Help with a “STALE 87 GN”

[GA-ICBM]

Okay,

First of all, thanks in advance for everyone’s help!!! I’m sure I’ll be asking a lot of questions in the near future.

I just purchased my buddies 87 GN from up in Pennsylvania. The car has not been driven or even started in 3 or 4 years. It was his weekend, sunny day toy for years and is in great shape. It has about 50k miles on it, nothing was wrong with it when he last drove it. He just parked it in his garage and lost interest due to the other toys he has.

It was not prepared for long-term storage when it was parked so it definitely has stale gas. I need to know what to do to the car before I attempt to start it. One of my enclosed trucks is picking it up on Friday; I should have it here in GA on Sunday. We’ll winch it in and out of the trailer so we won’t be trying to start it.

Any input is great. Thanks again for your help.

 

[John Larkin]

Pretty easy to handle. Just take the schraeder valve out of the end of the fuel rail, clamp a piece of clear hose on there, then jumper the black connector behind the A/C compressor to positive battery and pump the tank dry to the point of light bubbles. Pour in about 5 gallons of fresh 93 and start her up. Might go ahead and clean the spark plugs too.

 

[XLR8]

Fresh oil would be nice. I would also unplug the ECM wire and turn over the engine to get oil flowing before I started the car.

 

[BlackBandit]

In addition to what John Larkin said you might want to consider changing the oil as well. Then, pull the cam sensor and prime the oil system and rotate the crank by hand to make sure everything is moving right. You'll have to reset the cam sensor but I personally would want to make sure as much was right as possable before starting it anyway. Stuff like cam sensor, TPS, ect... Also you might want to go here http://www.gnttype.org/maint/basics.html
and do all that. That's just my .02.

 

[Gbody5]

Check all hoses, especially the wastegate hoses for cracks or split ends. Mine had sat for 2 years and was overboosting due to a cracked wastegate hose, can you say 'new headgaskets', not cheap. I would also do the whole spring cleaning as identified at gnttype.org

 

[GA-ICBM]

Thanks guys,

I will have some time to get on it this week. The car is far from stock and I belive it has two fuel pumps??? I'm not sure the fuel pump trick will work, we'll see.

Thanks again,
Kevin