That baby is doomed!

I took pictures of my re-chromed and installed trunk lock and gas filler door emblem but there’s no way to share them here. The emblem should be painted red, white and blue from left to right once you turn it over.

I’m afraid you will have to find a trunk lock bezel at a junkyard. Places like Eklers and Autokrafters have the lock and pad for the bezel.

I like to buy it. I'm sure it is gone now.

Your emblem on the gas tank filler door is upside down

I love touring wrecking yards. They could charge $5-$10, and I'd visit them all... but... since you do it, I can sit at home and tour them. Thank you.

Please work on your camera skills....you're giving me veritgo spinning around and side angles!!

Happy New Year !

I’d be worried we would make an agreement and I would drive all the way over and you would decide to change your mind

The CB350 outside looks like its worth fixing. I always enjoy seeing the Pinto wagon.

some rusty treasure there partner, good job.

Nice.

Nice score good for you.

Good job partner, never give up. its too easy to give up, millions of people a day give up. The ones that don't give up are rewarded. Enjoy your reward!!!!!!

Glad you got her figured out.

far as i know , early 289/302 has one piece fuel pump eccentric ,later model has 2 piece eccentric the locating tang may be broken or misplaced , remove mechanical fuel pump and try elec pump it may stop making noise , put a fuel press gauge on it and see if its steady, could be lifter, galled or cracked rocker arm , rocker hitting stud ?

Is there a pushrod for the fuel pump? If so, perhaps the rod or cam lobe is chipped or broken leaving a gap and a knock.

how about the flywheel cover or perhaps the flywheel is cracked

I know engines & i can hear the noise but im not sure what to tell you? There are many things i could mention but im assuming you are not very experienced with engines & diagnosing them? I will say this, rod knocks (spun bearings) usually are not perfectly consistent with the engine. What i mean is u can rev it up & let it come down & if a rod is knocking someqhere in the rpm cycle it will go away momentarly but then come back. Almost to make you believe the problem went away but then suddenly returns. The harmonics balance out for a moment somtimes & the rod finds a happy place & rides along. But becomes very unhappy above or below that rpm. So if it seems like it is knocking & you rev it & maybey it stops for a moment but then comes right back, you probably have a spun rod bearing. Idk who assembled this engine weather you or a shop? But journals on a crankshaft & the bore of the rod are very important & take precision tools to check correctly. So if you have a rod & sombody simply looks at it with their eyes & says its ok, becouse they looked at it, they are full of shit! That bore has a spacific size it is sapposed to be & a window of tolerance wich is allowed to still be ok. & it is sapposed to be perfectly round. This is what happens to rods when they have served a long hard life. If you torque the caps down on the rod & measure the bore with a proper bore guage that has a accuracy of .0001wich is a tenth of a thousandth, that is how to properly check them. And the tolerance aloud may vary from one engine to another but without looking it up i will say its probably around .0004 to .0008 of a inch tolorance. So if is out of round anything more than that they should be machined & trued up. And that tolerance is less than one thousandths. A human hair is two to three thousandths thick. So take the thickness of a human hair, now cut the thickness into 3 equal parts take one of those thicknesses & your tolorance on your rod bores are less than that & nobody can look with their eye balls & see if that is ok or not! So if you had your crank ground & its all good & you got the proper bearings for it but just bolted the old rods on, you might still have had a problem?? Idk if you checked things like that or not?? So its hard for me to suggest what it might be? Good luck to you my freind. I hope u stick to it & get it running like it should be & get to enjoy many miles.

Torque converter bolts loose ? Or a wrist pin?

put a long pipe on the valve cover and listen see if its hitting. Listen to the oil pan. could be the dounut gasket on the exhaust. Is the bell housing tight. Hard for me to tell from my computer seat. run it on the stand. does it sound like that with the valve covers off? Run it with the covers off.

I am with you on the money and time issue but giving up is too easy, try to listen down by the pan.

could you have mashed the oil pan slightly to where the crank is tapping the oil pan?

I put a cam in my motor and cannot get it dialed in so I know how happy you are, sounds good. All your work has paid off.

Getting there!!!!!!!!!

With the “green dot” C4, white for snow, green for go. In the white dot position it starts out in second gear. In the green dot position it starts out in first gear.

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Repop gaskets are not correctly made ,typical of after market Chinese junk.

Glad it seems to be working out a little better this week for ya. I have a question. How did you get on your alternator that orange/ rust center band to look so original as far as the color??

stuff like that happens to me all the time.

getting the master cylinder and the trunk pan in will be huge!

could the driveline be bent?

good to see you back on the bike. That would be a fun trail bike.

sorry it didn't work out this time. looks like you were getting a little bit of needed rain.

i'm not a 100 mi round trip, only a few miles- but one of the reasons I always buy extra when i do go into town haha. The small gas station down the road from you probably buys the cheap stuff without additives to burn that stuff off and keep things clean. Bring a 5 gallon gas can or two with you every time you go to town and have a storage tank at home. do that every time you go to town and eventually you'd be able to keep a full reserve tank at home to use when you need 🙂

good work!

seat looks good in there, almost like it belongs there!

walkin' round a winter wonderland....

bumper and trim looks good on the back of F1!

the turn signals were definitely brighter. I couldn't really tell with the brake lights

you sound pretty bummed by the end of the video. understandable- but you got the skills to get it handled ;-)

you had the only pinto at the show!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live on the other side of the hill from Newberg. Would have loved to come to that show and checked out the cars and your Pinto also.

I hope you realize how fortunate you are that you get to do these fun trips.

you shared incredible ! see ya. Scrapyard,💪

!974 Pinto HB. Lasted for many years. 193,000 miles before the engine exploded. Loved the car. Some of these cars were fun as hell to drive.

I had a 77 Pinto rallye with a 2.8 V6 in it. So much fun. had my eye on a mint 71 pinto squier wagon in fire engine red but the old lady wouldn't sell it to me. Great cars to have some low cost fun in.

That state can't even maintain the forests correctly to stop the constant fires. How much toxins are released into the air as compared to a state like Arkansas that maintain their brush, log their trees and use the lumber instead of letting it all burn every year ?

Ive been to the places in your video but its been 38 years. Didnt do it in my Pinto though. I bought a red 1974 Pinto Wagon new in 1974 when I lived in Oregon. I was 16. New cars were affordable to even a 16 year old back then Kind of wish I had another just like it.

Rod bearings not happy.😢