LESSON LEARNT: You can’t strip an engine in a farmyard!!
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Today I realise the farmyard is not the ideal place to strip down the Subaru engine.
I face an issue caused by the lack of equipment, and ask for YOUR help to track down someone!
If your going to work outside get a Workmate folding workbench. Will save your back when your older been there done that.
Working in the dirt. We've all been there at your age. I'll be doing something similar at Santa Pod this long, 6 night in a tent weekend.
One day you'll own your own workshop, then business. Great view.
Its hard outside of your normal environment Issac. I did it in 1989, Bedford TK 220 D with horse box, next door neighbours daughter had a show horse, bought the truck with a bad engine. So, I said yes in the stable yard! Head off, sump off, gearbox out and me and her brother lifted it onto a car Jack (1/2 ton) on a piece of hard board on top of horse s’’’t. Rebored and crank ground after full strip at the garage i was working at (Scania main dealers). Luckily I spent 10 years working on Bedfords at the main dealers so knew the short cuts. Refitting was a nightmare. we live and learn. Stay at it and stay well.
Deep clean a corner of your workshop Isaac and put a clean bench in there too. Or maybe put a small shed in there and keep it super clean. An engine stand would be a great investment too mate. Small steps mate!! 👍
stripped my 1st kent crossflow kerb side in the street ,but that was back in early 90,s and diy was fashonable ,and before karen neighbors were invented ,we just had curtain twitchers, simpler days !
and found out siezed studs or bolts when the engine is free to move around is asking for a sliced or crushed hand so the trick was to take as much appart as possible before removing the block from the car
My first engine strip down was on the dirt floor in a open lean to while it was snowing !! Happy times cheers from Canada !
I cleaned my first engine parts in my mums kitchen sink she was not happy as you can probably well imagine
Changing a clutch on an FD victor in November when it is raining is plenty of fun. Well it was in the mid 70's.
Keep up the good work Issac, Love the view.
First engine removal i did was from an Austin Mini Van in the late 60’s and it started snowing heavily when I had to work underneath the car in the alley at the back of my parents place; couldn’t afford an engine hoist so I dropped the whole thing out on the subframe, while I lifted the body with a makeshift A-frame! I’ve had a bad back ever since!
Bin the sunglasses 👍
See if theres any second hand work beches close by, having a good set up to work from home makes life so much easier, we've all done stuff like this when young and soon realise essential stuff to buy or make for an easier life. Be good to see you come on with your own engines. Well done
Brilliant video Issac . .
In my younger days, early 1980's, very poor with a young family. I had a collection of 1100 and 1300 ford engines, and a Ford Mk2 Escort with a tired engine. I stripped all of these in my back garden, washed in petrol all the parts and selected all the better 1300 components, including main and big end shells. The only difference between the 2 sizes is crank and rods, just different throw and length, blocks are identical. The only new component was an oil pump, which I swapped for all the remaining parts at an engine recycler. The best bitza engine ran like a dream for the rest of the time I had it, no rattles or oil burn.
Yep the best way to learn was a Kent crossflow ford's better days
great to see you progress mate, keep up the great work and vids 🙂
Keep up the good work. It is never easy but if you keep working hard, great things will happen!
Yep, been there, done that. Stripped my first A series in the car park. Learn from our mistakes .
tool tip , torque bar extension = the top removable tube from a trolley jack saved me so many times
Isaac you are doing stuff we all did,starting out bangers I had spent Saturdays working on them to keep going for the week😂
3 Pallets in a H shape and a few planks on top makes a good stable workbench Issac.
Yes you can, been there done that multiple times!
Hello Isaac,
Just a comment for the algorithm...
Lovely part of the world..
Did all the old benches from work go to the scrap??
Still, working off a pallet will make you appreciate more working on a good bench with lighting, electric and air...
From central France,
Cordialement..
Go on mate!
Duncan takes a while to get back to you but he will. He does a Q&A on youtube on a wednesday on his channel, so you can ask him stuff on there. As I say he will reply to your messages but he's a busy chap.
Hello lsaac, iWatch both of the channels and I'm a big fan of the work you and Lee do I would try this place they are very knowledgeable limitless performance
From the states A+ video Isaac keep it going I'm telling all my boys to support your Channel. Love you and Lee. Keep it up boys
When you’re young you think you are indestructible, in my teens and 20’s took engines out with a rope round my neck, gearboxes out lying underneath the car on axle stands. Now in my 70’s sitting watching you with a constant pain in my lower back. Also my last job involved lifting heavy machinery on to a bench .Boss was too tight to buy an engine lift .
Can't you use the facilities at work? Surely there's a corner you could work from in your lunch breaks or after hours. good video. I'm currently restoring a 96 V2 JDM Impreza so will be following.
Did that working in the dirt thing when I was a mechanic for a banger driver. can't beat being under a car on a gravel pit area between races, when you're trying to get a car out for the next race/heat
Looking at the clean area on pistons = piston slap due to being run on low octane fuel and the Teflon will be gone of the piston skirts etc (pistons expand to much on low octane ) can hear it straight away on start up.
Hey mate nothing wrong with stripping your engine outside in the dirt only needs to be clean when going back together, you're right it's a lovely view and you don't need to hide behind those sunglasses
No shame in having to work in the driveway. Hopefully, you get a hold of Duncan. I'll stand behind my previous recommendation of larger injectors. You've got more volume in the cylinders, but having a professional opinion is wise.
I am no engineer or mechanic but follow you and Lee, ref your vdo production ditch the sunglasses talk straight to camera and make some mistakes, watching you I'm the workshop the other day when you kept looking down at your crib sheet was a bit painful today was better, I can imagine it ain't easy stick with it. 👍
Learning as I go, you’re completely right about the crib sheet, was exactly what I was doing 😂 3 videos in and I’m already feeling a lot more confident, I’m sure soon I’ll be much more confident in myself. All a bit alien to me at the minute!
Thanks for your support I do really appreciate it!
Best off going on live stream buddy ..hes a very very busy man
I've done a lot of work on the floor, it's not ideal but things get done. When you are reassembling that you need to worry about dirt and stuff.
Tip for removing that bolt, sacrifice a socket, weld it to the bolt should come off ok
Good stuff mate, keep it up.
Love the hammer
I've been stripping and rebuilding engines and other stuff in farmyards for 50 odd years, it's a bit of a challenge but can be done successfully. It is probably fare to say race quality engines should not be done this way though.
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Doing well - from the Land of Oz.
Duncan most weeks on a wednesday evening does a live stream Q&A on youtube www.youtube.com/@racedynamix
That is not a hammer for stripping engines that hammer is for nails
Next time pick the Evo and the 4G63 and profit.....sorry...just had to, mate :)
no sunglasses mate ... people need to see how you feel ... and should have bought a Celica GT4 ST205
It is that British sunshine. So much glare 🙂