Hi all.. I recently bought my first Maverick. .:bananaman It is a 1970 Maverick with a 200 in it. It is in really good shape (all original), so I want to restore it the best I can. I'll probably be looking to this site for some help along the way
Well you are in luck, there is no better site to come to for help. With all the members here who have done the impossible and when you see their cars you'll know what I mean, so ask away I'm sure someone here will have your answer. Congrads on the Maverick and good luck with your car. Terry Gates AKA Bossmav
NBR, welcome to the board, and welcome to Maverick/Comet community. Alot of great guys and gals here who will be glad to help you when you have questions etc. So, where are you from?
welcome, a lot of us are restoring ours too, this is the place to be if you like Mavericks! We got a club also you might want to join
Welcome to the board. You may not realize it, but there are masses of us Mav/Comet lovers out here. You got questions, we got answersl. Dan
Thanks everyone, I live in Oregon. The car I bought was actually posted on another Maverick site's classified section. I'm gonna go pick it up tomorrow from the person I bought it from. It's not "drivable" right now. He said the engine runs but starts to knock pretty loud after warming up. Hopefully it's just because oil isn't getting to the top of the engine because the passages are gunked up or something. Maybe a valve job? We'll see. The car sat around for a while, then was driven for a couple of months, and then started to make that noise. Also one of the seals is out on one of the brakes. Hopefully I'll be able to get it drivavble this weekend so I can cruise around a little bit in it and see what I wanna change. I will post some pics as soon as I get my hands on it.
Just be careful. First thing I would do if you plan on driving it is rebuild all of the brake cylinders (i'm guessing you hve 4 wheel drums). When I picked my mav up, at least 2 of the brake cylinders were froze up, and lets just say it wasn't a pretty situation when you have manual 4 wheel drum brakes. Also change the brake springs too. One of mine snapped on the way home. Me and my dad happened to have a spring in our tool box, so we cut it and bent it to shape and changed it in a gas station lol. The car had been sitting for over two years and after a few hours of work we got it started and I drove it home. I thought the head gasket was blown as it probably dumped a good two gallons of rusty water out of the exhust pipe. Turns out the gasket was fine. Now that I look back on it, driving it home probably wasn't the smartest idea in the world .
