In case anyone was wondering, the opening scene is the building of the All American canal/aqueduct between Lake Havasu and Riverside, CA through American Dunes.
yeah...NO. this video lacks essential things. why don't we see any black people in the video ? not to mention that as a beautiful transgender lady i feel very misrepresented and left out. they should at least have a gay man in the video, a brave gay man, fighting the prejudice of the world. they could have had trans people in that trailer the car pulled, like in a parade or something. and again, why aren't there any black people in the video ? they should have mentioned that a black man helped with the cooler system or something.
Remember when auto makers were proud enough of their features to make videos demonstrating how they work and what they do to the people who would buy it? Wish we had that back
Well now the media and TV just thinks we are stupid and tells us what to do an and what is good or bad. I mean you could not expect people to think for them self saying them what to think is way more effektiv this is now true in all media, no matter if commercials, or even News left or right. Its not the peoples that are stupid it is the media manipulating the public in just accepting "universal truths" and this is whats causing or will cause massiv conflict and problems. Im happy to see that now that the media is slowly burning its reputation with those strange moves. Hopefully we get back to more tolerating society where people can think and say what they want. That does not mean that everything they say is correct or good but that is not the point, the point is that people will speak with each other and not just ignoring each other because they have and different political opinion, calling each other stupid, ignorant or what ever . The effect will be the end democracy if we don't stop think in good and evil for the media it is simpler to just tell us what is good it really saves them a lot of work because they can just stay at the surface about every topic. People need to wake up and see that we are ignoring the complexity of things, because no one cares about problems and facts feelings are important now and this will destroy our society in the long run.
@Robert whittle Add the Unions who stuffed the car industry as well, for they were the ones who kept forcing the auto makers to give workers more pay and conditions, including OH & S, until the auto makers couldn't take anymore, closed their factories and pissed off to China, India, wherever, to make cars al cheapo with slave labor and then ship the cars back to us and sold at the market value of our country. Clever, eh? That's why I don't buy American cars made overseas and shipped here. I want jobs here, cars made here and sold here to our population. If they want to export them to other country, so be it but they must be made here. Remember the Japanese cars? Were they made in Japan and exported here? Didn't Japan auto makers then decided to have factories in the US, AU, NZ, etc., to establish a direct manufacturing point and then selling their cars right here and export some in foreign countries, thus giving jobs for all of us? Now they not only have closed their factories and returned home, but export their vehicles directly back to us and we like real stooges buy them with money earned from local jobs. Not really that good isn't it? Now that the American cars are made overseas, thus their slaves work for peanuts and we buy them with the thousands that are hard to get because of limited employment. I am sorry guys if I say we are really stupid because we've lost 50% of American employment, skills and knowledge because of the jobs we no longer do, the skills we no longer learn. If you think working in a warehouse distributing Chinese good is a skillful employment, then you really need to have your brains checked because most of the workforce no longer do hard engineering work like these guys in the video, considering that 95% of products and material is Chinese made. So, it's enough to say we are in a mess and yet you still buy Chinese products? Sad.
@@mickcarson8504 we should be paying those damn U.S. union auto workers $.2,30 per hour. Chevy Cruze is now made in Lordstown, Ohio, a plant soon to be shut down. If we buy cars made in Mexico will we save money due to the poverty wages paid the Mexican workers? Maybe not. CNN business recently investigated a car lot in Lordstown, Ohio, 5 miles from the Cruze plant, and found 1 Chevy Cruze with the VIN tag reading "made in Mexico." That car was on the lot with a number of other Chevy Cruze models. The Mexican one cheaper? Nope. Same price. At first GM denied importing Chevy Cruze from Mexico to the U.S. then admitted they did import at least 8,400 Chevy Cruze from Mexico to the U.S. "How messed up is it that someone in Lordstown could be driving a Mexican-made Cruze?" says Robert Sheridan, another GM worker about to lose his job." Damn those GM workers for expecting to earn enough to have a decent life for their family!
The video is not claiming invention. It's showing off the tall waterjacketing around the cylinders and the high flow in the valve seats. Not saying it wasn't being done before, just claiming to have improved it immensely. That old truck which had all those men piled onto it.... most cars and trucks of that prior era were easier to overheat due to simpler and more comparatively rudimentary cooling passages within their blocks and heads. They'd boil over, causing you to have to pull over onto the side of the road to allow time to cool and top off with the water jug in the trunk. So much so to the point that optical sightglass caps or tubal level indicators were commonplace, and regularly checked. So Chevy was proud of their car pulling a load well above its expected duty without boiling over on them. Even if they overemphasized the feature to the point of gimmickry, it's still a feature of interest, and good info for owners and potential buyers to know, all while holding audience attention for advertising reasons.
It might look the same but the technology is actually a bit different. The entire system is pressurized and doesn't depend on evaporation like the valves do here. They also tended to lose fluid. A modern engine will hold its temperature within a few degrees across the entire engine across a range of conditions. Those old engines wouldn't last long before they had to be completely rebuilt. The result of advances in design is that a modern engine will run well over 100000 miles before it needs to be torn down.
Thats like the family guy skit where its a meeting in a mafia movie and the trumpet keeps getting louder and louder until you can't even hear what they're saying
Back then, you had to have a certain voice, because the microphones weren't the best quality. It's called the radio voice, look it up! It's pretty interesting
@@chrisar100 Absolutely you actually had to annunciate your words and speak clearly in the microphone it’s really hard to do if you have a southern accent like me but I can actually do it but yeah you’re right the microphones back then we’re not like they are today
Wonderful film on so many levels. Not just the technology, but the construction crew and their working and living conditions. The Jam Handy Corporation was so proficient at making these films. Thanks for uploading.
Seeing these old ads that were actually very informative makes me feel like people were much more knowledgeable and could easily grasp new information and/or teach that information to others.
Knew a guy once who bought a crate engine for his S10, swapped it but didn't bother to change out the exhaust manifold. New manifold didn't fit the existing exhaust so after he finished the swap he drove down to the local muffler shop to get it mated. Couldn't figure out why it ran so hot on the way, but got his new exhaust and drove back home. Didn't make it. He had forgot to put coolant/water in the radiator/system and fried that brand new crate engine like a piece of bacon. Heat Indicator sticker on the engine was pitch black and they didn't let him return it. Oooops! Guess coolant really is important, who knew?
@boostedsil40 Hard to say what the water temp actually was, if it was low enough on water and the sender isnt in contact with water, it will read a lower temp. but its lying, its hotter than fuck. Ive seen that happen quite a few times on generators. A hose lets go, dumps the coolant and runs until it really lets go and blows a headgasket, you hope.. Why didnt the high temp safety shutdown work ? It wasnt in contact with liquid. Avoid that by putting in a low water level sensor in the top tank of the rad.
My brother blew a jeep I6 by running it out of water. When I looked at it for him you could see green spray all under the hood. He said, sorry it's so dirty, I took it to the car wash the other day and cleaned it. I asked him if he knew what that was and he sad he wasn't sure what it was from. I absolutely couldn't believe him. He honestly didn't know it was radiator fluid.
10:14 It's 1936 and they're using a car to tow a double load up a hill in the middle of summer in a desert. A car. Look outside, it's 2019 and there are people in heavy duty trucks that they "need" for groceries and a bag of potting soil.
Yeah people underestimate the capabilities of his/her vehicle, and vehicles in 2019 have cheap, and underpowered engines. I mean sure, my friend's C5 that had 700hp (single turbo, stock bottom end), yet still has same gas milage as it was before, and can tow double stacked closed trailers full of equipment and racecars. And people said *"OH, YOU CAN'T TOW WITH YOUR CORVETTE"* , hence they spend 70 grand *ALONE* heavy duty truck.
@@paulette_hinai Vehicles in 2019 have cheap, underpowered engines. Uh no. Engines today are so much more powerful than even 30 years ago. A Honda civic today has double the HP of a V6 Chevy C10 pickup truck of 1990. The lowest powered 4 door vehicle you can purchase new today is a Mitsubishi Mirage at 76HP, 4HP less than the Chevrolet Master shown in this video. The Master has an inline 6 3.4L engine vs. the 3 cylinder 1.2L Mirage. That's less than half the displacement and it's not even an advanced engine. A 1.0L engine with advanced tech applied to it could have up to 138HP like that found in the Ford Fiesta Ecoboost.
These educational/commercial videos are really good. They make sure even an idiot can follow along. Which is good for me. Lol. This is kind of like the first infomercial.
I have learnt more from this channel about Automobile... I'm an Automotive Engineer in the making... 2years now, and from this channel I have understood way better
It’s incredible how many aspects of auto technology have stayed the same over the past 80 years since this was made. I guess if it works there’s no reason to replace it.
It has been subject to continual refinement. Pressurised cooling systems. Mixtures with higher boiling points. Air free circulation within the engine. Overflow bottles so coolant is not lost and doesn't usually need replenishment. Not to mention aluminium engines that transfer heat more rapidly. Electric fans that come on only when needed. Corrosion inhibitors. A great many improvements over the years.
I lesrn more from these basic presentations than a person teaching me how an engine works...if you ask my dad a question, This is how he does it. I love my pops!
I honestly learned more about how components work on cars with these old 1930s videos than I do with newer videos. I learned how ICE works, how a transmission works, how cooling works and now I can add to it with the modern features some vehicles have like electric water pumps, DFI and cylinder deactivation.
This add was timely for the day beaus their competitor had engine cooling system problems, the Ford V8 could not pull that same hill without overheating.
Chuck Allen yep i don’t know about you but I love the flatty but yeah it had a real Achilles heel with that over heating problem which as you may know was because of it badly placed exhaust ports
I love these old Chevrolet commercials. They couldn't fake this back then like they can now which shows you how tough vehicles really were back in the day.
I learned basic mechanics as a young teen from an old encyclopedia found at a garage sale. Printed in the '20s (the hundred years ago '20s I just now realized) the encyclopedia had extensive sections on every function of cars of that day. I was reading in the early '70s but the principles remain the same to this day. Other sections on airplanes, generators, basic electrical circuits, gears, and machine tools did a similar job of explaining fundamental mechanical devices in language an inquisitive child could absorb. It strikes me that many of these things were new or relatively new to many Americans at the time that encyclopedia was published and many adults of the day would want to know how to fix their car. Understanding fundamental design and function of any device is a prerequisite to meaningfully diagnosing and repairing a machine. To this day I have not seen an equivalent overall tutorial on how things work though I spent a career in engineering, reading all sorts of training materials. A hundred years ago people repaired things that broke. Today we have been trained to discard and replace anything that fails. Ultimately this is not sustainable behavior. One day the dumps will be full and the mines empty (figuratively speaking, of course). Rather than whine about "the state of the world today" I find myself encouraged by the countless assets on UA-cam that cover the fundamentals of the machines and electronics we use today. There are countless channels devoted to basic mechanical and craftsman skills and an equal number devoted to practical repair techniques. Channels like this one and especially the video above remind me of that early training I received, and while it sounds like a commercial the information it gives is valid. Posted here eight years ago it still gathers views and I all but guarantee some young people have watched it then made a point of checking their car's coolant level (Read the owner's manual for how to check. *Never* open a hot radiator cap.)
@@rawbacon I wish I could recall. I would go buy a copy if I could. It may have been something like "Our World," but that's just a guess and I may be confusing it With "World's Work" magazines I have seen from the same era.
@@Miata822 Maybe "World Book Encyclopedia"? They've been around since 1917, according to Wikipedia they were known for being strong in scientific, technical, and medical subjects. There's some old ones on Archive dot org..........I'm gonna dig thru some of them when I get the chance. Thanks Bill
@@canadagood Yes, for a base level repair technician. When the self-diagnostic software gets it wrong, or a component fails repeatedly, having a fundamental understanding is needed. Recently a technician failed to repair my refrigerator because the part "was not available." Understanding the fundamentals, I was able to find a functionally identical part from a different manufacturer. In business (designing machines) I have encountered too many young engineers who had little hands-on practical understanding of the systems they designed and how they might interact with the outside world. Building a weal kink into one part of a complex system can be the root cause of cascading failures elsewhere. From the mechanic who throws parts at a problem until it is fixed, to the engineer who chooses new components w/o understanding their implications to the overall machine, we see cost and time inefficiencies that could have been avoided with a little background knowledge.
"What have we? a Radiator! A big surface plus air circulation, thats what carries away the heat from the water" Even a child can understand this, what happened to those kinds of videos?
I would guess because nowadays any new advancement they market as a new highly advanced/complicated technology. They would have probably patented the radiator as green coolactive technology or some stupid shit like that.
They're harder to find parts for and require much more maintenance than modern cars. It's not "hard to maintain" per se, but it's definitely a never-ending chore.
Oh my... I grew up where that "9 mile hill" part was filmed. It certainly doesn't look like that anymore. I was pleasantly surprised to see that in an old time movie like this.
One thing Chevrolet did correctly and Ford did wrong, was placing the inlet of the water pump where the temperature is at its lowest, coming out of the bottom of the radiator. This is also the point of lowest pressure and the lower the pressure the lower the boiling point. On the Ford V8, until 1937, the water pump inlet was at the cylinder heads and the hottest point. Backwards.
No, on a flathead ford v8, the water goes in at the waterpump inlets at the bottom ( there are two waterpumps) and exits thru the head on both sides. They changed the head design over time, 32-48 had a center exit, where the 49-53 had water outlet at the front of the head. The drawback in keeping a flathead v8 cool was 1. The valve train is inside the block 2. The exhaust ports are routed thru the block, and- cylinders 2 and 3, 6 and 7, are siamesed, they share one exhaust port. With modern aluminum radiators, better designed waterpumps, and thermostatically controlled electric fans that move way more air, a flathead can be thermally controlled very well.
@@vladivosdog what don’t you understand? The fact that flatheads have two waterpumps, the valves being in the block- not the heads, or the internally routed exhaust ports in the block with the two center cylinders sharing one exhaust path on each side of the engine?
walkanshaw2000 shut the engine off and let it coast down the hill. Engine will run very cool. However, best to abandon vehicle before it reaches 90 mph
We all need to be thankful of the progress of engineering to make the gasoline V6 or V8 engines run cooler with now AIR CONDITIONING! Let's all be thankful!
did you watch the video.. they dont run cooler today.. they still like 180f give or take 15 degrees.. and air conditioning really isnt any burden on the engine realistically well under 10hp even if you have the biggest air conditioner they fit to vehicles we squeeze about twice if not 3 times the power out of the same size engine these days and make them about 40% lighter but you could fit a big AC pump to any old engine it wont overheat.. might be even slower then it already was but the cooling system can handle that load all day
@A Gough i was referring to the original comment, but i meant AC might in the worst scenario suck up 10HP, obviously cars then and now have alot more then that.. thats kinda my point that the power AC requires is negligible in the grand scheme of engine heat/cooling, all my modern vehicles are cast iron/steel blocks so i cant comment on if aluminum blocks like more temperature or not
there is STUFF to be learned, ALL OVER THE INTERNET. just Know/evaluate yer sources, and don't rely on Just one. try surfing wikipedia or britannica.com
My 216 is nearly 70 years and still runs like a champ. I use a 50/50 glykol wasser mix in her. 180 thermostat. She has dipper trays for splash oiling. Six volt self starter, 40 below or 110 no different.. has juice brakes too and a cabin heater. Once my distributor seized and lost time. To limp home I hand timed her and screw driver started the engine with starting motor. She started but seized again and pinned my fingers against that hot block. Ouch! The only time I had to tow her home. She usually does the towing.
How in the... Apparently we could engineer internal combustion engines. transmissions, axles, wheels, tires, cooling systems but ball hitches eluded our technical aptitude. That was the most demanding road at the time? Eisenhower needs to get off his butt and build us some interstate. Go around the rocky mountains? Screw that let's just cut straight through the middle of em.
You' are 20 years out, Eisenhower was an unknown Lt Colonel at the time, a West Pointer, but in no position to do much of anything like building roads.
The images are so clear. You can see the detail on everything clear to mountains far far in the background. Clear normal air atmosphere with low CO2. Forever gone. There it was in 1936. A relatively short time ago in the scheme of things.
The transmission could use a coolant system too in a situation like this. Also, hauling that load down the hill would be a good test of brake engineering and additional transmission overheating issues.
No transmission cooler for a 3-speed manual filled with 90-weight gear grease that only lubricates. Automatics need cooling because of the heat generated in the torque converter, where the fluid is more or less sheared between the turbine vanes. But you’re right about brakes. I wouldn’t want to be in front of anything 1930s going downhill. I remember the brake fade in the mountains in the 60s. They’d get so hot they just lost their friction. You’d see people with smoking brake linings almost out of control on downhill runs.
That’s because 95% of all vehicles back in them days were manual transmissions they don’t need a cooling system they did have automatics but they were very unreliable and I would not pull something with an automatic back of them days most everybody back then could drive a manual transmission you have to if you couldn’t drive a manual transmission you didn’t drive at all. I have a friend that lives in Germany and he’s my age she’s 34 and he’s never driven an automatic in his life he said there are automatics in Europe but most Europeans want a manual transmission because they’re more reliable. Those Americans are very lazy and spoiled most cars you see on the road today here in the United States are hot automatics me I actually drive a car that is a manual transmission for my daily driver also have a pick up truck that’s automatic but I use it to haul things and pull things with
This is the type of material that get me to trust and be loyal to a company. Pure and a perfect balance of bland and interesting. not tying to force drama or make me identify with or feel safe or like everyone else is doing it. Just good pure information.
My dad kicked the longest field goal for distance in American history at Jerome while playing against Jerome high school. The ball sailed about a half a mile over the cliff at the end of the field. The property there now is high dollar and filled with lefties from Cali.
I'm 77 now (2020) and recall Paul Robeson very well. He came to my HS, Bellevue Senior High, I think in 1960. He was in a wheelchair, but he still sang better than any of us could imagine!
It's impressive how modern engines aren't really that different from engines nearly 100 years ago. It's all pretty much the same exact concepts, just now some's ran electronically rather than mechanically.
Well i got a slant six ram and just retrofited a junk yard catalitic from a crashed F150 just for fun and guest what now is a green truck, it dont pollute any more.
I think it had more relevans back then, when they used mercury in thermometers, so such temperatures would make it explode. Nowadays we use died alcohol.
If the car ran at 180 under normal conditions it would certainly increase under extreme load. As long as it stayed under the boiling point it was doing it's job. I can't believe you could go up that hill under load and not have the temperature rise in the engine.
Yes you can. That's what the thermostat does. The thermostat actually adjusts by opening and closing itself by some amount all the time. That's how it regulates the water temperature even as the engine load and outside air temperature change. The cooling system has enough reserve cooling capacity to normally keep the engine well under 180 all the time. But the thermostat adjusts the amount of water circulating in the system. It stays partially closed to raise the temperature up to 180 and hold it there. Then if the engine load or outside air temperature increases the thermostat open more to let more water circulate to hold the temperature at 180. Then if the load goes down the thermostat closes a bit to still keep the temperature at 180.
The cooling system in this Chevy engine is so much better designed then the cooling system in the 1936 ford v8 that we just fully rebuilt. It’s hard to imagine that flat head engines were even ancient technology back then and ford held onto the design for another 17 years after this video was made
So, I have a 91 Burb, and it's overheating. Haven't figured it out yet but when I first got it, 4 miles down the road it was hot and lost ALL its coolant, I drove it then 10 more miles home and it was HOT, 240+ in the gauge. That SOB was knocking all the way home and sounded like it was diesel tractor swapped suddenly. Got it home, let it cool. 3 days later started it back up after replacing some parts and coolant, and it sounded just fricken fine. Still overheating though, next is the radiator, but I'm honestly blown away the fact the knock went away and I'm not milkshakin
@@martiniv8924 MartiniV8 Iwent to Chattanooga many times to get parts for it.. That sandy material had the bucket shined up. The OP on the video had a nice sail in the work he was doing.
Now this is really cool I love old school I'm still partly old school love this film can't call it video cuz it was filmed back in 1936 thank you man this is awesome best part of History automobile inline straight 6 cylinder
In case anyone was wondering, the opening scene is the building of the All American canal/aqueduct between Lake Havasu and Riverside, CA through American Dunes.
Thank You!
It must have cost like $65,000 to construct.
Thanks. I was wondering maybe part of hoover dam or something because the right era and obviously filmed in the southwest.
Nice video
Today they would build it with CGI.
Old timey ads were actually pretty good compared to the clickbait nonsense and marketing pretending to be journalism of today.
I guess that i depends on how you define a good ad.
I was going to say that myself.
If TV companies did ads the way they used to be (like this) then they'd get far more attention from the audience.
yeah...NO. this video lacks essential things. why don't we see any black people in the video ?
not to mention that as a beautiful transgender lady i feel very misrepresented and left out.
they should at least have a gay man in the video, a brave gay man, fighting the prejudice of the world.
they could have had trans people in that trailer the car pulled, like in a parade or something.
and again, why aren't there any black people in the video ? they should have mentioned that a black man helped with the cooler system or something.
@@itsMe_TheHerpes Yeah i know right. People these days just don't have any respect, smh.
The new chevy ads😂
Remember when auto makers were proud enough of their features to make videos demonstrating how they work and what they do to the people who would buy it?
Wish we had that back
And they played these 'adds' at movie theaters.
Well now the media and TV just thinks we are stupid and tells us what to do an and what is good or bad. I mean you could not expect people to think for them self saying them what to think is way more effektiv this is now true in all media, no matter if commercials, or even News left or right. Its not the peoples that are stupid it is the media manipulating the public in just accepting "universal truths" and this is whats causing or will cause massiv conflict and problems. Im happy to see that now that the media is slowly burning its reputation with those strange moves. Hopefully we get back to more tolerating society where people can think and say what they want. That does not mean that everything they say is correct or good but that is not the point, the point is that people will speak with each other and not just ignoring each other because they have and different political opinion, calling each other stupid, ignorant or what ever . The effect will be the end democracy if we don't stop think in good and evil for the media it is simpler to just tell us what is good it really saves them a lot of work because they can just stay at the surface about every topic. People need to wake up and see that we are ignoring the complexity of things, because no one cares about problems and facts feelings are important now and this will destroy our society in the long run.
We have the best car/truck in class cuz these guys jd power said so now buy our stuff
@Robert whittle
Add the Unions who stuffed the car industry as well, for they were the ones who kept forcing the auto makers to give workers more pay and conditions, including OH & S, until the auto makers couldn't take anymore, closed their factories and pissed off to China, India, wherever, to make cars al cheapo with slave labor and then ship the cars back to us and sold at the market value of our country. Clever, eh? That's why I don't buy American cars made overseas and shipped here. I want jobs here, cars made here and sold here to our population. If they want to export them to other country, so be it but they must be made here. Remember the Japanese cars? Were they made in Japan and exported here? Didn't Japan auto makers then decided to have factories in the US, AU, NZ, etc., to establish a direct manufacturing point and then selling their cars right here and export some in foreign countries, thus giving jobs for all of us? Now they not only have closed their factories and returned home, but export their vehicles directly back to us and we like real stooges buy them with money earned from local jobs. Not really that good isn't it? Now that the American cars are made overseas, thus their slaves work for peanuts and we buy them with the thousands that are hard to get because of limited employment. I am sorry guys if I say we are really stupid because we've lost 50% of American employment, skills and knowledge because of the jobs we no longer do, the skills we no longer learn. If you think working in a warehouse distributing Chinese good is a skillful employment, then you really need to have your brains checked because most of the workforce no longer do hard engineering work like these guys in the video, considering that 95% of products and material is Chinese made. So, it's enough to say we are in a mess and yet you still buy Chinese products? Sad.
@@mickcarson8504
we should be paying those damn U.S. union auto workers $.2,30 per hour. Chevy Cruze is now made in Lordstown, Ohio, a plant soon to be shut down.
If we buy cars made in Mexico will we save money due to the poverty wages paid the Mexican workers?
Maybe not. CNN business recently investigated a car lot in Lordstown, Ohio, 5 miles from the Cruze plant, and found 1 Chevy Cruze with the VIN tag reading "made in Mexico." That car was on the lot with a number of other Chevy Cruze models. The Mexican one cheaper? Nope. Same price.
At first GM denied importing Chevy Cruze from Mexico to the U.S. then admitted they did import at least 8,400 Chevy Cruze from Mexico to the U.S.
"How messed up is it that someone in Lordstown could be driving a Mexican-made Cruze?" says Robert Sheridan, another GM worker about to lose his job."
Damn those GM workers for expecting to earn enough to have a decent life for their family!
This is way better than the Adam Sandler remake.
Lmao
Water sucks, it really really sucks.
@@adamkendall997 Gatorade is better
@@JohnSmith-qn3ob Your plants crave gatorade!
@@Tom-in6fk No they don't. My plants crave Brawndo.
it's fascinating the same basic technology is used in our cars today. smart engineers back then.
The video is not claiming invention. It's showing off the tall waterjacketing around the cylinders and the high flow in the valve seats. Not saying it wasn't being done before, just claiming to have improved it immensely. That old truck which had all those men piled onto it.... most cars and trucks of that prior era were easier to overheat due to simpler and more comparatively rudimentary cooling passages within their blocks and heads. They'd boil over, causing you to have to pull over onto the side of the road to allow time to cool and top off with the water jug in the trunk. So much so to the point that optical sightglass caps or tubal level indicators were commonplace, and regularly checked.
So Chevy was proud of their car pulling a load well above its expected duty without boiling over on them. Even if they overemphasized the feature to the point of gimmickry, it's still a feature of interest, and good info for owners and potential buyers to know, all while holding audience attention for advertising reasons.
Yep. Now the are designing stuff to be broken soon so people can buy again. Sad.
Or stupid ones today.
It might look the same but the technology is actually a bit different. The entire system is pressurized and doesn't depend on evaporation like the valves do here. They also tended to lose fluid. A modern engine will hold its temperature within a few degrees across the entire engine across a range of conditions. Those old engines wouldn't last long before they had to be completely rebuilt. The result of advances in design is that a modern engine will run well over 100000 miles before it needs to be torn down.
Same basic dumbass UA-cam comments are still used today also
There is something really therapeutic about these old films. Relaxing is the word.
😅😅😅😅
@@Chriscarnes1619 😅??
Old time: anything big and exciting had a TRUMPET 🎺 played in the background.
Thats like the family guy skit where its a meeting in a mafia movie and the trumpet keeps getting louder and louder until you can't even hear what they're saying
How beautiful is the voice of the commentator، old industries, life, and people at that time.
Mid Atlantic accent.
Back then, you had to have a certain voice, because the microphones weren't the best quality. It's called the radio voice, look it up! It's pretty interesting
none of them had any idea of the war just a few years around the corner
@@chrisar100 Absolutely you actually had to annunciate your words and speak clearly in the microphone it’s really hard to do if you have a southern accent like me but I can actually do it but yeah you’re right the microphones back then we’re not like they are today
I love these old automobile films. Partially because I get to see classic old cars in mint condition.
Wonderful film on so many levels. Not just the technology, but the construction crew and their working and living conditions. The Jam Handy Corporation was so proficient at making these films. Thanks for uploading.
yea crazy to think working conditions were even worse than they are today. Thank god for anarchists and unions.
and the fact that they filmed and edited this
Seeing these old ads that were actually very informative makes me feel like people were much more knowledgeable and could easily grasp new information and/or teach that information to others.
I have been a mechanic 45 plus years and of course I know all this but I find it interesting and fun to watch.
Knew a guy once who bought a crate engine for his S10, swapped it but didn't bother to change out the exhaust manifold. New manifold didn't fit the existing exhaust so after he finished the swap he drove down to the local muffler shop to get it mated. Couldn't figure out why it ran so hot on the way, but got his new exhaust and drove back home. Didn't make it. He had forgot to put coolant/water in the radiator/system and fried that brand new crate engine like a piece of bacon. Heat Indicator sticker on the engine was pitch black and they didn't let him return it. Oooops! Guess coolant really is important, who knew?
...ouch
Well I betcha he never made that mistake again!
@boostedsil40
Hard to say what the water temp actually was, if it was low enough on water and the sender isnt in contact with water, it will read a lower temp. but its lying, its hotter than fuck.
Ive seen that happen quite a few times on generators.
A hose lets go, dumps the coolant and runs until it really lets go and blows a headgasket, you hope..
Why didnt the high temp safety shutdown work ?
It wasnt in contact with liquid.
Avoid that by putting in a low water level sensor in the top tank of the rad.
My brother blew a jeep I6 by running it out of water. When I looked at it for him you could see green spray all under the hood. He said, sorry it's so dirty, I took it to the car wash the other day and cleaned it. I asked him if he knew what that was and he sad he wasn't sure what it was from. I absolutely couldn't believe him. He honestly didn't know it was radiator fluid.
Stupid people have too much money
10:14 It's 1936 and they're using a car to tow a double load up a hill in the middle of summer in a desert. A car. Look outside, it's 2019 and there are people in heavy duty trucks that they "need" for groceries and a bag of potting soil.
Yeah people underestimate the capabilities of his/her vehicle, and vehicles in 2019 have cheap, and underpowered engines. I mean sure, my friend's C5 that had 700hp (single turbo, stock bottom end), yet still has same gas milage as it was before, and can tow double stacked closed trailers full of equipment and racecars. And people said *"OH, YOU CAN'T TOW WITH YOUR CORVETTE"* , hence they spend 70 grand *ALONE* heavy duty truck.
@@paulette_hinai Vehicles in 2019 have cheap, underpowered engines.
Uh no. Engines today are so much more powerful than even 30 years ago. A Honda civic today has double the HP of a V6 Chevy C10 pickup truck of 1990. The lowest powered 4 door vehicle you can purchase new today is a Mitsubishi Mirage at 76HP, 4HP less than the Chevrolet Master shown in this video. The Master has an inline 6 3.4L engine vs. the 3 cylinder 1.2L Mirage. That's less than half the displacement and it's not even an advanced engine. A 1.0L engine with advanced tech applied to it could have up to 138HP like that found in the Ford Fiesta Ecoboost.
Do you understand what displacement that cars engine has compared to a truck today lol.
@@joshlockie9285 Similar displacement really. 3.4L engine is the same size as the V6 tacoma or Toyota T100. Tacoma also came in 2.4L and 2.7L.
@WSD333 That's not necessarily true at all. Many reasons to use a trailer.
These educational/commercial videos are really good. They make sure even an idiot can follow along. Which is good for me. Lol. This is kind of like the first infomercial.
Better than the shit on tv today and im only 36....
I have learnt more from this channel about Automobile... I'm an Automotive Engineer in the making... 2years now, and from this channel I have understood way better
these old films are addictive. Thank you for the "fix"
It’s incredible how many aspects of auto technology have stayed the same over the past 80 years since this was made. I guess if it works there’s no reason to replace it.
Better check with the government on that one!
It has been subject to continual refinement. Pressurised cooling systems. Mixtures with higher boiling points. Air free circulation within the engine. Overflow bottles so coolant is not lost and doesn't usually need replenishment.
Not to mention aluminium engines that transfer heat more rapidly. Electric fans that come on only when needed. Corrosion inhibitors. A great many improvements over the years.
Electric cars have a completly different cooling system
I lesrn more from these basic presentations than a person teaching me how an engine works...if you ask my dad a question, This is how he does it. I love my pops!
Educational and simply show us what it's adverting at....
Man , I love all this old commercial videos.
That reminds me, I gotta check my coolant level
Amazing to know that ethylene glycol was used as far back as the 1920's for engine coolant for the most part is still used today, with some variation.
That heavy trailer was stocked with cold beer in case the car overheated
Don’t worry, we can have the extra once it makes it up the hill.
Drain the boiling water, fill it up with nice cold beer and you're set.
the animations are really great! all hand drawn too...
I honestly learned more about how components work on cars with these old 1930s videos than I do with newer videos. I learned how ICE works, how a transmission works, how cooling works and now I can add to it with the modern features some vehicles have like electric water pumps, DFI and cylinder deactivation.
This add was timely for the day beaus their competitor had engine cooling system problems, the Ford V8 could not pull that same hill without overheating.
Chuck Allen yep i don’t know about you but I love the flatty but yeah it had a real Achilles heel with that over heating problem which as you may know was because of it badly placed exhaust ports
Not to mention vapor lock.
I always loved the flat head, so easy to work on.
The inline 6 cylinder had a lot of torque . Most V8's had RPM's .
@@billsmith2212 your talking about a flathead bro. Not many rpms.
69th like
1936: Water Boy
2019:Water Boi
More like 2017
You mean Le Wet Boi
Watery boi
... nope, it is Soi Boi...
@Timothy Simpson it's chico de agua
Back in the day when nearly everything was made in the USA. Quality lasts. Outstanding and interesting film.
I love these old Chevrolet commercials. They couldn't fake this back then like they can now which shows you how tough vehicles really were back in the day.
I learned basic mechanics as a young teen from an old encyclopedia found at a garage sale. Printed in the '20s (the hundred years ago '20s I just now realized) the encyclopedia had extensive sections on every function of cars of that day. I was reading in the early '70s but the principles remain the same to this day. Other sections on airplanes, generators, basic electrical circuits, gears, and machine tools did a similar job of explaining fundamental mechanical devices in language an inquisitive child could absorb. It strikes me that many of these things were new or relatively new to many Americans at the time that encyclopedia was published and many adults of the day would want to know how to fix their car. Understanding fundamental design and function of any device is a prerequisite to meaningfully diagnosing and repairing a machine.
To this day I have not seen an equivalent overall tutorial on how things work though I spent a career in engineering, reading all sorts of training materials. A hundred years ago people repaired things that broke. Today we have been trained to discard and replace anything that fails. Ultimately this is not sustainable behavior. One day the dumps will be full and the mines empty (figuratively speaking, of course). Rather than whine about "the state of the world today" I find myself encouraged by the countless assets on UA-cam that cover the fundamentals of the machines and electronics we use today. There are countless channels devoted to basic mechanical and craftsman skills and an equal number devoted to practical repair techniques.
Channels like this one and especially the video above remind me of that early training I received, and while it sounds like a commercial the information it gives is valid. Posted here eight years ago it still gathers views and I all but guarantee some young people have watched it then made a point of checking their car's coolant level (Read the owner's manual for how to check. *Never* open a hot radiator cap.)
What year and brand was the encyclopedia?
@@rawbacon I wish I could recall. I would go buy a copy if I could. It may have been something like "Our World," but that's just a guess and I may be confusing it With "World's Work" magazines I have seen from the same era.
@@Miata822 Maybe "World Book Encyclopedia"? They've been around since 1917, according to Wikipedia they were known for being strong in scientific, technical, and medical subjects.
There's some old ones on Archive dot org..........I'm gonna dig thru some of them when I get the chance.
Thanks Bill
Nowadays you don't have to understand the underlying concept of how things work. You just have to know which part to remove and replace.
@@canadagood Yes, for a base level repair technician. When the self-diagnostic software gets it wrong, or a component fails repeatedly, having a fundamental understanding is needed. Recently a technician failed to repair my refrigerator because the part "was not available." Understanding the fundamentals, I was able to find a functionally identical part from a different manufacturer.
In business (designing machines) I have encountered too many young engineers who had little hands-on practical understanding of the systems they designed and how they might interact with the outside world. Building a weal kink into one part of a complex system can be the root cause of cascading failures elsewhere.
From the mechanic who throws parts at a problem until it is fixed, to the engineer who chooses new components w/o understanding their implications to the overall machine, we see cost and time inefficiencies that could have been avoided with a little background knowledge.
Better than the 1998 Adam Sandler Movie.
lol, nice
There's an aesthetic behind their explanations even to the simplest concepts.
Thanks to those old time engineers my trip up the road to Jerome last year was uneventful and enjoyable.
The fact that every single top comment on this channel is about how the old advertisements are better than the modern education system.
"What have we? a Radiator! A big surface plus air circulation, thats what carries away the heat from the water"
Even a child can understand this, what happened to those kinds of videos?
I would guess because nowadays any new advancement they market as a new highly advanced/complicated technology. They would have probably patented the radiator as green coolactive technology or some stupid shit like that.
Back breaking work on that pipeline! Very hard work.
@Hansel Franzen They would quit after the first day let's be honest
@KelMaster Construction I appreciate you sir and appreciate all hard working people too.
Absolutely people back then we’re not scared to work like they are today because they knew there was no welfare if they didn’t work they didn’t eat
Ah Chevrolet, before the damn doors and jd power
gokartbuyer and the “real people” ads
And Ralph Nader
Now, that's some high quality H2O!
787brx8
water sucks, gatoraide is better
The water sucks, it really really SUCKS!!!
Gatorade not only quenches your thirst better, it tastes better too.
I only drink Gatorade because it has electrolytes. Otherwise, water is better.
I would love to have that car today.
You can! For less than a new car, too!
Though they're hard to maintain
@@CLK944 Not at all! Easier than a modern car anyway...
They're harder to find parts for and require much more maintenance than modern cars. It's not "hard to maintain" per se, but it's definitely a never-ending chore.
Just buy lada
Oh my... I grew up where that "9 mile hill" part was filmed. It certainly doesn't look like that anymore. I was pleasantly surprised to see that in an old time movie like this.
I wish I could buy a new Chevrolet like that. No rattly plastic, no airbag, no electronics but a radio.
+1 radio
Dont lie bruh🤣
No airbag? Are you sure?
Your funeral.
They got pretty good examples for everything
Filmed in 1936, and yet in 2019, I'm learning shit from it.
Evidently you haven’t learned much with such a vocabulary… I bet your proud of it though..
I learned a lot of shit from these videos the engineers back men were true geniuses
@@alaskaaksala123”wah wah wah! times change! wah wah wah!”
When ads were literally just the seller showing you how the product works and then hoping you’d buy it.
One thing Chevrolet did correctly and Ford did wrong, was placing the inlet of the water pump where the temperature is at its lowest, coming out of the bottom of the radiator. This is also the point of lowest pressure and the lower the pressure the lower the boiling point. On the Ford V8, until 1937, the water pump inlet was at the cylinder heads and the hottest point. Backwards.
No, on a flathead ford v8, the water goes in at the waterpump inlets at the bottom ( there are two waterpumps) and exits thru the head on both sides. They changed the head design over time, 32-48 had a center exit, where the 49-53 had water outlet at the front of the head. The drawback in keeping a flathead v8 cool was
1. The valve train is inside the block
2. The exhaust ports are routed thru the block, and- cylinders 2 and 3, 6 and 7, are siamesed, they share one exhaust port. With modern aluminum radiators, better designed waterpumps, and thermostatically controlled electric fans that move way more air, a flathead can be thermally controlled very well.
Ford was still on the learning curve when it came to water pumps. A stock Model T didn't even have one.
As Mark K says, the ford flatheads had cooling problems and this film was probably subtly pointing that out.
@@markk3652what? 🗿
@@vladivosdog what don’t you understand? The fact that flatheads have two waterpumps, the valves being in the block- not the heads, or the internally routed exhaust ports in the block with the two center cylinders sharing one exhaust path on each side of the engine?
Why are car ads from '30s teaching me more about cars, mechanics and physics than anybody ever did?
I'd be more worried pulling that old wagon back down the hill than going up.
Chevrolet was boasting about drum brakes just a year earlier!
walkanshaw2000
shut the engine off and let it coast down the hill. Engine will run very cool. However, best to abandon vehicle before it reaches 90 mph
@@pp-tx3bt; at that speed I hope you have an ejection seat and a reliable parachute. Simply stepping out at 90mph would be hazardous to ones health.
@@oldgysgt Just tuck and roll. Don't let your shoes fly off and you'll be good.
@@johnogara3029 drive an old car and they might as welll not have them
Lovely old film. Things were so different then..
"Its 212 degrees.. just enough to boil water" totally confused me, then I remembered he is talking Farenheit not celcius!
Sam Baker imperial>metric
absolutely no
somerandomdude23764 i +1 that
absolutely AND imperically yes.
I Assume you missed the part where he said that 70 Degrees is perfect room temperature for people. Minutes before.
Excellent demonstration. Many many thanks.
We all need to be thankful of the progress of engineering to make the gasoline V6 or V8 engines run cooler with now AIR CONDITIONING! Let's all be thankful!
The 300 Ford was a tank.
did you watch the video.. they dont run cooler today.. they still like 180f give or take 15 degrees.. and air conditioning really isnt any burden on the engine realistically well under 10hp even if you have the biggest air conditioner they fit to vehicles
we squeeze about twice if not 3 times the power out of the same size engine these days and make them about 40% lighter but you could fit a big AC pump to any old engine it wont overheat.. might be even slower then it already was but the cooling system can handle that load all day
@A Gough i was referring to the original comment, but i meant AC might in the worst scenario suck up 10HP, obviously cars then and now have alot more then that.. thats kinda my point that the power AC requires is negligible in the grand scheme of engine heat/cooling, all my modern vehicles are cast iron/steel blocks so i cant comment on if aluminum blocks like more temperature or not
It teaches me better than my 10 years of school. Nice one!
Wow, 3 main bearings on that inline 6. Must have been easy to rebuild.....
Man, I seached for fun since we have all of these "movies" at my school and they're right here. And in much better quality.
Shit you actually can learn stuff. These old videos are amazing.
there is STUFF to be learned, ALL OVER THE INTERNET. just Know/evaluate yer sources, and don't rely on Just one. try surfing wikipedia or britannica.com
I recognize the road and several of the landmarks all the way up to Jerome. Very cool.
These Jam Handy pictures are very informative, really swell!
My 216 is nearly 70 years and still runs like a champ. I use a 50/50 glykol wasser mix in her. 180 thermostat.
She has dipper trays for splash oiling.
Six volt self starter, 40 below or 110 no different.. has juice brakes too and a cabin heater.
Once my distributor seized and lost time. To limp home I hand timed her and screw driver started the engine with starting motor. She started but seized again and pinned my fingers against that hot block.
Ouch!
The only time I had to tow her home. She usually does the towing.
"Now that’s what I call high-quality H2O."
Gatorade not only quenches your thirst better, it tastes better too.
@@adamkendall997 heresy
@@adamkendall997 I only drink Gatorade because it has electrolytes. Otherwise, water is better.
How in the... Apparently we could engineer internal combustion engines. transmissions, axles, wheels, tires, cooling systems but ball hitches eluded our technical aptitude. That was the most demanding road at the time? Eisenhower needs to get off his butt and build us some interstate. Go around the rocky mountains? Screw that let's just cut straight through the middle of em.
Demanding road because it's a 9 mile grade in a 110* environment pulling a double load yeah I'd say that's demanding
You' are 20 years out, Eisenhower was an unknown Lt Colonel at the time, a West Pointer, but in no position to do much of anything like building roads.
I think the rope was a poor fail-safe
When you used to watch T.V. because of the ads
The images are so clear. You can see the detail on everything clear to mountains far far in the background. Clear normal air atmosphere with low CO2. Forever gone. There it was in 1936. A relatively short time ago in the scheme of things.
🤣
Amazing how nowadays you can't tell the diffrence beetwen tampon and car ad...
These old videos are great!
The transmission could use a coolant system too in a situation like this. Also, hauling that load down the hill would be a good test of brake engineering and additional transmission overheating issues.
No transmission cooler for a 3-speed manual filled with 90-weight gear grease that only lubricates. Automatics need cooling because of the heat generated in the torque converter, where the fluid is more or less sheared between the turbine vanes. But you’re right about brakes. I wouldn’t want to be in front of anything 1930s going downhill. I remember the brake fade in the mountains in the 60s. They’d get so hot they just lost their friction. You’d see people with smoking brake linings almost out of control on downhill runs.
That’s because 95% of all vehicles back in them days were manual transmissions they don’t need a cooling system they did have automatics but they were very unreliable and I would not pull something with an automatic back of them days most everybody back then could drive a manual transmission you have to if you couldn’t drive a manual transmission you didn’t drive at all. I have a friend that lives in Germany and he’s my age she’s 34 and he’s never driven an automatic in his life he said there are automatics in Europe but most Europeans want a manual transmission because they’re more reliable. Those Americans are very lazy and spoiled most cars you see on the road today here in the United States are hot automatics me I actually drive a car that is a manual transmission for my daily driver also have a pick up truck that’s automatic but I use it to haul things and pull things with
2021 and I'm still enjoying these videos
This is the type of material that get me to trust and be loyal to a company. Pure and a perfect balance of bland and interesting. not tying to force drama or make me identify with or feel safe or like everyone else is doing it. Just good pure information.
My dad kicked the longest field goal for distance in American history at Jerome while playing against Jerome high school. The ball sailed about a half a mile over the cliff at the end of the field. The property there now is high dollar and filled with lefties from Cali.
Actually a really good film. thanks.
Great video!!
back in an era where things were actually made to do their job and then more, not break under any stress and be disposed of
Even humans are not exempt from this trend, Galvatron.
Chevrolet literally introduced self-destroying engines a decade earlier, what the fuck are you talking about?
More & more magistrale explication, All thanks for these brains
A quite catching arrangement of Paul Robeson's "Water Boy" in the first 3 minutes or so.
I'm 77 now (2020) and recall Paul Robeson very well. He came to my HS, Bellevue Senior High, I think in 1960. He was in a wheelchair, but he still sang better than any of us could imagine!
This ad not only SOLD but educated people as well. Times are changed...
1936, like to time travel to that era...
Very impressive to sed how complicated most of our daily used things are
It's impressive how modern engines aren't really that different from engines nearly 100 years ago.
It's all pretty much the same exact concepts, just now some's ran electronically rather than mechanically.
Straight 6. Still a simple, elegant design...current smog and MPG requirements not withstanding..
Well i got a slant six ram and just retrofited a junk yard catalitic from a crashed F150 just for fun and guest what now is a green truck, it dont pollute any more.
Cooling those old 40's 50's 60's cars could be tricky. I remember many of them getting too hot and boiling over.
"Hot enough to Boil Mercury"
I think that type of measurement would be frowned upon today
I think it had more relevans back then, when they used mercury in thermometers, so such temperatures would make it explode. Nowadays we use died alcohol.
i think you are a ninny for saying this.
'boiling point' is a science-based metaphor.
@@daviddavids2884 It's a fucking joke.
@@Misha-dr9rh itza a fkkng coherent reply to yer fkkng stoopid comment. pinhead
David Davids is your spacebar broken? Why are you typing like this?
Thanks 🙏
I have been drinking my coffee wrong all throughout the years!
I watched my granddad saucer his coffee many years ago. Mom didn't appreciate it when I tried it at home with my hot chocolate.
She'll be coming round the mountain
With that music during the nine mile hill climb, I almost expected to see Sergeant Preston come riding by!
The bit where it said "212 degrees, just hot enough to boil water" had me pause for a second.
I just feel so motivated, blessed and proud. This is because I chose engineering, love you all time engineers
If the car ran at 180 under normal conditions it would certainly increase under extreme load. As long as it stayed under the boiling point it was doing it's job. I can't believe you could go up that hill under load and not have the temperature rise in the engine.
Yes you can. That's what the thermostat does. The thermostat actually adjusts by opening and closing itself by some amount all the time. That's how it regulates the water temperature even as the engine load and outside air temperature change. The cooling system has enough reserve cooling capacity to normally keep the engine well under 180 all the time. But the thermostat adjusts the amount of water circulating in the system. It stays partially closed to raise the temperature up to 180 and hold it there. Then if the engine load or outside air temperature increases the thermostat open more to let more water circulate to hold the temperature at 180. Then if the load goes down the thermostat closes a bit to still keep the temperature at 180.
Along time ago, the owner's manual told you how to adjust the valves. Now it warns you not to drink what is in the battery.
Sad to think that almost everyone in this video is probably dead.
I love this stuff!
1936 water boy
2018 water 🅱️OI 👌🤣
Black turbine more like 2018: did you just assume the water carrier’s gender?
@@m577r time for to comet deathpacito
The cooling system in this Chevy engine is so much better designed then the cooling system in the 1936 ford v8 that we just fully rebuilt. It’s hard to imagine that flat head engines were even ancient technology back then and ford held onto the design for another 17 years after this video was made
A better film than anything Amy Schumer has ever made
Well, everything is better than Amy Schumer
So, I have a 91 Burb, and it's overheating. Haven't figured it out yet but when I first got it, 4 miles down the road it was hot and lost ALL its coolant, I drove it then 10 more miles home and it was HOT, 240+ in the gauge. That SOB was knocking all the way home and sounded like it was diesel tractor swapped suddenly. Got it home, let it cool. 3 days later started it back up after replacing some parts and coolant, and it sounded just fricken fine. Still overheating though, next is the radiator, but I'm honestly blown away the fact the knock went away and I'm not milkshakin
Worth watching for the Walking Dragline Action 👌🏻😎
Yes we had an old Koring manual controls.. In the summer it would kick your but.
John Childress we had NCK’s (Newton Chambers Koehring) in the Uk built under licence from koehring , mighty strong machines 👍🏻
@@martiniv8924 MartiniV8 Iwent to Chattanooga many times to get parts for it.. That sandy material had the bucket shined up. The OP on the video had a nice sail in the work he was doing.
Mention swail or cur,trench
When they really wish people should understand this kind of magic happens
This would be good for convicts to work if they want to get fed.
It's clean, it's cold, now that's what I call high-quality H2O - the Water Boy
Now this is really cool I love old school I'm still partly old school love this film can't call it video cuz it was filmed back in 1936 thank you man this is awesome best part of History automobile inline straight 6 cylinder
Man look how rough that crank shaft looks compared to modern..
Do you know how magical it would be to be able to go back and live in that time?