Will an ABANDONED Chevy RUN & DRIVE 450 Miles after 30 YEARS!?
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- Today we bring an abandoned 1979 C10 back to life!
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Israel looks like a girl tell him to get a haircut I thought he was moo for a second
77 Lemans sedan!!! ahhhhhhh!!!!
Ok
a Honda 185s that i pulled from the woods gave more trouble then this truck and the 88
How do I contact to buy a car from this farm
It's amazing how all that was done in just one step.
😂😂😂
yep a 6 day long step.
The Minnesota phone call demo followed by an actual Minnesota phone call was pure gold ☠️
The Minnesota/canada banter was pretty funny too.
This quartet of Kevin, Angus, Ezra, and Bob is fantastic. Funny, easy going, and informative. Definitely keep this team together for future videos (with Jessie and Mook as well, of course)
step 1 was very well executed, great to see how well you guys work as a team.
The fact they restored this Squarebody in just one step is mighty impressive
I hope we see more of Bob.
He has a great sense of humor and quick wit.
Not unlike Kevin.
Ezra is amazing, would love to see even more of him!
LMAO @ the "Minnesota goodbye!"
that dude's hilarious as hell, definitely a nice addition in the mix!!
Agreed
Agreed
Ezra has me crying!😂
Our 30yo son loves your videos! He fell asleep watching this one, and my wife & I ended up watching the whole thing. Brought back some great memories of our respective grandfathers rebuilding & maintaining their older vehicles, and then memories of our teen & young adult lives working in cars.
A pleasant surprise.
Thanks for sharing guys!!
Now replace that truck’s windshield! 😂
Sounds like you have a loving family. Blessings to you and yours
Childhood dream of mine was wishing my family owned a junk yard so I could build all sorts of abominations.
Bro same
Sitting for 30 years and only missing one piece of trim. My favorite body style truck and year. This video might've been my favorite of yours so far!!
and the rear bumper being ... eum ... special ...
Quick tip: If ya drap something over the strap you're tugging with, it falls to the ground instead of going flying when it breaks. Same with chains
Yep, even just a blanket works
@@lukenelson3183 Yea, I've used either blankets or my work jacket hahaha
We usually do, but didn't figure we'd actually break the chain😂
@JunkyardDigs Haha fair enough! Love the content man keep it coming! Just ordered myself a C10hhh shirt!
Anything will work, even a large limb off a green tree. @@lukenelson3183
Kenny is the most chaotic skid steer operator I've ever seen, I was enthralled the entire time. Great reflexes when the pipe bent!
lol he was getting nasty with that skid steer
This is comedy gold with a truck revival all in 1 step.
The ongoing “ step one” banter it absolutely priceless. Love the videos keep up the great work
took me about a minute from my comment a bit like this to find your comment
"is step 3 safety?" killed me 😂
It's always a great day when JYD uploads a new video. That truck is in pretty good shape for living up north and for sitting that long
Truck is a Chevy, so it's probably spent most of its life broke down. LOL.
No really though, I think the rust problems are from being on the salty roads and that one having sat for a lot of years hasnt been on those salty roads for a lot of years.
Sat for so many years because it's a Chevy and as suck done Chevy things, better known as broke down
@@Pinion512 chevy doing chevy things lol. Yeah you are probably right. In this case being off the road probably saved it.
Chevrolets are very reliable in my opinion maybe not the diesel ones but non the less they say on a quiet night you can hear a chevy rust. Lol. Being broke down in the woods definitely saved it from the road salt.
Oh yes
loved hearing that olds engine crank and run. my grandmother had a 73 or 4 delta when i was a kid. brings back memories. I was trusted to be in charge if starting and warming up that big plant when we took road trips.
Just have to say this is by far my most favourite revival that you have done. Enjoyed this so much, thank you
Kevin...I've been watching this channel since 2018 I think..and I have seen every video on the channel....many more than once...this has to be the coolest thing I have seen yet...taking an old clapped out diesel motor from a square body that absolutely deserved a second life and putting in a big block with a couple buds and whatever u could find on the farm...this is why I keep watching after 6 years...amazing content!!!
Thank you!!
Now this is a real one
As a backyard mechanic, I've NEVER gotten past step 1! But I've always put safety 3rd.
I absolutely love these episodes, to turn off your brain and watch guys having fun with big blocks and old truck and just being chill just makes me happy.
Keep up the great content ❤
Great job on the C10hhh! Loved how it turned out, and it runs excellent!
After that ride with the skip loader, Angus' trip to see the proctologist wasn't nearly as surprising.
Who needs a chiropractor when you’ve got a skid loader
EPIC!!! I’m sure that was a LOT of work, but what a great episode! C10, big block Olds, fall color, beer and 3 wheelers. What more could you ask for? Loved it all.
Loni Anderson in he prime
@@user-ht1xu4gv2u Right arm, as Nixon said in his TV cameos on Rowan and Martin.
Man that 455 Olds Motor is a Strong Old Champ Kevin 27:30 @Junkyard Digs
Love this episode. This series is very reminiscent of when you and thunderhead took your vans slept in them and revived that black car. We appreciate all the hard work.
Angus gets a little bit funnier every episode he's in. Great banter between the boys.😂
Angus definitely needs his own channel.
I'm still amazed whenever I see places like this. The ability for one person or family to fill a farm up with cars over the decades. Nowadays it takes everything to afford one or two vehicles per household. It's part of the reason I love videos like this though. The old cars were just cool and easy to work on.
Great episode thank you
Wow its cool to see your username pop up in these comments. I hope you are doing well, I really enjoyed your content.
Plenty of folks are still piling up junk. I see my neighbors bring stuff to the farm regularly cause I’m closer to the blacktop. Rarely do they sell anything.
Farmland states are still full of places like this!
DITCH DC,
🤡🌎😮
Those olds 350 diesel blocks can be converted to gas and can take a lot of power due to the main webbings and blocks being beefier than the normal 350’s
That’s wild. Are they 4 cylinders? I’ve never heard of this chevys diesel engine before
@@Naltddesha 8 cylinder and not a Chevy it’s an Oldsmobile engine
That's how a lot of those Olds diesels got converted over to gas back in the day.They just change the heads, intake, cam and add a distributor.
The exhaust sounds amazing for that c10 with that amazing olds 455 Big Block 54:10 @Junkyard Digs
Angus was the perfect guy to put in that Olds . His facial expressions are priceless !
Absolutely awesome episode Kevin, having Angus,Bob, and Ezra in the mix was a real treat. Love the channel brother, keep the fun coming.👌🇺🇸👍🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great episode, lot of fun. Nice to see the truck back up and running. Thanks Guys.
One of my favourite series, the farm full of old cars! Loved this, can’t wait to see more
Please keep bob around this channel for ever
I like how every junkyard digs episode has a different running joke this time it's which step their on
they’re
@@Viscalis wow some guy really be correcting my grammar must not have a interesting life
@@gabenieto3113 just helping you 🤣
where your Capri, Gabe?
@@Viscalis yeah I know I just like shit talking lol
This was your best video I’ve seen yet and one of the coolest “make it run & drive home” videos I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen anybody do something like this before. Great job all around and love the truck, it definitely deserves a second life
Love watching you getting back on getting trucks on the road! Keep at it!💪🏻
Another tip: if you turn the rear brake adjuster wheel with a screwdriver to loosen the rear brake shoes you can disassemble the rear brakes easier and without wrecking the hardware.
Those haven't turned in 30 years😂
Kevin you guys are seriously the best CZcams channel even better than old roadkill, you guys aren’t scared of nothing
First video I've watched- I know absolutely nothing about auto repair and restoration in any form but feel I know a lot more than I did after watching this. Awesome job
great video as always kevin! and all the help you had was great! good to see the old chevy running and driving again!
I know those olds diesels are a bit junk but the diesel option on a 79 chev is pretty rare. Would be nice to see one restored as it came off the line
And honestly, they're probably rare because so many people swapped out the diesel for gas engines. It's kinda sad.
Very true, I’ve only come across one in life and it had a 350 gas in it
even restored to better than brand new it would be very bad and unreliable. GM took a gas 350 and basically did a quick cheapo diesel conversion on it. the difference in compression ratios alone almost guaranteed failure.
@@BigIronTexasTowards the end of their life the 350 diesels had their wrinkles ironed out. Sadly by then nobody wanted them anymore and their fate was sealed.
very rare, only 1770 built with it. A guy on the forums who used to work at gm Keith, got me break down production numbers, as for 1980 under 600!
Many years ago my late Uncle bought a bustle back Cadillac Seville with a 350 Olds diesel in it, and swapped in an Olds 455. It ran great and had a fair amount of giddyup.
Lmao, y'all are having a blast. I loved this video. Being from Michigan, I can totally appreciate all your northern humor. Cheers boys
Kevin this is my new favorite video from you! I could watch this all day everyday. Awesome work! I vote Ezra needs to be in more future videos, he’s hilarious. Beautiful 79 C10 Cheyenne pickup btw!!! I hope you keep it around
As a Canadian, I found this video very amoosing! 😏
Great content guys!
I did aswell cuz were from the grest white north eh
LOL. As a Canuk ...Really? LOL. Just funning around Moostly. Well almoost. We should be shot. Like a Moose.
Oh ya!...When I was at the turdy miunit mark I tought I was back home in da UP. Workin on my snowmobile while wearin' my swampers. and tinkin' bout the pasties we're havin' fer dinner.( in my best yooper voice)
Ya can't start a 12 step program without step 1 lol. Great episode as always, ya never fail to bring a smile and a laugh when I watch you guys!
Step 1 version 3 lol
Love this video. My dad had a C10 that looked just like this. It had a 350 with 3 on the tree. I used to tool around with him on that truck. He passed when I was young and my mom had to sell the truck to cover the funeral bills😢. Miss him and that old truck
I'm a little older than you guys, but back in the day, I wore out about five of these old square body Chevys. All the ones I had ran 350 V8s except for one with a 292 Big 6. Just great solid trucks watching this makes me want to go drag my 84 C10 out of the weeds and get it back on the road. Good job, guys!!!
nice
Do it. I don't know what it's gonna take, but do it.
@cavalierliberty6838 I'm working on it! Just yesterday, I pulled my 3500 out of the weeds and pressure washed it. Got to pull the heads off the 5.7 and see what it's gonna take to get the old girl running. I think she may have swallowed a valve, and that's why she's been parked for four years.
As a native MinnesOtan, I feel attacked. Quality content, Sir!
I need to add a slick chainsaw holster to the front rack of my '83 200e like that.
I felt attacked to…
Thanks for all of the amazing videos, I’m in technician training at NASCAR tech now and you have made it so much easier, keep it up!
Pray tell how anything he's done has made your NASCAR tech training easier 🤣 Some people are so full of shit they'll do anything to get a heart off a CZcamsr
@@BariLopesh I thought the man bun guy was a girl at first..so I guess my NASCAR training was a bust!😂
Wow, what?
Hell yeah man that's bad ass good luck with the training buddy
@@BariLopeshsomeone’s jealous asf
I've always thought this was one of the best videos on this channel, its well eddited and flows nicely. Somehow 1.25 hours and doesnt get boring whilst filming repetitive contect. Also that truck is awesome, I love the convept. Stay awesome!
The shinanagins in this video with Kevin, Angus, Bob, Ezra Are just hilarious 😂😂😂 35:00 @Junkyard Digs
I absolutely adore the reference to Da Yoopers!!! Glad to see another fan of em lol
OMG!! Seeing you use that wire wheel on the angle grinder brought back a memory of pain and eye surgery. I was doing the exact same thing you used it on and some of wires on mine came off and hit me in the face, and somehow went around my goggles and into my right eye ball and I got taken to the Hospital where, thank God, a Doctor knew how to do what I needed done and got the wire out of my eye ball. I spent the next 4 weeks with a patch over my eye and med cream put in it. Changed every 4 hours. And of course it was during the hottest days of Summer in Michigan and I couldn't go swimming or get my wet.
God damn... screw that. Wearing two pairs of glasses now
@@JunkyardDigs full face 3M respirator for any grinding. Overkill maybe, but you only get one pair of eyes.
that was one of the sweetest engine swaps I've ever seen on youtube ever. definitely it was very hard work, but you guys made it look piece of cake! wonderful!
So amazing SRC family is doing a his for her and the family. God bless you all.
I had a 1979 Scottsdale square body truck with a 305 and headers. I bought it used in 1982 with 66,000 miles on it, and sold it in 1989 with 167,000 miles on it. It still ran great and had no rust, but the driver's door hinges were separating from the door!
Do you remember how much you paid for it?
@@chrischieff5784 I think it was around 6k minus the 1,500 down payment I had from selling my previous truck. I sold it seven years later for 3,500 dollars.
I love how realistic Angus is
Truck drives very well kevin sounds so good with the olds 455 Big Block 43:28 @Junkyard Digs
My second car was a '72 Delta 88 Royale like the donor. 455, with Turbo 400. What a great car she was. Even got 25 mpg on the highway, and never a problem.
Ezra's old Minnesotan impressian sounded more like a Yooper. It had me rolling.
Damn Kevin, in 2001 I bought a 1979 Chevy 1/2 ton, used-to-be 350 Diesel truck, with a 455 out of a Buick GS Stage 1 (at least that's what the guy I bought it off said. I was just buying a shop/yard/acreage/ to town and back truck , so I didn't really care where the motor came from as long as it ran, shifted gears, and (surprise !) stopped. The reason for this little ditty though, isn't that the truck ran and stopped, it was the fact that it was IDENTICAL to your Minnesota truck in color, except I was in Rocky Mountain House (Rotten Monkey House if you've ever been there), Alberta, a little west and south of Edmonton. Mine however did not have a solid box or nifty, 1 mouse hole interior, and it didn't have headliner at all. The seats were old buckets out of some forgotten Chevy van and covered with "Navaho blanket" seat covers that had seen better decades, and it had a "chollo chain metal " steering wheel, and an old milk crate from the local dairy for a center console. I paid $950 for it and an old 8-wheel Argo that didn't run (I got the Argo working, put 2 new tires on it and sold it for $2500 to my across the field neighbor.) That truck ran for 4 more years that I had it, and then for 9 more years (with a newer tranny) when I sold traded it for a 1993 Honda Goldwing and an old 22./410 over under prairie chicken gun.....so I'm thinking you're gonna have decent luck, 'cause them old GM big blocks and Chevy Square bodies work forever ( as long as you have WD-40, brake clean, jumper cables or a battery box, Gorilla duct tape and a cheap set of sockets, wrenches, screw drivers, and a pair of vice grips ,all from Canadian Tire)...Good luck, stay safe, don't have too much fun, and whatever you do, don't let Angus hold the lightening wire to the distributor, don't let Bob play with the radiator, and don't let Ezra, ever, say goodbye on a phone call ( he'll be goin' on 10 minutes after the end of the next Zombie apocalypse, and BTW, he sounds like he's from Thunder Bay, Ontario, or southern Manitoba)...Peace out, from Doc, in the Great White (now kinda green, brown, and yellow, and heading into fall) North of southern Ontario, Canada.🦫🦫🍁🍁🍁
So Amazing how u guys can get these things running. Love it!
Certainly the most entertaining team you have assembled yet. Great episode 👍
You guys never cease to amaze me ,good collaboration of all you guys working together to make an awesome video for us ,thank you so much.
I'd imagine that broken Thermostat just might have been the reason that Oldsmobile was parked last time it ran and was ditched there.
Great video! Definitely worth waiting for. Your channel keeps getting better!!
I got an old 88 f150 back on the road one time and the splines in the steering shaft were stripped out. That was a fun experience going down the highway.
What a battle!! What a colossal, epic, friggen battle!! And yet, a stunning victory once the C1ohhh made it to that beautiful farm scenery. Loved the hilarious comedy, the informational tech, the scenes of endless fixes/repairs that come with taking a vehicle that sat not running for the exact same time I've been alive, Bob and Ezra's comedy and assistance, and just the hilarious B double E double R U N's. This was familiar with being along the lines of the Plymouth Satellite but with a way different vehicle and far greater set of circumstances (like 9 long days and removing one blowed up engine and installing another). Bravo for your efforts, gentlemen. Absolutely frigging outstanding!!!!
Pity that Bob and Ezra don't live closer to the shop; they'd make fine regular guests on this channel. Damn fine workers and have a solid sense of humor to boot. That said, I'm sure it's not the last we'll see of them. Hat tip to Kenny for helping out with the crazy skid loader antics! Oh, and seeing Angus all cleaned up was a terrible shock to the system! 🤣
Two things that I'm sure others have said:
Radar detectors work best when they're mounted up near the top of the windshield.
No title can be fixed via the Vermont registration process.
Keep it up, JYD Team!
Truly awesome. Best get 'er runnin' ever. Capped off with an awesome back trails riding adventure. Keep it up!
What a great trip! Must have been so much fun!
I use to know an old guy that replaced that diesel in his Chevy with a 500 Cadillac and in that swap he had to notch the frame on both sides to clear the exhaust manifolds because it’s so damn wide.
My grandad put a 500 in his old f150! He called it the fordillac! It was a beast!
Thats what i want
In high school, a few friends and I bought a '65 Pontiac Ambulance from a junkyard for $200. It was in great shape, except for the Pontiac 421 that was in many pieces. We took the motor into the machine shop and the cost to get it machined was crazy expensive because it was a special service engine (police, taxi, etc.). So we found a '69 Olds 88 455, running, for sale in the PennySaver for $150!! When we showed up, it indeed ran great, until it warmed up on the drive home. The rings were shot and it pumped an ungodly amount of exhaust, straight into the car. Funny how there were 2 cardboard tubes and safety goggles in the back seat. The only four things in the whole car! Curious! But they came in handy.
After a smokey drive home, and a few major burnouts at the local cruise spot, we crashed it into a wall in the high school senior parking lot, where the battery grounded out on the hood and fried the electrical system. We walked home to get one of the guy's father's pickup that had a cherry picker mounted on the back corner of the dump bed. Drove back to school and pulled the engine at 3am and took it back to the ambulance to drop it in. Unlike your pickup, the Olds 455 did not just drop into the '65 ambulance engine bay, nothing a few 2x4 blocks to sit on and few short lengths of chain to hold it down, couldn't fix. The last little issue was the '64 Pontiac throttle was a push and the Olds 455 was a pull. After a creative throttle cable installation, using what can only be described as a pulley system, we drove it to the muffler shop for a pro exhaust, to funnel the smoke out the back as opposed to into the car, we were ready to roll. After a few local parades and few rides to proms, winter formals, homecomings and Sadie Hawkins dances, someone got mad at me at a backyard party and the mad guy and his buddies tried to hunt me down, but only found the ambulance, at which point they broke all the windows out of it. Those were huge custom windows that we never were going to be able to afford to replace. So, in a panic, we called around to find someone that would take the car as junk, we ended up calling the guy we bought it from, not knowing it was the guy we bought it from, and after him getting over the fact that we actually had gotten it running and driving, he offered paying us the same $200 we paid him. Everyone else want us to pay them, to take it away.
Miss that old car. Did I mention that the backlit sign, above the front windshield, under the old school roller emergency light said "Chainsaw Surgery"? Good times!!!
One hell of an adventure! His is certainly one I'm planning for next fall! Great content gentlemen!
I really loved this video. Reminds me of when I pulled a 350 from a 69 conversion van and put it into an 85 Olds Caprice.
love road trip videos, i mean i love all your videos and i know they’re time consuming but they’re a nice little treat every once in a while
Love this series, keep up the good work kevin
Love this old truck Kevin. Good job keepin it alive. I would love to own this old Rig.
Thank you!!so much !!I don't feel alone in the Ranger experience now, good directions,and great sense of humor,pressure regulator is my next guess on my no start ,,had truck 29 yrs,first time its stranded me,,fun day ahead,
This might be the most chaotic revival on CZcams. Period.
Enjoyed this. The squarebody is one of the best looking trucks ever produced.
Fully enjoyed this episode, wish we had cars and roads like this in England Uk
Love your videos keep doing what you’re doing it’s very entertaining and I’m always learning something new.
Haha, Angus' face after the skid steer drive is gold.
Time to add: Change thermostat, to your revival checklist?
Did you ever check the voltage with the new gauge? since you've had so many issues with the other gauges.
Throw a new windscreen and a 4 speed auto in. After a good clean that would make a sweet power tour cruiser.
That looks like a really clean solid truck for being so far north.
Edit: Please do a follow up build / cleanup series with this one.
Thanks for all the amazeing video! Im in my 1st week of tech school in the Air Force and your videos are a treat to watch after a long day, Keep em comein!!!
I'm a Air Force veteran. Long time ago
Enjoy your tech training and thank you for your service from a really old USAF vet.
More of Ezra, he's hilarious... feel like I need a kitty😂😂😂
Wow just seen your video and your page for the first time, looks like I’m gonna be binge watching for a week found my newest favorite thing to binge watch
Bob and Ezra are top tier substitutions, great banter throughout.
Sick, can’t wait to find time to watch a junkyard digs special
Keep the Great Videos coming...always looks like you guys have fun
Truck is cleaning up pretty good Kevin Even had a Mirror Finish in some spots 50:26 @Junkyard Digs
Killer video honestly, that’s a pretty nice square body. I had a 78 gmc with a Oldsmobile 400 in it, and honestly it ran really good like most of the Oldsmobile’s I’ve had. I’d definitely fix that Chevy up, it’d make a nice truck.
This is how you get a 79 square body registered in CA... Use a diesel VIN and throw a 455 Olds in it!
That MUST be original mileage based on how straight the body is, and the clean interior doesn't have much wear (I did lots of detailing) . . . but whatever! I dig the show, it is fun!!
You completed everything within step one, amazing work. Normally people take many steps to do it.
Love the vids, I wish I was able to find all your great finds!
Its always a good day when a new "Can it drive home" by Junkyard Digs is released!
Thanks for the really entertaining video gentlemen! I really enjoyed watching this odyssey.