Hey everyone,

I recently took my brothers 85 out of a 15 year sleep in a barn. Some mouse nests and flat tires but was pickled when put away. Cleaned plugs, barred over by hand, and actually fired up immediately. Now several days later, I've put in fresh fuel and changed the fuel filter. It seems to have a hard time maintaining a idle speed most of the time. Some days it will sit there and idle, other days will idle briefly and stall out. I took it down the road and was running good, stopped at a store, started it back up and stalled out on me twice. Got it running and had no power to get above 2500 rpm, sounded like hell. The next day fired it back up and sat there idling like nothing had happened. Any thoughts on what I'm dealing with here? Cap and wires were like new prior to storage. Thanks in advance for any possible solutions.

 

I had a similar issue with my old IROC soon after purchasing it. Long story short, the guy pinched a bunch of wires when bolting in the transmission, and just put some new wire loom over it without fixing the wiring. Took me a little while to get back to basics and once stripping off the wire loom is was crystal clear what was going on. So, saying all that, considering you said there were some mouse nests, I'd look closely at all the wiring - especially the ground wires (back of heads to firewall, etc.)