I Attempted a DIY Alignment So My Yugo Would Stop Trying to Kill Me
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Have any alignment tips? Want to tell me I did something wrong (I'm sure I did)? Let me know!
Honestly I really think that having a tire shop do it will save some headaches
You certainly have enough patience! Good job mate!
I was an alignment technician back in the day. When you lower the car, you should jounce the front and rear of the car to make sure the suspension isn't bound up. The first thing we would do is center the steering wheel and use a tool to lock it against the seat. We would also use a brake lock. The way you aligned it, you set the toe to the car. With an alignment machine, you measure the "thrust angle" of the rear wheels. You then set the toe using that measurement. This is because rear wheels aren't always in line with the center of the car.
Not a tip but you should take it to shop to see just how close you got
Look for a CV tool that stretches the boot next time, you can get them for a £10er and makes life much easier when you are trying to half ass things
I could imagine the look on someone's face when they got passed by a Hot Rod Yugo screaming up a storm of Italian 4 Cylinder Fury.
You should see yugos in Serbia with a 1.6l fiat engine that makes over 200hp then.
The same look as when they get passed by the maniac driving a regular Yugo screaming at full send
or hearing some idiot flooring it with a cherry bomb on their car cause yeah making the engine louder is a great way to get a cop to pull you over and then they cut to stupid thing off when they get tired of noise tickets
@@raven4k998 I feel bad for anyone that lives in a state where the cops actually tell you what you can and cannot do with your car lol
@@zachbrown1630 I feel bad that anybody feels the need to make their car louder in order to think they're cool
"HOT GLUE IS HOT!"- Loving these words of wisdom, keep them coming.
nice to know that hot glue is hot I'll keep that in mind if I ever use the stuff lol
Tips for hot glue, if you get a lump on you, just smear it around. This increases the surface area really fast and it cools really fast as a result. Props to Adam Savage for teaching me this one.
IT'S NOT TRYING TO KILL ME! Never change, Robert!
eyeball it then use a square and get it set square smart and it's works kind of
Yugo Boy! Went to an auto parts store and Asked-"I need a gas cap for a Yugo" and he said "Let me drive it first". Can't believe I've been waiting to say that for 20 years. Thanks. I align my H1 with"the string trick". Close enough.
Bonus point, what Blockbuster,featuring Bruce W. also featured a Yugo in a high speed (🤣😆🤣😅🏎) pursuit?
First correct answer wins a smug, self satisfied nerdy grin 😀
I don't get it (sorry, it will be me!)
@@Craig-wp3pz die hard with a vengeance. 5 gallon jug, 3 gallon jug Yadda yadda
@@martyn101101 petrol head nerd award 🏆 🏆 🏆
Enjoy your self indulgent grin, and hell, have a smirk too 😏
@@steven-vn9ui "....the trouble is, it takes so damn long...."
Type die hard Yugo in your search bar, and prepare for a laugh at the expense of a (admittedly, well compensated💰💰💰)Yugo owner
2:47 Clever camera tricks are clever
I love when you do stuff like this
Note the wheels @8:17 The effort and the little details that he puts into his videos are very nice
That's not a trick
He has clones.
help, I see twice, I have to go to the doctor ...
"I don't know what I'm doing!"
God, that's refreshing to hear, some UA-camrs (& no, it's not who you think) act like they know what they're doing, and the end result is disappointing. But here, I can sit back, watch, and feel good about the end result. Case in point: this alignment. It is good enough to get you around until you can get this car dialed in. I salute you!
at least the I don't know what I'm doing does not stop him from trying so he got that working for himself along with a great sense of humour
What a shame he doesn't have a giant hole in his floor to put an alignment rack in so he could've done his own full alignment properly!
Love the new video! And congratulations on making the yugo less murderous!
First thing I thought!
You mean the giant pit from old videos? He filled that a loooooong time ago.
@@TheMonarchofGold r/whoosh
yeah he had the hole for alignments and didn't even use it when he had it just filled it in so now no alignment hole
Years ago I took my then-girlfriend-now-wife's Ford Festiva cockroach for a wheel alignment. In made such a difference to the ease of steering that she thought I'd installed a power steering rack and demanded evidence that I hadn't.
I went to pick it up a little early and saw the fella take it off the jig, go for a test drive, return slightly more pale and try again. He said later that one element was 3.5x further out of adjustment than the next worst he'd ever seen.
It's amazing how, all of us, every project, every time, need at least one reminder that Hot Glue is in fact, hot. Every damn time.
but but hot glue is Hot
My single greatest automotive achievement is the time I completely replaced the suspension of a car - all 4 corners, wild-ass-guessed at the alignment with zero measuring or really even looking at it, drove it to the alignment shop and gave them $150 to shoot fancy laser beams at it and tell me that I had, somehow, literally hit every parameter dead-nuts-on.
I kinda hope they gave you the money back at that point. That's impressive.
bet you can't do it again
@@edwardknox2213 almost assuredly not. Pure luck
Luvky you
You did a pretty good job! For toe, the old method was a long measuring stick, you measure left to right from the same place in the tire groove in the front and the back of the tire - if you lookup the old way that alignments were done, the string method, it may help you out as well. You can also lookup "race car alignment" or "race pit alignments" for some other techniques
As a Student of carpentry my immediate thought was winding sticks.
my old mechanic would get hammered (he was a drunk) and then just straight up eyeball it. it was nearly perfect. i think it was a lifetime of getting hammered at 10am and working on beaters until the sun went down that gave him the ability to just eyeball alignment so accurately. he would always say to "take it to a real shop, i only eyeballed it" but i never did, and my tire wear was never bad enough to notice it wasn't perfectly aligned until the tire was almost dead anyway
I had a Datsun 510 station wagon whose alignment would drift away and finally started doing it myself with methods discussed here. Tire wear was vanquished, and I was tickled I did it myself - it was getting expensive, and I was fighting for scratch in those days.
It’s funny how good this yugo sounds, very reminiscent of a Toyota 4AGE somehow
Well, the original engine is mostly a licensed copy of an old Fiat design, though this is the bored out twin carb version from an X1/9. You can get rally cams for these things, they're well loved Italian motors.
Yeah, the exhaust is quite unrestricted, and the carburetors appear to have less restrictive filters in them. All makes for a nice sound, intake and exhaust.
A 4 cylinder is going to sound like a 4 cylinder. The only things that will effect the sound is a valve timing via the cam or by using different shaped exhaust layouts.
I thought that myself! Maybe it has trumpet valves? I've never seen them much on other engines
@@AiOinc1 the 903cc that came with the yugo sounds awesome too, I have videos of it on my channel if you want !
"This is a car, it doesn't have any toes." - words to live by!
so much better so much better it's not trying to kill me anymore I love that one he succeeded!
Ive done a string alignment, its within 1/16th” of tolerance. The trick is to set, measure, set, measure, set, at least a 4 times. Go for a drive, reset your rig and do it again, and then, go for another drive and do it again. At this point, you will have done it 6 times, and provided your balljoints, shocks, tie rods and bushings aren’t worn out, you’ll notice that between the 5th and 6th time, the alignment will stay at what you set it. It will measure out exactly the same after a drive.
That’s when you are done. Its time consuming, but, its free.
The best part about getting an alignment at a shop is that you aren’t sitting in your car. So while you’re actually using the car it will be precisely out of alignment based on your body weight. If you do the alignment at home you can set weight in the driver seat and actually get it so good that it will never wear down your tires unevenly.
@@markm0000 Excelent point. In da old times car magazines even advised to put in bag of something to simulate driver's weight when doing alignment yourself :)
Stick and two dangly bits will now be my go to description.
he gives it five miles till it splits open I say 4 what's your guess?
big MyMechanics energy with the "I make a new one" on that little sleeve... Awesome to see lathe action! 😁👍
As a mymechanics fan, I understood that reference
Hey dev, just progressing my internet stalking of you, love your work!
@@cdmonmcginn7561 thanks! 👍😁
As a vintage VW bus guy, I've always just done it the way described in the "Idiot Book" and used 2 yardsticks. Done!
That book is so good, I think every kid who likes cars should read it whether they own an air-cooled VW or not. That's "How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive Forever: a Step By Step Guide for the Compleat (sic) Idiot" by John Muir. The illustrations are incredible. I would still be stuck by the side of the road downwind from a feedlot in Granby, CO without that book.
@@phoenixredux4262 I know guys with Peter Aschwanden illustration tattoos
@@Turk380 If I ever got a tattoo, it would be Aschwanden's top-down diagram of the cylinder numbers and firing order. (In my 1988 copy it's page 97, in the valve adjustment procedures.) Not sure where I'd get it, but somewhere I could see it!
When I saw the title of the video I wondered if he was going to use the yardsticks.
Yup, used that on my 69 bug and my 63 Dodge truck.
Editing as always on point. I love this so much!
well at least he tried
If that Yugo doesn't qualify as a sleeper, then I don't know what does. 😎
is it a sleeper I thought it was an attempted murder
A sleeper has to be fast though. It's still a 4 cylinder.
@@rubiconnn hurrdurr 4 cylinders slow
I know of a brownish tan 1964 Studebaker 4 door sedan that has a supercharged 305 cid engine (Studebaker R3). Now THAT'S a sleeper.
@@ek8710 You can spend a ton of money upgrading a 4 cylinder but it'll never get the performance that a 6 or 8 cylinder would get with those same upgrades.
This does so remind me of something I might have done on one of my beater mobiles. My god we did need a win on this channel after so many Wego fails, electric go cart fails. Roberts exclamation of "So much better! So much better! It's not trying to kill me constantly!" Is tantamount to young Doc Brown looking at the flux capacitor and exclaiming "It works! I finally invented something that works!" Your joy over such simple wins is just so infectious! OK, now I'm off to rebuilt the carb on my snowblower. See if I can pull off a win like Robert.
I wouldn't bother with taking it to an alignment shop, they're not going to know what specs to aim for so it'll just be guesswork on their part anyway. you can do a much better job by simply adjusting by feel, i'll bet it feels slightly woolly at the moment, toeing in slightly should sharpen her up nicely, start by screwing the tie rods out 1 turn each side, and trying it out. if it's currently a bit darty/sharp (especially on the gas) then you'll want to toe her out a bit as the front suspension is flapping about under acceleration!
You'll learn a load by doing it and you can get very good results by just tuning by feel, it's kinda fun too!
There are factory settings but they are out of the window with such tires. Also, in factory adjusting was done with a pole tool between the wheels (front and back of inner parts of tires) in about 30 secs.
The advantage to taking it to a shop is accuracy and repeatability. They can set the alignment to a baseline, then he can tweak it until it "feels right", and the shop can measure it again so in the future if he needs the alignment redone they (or any other shop) can do it easy peasy because now he has the numbers.
Always a pleasure to watch you fix cars while not knowing anything about them myself and learning a few bits here and there. Clever camera tricks and jokes are a big reason I love watching you Robert.
PS: and birbs too 😄
oww Hot glue is Hot! who would have thought?🤣😂🤣
Id like to see you do a front end alignment on the reliant
Oh wow, that thing sounds incredible
That Yugo sounds so good, you should put a microphone under the hood and make a 10-minute video of you just driving it around! That would make this the first automotive/engineering/poultry/ASMR channel in UA-cam's history!
Probably not the first
Heey my cool fellow. Just a friendly suggestion:
When you machine a sleeve, for a hole you plan on welding said sleeve in- leave a skirt on the sleeve, so you can weld the skirt and not distort the bejesus out of the sleeve. Or don't, whatever :)
Love
I know nothing Alexander .
he floors it and is like (it's not trying to kill me woot hoot)
Your edits are so good you’re really clever and funny with them in ways that really impress someone who’s been watching UA-cam for many years. You’re a pro keep up the great work
It would be funny to get the "official" instructions on how to do this. It would probably involve a goose egg and some twine and the tools supplied in the trunk. I remember LADA used to include a tool kit including... I think it was a clutch removal tool? Something like that.
Mah.. you can fix pretty much anything a yugo with a 13-17 wrench key....
Not sure about a clutch removal tool but the toolkit I got with mine included a torch, a hammer and a hand crank to start the engine
I got a LADA questions now. ..
"including... I think it was a clutch removal tool?" nope, there wasn't. Lada has 2 tool kits - small one (wheel bolts wrench, tool for adjusting spark lug gap/ignition contacts maintenance, spark plug wrench) and big bag (bunch of keys 8/10 10/12 11/13 17/19 etc, screwdrivers (+ and -). Main wrenches for Lada are 10, 13 and 17 :) If you have them, you can do 2/3 of maintenance jobs.
Please make the Fog lights Yellow :-) It looks great but that would be a perfect detail
Don't give up on the Yugo! I hope whoever buys it uploads the rest of the restoration. It's been an interesting rebuild!
This little Yugo sounds way better than it has any right too. Great job on the alignment Robert!
"This piece of mdf"
Robert you've made a pokeball
Pokeball catches you!
A welcome dose of common sense. I remember many years ago taking my Reliant Scimitar to a tyre shop where they measured the distance between the wheel rims at the back of the wheel and then adjusted the track rod until the front rim was the same as the rear (had been). I couldn't convince Einstein that he should have halved the error until I made him measure the rear again. After this I made a sophisticated tool from a length of timber and a screw in each end. Adjust the screws so it fits between the wheel rims at the back and then try it at the front. Works well for zero toe in but gets a little more complicated with front wheel drive when there's typically toe out required (cos the wheels pull in a smidgen when driving, I think)
Came for the excellent audio editing for the amazing repair sequences, and was not disappointed. Then I learned what alignment was all about! Thank you.
I’m loving this little rorty Yugo! Great fun little buzz-box. I cannot believe $200 for an alignment over there! Full 4-wheel alignment in the UK is about £40 and some places even offer it as a free safety check before winter!
I have an 80s ford bronco and a front end alignment was $600 because I needed some bushings that set the camber replaced
@@jbatic8094 oof! Not a happy surprise 😮
Awesome! I've done many of my own alignments with a pair of jack stands, a string, tape, marker, angle finder, and a tape measure.
This was the best video I have seen in a long time. Love the work you do, the very special cars, the humor and the amazing editing! It's FUN!
3:15 " I just want to tell you about my Box, because I like it a lot."
I like your box too, Robert.
11:47 Now that is a Happy little Yugo. I have flashbacks to y moms old 77 Corolla.
I was really impressed with all the different tools and skills used to make the sleeve on the struts...then you capped it off with that spray paint job. I would have thought that would be the easiest part!
9:06
Robert: "It burns! Hot glue is hot!"
Me: *Noted*
"It's not trying to kill me!" -Nighttime Robert
Ageing Wheels seal of approval.
I mean, going from "Kill me" to "not kill me" is an amazing improvement.
It’s inspiring seeing you finish something. Well done!
This thing is one of the coolest cars ever to exist.
Balkan car
Yugo koral 55
Zastava 55
I have always done much the same by ratchet strapping PVC pipe to the wheels and having 8 feet stick out the front! A degree or two off and it's inches off at the ends. Why do I bother doing it myself? Well USED to be most places wouldn't even align Jeeps with big tires other than with a tape measure which I can do myself. Now a lot of bigger shops won't align a vehicle with ANY suspension mods. I mean yeah, you can find somewhere but plenty will say either their machine won't cause the numbers don't match up since they plug your vehicle into the computer OR they talk liability. I got turned away from TWO shops that wouldn't mount my tires (oversized by like an inch) on my Cherokee because they didn't match the size on the door. The third shop made me sign a waiver because my speedo wasn't calibrated. Why not? Cause it actually reads spot on now instead of the normal few MPH low!
I just mount and balance my tires myself now since all the stuff to do it cost me less than having someone else do it!
Oh and how do you measure the pipe using my method? Measure the distance between the pipe as close to the tire and then measure it at the end (I use 8 foot pipe) and adjust until the two numbers match up meaning there is no toe in/out or do the math and set a but of toe in if you need to. You can make it pretty accurate since the length of the pipe amps up any inaccuracy. If you are off by only a small amount at the wheel end it's WAY off at the end of the pipe making minute adjustments very easy. Think about it this way. If the pipe was a mile long and you are off my even half a degree the ends a mile away would be like a football field apart.
The only vehicle I have ever seen with a calibrated speedo is a police car. It literally says calibrated on the speedometer. If it doesn't say calibrated on the dash, it can be off as much as 1-3mph, so Im not sure why a shop would require a waiver for a car where the speedo wasn't calibrated, since almost no car sold to the public is actually calibrated. Its one of the reasons cops rarely pull someone over for driving a few mph over, because their speedo might be reading the correct speed, and if they did write them a ticket, they would be banking on them just paying it to avoid the hassle, because it would be a simple matter to goto court and say your dash read the proper speed and have it tossed out, because judges also know a vast majority of cars on the road do not have calibrated speedometers....
@@ixamraxi It's very common to change speedo drive gears or reprogram the speedometer when changing tire sizes on a car or truck which was the point of that section of my post. They wouldn't install the tires without the waiver because they were not the stock size and my speedometer had not been recalibrated for the new size. I assume so if I got a ticket I didn't try and come back and blame them and claim ignorance.
Always a great video, thanks
Much enjoyment. Thank you
Would have been handy to have an alignment rack for this.... maybe even in a pit in the floor.... which has a weird L shape to it....
Next video : I UNFILLED THE PIT AND INSTALLED AN ALIGNMENT RACK
Never thought I'd say this, I ❤ this Yugo!
you should get one and do fun shit with it like they did with that one
Great job, man. LOVE the exhaust sound when you test drove it at the end.
awesome dude, congrats!
The use of plumb bobs is brilliant! A carpenter using the tools of the trade.
it could work not sure how it's done by a mechanic maybe that's how they do it
I use two 72" levels (yes, woodworking) bungee-corded to the tires to set toe, because they let me get measurements.
I set camber by using magnetic bubble things stuck to the rotors through the wheel spokes.
I also use floor pads to level the car before using that stuff, but to finish the car I do a 1-2 mile test drive and check the tire wear by measuring the tread temperature with an IR thermometer inside/center/outside for every tire.
My method must work because my fuel economy went up.
ok I am confused
have you tried farting into the air intake while the engines running?
I remember the days of using chalk, tape measure, large plastic protractor and a set of home made tracking arms to set up the front ends on many an old British car. Luckily Haynes Manuals all had the methodology and technique in most their manuals with an easy to read list o' values to make the job pretty easy. I remember an old Ford Sierra that had a buggered front strut thanks to a deep pothole and I just set it up all true, the front wheel was wonky as hell visually but it tracked perfectly then I changed the strut and had to seriously beat the bent bits back into place using a hot torch and judicious whacking with a 4 pound club hammer hehe
I am so envious of your awesome shop Robert!
this children is why you don’t fill your garage’s alignment pit
What I've noticed driving an old VW Polo 86c, which has very similar suspension is that a little toe-out makes the car very stable and even driving it on the track felt really good as the turn-in was very nice. It had 8" wide rims with +20 ET and that pushed the front wheels 25 mm out of the fenders.
Always learn something watching these.
Well done mate!
Ok, I have DIY aligned all my cars for decades. Stay tuned here for tips and laughs.
0:25 Front end alignment for couple hundred dollars? I live in a country where living is rather expensive but an entire 4-wheel alignment sets me back only 80 euros.
your editing is top notch! simply fantastic!
well done!
Is he joking when he says a couple hundred bucks for an alignment?
A wheel alignment where i live in the UK was £25 ($40)
$40 gets you a "set the toe, and let it go" job. If you want something real, including actual camber, caster, and toe adjustments, as well as whatever the FWD equivalent of thrust-angle is... that's gonna cost you a lot more.
@@mungtor ah that makes more sense, that is probably the same here. My £25 alignment was just "set toe and go"
unfortunately, no. And if your car is a manual [speaking as a vintage VW guy], they'll probably fuck up your shift linkage and clutch for your troubles.
"...a couple of hundred dollars..." WTF!? Even four wheel alignment takes less than half an hour and is less than £25 to £40 in the UK. What is the deal with that price tag?
The worst part is that the mechanic still gets the same hourly wage regardless of what the shop is charging for his labor. And these are workers who have a union. We've gone full dystopia over here.
It’s usually because the equipment costs 5 figures, and shops are trying to justify that equipment cost. (As well as special training and supplies to use that alignment equipment to its full potential)
I enjoyed this thoroughly - even the ad!
the editing on this video was awesome. great job!
Love your Videos, Just awesome!! Thank you!!
Nicely done!! Amazing what one can do with a little ingenuity!! Keep up the good work. Cheers!!
Great induction sound. Sounds like fun!
1:02 Those CV boots! Please do something about that!
Edit: 2:04... Thank you!
Anker makes good stuff. Fun video. Thanks for sharing.
Sweet! Nice problem solving.
love the sound of the yugo as you hammer on it, it may be slow but a blast to toss around
Engine sounds great!
Gotta love the ingenuity and edits to make dreams reality
Missed you. Glad you're back at it again.
that thing sounds awesome.
My friend and i used to do a basic toe in / toe out alignment after replacing tie rod ends in his driveway. We just used a tape measure, hooked it onto one of the treads of the tire, pulled it across under the car, and measure the distance to a tread on the other tire. Do this for the front and back of the tire multiple times, making adjustments in between and eventually we would get the numbers to be the same.
The trick was to make sure you were measuring between the same treads every time. We would then take the car to a shop to get a real alignment and usually they would tell us it was in spec, or very close and only did a little adjustment.
Probably difficult to do this alone but with 2 people its pretty easy
That was both entertaining and informative. It also made sense. How about that! Keep them coming!
It sounds really good
Lovely sound
Kudos!
Wow good job!
I applaud your colour matching ability! (but genuinely your editing is super charming)
Sounds like a sweet sleeper you got there. Great vid!
I appreciate your keeping the hardware the same grade.
Love that exaust sound
awesome video! keep up the funny atmosphere!
Your best video, I loved it
I do oh so enjoy your content, it's always a little quirky and very informative. No matter what your doing, I always learn something new even though I know the topic.
More puppy please. Watching them later when grown will be priceless. My lil doggy grew up so fast. Loved seeing you simply and explain your methodology on the alignment.
Great job on the alignment and the editing... now lets see you do a front end alignment on your Reliant Robin. :)
A new Aging Wheels video, a happy day!
Most unappreciated UA-cam mechanic. You can't change my mind
You are so much fun to watch.
I love the sound of that car!
I love your common sense solutions to working on cars..... and your sense of humor. Keep it up!
I love the Yugo, and the channel lol. Shoutout from a fellow Missourian