Will an ABANDONED 4x4 CADILLAC Survive a Truck Pull!? 

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I bet nobody was expecting one lifted Cadillac to show up, let alone two 😂

Kevin, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the extra time you take to explain how shit works. I have learned so much since I started watching your vids, things like large reservoir of master cylinder is always disks and other tidbits of pure gold that make trouble shooting much much simpler. Again a huge thanks.

Great job! You went 200+ feet farther than I thought you would!

Can we just acknowledge that the orange bumpside has a huge badass motor WITH A STOCK RADIATOR

Dude, the Baddilac is bad ass! Thanks for taking us on this adventure with you!

10.5:1 comp seems pretty high for pump gas on these old motors. My 390FE has 9.5:1 with aftermarket pistons and she still just barely pings on 91 octane under WOT. Thanks to this channel, I was inspired to buy a Pertronix distributor, now I can limit the advance and keep the 20 degrees of initial she wants.

What a great time. I just came in from cleaning the barn after the 1969 amx was pulled out and I drove it for the first tome in 26 years. 1996 was its last time it drove. Already got most of the damaged wiring repaired that took it off the road.

I have to say that I'm proud of how the Monster Caddy did with the sled pull. It might have split a couple of universal joints, but that's just par for the course.

Big shout out to Kevin thanks this takes me back 50 years I used a whole roll of film on a tractor/truck pull in keliher mn! The last 50 years have not been good to the Family farm. Anyway thanks.

Fantastic, Kevin! Very entertaining. Bummer about Phoenix's car- it sure LOOKED good though. I do a lot of small engine stuff and have been drilling my own jets for years- mostly because I'm too cheap to just go buy a bunch of 'em. What's fun is when you get a little overzealous and have to solder the jet closed and redrill it smaller. Thanks for the continually entertaining and informative content!

That really looked like a lot of fun, how cool it would've been to actually b there. Great job Kevin, an entertaining thumbs up.

4k quality was definitely what you needed, we can really see all the rust! lol

Thank you for fixing that exhaust leak! An FE turning 7k rpm sounds pretty scary. Mine hit around 6k a couple of times and I fully expected to have parts scattering but she held together. I'd be willing to bet that the old caddie would really benefit from proper gears and a little stall in the convertor. She sounds pretty healthy. Great video, as usual

I was there to see it! If I had known you were going to run last I would have showed up about 3 hours late instead of sitting through 6 hours of 111° heat index. Seeing the Badillac next to the monster limo makes yours look downright sensible. Great to see you guys

28:08 No cage, no suit, no helmet, no harness. Just dad shorts, T-shirt, & sunglasses. Legend.

Dude... DUDE... never in my life did I ever imagine wanting that generation of Cadillac... nor one that sits a couple feet in the air. LOVE this thing!

Kevin & Mook I grew up in Central Illinois and have been to few tractor pulls. I saw some neat stuff, 409 in Minneapolis, Hemi in a Case. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. And nice to the Mookster, too. You guys take care, and check on the corn when you get home. D

Love the car, been watching since the old F250 revival keep up the good work man. The old f250 was the reason I got into working on cars and it always amazes me how much more there is to learn from your channel.

Yep, I had class-issues the first time I autocrossed. Basically a factory '88 5.0 with disc brakes, axles and wheels from a '95 Cobra - which threw me right into the "Modified" class with tube-chassis, race-day-only, track monsters. It's was the most fun I ever had, getting my ass handed to me.

I've really enjoyed this series, not every video can be a1, five star, award-winning content but this one has been a good one, don't beat yourself up. Also I'm glad upside is sponsoring you, I'm an upside user and have almost earned an entire tank of gas over the summer.

6:48 seeing TDC at TDC and knowing the engine has been built up some, I would think maybe they installed a timing set with different cam timing. 68-71 timing sets are timed differently from 72+ sets for emissions (later EFI 460 are different as well) So it's possible when this engine was built that if they went to the trouble to do performance ignition and forged pistons they probably also went with a straight up timing set.

From the previous episodes of hearing this thing running, I had a feeling that the compression had been upped a bit.

Good job! Still pinging pretty bad though, I think you need to look into recurving your distributor, I have a similar setup and had to do that to get rid of my ping.

This brings back frustrating memories! Those shiny chrome double-filler fuel lines are crap - so many of them leaked on me that I don't even bother with them any more. Anything I work on gets a simple T fitting and that gets plumbed to each bowl.

😎 Almost as much fun as the farming episodes! What's a couple of U-joints between friends, right? YOU WON! Thanks for the fun content.

That looks like so much fun! I was starting to think Mook was kidnapped or something.

I had a 1987 6-door Cadillac, not as big as his 1984, but still fun. People were amazed. "Is that a limousine?" "What is that?" It was a nice, low-mileage car. Most funeral cars are.

My husband was the white truck! This was awesome to have you all there!

Finally the mook star of the show 👍🇺🇸🍺

That did really good! Should do more work to it and make it a badass puller! How many Cadillacs do you see pulling at truck pulls? Haha 😂

That frame flex 26:49 on the chevy was crazy 😂😂😂

CV joint thingy = double cardan joint. It was a great episode by the way. I enjoyed it immensely.

Yet another JYD masterpiece with a slight disasterpiece! Love your work! Keep it up!

The Battillac lookin' spiff as always.

the "I did that" stickers on the gas pump were perfect

Your buddy is always smiling and having fun, seems like a positive great dude

Buddy of mine had a 460 we were swapping into a late 70's Bronco, the engine had sat in a corner in a garage on an engine stand for so long the poor little engine stand had somewhat bent from the weight. We got the engine running on the floor, timing was way too far advance, we couldn't get the distributor out with it on the ground, we were just moving a 460 around trying. We ended up bolting the engine to a random Ford F series frame he had out back that originally had a big block, and still had to fight that bastard to come loose. These distributors can be a nightmare if they really stick.

Right on. Stoked on this one. I hope you folks are keeping cool out there. This heat is killing me down here. 🤙🏾

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! YOU FOR IT ALL WRONG WITH ME!!!! I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEE LOVEEEEEE THE LOUDNESS OF A ENGINE JUST POURING OUT ALL ITS H.P. LIKE THAT AND HOW LOUD THEY ARE JUST SCREAMING FREE DOWN THE TRACK!!!! JUST SAYIN!!!! THANKS, F.M.V.

Your WI adventure for the car was excellent, I live not far from this site you were at. I recognized the roads. Also, my brother and I years ago, when he was alive went to MI to the Sand Dunes with his older military Jeep Willys. In WI you can get special plates ( Hobbyists ) for such a machine.

Notification Squad! it is badass that you took this thing to a truck pull. I was just at one the other night. My dad used to have a 78 Ford F250 pulling truck with a 514. So they are a big part of my childhood and I like going to them every once in awhile. You did have a surprisingly decent hook

What pliers do you carry in your holster?

This is just one of just two reasons that I look forward to Tuesday's. The other is TACO's!

256.79 feet not bad at all some of them high horsepower trucks couldn't make it that far and well Phoenix couldn't even make it 1 foot lol nice work for the Battleaxe Kevin @Junkyard Digs

Since the original f250 is a bit beaten up, missing the windows etc, and the engine is missing a freeze plug, I feel like it would make a pretty good candidate for a pulling truck if you dropped in a nice big engine

Man really miss the truck pulls. Use to go with my brother back in the 80's all over the country. He was a 2 time National Champion with TNT Motorsports. Fun times.

@19:38 the guy in the white truck showing love to the 4x4 Cadillac! 😂

WOW, great dedication on the 4x4 Cadillac !! 👊BTW those chrome fuel lines are junk!!

You and Mook are still nuts!!🤪

I have always loved truck and tractor pulls 😝 the stock trucks are always the best show, the guys coming out Friday night to beat on their work truck or daily driver always bring the party

At the end when you spit the CV joint into the ditch, I just thought, that's so Iowa. Ah, the memories.

Excellent video Junkyard Digs Kevin :) also if going 89 or higher octane gas with that 460 motor bored up 0.30 over use 10w30 no synthetic engine oil of Pennezoil or Vavleoline, Fram Oil 2x times with Grip gaurd , Fram Air , Fram PCV Valve , Fram Fuel Filter & Grey Bottle of STP Total Treatment fuel injection and carb cleaner in fuel tank each time too because eats up Ethonal in fuels ! Also Spark plugs use Platinum Plus not long threads too , High Suppression wires to from Distributor Cap plus Coil to more clean spark also fire plus on cold and hot starts ! Do all this and get little ping at Cold start and in 3 mins high idle come low idle fast to and hot start after no pings! If do still get ping on when Park or Netural bit but in Reverse plus Foward gears not got set Intake and outake on need adjustment like tight up! Hopefully this help Kevin and don't use cheaper price gas to use great quality gas always too !

Man there were no apologies necessary for this awesome vid. It's actually cool to watch you figure something out on the fly rather than just apply a know fix, and the actual pull vids were well worth allllllll the "trouble." Bad ass, y'all.

When I was about 8-9 years old in the late 70s, we lived in a little town in central Iowa (maybe 300 people) for a couple years. They would have tractor pulls during the 4th of July festivities and all the local farmers would bring their best tractor to duke it out. It was awesome 😆 🤣

I like how Kevin ads subtle shots against Chevy lol. Like “at least the distributor is in the front so i can deal with it”. Meanwhile as a chev guy i have never once in my life heard of a seized dizzy hahaha.

Awesome Job, Glad the carb is still working for ya. Love watching this car so do the kids.

If I would have seen your video of the caddy I would have been able to fix my F150 460 had the same issues A++ Thanks for teaching me diagnostic skills I didn’t learn in class.

I love that every tractor pull I watch the chevys are dominating everyone

Love what you're doing and appreciated the knowledge. I had an old truck with 10.37 compression and I had to run premium fuel. Did not even like a mix. I would drain your tank and get rid of all the new gas/old gas its mix. I want to say I was running 32 degrees timing.

I love farm tractor pulling myself with my Farmall 400 and 350. The energy is amazing, and the people awesome. Good try to your first run. It took us a number of tries to get ourselves down the track the first few times. Keep dialing it in and kick some ass!

Bravo, loved the whole Heath Robinson effect (thrown together at the last minute). Well done. Congrats from the UK.

The heater is on full bore and it is HOT in here!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very neat seeing the truck pull. Sorry the U-Joint went out. But you made a pull for sure. Thank you for sharing

Sir you have brought back some great memories from my younger day's, we had truck and tractor pulls for many years in my little town of grants pass Oregon and monster trucks thrown in for the end of the pulls my favorite was a local long time log truck hauler named R.B Slagle that had a 4wd dark green metallic 60's gmc flat bed named the Phoenix with one hell of a diesel in it, thanks for the memories

Only something you will see on Junkyard Digs. A Caddy at a tractor pull. With only 2 in his class he comes home in 1st place and then still breaks small parts. Keep it up. 1st is much better than last.... 😂

Thanks Kevin that was a really fun video to watch thanks for explaining the ping issue wasn't sure where u were going next when everything was where it should be

That was a good pull . 👌 I didn't think you would make it that far in it. But , no problem being all over, it kept it interesting. Thanks again for bringing us along. Kevin and Mook have a great weekend 👋

Kevin, great video! Loved watching the pulls and cracked up when you lost the CV joint connection. Great job on the vids man!

Kevin, you do a great job troubleshooting! It’s the best part of the show to find practical solutions to common and uncommon problems.

I for sure thought it was going to catch fire on the way to the truck pull 🤣 😂. That Teflon tape was mint by the way. Not gonna lie, I had ear buds in and left my volume up so I could here all those ponies let lose 😂.

Kevin you could also try a colder plug to try and avoid a hot spot.

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Great episode! Truck/Tractor pulls are the best!

SAME WITH FREDDI FISH. DAMN IT SKIPPY. THAT CADILLAC IS A TOUGH OLD BIRD. CAN'T BELIEVE IT PULLED THAT FAR AND YOU STILL RAN IT DOWN THE ROAD. THAT'S A KEEPER OR A SELLER TO SOMEONE THAT JUST WANTS TO SEE HER DO MORE.

Congratulations Kevin :) also not first time seeing driveshaft twist and snap off both but still hook one again it was full size GM van 12 seater from 1984 year 2 wheel drive one !

Way to Go Kevin thats not a bad haul over 250. You should be proud of the old girl having just stock u-joints and pulling that far.

Makes me want to move to Iowa!!! You guys know how to have fun!!! Can’t believe you pulled the weight that far 😳wow! Sucks Phoenix couldn’t get it down the track, always next year!😁👍

" son, you're going to drive me to drinking if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln!." Lol

Went to a tractor pull event once. Besides the normal ones, that blackend the sun with diesel exhaust. There where crazy things like Twin Turboshaft T53-L-11 Turbines out of a Bell UH1-D and a 18 Zylinder radial engine from some WW2 Bomber. One of those two not only pulled the sled down the track but also almost up and over a hill at the end that's sole purpose was to stop them for sure. Best day in the life of a young little boy. Now that I'm an adult i think i should go see one of those again.

awesome video!! that thing pulled like a freight train till that u joint went. hope to see more of this thing!

Thay was really entertaining! Love to find out what was causing the spark knock.

Now THAT was COOL! Mate, I see a future in that beast attending more events like that! I've never been to a Tractor Pull - you'd think with a nation that makes most of its GDP and export income from farming that it would be a thing, but no. Gumboot tossing, yes, horsepower, not so much. So sad.... Anyway, commiserations on the UJ, but that's a minor set back. That engine held in there - pinking like mad, but she held and did over 200 feet! That's win in my book for the old girl. I bet the mice in Phoenix's rig were sweating bricks - maybe a few of them sacrificed themselves to block the exhaust pipe and cause it to stumble....? Who knows - hope he gets it sussed for the next one though. Both your engines sounded epic.....and for ref, I didn't adjust the sound and was wearing headphones for the first pull. What a GLORIOUS sound! Had to turn the volume UP from then on to get the same thrill from the rest! A great watch, my friend. Kudos for the effort put in to make it happen. All the best

Thank you guys for making it warmer in Ohio than it’s ever been! I love it!

Nice video. I live in a small town in wisconsin. During our town festival every year they do truck and tractor pulls down one of the streets.

I'm always happy when you folks post a video. Okay, I reached the end and all o can say it 🤣😂 you guys are awesome 👍

256FEET.. that was pretty awesome really..Another great show thanks Junky/Digs

I read a forum post a while back where a guy had a stuck dizzy in a 351. He wrapped a chain around it and lifted the whole front of the truck off the ground with the engine hoist, then left it there until it let go.

Well done, good show! It looks like you had fun which is the best part even if you had to piano wire it together on the drive to the event.

Great video glad you posted keep them coming thanks

Truck pulling is my hobby. And that bump side those are "street altered" truck they still have to run exhaust to behind the cab. The white Ford n such run a slipper clutch. They are ment for pulling so you can walk off the line without loading up the driveline to hard. Essentially a slipper is two metal disks with a small amount of material. They get hot fast but are designed for it. At night they'll throw sparks Love it. Just awesome

This was your best video I’ve seen yet. I’ve been watchin you for a couple months now and this one was just so fun and entertaining. I used to do truck pulling with my diesel and it was pretty fun but I got burnt out with it, it’s a lot of work for little return but if you just do it once in awhile and just have fun with it not taking it too serious it is a total blast. You’ve made me wanna get sumthin to pull for next year cause this just looked so fun

Great video! I've been watching since I was about 17. Thank yall for giving us amazing content!

Love the CH-47 on wall 🎉👍

Finally! Some else knows the theroy of disimular metals and conductivity. Kool

If you don't run it hard, you didn't run at all. Hell yeah brother!

That upside probably works pretty well. We truck drivers have had something similar called mud flap. Gas stations give cheap fuel basically for the price of advertising

KEVIN & MOOK WE NEED MORE OF YOUR GREAT VIDEOS, GOOD JOB.

Great job buddy keep it up and Thanks for sharing with us 👍👍💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸 from Alabama 🇺🇸 watching 👍

Enjoyed the truck/tractor pull and didn't have to sit out in the heat. Thanks!!