Have a mechanic check those belts. You are talking all new accessories. The belts look like they were tightened too much. If it is too tight, the bearings will burn out. I am very surprised it uses separate belts and not a serpentine belt.
Also, clean up the old cap and rotor and put them back in. I would not trust the replacements unless they are OEM. Now-a-days, I would not trust any non-OEM part.
@@Jeanluc162 No power tools ever. Used to remove you risk damaging the plug and possibly getting ceramic in the cylinder. On the way in, cross thread, or over torqued.
I have a tool chest I inherited from my great grandfather (he had the same name as me) about a third of the tools as figured by my Dad, Brother and me are single use.... He was a tool maker for the Qld railways back in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
An old school mechanic gave me some advice... Any time you play with timing, once it's back together, turn the engine over BY HAND with a wrench or socket at least a couple of times. Why? If you screwed something up, the engine will jam up, stopping you from turning by hand. If you feel it binding up, STOP, reverse the wrench slightly, and investigate. At this point, you probably haven't damaged anything. Valve stems are so small and fine, and will bend easily. Turning over an engine with the starter can and probably will break things. Turning over by hand is much less likely to hurt things.
Wouldn't that be accomplished by the rotating it backwards two times that the manual told him to do? I am no expert in cars but that seems like it would be all you need
@@the_undead I honestly don't know if rotating it backwards would matter. In either case, make sure the crank has done two full rotations, that way you know the cam has gone one full rotation. (The crankshaft always turns twice for one turn of the cam.) But I'm paranoid, so I turn it several more times just to make myself feel good and clever. Caution pays dividends here. If you get it wrong, it could be a very expensive oops.
Such things happen way too often and frighten me. I've been individually subscribed to AVGN & Nostalgia Critic, Techmoan & LGR, Aging Wheels & Technology Connections etc. and they all did crossovers at some point. Or when I finally realized BigClive was the cameo face in many of Stuart Ashen's videos... UA-cam is an awfully small place!
@@theproducertm Its a beautiful thing when it happens tho. With all the car channels I love to watch its crossovers all over! Aging wheels and Tavarish, Tavaresh and Hoovies Garage (Totally not because they work together for a certain website ;D ) and ofc now this nice surprise of a crossover into a more tech related channel that just does really good vids I can highly recommend.
@@tome8373 We start with Aging Wheels. There's others that he worked with too. Doug DeMuro drove his Trabant *AND* his Yugo (before it was hotrodded). Tavarish has also driven some of his cars. Then we have Technology Connections, which needs no comment. Techmoan shares interests with Technology Connections, so get him on. If you have Techmoan you gotta bring in LGR as they worked together. I suppose that you *could* possibly bring in 8-bit Guy as well. Also bring in Billy Coore/TNM since they worked with LGR. He also used to be called Roadgeek so its even better. BigClive likes electronics and games as well so bring him in too. Cinemassacre/James Rolfe/AVGN is also into games and movies, so get them on. James Rolfe *did* actually make a video about a car once, so that totally makes it relevant. Infinity War is a little pipsqueek that has not a single drop of feces on this monster. How would that even happen? How would a video that has both Doug DeMuro and James Rolfe in it even go? What would it even be about? Oh, and if you want to push it over the top and make it one of the greatest youtube videos of all time, get Jay Leno in it, as he worked with Doug DeMuro before.
Top tip: If you need to rotate the engine by hand because of some reasons (like the belt change in this case), you can ease your work if you take out the spark plugs first. That way, you won't need to work against the compression of the engine.
@@jfv65 Oh indeed, he was cranking it at the camshaft, literally doing twice the torque he would need per revolution. Given it was related to the camshaft belt tension, wonder if it actually had a reason to do it on THAT place in specific? I mean you turn the engine one way or another, but the forces applied are way different.
"I'm not a body man. I'm more into personalities." Hilarious. Love these little offbeat cars you show and work on. This one is kind of cute. Too bad it's not yours.
“I am not going to fix this rust, as I am not a body man” as he has been completely rebuilding and repurposing a school bus, doing WAY more body work than I’d ever want to do and I’m ok at body work. Had to throw in a little jab there, but I love your videos, this in my opinion, is the most entertaining car channel on UA-cam, with your humor and editing. 👍
Advice : don't use power tools on sparkplugs or any bolt that goes into aluminium. You can easily crosshead it. Awesome video, informative, I enjoyed it a lot.
I remember my dad once had to do an engine rebuild because the timing belt broke on him. Not only did he bend some of the valves, he even cracked one of the pistons! Since then he replaced the timing and alternator belts on all the cars he bought used (oils included too of course).
@@paspax Yeah, he learned that the hard way. Never again did he trust what the seller told him, he just replaced everything as soon as he got the car home.
That happened to me once! Snapped the exhaust valve head off and stuffed it sideways into the hole! New head, but I ground the piston crown kinda smooth, and the engine did another 20,000 miles without a problem! :-)
All of which could be avoided if car manufacturers would quit building time bombs into their engines and use proper chain, or better yet, gear, driven valvetrains.
@@XH1927 Time bombs as in valve/piston interference is needed to optimize exhaust and efficiency On belts: they're cheap, light and silent. Belt tension has a wide tolerance, and is high enough to prevent slapping. (compared to chain solutions) Chains can be more reliable, but add extra weight and lubrication issues (oil sealed cover). The chain tension equipment needs precision and dampening to prevent chain-slap when going from acceleration to deceleration. This limits the range of acceleration in the engine Gear driven overhead camshaft solutions are expensive and need solutions to minimize the introduced faults due to clearances between the gears. They're heavy, need lubrication and most often noise is an issue.
I'm not a mechanic. To be honest, I don't even like cars. I just happened upon this channel when youtube took me down the crazy rabbit hole of the autoplay functionality. But I have subscribed because you have an amazing personality and your humor is straight on point. You manage to make something I would personally consider boring (car repair) into something really entertaining. Good job!
Next time you have to install a bolt outside of finger reach, put a paper towel between the socket and the bolt, push the bolt into the socket with the towel between it, and rip off the extra towel around it. The towel will jam the bolt it the socket, preventing it from pushing deeper into the socket or falling out. Love the videos!
7:53 - well since you're going to replace the sparkplugs anyway, remove them before trying to turn the engine over backwards using the camshaft - it would make it much easier.
This video just randomly appeared in my recomendations, decided to watch it. Looks VERY good. Was surprised to see the guy from Technology Connections. He's one of my favourite content makers.
When doing a timing belt swap you should look for markings at the krankshaft and camshaft gears. Your way does work but if the previous belt was one tooth off the new one is too. One tooth of is not catastrophic but the performance suffers.
Would a car from the '90s be likely to have such markings. Because that seems like the kind of thing where in a hindsight we realize that this would probably be a good idea, only after it has caused problems
@@the_undead yes, I can't think of a engine that doesn't have the timing marks on the crankshaft. Newer engines that use VVT will have marks on the cam gears as well.
Dude - you're a treasure. Not sure if you do it all yourself (like I tend to) but your total product quality and story telling are strong and very entertaining!! Bravo
"I bet you've never seen someone turn a socket on a wood lathe before ..." [14:47] absolute GOLD! I grew up in an era where the average vehicle owner COULD work on their own cars and trucks, if they had the (mostly) right tools, a space in which to crawl underneath, an appropriate Haynes manual, an inordinate amount of belief in their own automotive mechanical abilities, and perhaps a bit of a death wish as you never really new if and or when your maintenance / repair / upgrade would error out and cause oil smoke to come billowing out of your hood vents while you are screaming down the highway on a test run, causing your passenger seat occupant to cry out in his very best WW2 British accent "We've been hit!" So, I really and truly appreciate your videos.
8:10 - If you ever have to turn a crank by hand again taking the spark plugs out helps a ton. They were on your list of stuff to get to so it would've been a double victory!
Thank you for a video which was both very entertaining, and a strong reminder of why I'm glad I'm no longer a professional mechanic. Love the crossover, you guys should absolutely do more of them. I mean, I don't know for what. Maybe have Robert bring over a broken toaster or something?
Totes adorbs and always a smile-generation machine. (That is a splendid descriptor for both of your channels, so the two of you together is just making my day. Just don't get the COVID!)
drove a 99 audi a4 for years, living in constant fear of the timing belt breaking and destroying my engine, but I never knew why... until this video. Thank you.
"I didn't break it, yay!" That's the same way I felt when I was working on a much larger car that I didn't care for, so when I said that, it was in a sarcastic manner. 😐 But I'm glad to see that you were successful, lol!
Nice to see you fixing up the old import there. The grille clips are a pretty standard Nissan part and virtually any other Nissan will have a version of them fitted so no need to get Figaro ones 👍
Tip for keeping bolts held in sockets but so they come out later: use a piece of electrical tape sticky side towards the socket. Bolt will stay in the socket while you feed it in place, socket will come off the bolt when you want it to and the tape will stay with the socket.
You say you're a mechanic with "no qualifications," but you demonstrated the most important qualification of all for a good mechanic: You can't recommend that anyone else use your highly unorthodox, inappropriate solutions which just so happened to work! ^ _ ^
Yes, I know it's been before, but, it's uncanny how much these guys look like brothers! And I'm subscribed to both of their channels; have been for some time.
Aging Wheels: "I'm not going to perform four oil changes. That would be silly." Also Aging Wheels: "I'm going to change the spark plug leads, despite there not being anything wrong with them because I have the parts and I'm wasteful." Nobody (probably): "Make up your mind!"
Though not specifically articulated, just as with the timing belt, changing spark plug wires because you have them and the old ones are of unknown age is sound preventative maintenance.
Mate, I have to say your video has helped me big time, as my girlfriend has literally JUST bought herself a Figaro in UK, and I am determined to keep her in a good shape and mechanically sound 😁
The first time I watched this was about half a year after seeing the Technology Connections episode about LED traffic lights in the cold. (It left the impression that Alex (Alec?) is a monomaniac wrt traffic lights.) I first clicked on this video because there is at least one Figaro in my town, and I wanted to know what it is. (Also, Sarah Jane Parker in a Doctor Who spinoff drove one.) Anyway, I since became a fan of both channels, but I did not put the two of you together until just now, rewatching. Understand, both of your channels make me happy. It makes me even happier to know you guys are buds.
1) Get home from work, 2) Have a shower, 3) See if Robert has put up any new content. YES! You had me at "I'm not a body man." Narrowing the ratchet sprocket to fit the spark plug mount area was definitely the "money scene" (to borrow a movie-making term) for me. Still watching. Still spreading the word around New England. Thanks again!
Look, I love your channel, and I love Technology Connection's channel, I love them both for very different reasons. I just really appreciate you doing this for him, in the sense that friends help each other. Thank you.
Hi Robert, I am still enjoying all of your channels, and it was nice to see the Tite Reach once again; I bought one because of you, and I made a two buddies buy one too. They are also a great asset in wrenching on motorcycles.
The socket on the lathe was hysterical. I was going to say that I hope you sent the socket back with the car, but I guess the new spark plug size obviates that. I'm glad you didn't have to do the valve cover gasket. Your shop is looking good! I hope you're doing great.
I don't know what's with the Japanese and making their spark plugs so hard to access. I'll never forget my dad undoing months of anger management by spending ages trying to replace the spark plugs in his Honda haha!
We had a 1972 Chevy Chevelle with the big v8. Dealer always did the tuneups. One day my father decided to do it and had a b*tch of a time getting #8 plug out due to access. When he did it was obvious that the dealer had *never* changed it.
Not just the Japanese... I have a Mercedes (with the engine that Scotty Kilmer said was a moneypit), there are 16 spark plugs, to remove the coil leads you need a cranked spanner with a very specific offset, you really need to then remove the 8 coil packs using long torx bits (standard sized 1/4" ones don't reach far enough inside) and then 4 of the spark plugs require a universal joint to remove. I also had a Vauxhall/Opel (was a UK/German GM subsidiary) that required the removal of the inlet manifold to change the spark plugs on the rear bank (transverse V6 engine).
donkmeister Also Citroen/Peugeot V6 requires removing of inlet manifold. Luckily they thought about that and it is 5min job with 7 bolts and few hoses with quick connect things.
I had a 1989 Ford Aerostar about 10 years ago and changing the right rearmost plug involved a recommended procedure...of jacking the right front up and taking the tire off. It worked.
Quick tip. While the belt is still on the engine cut the belt in half remove the front half, attach new belt on as far as it will go and then remove remaining old blt and push new belt home.hope this makes sense
In the good old days, the old spark plug sockets were dedicated and most often had some kind of rubber grommet inside there to grip the plug on the way out. I've used sponge rubber on the inside of generic sockets to imitate that feature, so that when the socket is finished loosening the spark plug, the plug comes out along with the socket. You used a pair of tongs to get the loose plug out, so, if you ever find a bit of old rubber or a sponge around, you can cut a grommet from that to insert into the socket beforehand and perhaps save yourself a step, removing your next spark plug. If you make it the right size, the grommet will grab the plug instead of the plug grabbing the grommet. Thanks for the content. Keep up the good work. בס״ד
12:42 lol, Good idea to skip that. Anytime you go to tackle rust, it's going to be five times more work than you initially thought, sometimes ten. It took me a year once, multiple panel replacements, and in the beginning I thought, "Oh it should only take a few months and a little work with the sander." My Bug came out nice in the end though.
6 hours if you stop for cones every half hour. Oh no.. You need to set the crank to TDC before removing the covers. Then locate (highlight them with whiteout if necessary) the timing marks on the crank & cam cogs/gears/pulleys. Locate the timing marks on the crankcase/head/wherever. turn the crank until the marks on the pulleys align with the marks on the crankcase etc. The marks you make yourself CAN NOT be relied on. Remove the timing belt. Replace any other things needed (water pump, idler pulleys, tensioner whatever). Check that the crank and cam pulleys marks align with their corresponding marks on the crankcase/head/wherever. Refit new timing belt. Tension accordingly. Turn crankshaft through two full turns and align the crank pulley with it's timing marks. Look at the cam pulley and check that it aligns with IT'S timing marks. If it does you're OK. Carry on reassembly. If the cam pulley timing marks do NOT align you've messed up. Remove timing belt and try again. You need thin wall plug sockets. Or you could do .... that. A metric micrometer (for measuring brake rotors) shouldn't cost more than $35. If you're going to be doing a lot of this sort of stuff you'll need two. One 0-25mm. one 25-50mm. Don't get a vernier caliper, that's not the correct tool. Don't get an electronic/digital unit.. they're flimsy and crap.
You probably know this trick but my local garage cuts the timing belt in half along its length pulls half off fits the new one alongside the half the old one before cutting the old one off, says it's quicker and removes the risk of timing misalignment but always does a hand crack first to "feel" the engine is ok, love to see you collaborate with technology connections you chanals are some of my favourite
!!! Long time fan of TechConnect and more recent fan of... funny old car stuff... and wow you sure have a similar vibe :) Im so happy to have found your channel. I love this little cute car. I know its not mine or anything but still, thank you for giving it some love and elbow grease!
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Haha, OF COURSE Technology Connections man has a Figaro.
And the sense to send it to the car guy with the same basic tone to his channel.
He is way smaller than I had assumed from his videos.
But it's not brown
@@seanc.5310 I don't think they came in brown
excuse me his name is Technology Connections
"Maybe I'm just slowly making things worse." That's about the midpoint of every project I've ever done.
One thing i've learned thru time:
If the damn thing ain't broken broken, don't make it your problem.
Fucking hell, tell me about it. So many nightmares...
its the worst when redoing an appartment
If by "slowly making things worse" you mean "disassembling things", then it makes perfect sense to feel that way at the midpoint of a repair project.
@@shawnhtpc2271 Wow, you must be so perfect!
The sense of relief at 10:50 was _very much_ shared!
Thanks again very much for tackling this for me!
Upload more content together, ya nerds. Love you both.
Are you and robert related by any chance? You have the same humor and character
Have a mechanic check those belts. You are talking all new accessories. The belts look like they were tightened too much. If it is too tight, the bearings will burn out. I am very surprised it uses separate belts and not a serpentine belt.
Also, clean up the old cap and rotor and put them back in. I would not trust the replacements unless they are OEM. Now-a-days, I would not trust any non-OEM part.
You're adorable at 0:12
As a professional mechanic who really loves this channel AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH HAND START SPARK PLUGS!!!
@@yt45204 I think to avoid cross threading spark plugs you are supposed to do the first couple of turns carefully by hand.
Yes aluminum heads + fine steel threads on the plugs can equal buggered up heads. Run them in by hand please
@@Jeanluc162
No power tools ever. Used to remove you risk damaging the plug and possibly getting ceramic in the cylinder. On the way in, cross thread, or over torqued.
I always use an old spark plug lead to start them, esp as most engines in the past few decades have twin-cam heads...
*THIS*
If someone told me that you two were brothers, I would believe it
they are brothers trust me the DNA test proved it
Aging wheels: the maker of tools with only 1 purpose
I have a drawer in my toolchest full of single use tools. modified sockets, wrenches, flywheel locks, cam sprocket pullers...
You've clearly never fixed a vehicle made by Volkswagen before (looks at toolbox filled with crude reproductions of various VW "Special Tool XXXX")
Making your own single purpose tools is an essential skill for any serious mechanic.
But he doesn't _buy_ the single purpose tools. He jury rigs them together like the automotive Alton Brown that he is.
I have a tool chest I inherited from my great grandfather (he had the same name as me) about a third of the tools as figured by my Dad, Brother and me are single use.... He was a tool maker for the Qld railways back in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
An old school mechanic gave me some advice... Any time you play with timing, once it's back together, turn the engine over BY HAND with a wrench or socket at least a couple of times. Why? If you screwed something up, the engine will jam up, stopping you from turning by hand. If you feel it binding up, STOP, reverse the wrench slightly, and investigate. At this point, you probably haven't damaged anything.
Valve stems are so small and fine, and will bend easily. Turning over an engine with the starter can and probably will break things. Turning over by hand is much less likely to hurt things.
Yeah but that would take effort that’s not the aging wheels way
.. agreed, if stick, leaving it in gear also helps lock up most everything.
Wouldn't that be accomplished by the rotating it backwards two times that the manual told him to do?
I am no expert in cars but that seems like it would be all you need
@@the_undead I honestly don't know if rotating it backwards would matter. In either case, make sure the crank has done two full rotations, that way you know the cam has gone one full rotation. (The crankshaft always turns twice for one turn of the cam.) But I'm paranoid, so I turn it several more times just to make myself feel good and clever.
Caution pays dividends here. If you get it wrong, it could be a very expensive oops.
Alec looks very different without the blazer
Yes, I was very confused lol
I know, he looks fifteen
@@Tibyon I had to check the date of this video because I thought it must be from several years ago.
Heh, came here to say just that.
Very small especially.
This is the most ambitious crossover I've ever seen, it's beautiful...
Such things happen way too often and frighten me. I've been individually subscribed to AVGN & Nostalgia Critic, Techmoan & LGR, Aging Wheels & Technology Connections etc. and they all did crossovers at some point. Or when I finally realized BigClive was the cameo face in many of Stuart Ashen's videos... UA-cam is an awfully small place!
@@theproducertm Its a beautiful thing when it happens tho. With all the car channels I love to watch its crossovers all over! Aging wheels and Tavarish, Tavaresh and Hoovies Garage (Totally not because they work together for a certain website ;D ) and ofc now this nice surprise of a crossover into a more tech related channel that just does really good vids I can highly recommend.
@@Splayn I'm not saying it ain't. :D
BIG FACTS
@@tome8373 We start with Aging Wheels.
There's others that he worked with too. Doug DeMuro drove his Trabant *AND* his Yugo (before it was hotrodded). Tavarish has also driven some of his cars.
Then we have Technology Connections, which needs no comment.
Techmoan shares interests with Technology Connections, so get him on.
If you have Techmoan you gotta bring in LGR as they worked together.
I suppose that you *could* possibly bring in 8-bit Guy as well.
Also bring in Billy Coore/TNM since they worked with LGR. He also used to be called Roadgeek so its even better.
BigClive likes electronics and games as well so bring him in too.
Cinemassacre/James Rolfe/AVGN is also into games and movies, so get them on.
James Rolfe *did* actually make a video about a car once, so that totally makes it relevant.
Infinity War is a little pipsqueek that has not a single drop of feces on this monster.
How would that even happen?
How would a video that has both Doug DeMuro and James Rolfe in it even go?
What would it even be about?
Oh, and if you want to push it over the top and make it one of the greatest youtube videos of all time, get Jay Leno in it, as he worked with Doug DeMuro before.
If Alec stole Robert's Trabant, he could host a knock-off Jeopardy
Underrated comment
You theft
Stole my name
Rip Alex Trebek
Top tip: If you need to rotate the engine by hand because of some reasons (like the belt change in this case), you can ease your work if you take out the spark plugs first. That way, you won't need to work against the compression of the engine.
I was thinking he was missing something to make it dead easy.
Actually, you just airgun the crankshaft pulley bolt in, then you can just turn that with a big breaker bar.
all these clips were shot on different days and as seen it wasnt a small feat to remove those spark plugs..
And cranking at the crank takes half the effort because of the smaller crank gear.
@@jfv65 Oh indeed, he was cranking it at the camshaft, literally doing twice the torque he would need per revolution.
Given it was related to the camshaft belt tension, wonder if it actually had a reason to do it on THAT place in specific? I mean you turn the engine one way or another, but the forces applied are way different.
Alec without his usual jacket/blazer for some reason makes me uncomfortable lmao
Yeah, it felt a bit wrong, didn't it?
They look even similarer now with the unkempt hair.
He looks so... *un-wide.*
same here
So THAT was bugging me. Thank you. It just felt off
Try combining angle grinder with the wood lathe next time you need to drop socket weight. Faster and easier, more productive.
A pig in a cage, on antibiotics.
The rossmann
AvE levels of sketchy
dremel with a grinding stone might be a bit easier to handle
@@anonymous7397 That's not the point.
"I'm not a body man. I'm more into personalities." Hilarious. Love these little offbeat cars you show and work on. This one is kind of cute. Too bad it's not yours.
I'm surprised Alec didn't give you the 'awooga' horn to install in his car
I was secretly hoping for that.
Exactly. Didn't he explain how those work on a previous episode?
I did want him to install a klaxon :|
@@bulbman256 Is it a blue whale?
I prefer the 'la cucaracha' horn, myself.
oh my god the "okay bayyyeee" right at the end was amazing
“I am not going to fix this rust, as I am not a body man” as he has been completely rebuilding and repurposing a school bus, doing WAY more body work than I’d ever want to do and I’m ok at body work. Had to throw in a little jab there, but I love your videos, this in my opinion, is the most entertaining car channel on UA-cam, with your humor and editing. 👍
16:24 I was a little scared, when the engine started turning over as you screwed in the spark plug 😊
Same!
(I think he did it on purpose, just to troll us...)
No klaxon? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
That would have been hilarious.
Awoog.
Reviewbrah
John bigbootey would you turn that klaxon off!
That's f*cking loud!
Looks like both Aging Wheels and TC uploaded their new vids at the same time.
YAY!
I noticed this as well, was it perhaps... intentional?
Advice : don't use power tools on sparkplugs or any bolt that goes into aluminium. You can easily crosshead it. Awesome video, informative, I enjoyed it a lot.
Alec looks so much smaller without the blazer/not sitting in front of his set without any real size reference
"I've got an issue! I need to lose some weight"
LOL that made my day
This guy is a production budget and a few writers away from being the next "Top Geat". Good stuff.
I remember my dad once had to do an engine rebuild because the timing belt broke on him. Not only did he bend some of the valves, he even cracked one of the pistons! Since then he replaced the timing and alternator belts on all the cars he bought used (oils included too of course).
Timing belts.. If you don't know when it was replaced, it's time it got replaced.
@@paspax Yeah, he learned that the hard way. Never again did he trust what the seller told him, he just replaced everything as soon as he got the car home.
That happened to me once! Snapped the exhaust valve head off and stuffed it sideways into the hole!
New head, but I ground the piston crown kinda smooth, and the engine did another 20,000 miles without a problem! :-)
All of which could be avoided if car manufacturers would quit building time bombs into their engines and use proper chain, or better yet, gear, driven valvetrains.
@@XH1927 Time bombs as in valve/piston interference is needed to optimize exhaust and efficiency
On belts: they're cheap, light and silent. Belt tension has a wide tolerance, and is high enough to prevent slapping. (compared to chain solutions)
Chains can be more reliable, but add extra weight and lubrication issues (oil sealed cover). The chain tension equipment needs precision and dampening to prevent chain-slap when going from acceleration to deceleration. This limits the range of acceleration in the engine
Gear driven overhead camshaft solutions are expensive and need solutions to minimize the introduced faults due to clearances between the gears. They're heavy, need lubrication and most often noise is an issue.
Love that new intro! And you hired an assistant!
So many great changes happening at Aging Wheels. 👴🚗
Your editing is the best. Your assistant lifting the car is the most creative I have ever seen.
I thought that no car you ever showed me could replace my love for the trabant, but this figaro is fascinating
Nice name. The Trabant is still my favorite though
Wow, this is the most unexpected crossover I’ve ever watched but I enjoyed all 23 minutes of it. Great videos as always, keep up the great work!!
I'm not a mechanic. To be honest, I don't even like cars.
I just happened upon this channel when youtube took me down the crazy rabbit hole of the autoplay functionality.
But I have subscribed because you have an amazing personality and your humor is straight on point. You manage to make something I would personally consider boring (car repair) into something really entertaining. Good job!
Next time you have to install a bolt outside of finger reach, put a paper towel between the socket and the bolt, push the bolt into the socket with the towel between it, and rip off the extra towel around it. The towel will jam the bolt it the socket, preventing it from pushing deeper into the socket or falling out. Love the videos!
7:53 - well since you're going to replace the sparkplugs anyway, remove them before trying to turn the engine over backwards using the camshaft - it would make it much easier.
This video just randomly appeared in my recomendations, decided to watch it.
Looks VERY good.
Was surprised to see the guy from Technology Connections. He's one of my favourite content makers.
When doing a timing belt swap you should look for markings at the krankshaft and camshaft gears. Your way does work but if the previous belt was one tooth off the new one is too. One tooth of is not catastrophic but the performance suffers.
Would a car from the '90s be likely to have such markings. Because that seems like the kind of thing where in a hindsight we realize that this would probably be a good idea, only after it has caused problems
@@the_undead yes, I can't think of a engine that doesn't have the timing marks on the crankshaft. Newer engines that use VVT will have marks on the cam gears as well.
@@the_undead engines from the sixties and seventies have those marks on them
@@evisin77 and I didn't ask about the 60's or 70's. You would be surprised how much quality of life stuff like that comes and goes with time
@@the_undead a little snide I would say butI was just telling you it's something that's been around forever and it will never go anywhere
Strong "don't talk to me or my Techonology Connections son again" vibes during the final test drive.
Dude - you're a treasure. Not sure if you do it all yourself (like I tend to) but your total product quality and story telling are strong and very entertaining!! Bravo
"no smoking Trabaunt burnout intro" aw, that makes me sad.
Trabaunt
@@uiopuiop3472 East German aunt
tanks
"I bet you've never seen someone turn a socket on a wood lathe before ..." [14:47] absolute GOLD! I grew up in an era where the average vehicle owner COULD work on their own cars and trucks, if they had the (mostly) right tools, a space in which to crawl underneath, an appropriate Haynes manual, an inordinate amount of belief in their own automotive mechanical abilities, and perhaps a bit of a death wish as you never really new if and or when your maintenance / repair / upgrade would error out and cause oil smoke to come billowing out of your hood vents while you are screaming down the highway on a test run, causing your passenger seat occupant to cry out in his very best WW2 British accent "We've been hit!" So, I really and truly appreciate your videos.
8:10 - If you ever have to turn a crank by hand again taking the spark plugs out helps a ton. They were on your list of stuff to get to so it would've been a double victory!
Technology connections in aging wheels? now thats a video!
"There's nothing wrong at all so i'm gonna replace them" Haha
Thank you for a video which was both very entertaining, and a strong reminder of why I'm glad I'm no longer a professional mechanic. Love the crossover, you guys should absolutely do more of them. I mean, I don't know for what. Maybe have Robert bring over a broken toaster or something?
22:00 I love the way you edit these videos. Never change.
Totes adorbs and always a smile-generation machine. (That is a splendid descriptor for both of your channels, so the two of you together is just making my day. Just don't get the COVID!)
I almost cant recognize him with out is "character" style, that deserves a video by it self!
I know this video is a few years old at this point but you’ve easily become my favorite car channel on UA-cam.
I loved all of this. If my mechanic were half as charming and funny as you, I'd probably find more reasons to let him do the work I don't wanna do!
You two guys could almost be family...
And the chap from Technology Connections too.
Nice job! ThanksRob.
Your shop is starting to look so professional. So cool to have watch this channel grow!
drove a 99 audi a4 for years, living in constant fear of the timing belt breaking and destroying my engine, but I never knew why... until this video. Thank you.
"I didn't break it, yay!"
That's the same way I felt when I was working on a much larger car that I didn't care for, so when I said that, it was in a sarcastic manner. 😐
But I'm glad to see that you were successful, lol!
I LOVE it when youtubers collab, especially when I'm already subscribed to both of 'em. Nice!
Nice to see you fixing up the old import there.
The grille clips are a pretty standard Nissan part and virtually any other Nissan will have a version of them fitted so no need to get Figaro ones 👍
A mechanic with the same kind of dry humor as TC and an official unofficial Prudence the Safety Goat? How am I not subscribed to this channel already?
Tip for keeping bolts held in sockets but so they come out later: use a piece of electrical tape sticky side towards the socket. Bolt will stay in the socket while you feed it in place, socket will come off the bolt when you want it to and the tape will stay with the socket.
You say you're a mechanic with "no qualifications," but you demonstrated the most important qualification of all for a good mechanic: You can't recommend that anyone else use your highly unorthodox, inappropriate solutions which just so happened to work! ^ _ ^
Good lord, a video from Aging Wheels. It's been a while, I thought the epidemic got you.
Yes, I know it's been before, but, it's uncanny how much these guys look like brothers! And I'm subscribed to both of their channels; have been for some time.
Aging Wheels: "I'm not going to perform four oil changes. That would be silly."
Also Aging Wheels: "I'm going to change the spark plug leads, despite there not being anything wrong with them because I have the parts and I'm wasteful."
Nobody (probably): "Make up your mind!"
Though not specifically articulated, just as with the timing belt, changing spark plug wires because you have them and the old ones are of unknown age is sound preventative maintenance.
Mate, I have to say your video has helped me big time, as my girlfriend has literally JUST bought herself a Figaro in UK, and I am determined to keep her in a good shape and mechanically sound 😁
Yay, your twin brother helped you out. Loved it ❤️👍
The first time I watched this was about half a year after seeing the Technology Connections episode about LED traffic lights in the cold. (It left the impression that Alex (Alec?) is a monomaniac wrt traffic lights.) I first clicked on this video because there is at least one Figaro in my town, and I wanted to know what it is. (Also, Sarah Jane Parker in a Doctor Who spinoff drove one.)
Anyway, I since became a fan of both channels, but I did not put the two of you together until just now, rewatching. Understand, both of your channels make me happy. It makes me even happier to know you guys are buds.
"The car was running just fine-
so I replaced it"
1) Get home from work, 2) Have a shower, 3) See if Robert has put up any new content. YES! You had me at "I'm not a body man." Narrowing the ratchet sprocket to fit the spark plug mount area was definitely the "money scene" (to borrow a movie-making term) for me. Still watching. Still spreading the word around New England. Thanks again!
Aside from “here’s your check for a million dollars,” few phrases are as nice to read as “(Feat. Technology Connections)”
Look, I love your channel, and I love Technology Connection's channel, I love them both for very different reasons. I just really appreciate you doing this for him, in the sense that friends help each other. Thank you.
That's a really cute car with a really cute engine lol
This is a cute comment btw
Get a room
Hi Robert, I am still enjoying all of your channels, and it was nice to see the Tite Reach once again; I bought one because of you, and I made a two buddies buy one too. They are also a great asset in wrenching on motorcycles.
Did Alex do any electrical work on your house in trade?
Two of my favorite UA-camrs in one video! Y’all would make a great team. Of what, I don’t know, but it would rock!
You remind me of ThisOldTony in a very, very good way. Thanks for bringing cheer to the work!
Except ToT has a metal lathe and knows how to properly use it.
I bet ToT and Abom79 would cringe if they saw his "lathe technique" :)
@@JohnDoe-bd5sz It did the fucking job, didn't it?
@@PJBonoVox Does not change that there is a right way and a wrong way to do stuff.
@@JohnDoe-bd5sz He was in a pinch, he did what he had to do. Nothing more.
Love the refs in the video to AvE too, the "click" with a torque wrench and prudence the safety goat in the background.
Hnnngh *click*
Alec without his suit makes me feel a little confused
I am convinced now that all Midwesterners have the same sense of humor. LOVE you both (AW and TC). Keep this great (much needed) humor going!
I've seen 3 Figaros in my town, Newton Mearns: Scotland
The only one I have seen was "Sarah Jane Smith's"
I've seen zero in my metro area of two million people in the USA. I want one.
The socket on the lathe was hysterical. I was going to say that I hope you sent the socket back with the car, but I guess the new spark plug size obviates that.
I'm glad you didn't have to do the valve cover gasket.
Your shop is looking good! I hope you're doing great.
7:55 You could've removed the spark plugs from the engine before turning it to relieve cylinder pressure. Much easier to turn.
Not to mention changing the horns before putting the grill back on!
This coordination makes me extremely happy. You two are my favotite youtube channels
I love this channel. Just don’t use an impact on plugs please lol freaks me out!
“everyone needs a good hug, even cars” i could not agree with you more, sir.
I don't know what's with the Japanese and making their spark plugs so hard to access.
I'll never forget my dad undoing months of anger management by spending ages trying to replace the spark plugs in his Honda haha!
We had a 1972 Chevy Chevelle with the big v8. Dealer always did the tuneups. One day my father decided to do it and had a b*tch of a time getting #8 plug out due to access. When he did it was obvious that the dealer had *never* changed it.
Good thing he didn't try a Sunbeam Tiger.
Not just the Japanese... I have a Mercedes (with the engine that Scotty Kilmer said was a moneypit), there are 16 spark plugs, to remove the coil leads you need a cranked spanner with a very specific offset, you really need to then remove the 8 coil packs using long torx bits (standard sized 1/4" ones don't reach far enough inside) and then 4 of the spark plugs require a universal joint to remove.
I also had a Vauxhall/Opel (was a UK/German GM subsidiary) that required the removal of the inlet manifold to change the spark plugs on the rear bank (transverse V6 engine).
donkmeister Also Citroen/Peugeot V6 requires removing of inlet manifold. Luckily they thought about that and it is 5min job with 7 bolts and few hoses with quick connect things.
I had a 1989 Ford Aerostar about 10 years ago and changing the right rearmost plug involved a recommended procedure...of jacking the right front up and taking the tire off. It worked.
Not sure why, not a particularly big fan of tiny cars, but am loving your channel. Subscribed.
When you fix something and it works out: 10:56
0:12 - Reminds me of Mrs. Doubtfire. Great video, fun to watch as are all Aging Wheels videos.
Quick tip. While the belt is still on the engine cut the belt in half remove the front half, attach new belt on as far as it will go and then remove remaining old blt and push new belt home.hope this makes sense
two of my fav information/comedy youtubers. you guys rock!
How long before he cross threads a bolt, starting it with a power tool? 💀💀💀💀
Soon!
First bolt. But that got edited out in post.
Him doing that with the spark plugs made me cringe.
In the good old days, the old spark plug sockets were dedicated and most often had some kind of rubber grommet inside there to grip the plug on the way out. I've used sponge rubber on the inside of generic sockets to imitate that feature, so that when the socket is finished loosening the spark plug, the plug comes out along with the socket. You used a pair of tongs to get the loose plug out, so, if you ever find a bit of old rubber or a sponge around, you can cut a grommet from that to insert into the socket beforehand and perhaps save yourself a step, removing your next spark plug. If you make it the right size, the grommet will grab the plug instead of the plug grabbing the grommet.
Thanks for the content.
Keep up the good work.
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Your use of power tools on EVERYTHING gives me anxiety lol
12:42 lol, Good idea to skip that. Anytime you go to tackle rust, it's going to be five times more work than you initially thought, sometimes ten. It took me a year once, multiple panel replacements, and in the beginning I thought, "Oh it should only take a few months and a little work with the sander." My Bug came out nice in the end though.
I thought you and your assistants were dead
his assistants were dead he just made new clones to replace them cause that's what you do when your shoddy clones die make new ones
as always very entertaining , You make laugh. being a mechanic for the last 40 + years I really enjoy the humor. keep up the good work.
I was literally watching Technology Connections latest video right before I started watching this :)
can we just appreciate the filming work gone into this
6 hours if you stop for cones every half hour.
Oh no.. You need to set the crank to TDC before removing the covers. Then locate (highlight them with whiteout if necessary) the timing marks on the crank & cam cogs/gears/pulleys. Locate the timing marks on the crankcase/head/wherever. turn the crank until the marks on the pulleys align with the marks on the crankcase etc. The marks you make yourself CAN NOT be relied on.
Remove the timing belt. Replace any other things needed (water pump, idler pulleys, tensioner whatever).
Check that the crank and cam pulleys marks align with their corresponding marks on the crankcase/head/wherever.
Refit new timing belt. Tension accordingly. Turn crankshaft through two full turns and align the crank pulley with it's timing marks.
Look at the cam pulley and check that it aligns with IT'S timing marks.
If it does you're OK. Carry on reassembly.
If the cam pulley timing marks do NOT align you've messed up. Remove timing belt and try again.
You need thin wall plug sockets. Or you could do .... that.
A metric micrometer (for measuring brake rotors) shouldn't cost more than $35. If you're going to be doing a lot of this sort of stuff you'll need two. One 0-25mm. one 25-50mm. Don't get a vernier caliper, that's not the correct tool. Don't get an electronic/digital unit.. they're flimsy and crap.
Seems like a lot of effort when you can just make two white marks.
Thank you.
@@cjeam9199 ..
"you can just make two white marks."
Or... you could do it properly.
You probably know this trick but my local garage cuts the timing belt in half along its length pulls half off fits the new one alongside the half the old one before cutting the old one off, says it's quicker and removes the risk of timing misalignment but always does a hand crack first to "feel" the engine is ok, love to see you collaborate with technology connections you chanals are some of my favourite
It looks like the electric car on the Simpsons.
!!! Long time fan of TechConnect and more recent fan of... funny old car stuff... and wow you sure have a similar vibe :) Im so happy to have found your channel. I love this little cute car. I know its not mine or anything but still, thank you for giving it some love and elbow grease!
"I'm more into personality." 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Came from technology Connections, i'm so glad i found this channel :D