Hello all, as you may recall I've inherited a 1965 Comet Caliente and
didn't have any real idea of what kind of work it was going to take
to
get it back to a good condition, or even drivable condition.
However there has been breaking news in this case!
Today while I was up at my grandmothers house in Connueat Ohio I ran
into the neighbor, (go figure). Anyways he came over and helped me
look over everything to see what I would need to have worked on
before
I took it on the road. After about 2 hours of going over the car he
decided that the only thing it really needs to be taken care of is
the
addition of some power steering fluid in the resevoir. He said there
was no need to hurry to get it, but it is a little lower than
average.
So reading in my shop manual it says to use automatic transmission
fluid in the power steering? Understanding that this is from 40 years
ago, I hesitate to put automatic transmission fluid from today in and
have it be wrong. Can someone shed some light on what to use? I would
really appreciate it..
As always she started right up without a problem, ideled a little
slow, but that could be partly because it has been awhile since it
has
been run, and even longer since it has really been on the road.
First thing we did on theway out of the drive way was to check the
brakes, which seemed to work quite well! They didn't grab, or pull to
one side or the other which is always fun.
Next we took her around the block there and back by the house, then
decided to venture a little further and put some gas back into the
nearly empty tank. fortunate for us there is a locally owned station
which doesn't charge too much about a mile down the street.
From what I have read I believe that the car come standard with a 20
gallon tank, we however did not test that theory, but only put in a
little over 12. And all the while we were continually checking
underneath the car to be sure that there weren't any fuel running out
of unseen holes in the tank.
After that we cruised around the block, down by the beach (Lake erie)
and back to the house to park it for the night.
Only concern I might have with the car as of today is the engine temp
gauge was registering really low, so I'm not sure if it is working
100% correctly. After about 20 minutes of run time the temperature in
any other car I have drove tends to pick up quite a bit. Especially
since we weren't cruising too fast.
All in all I deem it a pretty successful trip up there again, even
though we didn't have the time to take the 37 ford or the 48 Willy's
jeepster that still belong to my grandmother out for a drive. Just
had
enough time to start them up and let them idle for awhile.
Sorry for the long story, but as you can tell I'm quite enthused
about
this still!
Some more photos of the car can be found here:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/BrowsePhotos.jsp?&collid=83261525507&page=1&sort_ord...Jared
P.S. I spent quite a bit of time looking around the car and from the
looks of it there isn't that much rust anywhere. The floor pans are
accessible through layers of carpet and had a little rust, but
nothing
major, doors seemed along the same line from what I could tell..
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