time to your daughter, JT 🙂👍
Right on! I sure hope so!
Great vid cool to see the JT good looks and awesome skills were all passed down
Glad you enjoyed it!
JT, you’re a great Father and you have a lovely daughter. Congratulations to her graduation from high school and the best of luck!!
Thanks so much!
With snow tires and steel wheels. The fiero handles great on snow in the winter time
Good to know!
Good job mate 👍it’s a lot of fun to do those things with your daughter 👌🏻I do the same with mine daughters ❤cheers from down under 🇦🇺
Right on!
I had the luck of test driving a GT V6 and was impressed. This was a long time ago. Looks like yours is the famous Pontiac iron duke. They were tough!
Very nice! I would have loved being a test pilot for gm back in the 70s-80s. I’ll bet you could tell some stories!
Good Morning J T, Hey I'm really impressed, you are a real MECHANIC ! WHAT A GREAT PROJECT. I can't even spell MECHANIC ! 😅 Can't wait to see the rest of the SAGA. By the way, I find that I get sidetracked and confused on a daily basis. Have a Great Weekend. 😊
😆. It happens to the best of us lol
Great video as always,I bought a brand new S10 in 1986,it had the same engine.At 42,000 km a head bolt broke and blew out the head gasket,2000 km over the warrenty and the dealership said tough luck and would,nt fix it under warrenty so my father and I fixed it ourselves.
Ouch! That’s a bummer!
It will come together.
Nice video , go on J.T! 👍👍👍
Greetings.
Wish you a nice week. 🤠
Thanks, you too!
Thanks for posting JT.
Thanks for watching!
Nice work keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
Had one of them in 2005. A fella passing through town bottomed it out and punctured the coolant tube thus overheating it and blowing a head gasket b4 he realized anything was wrong! He brought it to me to fix and after I told him parts and labor he said never mind. Told him it would still be $150 for the time I had in tearing it down to verify head wasn’t warped and putting it back together! He signed the title over and left it in my mailbox with a bill of sale! I replaced the coolant tube and replaced the head gasket after having the head resurfaced. Ran like a champ , sold it for $900 and a 89 s10 that also needed a head gasket !
Right on!
Check the junkyards for a sunfire turbo and rebuild that engine. it fits right into a fiero and makes it pretty zippy without mucking up the balance of the car. Fieros are made for mountain roads.
That would be a good swap
.. had an Iron Duke in my '76 Pontiac Astre(Vega)....2bbl, 4spd....owned it 9 years...sold it with 109k miles....never used oil....replaced the rear main seal, timing belt, water pump, radiator.... made 5 trips across the US.... a few years after I sold it, saw it still on the road.....
Good maintenance will always prevail!
JT I’ve watched you long enough that I know you get it running
😉. Right on! It will run eventually
Oh yeah nice ride for your daughter, I know you will have it good as new
That's the plan!
That was a radical car when it came out. I remember it well. However, it's 40 years old. Wish I was! Still melting on the Eastern Shore 😮
Right on! I was just in grade school when they came out, but I remember it well!
Great video dude , damn I thought those iron dukes were super durable but something went wrong there. Never the less I know you'll get it
I think the oil pump failed
@@jtsbarnngrill6873 I was thinking same or the pick up was plugged
Great video, you got her whooped all ready , no big deal 👍🏻
You got that right!
A lot of hard work but looking forward to the end result.
Keep the faith 👌
Will do!
That'll be a sweet ride when its all fixed up; lucky girl!
Right on!
You can stuff a SBC/LS in those things. V8archie sells kits, but I've seen more than a few homebrew setups.
Right! Thought of that, but with a 17 year old girl driving it I’ll keep it a 2.5
Open butterfly’s on tbi before doing compression test.
JT Iv got a better idea 50lbs tannerite in front seat!!! Make an awesome video.
look at the throttle body as you crank it . if its pisin gas it's flooded. unplug the fuel pump fuse crank it till it starts riuns and dies then put the fuse back in. it'll start.. It'll start uintil the next time it floods then you have to do the fuse thing again. This sounds dumb, but the temp sensor is probably bad. that's how we solved the non start issue on mine. Never had problems again after we changed the sensor.
Generally I’d be 100% with you, as I’ve seen that before. But this has bigger problems lol
Excellent video JT :) , your daughter :) help on her her car and bet newer model motor and plus to ! Also JT don't feel bad my late mother had brand new in 1994 she bought out hard working job money saved and strange part she had 4 motor jobs in up till 2009 when got rid of it! Also so many things had that car go wrong with it and was big lemon ! But 3 others vechiles her and my dad bought were better one's! But can win them all that correctly said!
Right on! I can’t win them all 😉
@@jtsbarnngrill6873 exactly JT :)
If memory serves me well I do believe the compression on an iron Duke should be a little over 100 not a high compression engine of course
Right! Was hoping that it’d be more in the 150 range
No war is won without a few lost battles. Replacing a motor? In 40 years of projects, maybe 2 or 3 didn't need a motor swap. Motors were my "thing." Strip 'em down, build 'em up, Better. And for everyone else. Anybody other than me think, "Wow! JT has a ponytail!" Also, I think the V^ was the better engine in those cars. Pretty sure that's what a co-worker had, but it was a little newer, '87 or '88? Good work JT and "Little Miss JT", we're waiting to see it rocket down the hardtop.
Right on! She will have a rebuild motor 😉
Great job and be safe.
Will do!
That ol power barn doesn’t give a feller much room to work with.
It sure doesn’t lol
Yeah , a will it start for Sunday viewing 👍👍
Right on!
A coworker bought one brand new. She put three bags of groceries behind the seat and they were half cooked by the time she got home. Might look at adding an extra layer to that firewall while you have it apart.
May have to
Owned one loved it. The ac could almost make ice cubes in the middle of the summer. The stereo was fantastic with speakers in the headrests the ride was fantastic. Never had a problem with the cab getting hot, behind the seat, maybe she put groceries in the trunk behind the engine.
Oh no it is at it again
There is a whole seires from Florida about a Ferio and all the problems two young guys rewoked a Ferio to make it road worthy.
I’ll check that out
Stepson briefly had one many years ago. Problematic POS, both mechanical & electrical. They make great boat anchors.
Well, thanks for that bit of kind words.
@@jtsbarnngrill6873 if anybody can make it work, it's you. 😃
Thanks! I sure hope to!
Someone actually managed to wear out an Iron Duke? Holy shit.... I always thought a GM quad four would be kinda cool in one of those Fieros....
Right! I agree, the quad 4 is a motor that deserves more respect than it gets
Overcome and crack on ! 👍 built by man can be fixed with parts 👍
Bingo!
@@jtsbarnngrill6873 that’s wot we try n do here 👍👍
That's awesome thanks for the video
You bet!
You can here the bad cylinders when turning over,,take out the iron duke engine and put in a 1.3l hyabusa..In a small car like that,,It would be peppy,,,
Nice video JT
Thanks!
Be sure to fix the issue (if it wasn’t already fixed) that used to cause these to start on fire. There was a recall for this back in the day.
From what I’ve seen it was because of the oil pan being 3 qts and it ran low, spit out a rod and caught fire on what was left.
This one will be checked daily
One recall was for oil leaks from valve cover getting on exhaust manifold and catching fire because of low airflow in engine compartment. The exhaust manifold on this car has the deflector that was part of the kit installed so recall was performed.
Be sure to replace the timing gears when freshening engine. They were a real problem on that engine as you mentioned. Worked at dealer 87 to 92 did several of these plus grand am's kept us busy. Worked all the problems out by 88 and then couldn't sell them. 88 v6 5 spd was pretty fun to drive. Good luck.
i see a massey red paint job coming in the future!!
Yes. 😆😆
I had one for a brief time never did get it to the point of being road legal but did do some gravel road driving with it and they are terrible to handle at any speed over 40-45 mph as the front end is so light it wouldn't stay planted to the road. I did plan on fixing it up but a friend made me an offer I couldn't refuse and i still regret selling it.
Right! It’ll be a cool piece around here if nothing else!
Well if it wasn't for your I say V8 swap had a buddy back in the day that had one with a stock 305 boy oh boy that car was fun
I’ll bet it was!
Do the 4.6 Northstar swap. Well not exactly a swap but big performance upgrade. Just make sure the 4.6 either had the head studs redone or it was a later one that wasn't prone to the problem.
That would make a screamer out of this car!
I enjoyed the video.
Thanks!
Nice one j.t. ok the engine is bad. Ok not great but saying that I would say that's great. Because you know the engine you're going to put in should last a long time. But if other one did run then went bad just after you're daughter starting to enjoy driving it then it let go not great for her. So saying it was bad luck but to me it's a great time for it to happen. So when you get done she can enjoy the car fully. All good really.if you think about it. From Andy in uk
Bingo! The rebuilt should last many years to come
@jtsbarnngrill6873 nice to try what you can do for your kids. And to sort off do it together it's worth even more.
Take all the help you can get on the hellfireo, speaking from experience I’ve done 4 of them little *^€*~£
I agree with that!
My son in law has 3 of those cars, he and his youngest son are still trying to get one of them working. His cars have V6s there really hard to work on. No room.
Bingo! The space is very limited
Oh no Jt is at it again
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Put a new set of performance rocker arms on that too. The 2.5 geometry in the valves is suspect. A set of bearing rockers goes a long ways
Right on!
I think this is a cool project but totally off the subject; where can a guy get some of those red tractor Christmas lights like you have stapled to the beam in your barn? Looking forward to the collaboration with Bendin’ Wrenches. 👍🏻👍🏻
Right on! Those came from a thrift store, my aunt saw them and thought of me lol
Elvis sure it is her first car, ? awesome team work is great years later. Make sure to find a winter beater with a heater
She’s got my old red pickup to drive
@@jtsbarnngrill6873 good for her
I had a Firebird with that engine in it.
Right! I remember those back in the day. Had a Camaro with the 2.8 in high school
Man if you find a lift it’s way way easier to get the engine out of the bottom the hardest part about any of it is bleeding the water system
Right, that’s why it’s going to Brian’s. He has a hoist
2.5min in and you start talking about nylon timing...that was my imediate thought when you said, dead on road, will almost start, but wont catch. had a 307 back in the day with nylon timing that did the exact same thing. now lets watch the rest and see....guess i was wasnt wrong, i was way wrong
I wish it would have been the timing gears lol
The old Iron Duke
Bingo!
I pretty sure that those fieros had a real problem with overheating.
Yes, I’ll need to keep an eye on it
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
better check the cam gears on the new engine if it a 2-5 liter
Yes, will be making sure they are good to go
I run square s10s gas diesel lp my daily yr round driver is a 2.5 auto 4x4 its no power house but good realiable transportation
Right on!
It's got a gallop when you are turning it over showing its compressions issues on two of the cylinders. Could be valves not sealing or struck open somewhator piston rings
Indeed. Cracked head, bad rings made for the worst of it
Good job there you win a few and loose a few some JT magic and it's good as new 👍
Right! Hopefully soon!
You are still batting 1000 on diesels!
True! 😉
Better do the rear suspension before you put the new motor in. Pontiac Grand Prix is your friend.
Right on! Thanks for the tip
You can't win them all, but if you keep at it you can at least make it a tie.
Exactly!
My nephew bought one brand new with the V6, not one of Pontiacs best designs
Not especially, but still a cool piece after the years
The 1984 Fiero suffered the same issues that the 1960s Corvairs had... they were highly susceptible to Overheating.... the cooling system was not in a good place... the engine was a great engine but not in the fiero.... that is what probably happened to this engine... I kinda had a suspicion you might have to replace that engine...
Right! Iron duke was great till 100k it seems. At least that was always my luck lol
Swap a Perkins in her, she’s already red! Famous last words; “Nothing else that can go wrong….”
I like that!
Congratulations to the graduate and her parents. If this will only be a summer car, what does she drive in the winter?
The old red pickup that was smashed a year ago or so. I did a video on the repairs of it, I believe it was “JTs damage is free collision repair.
@@jtsbarnngrill6873 thanks for sending me there.
How many miles on the original engine. They were typically a pretty good engine. You going to paint the car too? Thx
Yes, will be painted, orig has 125k on the odometer
Do a drivetrain swap and throw in a volkswagon beetle air cooled system just for fun.
That would make for a conversation piece!
Did you stick something into the venturi flap when you tock the compression readings?and no...I am only halfway thro...lol
I did not, but later tried with her holding the accelerator down
I like the fellas idea of the robust V6 install but seems to be a lot of figuring out.. my only recommendation is DITCH that stupid TBI and go with a carb.. She will runs better..longer and less headaches for 1980's computing power..
That is very true. I should be acquiring a carb motor for that soon
Did you also get that seat out of the one in junk yard with the engine,
Not yet, but I will after we get it running right!
might not run but the color is right & with silver & black MF stripes she will at least look perfect 😁
Bingo! Perfect
Win some lose some from Ireland
That’s how she goes lol
Hi JT that car looks very similar to a fiat x 19 , is it any relation ?
Not for shire on that
While you’re at it, why not prep it and re-spray it?
All going to happen 😉
OH there is so much you could do with that car and motor!!! You could add a turbo or a supercharger....
Sure could 😉
JT, u almost got the motor to start, butt u wasn't holding ur mouth the right way.. oh well, so it was a bad head. toush in another head and let's see if it will start..
did Fluffy like the red Fiero??
Bad head and a junk crank unfortunately
Copyright on those diagnostic linguistics?
Never ! 😆😆
Bad meccanic ! i prefer Massey !!!! 😄
You and me both! 😆😆😆
Sounds like it’s out of time
It does, was my first thought with it
I would definitely like to see your daughter's arms and hands doing a little bit more a little bit more hands on I know she probably don't want to be seen on TV with those easy way to get around that just film her arms and hands doing things does kids nowadays need to learn this stuff they're so far behind God forbid if anything ever happened to this country they wouldn't know what to do
Right! I like to keep her mostly out of the spotlight. But at least she’s helping!
@@jtsbarnngrill6873 I'm glad to see she's out there most kids sit in the house all day on their phone I was born and raised a farmer so now it's like with me watching kids nowadays just makes me sick do they have no ambition unless that damn phone is in their hand you know exactly what it was like because you're about the same age as me I'm a little bit older than you Louise to go play in the woods and go fishing and be outside riding our bikes and nowadays it's takes too much ambition