RE: IML: starting my 64 after a long sleep

["Frederick Joslin" <fljoslin@xxxxxxxx>]

Get a new battery. Make sure that the electrical connections are all very good.  

I would not try to actually start the car right away with gas down the carb. 

Probably better off to remove the spark plugs and squirt a little oil into each cylinder and turn the engine over by hand.

Then you know that the engine does turn over and that you have lubricated it a little.    

It would also not hurt to replace the plugs and then try to fire it up. You may also have "bad" gas after that amount of time.  
Good luck.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Simpson"
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: IML: starting my 64 after a long sleep
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:16:46 +1200

Id say the battery has expired.

> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:52:22 -0700
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: deadfishe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: IML: starting my 64 after a long sleep
>
> I am in a position where I need to move my 64 out of the garage. The
> car has not been started for several years (3-4). I charged the
> battery up, poured a little gas down the carb, and turned the key,
> and nothing happened. There was a single click (like the solenoid
> firing), and then nothing.
>
> Any ideas on the cause of the nothing? Is it likely a bad
> starter? Could it be a bad battery (the battery is 7-8 years old,
> and has been sitting most of that time). Could it be something more
> serious? Is there an easy way to tell (in case you haven't guessed
> already, I am not terribly mechanically inclined). I could hear a
> very quiet whirring sound that could have been the starter spinning,
> but I can't be sure.
>
> Thanks for any information you can offer to help,
>
> Mark Elliott
> 1964 Crown 4door in pieces in the garage (but it needs to be moved
> out of the garage)
>
>
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