Will it Run? Episode 22: 1951 Chevy Bel Air! Part 1
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Hi! Time to get to work on the 1951 Chevy! We'll start by pulling the starter, carb, and thermostat, and then we'll be looking for a generator and a fuel pump so we can put it back together... This old Chev hasn't run in many years, so cranking it up for the first time will be pretty exciting!
Thanks again to everyone who subscribed to our channel here, and thanks also for all of your "likes" and comments! I do read all of them and much appreciate that anyone would take the time to send us a note!
Usually I'd wait til all of the parts of this Episode are done, but a lot of people were wondering if we were going to get at this Chevy, so I decided to put up the series in installments this time. It's still cold and snowing here, so we decided to pull the bits off and redo them inside the shop.
All the very best from me and Francine and the Agents; more soon on this Chev, as well as all the other stuff I'm working on at the same time!
Also: Thanks for your patience re: T-shirts, stickers, etc...very close now, I think. Just not my area of expertise, so I'm slow and careful here...
i love seeing frankers in her puppy stage, i will love watching her grow.
2 beer max then some Canadian Mist. Perfect for the cool weather!!!
Gosh a growler - haven't seen one since trade school.
Love the P-38 fins on the hardtop.
45 years ago I put a 235 from a COE in my '51 GMC 3100, I cut the up-draught manifold (it had a rear outlet flange) and a regular down draught manifold so I could run dual exhaust. I installed the engine while the truck was in a tractor shed and as I was positioning the stater I lay on the ice floor so long that the ice under my boiler suit melted; in time the suit froze to the floor - used up some luck getting out of that one - this video brought back some good memories. Thank you.
Methodical & thorough...nice job on the wrench
From 1930's to 1980's a man, Brady Markle, was a mechanic in the town of Toll Gate, WV, US. He was a great person, a bachelor, who had no vices, as far as I knew. When he worked on something difficult, Brady would say, "What in the Sam Hill is going on?" It's good for me to hear that said again. Thanks.
great to see you returning to your good ol self.
Great video. This would be a good candidate for an episode of " my classic tire "
I haven't used a growler since high school auto shop in the early '80s. Funky nostalgia right there.
We all miss Stella. Thanks for keeping the channel going.
Tom Hughes .
Glad you found the backwards stat. A little cleanin' and checkin' and she'll probably run pretty decent.
Thanks,interesting and entertaining,
I miss you too, Stella. You’ll live in our hearts forever.
I simply love this channel. Great iron, enviable camaraderie, super sweet dog and a natural leader! Thanks so much Scott! Chuck in Kansas
So jealous!
such an awesome Chevrolet.. have such terrific memories of a 1951 Chevrolet while I was a young lad. Great to see one in your series of will it run.
Would be such a treat to join you Scott and the rest of the agents in the build of this classic ole girl.
thanks for such enlighten videos!!
Found my new favorite channel. My first car was a Model A, and then a 40 Dodge. My first real car was a 52 Chevy 2 Dr Sedan. My son is currently working on a 26 Model T Coupe.
Looks like a mini Cadillac with the slight fins on the quarters.
Thank you!
Man, I looked for a 1951 Chevy Coupe for over a year in San Antonio back in the early 1970's. In a city of over a million at the time. I finally gave up looking. It's good to see you found one even if it does need resurrection.
Making your own tools, that's some serious Badassery there!! Still the best channel on you tube.
Brightened up my day guys. Lovely to see you out and about working on another project. (Though I yearn to hear of progress on the SM). Dean a star for working in the snow on the starter. Looking forward to seeing the next episode. Best Wishes to you all and particularly to Francine, who is now a fully fledged member of the team
Good work Dean.
I love this old stuff.
Can't wait to see it run! We used to use a hacksaw blade to check the armature on the growler. Good times!
Thanks for the note! The actual test is coming in part 2; we were just goofing off and I threw it in for a laugh... Cheers!
I don't often laugh out loud while watching UA-cam but i regularly do with this channel, the bit at the end cracked me up!
A starter on an old car was always a bear for me especially when Im holding it up with one hand and unbolting it from the other glad you were holding the starter. Yep always makes sense just to clean the old parts and reuse them if you can. Looks like this is gonna be a good one. Thanks for sharing
It makes me wonder if they stopped driving this car back in the day because no one could figure out why it kept overheating. Maybe no one saw that thermostat installed upside down! I can't wait to hear this Chevrolet six purr back to life again!
Looking forward to seeing this come back to life.
I'm just coming across this video now, It never showed up in my subscriptions.
so I clicked the bell thing, hopefully your videos actually show up in my feed now.
My condolences to your countrymen, and yourself, with regards to the Humboldt Bronco's Hockey Team bus tragedy.
I like the way that you continually talk to "Dean" to make sure that he has not frozen to death..Them tailights look either custom ,or specific to Canadien ? NO hammer marks on the starter,so that means that either it is original,or a brand new N.O.S.
Stovebolts are tanks. Can’t wait to hear it idle.
Sweet old car. Noticed the dog lead, Frankers likes to take her self on adventures eh? My dog would bugger off for a sniff for sure.
If I wasn't a million miles away down here in Houston I'd take it my friend.
Agent 303 is back! Yay!
I was waiting for t his one. Here's to a 'Will it Run' on old shit.
Absolutely excited to see that you are starting on the Chevy. It looks like you might have a runner after you round up the rest of the components for the engine. I sure hope so, it's such a straight old car and there's just something about those taillights, you know! Frankers certainly is getting to be a big girl and it's always a real hoot to see her play and watching her grow up, though I will always have a place in my heart for Stella as well. Best regards to you and the agents. Till next time, Cheers!
the paramount of "make it work".... ;) you guys rock! as always, totally made my day to see yall had posted a new video!
12:24 "If there's a nut spinning on the back I'm gonna punch you" I laughed out loud to that one hahah!!
My sister and her kids still drive that exact chev on occasion. They do seem to be able to last forever. The license plate says "Agnes" after our grandmother who was the original owner.
Dean fan club! Woo Hoo!
I love Scott and his fu**ing place!
when they came out, steve mcqueen, couldn't wait to buy a 1951 chevy conv., and drove the car in his last movie, the hunter 1980.
If you're going to tidy the brushes you might want to clean the commutator as well.
Good movie.
I like frankers shes awesome
Dean rocking the Freddy Mercury stash like a boss
Thanks guys.
Good to see the '51 begin. Growing up mom, dad and I took the '56 DeSoto Fireflite (that dad bought new, I still have and like new). we'd go visit his brothers each weekend, one brother, a rancher with several thousand acres, had a son , Ron, only a few years older than me, so I visited with him while our parents visited. Ron had a '52 Bel Air coupe, bought around 1963. He did the body in candy tangerine, with pearl white roof, matching interior in tuck and role, no skirts, using Olds Fiesta caps, with a Corvette Blue Flame six, duals, and Powerglide. He still has it, plus a complete parts hardtop. One of my early rides was a '49 Cadillac Coupe deVille in deep emerald green, near perfect, bought for $15. When I visited Ron, we'd set there and look at our cars. Both being era GM cars they were similar, I always thought it would be a cool idea to strip a 51-52 Bel Air of chrome and use a '49 Cad grille, bumpers and side trim, (with the tail lights worked like your car). Even car people who know cars would know there was something different about it and not know quite what. If you can find a '49 Cad with some good parts, you could have a stunning custom in green.
Presently on my property are the 56 DeSoto, my '63 Electra Limited convertible plus a spare, the '57 Plymouth Bevedere convert and sportscoupe, 64 Riviera, 65 Riviera, and 64-65 and 66 Imperials, including convertible, and last a 35 foot Sunchaser motor home.
Francors has energy, and that crazed look in the eyes some of my favorite dogs have had. good to see you working the old iron.
I just had to watch it again. I’m reminded of the old Charles Addams (of Addams family fame) cartoon: “The black thing with all the wires coming out of it needed fixing.”
I was 6 years old when this car was new. These things were around when I was in high school for 50-100 bucks in drivable condition. I remember one kid was going down the street with 3 kids in the back seat. they saw a wheel pass them up and were laughing their asses off till they realized it was their left front. The wheel bearing gave out. They rounded up the tire, wheel/drum and drove home with human ballast in the back seat. it was winter and lots of ice on the road.
Stella was important to your show.
Dean is also important to your show!
That guy always gets me to crack a smile.
These are the best videos ,turning these rusty yard decorations into daily drivers , which then become like characters on the show .
This is great! Hi Frankers!!!!!!!
My first car which I actually bought (not the hand-me down '61 slant 4cyl. Tempest that I immediately sold becaue I hated it ) was a 1951 chevy 3 speed 6 Cyl. business coupe. The Pontiac's $150 sale profit allowed me to spend the $10 bucks purchase price for the Chevy, $35 for 4 new brake shoes, $50 bucks for a year's car insurance, $12 bucks for registration $6 bucks for state inspection and $15 bucks for sheet metal and sheet metal screws I needed to patch up all the gaping holes in the floorboard and the trunk that allowed road dirt and water in while driving. It was the best investment as a kid I ever made. All I had to do was clean the spark plugs, adjust the mechanical rockers and change the oil and filter every 3 months. I bought other cars later on but didn't drive the Chevy to the Junk Yard (who paid me $10 for the running car) until just before I moved out of my mother's house to get married.
Great to see the old Chevy finally coming back to life. I feel the pain of working on ice cold cast iron in the snow. Yours is one of the few channels that I never have to hit the fast forward on.
roosty6 i
Great To Hear the AGENTS getting to have fun on the 1951 Chevy. Frankers will keep you in Line.Thanks and CHEERS EH!
This week on My Homemade Tools...
"If there's a nut that's spinning on the back I'm going to punch you"...
Coldwarmotors Deathmatch could be a cool little sub-series, maybe could run between My Classic Tyre episodes...
This vid reminded me SO MUCH of getting my '37 running that that someone had given up on 14 years before I got it. Except I wasn't lying in the snow- just dirt... awesome stuff, totally enjoying your vids:)
6 in a row won't blow! Split manifold maybe ( for the extra 5 HP ) ? Sweet car.
Frankers ! I eagerly await part 2 and hope the distributor visits the groovy light timing machine, and what episode is complete without a "my classick tire" segment? thanks guys. ☆☆
Oh man, that starter fight sure brings back bad Chevy flashbacks. Alllllllll that looked familiar, though I never thought of cutting out my own wrench. However, I have a pretty nice collection of cut off and modified wrenches for specialty use..
you are all a great bunch of guys working on old cars and are a great team.....can't wait to hear that ol chevy run
a Stella t-shirt would be very nice to have.
Schrodinger’s armature, love it!
Have you ever seen the fixture used by engine rebuilders to align the oil nozzles in the oil pan? It just makes one ponder as to why Chevrolet stuck with the Babbitt beaters for so many years. I can't wait until she's received the full "Tidy". Maybe some "Twice pipes"?
My message to Dean. 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not.
Love that car
I'm with Dean ... we all need a 2 beer minimum for watching standing shit
You guys need a Chevy half moon starter wrench. Can’t tell you how many of those starters I’ve taken out and installed.
The poor guy is not having a nap... he is laying in the snow... working his ass off... :D
Satisfying video... very satisfying video ;-) And all these clean parts in the end.
The "Schrodinger test" is priceless :D Don't kill the cat :D FFS
I really need you guys to reassure that I'm not the only crazy bastard still wrenching on rusty junks. Especially liked the one off custom wrench (very professional ).And glad to see that Frankers is over seeing things over there!!
Amazing to see auto choke on a car of that age. I always think of the auto choke nightmare to be an 80s thing in the UK. All the older cars I had before that had pull choke cables.
I love your will it run videos! What a great old Chevy! I can't wait for part 2!
great video thanks. hey I have a 1950 Chevy with a 216 was thinking about converting it to 12 volts would love to see a video on how to do this
Glad Frankers is keeping up the pace. Sweet dog.
Scott,
Working in the snow for free - you have some pretty good friends! I guess the only good thing I can say about working in the snow is that the beer will stay cold.
Many years ago I found an S-K 1/2" box end wrench that had been cut down to about 2 3/4 inches long. It was laying on the edge of a muddy puddle, alone and unloved. I remember picking it up and wondering, "What am I going to do with this?" Over the years, as turns out, it has saved me more times than I can count.
Regards, Tom
there ya go.. a chev yahhhhhhhhhhhhh.. sounds like dean will buy it
Back firing on all cylinders....:)
Love this, thanks from Ireland.
Lying in the snow with nothing but a shirt and t-shirt is some kind of toughness that I guess Canadians must be born with. It is 54 degrees in Dallas today and I am freezing my butt off. Nice car though. Look forward to seeing more of it.
I was thinking the same thing. As a Finn it all seems very familiar. Pretty much the same clothes year round. I remember changing the rear leaf spring on my truck in -10F at the harbor with a brutal sea wind, my buddy held up a piece of cardboard as a wind barrier and I told him that "now it feels quite warm". Lol. Now, 35 years later, I wouldn't even think of doing that...
I have a merc SL in my shop right now which hasn't run in 20 years. It's already involved a new tank ,fuel lines, clean up the pump ,remove the injection pump to get it overhauled, and remove the tar from the sump(mix of ancient petrol and oil ) .Working on Chevies was never this hard.. ha ha
cool photo on bench. 100 cars stacked up
Frankers was helping to trim the molding. NICE! You put her to work.
brilliant wrench hack! Good to hear the Dean of CWM commentary as well.
Glad your back, great old Chevy. Love them too. I had a 47 coupe. Nice pup there, Stella was special.
Dennis in Virginia, US
I restored one of these 1951's back in the 80's they are a really fun car once they are running and Frankers is doing a great job!
Came home from hos. in a 1950 Chevy club coupe, I'll be same age as yours net week. You guys always make me feel younger, thanks.
Good to see you back loving frankers help with the moulding must of tasted good
scott on my classic tire you said the tire had summer tread, kind of like summer teeth some are there and some arent!!!
Could not help but notice the thermostat was incorrectly installed when you removed the housing, good thing you took it apart
Hey Marv! Yeah, I wonder if it had anything to do with why the rad is out or why the car was parked? Who knows? Funny how simple stuff like that will park a car for good...Cheers!
You always make me laugh, another great video. I love the old stuff you can take apart and fix. That's all I have. This icon is my '62 bus.
Great to see you back in the game! Great work you guys do saving old iron
Mouse shit on the thermostat? Is nothing sacred? Agent 303 is a champ for doing the "ground" work on the starter! All my best to all of the agents of CWM, and of course, Francine. I hope she doesn't gnaw on anything too important!
Extra anger torque :-D :-D
woohoo! Will it run is back! I can't wait to see this baby crank over! All the mechanical seem to be in reasonably good shape if not a little bit crusty. I think Frankers needs a milk bone!
Agent 303 exposed as Dean J. Earl head of design for CWMCo.!
Hey cold war motors, just wanted to say that looks like a lot of fun to be playing around on that ol Chevy with good friends. Can't wait to see the first start in many years. I'm buying a 1973 ford F250 ranger thats equipped with a 390 v8 and 4 speed manual for $800. It's in very good shape. For being only 17, I wish I had a car collection like yours and let you know one of my favorite cars in your collection is probably the 1951 kaisers you have. I keep watching the rescue video over and over(and I never get tired of it) of you buying those 2 kaisers from being crushed. It brings happiness to my heart seeing someone else that cares for cars as much as me despite there conditions. I would love to see you do a will it run video(s) on the kaisers one day.
Take care,
Mike
If I specialty tool is needed, We just make one. True professionalism!
Reviving the engines in these 1940's and 1950's, long-since discarded and forgotten cars are my favorite CWM episodes. And the DIY stubby-wrench-on-the-fly is entirely cool.
I just realized that CWM's totally excellent inventory includes numerous MOPARs, a few Fords and Chevrolets, Kaisers/Frazers, Studebakers, Packards, Citroëns, a Hudson, and even the teal Mercury. But there never seem to be any vintage Oldsmobiles or Cadillacs. Is this a mere oversight, or are we officially boycotting those makes?
I can’t wait for the next video. I love watching you guys!