Late last night, during the mixed winter weather. A certain marketplace ad appealed to my stepson.

He has a twin brother that rearranged an Excursion's front end with his brother's 2016 Cruze Limited that we gifted to him. While Door Dashing...Bummer....




Anyway, This slid through a specific marketplace... I was sent to retrieve it.



First off, the key/fob combo is damaged. And of course the battery is dead.

I am going to unload it and start checking stuff.

Nevermind the moon finger...

 

After charging the battery (which held a charge) and airing up the tires. I dug around and found a new replacement key fob and new battery. (All on hand from the previous silver car.) 😃

Popped it apart and swaped in the circuit board and correct key shank for the red car.
It would spin over but not start. After priming the switch a slew of times it started hitting and missing while spinning. More hits and misses slowly gaining cranking speed and with some throttle manipulation, it did start. 😃

After warming up, I found it pushes the coolant out of the tank when capped and spews white smoke from the exhaust. Otherwise, runs good and is extremely hard to re-start. 🤔
Typical headgasket indicators. 😒
I have not tried to coolant pressure test it, but I am sure it will fail miserably and most likely hydrolock afterwards. 😬

Rather than diagnose the actual problem... (hurts my head) I will just swap engines from the silver one to the red one. Pull 2 and pretend to put 1 back in. 😉

Goal is... before New Year's. Oh... and, in the open gravel driveway. Should be great! 👍 Seeya there! 😂

 

Well, I have no doubt that you will have it done by the 1st.......yeah, you still need that concrete slab!

I just had all 3 buildings here re-shingled......new skylights, vents, etc. I will finally get to work on the VW bug some on Thursday!

 

Cool Bug! Good color too. What cc is it?

 

It is the original 1600cc engine......the original fuel injection is still installed and working also. I pulled all of the injectors and cleaned them here at home.......runs good!