Checking first things first

Now that winter has settled in, for the second time in a few weeks, it's about time I start to do something.

The first thing that I need to do  is check fuses, which ones are okay and which ones are blown. After that we can establish which parts should work. 

This was surprisingly neat, compared to the rest of the car. Sure, some rust on the other end of the fuses, but still. 

And then there is this, as we Finns like to call them: the American Joe's workings.

I have a multimeter that I could check that there are three blown fuses. Yeah,  you can also just take a look at the fuse, but as you can see from the first picture it isn't that easy, but with a multimeter and connection check, you can hear a buzzing if there is a connection between the ends of the glass fuses. 

Now, I don't remember where I have put my spare  fuses from my previous El Camino, but I can pick up some from of the work on the Monday.

And week and half a later I finally have picked up some fuses from the work. 

I guess I might as well put them on and see what happens?

Pressure wash it all down

So, now that I finally have rolling wheels and I finally put them on, I can roll the El Camino outside and pressure wash the Nevada dirt off and start to do stuff.

About two months ago, my childhood friend visited my house and we drink some beverages and went to Sauna and talked about life etc., but one thing was that we also talked about my El Camino.

We took out the old battery and put in a new one that I had lying around, from various reasons, and then I sat in the drivers seat and put in the key. Then I turned the key... 

But nothing happened, except the lights in the dash light up. Nothing from the engine bay, not even a grunt. 

<insert image old battery vs new battery>

Oh, I tried if the engine is seized or not and I turned the engine by hand, with the help of the wrench, back in the winter.

As I changed the "new" set of tires under the El Camino, I noticed that the same F#¤%ing tire is deflating, well it wasn't the same tire, but in the same position. Driver side front wheel. 

Since I don't have running engine and even if I had, there is no driveshaft to make the El Camino move, so, I had to push it out and then winched it back in when I am done with it.

Luckily, it is a bit sloped towards outside, so that the El Camino rolls out with a bit of pushing.

And now that I am writing this, I noticed that I planned to do before and after, but I forgot to shoot that after. And now that the El Camino is back in the garage, the light is completely different.

The good thing is that when you don't know what works and what not, and you are prepared to change everything you can just really go for it with the power washing.

New set of wheels and lugs

So, I bought a few weeks ago "new old" set of wheels. These are 20 something years old wheels and tires are at least 10 years old, but both are in good shape. 

As my El Camino has just some rims with some tires so that it could roll on the trailer and in the container when it was shipped to Finland. And of course into my garage.

But since those wheels were just to keep it rolling it didn't have all the lugs and those were mix matched, so I ordered a new set from the internet. 

While I was searching for the right one, I came across black chromed lugs and even thought my friends were against them, since those chip easily.

So I bought also Chromed ones too.

Now I just need to change the wheels and roll the El Camino out and give the engine bay a good power washing.

I could've rolled it out, due driver side front tire being flat. So I have to change those Super Sport-wheels under and roll it out.

But I have been very very lazy. And then I saw a "craigslist" listing about GM wheels with tires for 90€. So I went to Lohja and bought them.

And these are from 5th gen El Camino. These are spiked winter tires, but all I need them is for me to roll out and in the El Camino so that I can wash that engine bay.

I also bought Holley Street Avenger 670 carburetor. Because I got it "cheap". 

I guess, now I really need to change the flat one and the rest and roll it out and wash the engine bay.