Sad Small Block - 1971 Plymouth Satellite Sebring 318 Un-Seizing, Steering Column Tech, & MUCH More

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:10]Last time I checked, today still ends in Y. So, we're going to go pick up another project vehicle. Not because we want to, but because we have to. I use a simple formula to determine if a car is worth buying for the channel. It's cost versus distance. If it's super cheap, but it's like a couple hundred miles away, well, I may well go get that. If it's slightly less cheap, but it's next door, well, I'll probably get that, too. Today's project is perfect. It's right across town, and the price is right. Now, you may have noticed there's still a totally rusty piece of garbage on my trailer.

[00:00:43]Well, it just so happens that the car we're going to go get is at a junkyard.

[00:00:46]So, I'm going to do the logical thing and take this with me. I'm going to give it to them as a sort of consolation prize. There are some semi-useful parts on this 1980 Dodge Aspen, like the front disc brakes and spindles, for example, but they're all seized solid and crusty, and I just cannot be bothered to try and save any of that. Did you know they actually make brand new disc brake spindles? Yeah, not worth it. A lot of people wanted to see this car saved and rebuilt, and I understand that, but look at this frame rail. There is not enough metal left to do anything with here, and the other side's no better. The only thing I want off this car at all, the wheels, and I barely want those. They're not even that nice. Allen's here. But is it enough long beds? Sorry.

[00:01:34]For whatever reason, my brand new front left trailer tire just goes flat all the time. Haven't found a nail yet or anything. Should probably figure that out. We came up with some random 14-in steelies. We're going to swap them on on the trailer real quick. These wheels aren't beautiful by any means, but they look pretty cool on today's gem. It is weird sending something to the junkyard on Dead Dodge Garage. I don't know if we've ever done that before. We have cut a couple rigs up, though. That is not a pretty tire. Hey, watch your fingies.

[00:02:03]>> Alan found ants. It looks so much less awesome with those wheels on it. Just Maserati things. Well, hello there.

[00:02:11]Yeah, I regret this already. My Challenger had these. only they were neon green. It's slightly loaded with garbage and we're going to try and fix that. But the doors don't work. Just late Bbody things. It's all squishy.

[00:02:28]Oh no.

[00:02:31]I don't think this is going to go well.

[00:02:32]You need one of them?

[00:02:33]>> Uh, not really.

[00:02:36]>> Dude, that might be worth a couple bucks. Wait, I found something. Dude, this thing has attack. Dude, it was a California truck. This thing must have been in front of a sleeper or something.

[00:02:47]They cut a big hole in the cab for a pass through. Metal door panels. We might have to come back for this. I got to stop getting distracted. Wow. What was I saying about not getting distracted? We have made a deal. Now we got to unload that thing. Party.

[00:03:10]We uh somehow missed the fender.

[00:03:14]That was awesome. More bits. Almost everything that's missing from the body is in here except there's no lower veilance balance. Whatever. Hey, make sure we grab this bumper. That's very important. Time to load up our prize carefully.

[00:03:29]Wow. Doesn't steer so good, huh?

[00:03:34]It might be a beat, rusty piece of absolute garbage, but at least this one rolls.

[00:03:40]Oh, good. This one comes with plants, too. Also holes. Welcome to Dead Dodge Garage. We'll reload cheap ruined Bbody parts on expensive Hemi blocks and 340 heads. Let's just agree to only look at the passenger side. It's a lot nicer.

[00:03:57]Yeah, that thing sits so crooked on the trailer, it's almost scary. Also, I have the vest of concerns the back window might fly out. Other than that, I think we're good. This is a 1971 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus. I just did a video on a satellite Sebring. That one was not a plus. This one is. I don't remember what the plus means. It's weird how many of these cars are coming out of the woodwork recently. The one I did a video on was that green 73 for Mcloven Garage. That was the satellite Sebring.

[00:04:28]Tom over at Rocket Restorations just got one. That was a 1972 Sebring. And now there's this. There's actually a fourth one too on Marketplace recently, but the seller was a total weirdo and I didn't end up buying that. I did buy this one partially because when opportunity knocks, we answer, but also because I feel like I'm missing out. Tom and Evan revived that 72 without my help. Well, fine. I'll get my own satellite Sebring to revive. Unlike the other two, both of which had 318s that ran with almost zero effort, I think this one's going to be a little harder. The crankshaft does not currently do that thing we like, but I'm getting ahead of myself. 1971 was the first year for the fuselage styled updated Bbody. It actually uses very similar engineering to the EObody, which was new for 1970. In this area in particular, the Ebody and these updated Bodies are almost exactly the same. They use the same firewall. They use the same concealed wipers. The back edge of the hood is very similar. The windshield, I don't think it's the same, but again, very similar design. This body style followed the lead of the 1969 C body.

[00:05:33]That was the first year for the fuselage full-size car. Those things had a smooth transition between the quarter panel to the roof. Notice this does as well. That body style replaced the very popular 68 to 70B body. Here's a 70 Corette showing you the difference in the design. Here you can see the roof sits in, the quarter panel sits out, which is awesome. Look at the muscular bulge in that. And then there's a flat or flatish shelf here between the two. I think these late cars are really cool. This body series ran from 71 to 74. And some of my favorite Bodies came from this era. The 1971 Charger Superb, for example. I actually really like the 73 and 4 Chargers as well. I mostly prefer them to the 712 because they stole this window shape from the 712 Plymouth Bbody. In 71 and two, Chargers had this window, which was really weird. Unless they were sees, then they had the little teeny tiny sliver window, which is also weird. They don't have the same presence as the earlier Plymouth Bodies, but these are pretty neat cars. One thing I learned looking at Ryan's 73 is just how wide the rear quarters are. On the 73 Plymouth Bbody, they revised the nose and the fenders don't stick out as far, but the quarters still do.

[00:06:44]Interestingly, the coups and sedans in this time were pretty different designs.

[00:06:48]The 712 hardtop has a wraparound bumper situation, which is one of the coolest parts. Of course, it's not on there right now. The sedans had a more conventional bumper. One of the other coolest parts about the 71B body, the unique and bespoke running light situation. I have long wanted a 71 Plymouth Body just for this. Because this is the slightly upscale satellite Sebring Plus instead of a basic satellite, it has the rally dash setup.

[00:07:14]Note the four pod gauges and the fancy wood grain surround. There's more wood grain throughout the interior to match that, like this trim piece over here that says satellite. And then the fancier door panels as well. This is a bench seat car. It doesn't have the buckets and the center console. That would have been really cool. Alan became concerned that one of the fancy fender mounted turn signal indicators is missing, but I saw it in the car, so we're good. Alan's getting excited. I'm not going to bank on this working, but it did seem like the balancer was wiggling a tiny bit. I think we should probably clean the mouse turds off the engine and then soak this one. Yeah, that's kind of not great. Guess we're going to need a radiator. I actually do have a spare 26 in because this was an air conditioned car. It has that bigger radiator. The air conditioning parts are actually gone though. Anyway, I don't have much time to monkey with this today, but we are going to go ahead and try and make some progress. You know, it was almost all worth it just for this badge. You may well have noticed that this front left corner of the car is dirt nasty low at present. We were concerned that that may mean a rusted out torsion bar socket at the back.

[00:08:16]That's super common, at least in salty parts of the country, but it turns out to be a driver side torsion bar broken in half. So, that's good news and bad news. The good news is it's just a torsion bar that needs replaced. The bad news is I don't have one. Tom Hurt might, though. He also might have a front veilance for this thing, which is good. They must have smashed that when the fender got tweaked that way. This one was actually tweaked as well, but I just kind of grabbed it and curled it back into place. Every single one of these cars with an original vinyl top seems to have horrible rust in the roof, especially around the back window. Tom's does, Ryan's does, and this one is no exception. Now, actually, most of the sheet metal here is better, but this is really bad. I particularly like the giant popsicle stick filling the hole.

[00:09:00]As you can see, someone slapped some Bondo in here years ago trying to patch that up. They did a terrible job. This is going to need to be addressed before this car can be used as an actual car here in the Pacific Northwest. I'm told there's a dwell meter in the back here somewhere. The missing door panel section is also right there. It's looking a little worse for wear, but at least we got something. The headliner is coming down at the back, but most of it actually looks surprisingly good. And it is original black. This stupid 500 wheel is barely on here. It's super small.

[00:09:28]It's super dumb. But the original steering wheel is also in here somewhere. In fact, there's the horn button section for it. Well, it's better. Yeah, this thing's definitely been sitting around for a long time. The tabs on the rear bumper, which we threw in the back of the truck, said November of 1993. We have no operational history.

[00:09:47]We don't know if it's run more recently than that. It is a mystery. I wonder what decade there was coolant in it last. Not this one. The water pump spins, so it's better than that Ford cop car. Well, good news, there's oil in it.

[00:10:00]Bad news, it is massively over full. So, I don't know if this thing's full of water, but it probably is. It does smell like normal oil. Now, I know I mentioned this thing's rusty. Seems like it kind of maybe has a floor, and I know that because the rear left is currently a lake that is now draining on the trailer. This thing is so low, it's really hard to see under threw the camera in there. And well, I don't see any giant holes, so that gives me hope.

[00:10:26]>> Helicopter somewhere. It was only just this morning seeing this car at this angle sitting on the trailer that I realized how much GMA body is in this thing. The 1968 redesign of those cars brought a similar fuselageesque design, although I don't think they called it that with the roof flowing straight into the quarter like that. But beyond that similarity, just the lines, the shape of the quarter, the shape of the door and the fender going forward, the back window, the trunk, all of it. And the GTO even had a similar wraparound bumper with lights in it. I don't think the notion of Plymouth having blatantly ripped off Pontiac will be surprising to anyone, and it shouldn't be, but it's kind of interesting. Anyway, let's see if we can do some damage here. I bet we can.

[00:11:10]There you go. Interestingly, instead of a BBD, this thing has a funky Holly carb. Predictably, it is seized solid.

[00:11:17]Always a good sign when the plug wire holders on your valve covers just rust off. I'd like to assess the internal condition of this engine. To do that, I'm going to remove the spark plugs.

[00:11:27]First, I got to get the wires off them.

[00:11:29]I did mark the number one wire, so we'll be able to find it later. All you got to do to remove super stuck plug wires from old plugs is give them a twist.

[00:11:39]Nice and easy. Obviously, having a set of spark plug wire pliers like this one helps. Somewhere along the line, I lost one of the pieces of plastic, rubber, nylon, whatever. Someone certainly gave this car some love at some point. These are nice newish plug wires. It's got a Napa Eklan electric choke conversion kit bolted onto the intake right here. This box over here is part of the circuit for that. That is a replacement coil.

[00:12:03]Probably also Napa brand if I were to hazard a guess. I think the choke is powered by this 3M snap lock. So that sucks. This poor carb. I mean maybe I've seen worse, but it's been a while. So, spark plug shouldn't be this hard to remove.

[00:12:26]I got it though. Autoite 66. A little orange, but well, when it was running, it was slightly rich, but I've seen worse. There should have been a washer on that. Did it stick to the head?

[00:12:38]Mother of all that is holy.

[00:12:42]That is terrible. And some of these are going to be worse. I mean, I can't even get a tool on that. Engage safety squints.

[00:12:52]These other three just came right out.

[00:12:54]No problem. They're actually kind of oily in there. And you could tell that was on the threads and the tips, not out here. Now, I'm wondering if this one did not have a washer and they just like reefed it down tight and it screwed up the threads in the head or something.

[00:13:07]Owen just fished this original wheel out of the car. I'm thinking it must have been sitting in a lake. I don't know that we're going to be able to use that.

[00:13:16]>> You know, I've seen some stuff in my time, but I have never seen an engine as corroded and loaded with just nightmare garbage as this one. You'd think it was sitting right by the ocean this whole time, but it wasn't. As a matter of fact, it was sitting 15 mi further inland from here.

[00:13:34]Oh, neat. I found a butter knife.

[00:13:36]Miraculously, it actually looks pretty good under here. Most likely the reason it seized is some of the moisture which obviously ruined the carburetor worked its way down through the intake into a couple chambers. I didn't see any horrible evidence of rust over there aside from the mess in number one. I'm going to guess we'll find some liquid in number eight here. Well, there's the plug from number eight. Obviously covered in debris I forgot to blow off.

[00:13:59]Doesn't look that bad. None of them do on this side. Faintest hint of moisture on number four there. Well, okay. Maybe it's a little more than faint.

[00:14:11]I mean, engine components on this thing are scalier than on that Aspen, which sat outside in the woods for 25 years.

[00:14:19]This thing may have legitimately been sitting since the tabs expired 33 or four, however many years ago, but it doesn't seem to have been sitting with chambers full of water. So, maybe there's hope. Allan's over here messing with the steering because that's not currently a thing. He did get the back window rolled down so you can see the glorious hardtop window opening shape.

[00:14:38]We still don't have doors that open and I'm sure there are a lot of other important things we don't have either, but we won't worry about that for now.

[00:14:45]At least we have our portable Panasonic TV. This is PB Blaster. Some people will tell you this stuff is crap. Those people are wrong. I have unseased engines with this stuff. I have fixed countless stupid little issues from cars sitting for decades with the PB. It works really well. I've tested tons of different magic sprays over the years. I always come back to this one. It's effective and it's cheap.

[00:15:09]We're going to need a lot of it. As a matter of fact, I bought this new can after unseasing the Aspen 318 with PB.

[00:15:16]No, they're not a sponsor. Yes, they probably should be.

[00:15:25]Look at that range. So, I put a healthy drink in all eight cylinders. I also douse the carburetor with the stuff from every angle. I'll let things soak for a minute and then we'll start hitting stuff.

[00:15:37]>> Hopefully that stupid aluminum thing will let go. One of the important rules in mechanicking. Well, okay, it's more of a guideline is to remove something if it's in your way. I can sneak a breaker bar down here to the balancer bolt, but it really sucks. So, I'm going to take the fan and the water pump pulley out of here, and that will help a lot. I decided to pull the transmission dipstick for science. It is full or actually a little bit over full, but pretty much every one of these torque flights leaks while sitting. So, I'll bet you once we get this thing fired up and there's fluid circulating through it, it will actually turn out to be a quarter too low. That fluid is a little grimy and doesn't smell the best, but we're not going to worry about that. I couldn't find the inch and a quarter shallow socket we were using yesterday.

[00:16:16]Found it. Now, I'm about to do what I always do on these Mopar engines, which is just refund the balancer bolt. Gee, you're loud. with a breaker bar and an inch and a quarter socket. But there are some things you need to know about that.

[00:16:29]First, if you're putting enough force on it that you're reefing the bolt tight or completely loosening it, you're probably doing it wrong. What you're trying to do is shock the crank in both directions.

[00:16:39]You're looking for a little bit of wiggle in whatever's seized. And with that wiggle, you're going to break it free. The other thing you need to know is this works really well on Mopars, which use a 3/4 in thread for that bolt.

[00:16:51]on a Chevy. Not a good idea. As a matter of fact, a friend just sent me a picture of a brokenoff Chevy balancer bolt like yesterday. Anyway, keep that in mind.

[00:17:06]I can see the balancer and pulley shifting just a little bit, but I don't know if I'm just bending the crank or what the deal is here. I think this is going to go. We just got to mess with it for a bit. And again, the best way, just shock it. Oh, yeah. There you go. You can hear it. Nice.

[00:17:25]Yeah. Give me a little bit with this. I bet it'll be rotating. I don't know if you'll be able to see this, but if you look at the balancer next to the timing cover, as I do that, it is shifting a little bit. It's about the same amount of movement we had out of the Aspen crank. And working it back and forth like this turned it into a rotating engine. It took some work, but Allan got that terrible Grant or 500 or whatever steering wheel adapter off the column. I don't know if you can hear this or not, but listen carefully.

[00:17:55]That is the sound of stuff clunking around in this engine as the crank wiggles. And my arm's tired already.

[00:18:03]Where's Peter when you need him? It is actually possible for a belt seized in pulleys or a seized component like an alternator to keep an engine from spinning. If that were the case, we'd be seeing the belt like slap around as I'm rotating the crank that little bit, and that's not happening. This guy is very stuck. I loosened the alternator adjustment here. I was going to try and take that belt off, but I think it's too short. This thing is just slamming right into the fuel pump, right? This is an AC car, so this should have double belts.

[00:18:31]They should be going here, up over the compressor, and then down to the alternator. This was someone's clever idea to make it happen without the compressor there. Well, I've been working this for a while now. I haven't got any more movement. It's still like this. What's interesting is the clunky noise I'm hearing is from the back. It almost sounds like maybe the starter stuck engaged or something like that. I had Allan hop up here and rock the breaker bar back and forth while I put my hand on the starter, and it does kind of seem like the clunk is coming from there. I've never seen one of these Mopar starters stick out like that before. I've seen it on other brands like Ford, but it could happen. I think I'm going to pop this thing off and just see if that changes anything. Shiny new steering wheel installation. I mean, it's a crappy original. Allan did clean it up some. Hopefully, the splines on there. If you don't know, these can only be installed one way, or they're supposed to only be able to be installed one way. They have a big wide master spline on there. It's currently pointed like here. This happens to be the end of the week. We got the green truck engine running. We haven't done a big tool cleanup yet. Perhaps we should do that cuz I can't find anything. Allan's jumping on the lower starter bolt grenade. I'm getting the top one from up top. Let it be noted I thought I was removing the very stuck upper starter bolt, but I was actually removing the very stuck bell housing bolt right next to it. Right in here, which you can't see. Son of a biscuit. I was right. We got the starter just loose enough. I wiggled the crank back and forth. We saw the starter body wiggling. And now, even with it just kind of sort of loose, the teeth are no longer engaged and the engine's kind of turning. I still need to go back and forth and make sure it's turning happy. But there you go. I'm thinking at some point someone tried to hit the key on this thing and the engine was already seized. The gear on the starter kicked out and it had force behind it so it wouldn't disengage. It's been sitting that way all this time and it rusted solid probably. Oh, it's playing with the broken torsion bar. Oh, he has removed the broken torsion bar.

[00:20:20]>> I have the power.

[00:20:21]>> Nice. This is not the first time we've seen that. I think the first time we saw it on the channel was on Stone Soup, but I've definitely seen it at least a couple times. Starter's loose now. We still need to disconnect the wires and fish it out. It is actually a remanufactured starter. It appears to have a date of 8:15 1991 on it. Look at this wire. It's clearly been hot. The coating's all melted at the end. It's also rusty and horrifying. I do believe this was the shiny newish starter we put on that Aspen temporarily. I guess it's good enough for this or this is good enough for it or whatever. I only got the starter out by snapping both of the fasteners that hold the wires on. The small one broke in a helpful way. The big one not so much because it's still kind of stuck around the cable. Yeah, I think this might have seen some stuff.

[00:21:09]Wow. I've got a new copper lug. The perfect size. The cable itself is crap, too, but I think we're going to try and keep it in there. Oh, I'm tired. I need a nap.

[00:21:19]Honda noises. Ford focus noises. Wow.

[00:21:24]Anyway, now that that's out of there.

[00:21:27]See if we can get a full rotation or two out of this engine. Random plants jammed in there. And they are poking.

[00:21:34]Yeah, that's smoothing out.

[00:21:37]Nice. Yeah, this is going to go right away. I mean, it was stuck. No question of that. But I think the starter issue was the main thing going on.

[00:21:47]Tight spot there. Woo. Okay, that's a yucky spot. This rad hose is kind of in the way.

[00:21:58]Yeah, you can hear it crunching. It's trying to go past. It just doesn't quite want to. Now, it's always possible we've got stuck lifters, valves, rockers, all that stuff. But looking in here, I really don't see much evidence of rusty horribleness. So, pretty sure it's going to be rings. There's going to be a horrible rust ridge that we're just trying to work out. And we'll get it after some effort. We pulled the upper hose. Happens to be one of those goofy universal flex hoses. And the wire is disintegrating. Anyway, that'll give me better access to this.

[00:22:31]That's really gross. Oh, don't tell me it just magically went past. Well, that's funny. All we had to do was get the hose out of the way and it magically fixed itself. You can see it's still going chunka chunka. But it's getting better.

[00:22:47]Nope. It's still stuck.

[00:22:55]So close.

[00:22:57]Oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

[00:23:02]Now I done it. Please hold. How do you like this custom battery hold down? It's actually bolted in place. Seems like the kind of thing I'd do. Anyway, I got it restuck, but then I worked it back and forth and back and forth and gave it a wiggle again. And then it went past that point. It just spun like nothing ever happened.

[00:23:22]But now it's getting harder again.

[00:23:26]Whatever. You get the idea. After enough of this, this thing should spin free and happy. And then we'll be somebody.

[00:23:37]I've made a handful of full rotations now. It keeps slowing down in the same two tight spots and one of them is almost impossible to pass. I have to wonder if this is just rings, like maybe in two different cylinders, or if it could in fact be a sticky valve frame issue. I'm going to let another round of PB soak real fast. We'll work it around a few more times. If it starts freeing up, great. If there are slightly tight spots, the starter is going to be able to overcome that and we can sit here and crank it over and things will get better and better. But right now, it's basically reseasing every time I hit that one spot. The starter is not going to be able to deal with that. This is going to take some more screwing, but I'm pretty confident this thing is going to crank all the way over one way or another. So, we're going to drain the oil pan, or at least start draining the oil pan. If I'm right and there's a bunch of water in the bottom, well, we'll just drain it all the way. If there isn't, I don't know if you've heard, but oil is getting scarce and expensive and stupid. And this oil didn't actually look that bad. So, if it's not all full of water and it's just like slightly overfilled, I'm going to let it ride for now.

[00:24:36]>> We're letting ride.

[00:24:37]>> That looks like brand new clean oil.

[00:24:39]>> That looks like oil.

[00:24:40]>> Well, there you go then. New starter is going in. How do you like Owen's personal protective equipment? Here's the old starter. The gear actually isn't rusted solid, but it is stuck most of the way out as you can see. I decided to crawl under here and check this out. The starter will not actually go all the way in. It's contacting this bolt right here on the block brace. I don't think that was an issue with the old starter. It sure looked like it was actually bolted, you know, home correctly. While I'm under here, I'm just kind of peeking at things. Here's the greasy underside of a 904 transmission. Here's a transmission mount that appears to be not in the best shape. Look at this. Dual exhaust with glass packs. Man, I love dual exhaust with glass packs. Here's the other section of our brokenoff torsion bar.

[00:25:23]That really is a cool trick. Allan has already pulled the boot off. I think it's still clipped at the back. So, he hasn't been able to slide this out yet.

[00:25:31]You know what I'm not seeing under here?

[00:25:33]Big giant holes in the floor. I almost can't believe it. But this might be a halfway solid car. I have no idea what that was about. I dropped it out. I looked at things. I put it back in. And now it's actually piloted in the transmission and everything's fine. Did you know these starters are stupid heavy? You just have to be such a special kind of stupid to want to do any of this. Lying on the ground under a trailer, reaching all the way up here, my arms asleep. There's chunks of dust and rust and grease and nightmare crap falling in my eyes and in my hair. That was a really fast spider. Anyway, after a bunch of struggling, I think I got it halfway.

[00:26:15]Either this transmission bell housing is machined wrong, this starter is machined wrong, or both. But it is impossible to get both of these fasteners threaded with the nose of the starter engaged in the bell housing here. So, I'm going to tighten down the top bolt, which does actually kind of sort of align. And we're going to say hopefully that's good enough cuz I'm done struggling here.

[00:26:37]Allan's still repairing the big battery cable. I think he's almost done. I got the small trigger wire on here. Now, I know I've remarked about how horribly rusty and crusty this thing is under the hood. Notice here on the underside on the K-frame, there's a bunch of mud.

[00:26:50]Pretty sure this thing had a bunch of flat tires and a broken torsion bar, obviously, and it was sitting on the ground for years. Also, notice this.

[00:27:00]This is a piece of a tarp. So, I'm thinking it was probably covered in a tarp, which actually tends to hold moisture in more than keeping it out here in the Northwest. I've been asked countless times why I don't use tarps.

[00:27:12]That's why. Well, that and because often the wind tries to take them away.

[00:27:15]There's the big wire in place. Get me out of here. This thing still has those obvious tight spots. They might be getting a little better. I am getting tired. And I'm going to try and wing it over with the starter. Anyway, Allan is throwing a battery in here. Let's see if fire happens.

[00:27:30]No fire.

[00:27:32]All right. Oh, there's a nice splice.

[00:27:36]Before I try to crank it over, let it be noted I did put it back in park and reconnected the column shift linkage. I then head out and try the shifter from inside. The column's broken. Is it funny we put all that time into it? I don't know. Kind of. Of course, we can jump the starter right here, which is good.

[00:27:52]It won't crank with the key. Oh, that did something.

[00:27:57]Ah, it's getting PB all over me.

[00:28:01]Okay. Wow, it cranks perfect with the starter. It's not slowing down at those spots at all.

[00:28:09]That's kind of gross. I got the starter button hooked up so I can stand out of the way of the PB fire hose.

[00:28:15]Nice.

[00:28:20]That sounds way better than I thought it was going to.

[00:28:25]You know, I think we can throw some spark plugs back in there. I think I mentioned that there's a hole in the fuel tank and the stuff coming out of it smells. We definitely don't want whatever's in there getting pumped into our nice carburetor and dribbled into this fantastic 318. So, I did unhook the frame line. There's some more smells. I don't know how far they got, but someone definitely monkeyied with this thing at some point. The air cleaner lid was off.

[00:28:47]And I just noticed this accelerator pump linkage is disconnected. That might be because it doesn't really move very far.

[00:28:53]I got it wiggling a little bit, but it will not fully withdraw or insert. So, the pump's probably seized in there.

[00:29:00]This linkage is still not doing the thing. How flammable is PB again? Asking for a friend. I mean, kind of flammable.

[00:29:09]We're going to lose our advance hose.

[00:29:12]That's fine. Remember that one time when I was doing something like this and that thing happened? That was cool.

[00:29:20]We instructions unclear. Carburetor on fire. Yeah, I don't think this thing's freeing up ever in a million years. I mean, we could put it in some sort of chemical soup or something, but I don't have that kind of patience. I don't care anymore. I actually just put a punch down in here and smacked it with a hammer to crack the throttle. If we can get this thing turning over with ignition, we'll dump some gas down there and hopefully we'll hear a burble or two. If we get that, we'll put a good old trusty BBD on here. I don't think there's actually any power reaching inside the car at all. Of course, all the external lights are off, so we can't check headlights or tail lights or anything like that. The key does absolutely nothing. The heater does nothing. The turn signals do nothing.

[00:29:57]The wipers, well, I didn't try them, but I'm sure they do nothing. Allan's got all of the spark plugs installed and snug down. Let's see what kind of compression this engine has, if any.

[00:30:09]That might have fallen off.

[00:30:21]Well, it sounds bad. And obviously it's slowing down in one spot. I'll bet you that's the spot that has resistance. And now combining that with compression, it's actually fighting against the starter. But it is continuing to turn.

[00:30:34]So that's good.

[00:30:37]Uh or was that sucks.

[00:30:47]We might need more juice. This is a points distributor because 1971. You already know we aren't going to get a ground signal through those. They were terribly corroded like everything around them. So, I scraped them off with a file. We'll see if they work. Now, I've been powering up the coil with a power probe because again, we have no key action at all. my usual technique of scraping with a vial a couple times and then putting my screwdriver in there and just messing with the points, scraping inside them. Well, it worked perfectly and we now have spark when I crank the thing with the button. Okay. Uh, poured a bunch of fuel down it. Going to power up the ignition. Hopefully, it won't get electrocuted or electroshocked or you know what I mean.

[00:31:26]Or firealled.

[00:31:29]We'll see.

[00:31:40]Okay, well that was a couple kicks. You also might notice it's turning over a little bit better. We put the jump box on it. We still haven't fixed that tight spot, but I'm hoping just cranking on the darn thing will do that. Working the throttle would be extremely beneficial here. Ooh, and not being covered in gas would be good, too.

[00:32:06]Well, see now I don't know if we've got too much timing or if it's hitting that tight spot.

[00:32:11]Kind of sounds like too much timing. And that is not loose.

[00:32:22]Let's turn over without ignition.

[00:32:26]No, that's not timing. It's just not happy.

[00:32:33]I wonder how many batteries we'll go through today and how many starters. Oh yeah, it's literally smoking. Okay, we'll give that a rest.

[00:32:44]I definitely heard it kick sort of. I mean, it didn't like speed up the engine or anything, but you could see the smoke coming back out. It was making some kind of fire in there. We got a different battery and the starter has cooled. See if this is any less bad. Oh, need my power probe connected.

[00:33:01]Hey, just as a word of advice, don't inhale burning PB Blaster smoke.

[00:33:09]>> I'll try not to do that.

[00:33:10]>> Okay.

[00:33:12]>> Fire in the hole.

[00:33:13]>> Fire in the Yeah, wherever.

[00:33:20]You can hear it kicking on one or two.

[00:33:23]My hope here is that we'll get some heat and that will knock whatever that is loose, but it may not work that way.

[00:33:35]It's not even making a whole rotation now.

[00:33:41]Now, horrible electrical connections can do something kind of like that, but I really think this is a mechanical issue in the engine.

[00:33:52]Okay, I don't think this will actually improve anything, but here's battery number three.

[00:34:02]Every bit is bad.

[00:34:06]Okay, so that's not good.

[00:34:13]That's not good at all. It is like reseasing itself actively. I should have probably loaded the cylinders up with Marvel before I put the plugs in, but it didn't do that. That's sort of a Hail Mary. I'm just going to do this. Problem is, that's probably not going to reach all the cylinders.

[00:34:34]It'll probably only reach the back ones, in fact. But it stands to reason that those are probably our problem cylinders anyway. Now, when this was just the two little tight spots, there was absolutely a chance that this was actually a valve gear issue. And I was strongly considering pulling the valve covers to go in and check all of that. But now, as bound up as that crank is again, there is no doubt in my mind this is still a ring problem. And most likely what's going on is one of the rings is broken.

[00:35:02]Or it's packed so full of garbage and as it scraped that cylinder wall, it got packed full of even more garbage. And at this point, it's just binding up. And that piston can barely move. I'm gonna pull the plugs back out. I started with number one. And actually, there is Marvel on there. So, that's cool. It got where it needed to go, but it hasn't helped yet. Three is absolutely soaked.

[00:35:24]And that does smell like Marvel, too.

[00:35:26]Not gasoline. With the odd plugs out, it cranks like this.

[00:35:33]All the plugs are back out.

[00:35:37]That is so crazy. With no compression, it can just wing over all day. And you can see that marble got everywhere. It's like spitting on me.

[00:35:48]It hardly even slows down. Yeah, it's just a clever trick. The starter's got some torque to it. This thing is still pretty much ceased.

[00:35:57]Wow.

[00:36:03]Well, I don't know where to go with this.

[00:36:10]I really don't think this is a valve gear issue, but maybe I'm wrong. I've been wrong before. We're going to pull the covers and take a look.

[00:36:19]Nice. There's the passenger side cover out of there. I'm sure you'll have noticed we didn't prelube this thing or anything, but there is lubricant coming up to these arms. I'm going to hit the magic button. We want to see all of these piggies wiggling.

[00:36:32]Yeah. Everything's totally free. That bolt protested a lot, but we got it.

[00:36:37]Two. Ah. Ah.

[00:36:40]There you go. Beautiful train.

[00:36:42]>> Yeah. Actually, see if these all wiggle.

[00:36:47]They sure do.

[00:36:49]>> Well, here's the deal. At this point, I'm pretty sure this engine is screwed.

[00:36:54]We're pretty confident this is a broken ring situation and there's just nothing to do about that except remove pistons and fix the rings. The last time I saw an engine do exactly this, that's what it was. That was a Poly 318, the block for which is right here. You know, one of these days we're going to finish rebuilding that engine. Today is not that day, though. However, if at all possible, I'd really like to hear this thing fire off because that would be fun. So, what I'm going to do is soak these cylinders with Marvel Mystery Oil.

[00:37:23]If this improves things, great. If it doesn't, Allan seems prepared to do a 318 swap. Remember, we just pulled a perfectly good 318 out of this 1977 D100 over here, and it would be pretty fun to just slam that in something else. It's one entire holiday weekend later. The Marvel Mystery Oil has been soaking in this 318 for like 5 days now. The car magically appeared on the ground. It was on the trailer last time I saw it, which is this whole thing. We'll get into that later. I truly don't think soaking this engine is going to do anything. The good news is we've worked out a plan B. No plan B isn't taking this car right back to the junkyard where we found it.

[00:38:00]Although maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea. Wait, that's not Allen.

[00:38:05]Who's this guy coming in hot? Well, here's plan B now.

[00:38:12]See, look. This one even says good on it.

[00:38:15]Yeah.

[00:38:17]Oh, that's what's in the ammo case.

[00:38:20]Wow.

[00:38:21]Well, I definitely put a containment unit under here to catch all the marble that's going to come flying out.

[00:38:37]>> You know what?

[00:38:40]It might be fixed. I mean, it's tightening up a little bit, but then it's turning past that pretty easily.

[00:38:46]Way more easily than last time. Let's make a giant mess. Oh, >> wire fell off.

[00:38:53]>> You're going to protect the coronet.

[00:38:54]That's nice. I appreciate that.

[00:38:56]Obviously, it turned with the plugs out before, but let's see how I do now.

[00:39:01]>> Oh, Alan, you moved.

[00:39:04]>> I was going to get a towel, buddy.

[00:39:07]>> Kind of got the imperial, too. Peter has become one with the satellite. The way to open these late doors when they're stuck is to hold the handle and straight on horse kick them. So, we're going to try and do that. This should keep the rest of the Marvel spray off my classics here. For some reason, I didn't film this, but anyway, I held the inside handle and Peter gave it the horse kick routine right here. I think the panel survived. Anyway, now it's open. We need to lube the crap out of everything. See if we can get this side.

[00:39:34]That doesn't feel like it does anything really.

[00:39:38]Did you know it kind of smells in there a little bit?

[00:39:43]>> Gently horse kick it. Yeah, good plan.

[00:39:46]Good plan. Nice. Two working doors.

[00:39:49]Don't hit the Imperial. We were seeing paperwork in here for someone named Pearl. Here's a registration that says the license plate was issued in 1979 to that same Pearl. There you go.

[00:40:02]>> Work it.

[00:40:02]>> Making more horrible oily messes.

[00:40:10]That sounds really good now. And my battery's dying.

[00:40:16]All right, spark plugs. I thought we only had three hub caps, but apparently we have all four. They're not exactly mint, but still. Byron found binoculars.

[00:40:26]>> Grandpa had those same ones.

[00:40:27]>> Yeah.

[00:40:28]>> No, they they don't work very well. Now that we've got the doors open, it's time for a little more thorough cleaning. I did peek under this seat cover. The seat's kind of torn up on both sides, unfortunately. But it's not that bad. It is wet. Everything's wet. Byron's stealing my TV.

[00:40:44]Peter found arts and crafts stuff.

[00:40:47]Pattern block. McGra Hill. Yeah, teacher stuff. Neat.

[00:40:52]>> Original dust devil.

[00:40:54]>> Wow. Cool. You can have that.

[00:40:56]>> I don't want it.

[00:40:58]>> No one does. We've all kind of just been standing around looking at this thing and marveling at how neat it is. Well said. Anyway, uh plugs are in. We got a fresh battery and I popped this thing back in park. It's not going to fire off right now, but you know, when it's ready to rolling into the SLO would be bad.

[00:41:15]Let's see if it cranks with compression.

[00:41:19]Yes, she's going to be a runner. Plug wires are back on, which is easy because I labeled number one and I know the firing order, which is 18436572.

[00:41:29]Okay, so something really funny just happened. Allan was going to get a hot wire so we could run power to the ignition. I've got the plug wires back on and just to make sure our starting stuff was still good, I hit the button.

[00:41:40]But before I hit the button, I had put a splash of gas in there and it literally fired right up and I didn't get it on camera. Anyway, let's do it again. Rock and roll play.

[00:41:58]>> Marvel mystery oil in the air. Just a little.

[00:42:03]>> Allan's draining the floor.

[00:42:06]>> O, party time again.

[00:42:20]Throttle's kind of stuck.

[00:42:40]Well, that's something. Hey, how do you like all those knocking sounds?

[00:42:44]>> That is a thirsty 318.

[00:43:00]Interesting. I mean, it still turns, but it's kind of tightening up. Maybe it's really hard to squeeze. Well, anyway, uh she's a runner.

[00:43:21]Not the happiest, I don't think. The cleaning continues. Allan has found bumper bolts for one thing. He's also deleting the crappy seat cover. If that was just a little nicer, of course, this is ancient cloth, and when you start sitting on it, it's going to deteriorate. Anyway, this is pretty cool, but it peed on my foot. I'm thinking this one's probably not worth having anymore. We're going to try and see about breaks, which is silly. That lid's very stuck.

[00:43:48]That's not looking good so far.

[00:43:52]What do we got? Zero fluid in the rear, but the front is full.

[00:43:56]>> Oh, random aside. This is a disc brake master cylinder. You can tell cuz it has the big section for the front disc brakes and the small section for the rear drums. But it's actually a four-wheel manual drum car.

[00:44:06]>> Well, we filled the front section of the reservoir, which is actually for the rear brakes on a Mopar. Don't ask me why. And I did see some bubbles.

[00:44:14]Apparently, Peter's >> nice. So, we're just going to have breaks, I guess.

[00:44:18]>> I got resistance and then it let go.

[00:44:20]>> H. So, we're going to have a leak, I guess. Anyway, you can see the bubbles coming up here. So, that's something.

[00:44:26]Boys, I found where the fluid's going.

[00:44:28]What on earth? That line is broken and then just like peeled out here. Dude, Alan found the glove box manual. 1971 Plymouth satellite operator's manual.

[00:44:40]It's kind of disintegrating, but that is so cool. Next up, we need a carburetor that actually works. I have several BBDs here to choose from. I don't really know anything about any of them. That one looks decent. That could be the one we took off of the green truck. If it is, it won't idle at all. Yes, this is definitely that carburetor. It still has a little bit of gas in it. On four barrel Carter Edel Brock carbs that won't idle, my fix is always to take the idle screws out and then blow through those passages with compressed air. Some of the air will go out through the holes right here, but some of it will go up through the idle passages as well. I actually plugged the holes down below the throttles on this one in blue, and I could see air coming through the airbleleeds. So, hopefully that will do something. Of course, we don't trust the fuel tank in the 71 at all. We're going to run this thing with the fresh BBD, well, fresh off of the boat tank. I need the hose for that, which I left on this car, which I should probably be working on right now. Anyway, we're going to move a bunch of crap and get that down.

[00:45:35]It's with this guy in naps. We're going to try and kind of sort of maybe fix the steering column so we can have a shifter.

[00:45:42]Of course, Ellen reinstalled the original wheel. It's very tight. Alan also broke the fuel line. Here's what the inside of the intake looks like in case you were curious. Is not good.

[00:45:52]Well, I sure hope I have another one of these. Yes. Hoarding wins the day again.

[00:45:58]This thing's missing the metal inserts.

[00:45:59]Can I transfer those? Apparently, yes.

[00:46:03]Peter and Byron managed to get the steering wheel back off. It took some struggling. Now Peter is removing the turn signal switch and the platey thingy. Hey, by the way, also you need to take this screw out so you can remove the stick.

[00:46:14]>> Oh, it's slightly broken. BBD installed.

[00:46:18]Hey, Peter, hit the throttle, would you?

[00:46:22]Wow. I patched the metal line with a chunk of rubber and some clamps. Let's see if it actually works.

[00:46:28]>> Awesome.

[00:46:28]>> Oh, >> the fitting at the carp is leaking. I didn't tighten it.

[00:46:33]>> Well, oh, it's still leaking a little bit. That's pretty good, though.

[00:46:37]Basically, we're dissecting the steering column in place to see if we can repair that broken shift collar. If not, we do have a truck column we could probably use for parts or something. I have discerned the issue, and this is a new one for me. Oh, cricket. Anyway, uh the shift tube collar thing is actually seized solid. I think in this bushing right here, the thing must have broken farther upstream when someone tried putting it in gear. Let's set it ablaze.

[00:47:03]I know. Fire and hammer are the best.

[00:47:05]Unfortunately, I'm probably going to torch the nylon bushing in there. Tippy tip tip. Well, now we're here. This is the shift collar. And it's supposed to be welded to the tube in here. Not welded. It looked like a broken weld, but that was a trick. It actually just slides on there. And then there's like a little crimp thing. Don't worry about that.

[00:47:23]>> There also looks to be some sort of tooth thing that locates it. And the end of that's kind of gone, too. So, I don't know if we're going to be able to fix this. We still haven't gotten the tube rotating out there either. Might be about to pull this column out. Steering column operation is going to be really dumb. We're going to make ourselves feel better about that by firing it up again now that we've got a carburetor and a fuel reservoir. You ready to get showered and crap again?

[00:47:45]>> Yep.

[00:47:45]>> All right, then. Contact.

[00:47:50]Listen to that fire up.

[00:48:03]Well, it still doesn't idle, but what an absolute unit.

[00:48:29]through the other valve. Perfect.

[00:48:32]>> I don't know if this is light valve noise or like timing or something. There is a noise up here. Well, okay. It might be a rod. It might not be that light either, but other than that, it's pretty smooth. Oh, it's getting louder.

[00:48:53]Well, that's kind of concerning.

[00:49:08]>> Well, tightened.

[00:49:11]>> Well, no, the covers are kind of loose, but also everything's covered in marbles, so it's kind of uh not the greatest, actually. Well, this sucks. We have a truck column here. Obviously, the shaft is going to be different. We could transfer that over or something. But actually, the body is a little bit different, too. This section is longer.

[00:49:27]That arm is like further up in an opening or something. I don't know. We could take some measurements and see if it might work, but it's definitely not the same. I swear I had a spare a body column in here somewhere, but I'm not seeing that. Before anyone says it, no, we couldn't have used the steering column from the 80 Aspen we sent to the junkyard. That one was very different.

[00:49:46]I've definitely talked about damage to these column ignition switch connectors in the past. There is a textbook case.

[00:49:52]You can see this one actually like burned and they cut the wire and spliced it outside of the plug right here. I think that red one is the battery feed wire actually. Anyway, removing the steering column. The black trim panel is already gone here. There's two 7/16 nuts up this way. Actually, three if you count the extra one holding down the ground wire to the column. There's also a 7/16 hex bolt on the right side toward the back on these later columns. Then there are going to be three 1/2-in bolts to the firewall. The two plugs here. And then the block out there connected to the gearbox needs to be undone, which is going to suck. I have realized if we can't unseize this thing with the whole column loose, you could just twist the body and that'll be your shifter. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. To undo the column from the gearbox, we've got to knock that roll pin out. Hopefully, one of these roll pin punches actually fits. And then we'll heat the little block thing and try and pry it off the gearbox. Sometimes they're very, very stuck. Wow. I didn't even heat this one.

[00:50:44]That was almost too easy. Remove the column.

[00:50:50]>> Yep. There you go. Yeah.

[00:50:54]Okay. Well, that happened. And there's the column out on the ground. Obviously, someone's been here before. I mean, with the wiring repair and the busted turn signal switch and this all being loose.

[00:51:04]But this was actually a pretty original unmolested car. Still has the plastic expandy metal cover thing. Those are always gone. Anyway, here you can get a better look at the issue. This is the shift tube, and it is very seized in this nylon bushing here. Oh, hey, there might be some rust in there. Oh, I made a happy face. There's the shift tube out. There's the bushing that's very stuck on it. Might have slightly bent that. So, you can see here the end of that like rectangular tab is actually missing. That is the piece that's supposed to lock into that collar up there. If you didn't know, steering columns from 1967 on are legally mandated to be collapsible. Here's how they did that. This is actually two different sections of tube. One fits inside the other and they're held together with these bits of plastic. In the event of a crash, that will actually break and this whole tube will collapse.

[00:51:53]I sanded up the surfaces here and here.

[00:51:55]Now I'm carefully tapping the tube out of that bushing. I'll do some more sanding here. Hit it with some grease and we should get to the point that this actually kind of works. Again, there's just a layer of rusted metal stuck under where the bushing was. Trying to sand it. That didn't work. I took it to the wire wheel and it knocked it off and well there you can see what's going on underneath. Look at how fixed that is.

[00:52:16]Obviously I greased it. You know, I thought I saw a weld in here, but that would not be a thing. For one thing, I'm pretty sure this is pot metal on the truck. This shift tube was actually all the way in here. Allen's currently parting out that column to fix this one.

[00:52:30]Well, there is our new shift collar on our original shift tube put together in the body. Now, by sending that thing all the way up in where it's supposed to be, you can see where the broken piece was.

[00:52:40]Apparently, those are actually bent out to lock the thing in place, which makes sense. So, that's the piece that got broken. Someone somehow extracted that shift tube back out of this collar, and that must have been like 20 years of rusting ago. It was sticking way farther out than this. This is apparently where it's actually supposed to be. Now, we just reassemble everything else after trying to lock that in place somehow.

[00:53:00]Maybe I'll just bend this top piece.

[00:53:02]We're going to use the ignition lock from the truck because we're using the whole body from the truck and this piece actually seemed to be a little bit different. This one also has the surround piece on it. It's not all busted. That's looking really nice. Pro tip, the shift arm from a truck is way longer than the one from a Bbody. It might be fine. You need to make sure the snap ring goes on the back side. Then the bearing goes here. And then the snap ring with the holes goes here. When that outer piece screws down to this middle piece, that's what's going to lock the steering shaft in place. I have seen this rear snap ring forgotten before. If you leave that out, it's actually possible for the entire wheel and steering shaft to move toward you, which is bad. Little while later and we've got a fully assembled column. Obviously, this ignition switch, which was new in the truck, had these two wires jumped around it. One already was in the car, so we'll cut this other one and do them both that way. We did delete the steering wheel lock. If someone wants the car that bad, they can have it. It's always a pain maneuvering the plate and the shift arm around the firewall and the brake pedal and such, but Allan got it. And believe it or not, this just popped right back on. There is a master spline on the gearbox. And there's actually a notch right here. I don't know that you'll be able to see that. I just kind of pointed it the way it was.

[00:54:11]The pin that I drove out is still down.

[00:54:13]So, there you go. Look at all those gears we got. Dude, we left the foam gasket out. I pulled the column all the way loose and shoved it in there. And I put it backwards. I'm not doing it again. We don't even need to adjust it.

[00:54:26]It's absolutely perfect. There's where the shifter arm sits. Um, little close to the dash, but it's fine. Got the wiring in. Heat shrinking our splices here. Never you mind the fact that I stripped way too much wire and it's a horrible mess in there. Key switch will not start this thing. It's probably a neutral safety issue. I did try moving the shifter. That didn't help. It could also be a bad starter relay. That would be no surprise at all. But currently, this works.

[00:54:53]ish. We're going to stack the rest of the bits in the trunk because at this point, I do believe this car should move under its own power. Maybe. Obviously, we do not have cooling. The power steering belt is off. The brakes apparently do something. I don't think this thing is going to idle at all. It's going to be a giant pain, but hopefully it'll actually kind of move. The amount of safety here is off the chain. Me, my buddy Wilson, and this fancy air freshener are going for a test drive.

[00:55:17]Oh, I left the key on the whole time.

[00:55:19]That's my bad.

[00:55:21]Hopefully it didn't cook the points.

[00:55:22]>> Engaged, safety, everything.

[00:55:35]Yeah, idling is just never going to be a thing with this car. We do have many vacuum leaks that could be related.

[00:55:42]Pop the transmission in neutral.

[00:55:46]Circulate some fluid.

[00:55:48]Run out of gas. Lose part of the steering wheel.

[00:55:57]Ow.

[00:55:59]That's not a good sound.

[00:56:02]Tires rubbing on everything.

[00:56:11]No neutral safety means it starts in gear pretty good.

[00:56:22]This carb is such junk. It only barely slows down.

[00:56:35]Yeah.

[00:56:35]>> What a unit. So, was it all the marble mystery oil or what? Cuz it ain't smoking now.

[00:56:41]>> Not at all.

[00:56:42]>> Stored voice.

[00:56:44]>> Still knocking.

[00:56:45]>> I don't hear it, but you know that doesn't mean much. It might be pumping fuel. It's just there's zero idle just like >> it's just like the green truck.

[00:56:53]>> Yeah.

[00:56:53]>> Which is that carburetor >> carb on a different 318 and it's still garbage.

[00:56:58]>> It's got fuel.

[00:57:01]This car just sucks.

[00:57:04]Anyway, no, just nothing.

[00:57:32]Woo!

[00:57:35]That is not a good sound. What is that sound?

[00:57:40]It It's almost idling.

[00:57:45]Ah, I broke it. But it was almost idling. Brake pedal sticks. That's your parking brake, I guess. Yeah. So, this big oversized tire rubs the fender real bad.

[00:58:00]Oh yeah, that's that's what that is.

[00:58:04]Obviously, the lack of a torsion bar is part of the issue as well. It's idling.

[00:58:09]Oh yeah, buddy. So fixed.

[00:58:12]>> It idle.

[00:58:34]Uhoh. Almost lost my gas can.

[00:58:42]It won't do it, dude.

[00:58:52]Well, it isn't happy. But it did spin and tire. A big stupid one. Might be smoking a little bit. Remember how we didn't bolt down the valve covers.

[00:59:02]Things to think about. Hot start.

[00:59:06]Dude, she's mint now. Where'd the noise go?

[00:59:15]Um, yeah.

[00:59:24]I mean, there's a little tick in there, but the horrible noise is gone. Oh, >> what?

[00:59:32]>> Well, that's disappointing. If we just shut the hood and ignore it, I think.

[00:59:36]Oh, it's getting worse.

[00:59:45]>> No, not that far. Not that.

[00:59:52]Are those running lights not just the coolest thing you've ever seen? So, what you say? Is it the new Bluesmobile or what?

[00:59:58]>> Hell yeah.

[00:59:59]>> Something something cigarette lighter. I imagine it's obvious from where you're sitting that this car still needs a lot.

[01:00:06]Like a lot a lot. I don't know what's up with the noise in the engine. It either is or is not fine. Probably the ladder.

[01:00:13]This is a sweet machine. It's not exactly my dream machine, though. It is kind of Allen's. So, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to load this thing back on the trailer and drag it to Allen's house. And I imagine while it's there, everything wrong with it will magically be fixed because that's what Allen does. There's certainly body work, metal repair to address, some reassembly stuff here. I am going to get a torsion bar and a lower front veilance for it hopefully from Tom with Rocket Restorations. I guess we'll see if he actually has those. If not, we're in the market with a little bit of spiffing and some more garbage, extra carpet, damp, horrible stuff and such ripped out of here. This is going to be a nice car.

[01:00:51]Dude, look at this door now.

[01:00:54]Yeah, there's a few things to address.

[01:00:57]It's going to be fine. Well, I'm also going to dump this in Allen's lap real quick because I need to make some space around here. I'm having another project dropped off in like 2 or 3 days.

[01:01:17]Well, things are kind of cramped. I really thought we were going to be installing this engine today. It's kind of cool we didn't have to do that, but I have been assured that this thing will be going in that car at some point. It might need a little reseal. And while we're resealing things, it might need a cam. You know, little stuff. We'll get there later.

[01:01:35]>> We all have some ADHD.

[01:01:38]This brand happens to be Jamie's. We went from uh thinking about moving cars to weed whacking.

[01:01:44]>> Currently rearranging everything I own.

[01:01:48]No one's going to move that thing. So many cornets. So little time. It's a Jeep thing. So majestic. Maybe this is what I'll try to buy for you next.

[01:01:58]>> Well, you'll have to buy it from Allen.

[01:02:00]Try >> turn too short. See a little slidy slide there.

[01:02:29]>> You actually centered it better.

[01:02:31]>> Nice. I'm just that good.

[01:02:34]>> Yeah, it's a tight fit. I'm a professioner.

[01:02:47]>> If you had a bumper there, you'd be hitting it.

[01:02:49]>> Oh, it's good.

[01:02:53]>> So much safety. Autobots roll out. That Ram truck is the coolest. Remind me to fix everything on that truck.

[01:03:05]Come on.

[01:03:11]>> This is way too much like real work. Oh, look. A white late B body.

[01:03:19]>> Oh god. What am I on the wheel?

[01:03:25]>> Nailed it.

[01:03:27]Boy, she's a little firm. Something about no suspension.

[01:03:32]>> So cool.

[01:03:34]71 79. Also slightly fancier.

[01:04:00]>> YOU'RE ALMOST THERE. KEEP GOING. THERE.

[01:04:02]I'm just on the grass a bit.

[01:04:04]>> Oh, was I?

[01:04:05]>> Yeah.

[01:04:25]>> That might have been my favorite thing ever. Also, this thing's running pretty good now, and it's not knocking.

[01:04:42]Oh, it's really good. As if it wasn't already low enough on that side. Did you know I actually own this 300 again?

[01:04:50]Maybe I should do something with it someday.

[01:04:52]>> No. Hey, if anyone needs a free van, man, I like tin grills. Oh, also we're leaving this one here. Good ramp truck.

[01:05:08]Well, that was something. Um, I don't know what we learned. Something about rubbing tires on fenders, maybe. I don't know.

[01:05:16]>> Hey, can I have my vice grips back?

[01:05:18]>> Yes.

[01:05:18]>> All right.

[01:05:19]>> Next time, can you squeeze a soft line, not a hard one? That was beautiful.

[01:05:24]>> Yeah. Oh, we're in the way. We're pulling up the works. We're leaving anyway. Um, I promise you, you'll see that car again soon. And when you do, it's going to be way better. We might have graded Ellen's driveway a bit more.

[01:05:35]Byron has been bitten by the 79300's are cool bug.

[01:05:39]>> Not that bite.

[01:05:41]>> Oh. Anyway, that was fun. Um, I got to go pick up a Volkswagen Beetle now.

[01:05:46]>> Wait, really?

[01:05:47]>> Yeah. So, until next time, as ever.

[01:05:51]Thanks for watching and remember, great minds think alike and so do we. XJ.

[01:05:59]Oh, it's beautiful. What are you? Oh, you've got a friend. I have a question.

[01:06:05]Why do I have a Volkswagen Beetle now?