83 5kt stall out
Tex Terry, II
texactii at csonline.net
Fri May 4 13:50:03 EDT 2001
Tony - you are one of the names I could not remember. Thanks for the
message below. I will proceed with changing of the fuel and oil as you
stated, and then report back. Tex.
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> From: Tony Lum <tlum at flash.net>
> At 07:02 AM 5/4/01 , you (Tex) wrote:
(snip)
> > After shutting down the car back in the summer of 1997
(snip)
> The fuel is the same that has been in the car. There is just
>over half a tank. The oil is the same and is reading full on the
dipstick.
>
> Hi Tex,
>
> First thing I'd do is to dump the gas. Its four years old can't be too
> good. Dump a full bottle of pure Techron in the tank with some fresh gas
> to clean out the injectors and then change oil shortly thereafter. '83
> Turbos are fortunately pretty simple, so you should be able to get it
> going. I left my '80 5KS parked under a tree (cracked head) for 10 years
> with the same gas and other than a new gas tank and a fuel pump (and a
new
> head of course) the car is running fine today.
>
> Good luck,
>
> -Tony
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