Cold Start Will it Run? 1980 Mercury Cougar XR7 302 V8

[@timbuktug3321]

I can never get enough of that 80s ford starter and 302 V8 sound. That’s gold

[@Cheap1981]

Glad u like it lol

[@floodedcaddy]

You’ve got an awesome collection of cars. Thanks for taking us along for the cold starts and for the great camera angles. 😎

[@Cheap1981]

Thanks

[@lovetocrank]

Great cold start! Love the sound of that starter!

[@willthetrill4849]

That’s why you gotta prime the carburetor when it sits for at least a month.

[@Cheap1981]

What fun is that lol

[@robertdiehl9003]

Beautiful and rare car. Spectacular shape

[@Cheap1981]

Thanks. Shes a beaut

[@brianandrews7099]

Dude! After two month of not running, all the gas that was in the carb float bowl has either evaporated or settled back to the gas tank. Your just pumping a dry carb until the fuel pump has refilled the float bowl again. Do yourself a favor. If your gonna let it sit like that, install a low pressure electric fuel pump in the fuel line, near the tank. That way, after sitting a long time, turn the pump on for a minute before cranking and let the pump fill up the fuel bowl first, then pump it once. If the choke is working properly, it will fire right up. If not, you need to fix the choke. Revving up an engine to keep it running after sitting that long means your freezing cold, thick motor oil hasn’t had a chance to fully circulated throughout the engine yet. Your “screwing the cat” doing it the way you did it! It can be done better, smarter, and easier.

[@Cheap1981]

Yes i am full aware of everything you mentioned.

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

He knows that chief However his cold starts are all fun because he wants to get them started on their own without any aid and see how long it takes to start🤣🤣

[@youtoobe169]

No fun in that!

[@CarburetedCowboy]

You’re the best. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. And I loooooove that you didn’t “cheat”

[@robertdiehl9003]

A period of time where class and style ruled...

[@Stevenimich]

1 have a 1981 Mercury Cougar XR7 with original 34K. I hadn’t started mine in almost a month and I tried it yesterday. It sounded just like yours starting up and now the battery is completely toast. I saw it was a Walmart battery with a CCA of 525. That explains that! I’m going out to buy a new battery with anCCA of 650 or higher.

[@Cheap1981]

And my battery is going on 8 years old lol

[@Jac2Mac]

DId the 1980 Mercury Cougar ever use a chime in some models or just the classic buzzer?

[@Cheap1981]

No idea man

[@Stevenimich]

Yes. In fact, I had a top of the line fox body 1980 Ford Thunderbird Town Landau and it had the pleasant key chime. Cougar XR7s that had the more upscale options like the digital dash had the pleasant chime.

[@MintyFreshTurds]

I had a 82 Thunderbird Town Landau with the chime.

[@heisey-b7x]

Wow man...that has the same taillights as my 04 mustang

[@Cheap1981]

Lol. They do look similar dont they

[@moosehand8721]

Pre injection three oooh 2.😊

[@Cheap1981]

Lol yep

[@cbyanks3]

I wish i was sitting there

[@MintyFreshTurds]

I blows my mind how the tail lights are identical to a 99-04 "New Edge" Mustang.

[@jjeremy350]

Cold start under the hood showing what the carburetor is doing while your inside the car cold starting it

[@Cheap1981]

It seems everyone wants to see inside the car when i am starting them. Lol

[@Montyhugo]

I'm 10 min in ! It starts ❤ Actually 9🤷‍♂️

[@terjetytland884]

2 pumps is the correct procedure if carb holds gas in the chamber. I saw the whole video now,and realized it wasent pumping/priming good😊

[@Cheap1981]

It was the farthest thing from flooded

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

2 pumps is not the correct procedure. If it has not been started in a month or more in cold weather. He could have done one of two things he could have shot some starting fluid into the carb throat or put some gas down it but he wants to start it on its own naturally bringing the gas up from the tank through the carb

[@autosalvage]

rare car now hard to find got its cousin a 1980 ford thunderbird foxbody

[@Cheap1981]

Yeah you dont see many of them anymore especially in nice condition

[@autosalvage]

@@Cheap1981 mine had 34k org miles on it sit for 29 years had 110hp 302 now it got 300 hp 302

[@Cheap1981]

This one is as stock as you can get pretty much. 300 horse would be fun though

[@autosalvage]

@@Cheap1981 yep plan on drag racing it

[@MinivanMegafun100]

You don’t see many of them left because they were awful to begin with. I owned one. Turned me off of Ford forever.

[@MinivanMegafun100]

I used to have one of these as my first car in the 90’s. That sound of the engine slowing down and it not firing really takes me back. I know the moment it didn’t fire on your second attempt that it wasn’t going to start. The 80 Cougar is still to this day the most unreliable car I’ve ever driven. It was reliably unreliable.

[@erikg.2666]

The only way to get these Ford engines to run correctly when cold is to rev the living HELL out of them! I speak from years of experience dealing with the Crappy carbs on Fords and Dodges!

[@stevemino142]

Holley carburetors

[@bobbyheffley4955]

Especially the infamous variable venturi carburetor

[@4runner510]

Way over pumped it from the get-go should have only pumped it twice and then tried starting it

[@Cheap1981]

It had been sitting for 2 or 3 months so yeah it wasnt overpumped from the get go

[@DennisShook-k7w]

He sat right there and flooded that car then blamed it on the battery.😢

[@Cheap1981]

Yep sat for a couple months and had no gas pumped up to it from the tank and i just flooded the crap out of it. Sure sounds likely

[@Montyhugo]

Why did you wait so long🤷‍♂️

[@Cheap1981]

Wait so long on starting it?

[@RichardAllen-z5d]

Sell it to me?

[@Cheap1981]

If your serious give me an email address

[@PEDALFEVER]

Another awesome cold start of an old classic. Is that you son or grandson running around the garage? Maybe it's time to let him do a cold startup. Gotta teach him sometime right?

[@Cheap1981]

Thanks. Thats my son running around. He has helped with a few already

[@PEDALFEVER]

@@Cheap1981 That's great. Good to see him intereted in learning all about these older vehicles.

[@tracywagers1399]

That car is very quadruple dog cursed to not want to start at all

[@stevevlossak2443]

You shouldn't have to pump a good carb that much

[@Cheap1981]

You do if gas isnt pumped up to it yet

[@stevevlossak2443]

@@Cheap1981 plus its a Ford product haha

[@craig0769]

@@Cheap1981 the pedal only actuates the accelerator pump and throttle valve, has nothing to do with how gasoline gets to the carb. Youre just pumping air. Either fill the carb bowl with fuel through the vent or stick the palm of your hand over the carb to get the fuel to get sucked faster to the carb. Those Ford carbs with that style accelerator pump tend to rupture which causes gasoline to leak directly onto the engine. I enjoy your vids but please stop pumping the gas pedal!

[@arnoldoandalondra274]

U don’t have spare interior parts Im willing to buy over here the cars extinct

[@Cheap1981]

@@arnoldoandalondra274 I don't have any parts for the cougar

[@tracywagers1399]

That car is really quadruple dog cursed to not want to start at all