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00:00On this episode of Hot Rod Garage...
00:02Bondo, condo, zero down, zero monthly.
00:04Come on down, we're giving them away.
00:06Tried to.
00:07Tried to.
00:30Welcome back to Hot Rod Garage.
00:31I'm Alex Taylor and this is Lucky Costa.
00:33Hello.
00:34We have a new project car for Hot Rod Garage.
00:37And by new, it's not just new in the garage
00:39as far as the vehicle goes,
00:40but it's actually a new shape and style
00:42that we haven't had the chance to play with.
00:44So behind me is a 51 Plymouth on a 79 Monte Carlo chassis.
00:49This falls in the group of a lead sled.
00:52Yeah.
00:53I think it checks all the boxes for a lead sled,
00:55except for the sleddy look and the lack of lead.
01:00Everything else I think is on point.
01:02I mean, I still think that it falls in that category though,
01:05because even though it may not be technically done with lead,
01:09it's done with Bondo.
01:10It's the look.
01:11The lead sled is the look.
01:12So, lead sled.
01:13Lead used to refer to the fact that when the car was chopped
01:16and shaved and reshaped, it was filled in with lead.
01:19Now a lot of them use Bondo.
01:20And then the sled part refers to the fact that it's chopped,
01:23lowered, and it looks like it's just kind of gliding down the road.
01:26Yeah, chopped channel, pressed on the ground.
01:28It looked like a sled.
01:29So that's kind of a new something that we haven't had the chance to play with on Hot Rod Garage.
01:33So we found this one pretty much sight unseen other than a couple pictures,
01:37and we picked it up because it was a good price.
01:39And now comes the part where we find all of the quirks and the shortcuts
01:43that most likely come when you buy somebody else's lead sled project.
01:47If a lead sled has drywall screws, tech screws, mystery parts, and awning parts,
01:53yeah, I guess it is some kind of sled.
01:56No, I mean there is some truth to that.
01:58However, I do think though that we could get it lower to fit the sled part.
02:02Oh yeah, yes please.
02:03Yeah, okay.
02:04Absolutely.
02:05So this one's a really good starting point.
02:07It's a decent starting point.
02:09But we do need to address a couple things.
02:11First of all, we need to get it running and driving.
02:13There's a little bit of a wiring issue.
02:15Potentially may need to replace a starter.
02:17And then also something that's kind of important is when the body is attached to the frame.
02:22This one sits on there and it's attached with a couple zip screws, tech screws,
02:27whatever you want to call it.
02:28There are no body mounts.
02:30So we need to address stuff like that and suspension.
02:32And I'm sure once we get it on the lift, we're going to find some other stuff for it.
02:36But that at least gets us going.
02:38So the main goal for now is to get it running and driving, cram Lucky in the car, shut the door,
02:43and then Lucky and I are going on a malt shop trip.
02:45A malt shop trip is a perfect excuse to go for a test drive and see what this car actually needs
02:51to make it a functioning, cool sled sled.
02:54You've come a long way, grasshopper.
03:00Oh my goodness.
03:01Don't go into there.
03:02Wow.
03:03You guys remember when I said I had a good starting place?
03:05It's got an interesting starting place, I should say.
03:08So this cross member here, it's just two pieces of what looks like channel?
03:14Angle iron.
03:15Angle iron?
03:16No channel iron, you're right.
03:17Welded together with no other structural reinforcement with one bolt through the middle.
03:25Wow.
03:26The exhaust held onto said cross member with a very lightweight chain.
03:32This is a good chain for hanging fluorescent lights.
03:35Yeah.
03:36So in the future, if we need to hang some fluorescent lights, we have a little bit of chain here that
03:41we can use that is just amazing.
03:43Fortunately enough, I have no tools.
03:46Lucky.
03:47I made this for you.
03:48Aw, thank you.
03:49Is this a friendship bracelet?
03:51Did we have a Tay-Tay moment?
03:53You know the nicest thing on here is the lines for the presentation.
03:56Oh no, these are the Amazon ones.
03:57These are like a dash 5.3.
03:59So it's fake nice.
04:00Not even dash 6.
04:01It's fake nice, okay.
04:02Yeah, it's faux nice.
04:04Look at the motor mount, too.
04:06The other side's half attached.
04:08Yeah, yeah.
04:10I think that's like grade 3 bolts, too.
04:12This guy obviously lived closer to a hardware store than he did to an auto parts store.
04:17I actually agree with that.
04:19Where are the body mounts?
04:20Those are really missing.
04:21Hey, look.
04:22I mean, this is a new shock.
04:24Well, new shocks.
04:25Well, yeah, I'm sure that got everybody's attention.
04:28And then the back half of the frame is just gone.
04:32Yeah.
04:33This is...
04:34What kind of connector is that?
04:35It's like air fitting.
04:37That's bad.
04:38That is a legit air fitting.
04:39It's a push lock air fitting.
04:40Attached to the gas tank.
04:41To the gas tank.
04:42Huh.
04:43So we have, I think, a little bit bigger project probably than we initially anticipated.
04:49We can get it running and driving and all that.
04:52But if we want it to be anything nice, we got a lot of work.
04:55Or we can just opt to have fun with this, which may be the better option.
04:59Do you still want to drive it?
05:00I would love to drive it so I can see you do this.
05:03I appreciate you.
05:05Okay.
05:06If we're still going to drive it, we only have a couple of things to do underneath here.
05:11And that would be upgrade the muffler hanger.
05:13And then we pop the trunk.
05:14I'm very curious to see what's in that trunk.
05:16I've only seen it through the rear deck.
05:18And then make sure there's no fire.
05:21Well, I know there's fire about to happen in the trunk.
05:24So we'll straighten that out.
05:25And maybe we should just make sure the body's not going to slide right on off.
05:29It's tall order right there.
05:31Okay.
05:36Time to work.
05:37Remix?
05:38Yeah.
05:40What are you guessing?
05:41Lawn mower?
05:42I don't know.
05:43Read the cap.
05:44See what it says.
05:46John Deere.
05:47No, it doesn't say that.
05:48But it should.
05:49This mixed with this.
05:50Someone went through the time to make a mount for two and a half gallons of fuel.
05:56That is definitely closer.
06:00That's the worst sound.
06:02Oh, it gets worse.
06:03What a joke.
06:10So they took the time to make a mount, yet it is halfway held in and it's a piece of wood.
06:18So it's a very interesting, it's like they almost did it, but then they stopped.
06:22Sorry, I'm adjusting the fuel system.
06:23My bad.
06:24Go ahead.
06:25No, it's okay.
06:26Okay, let me shut this down.
06:27We're going to put it up.
06:28We're going to do a muffler hanger, secure the fuel cell.
06:31Then I think we'll see if it'll start up.
06:32This may be the most interesting test drive all year.
06:36Is it in park?
06:37Yeah.
06:38How do you know?
06:39No, that wasn't park.
06:40It totally was not in park.
06:44Sounds great.
06:45That sounds lovely.
06:49Awesome singing voice.
06:54It's done.
06:55That's it?
06:56No more crates.
06:57All right.
06:59I think we killed it.
07:00Do you see smoke anywhere?
07:01Not yet.
07:02Okay, we're good.
07:03All right.
07:04I think I got, yeah.
07:05Let me just find something to jump.
07:06You want to check the battery?
07:07Yeah.
07:09Ready?
07:11Good grief.
07:18I think it's got one start left in it.
07:20All right.
07:21Let's put a starter in it.
07:22Call it.
07:23We're changing the starter.
07:24Look at us.
07:25We do stuff right.
07:26Kind of.
07:27I've never heard one that bad before.
07:28That's really bad.
07:29So that was a really bad sound.
07:31Don't you agree?
07:32I concur with your diagnosis.
07:33That sound was very poor.
07:35We were going to start by using the old starter, but that didn't start the car.
07:38So now we're going to start putting this new starter on.
07:39Whoa, you're saying start because it's a starter.
07:40See what I did?
07:41That is hilarious too.
07:42I know.
07:43I know.
07:44So the flex plate, not the flywheel, flex plate.
07:45Flex plate.
07:46It's a flywheel.
07:47The teeth are polished just on the end, which means the sprocket seems quite
08:07Yeah, it's a flywheel.
08:09The teeth are polished just on the end,
08:11which means the sprockets seem to be too small.
08:13And if you actually look at these,
08:15the teeth are starting to be rounded off.
08:17They're deburred. They're just deburred.
08:19They're more than deburred.
08:21But that still looks usable.
08:23Yes.
08:25If we have the right starter.
08:26Right. This bindex, or gear right here,
08:29is larger in diameter than that one right there.
08:31This actually looks like it's going to be a lot better.
08:33And that one looks like it's more of a puree-less blend.
08:36Yeah, it's definitely got a different teeth angle than this one.
08:40This one is starting to fold over.
08:42Right. So it may still grind,
08:44but it's going to be a different kind of grind.
08:46Maybe it'll be like grind start, not grind enough start.
08:49Maybe.
08:50Okay, hit it.
08:56Okay.
08:58Yes.
09:00So it started up.
09:02I can clearly see that it's 14.9 volts.
09:04The alternator is charging.
09:06There's no reason why we shouldn't drive this.
09:08Actually, there's lots of reasons why we shouldn't drive it.
09:10See you in the streets.
09:12Careful. Whoa.
09:14Whoa.
09:15Sit down.
09:16Do we have brakes?
09:17Kinda.
09:18Does it steer?
09:19I don't know.
09:20Okay.
09:21Does something already smell hot?
09:22You know what?
09:23Maybe.
09:24I definitely smell hot.
09:25I looked at the firewall and it seemed like it was relatively sealed.
09:28So whatever happens up there, we'll see on the big TV screen here.
09:30Okay.
09:31My legs are hot.
09:32Is that the sun or is that it?
09:33Yeah, it might be the sun.
09:34I don't think it's the sun.
09:35There's a crater right there.
09:36Oh.
09:37Man.
09:38Whoa, whoa, whoa.
09:39Are you making it go faster?
09:40Don't do that.
09:41You're going crazy fast right now.
09:42This feels like 35.
09:43Pretty sure we're doing 15 miles now.
09:44Yeah.
09:4515?
09:46Yeah.
09:47Yeah.
09:48I don't think it's the sun.
09:49We'll see on the big TV screen here.
09:50Okay.
09:51My legs are hot.
09:52Is that the sun or is that it?
09:53Yeah, it might be the sun.
09:54I don't think it's the sun.
09:55There's a crater right there.
09:56Oh.
09:57Man.
09:58Whoa, whoa, whoa.
09:59Are you making it go faster?
10:00Don't do that.
10:02You're going crazy fast right now.
10:06This feels like 35.
10:07Pretty sure we're doing 15 miles now.
10:09Yeah.
10:1015?
10:11Yeah.
10:12Look, okay, to be fair, it's the car.
10:15It's not me.
10:16Yeah?
10:17I've used that before.
10:18It always seems to work.
10:20Hey, when we make a right here, find some shade to pull over in.
10:23Okay.
10:24Because I never actually saw the electric fans come on.
10:26I think it's overheating.
10:28Oh, be careful.
10:29Oh, yeah, nice.
10:30Whoa.
10:31The body just moved on the frame.
10:34We just fishtailed and the car didn't.
10:37That's crazy.
10:38Give us a gas.
10:39That's it.
10:40That's all she got.
10:41You're giving it the beans?
10:42That's all she got.
10:43All right.
10:44That's good.
10:45Make sure it comes off.
10:46Oh, it's hot.
10:47Yeah.
10:48There is something not happening.
10:49I want some shade right there.
10:51Now listen.
10:52No spew.
10:53I don't hear it.
10:54Yeah, no.
10:55Turn the key on and see if the fan comes on.
10:57No.
10:58No.
10:59The key on?
11:00Yeah.
11:01I don't hear the fan either.
11:02Oh, the fans just came on.
11:03Did they?
11:04They just came on.
11:05Oh, so there's the problem, clearly.
11:06Yeah, they were not on that whole time.
11:07Right.
11:08So we went for the scariest ride of my life down whatever street that was.
11:11So dramatic.
11:12Seemed like it.
11:13It was a little scary.
11:14We were doing 30, 35 miles an hour.
11:15It was the craziest thing you'd ever seen.
11:16And it started to smell like.
11:17It got hot real quick.
11:18I often say she got some steam in her.
11:21It smelled like it actually had some steam in her.
11:23And then just standing here, we stopped to make sure the fans were working, and they
11:26have not been running.
11:27And then they just randomly kicked on.
11:28We shut the car off and turned the key on to listen for fans.
11:30I don't know.
11:31I don't know.
11:32I don't know.
11:33I don't know.
11:34I don't know.
11:35I don't know.
11:36I don't know.
11:37I don't know.
11:38I don't know.
11:39I don't know.
11:40I don't know.
11:41I don't know.
11:42Can you turn the car off and turn the key on to listen for fans?
11:44I don't even know if the key's on right now.
11:45Oh.
11:46You know, that's a good point.
11:47A key is not on.
11:50Okay.
11:52Turn the key on.
11:53Maybe the fans shut off.
11:56Nope.
11:57No?
11:58No.
11:59Okay.
12:01I'm sure it's one of the red wires.
12:03I'm scared to put my hand in there.
12:04You should be.
12:07I mean, it's running now.
12:11Violently.
12:12Are they going the right way?
12:13I don't know.
12:16All right.
12:17So the temp.
12:18Oh, maybe the thermostat just never opened that whole time.
12:20Or with the temp center hooked up, the fans work.
12:23I'm sorry.
12:24What were you saying?
12:25Let me shut that out so we can finish talking.
12:27The fans work.
12:29I guess it just smells hot.
12:30Well, you know what?
12:31Has this thing ever been?
12:32Is this the main voyage for this thing?
12:34Maybe.
12:35I mean, it doesn't ever look like it's ever overheated.
12:38Yeah.
12:39Let's go again.
12:40All right.
12:41Hold on.
12:42Let me turn the fans on.
12:50Help me.
12:52Hold on.
12:54Oh.
12:55I've been holding on since it started.
12:57What are you doing?
12:58So on the short list, we need to overhaul all the suspension, lower the seat, close the trunk.
13:09We need to mount the body.
13:11I mean, it's not good.
13:15That's the exact opposite of what we always say.
13:17Like, hey, it's not bad.
13:19On the bright side, though, giving credit where it's due.
13:21It does run.
13:22It drives.
13:23It stops.
13:24It's got a long list of stuff that we need to do.
13:26But it has potential.
13:29Woo-hoo!
13:32I think the frame.
13:33Oh, what was that?
13:34How did it drag?
13:35I don't know.
13:36Oh, you know what?
13:37It's exhaust.
13:38Oh, yeah.
13:39That anger that didn't quite do so well.
13:55On the bright side, we made it back of all parts.
13:57Yes, and we have a mental list of just a few things that need to be taken care of.
14:02Uh, body mounts.
14:04Yes.
14:05Fan addressing.
14:06Yes.
14:07Uh, seat height.
14:10Yes.
14:11Everything to do with suspension.
14:12Right.
14:13And add exhaust to the list.
14:15We still have this one, though.
14:17Add it to the list.
14:18All right.
14:22Isn't that everything?
14:23All of this stuff.
14:30So after that little cruise, we learned a couple of things.
14:32First of all, I barely fit in here.
14:35I was potentially going to cut a hole in the headliner so my head fit in because it's rubbing on the headline.
14:40But honestly, I don't know what's going to get in my hair and my age.
14:44I'm just happy to have hair.
14:45So I'm not going to abuse it by sticking it into the mystery zone of the headliner.
14:48So I'm going to address the seat right now.
14:51Pretty simple application.
14:53We're going to take the seat out, set it up on a bench and figure out a way to take about that much out of it and still be comfortable.
15:00This is something you're not going to see every day. Check out the way this seat comes out.
15:03Just like a back seat.
15:11Looks like the base of the seat cushion goes right to the top of the trans tunnel.
15:18So shortening up the frame of the seat may be more difficult than it's worth.
15:22I think I'm going to concentrate on shortening up the actual pillow that we sit on.
15:27I don't know. Let me try it out.
15:33Does this seem normal?
15:35So one of the biggest issues we found with this car is that the body is not actually attached to the frame.
15:41And to fix that, unfortunately, we're going to have to add a little bit of height.
15:44We're going to be adding one inch body bushings with actual mounts.
15:48It's a necessary evil, but it's going to be for the best.
15:51Alright, so these are universal chassis mounts that we got from All Star Performance here.
15:56And basically they come undrilled and extra length.
15:59So that way we can cut them to the length that we need.
16:02So I'm just going to go through and pre-drill them.
16:05I've got them marked.
16:06Pre-drill them.
16:07And then we'll just cut off the length that we don't need.
16:09And then weld this to the frame.
16:11And then we'll be able to actually put our bushings on top of that.
16:14So, gone through.
16:16I've marked them.
16:17Center punched them.
16:18Go drill some holes.
16:19And then we'll cut them to length once we know what that length is.
16:23Okay, so we've jacked the body up off the frame on one side just to make sure that there's a little bit of an air gap in there.
16:28There's my measurement for how thick I want these spacers to be.
16:31I'm just using it as a reference.
16:33We're going to be lifting the body about one inch off of the frame.
16:37And then we have these bushings that will go on these brackets, putting our body right about here.
16:44But we want to be able to find a way to measure between the two mounting surfaces, one of them we have to weld in.
16:49So, I'm just kind of using that as a visual.
16:52I'm going to dice and slice to my content.
16:58All right, so I drilled some holes in our prefabricated chassis brackets, but then I realized after that it needed to be bigger holes.
17:06And so Lucky's like, hey, let me plasma that.
17:09And so he is plasming out holes so that way we can use these.
17:13And then I'm going to saw the bushing so that way it fits under here.
17:17You'll see.
17:18So all I'm doing is taking the bushing that looks like this and I'm shaping it to look like that.
17:24So basically it fits in here and it'll sandwich and then we can put the washer and the bolt through washer up here.
17:31So we're close to having body mounts ready to go on the clip.
17:37Okay, so what we're talking about right now is the few options there are to support the back of the vehicle.
17:44Like, it's just...
17:48That's the body bouncing on the frame that you're hearing.
17:51It's flexing and not the good flexing.
17:54The frame is cut off here.
17:57Clearly the body goes to here.
17:59Body mounts are here.
18:00The body mounts are all the way towards the rear.
18:02We could just drag a bar from there to there, a piece of square tube.
18:05We have some over there, some good stuff.
18:07Build a little frame, you know, end.
18:10But that's going to interfere with where we might want to put the tank.
18:13So we're going to go ahead and spend a little extra effort.
18:15Come all the way to the back, come all the way across and go all the way back forward.
18:19So we're going to be boxing up the rear of the frame that they already cut off.
18:23And that'll give us provisions to put new body mounts back here and support the vehicle the way it's supposed to be supported.
18:29We're going to mount the front and then we can figure out what we're going to do.
18:31We'll do a lot of stuff underneath.
18:32We can put the car up, figure out where the mounts are going to fit.
18:36Maybe I'll fit some of those brackets.
18:37Yep.
18:38And then you can maybe do some of the square tube welding fabrication for the back of the car.
18:42But we can do it all underneath.
18:43So we'll be in the shade and rust and dirt under the car.
18:46Lovely.
18:47It's a glorious day here.
18:48Just need a breeze now.
18:49We're good.
18:50So while Alex is over there grinding and welding, I've been doing a little grinding and welding
19:15myself.
19:16I whipped up a couple of the rear body mounts.
19:19She started it.
19:20I'm just kind of helping her out.
19:21Are you ready?
19:22Are you ready for the big reveal?
19:24I hope she likes them.
19:26There they are.
19:27So the idea was instead of welding this to the frame, cutting to the right angle,
19:31just welding it right to the frame, the contact patch would only be this amount,
19:35the whole, the body of the car.
19:37Potentially going to fatigue, crack and fall off or bend or something.
19:40So I welded them to a plate.
19:41That's going to give us a lot more contact patch and more area to weld it on there.
19:45Still going to bend, still going to fall off, but it's going to look good doing it.
20:10I'm going to hold this up actually.
20:19This is crazy.
20:20That's the axle.
20:21Wow.
20:22But we were going up and down before.
20:24Okay.
20:25You don't see the body hitting the frame there.
20:27That's because it's mounted.
20:28Okay.
20:29Something new.
20:30It is sitting one inch higher now, which we don't like, but it is mounted at the frame,
20:34which we do really like and we can deal with ride height later.
20:37One of the things I'm seeing that we don't have still is suspension.
20:40The body's not moving, but everything else is moving like it shouldn't be.
20:44Right.
20:45I mean, I guess that's what happens when you heat springs.
20:48That also explains the terrible ride.
20:50So we're going to replace them with new coilovers all the way around
20:54and get it sitting as low as possible, but also actually driving well.
20:58On hooked us up and we're getting ready to do that before we do another test drive.
21:02I'm driving.
21:03You're riding.
21:04Okay.
21:05We need an accurate test.
21:07So I need to see if Lucky reacts the same.
21:08Is it duplicate the same screaming?
21:09Exactly.
21:10Okay.
21:11I got you.
21:12All right.
21:13We have a suspension coming up and hopefully it's not as hard as the body mounts have been,
21:19but we are taking a 79 Monte Carlo bottom half and trying to attach it to a 51 Plymouth top
21:26half.
21:27Is it doable?
21:28Yes.
21:29Is it going to be time consuming?
21:30Yeah.
21:31But just think, there's going to be a great test drive that I'm very excited about to come
21:35after that.
21:36Oh, I'm excited too.
21:37Watch your fingers.
21:38All right.
21:39We just put body mounts on our 51 Plymouth lead sled that's on a 79 Monte Carlo frame,
21:49but on there was a very loose turn.
21:53Like you do.
21:54So we have suspension coming up.
21:56All new suspension, all four corners from all American.
21:59And hopefully it really takes our bounces and bumps and makes them a lot more smooth.
22:06Smooth.
22:07The only issue is that our lead sled is turning less sled and a lot more four wheel drive.
22:14Oh, the upside to that is these are coilover conversions.
22:16So we can set it at sled and then redial it up to, well, why would you ever take it off of sled?
22:23Yeah.
22:24At some point we may have to address the height issue, but at least we'll have good suspension
22:28and a mounted body and then we'll get into some fun stuff later.
22:30We could throw this thing away now if we wanted to.
22:33Nope.
22:34Okay, it's time for your beat to get a little more dust going because we got stuff to do.
22:39Good times.
23:04So the Alden American coilover conversion kit comes with a upper shock reinforcement.
23:10The deal there is the shocks are set up right now to just stabilize the ride of the car
23:15because there's supposed to be a spring in front of it that is in a much more sturdy area.
23:20Sturdy, yeah.
23:21We're going to be relocating the spring to the same location as the shocks.
23:24So they make this pretty nifty little shock reinforcement.
23:27Very nice piece.
23:28I wonder if we can do this without cutting the floor out.
23:31Wow, wouldn't that be nice?
23:35It's pretty close.
23:36All we have to do is do a little notch.
23:38Oh no, we can't disrespect the Alden American.
23:41No, you just got to do a little notch for him.
23:43And then Alden American sticks down below so you can see it from the back and the braces on the top.
23:48Yeah, let's do it.
23:50I hog a couple of holes to the correct size.
24:02And this is actually fitting right in.
24:04Who would have thought that if you did your homework stuff would work?
24:08Huh.
24:09Okay, so the rear Alden American coilover conversion brackets are all installed.
24:25They bolted up, no problem.
24:27The billet aluminum shocks that are adjustable for ride height and compression and rebound are all installed.
24:34The reinforcement bracket that stops the frame from flexing in is all installed.
24:39I think we're about ready to throw some tires on the back of this and go join Alex in the front for a brake party.
24:47We're going on a brake.
24:49So when we were doing the front suspension, looked at the calipers as they were hanging there and the brake hoses that were there.
24:59They're dry cracked and nasty and all this.
25:02We're like, okay, if we're already here, we might as well go ahead and replace it if we can get the stuff.
25:05And we could.
25:06So while Lucky's finishing up in the back, our brake parts just arrived.
25:10We didn't plan on doing it, but luckily they had some right down the road.
25:13So going through, packing bearings, which isn't a bad thing.
25:17That way everything's fresh.
25:19Brakes worked before.
25:20They worked well.
25:21But now we can prevent having any other issues.
25:23So we wanted to go for a test drive today, but just like everything else, one thing leads to another.
25:27So we're going to go ahead and get everything nice and right.
25:30And then we can hit the streets and then we can do more work after that.
25:34Wah-ha-ha-ha.
25:39So this is a painless wiring harness.
25:40It was somebody who attempted to install it.
25:43Luckily, I've seen this many times where they leave just spools and spools of wire because, oh, they might need them later.
25:49If you're putting in a harness in your car, it's a harness for your car.
25:53So tailor fit it to your car.
25:55Cut it.
25:56You don't need.
25:57Are you ever going to put power door locks or windows in your car?
25:59No, you're not.
26:00Cut that out.
26:01You don't need it.
26:02You don't need to spool up wires in case you're going to decide to move your taillights or brake lights three feet in some other direction.
26:08If you put it in your car, fit it to your car, make sure it's safe, route it through grommets, zip tie it up.
26:15This really, there's no reason for this.
26:18It makes zero sense, except for in our case.
26:22Luckily, they left spools and spools of wire under here.
26:25And I'm going to be able to thin it all out and custom tailor it to this car.
26:30It will go from one fire to the next.
26:34All right, well, Lucky is working on wiring and the mess that that is.
26:38I'm going to address the hole in the floor that we found once Lucky pulled the carpet out.
26:42So I'm going to make a pattern off of this, but since it's already a hole and it doesn't really matter what shape that hole is,
26:49I'm going to go ahead and square up the lines for it.
26:52That way it's easy to cut a pattern for, it's easy to cut a patch panel for, and it'll be easier to weld in.
26:58So clean this up and then make a pattern cut and bend and all that fun stuff.
27:03No smoke, no runs.
27:18However, it's lighter because I took about 40 pounds of wire out of here.
27:23So that's going to help the 60 foot time, but it's not a drag car.
27:26It is charging.
27:27It started back up.
27:29So yeah, nothing's on fire.
27:31I think maybe that's a racket.
27:34Let's see what else we got going on here.
27:45Pump up the volume.
27:47Okay.
27:48Holding?
27:49Holding.
27:50How's the pedal feel?
27:51Pump it up.
27:52Feels good.
27:53Start it up.
27:54See if it actually retains boost.
27:55Okay.
27:56Pump, pump, pump.
27:57Whoa, stop, stop.
27:58Turn it up.
27:59Up, up, up, up.
28:00Do we have a cooling leak before?
28:01No.
28:02Yeah, we have one now.
28:03Why?
28:04So there's this time when the body was loose on the frame.
28:05Oh, I see where this is going.
28:06And the radiator was dangerously close to the front pulley.
28:09Uh-huh.
28:10Well, apparently if you jack it up.
28:12Yeah.
28:13And the radiator could not be a cooling leak before.
28:15This is right.
28:16Pomp.
28:17Pomp.
28:18Pomp.
28:19Pomp.
28:20Pomp.
28:21Pomp.
28:22Pomp.
28:23Pomp.
28:24Pomp.
28:25Pomp.
28:26Pomp.
28:27Pomp.
28:28Pomp.
28:29Pomp.
28:30Pomp.
28:31Pomp.
28:32Pomp.
28:33Pomp.
28:34Pomp.
28:35Pomp.
28:36it puts it just past dangerously close and directly into the danger zone yeah a couple of tubes
28:47all right so the deal is we started it up to make sure the vacuum brake booster was working
28:51correctly after bleeding the brakes and the first thing it did was cut a hole a perfect hole i might
28:56add right in the middle of the radiator almost exactly in the middle in the spirit of backyard
29:02hackism we are going to just use a little bondo smear it over the wound let it dry and then we fly let it
29:10dry and then we fly
29:30yeah pull forward
29:40all right so now that we've taken the racks of the tracks off of the seat and set it back in here
29:56it's given us like maybe an inch or two i mean i could do this before there is no us there is
30:00only me you're right i'm sorry so there's a thing in here called headroom you're not familiar with it
30:04because you have so much of it yeah i on the other hand was wearing a hat in the shape of a dirty
30:10filthy dusty hot rod well that's unfortunate yeah but we have to test today i have to hit every
30:18bump i can and make sure you're still okay believe you me it's a test every time i ride with you it's
30:22already a test anyway okay in a good way okay you exit i get in hey stop breaking stuff we've been
30:31trying to get out of this shop for two days i didn't know it was telescopic that's cool
30:35uh get out all right
30:43all right so we rolled our plymouth lead sled out so we can see it in a different light
30:48we were hoping that maybe once we got out here the stance might look a little bit better it doesn't
30:53so while we did put coilovers on this and they are fully adjustable and they're really nice we have
30:58them set at the very lowest setting and it's still sitting super high this is not an all an american
31:04problem our ride is going to be great our looks however not so much and yes we could fix it but
31:12that's going to require a whole lot of work it's going to require cutting the floor up channeling the
31:15body over the frame do frame mounts all kinds of stuff yes we could do it no we can't do it today
31:22maybe we'll touch it one day hopefully not ever
31:30it's a little noisier than before it's a good noise though
31:35you can't hear all the rattles i want to say hit it because it sounds like we're in the back of a
31:40boat we're idling around the dock hold on that's a little better a little better
32:00we have to put exhaust on this yeah it's so bad whoa whoa whoa
32:14we lit we didn't even accelerate
32:18that's better that's that's probably better yeah i can hear the rattles on the regulators inside the
32:24doors yeah the car seems pretty solid i can't hear so the transmission works good yeah i said the
32:31transmission works good yeah
32:41whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa now you can go
32:44i'm sorry i was watching hours i know you were i know you weren't watching it but we were done it's okay
33:03i thought generally you're going straight i get it turns are new to you
33:08all right uh i had a really good drive i'm gonna enjoy my snack thanks for waiting
33:19anyways so overall the car is still awful
33:26however i'm liking it a little bit more it did get us to treats it did it did so part of it right
33:32now is we can't think straight because it's so loud and exhaust fuming in there correct
33:36which is on you because you got the hole in the oh and the hole was over there it's on you you
33:40didn't put the muscle back on all right we're both responsible yeah it's a 50 50 issue here cool so
33:45we have a hold a patch we have a exhaust to put on and then the car might be halfway
33:50yeah unfortunately that's it for this episode with this car we're only halfway through really yeah
33:56great all right that means you guys can follow us right back to the shop because we have all of that
34:02to do plus we have a little special treat kind of like this oh speaking of treats um i finished mine
34:09can i get a a leaf a leaflet thank you crumbs lucky and i went on a test drive and we had a abundance of
34:26exhaust flowing in the car so i just got to finish welding this patch panel in and then lucky is going
34:32to add exhaust because we can't hear we can't faint and uh it was very smelly in the car
34:41i'm hoping we might heat it enough that it will
34:44bend up just far enough to get the end over the trans cross member i think this is going to work
34:56keep going keep going a little more that's it we did it everybody
35:09okay finally that's it for this episode let's put this yard art back in the yard and move on to
35:15something no it's not why you're shaking your head because you know that's not true
35:18it is yard art it's yard art but we are not done with this episode as much as we'd like to be
35:26everything else has kind of failed uh this has been very interesting turns out when you buy
35:34somebody else's project that's a 51 plymouth on a 79 monte carlo chassis stuff becomes questionable one
35:43man's junk is actually another man's junk in this case yeah our lead sled turned into a bondo condo
35:50because we took everything that was somewhat okay about it we made it worse by making it better so
35:55new suspension good great grand however it's now a high-rise condo full of bondo we have no lead sled
36:02coolness going on so for payoff what do you think we drive about a mile that way and pull over and
36:07break down we drive a couple miles this way pull over and break down you know as interesting as that
36:11sounds i was thinking maybe we took it back to its friends that way the junkyard yeah oh the wreck
36:17yard yeah i'm sorry that's automotive dismantler now you know what i'm thinking what i actually
36:21already have a plan lucky just doesn't know it and we're going on a trip great okay it's time for a road
36:41it's going straight what's wrong with this car going straight that's it working pretty well i know
36:47i forgot how miserable this last drive was hey we actually made an improvement we made some improvements
36:53because our hearing was shot our brain cells were shot it's actually we can hear each other talk now
36:59yes it's a nice driver i don't smell too much fumes yeah not too much overall
37:07i guess it's still a rag
37:13so uh do we have more stuff to do with this thing i was wondering if we could park down there i think
37:17it's got a better view oh yeah you know what yeah they're surfing down there you know they got the
37:22flags you can't surf in this right let's go down by where the surfers are so yeah i think we can
37:26um that's new yeah no we can't go down there well you know what lucky for us this is a great spot
37:39does yours seem all right to you yeah i brought some stuff for us like what here yep uh-huh is this for
37:46me thanks this for you nice there you go uh-huh got it stay there
37:59i'd like where you're going with this
38:02please take just like new like like new we start the whole thing off dishonestly just sit down all
38:10right well can i have some popcorn you want to get some popcorn she said no so everything that
38:19we've done with this car has been kind of a bust and we made it worse you know it's safer it's safer
38:25i don't necessarily know that it's any better well we made it the right we mounted the body correct
38:30it's not falling off i will say that yeah but we put good suspension and now it sits too high
38:35we should heat it a little not a little at a time we kind of are so what we were thinking
38:44is maybe we could get something good out of it you know have a good conversation with
38:49pastor buyers on the beach here and so we have more sale or you can take it actually just take it
38:55off of our hands i i this is a really nice community i don't think they're gonna take it
39:01they eat everyone needs flower pots if you know if this is yard art yeah i think the yards down here
39:07are a little a little expensive yeah do you guys want to take yeah you want a car uh yard art it's
39:15so bad no one wants to take it but you know what we're gonna sit here and enjoy the beautiful breeze
39:20make fools of ourselves and try to get rid of this hi guys hey how are you special on potted plants right
39:27now what's a 55 of plymouth what yeah 51 plymouth on a monte carlo frame it looks like the kind of
39:34projects you do on motor trends funny enough oh her i know you're on tv the driver yeah that's me and
39:45you're you're with her i am i am whenever possible okay well we had a really good interaction i thought
39:52we had to take her for a second yeah i like you who's walking who there would you say just yesterday
39:59we were sanding primer yeah and today we're getting ready to pound sand that's what everyone's telling
40:06us to do hey you want this you couldn't possibly give that away it's too neat oh yeah tough call
40:15there come on down come on down to winnebageland we're giving them away will you guys take care
40:21will somebody please please take this this car is awesome i think my brother would love it
40:30does it run kind of it it drove here we'll put it like that it drove here but it may not drove
40:36drive away we're hoping it does this is awesome my brother like loves cars like old cars why are there
40:44like stickers as like the gauges that's a great question we ran out of time to put the real ones
40:49in oh okay so that's just what it could look like wow we're trying to give it some vision yeah yeah
40:57how much is it going for are you super attached to that dog uh yeah very much so she meant we may have
41:04a take her brother may buy it so i feel like in good conscience we can't sell it right now this
41:14deal's done i mean we gotta at least vacuum at first she's gonna fluff up dallas and then we'll vacuum the
41:21car shampoo yeah smell pretty yeah yeah all right it seems fair let's get your brother's info okay sounds
41:28good oh wait we don't get to keep the dog i'm sorry oh man thank you thank you all right we should
41:37probably get back to the shop and get this thing ready for its new owner call for a ride you got the
41:41app no we have to we have to drive it back okay maybe we can sell it maybe it's ours
41:48all right well is it over it's over nice we made it you've been trying to make safe you've
42:02been trying to end this episode for like the last i don't know seems like since it started
42:08pretty much all right i'm glad that is out there yeah you've been trying to wrap it so now we actually
42:12get to wrap it up nice i was really worried when we got started that there wouldn't be enough to do
42:18on it i was really worried when we got started fair enough and then once we got it done i was
42:24really worried like oh we're just gonna go sit by the beach and try to get rid of our car this truly
42:30is the definition of it's not the destination it's the journey anyways as pain in the butt as this has
42:37been it has also been i mean halfway enjoyable there were some rewards it did get us through
42:43historical beautiful old torrents it did it got us some delicious snacky treats from a local bakery
42:50snacky treat it did do that um we had a fun test drive we've laughed a lot mainly at ourselves and our
42:57situation and the exhaust fumes inside the car could have had something to do with that too all right with
43:02that said we do have some nice parts on the car which leads us to a big thank you to all in american
43:08the nicest part on this entire car with that said you have social media i do i am mobile tech lucky on
43:13absolutely everything do you have social media i do i am alex taylor racing and we are hot rod garage show
43:18yes we are we can be done please
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