Good evening folks, new member here.....I am getting my fathers 2004 SC monte, that's the good news, bad news it's sat for about 5 years. I'll post in the proper thread for questions/answers but wanted to put that out there in case anyone has any initial input/ suggestions,

Thank you

 

to the forum!

Biggest thing is that the tires are probably dry-rotted and flat spotted. Your fluids will need to be flushed, and you'll have to check over all of the rubber lines to make sure that they didn't crack or get ruined from sitting so long.

 

Thanks Chibi, i kinda figured the fluids, and tires have been flat for a few years. That all will be flushed/replaced. Of course battery is dead, so new battery. My thinking is, it will need the pass key/pass lock relearn. My cousin is trying to help me out, as I live 3 hours from my dad, and he tried to turn it over but no dice, he gave a quick spray of starting fluid, and it would turn over then shut right back down.

 

Is the fuel shot? If they didn't put any stabilizer in it, the gas might be awful.

 

Pretty sure no stabilizer....😕😕 not a lot of gas in it though fwiw....

 

That's great job bringing her back to life, nice! Make sure to create a build thread so we can follow your progress!

 

Possible it'll need a fuel pump if tank was pretty dry

 

Good idea on the build thread, I'll try and set that up this weekend. And I'll investigate the fuel pump regardless, if the the re learn works or not. Thanks for the interest and suggestions, so far seems like a cool forum, I'm in another for a different vehicle and is more of a pissing contest and who's is bigger.....smh