Ultimate Automotive Hackery - Have We Met The Final Boss?
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Honestly, if we had not seen what was done at another shop to this beautiful, red C3 Corvette with our own eyes, we would not have believed it...but there is is!
As a bonus we got to encounter the last word in butchered transmission input shafts, and a Side Oiler 427 Ford held in place with pure luck.
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Any fool knows you don't use rope to hold up your exhaust. You use a wire coat hanger! 🤣
Thought everyone knew that
Just make sure you wrap it up good. My friend and I were driving his 2000 s10 2.2 and the flowmaster 44 I gave him fell off 🤣 pulled it out of the weeds and now years later its on my coworkers truck.
@@tonybarracuda3505 If one ever drove old, rusty beaters, like I did, you've probably done it.
@@jeffreyrubish347 done it many times, probably many more
I always use zip ties myself🤣🤣🤣
So the rope is the fuse, the brake fluid is the fuel, while the exhaust is the timer/ ignition source. Gives new meaning to the color "flame red"! 🔥
"Hello, Haggerty's? I have some bad news. My classic Corvette caught fire on a road trip. No, I don't how it could have happened. It's a good thing I decided to go with the agreed value policy of $250,000."
The shop owner & his mechanic should be prosecuted...
Because of problems with my back, I paid a shop here in Portland to install a clutch in my 84 Audi Coup GT. One front wheel had two lug bolts that I could spin with my fingers as the hubs had been stripped out & apparently furnace tape had used to fix the threads. Either they hate Halfbreeds like me enough to try to kill me, or their mechanics are learning how to fix cars from the shop that serviced the corvette in the video. I notified the appropriate agency thru the DMV but no one ever contacted me back, as apparently Oregon will only investigate if enough people die. Considering that only two adjacent lug nuts were holding the front wheel on...
well that way it becomes the insurance companies issue, reduces the number of call backs
Hmmm, one’a them insurance scams…
It certainly looks like a fuse to burn it down. If he drove it long enough, it could have. They probably changed the wrong caliper and tied up the wrong exhaust.. with a rope?. I don't get it. duct tape would have been better.
This life in a locomotive shop as well.
Greetings from the high plains of Texas.
I think that's a fire proof roap and tape top of the line 😂😂
The fact they balled the remaining rope up for the obvious reason of "definitely going to need more rope later" makes it twice as atrocious as the fire hazard itself.
If you can do something, do.
If you are not sure what are you doing, don't do.
This is the example of don't do.
gotta do that to use a windsor trans behind an FE, or use the right bellhousing.
I'll bet the caliper didn't leak before they did the bushings..
there's a reason only one nut turns my wrenches
the vehicles i care about i work on myself
I can understand incompetence and stupidity with some of that stuff, but the wiring, duct tape and rope on the exhaust is downright dangerous if not criminally negligent! I would be absolutely embarrassed if i ever thought about putting out piss-poor work like that! People and shops like this deserve to be called out and by name and shamed!
As a side note, it might be an artifact of the camera angles, but the rear suspension links on that leaf spring look way off-center, and the passengers side looks like its almost touching the tire. I would go over the rear end and make sure that the spring hasn't shifted, and the proper rear links were used. Some of the aftermarket rear links arent the correct size. To be put together properly, those links have to be installed and tightened down with the vehicle weight on the rear suspension and properly settled in.
It's getting harder and harder to find them as years go by, but I've always preferred to find a worn out/clapped out relatively untouched car with it's obvious problems over the ones with mystery unknowns hiding under shiny paint and rattle can 'rebuilt engine.'
Most of the time it's easier and much more piece of mind in the end to just rebuild a whole car that needs a whole rebuild once, than it is to buy someone else's hack job fix up and have to sort out the last guy's stripped bolts, shoddy machine work, cut wires, bondoed over spray foam, missing parts, etc.
not to mention two inches of Bondo.
@Freedomquest08
I've said the same thing for decades. I would rather have 'honest rust' vs. 'ohhhh....shineeey' every time.
Seeing a LOT a botchery/butchery over many years on 'restored' vehicles.
A lot of truth to the old saying, the hack with the big shop and the hight turnover makes the most money and turns out junk
Amen
bondoed over spray foam did you buy my 76 Chevy pickup back in about 93 I was poor and it had holes in the rear fenders
Replacing only passenger side calipers does make some sense once you realize that the driver always has the option of opening his door and dragging one foot on the ground to equalize braking forces.
Yeah but he would be all the way down to the knee by the time he slowed to 100 MPH, so he could only do it once.
They did that once in the bionic woman tv show back in the 70s.
😂
@@rodx5571 twice..
Get out of my head!
Reminds of my sister's mechanical ability, she has none, zero. When she was in college she drove a rusted out 73 LTD wagon, the tail pipe starts dragging. She crawls under it and ties it to a round pipe looking thing under the middle of the car with a pair nylon stockings and drives it to the local full service gas station.
Guy that owned the station from 1958 to 1994 talked about that for years, probably still does. The nylon didn't melt, and put a real nice shine on the driveshaft for about ten miles to the station.
At least she had the wherewithal to Try tying it up. My ex drove her honda from Santa Fe to Albuquerque (50 some odd miles) with the exhaust dragging the whole way. She didn't even stop to see what was making all the racket. Same car, different incident, she calls me to say the car had no power and was making a funny smell when she got to work. I asked what the temperature and oil pressure readings were when she was driving. She tells me she doesn't look at the gauges while driving! 🤣
where did she get the nylons from ? borrowed yours? lol jk
I saw a car in a parking lot and it was making a lot of noise.
After she parked I told the woman that something was stuck under her car.
She said yeah, the front plastic had broke off about a week ago and was stuck.
Hey, if she didn't care I guess I didn't have to worry
@@edbeck8925 meh its plastic. Cool she didnt make a fuss. If it was metal that was hit it prob wouldnt have broken haha
Impressed the nylon held
And this, my friends, is why I NEVER EVER have someone else work on my cars! Cool vid Tony. Cheers
Couldn’t agree more. Unless it’s Kiwi….., or Uncle Tony👍
The good guys are out there if you look hard and long enough, they are pretty knowledgeable about a lot of the older cars.
Sadly there are far too many sharks out there today ready to steal your hard earned.
This is a good statement if you know what youre doing. People who have no clue think this way as well. ;)
@@MiikeyLawless Good point!
The shop owner & his mechanic should be prosecuted...
Because of problems with my back, I paid a shop here in Portland to install a clutch in my 84 Audi Coup GT. One front wheel had two lug bolts that I could spin with my fingers as the hubs had been stripped out & apparently furnace tape had used to fix the threads. Either they hate Halfbreeds like me enough to try to kill me, or their mechanics are learning how to fix cars from the shop that serviced the corvette in the video. I notified the appropriate agency thru the DMV but no one ever contacted me back, as apparently Oregon will only investigate if enough people die. Considering that only two adjacent lug nuts were holding the front wheel on...
Ahhhhh looks alright to me! Come on out to gdale uncle Tony, I will show ya what hillbilly-hackery is hahaha
When you fix any kind of brake fluid leak, that extra pressure will find the next weakest part of the system. If you replace one side, then the other side will leak. If you fix a rusted section of line and don't replace the whole line. Then the pressure will pop through the rust somewhere else. Anyone who works on cars should know this.
The stupidest part is the shop could've made more money doing it right. It just makes no sense to me
wouldn't that be a wild ride when the motor flips sideways and pulls the throttle cable to max!
It happened to my friend in a demo derby. Engine mounts broke, motor fell over and the car kept going. Only stopped when it stalled, the wire to the starter motor fell off. Holden 6cyl.
This is the reality of it. We see everything from service trucks to race cars- hell even race trucks (its actually our specialty ;) ), but the "do it right or do it twice" phrase echos to the customer on these jobs.
Unfortunately in a lot of cases its the customer's misunderstanding of the cost of proper install.. and they have to learn the hard way. Custom installs with proper PET sleeving, waterproof plugs, and designed/installed with serviceability in mind does not come cheap..
Do it right or dont do it at all
Had a car come in with 20 feet of 3/8” chain and a padlock holding up the exhaust. Dual purpose, keep your exhaust from being stolen
Doing this line of work, I've actually come across this kind of stuff a lot. Oddly enough, it's usually the "nice" stuff that tricks you, and it's usually brought in by people with money, because people with money usually don't like to spend money. So, they take it to every "Cousin Eddie's Friend down the street that will do it for a 6 pack of beer and 20 bucks" shops before it even gets to you to undo all the mess everyone else has made of it. Good news is, it's all in good hands now, and the even better news is.... when they tally it all up, they will see how much they would've saved if they would've brought it to you guys in the 1st place.
Suggestion: put the car up on a lift and do a full walkaround with the customer present, with a well-lit video camera recording the various atrocities. It may save you some hassle later. Include the customer in the video and the time and date, somehow.
Sometimes it is a matter of being cheap, no doubt, but I wonder if it isn’t a bit of maybe that friend of a friend will do the proper job since he isn’t a total stranger.?
100% agree and I'm glad to be the guy that gets the big paycheck for fixing it all. Wait, that check is missing a comma....
Half the time.
It’s the customer refusing work.
Nothing like two good friends that share the same interest and can joke around no matter how bizarre the jokes maybe. You had me rolling at the end of the video, such a cute couple.
Lmao. Right. His wife definitely getting jealous. Great laughs.
Kiwi is a hard worker and talented dude. He is the kind of guy you wanna know and have on your side and not make him mad over a business deal that you can't afford which causes you to get in too deep.
Kiwi is quick too. Seems like just a few days ago when that Barracuda hit his shop. Now look at it...ready for paint very soon! That's a true "git r done" attitude and execution!
The rope is supposed to be the fish tape for the antenna wiring.
Ohh.... I bet that's exactly what was going on there. It was just never finished.
Exactly.
Oh shit I think your right. Smart catch
Damn!!! Scary stuff!!!! Some people are evil and will do anything for the almighty dollar regardless if they are responsible for someone's life
No that's just called the budget repair I would advise not buying a cheap car in the Northeast because that's what they're held together by fixes like this
@@TwoDollarGararge hence the word, "some".....
@@thomasarriaga6587 living in New Jersey I've seen some very interesting repairs I was flipping a Chevy Cobalt that I got cheap The exhaust hangers were metal clothes hangers fence down to fit the exhaust welded to some scrap metal steel squares attached to where the hangers used to be assuming the hangers at some point just rotted away to nothing but hey never made noise
The Baracuda spoiler looks it should’ve been on right from the factory. Love how it complements the body lines.
I too also replace my calipers in pairs..... usually front and back not side to side though.
👍I’m so glad i have common sense along w/ my grandpa and dad teaching me well. It’s crazy to me that a shop would turn out something like this on the ‘Vet. Most likely, no liability insurance either. Thx UT & “K”
Third rate craftsmanship, coat hangers work the best. I have them in my trunk at all times.
That input shaft!! Haha, we just saw that done by the Jet guys on their channel a week or two ago😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tony. You're dead wrong to insult the shop on the brakes here without providing the whole deal on Corvette brakes. The caliper setups on these cars is very different than most anything else. The customer might have insisted to do only the work that was necessary at the time and with the brakes on those cars it's very likely it wasn't leaking during that time. Particularly if the car sat for a period of time after the shop did the work.
So here is the deal with the brakes on these old C3 corvettes. Those old cars were basically the test bed for GM and disc brake technology back in the mid 60's and they were damned good. They used a 4 piston design with an eye towards endurance racing where the pads could be hot swapped in about 30 seconds. The C2 technically was the first, but the C2 driveline is basically a C3. The original C3 calipers used what's called lip seals on the pistons. Lip seals have the wonderful benefit that they help self retract a piston once it's expanded by the fluid back into the bore. The problem with lip seals is that the brakes MUST BE MOVED/EXERCISED fairly regularly or the seal will relax and they will leak exactly like what has happened here. Brake fluid pressure helps them stay sealed. If it's not being driven much they tend to leak. Also these original setups because of the lip seals were extremely sensitive to rotor run out in conjunction with the caliper design. There was no caliper slider pin type assembly on those. So anything more than .005" of run out WILL cause a seal to leak like this. This is why these old Corvettes had the rotors riveted to the hub is because it was expected that they were to be turned ON THE CAR vs a lathe because the tolerance stack up from the wheel hub could be enough to knock out the total run out on the rotor.
So if the shop had the rotor off but didn't check the runout, then bad on them.
Most shops don't have the equipment to actually turn rotors on the car anymore so we have to get shim stock from Raybestos to get the run out exceptable. The rotor might be dead nuts on, but it's not uncommon for a hub to have .010" of runout just on it.
In case anybody was wondering the lip seal issue has been largely remedied by a few companies out there on the Corvette calipers. Basically they stainless steel sleeve the calipers and convert them to a more traditional square cut o-ring which is much more tolerant to rotor run out and holds a fluid seal better on a car that is driven sparingly. The brakes drag more because of it, but lets be honest. Very few of us are flogging a 50 year old car on a race track.
How do I know all this? Worked on several C3s and owned one.
Rusty pitted bores in the caliper is another problem
The “Aint broke dont fix it” had been misused so many times. The problem is the caliper are not replaced (or rebuild) in pairs. The driver rear was not leaking at the time the passenger side caliper and bushing replacement. After a few miles of driving, the left rear caliper failed as well. This why these parts have to be replace in pairs to avoid headaches.
The saying should be "if it ain't broke, DONT BREAK IT"
I dont think I ever replaced calipers in pairs. Unless they both are junk.
The 2 of you make great comedy & great videos of debauchery of cars ! Keep on being yourselves!
It isn't just the "jack leg" shops doing dumb stuff. A good friend of mine had a 1960s Ford Motor Company product resto-modded a few years back by a Nashville area "pro-shop". The car has done some sitting since it was completed. We decided to take it on the Hot Rod Power Tour this year. We had a few things to check and fix. In this process, we found more things to fix. He also showed me a few things they did that looked ok, but weren't the way he asked it to be done. We finally got to the Ford 9" rearend they put together and it was a mess. The driver's side axle retainer was bent beyond belief and the axles weren't completely seated. We ran out of time and decided to take my Challenger on the Power Tour. The hackery that pro-shop put into that car amazed me.
A person has to have pride in his work. I worked in a restro shop, and almost got in a fist fight with the painter because he wouldn't paint the accent black on the back panel of a 67 Chevelle SS before he installed the tail light extensions. (the black is supposed to be under the extension)
a shop will not put the same time and effort into your car that you would be willing to. that is why i do all the work on my car myself except interior upholstery.. for them it's a job and time is money, for you it's your pride and joy so you are willing to spend hours fixing a dent for example whereas they will cover it with bondo... classic cars are not rocket science I suggest people DIY and it will likely turn out the same as the pro's if not better if you buy the tools and invest in your skills.
@@davidgalea6113 You're right. I helped a buddy build a car for a customer of his in return for paint and body on my car. I helped him all along the way and it came out perfect. Other than some powder coat, I built and repainted everything else myself.
I am surprised that it is 427 SO, that trans 😱 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I make aliving fixing big shops fuck ups
This level of work matches the car's original quality. I remember when these came out new. Pure garbage. Cuder is pretty cool however.
Honestly, the way Tony was carrying on, I thought it was gonna be MUCH worse, like frame damage. I saw a GMC 4X4 a long time ago where the exhaust was held up by dog choker collars (chain). The tail pipes had proper hangers, but between that and the manifolds were about a half dozen collars.
Cars and bad ideas like that are a big part of why I closed my shop in 1999 and went back to the military. I spent most of my time fixing what others screwed up, the rest of the time was spent trying to get people to pay me for the work and parts. I like to get cars that haven't been driven in decades, because there is usually a lot less of this crap in something that was last plated in the early 1980s.
That must've got really out of control for you to go BACK to the military.
Customer states "I can't afford all four calipers, I'll do the antenna wiring myself and I'll be back next week for the muffler brackets and the other two calipers", signs form stating he knows the brakes are unsafe and never comes back. Personally I'd refuse to work on it at all, but I've seen shops do that.
Most likely what I was thinking. Guy didn't want to pay or got impatient
Yeah because shops won’t half ass work so you have to comeback so they can make more money.
I will never second guess my own work ever again after seeing how the pros do it!
This is exactly why I don't let any shop touch my cars unless I have no other choice
🤣 The imagines in Tony's head. Would require a bail fund, if any of those imagines came out of Tony's head into real life...😂
You want to work in a hot rod shop well this is what you come across. Absolutely priceless and timeless
Look, that's fine quality polyester rope and it ain't cheap. Please don't disparage fine work.
A 5 year old fixed the muffler. I have tied up mufflers with coat hangers on old junk cars of my own in the old days, but never though about using ROPE. "That's sketchy even by my standards"
I like scraps of 12 or 14 gauge solid electrical wire - I've never had it corrode like coat hangers.
Metal coat hangers are becoming a rarity...
@@DanEBoyd So are old cars and old guys like me. I'm 75
I'm not sure what to think,2 new calipers on one side,But not the leaking ones? I'm inclined to think that the customer was concerned about the costs of repairs and may have instructed the mechanic to only replace what needed replacing at this particular moment.
I've had customers want me to replace ALL of the brake lines..not with OEM parts...not even with steel,hand bent lines..but with copper tubing... tell me to replace the brake shoes on only one wheel...turn the drums on only 2
Then brought me used rubber brake lines...of course I refused to do that! Any of it!
The rope on the exhaust and the antenna wire in a plastic bag?
Maybe the customer was not liking the progress on the repairs and decided he wanted his car back NOW!
I dunno...a fire hazard and a potential brake system failure and possibly a customer that decided he didn't have enough money to pay for the essential new parts?
I don't know how much discussion was done between the shop and the customer about what parts and repairs were needed.. couldn't have been much... shame on that shop for doing a half-assed repair on a brake system.
I dunno, maybe they got half way through the repairs and the customer changed his mind?
I'm glad I don't have to deal with crap like this anymore....
About now I would not trust whoever assembled the engine!!! I would HAVE to disassemble that engine in the Mustang completely to check everything!!
This car is a prime example of why my shop doesn’t do any more “Hot Rod” or project cars ! People A. Don’t have money but claim to B don’t understand what it takes to get something old back on the road they think stuff like this should be done and repair quickly yes I can swap a motor out in your late model car in a day or so. But your project car takes longer because it’s a butchered up mess !
I'm thinking the other garage planned on pulling the antenna wire up through the car with the road and just coiled up the wire and rope and duct taped it to a support under the car.
Pigeon shit welding,there is plenty of it around. As for the jackass exhaust mounting, the guys who do crap like that constantly amaze me as it takes far more effort to do that shit than it does to fix the car properly.
I used to sell to many auto shops and when I would hear things like ' It's not my car" or " I can't see it from my driveway" my mind would think of some unsuspecting mom and her little ones at the mercy of some butcher playing mechanic. It really bothered me to see how dangerous some people are behind a set of wrenches.
Hackjobs are a fine art. Not everyone is able to be lazy enough but skilled enough to make a very stupid idea and "temporary fix" make work for years. I had a guy who had one of the driveshafts constantly fall out of his fiat. Obviously it was gone beyond saving, but they quoted him like €70 for a new shaft... crazy money in the third world hellhole we live in. So I took it out, put a few spacers I had lying around I wanted to scrap, and as far as I know he's still driving it that way 7 years later.
Even as a teenager in the 60’s,on a date the muffler fell down crossing a railroad track. I tied the muffler up with a coat hanger in the dark. The shop told my mother that I had done a good job.
To add further insult, the washers on the spring mount they put on are upside down. Kiwi should try to convince the customer to switch to o-rings on the calipers. Those c3's with the original lip seals leak when they sit for extended periods. This will keep happening if the vette isn't driven on a regular basis.
Super hard to find good mechanics these days.
Now the hard part explain all this to the customer. All too often it goes like this... I just had the brakes fixed for $$ and this is how much more $$, I didn't ask you to look at the brake they are fine. That rope wasn't on my car YOU put it on my car and broke my muffler so you can rip me off. While not fitting for this case, you changed my oil, and the next week my brakes squeak, YOU wore them out when you did the oil change and burned out my turn signal bulb too!
I have seen this type of thing happen before, maybe in this case the owner wanted a new opinion as he know something was wrong.
Time to make the proper repair with no strings attached 👍.
Sometimes when you have enough working under the tree and in the dirt. You try to save as much money as you can, taking it to a local hack. And cut as many corners as possible.
Nice work on the Mustang Kiwi ! First class workmanship .
I always have respect for the beautiful classic car that pulls along side of me at highway speed, with it's shiny paint and glittering chrome and driven by the guy who takes real pride and ownership in the maintenance of a true classic. Then I see videos like this and realize that under the shiny glitter, it may be held together with rope, wire and duct tape and it's an accident waiting to happen.
That input shaft is freaking brutal. It’s a $3,500 transmission, whether or not it will survive it’s just awful.
And the rope, lmfao. Ahoy matey!
The rope was probably to fish the wires to the antenna. Just a guess anyway as it looked unfinished but who knows?
I love the cheap malaise era C3 corvettes! Such a pontential for a $5k car...
Edelbrock performance package goes for about $2900 and yields minimum of 410 hp... i didint even have to pull the engine out!
it is amazing these cars don't get more attention. IRS, a THM400, and a mouse motor...who can't turn that into a performance vehicle?
These are All Intentionally done!!! Many times people have to make a Repair to get it home or to the repair shop,if Shops we're All Completely Honest the Work we be Half the Amount it is!!?
That’s why trust in shops are low. It makes a bad name for the good mechanics out there. It’s also why I do as much as my own work as possible.
Duct tape is also super flammable that duct tape on the wires could have caught fire and spread to the rope and fiberglass bumper and gas tank and easily killed this man.
Every fool these days can come up with a fancy or trying-to-be-clever sounding shop name, a logo, a website, and a sales pitch, but it seems that very few can actually do a good job. They are better at appearing to be competent, than they are at being competent at the job they agreed to do. And that is emblematic of our stupid society today, where everyone is so desperate to try to commercialize their image, but most of them are without anything to really back up, or bolster, their image.
You see it in all walks of industry today. I call it 21st century workmanship. If I was Weird Al, I'd use that to do a parody of the King Crimson song, 21st Century Schizoid Man...
Love the garbage Douglass (Walmart house brand) spare. Have some respect, first because it's a Corvette, second for your own life, and third for the other people on the road. Michelin, Pirelli, Continental.... Buy quality.
I looked to me like the bushing was hitting the wheel on the passenger side. This again why I say it getting harder and harder to find a shop that actually has techs that know what they are doing.
Needs a Muffler bearing .
must be chrome plated
Shits me to tears when people only replace one instead of a pair. I just changed my front sway bar links on my car because one was flogged out. The one that was flogged out on the drivers side was a lot older than the one on the passenger side. So the previous owner (or maybe the car yard I bought the car from) only replaced the passenger side link. They aren’t even expensive so why not change the pair FFS!
I blame the internet for many problem. People think they can watch a 10 minute on TIG welding and go work on a pipe-line. Scary dumb.
Myeh, not that big of a deal.
Joe Biden age Corvette owners never drive their cars hard....
They just putter over to the local C&C and take a nap in their Corvette logo folding chair.
Any good hillbilly mechanic knows we use coat hangers If you run the rope to seat you can drop the muffler at night and make sparks if you run your antenna wires to the muffler can you use the exhaust system for antenna
That Corvette is a POS. it's an accident waiting to happen. I knew Uncle Tony couldn't get out of there. without spying at the Barracuda. he he also got new glasses.
If someone were to bring that Corvette into the shop these days, one could excuse that roped-up exhaust as being the result of a shortage of coat hangers, given that recent abortion bans are making them scarce enough for speculating on their precious metal market price
It amazes me how some people can try to fix something and cause more damage and cost than if they just let someone else do it right in the first place. I also don't think those are the correct size tires for that car.
It's Amazing how these two guys always come up with ALL these cars with ALL these issues! Smdh ==
If I only need one caliper I'll only change one caliper, those aren't something that needs to be changed in pairs or sets😮
I just had work done on my 1978 Trans Am. The mechanic took me back and had me walk under the car before beginning the work. After the work was completed, he walked me under the car again and explained every detail that was fixed. It gave me a nice opportunity to view the underside of the vehicle. I purchased it 6 years ago and never had a chance to really get that kind of view before. My car's underbody is 95 percent flawless, like new and all coated properly. It is a gem. Obviously, this poor soul's mechanic had zero pride and was hiding the shabby work. This evidence should be taken to small claims court so the gentleman can recover his money and also sue to get covered for the expenses on the re-work that Kiwi needs to perform.
Hahah you two crack me up lol !! Speaking of cracks looks like a cross member on pass side is cracked to ??
I don’t let anyone work on my rigs but if i had to kiwi 🥝 wold be the first one I’d call .!
Imagine coming off the clutch at 6 grand in that pony .?? You wold be able to check the mains the easy way lmao!!
Great episode!!! Not all workshops perform the quality work like what Tony & Kiwi do in their shops... It is good to hear about that beautiful first gen Mustang convertible being saved... But the Black '68 Mustang is a real mess... That bird-sh!t weld made on that L/H engine mount bracket was beyond bad... Hopefully the owner finds a nice 302 & c-4 trans to put back into it, this time correctly, under the auspices of The Kiwi Man... The owner of the '68 Mustang should sell that 427 side-oiler engine & trans, to help with putting the CORRECT engine back into that beautiful car... There would be Lots of people interested in that 427 & trans... Definitely not a problem selling that!!! The Corvette was a victim of serious mechanical molestation... Hopefully the counseling , encouragement and repairs that Kiwi has to offer this once beautiful car, will bring her back to her original beauty, and reliable function...
My exhaust broke apart on the highway once and I had to cut a piece of wire off of a road side fence to tie it up.
All time great white trash repair job on that exhaust. Rope, duct tape, wire.... just an amazing work of art.
I have wired a muffler with a coat hanger before - sometimes you do what you gotta do
@@jimbosc I admit to wrapping a rusted out muffler with duct tape. A white trash fix, but it let that muffler live for another 4 years. Sometimes frugality can work for you.
@@jamesmartin-lb6br Say what you will but I've had a wire coat hanger holding up the exhaust on my trail rig for going on 10 years now.
I'm blown away. I was a powersports mechanic and I always fixed customer's stuff with brand new parts everything they needed. People gladly paid the price knowing they wouldn't have to be bringing it back. I never understood mechanics who rig things on a customer's vehicle it just blows my mind. Do good quality work and people will spread the word, do cob job work and they will spread the word not to go to your shop. Cob your own stuff fine but not someone ele's no less a customer.
Another retail red nugget. Kiwi looks like Rush's guitar player Alex Lifeson.
He might be his given up for adoption twin brother and doesen't even know it yet
Gifts that keep given, hummm??? $$$for you to fix LOL
Wow! I thought those Corvettes were only bad on my side of the planet.
Had a customer drive in the exact same model with ZERO brakepressure last tuesday after another shop tried working on it.
Took some cursing and a lot of hassle to get it bled somewhat properly, I was surprised the customer made it home without a crash seeing how much air and crap was in the system.
Should have filmed some stuff on that car, it would fit in perfectly in this series.
bad body/paintwork: check
bad misfire under load: check
leaks every fluid on board: check
suspension issues: check
brakes hardly working: check
tires from the early nineties: check
Do I hate it? No, its still a cool old car, and I like jobs like this over the modern stuff.
Perforated strap is the best for a temporary exhaust hanger repair, though I usually just leave it like that permanently
All round plumbing strap works great.
Those C3 calipers aren't even expensive or hard to come by. Why not change all 4. They are super prone to leaking and seizing especially after storage. I probably sell 4 or 5 sets every spring and I am in a fairly small city.
That’s some quality rope.
you've got lots of rope; fasten the other side the same way.🤣
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned
from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the
Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by
reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated
central gas station per city or county. Now they even want to slow down
all the gas pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From
2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as
exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox
oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no
investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even
created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime. (BABVVEN/TEBBVEN laws)
Sorry guys, you missed the biggest problem on that car, it's the
goodyear tires
Those Goodyear's gotta be over 15 years old probably 20!
The people who are watching this more than likely wouldn't do sht like this. It's the people who don't /won't bother or care or who somehow think they are doing someone a favor by saving money that need to be slapped up side the head. DO ALL YOUR OWN CAR REPAIRS OR BE ACTIVE IN THE REPAIRS YOU PAY FOR.
Who installed the new front suspension system on the Mustang?
Please. We all know that I am the final boss of hackery. This is amateur hour
Being a Mopar wrench at the dealers, brand new I seen some badly rigged factory built total junk.
Like 1000s of brand new 604s with no reverse.
Reason? Government mandates on milage and chrysler couldn't make the 604 work completely so they just shipped anything with the trans out in the vechiles .
We spent weeks replacing every tranny-mission working every Saturday and behold most 604 transaxle failed starting around 30-40k than between 80=100k
I have said so many times what in the world ass those chrysler ass monkeys doing.
I made good money wrenching at fox hills in Plymouth michigan
Nothing lasted to long..
Wow & WTF...?!? Just wow...! Thanks, keep up your awesomeness and go enjoy some nature today...! Don't forget to compliment someone today...
What county in Tennessee is this guy located in? I WISH TO AVOID those shops ...since I am looking for property to purchase .. in Tennessee. Huntingdon, Carroll counties...Milan TN area.
You'd get a lot more money for that 1968 Mustang if you pulled that 427 and sold it, put a 289 back in it. That car will never hold together with that kind of torque and horsepower.