This Engine Hasn't Run For 50 Years.

0:00 Full boy got us a real proper boat anchor this time.

0:03 Look at this magnificent crusty pulled out of the ocean looking hunk of junk.

0:09 But amazingly, this is an engine and it hasn't run in 50 years, right?

0:15 That's where it hasn't worked.

0:17 This is from 1937.

0:21 This is an Oldsmobile motor and like not even ironic.

0:24 It was new back then.

0:25 And this is called a flathead motor.

0:28 I don't know if you can see.

0:29 All right.

0:30 This is the block.

0:31 This is what the pistons go in and they come

0:33 up flush with the like the top of the block here.

0:36 This is all salty here.

0:38 And you see here's the block.

0:39 So the pistons come up to here.

0:41 And then here's the head, right?

0:42 So this is where the valves are and the fuel and exhaust, right?

0:44 And all that.

0:45 Yeah.

0:46 And you see how much stuff is sitting on top of the block.

0:49 Uh [laughter] look, look at this.

0:52 It's like a really thin little sandwich.

0:55 This is another block.

0:57 There's another block here.

0:58 But look, the valves are in the engine block, right?

1:03 Like it's all in here, which sucks when it's cracked cuz how do you fix that?

1:08 How do you service the head when everything be engine block?

1:13 But because everything's in here,

1:14 literally the top of the engine, it's just a hat basically.

1:18 That's just the top of the combustion chamber.

1:21 There's actually a fulllength like 40 something minute video

1:24 of them talking about the car that this went in.

1:26 I've got it linked below it.

1:27 Wow.

1:28 They tell you everything seven times.

1:31 So feel free to do something else while it's on.

1:34 But man, the innovations they would LIKE BE LIKE, "WOW,

1:36 WE'RE the most advanced thing ever." are things

1:39 nowadays that like we wouldn't even They were bragging

1:42 about with their fuel pumps how it would let

1:44 fuel vapors out so you wouldn't get vapor lock.

1:48 And and what that does is fill your engine bay with fuel vapors.

1:52 The most explosive bit in an engine bay with hot [snorts] stuff ON IT.

1:56 THEY'RE GENIUSES.

1:58 S the video.

1:59 It's amazing.

2:00 But 1937, like preWorld War II.

2:04 Look at this.

2:04 There's a brand new cam shaft for it.

2:06 It's the same crap.

2:08 It's like we've been doing the same thing for like a 100red years.

2:12 Does it look any different?

2:13 No.

2:14 It's a cam shaft.

2:15 It's a like look.

2:16 There's the crank.

2:18 Apart from being thicker, it's all the same crap.

2:20 This actually belongs to an old mate of mine.

2:22 He's got the car that it can go into, which is amazing.

2:26 But um got to know if it even like does anything.

2:29 There's literally boxes worth of spare parts near my failed ambulance.

2:33 And um uh let's see if it fires up.

2:40 It does have oil.

2:41 And it's the thickest talasses ever.

2:45 Look at this dipstick.

2:46 This is when it was like decadence.

2:48 Nowadays, you don't even get one.

2:49 All right.

2:50 So, she's a little low, but uh it it hasn't moved in 50 years.

2:53 Well, uh there's a there's some bits missing.

2:55 Uh you know, you're dizzy.

2:57 No, mate.

2:57 She's gone.

2:58 Uh you know, the coil literally she's gone, mate.

3:01 And these spark plugs.

3:03 I mean, I'd use them, but uh I think technically they're gone.

3:06 And uh that carb ain't looking good either.

3:09 So, she's going to get strapped to the engine hoist.

3:11 And while that's happening, look, there spare pistons and things.

3:17 [laughter] Look at these rings.

3:18 They're huge.

3:20 That's crazy.

3:20 And just Yeah.

3:22 flat tops.

3:23 That's not an alternator.

3:24 That's a generator.

3:25 It's the longest muffler I've seen.

3:27 What a dingus.

3:28 And like the size of the radiator.

3:31 Ginormous.

3:32 Although like the the cooling fan has no cowling,

3:35 which is probably why they needed such big

3:36 radiators cuz they they weren't doing it right.

3:39 Got to get the oil out of it.

3:40 And luckily we got some really nice stuff.

3:43 Look, super engine oil.

3:45 Why would they lie?

3:46 High performance.

3:47 And the weird thing is this was the cheapest oil.

3:50 Vintage GM.

3:52 I haven't forgiven them for what they did to Holden.

3:55 That was a slow, agonizing death.

3:57 I'm still really upset.

3:59 Can't wait to see this slopes come out.

4:01 That's good.

4:01 The bolt came out.

4:02 The oil is going to come out so slow.

4:04 I can't wait.

4:05 It's an old me.

4:06 [laughter]

4:08 And you attempted to throw in oil on top.

4:11 [laughter] It seemed thick on the dipstick.

4:14 Clean it off.

4:15 But little markers there.

4:16 This thing moves with the distributor.

4:18 Oh, yeah.

4:19 So, so you know how many degrees you're at, which is Yeah.

4:22 It's a really nice little addition.

4:25 Yeah.

4:24 And stuff they could have added to later cars, but they didn't really.

4:27 You have to get a timing light out and Yeah.

4:30 I mean, timing lights got to be more accurate.

4:33 Yeah.

4:32 Unless I don't know.

4:33 I mean, they barely had airplanes at this point.

4:36 They didn't suck.

4:37 This thing is alien, but then also really familiar.

4:40 I mean, especially for us cuz, you know, we grew up with carburetor cars.

4:43 We love these things.

4:44 Everything's in the normal spots.

4:45 Except like this hole here.

4:47 You'd be tempted to chuck oil in that, but that's actually where the coolant go.

4:51 That's [laughter] the the thermostat housing goes

4:53 on there cuz this weird flat head.

4:55 Like, it's just coolant going through it.

4:57 This vacuum is honestly been so good.

4:59 Like, good tool.

5:01 Very good tool.

5:03 Made in Romania in it.

5:04 Something like that.

5:12 That's not a good start.

5:13 When the vacuum cleans most of your spark plugs,

5:16 that's a sign that they're getting on a little bit.

5:18 You know, change them soon.

5:19 What are you spraying that for?

5:21 Come on.

5:22 That's This isn't the rustiest thing that's

5:24 been in here other than the ambulance's floor.

5:27 You You don't need any of that.

5:30 It's got ducks in it.

5:32 Or is it a geese?

5:35 No.

5:35 That sounds like a swan.

5:37 You like the black swans along the river?

5:40 They kind of sound like that.

5:41 It's going to take a while.

5:42 [laughter] Yeah.

5:43 This is This is one of six.

5:45 Are you saying it's a little sticky?

5:47 Yeah.

5:47 I mean, I could just rattle them out, but No, I like to keep the threads.

5:51 But see, like Yeah.

5:52 If this was just some like crappy Mitsubishi engine,

5:55 THEN IT JUST BE BUT um this is how you

5:58 make sure you don't strip the threads on the head.

6:00 Yeah.

6:00 You got to go out and in a bunch of times.

6:02 Yeah.

6:02 In, out, in, out, in, out.

6:04 And hopefully it takes a bit more W40 with it each time.

6:10 [laughter] Oh, it was running rich when it was running.

6:14 [laughter]

6:16 Man, the lead on that soot for real, man.

6:20 They were nowhere near having unled fuel 50 years ago.

6:23 [laughter] A 70s, isn't it?

6:26 50.

6:27 It is.

6:27 I remember.

6:28 I I reckon they faced it out in the '9s.

6:32 Yeah.

6:32 But yeah, this is 1970s.

6:34 This thing had stopped.

6:35 And yeah.

6:36 All right, five more.

6:37 They're long drips.

6:39 [laughter] Yeah, we're down to the best bits.

6:42 There's like probably half a liter worth

6:45 of this dripping literal toxic waste, people.

6:48 Right.

6:49 Just cuz you see used engine oil everywhere doesn't make it not toxic waste.

6:53 Better be full lead, too.

6:54 Oh, yeah.

6:55 That's lead to the gills.

6:56 Lead's great cuz it makes you really dumb and angry.

6:59 What are you doing?

7:01 What?

7:01 Why?

7:02 This one better be extra salty.

7:05 [laughter] I think they're all going to look the same.

7:07 These plugs literally look like they've been pulled out of a sunken wreck.

7:10 There was water sitting on top of that at some point.

7:13 That's for sure.

7:14 And I was a little anxious like how do we

7:16 get new plugs for something that's like 80 something years old.

7:19 And it's called they just still make them.

7:21 So like where where's the part number?

7:23 Like what what else are these used for?

7:26 No one else is playing with these.

7:27 Surely it's the same thing.

7:29 They still use it.

7:30 It's like this is such ancient technology.

7:33 Like it's it hasn't changed.

7:36 So, uh before we just put plugs in it and start trying to turn it over,

7:39 got to spray some stuff in there into the combustion chamber just, you know,

7:43 in case the rings have kind of rusted up or something cuz Yeah.

7:47 50 years is a long time.

7:48 James, you going to vacuum out the holes?

7:51 Yeah.

7:53 Oh, all the valves here that, you know, jump up and down.

7:55 Um there's a good chance they're stuck in place.

7:59 Can't wait.

8:02 Yeah.

8:02 Throttle.

8:04 The annoying thing about trying to get the WD into the piston

8:06 air is that the plug doesn't sit over the the piston.

8:09 It actually sits over the valves.

8:11 And so like you're not actually spraying at the piston when you do it this way.

8:16 Yeah.

8:16 Thus the WD40 with the long like mosquito snoot on it.

8:19 That's so black.

8:21 Yeah.

8:21 And it's thick.

8:23 That's what people think oil is.

8:25 I mean, guess back in the days it was.

8:28 That's how thick it got.

8:29 Not anymore.

8:30 That's such an impressive dipstick.

8:32 [laughter] Impressive.

8:33 This is a 3.8 L 6.

8:35 That's the most squat thing I've ever seen.

8:37 And that's the dipstick.

8:39 James just noted.

8:40 There's no seal on the cap.

8:41 The intention is it just breathes into the air.

8:44 So long, vapor.

8:46 Why did early cars catch fire so much?

8:48 It's like there was a lot of flammable vapors under the hot engine bay.

8:52 Look at this.

8:53 No funnel needed.

8:54 That's just a big drain pipe.

8:56 It's a regular amount of oil.

8:58 Yeah.

8:58 I don't know what though.

8:59 Makes sense.

9:00 It's a regular sized engine.

9:01 So much prep work on this channel like to start this engine.

9:04 If it was any other engine, it'd just be started on marmalade or something.

9:08 Uh it's um I'm going to have to block this somehow.

9:11 What's that?

9:12 The it's the the pipe for an oil gauge.

9:15 If we start it with that sitting out, that'll become an oil sprinkler.

9:18 Sounds kind of fun.

9:19 Full oil pressure just spraying out the end.

9:23 Oh yeah.

9:26 That should do.

9:26 See, James knew when to stop cuz if you keep going,

9:29 you just tear it open and start again.

9:31 Now, this is a good idea.

9:33 This hose is a breather, right?

9:35 And normally in cars, there's a what's it called?

9:37 The PCV valve that like recycles like all the crank case,

9:41 you know, as the pistons are going up and down really fast.

9:43 There's a lot of wind blowing around and oil vapors and burnt everything vapors.

9:48 And modern cars cycle it through to either be burnt again or you put it

9:51 into a catch can container or you do a Harley's doing what this thing's doing.

9:55 Blow it out onto the road.

9:57 Just goodbye oil vapors.

10:00 That'd be dripping with oil continuously and never endingly.

10:04 Yep.

10:04 What a piece of junk.

10:06 It's still so traditional.

10:07 There's the timing set.

10:09 There's There's like your main balancer.

10:11 It's all the same stuff.

10:14 Oh, it's easy.

10:16 Oh well.

10:16 Well, um, funny that because, um,

10:19 the compression of this engine, okay, I was like, you know,

10:21 James has done all the mechanics studies and whatnot and he's like, you know,

10:25 a compression ratio of like 7:1 is really low and like the bare minimum.

10:31 They were bragging in that video that this thing has a 6.2:1 ratio.

10:37 That's [laughter] diabolically nothing.

10:41 Like it's it's not not squeezing at all.

10:44 That is so inefficient.

10:45 now bragging that they cranked it up to 6.2.

10:49 [laughter] So rough.

10:51 Like dinosaur days.

10:53 Oh, it just stopped.

10:53 That's great.

10:54 That's turning over smooth, though.

10:56 Yeah.

10:56 And except for when it stopped.

10:58 [laughter]

10:58 I mean, come on.

10:59 50 years you're going to have one crusty spot.

11:03 Yeah.

11:02 Like I'd be suspicious if it didn't have any.

11:04 We're hoping for oil to dribble out of here and it hasn't.

11:08 It's a hole.

11:09 Yeah.

11:09 But there's like a sheet metal something that's half rusted away in there, too.

11:12 In the hole.

11:13 Yeah.

11:13 I mean, there's missing bolts everywhere.

11:15 So, A, it's harder than I thought it was going to be.

11:19 A

11:24 Yeah, that balance is nicely balanced.

11:29 Yeah, you can see it going up and down in there.

11:32 Those ones are.

11:33 Those two are.

11:35 Yeah.

11:36 I love the smell of WD40 that's popping out.

11:39 Uh, if you haven't been watching that oil, have you?

11:43 Oh, how could this happen to me?

11:47 HEY, IT'S GOT OIL PRESSURE.

11:50 YEAH, this is the the fourth best way to figure that out.

11:54 Well, we were worried about getting that last of the sludge out.

11:57 And we got it out.

11:58 Now it's actually sealed up.

12:00 And now we can actually pump oil around.

12:02 Whatever oil is left.

12:06 Yeah, it only took 3 lers to begin with.

12:09 Squeaking stopped.

12:10 Yeah, that's what I I was about to say.

12:12 Hey, it's actually getting oil.

12:15 Yeah.

12:15 Oh, you drill.

12:16 Don't be Don't be bad.

12:18 Watch out.

12:18 We'll get the Ato.

12:20 Theo died.

12:22 Oh, okay.

12:22 RIP.

12:22 This is what smart devices do where it

12:24 actually has like an electronic clutch and everything.

12:26 It starts protesting.

12:27 That's what it's doing.

12:29 It's set to drill.

12:29 It's not set TO CLUTCH.

12:31 YEAH, BUT IT'S STILL GIVING AN OPINION that no, I'm not built for this.

12:35 Smart stuff stinks.

12:37 Let us destroy you like we want to.

12:40 Whoa.

12:40 WATCH YOUR WRISTS.

12:44 OH, THAT MESS JUST KEEPS spreading out more and more.

12:48 Starter motors haven't really changed at all really.

12:51 But this one's weird because that's a foot switch to engage it.

12:56 Yeah.

12:56 It's got a pedal.

12:57 It sticks into the inside of the car and that's what you do.

13:00 You hit it with your foot.

13:01 And I think that's bgeoa.

13:02 That's way better than using it.

13:04 Just go.

13:05 It's ironic that like combustion engines didn't become

13:08 tolerable until you added a little electric engine.

13:10 Without this little electric motor, combustion engines suck, right?

13:14 You crank start a car.

13:16 You kickstart Harley.

13:17 It's terrible.

13:18 Going to use the foot switch to do it.

13:20 I have [laughter] to.

13:21 YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE.

13:23 UNLESS YOU WANT TO TRY AND PUSH THAT IN.

13:25 GREAT.

13:25 Your hands have to be near it when it's cranking up.

13:27 We try.

13:28 [laughter] Sure.

13:31 Does this even work?

13:32 All right.

13:36 Oh, what?

13:38 It doesn't turn on unless it Well,

13:39 it's either dead or it's or it doesn't turn on unless it's got power.

13:42 [laughter]

13:46 Yeah.

13:48 Well, biscuits.

13:52 I don't think the starter motor works.

13:54 No.

13:54 WE OH, IT IT TWISTS THE FLYING.

14:03 GOSH, THE STARTER MOTOR is the loudest thing in the shop today.

14:06 Spring loader cover.

14:09 Yeah.

14:09 Oh, the truck oil in it.

14:12 Yeah.

14:10 Oh, that had shut it up.

14:15 Well, ticking the boxes.

14:16 Next thing.

14:17 I mean, got to look at this dizzy.

14:19 It's looking nice.

14:22 Thankfully, in all the boxes, there is another one.

14:24 Although the leads are all messed up,

14:26 but because they're just whatever spark plugs, you just get some whatever leads.

14:32 Like, it's just so easy.

14:37 So James is looking for what's called top dead center

14:40 where the first piston is at the very very top.

14:42 You can risk sticking stuff down the spark plug hole

14:44 and watch it come up and down and you know cause issues.

14:47 But as mentioned before the spark plug hole isn't above the piston,

14:50 it's above the valves and so James is using his thumb

14:54 to feel when the air squeezing stops squeezing and starts sucking.

14:58 So there's no markings on the balancer at all.

15:00 I think there will be on the flywheel but I

15:02 wanted to get it close before I have a look.

15:03 Yeah.

15:04 I mean, there is a mark on the the balancer, but don't know what it means.

15:07 And a and like an indicator.

15:09 Yeah.

15:09 Needle.

15:10 Well, that makes sense.

15:12 James wants to put it in the exact same way at top dead center.

15:15 Providing this is even correct.

15:18 In 50 years, someone could have taken this out

15:20 and put it back in in a weird way.

15:21 So, lucky this spare one is just regularly old and dirty.

15:26 I love the drive on it.

15:27 It's just like a flathead screw.

15:29 Just bonk.

15:30 Stick it in there.

15:31 That'll turn.

15:35 You can't get this thing a tooth out, huh?

15:38 But you can easily make it 180.

15:40 It's getting stuck right at that point.

15:42 Yeah.

15:42 I'm wondering if Well, that's not going back in.

15:45 It just disintegrated.

15:48 Yep.

15:48 Well, it's going to leak out the dizzy hole for a while.

15:51 Hey, to help it go any easier.

15:55 No.

15:55 Can't wonder why they stopped doing it this week.

15:57 Epically, old mate gave us the manual.

16:00 Like the real manual.

16:01 This is it.

16:05 Confusing.

16:04 Don't understand that.

16:06 Ah, nice one.

16:07 The trick is

16:08 it was an alignment issue.

16:11 Yeah.

16:10 Yeah.

16:10 Had to be vertical up and down.

16:13 And then James is using the marker at the back here and lining it up with when

16:17 that light turns off cuz that's when the field

16:20 collapses and that's when the spark is sent.

16:22 So, and that's how James is getting this at top dead center.

16:25 And then hopefully it will kind of almost

16:28 run and then you advance it from there.

16:30 This is really tricky cuz there's so much slop in the timing chain.

16:33 Like as you're moving it, nothing's happening.

16:38 Carbs are super fun.

16:39 This is the entire fuel system.

16:41 A modern car with fuel injectors and a computer and all those maps and sensors.

16:45 Nah, there it is.

16:46 It's just meed holes and orififices.

16:49 And then there's a float bowl which, you know,

16:50 is like a little extra tank as a reserve for it to pull from.

16:54 And uh yeah, if it's all full of crusty junk and the float's all sunk,

16:58 then yeah, it doesn't work properly.

16:59 So, let's have a look.

17:00 This thing with its flat head and dinky little carburetor,

17:03 it's really closely related to a lawn mower.

17:06 This is basically the same tech.

17:07 Even lawnmowers are overhead valve now.

17:09 I know.

17:10 Honda's got like proper Yeah.

17:12 Oh, wow.

17:12 That's got to actually vacuum.

17:15 No, it's good.

17:16 Come on.

17:17 Asbestous gasket.

17:20 Well, I mean, you know, too bad.

17:22 It's It's full of dust and junk, but you'd expect that after 50 years.

17:26 Is that a little float in there?

17:27 Pivot?

17:27 Oh, it does pivot.

17:29 Yeah.

17:29 Do we chuck it in some solution to see if it floats or just like in your toilet?

17:35 Yeah, it really is like a toilet.

17:36 That is so simple.

17:37 You don't want any of that dust to blow through the motor.

17:40 That would just wreak havoc on everything.

17:42 Yeah, engines are very fragile to sand

17:45 particles cuz they're basically tiny rocks.

17:48 Proper thing to do would be to take the carburetor

17:51 off and then soak it in all sorts of things,

17:54 but I you know that's not happening.

17:56 Fuel system is underway.

17:57 There's the filter.

17:58 Wow, it's getting a filter into the clacky

18:01 clack pump and then into this bent piece

18:03 of garbage that was found in one of the boxes

18:05 that somehow screws right up to the car.

18:08 And so now what's got to happen is that this float

18:10 bowl has to fill up and then stop kind of like,

18:12 you know, like a toilet does or it's going

18:14 to gush everywhere and then we realize it's not working properly.

18:17 If it stops, the top can go back on and then

18:20 the next bit of this boat anchor can be looked at.

18:22 You just going to chuck that straight in the container.

18:26 Yeah.

18:27 Genius.

18:27 You say genius as I pull this out and tip petrol on my pants.

18:31 Oh, good.

18:31 That doesn't stink all day at all.

18:45 [laughter] It's faster than I expected.

18:48 Up goes the float

18:52 AND IT STOPS.

18:53 OH, [screaming] THAT STILL WORKS.

18:56 Y

18:56 that's awesome.

18:57 And then that's the fuel that gets directly sprayed

18:59 down into be turned into fire and bad smell.

19:01 So that's awesome.

19:03 Hey, fun to see that work actually.

19:05 Yeah.

19:05 Yeah.

19:05 And it's even holding the pressure.

19:08 Yep.

19:08 Fantastic.

19:08 A free drum soul out of the Clank.

19:13 What a dingly throttle arrangement.

19:16 I don't appreciate it.

19:17 Yeah, I don't know what this part's for.

19:19 So, uh, this is where the spark plug actually seats and basically seals on it.

19:23 And that needs cleaning, but without crap and schmutz falling in there as well.

19:28 So, that's nice and tricky.

19:32 Yeah, I'll be able to get that back out.

19:36 That's nice, though.

19:39 Hey, pretty pretty good.

19:41 Oh, same rag.

19:43 James was blowing air into this thing and he got really excited.

19:45 Oh, I see fuel coming through.

19:47 YEAH.

19:48 SEE, that's literally how the fuel gets pulled out is the pistons sucking on it

19:53 and the Venturi effect pulls the fuel out

19:55 of the float bowl and as the float sinks,

19:58 more fuel replaces it.

19:59 Bada bing, bada boom.

20:03 It's looking pretty hopeful at this stage.

20:05 And now we got to put the plugs in and the leads in the right order.

20:07 And so thankfully there it is.

20:11 153624.

20:13 These should go in my butt now.

20:15 Well, I didn't clean the threads.

20:17 I guess not.

20:19 The new plugs don't look right.

20:22 They look too shiny for they every other

20:24 part that's been added looks just as terrible.

20:27 Man, these leads are way too new.

20:29 Got to dirty up these stickers a little.

20:31 So that firing order that you just saw.

20:32 So you start on number one on this and you go round in that order.

20:36 to be 1 5 3 6 etc.

20:40 So discussing whether or not it fires up, you know,

20:42 where we got to put it so we can get the fumes out of here.

20:44 And James is dead confident that it's going to fire up.

20:48 He said, "I don't see why not.

20:51 Other than it sitting for 50 years, I don't see why not.

20:55 Other than all the parts being rusted,

20:56 not sure if it's been put back together properly.

20:58 I don't see why not.

20:59 Other than that car being a complete

21:01 mystery and only the float bowl really working, I don't see why not.

21:04 New coil like a sausage from the butchers.

21:08 Oh, you don't even get any writing on it or

21:12 NGK.

21:11 Oh, barely.

21:12 Why didn't we get a GT40?

21:14 They didn't have any.

21:16 Boo.

21:16 Also, the black is nicer on something else.

21:19 GT40.

21:24 Actually going to bolt this exhaust on.

21:27 It's nice.

21:28 Is it just wire?

21:29 That's It's just wire.

21:31 It's oldfashioned.

21:32 [laughter] Yeah.

21:33 used to that was seal perfect.

21:35 There was a little bit of sarcasm in that.

21:37 It's going to be useful so we can blast it

21:39 out the roller door and not absolutely toxic smoke stack.

21:43 What

21:43 the heck's going on with this?

21:45 That doesn't come out at that angle.

21:46 [laughter] Or does it?

21:47 Why?

21:48 How would it No, it got under the car like under the gearbox or something.

21:52 It does have hecking ground clearance.

21:53 So maybe it is a goofy angle.

21:55 Not a proper job unless you got one of these on the floor.

21:57 Oh, we're not using the muffler, too, are we?

21:59 Is that the whole point?

22:00 James' confidence that this thing's going to run is impeccable.

22:04 [laughter] Like actually bothering with any of the exhaust stuff.

22:08 Oh, you can see out the other end.

22:09 Oh, it's a good one.

22:10 Oh, yeah.

22:11 That's what Hot Rodders want.

22:12 That's nothing.

22:13 I bet you that's factory.

22:14 Hey, well, they let all the vapors like boom around under the engine bay.

22:18 Why not those vapors?

22:19 Oh, I hate this idea.

22:21 This is This is No.

22:22 How is this going to What?

22:24 No way.

22:25 Zooi style straight up now.

22:28 Yeah, we're not doing the muffler.

22:29 The muffler ain't going to work.

22:30 Got a few more wires to do, but yeah.

22:32 Okay.

22:32 Oh, very nice.

22:44 Ready?

22:43 Yeah.

22:43 Do it.

22:46 Oh, come on.

22:47 First time in 50 years.

22:55 No, no, THAT'S A CLASSIC.

23:00 YEAH, JUST NOT VERY GOOD.

23:07 Oh man.

23:12 Come on.

23:16 Come on, baby.

23:27 It's so close.

23:34 You might need some aeros spray in there.

23:36 James is going to advance the timing a little bit.

23:38 And we're going to smash some starch buster down it.

23:41 Oh yeah, that's heat.

23:50 Yeah, it's getting flat.

24:02 I think I need another battery.

24:04 Sounds like a couple of cylinders are a bit low.

24:06 It does.

24:06 Yes.

24:09 It may be only firing on one because only one has compression.

24:12 It cranks so slow for no compression.

24:14 See,

24:15 I told you it's a terrible starter motor.

24:22 James has been looking at stuff and apparently figured out why.

24:26 So, here's a good one.

24:28 And then another good one.

24:31 And then and then nothing and then nothing.

24:40 So, we got we got two good cylinders.

24:42 There's two.

24:43 Yeah.

24:44 Right.

24:45 Um M.

24:46 So that's why it's going pop and then nothing else.

24:49 It's that one cylinder firing and then the Yeah.

24:53 Yeah.

24:53 So um I'm on my way to getting to the sides of the valves to free those up.

24:57 Hopefully.

24:58 You think that's what's wrong is the valves not knowing.

25:00 I hope so.

25:01 But we saw them all moving.

25:02 Yeah.

25:02 But that's only one of the valves per cylinder that we can see moving.

25:06 So these covers here, tap it cover or chest cover or I don't know,

25:10 antiquated engine cover.

25:13 Oh, yep.

25:14 There's a stuck one there.

25:16 See that big gap?

25:16 That one's stuck.

25:18 Yep.

25:18 I mean, that's good to see.

25:19 Yeah, they all are.

25:20 Yep.

25:20 There's a stuck one.

25:22 So, stuck valves.

25:24 Yeah,

25:24 that's savable.

25:26 YES.

25:26 AH, IT'S GOOD TO SEE A problem and then to see the problem.

25:29 IT'S LIKE, YEP, I can make it go up further.

25:31 Good.

25:31 Yeah.

25:32 If this was up top like a normal motor,

25:33 you could just kind of gently give them a tap taperoo,

25:36 but uh that ain't happening over here.

25:38 Really, the best James can do is push up

25:40 on them and hope that they feel like coming back.

25:43 Wait, you don't have to worry about the valves touching the pistons.

25:45 They're nowhere near each other.

25:47 Oh, I got it back down.

25:48 Oh, we got one.

25:49 That's all the exhaust valves.

25:51 Strange.

25:52 What will cause only them to get stuck?

25:54 Maybe they're sootier.

25:55 See, there shouldn't be a gap there.

25:57 It should be resting on top at all times.

26:00 That should just come back down under the tension of that spring.

26:03 And it ain't.

26:05 Nope.

26:05 Sheesh.

26:05 I guess the head is coming off.

26:07 Maybe.

26:09 Hey, that's surely going to work.

26:19 Lucky for all you watching, the head has to come off.

26:23 Hey.

26:24 Hey.

26:26 The only real savior in this is that the head

26:28 is minuscule and there's nothing actually moving in the head.

26:32 It's all in the block.

26:33 And so, it's just a flat piece with a copper gasket.

26:36 We just hope that the copper gasket works again.

26:43 The most amount of head bolts I've ever seen.

26:45 IT IS SO MANY.

26:47 YEAH.

26:47 SEE, what a freak.

26:49 Look at those valves.

26:50 Such a dumb spot to put them.

26:52 Unless it's a lawn mower made 20 years ago.

26:55 Oh, I think of all the lead that's burnt into these.

26:57 Huh?

26:58 Wow.

26:58 Weird combustion chambers.

27:00 Yeah.

27:01 Such a dumb idea.

27:02 That's the copper gasket.

27:04 Yep.

27:04 And we're just going to clean it and go again.

27:07 Oh yeah.

27:08 There's our stock valves just hanging out in the open.

27:10 Oh, look at all the crusties that have piled up.

27:13 That all fell out when I picked it up.

27:15 Wow.

27:15 Those piston tops are ugly.

27:17 This thing ran terrible before it was dumped.

27:21 Wow.

27:23 That is in there.

27:24 These are meant to move so freely.

27:26 Just a hammer blow didn't touch it.

27:30 It moved.

27:34 That is rough.

27:37 You made no chance of getting that down.

27:40 No.

27:40 Now we get to see valve move.

27:44 It's a crap.

27:46 So much smoke.

27:51 So that's just the one I got to work on.

27:55 At least I can pop it up easily enough.

28:08 If you want a rubber mallet, so you can just whack them all and just go back.

28:19 Yeah.

28:19 All right.

28:21 YEAH.

28:24 [laughter] Using up my second battery.

28:37 So much W40 coming out the exhaust when it finally goes.

28:41 Good.

28:41 We'll angle the dingle in be out the door.

28:49 Go by yourself, please.

28:59 This valve is actual eft.

29:02 Like the amount of movement this thing's gotten and it hasn't woken up.

29:05 All the others like one little wiggle and they'll behaving.

29:09 This one just after Halloween and James just utters the scariest words.

29:14 What if it's bent?

29:16 What if that's why it's binding up?

29:21 [music] 3:00 p.m.

29:23 on a Friday and James is trying to extract this valve.

29:34 Whoa, that was bending the bar.

29:36 Yep.

29:41 [music] Look how long this dingus is.

29:44 Look how far it sticks out.

29:47 W Yeah.

29:52 This is when like all the courses and all the book work you do,

29:55 they don't save you for these jobs.

30:07 It's getting easier.

30:09 Oh, still long as heck.

30:12 Come on, you long idiot.

30:16 Oh, man.

30:17 That's crazy, Val.

30:18 That is so long.

30:25 GET OUT.

30:26 It's like a novelty golf tea at this point.

30:35 No.

30:36 Oh, that's not enough.

30:40 Must be so close.

30:46 Is it curly though?

30:48 Is it bendy?

30:48 Not to my eye.

30:49 I'm going to try the drill and see if it spins.

30:51 True.

30:51 Was that one of the hardest valves you've had to take out?

30:54 Yes.

30:55 only because I couldn't put a pin punch in the end of it and hammer it out.

30:58 Yeah.

30:58 I've had some smash out with in the tape guide with them.

31:01 So when you stick it in the chuck more, it's okay.

31:04 Yeah.

31:04 And that part doesn't run in the valve guide, so that won't affect it.

31:08 So it's it was just uber sticky, I guess.

31:11 So

31:12 hopefully we could start breathing leted smoke in a few minutes.

31:16 Oh yeah.

31:16 Minutes.

31:17 Oh yeah, ours are made of minutes.

31:20 [laughter]

31:20 Oh yeah, that's a nice crunchy hole.

31:22 Yeah, it's very hard to see with the camera, but there is.

31:24 Almost looks like terracotta.

31:26 Yeah, there is rust [music] dust down in there.

31:29 Yep.

31:29 I don't know if this actually has a separate

31:30 valve guide or if it's just drilled into the cast.

31:35 This just the driest dust flying out of it.

31:38 Yeah.

31:38 James has welded his own dingle tool.

31:40 Look, it still has 10 bristles left on the end.

31:44 Nicely balanced.

31:45 So, it should just slide in and out beautifully, right?

31:48 does.

31:50 [screaming] Wow.

31:56 That it took hours.

31:58 Yeah.

31:58 And it still has to seal, which it probably won't.

32:01 Dirty old valve going back in.

32:03 Oh, man.

32:04 It's getting the blue goo.

32:05 I need to stick the collets in there.

32:07 Oh, you're using it as like a a glue.

32:12 Yeah.

32:12 Oh, she was running rich 50 years ago with carbon.

32:15 Massive clarification.

32:17 This is not clean, right?

32:19 This is a courtesy bum wipe before your body gets shown to the morg.

32:22 All right.

32:23 This is just cuz we're already in here.

32:25 We must try and clean off some of the crusties.

32:28 Really, the best thing to do is to pull it all

32:29 apart and rebuild it and look for cracks cuz this is like,

32:32 you know, a heritage piece of automotive history.

32:34 You don't want to run it until it absolutely goes bang.

32:37 But we are going to fire up, make some fire and smoke at least.

32:40 See the other block here?

32:41 Those markings.

32:42 Yeah, that's where the cracks are.

32:44 So, um, it seems this is something they like to do,

32:47 so best not to cause even more.

32:49 The gasket surface still has to be pretty good, though.

32:52 But f those chambers, they can stay a little crusty.

32:59 Wo!

33:00 OOH.

33:02 OH, THAT'S A REALLY BAD BALL.

33:04 THAT'S a bad ball, SAYS JAMES.

33:06 THAT'S EFFED.

33:07 We'll have a look at this one.

33:08 That's even worse.

33:09 [laughter] This is I just to get some context here.

33:13 A slight blurry kind of smudge spot is bad.

33:18 Rusted chasm.

33:19 [laughter] Oh, the noble tradition of garbage time.

33:23 Reusing the head gasket.

33:25 It's worked every other time.

33:27 Although, this is a copper one.

33:29 And apparently, even brand new ones, you have to anneal them,

33:32 which means you heat them up so they kind of expand

33:35 like a sponge or something cuz it cuz it's squashed, right?

33:38 Some kinds of metals get harder when you heat them and cool them.

33:41 Yeah, some kinds get softer when you heat them and cool them.

33:44 Copper gets softer.

33:45 So, yeah, like you're reenabling a sponge to go again.

33:50 Yeah.

33:50 Oh, okay.

33:50 Maybe we can't do this one.

33:53 Why?

33:52 CUZ IT'S MULTI-LAYER.

33:54 OH, IT wants to separate.

33:55 We now have so much experience on cleaning secondhand air gaskets.

34:01 Well, see these low spots here?

34:03 It's like it was tightened onto carbon that was

34:06 already on the motor last time that was done up.

34:08 The pistons have already had scrapings on it.

34:10 So, someone's been had a go, which makes sense after 80 something years.

34:14 But, um, seems like lazy tosses are generational.

34:17 They they like someone didn't care.

34:21 Like, that's annoying.

34:22 And then, yeah, the poor saps who get it next, that's us.

34:25 Now, I have to deal with it.

34:28 Yep.

34:27 Look, it's got a little bit of ceiling.

34:29 Yeah.

34:29 This one This one's a heck of a lot worse.

34:31 IT'S ALL CRUSHED DOWN.

34:33 A YEAH, THAT'S JUST A crusty rim of the piston

34:36 they couldn't be bothered to scrape off.

34:38 Yep.

34:38 That's annoying.

34:43 All these crusties are an issue cuz we're like

34:45 flipping the head over to put it on the block.

34:47 Yeah.

34:47 They'll get on the head gasket and cause

34:49 the issue that we're yelling at Muppets for.

34:50 Hyama to the rescue.

34:52 Come on, spray.

34:53 Nice.

34:53 Yeah, that beautiful Sanic Blue.

34:55 Man, I want to be endorsed by Hilar.

34:58 The Hilar racing team.

35:00 May our secondhand gaskets hold.

35:04 Yes, the cylinders are full of oil cuz uh it needs it.

35:08 It really, really needs it.

35:09 Hi, Llama.

35:10 Hi, Llama.

35:10 Hi, Llama.

35:13 James is not putting the head on with the rattle gun.

35:16 He's doing the wrong thing the right way.

35:19 He's just hissing it there.

35:20 [snorts] Nowhere near torque,

35:22 so he can finish it with the torque bolt, the torque wrench.

35:25 Right.

35:26 This is the wrong thing, but the right way.

35:28 This is fun reading the manual.

35:30 Look, a steel asbestous cylinder head gasket is used.

35:33 Great.

35:34 This gasket should not be used a second time in italics.

35:39 The importance of always using a new

35:41 cylinder head gasket cannot be overstressed.

35:44 Doing no clicks yet.

35:46 So yeah, see nowhere near torque spec with the rattle gun.

35:49 These bolts are a little crusty as well.

35:52 Probably doesn't help the torque spec on nearly

35:53 all of it's just moving rust out the way.

35:56 Hey, I love that's just one lap.

35:59 Let's just clack them to 65 70 lb feet and call it a day.

36:07 War for a fire up.

36:09 See from down here.

36:09 This side.

36:10 Yeah, it is.

36:12 Yeah, it's squirting fuel out.

36:27 Come on, old crusty.

36:31 I know how to fix it.

36:40 Do that.

36:40 Do that again.

36:43 Oh, no.

36:48 I want to check the spark.

36:50 Is it sparking?

36:51 Yeah.

36:51 I can't tell if it's weaker or it's just cuz there's sun on it.

37:03 Come on.

37:08 So close.

37:09 I like how wet the car's getting.

37:11 Yeah, it's leaking outside.

37:16 Is that another bat gone?

37:17 Well, I don't know if it's a battery or the starter motor overheating.

37:20 This is going well.

37:22 Starter motor could be just getting real hot and grumpy and chewy.

37:31 Turns out this thing is 6vt, not 12vt,

37:33 which you know is pretty normal for modern stuff.

37:36 Uh, we've been cranking 12 volt through it.

37:38 What have you found, James?

37:39 The amateur locked.

37:40 The motor draws maximum of 600 amps at 3 volts.

37:45 600 is a lot of amps.

37:48 That is a lot.

37:49 Three volts.

37:50 3 volts, [laughter] man.

37:51 Well, we're wondering why the bats were

37:53 getting tired and the starter motor's getting hot.

37:54 This actually sucks eggs cuz it means we're already double gooseing this thing.

37:59 It's turning over as hot as it could.

38:03 Time to do the comp test.

38:04 How bad is it?

38:08 Less than 100 is not very good.

38:11 No, but if this is a brand new tool, and brand new tools are terrible.

38:17 It's consistent.

38:17 We'll see what the others get.

38:22 That one's pretty terrible.

38:23 Wo.

38:24 This is all valves leaking, I reckon.

38:29 Yeah, that's great.

38:29 What did Brucey get on one piston?

38:31 300.

38:32 Yeah.

38:33 Yeah,

38:33 but that was excessively high.

38:35 That's LPG.

38:37 Oh, that's another one that's all right.

38:39 Well, I mean, we're just guessing is all right.

38:41 We just know it's technically terrible.

38:44 So, if that's technically terrible, it's on point.

38:52 Yeah.

38:52 But I can hear that fluffing through the others.

38:53 So that's that's actually valve leaking.

38:55 We got a new one cuz the old one was terrible.

38:58 But now the old one looks like luxury compared to the new one.

39:00 Like [laughter] man, this hobby kind of stinks.

39:09 Not even getting to 100.

39:10 I see this one leaks.

39:11 That's That's why [laughter]

39:14 almost 100 and that was so Yeah.

39:17 Yeah.

39:18 Actually put in the next one CUZ THAT WAS 50.

39:22 ALL RIGHT.

39:23 OKAY.

39:23 IT'S BAD.

39:24 YEP.

39:24 It tracks.

39:25 Yeah, it that matches up with the other compression test.

39:28 Whatever.

39:28 Motor's rooted.

39:30 All the valves are effed basically.

39:34 [laughter] It's bending in the middle.

39:36 Is it little bit?

39:37 Ooh.

39:38 Oh man.

39:39 Oh, the table doesn't I think we've ruined this table a little bit.

39:45 Oh, it's taking the stud with it.

39:47 Asbestous gasket.

39:49 Nice.

39:50 Oh, the span is free.

39:51 Yay.

39:51 See that one?

39:52 The lines on it.

39:54 Point it again.

39:55 All the lines gone.

39:57 Yeah.

39:57 Leaky valves.

39:59 gross exhaust mess coming out where it shouldn't.

40:02 Look at the caked up garbage in this one, too.

40:04 Yeah, the these are gross.

40:05 These need a blasting.

40:14 Great news.

40:15 There's at least two cracks.

40:18 And James says that normally they're not even visible.

40:21 So the fact that they're visible says that there

40:25 could be so many more throughout this thing.

40:28 Is that fixable?

40:29 Depends if the cracks gone past where the seat

40:30 would be if you cut it for unled fuel.

40:34 Edges be cleaned up a bit.

40:35 Like the seal happens underneath it.

40:37 Like crossing on top.

40:39 Not a big deal.

40:40 Yeah, that's where it actually seals.

40:42 Barely make it out, but these are technically vintage Repco pistons.

40:47 Rep.

40:48 Mate, they've been going for a long time.

40:49 Dodgies happening here.

40:52 Ratchet wrenches love been heaved on like this.

40:55 At this point, you don't know if you're turning it

40:57 or if it's just like spaghettifying and about to snap off.

41:01 Yeah, there we go.

41:02 Hey, so um to all you folks sending your cars to mechanical,

41:05 they said it took half an hour and it took an extra day cuz it's just a gamble.

41:10 You don't know how crap the car is going to be.

41:12 One bolt takes 45 minutes.

41:15 It's not even out yet.

41:17 is getting popped into 12 volt, you know,

41:18 isn't great for a 6V thing, but this is trash.

41:21 So, that's where the contact is where it gets smashed in.

41:25 With this thing, like there's contacts that you push in there,

41:28 and they have been worn into a groove.

41:30 So, James is hopefully going to flip them around

41:32 so there's more like surface contact even just cleaner.

41:36 It's not good.

41:36 Um, and now all the cockroach poos are coming out.

41:39 Yeah, man.

41:40 The vac, stop spreading them everywhere.

41:42 So, out of knackered out of 10, how knackered are we?

41:44 It's pretty gross.

41:46 This is supposed to be clean.

41:48 This is all copper that's copper powder that's gotten mixed up with

41:53 with grease and roach poos.

41:55 It's amazing it worked at all then.

41:57 I know.

41:57 I know.

41:58 Yeah, cuz that would be shorting everything out.

42:02 M.

42:01 And here, this is all cockroach extra.

42:03 Yeah, don't touch it.

42:04 It's gone hard.

42:06 Oh, man.

42:06 Um, yeah.

42:07 This is all supposed to be clean, too.

42:08 Look how they wrap the windings.

42:10 Weird.

42:10 It's insulated with cotton or something.

42:12 [laughter] the flammable days.

42:16 So that's that's disgusting is what that is.

42:18 It's all it's all worn out, but it'll it'll [laughter] it'll turn.

42:21 It's like chunks missing out of it.

42:22 See how clean the copper is meant to be.

42:24 Really like a lathe to flatten it off properly.

42:26 H Well, I don't really care what reading I get as long as it's the same.

42:29 It's fun.

42:30 This is a vintage electric motor.

42:32 They haven't changed either.

42:34 Bit of a shiny spot on this thing as well where something was rubbing on it.

42:37 Lucky these are heaps easy to find.

42:38 These old star motors [laughter] were things from the 30s.

42:41 with a bit of soap.

42:42 James just told me that like as he was washing this, it smelt like laneline oil.

42:47 So, it's just cloth and sheep oil.

42:49 Yeah, I reckon that makes sense given how old and gross this thing is.

42:53 But it means you can't just attack it

42:54 with crazy solvents cuz it's like hair oil.

42:58 You just wash it straight off and you got nothing.

43:00 Pushing on a little bit.

43:03 Everything's worn out.

43:04 That's meant to have no movement, huh?

43:06 None.

43:06 But it moves heaps.

43:09 None.

43:08 It's a feature.

43:09 [laughter] Um, when they ripped this thing out 50 years ago, it was knackered.

43:15 This has had budgy fix on budgy fix on budgy fix 50 years ago.

43:22 Yeah.

43:22 Like this thing like this is beyond donkey motor.

43:24 So rewarding after all this work.

43:26 It still looks like sunken refuge.

43:28 Like this has been gone through.

43:30 What are you rattling?

43:32 Oh, the bolts and stuff.

43:33 Oh, it's James's soup he makes.

43:35 Was it trans fluid and acetone or something?

43:38 No, this one's just thinners and whatever's come off the bolts.

43:40 Then Okay.

43:42 James uttered, "I have an idea." And then started whailing on it with a hammer.

43:47 So, what's the idea?

43:50 Um, well, I wanted to take that off so that I could line it all up,

43:52 but this is the the Falcon starter motor.

43:57 Oh.

43:57 Oh, it's the the ring gear just has to match up if that happens.

44:01 It's near enough.

44:02 Yeah, it just works.

44:04 Yeah.

44:04 So, I just need to need to make a couple of brackets and I reckon we'll be good.

44:08 Now, we've entered custom fabrication to fire up an engine that we know is bad.

44:14 [laughter] That's why it hasn't been an upload in 2 weeks.

44:17 You know, it's going to be good when it's custom fab with multi-grips.

44:20 It's got the red windy thing on it, too, cuz you know this will work.

44:22 I love how much smaller like a full size four falcon.

44:25 I mean, it's like 20 old car.

44:27 Look how much smaller the starter motor is.

44:29 This thing packs way bigger punch.

44:31 This is looking pretty sweet, actually.

44:33 I hope it works.

44:35 [laughter] Hey, and finally something shiny going on.

44:38 You know it's not good when this is considered shiny.

44:40 20-year-old starter motor is shiny.

44:42 Wait, is this off the barrel or who?

44:45 Uh, I don't know.

44:45 I think it's off the barrel.

44:47 Oh, you took this away from Bruce's new heart.

44:49 I think so.

44:50 Ah, damn it.

44:50 I hope this thing goes and turns over insanely fast.

44:55 That'd be fun.

45:00 EXCELLENT.

45:01 [laughter] WOW.

45:03 SO FAST you can barely tell which one's low in compression anymore.

45:06 [laughter] This is actually a totally different intake and exhaust manifold.

45:12 So now this exhaust pipe actually fits on properly.

45:17 Go waste the time.

45:22 [laughter] [laughter] Sounds like my anticipation of this ever running.

45:44 [laughter] [laughter]

45:56 Oh, that's good.

45:56 I THINK [screaming] that was the first broom we've heard.

46:04 Y, it's so hard without a throttle.

46:14 Do you want me to spray [laughter] that?

46:25 THAT WAS AN ENGINE FOR HALF A SECOND.

46:32 [laughter] HEY, let's get the petrol hooked up.

46:38 This is a different carb though, so no idea if the float's stuck or anything.

46:43 Unknown float bowl.

46:44 I mean, the other one was good, so why not this one?

46:46 James put that spring in there, by the way.

46:48 That's James's addition.

46:49 The float bowl's stuck, but you know, it's only being run for maybe 10 seconds.

46:53 Let's Let's see.

46:57 It's idling.

47:00 It's running on start, you bastard.

47:03 [screaming] Amazing.

47:10 Wow.

47:22 Now, now stop the spray.

47:24 It's running on petrol.

47:25 It's running on petrol.

47:32 Wow, what a smell.

47:36 Dude, that's that's running off that old carving.

47:44 Wow.

47:46 50 years.

47:47 And boy, it smells it.

47:49 I hate it.

47:50 Oh god, that's magic.

48:00 Awesome.

48:07 Yeah, let's set it up.

48:08 Got to save that block.

48:11 Wow.

48:13 Well, what a big old jolly waste of time

48:15 that was knowing that an engine is terrible,

48:18 then putting all that effort into it

48:19 to just start it and know that it's terrible.

48:22 But, I mean, amazing.

48:23 I mean, James's fix that with the the starter motor.

48:26 It's now Yeah, it is.

48:28 It is.

48:28 It's a barrist starter motor compliant now.

48:30 That's incredible.

48:31 He has a channel too, you know,

48:33 so if you want to see more of this kind of goovenness.

48:35 Wow.

48:36 First start in 50 years.

48:37 And what's plain to see is that 50 years ago,

48:40 this was an absolute thrash nugget, right?

48:43 So much carbon on top.

48:44 This thing was running so pig rich.

48:47 It's miserable.

48:49 The blocks cracked.

48:50 It's not good.

48:51 BUT MAN, IT SOUNDS GOOD.

48:53 PROOF THAT STRAIGHT sixes have always sounded excellent.

48:57 And um well, my mate kind of has an idea about it now

49:00 and that everything that's on it and about

49:03 it is terrible and ruined and needs restoring.

49:05 And um yeah, hopefully you can get another one.

49:17 [music]