After 28 years of sleeping, we attempt to bring the Dusty Bubble impala back to life! Follow me on Instagram @DezzysSpeedShop #shorts #1961impala #barnfind #Dezzysspeedshop
Love your way of messin with cars. Congrats on the start up. Glad you take care of life and make time for your cars and RU-vid channel. I like seeing those taillights too.
I am enjoying this 61 Impala. Love the body style. I can’t wait for you to clean her up. It reminds me of my parents 62 Impala SS, which was silver with black buckets and with a 283. That was a sweet car. I still have an Impala emblem from that car.
To me that sounded more like ether knock which is what happens when you run an engine with to much starting fluid. You can take a brand new car and spray it with starting fluid and it will do the same thing. Run it on gas and I think the knock will be gone
Awesome car!! I have a 65 impala which is my favorite year but 61 is up there on my must own cars. Once I'm done with my 2wd K5 I'm gonna have to find me a 61
Put a fuel pump on it,run from a clean can of gas and see how it runs...higher compression motors 10:1 or better would detonate like crazy on starting fluid.
Pontiac Dave is wrong!!! about that sound there's nothing wrong with the rods or Pistons it was pre detonation from using brake parts cleaner get it running on some good unleaded gas that Motors just fine
Well now you know why it was parked and not driven. I wouldn't fuck around, get that motor on a stand and build it. It has double hump heads on it, thats a good start. That is a 327 btw. I bet the trans is an iron case 2 spd powerglide. Theyre junk. Now is when you gotta make some good decisions. Running that motor any more is not a good decision. You can build a nice ass car there.
Oh and heres this...either make a gravity feed fuel source that you can hang from the hood that feeds the carb. OR get a five gallon gas can, tape an electric fuel pump to it and run a line to the carb. The can can sit on the ground somewhere. Get a pair of wires and hook them to the battery. Running a motor that has not run in decades without changing the oil and filter, and priming the oil pump is like dumping metal shavings into your crankcase. Take a step back...do some reading. It'll prevent you from fucking things up. Trust my words, I've been at this shit for a long time. These wonderful old small block Chevrolet engines are resilient, and tolerant. They can sit for years in a damp climate and run like new...BUT, you have to take the right steps to ease them back to life. I'm not clownin, just tryin to save you some grief, and money.
When I was about 13 the kid down the street had a 61SS he put a built 409 4spd. He used to charge us our lunch money to ride us round the block and burn rubber (if we were lucky) he traded in for a 69 motion 427 nova ss. That's another good one
I'm so glad to find your videos. It's so good to see a young man have interest in classic muscle cars. And yourself doing the work. Not many guys now days want to make an effort. They'd rather pay someone. I'm very proud of my son, he has explicit customs ,paint ,restorations. He followed his dads hobby. You keep up the great work, don't ever get discouraged. Because working hard on what you like will give you great rewards!! ; )
Love the car! These old chevys are timing sensitive. Set the points with a dwell meter, 30 degrees. Then set the timing, I would go 4 degrees btdc. The lifters not pumped up could be the knock also. Put a can of marvel mystery oil in it to help break some of the stuck stuff. What a score! Oh , if it has a spin on oil filter , it’s probably not a 283 or 327. Those old chevys had a canister oil filter. Be really careful with the canister oring. Always take the old oring out and carefully install the new one.
congrats on the 61. got it running. sounds a little noise. but I have small blocks for it. love to take it off your hands . like it just to work on it. put me in line Dezzy. if not . show us the 62 wagon. carry on sir. AZ
Only problem I had with my 61 Impala hardtop were the window brackets at the bottom of the door. Heavy glass broke the spot welds, kids slamming doors. 283 4 barrel with slip-n-slide no less. Drove her 15 years, 220 thousand mi.
I had a end a with 61 so my first car 327 365 hp out of a 65vett 3spd full syco I miss it would like to get smother one I kept destroying the carrier bearing on drive line
Now I know why you didn't reply to my previous comment on the last video. I must have missed the part saying you already owned the 61 and the rest of those rides. Bro you are a lucky man. The 61 is my " Ride or die" and that one is fn awesome!!! You won't find that in N.C.!
First thing you should always do is change the oil in a old car that's been sitting that long.you should also get oil primed/ oil pressure before you start it..one more thing , starting fluid is for starting the car up not for keeping it running for along time , you should always fill bowl's up in carb or just dump some down it carb instead of starting fluid.. that shit is bad for a motor.. Impala is a nice car it's in killer shape.if for sale hit me up
We got this. We primed the oil before it actually started. I have a follow up video coming and you’d have to get in a long ling if you wanted to buy this car
Great way to kill a dry motor running it on either! Pre ignition ( A.K.A. Spark knock) All its doing is HAMMERING the rod bearings all to hell! Also since your taking it apart be prepared to do a valve job. Engine won't last very long on today's UNLEADED gas and normal oil. Nice find!
