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Well the weather today was awful, but I got my Chero home. It was a bit of a pain, but it's home. When we got there it had begun to turn to freezing rain, everything was covered in ice and kept icing over again after scraping it off. I had no windshield wipers on the Chero because they were encapsulated and the ice wouldn't melt. Anyways I stuck in the battery I had but it wasn't powerful enough to start the Chero. I jumped it with the Wagoneer and it started ok, but it wouldn't run well, it wasn't getting enough fuel, and the choke doesn't work. I looked down the carb and pulled the throttle back, it only sprayed fuel from one side, the other was clogged. It opened up after running the engine for awhile, but it seems to have fouled up again or something after we started driving, and the carb sucked terribly the whole time. It has sat for awhile, but I'm surprised because it was rebuilt not too long ago, and the Wagoneer also sat for awhile and had no such trouble with the carb. Either way the Chero ran worse and worse on the way home, until it got to the point where it would stall out when you tried to get moving from a stop, no matter what. The battery wouldn't charge enough to spin the starter fast enough either. We had to push start it with the Wagoneer repeatedly, which resulted in the bumper brackets on the Chero getting a little bent and one of my nice Hella lamps on the Wag getting broken. Perhaps the carb was beginning to freeze up or something. My dad drove it most of the way home, and had some issues but it would go, but shortly after I started driving it wouldn't work, it got so bad the truck was shuddering and running very rough, it wouldn't accelerate smoothly enough to shift gears well, never mind that it had to be pushed each time I had to start from a stop. On top of that the brakes were sticking, it pulled to the right when you stepped on the brakes anything more than gently (luckily compression braking limited the need for stepping on the brakes much), and I went to step on the emergency brake only to have the cable snap somewhere and the pedal go to the floor. It was a disaster pretty much.
So once it warms up a little I'm going to go through the carb and see what's up with it, and I'll check all the vacuum lines and charging system, and put in a better battery. I'll probably combine this carb with the other carb I had already started to rebuild so that I can have this thing driving properly. Then I'll have to fix the emergency brake and unstick the stuck brakes, and then it should drive well. Once all that's sorted I'll do the TFI, and then the 4bbl upgrade later. Other than those issues it has the truck seems pretty solid, it is rusty, but it's not rusted out. From what I could tell it rides relatively smooth and handles well, but with the engine stuttering and stumbling it was hard to tell over the shudder it created. I can feel that the performance is there, it's just stuck under a messed up carb and dragged down by sticking brakes
I did get some pictures after I got it home, none from picking it up though.
Pretty decent looking Chero I think, rusty, but solid
The interior is in rather nice shape, the carpet isn't too great, but the seats are nice and clean under those fuzzy sheepskin covers
It has some rust, this was the worst spot, the flares are fiberglass, there's sheetmetal patches inside the fender. Will need some doner sheetmetal someday soon.
Best nighttime shot I could manage of the fleet. Once this thing is running right I'll have a bunch of beach pics, hopefully with snow.
Well the weather today was awful, but I got my Chero home. It was a bit of a pain, but it's home. When we got there it had begun to turn to freezing rain, everything was covered in ice and kept icing over again after scraping it off. I had no windshield wipers on the Chero because they were encapsulated and the ice wouldn't melt. Anyways I stuck in the battery I had but it wasn't powerful enough to start the Chero. I jumped it with the Wagoneer and it started ok, but it wouldn't run well, it wasn't getting enough fuel, and the choke doesn't work. I looked down the carb and pulled the throttle back, it only sprayed fuel from one side, the other was clogged. It opened up after running the engine for awhile, but it seems to have fouled up again or something after we started driving, and the carb sucked terribly the whole time. It has sat for awhile, but I'm surprised because it was rebuilt not too long ago, and the Wagoneer also sat for awhile and had no such trouble with the carb. Either way the Chero ran worse and worse on the way home, until it got to the point where it would stall out when you tried to get moving from a stop, no matter what. The battery wouldn't charge enough to spin the starter fast enough either. We had to push start it with the Wagoneer repeatedly, which resulted in the bumper brackets on the Chero getting a little bent and one of my nice Hella lamps on the Wag getting broken. Perhaps the carb was beginning to freeze up or something. My dad drove it most of the way home, and had some issues but it would go, but shortly after I started driving it wouldn't work, it got so bad the truck was shuddering and running very rough, it wouldn't accelerate smoothly enough to shift gears well, never mind that it had to be pushed each time I had to start from a stop. On top of that the brakes were sticking, it pulled to the right when you stepped on the brakes anything more than gently (luckily compression braking limited the need for stepping on the brakes much), and I went to step on the emergency brake only to have the cable snap somewhere and the pedal go to the floor. It was a disaster pretty much.
So once it warms up a little I'm going to go through the carb and see what's up with it, and I'll check all the vacuum lines and charging system, and put in a better battery. I'll probably combine this carb with the other carb I had already started to rebuild so that I can have this thing driving properly. Then I'll have to fix the emergency brake and unstick the stuck brakes, and then it should drive well. Once all that's sorted I'll do the TFI, and then the 4bbl upgrade later. Other than those issues it has the truck seems pretty solid, it is rusty, but it's not rusted out. From what I could tell it rides relatively smooth and handles well, but with the engine stuttering and stumbling it was hard to tell over the shudder it created. I can feel that the performance is there, it's just stuck under a messed up carb and dragged down by sticking brakes
I did get some pictures after I got it home, none from picking it up though.
Pretty decent looking Chero I think, rusty, but solid
The interior is in rather nice shape, the carpet isn't too great, but the seats are nice and clean under those fuzzy sheepskin covers
It has some rust, this was the worst spot, the flares are fiberglass, there's sheetmetal patches inside the fender. Will need some doner sheetmetal someday soon.
Best nighttime shot I could manage of the fleet. Once this thing is running right I'll have a bunch of beach pics, hopefully with snow.
Man I got ripped of! I got my old Chero for $550 and it didnt even run before I bought it nor was it even saveable body wise. Live and learn I guess.
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