Ok so i guess ill start this out now. I am the one that ended up with this gem. yes it is one hell of a car. its in outstanding shape. the paint is so clean. you would never guess it was 27 years old, and yes I am the 2nd owner. I think that may put me in a very elite club of s-12 owners
so anyway, thanks to the help of walon its now home and in my garage, just dyeing to be put back on the road.
Well I guess Ill start by giving everyone a lil history, at least what i know. This car was taken off the lot brand new sometime in 1983. the guy that got it was planning on retiring in 85 and got it as a gift to himself. well he didnt retire and drove this thing to and from work for about 13-14 years. he babyed this car like you wouldnt beleave. He said that if he was my age he would replace the motor and keep it, said nothing was ever done except he had the timing belt replaced at 96k. I guess something went wrong and the cranck pully snapped off when he was driving down the road, but he said it didnt make any noise, it just died. he looked very sad to see it go, took one last picture and he even wanted to back it out of the drive way when walon and i were there to tow it home, he may have even had a little tear in his eye when we pulled away.
Today I started pulling stuff off the motor to see how much damage there really was. first thing i found was a brand new looking head. from the outside you can tell it was rebuilt cuz all the grees build up on the block just stops when you get to the head and it looks new. I pulled the valve cover and the inside looks the same, so I am going to assume the head had to have been rebuilt, hot tanked and all. The cam shaft turns a little, it looks to be at tdc cuz the intake lobe is just starting to open the cylinder 1 intake valve. it doesnt move much past that and stops, i turn it the other way and the exhaust valve does the same thing. I didnt want to pull the head just yet, not quite ready to dig that deap, but i needed to know why i had so little range when trying to turn the cam, so i pulled the plugs and i could see that piston 1 was up, i checked all 4 this way and the 2 i could see looked good. so now im thinking that this motor may not be in all that bad of shape. if thats the case it may be back on the road sooner than later. anyway here are some pics of the car in my garage, as i go i will unload pics on this thread so enjoy, and thanks to everyone for any help.
here you can see the snapped off crank, If only they grew on trees
here you can see just how clean the head is,( and he said nothing was ever done) Ill take it, a new head, hell ya
I know he wasnt compleatly full of crap, have you ever seen 27 year old paint that can still do this?
and the head lights work just fine...