Hi Guys, 2 videos in one 1st is a progress on the amante gt that got an engine in its last video, now we start on the rust repair, next is a friends 1965 triumph herald he picked up abandond for cheap, lets see if we can bring it back to life, click here to see Justins full video on the triumph,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozLKJQFi-c&t=3s
Hey guys and how's it going hey, i got ta do a little amendment to this video before it starts. I just want to give a little heads up. I've been sick for uh about 28 days now, 27. 28 days.
I got the coof got me. The cover got me kicking my ass anyway, uh on the mend and uh just very weak, so i have not been able to do any filming, but what i do have is i have a half a video on this monte gt that i'm going to put together And then that is going to get followed up by a will. It run on a triumph herald like a 1965 triumph herald car that a friend got for cheap money. That was sitting for a long period of time, and we go about trying to resurrect that.
So that's what we got! I apologize in the middle like this will just kind of just stop at one point it because that's what it was. It was going to continue on with uh more on the car and getting the car completed, but that hasn't happened yet. So this is what i got for you. I hope you enjoy and uh another hopefully another week or two we'll be back in my game and we'll be back to uh.
Kicking ass, alright, guys enjoy take care, hey guys and how's it going hey we're going to continue on a monte, gt kit car that i bought about eight months ago and it quick backstory on it and recap and then we'll get into doing the actual wrenching on It is it we sat in a barn, slash like warehouse building for about 30 years and then um a family was clearing out the estate. It went to somebody that i bought it from that's the backstory of the car. We don't know too much other about. You know its past history as far as owners or anything but uh.
Again, it's been off the road for at least 30 to 40 years, when we got it had a blown up engine in it, the it came with another engine and that engine was also blown up so between the two of them. In previous videos, we uh took them apart and uh scavenged the best parts out of both them and made one good runner out of it. The engine is a uh porsche, 914 uh, 1.8 liter, that's in it carbureted and again everything else still needed its love. I did that off of video, so all new bricks, brake drums, uh brake lines, flex hoses emergency brake cables.
Every light has been taken care of every the directionals. The the horn mirrors hood pins door, locks door panels. All the interior stuff got functional again took the steering wheel shrunk that i got a smaller one, same style steering wheel, but it is two inches shorter and uh skinnier in diameter, so that when you're sitting in this car, you're kind of laid prone and your legs, My legs are really tight between the steering wheel and the dash there wasn't much room so having a little smaller wheel should help things out greatly. Wiper motor wipers said all the lights have been done.
The doors for the headlights were screwed up when you open and close them. They didn't line up to the body lines. Well, now that now it's right on the money and all that stuff works nicely again: directionals brake lights, hazard, lights, parking lights, uh, side, marker headlights themselves, high beam, low beam, switch. All that's been taken care of horns, two new horns in it wheels. I did uh, these were the rims that were on it, put new tires on it, and then i made this. I think, like a corvette or a chevy style, spinner, that's in the center of it. I bought center caps, drilled them out. Put these in the center of it for the look of a little bit of the mach 5, i guess is what was coming to mind: get all the door keys in the doors go check out the engine bay, and today i left off with grab a light.
I left off with um just putting it in getting it running. So since then, it was missing a panel down here and the hot air from the exhaust and the exiting air from the cooling air gets dumped out underneath the car. Well, you don't want that coming right! Back up, this is the intake fan. So all this was open.
I made a bunch of padding and sheet metal and tucked that all in there still needs a little patch around the muffler right there, how to customize it to make it fit. The back is still open. Air wise air has to come in from somewhere. So i'm going to see how that operates for us if it runs hot or not.
If, if it's good, i'm just going to leave it alone, if not, we're going to have to continue to do some more modifications and possibly making an air intake somewhere back here and relocating the plate, but i'm not going to do that until it's going to set A necessity new battery in it tucked in its little parking spot, taking all the lights fixed on it, the dash new wheel, all the door panels are put back together all the door. Uh mechanisms have been repaired as far as the door cranks and locks and the internal latches. Let me get you up inside there hold on so i got all the overhead switches done figured out what they were and labeled. They all pretty much tied to everything.
A little bit of a james, bondy kind of feel to it right and all the little dummy lights. Everything work on it too, as the ignition switch in the front, and then i cut up some side, moldings and re-screwed, the lid back on, because it was all beat up before it was left over so cut up. Some chroma belt line strips from a cougar leftover project and the dash is all good cleaned up. Radio works believe it or not and there's the latch right there, that is, for the uh, the headlight doors in the front command, and i took a little cue ball for the knob to go flip that back and forth.
So i think you're caught up to speed. Now we need to get into the floors back out of here, so the floors you can see where they're all blown out the section isn't terrible, but it's it's thin everywhere. That's probably the worst of it right there. It's just gone that whole section's gone.
Other side is not as bad, but it's thin they're, not. You know it's not all that much to begin with, i'm not sure what original floor pans are either 18 or 20 gauge, there's not much metal to work with to begin with. Again, this is uh a 65 karman ghia chassis, wider than a beetle. Well, i was able to order those three pieces supposed to be four, so i was able to get those three no problem and one of them was on back order kept saying two weeks. Two weeks two weeks and it'll come in well every time i went to go check after two weeks that number just kept getting pushed off even to this day that driver's panel is not available. So i'm glad i didn't order it because i didn't want to get stuck waiting uh in that circle. You know you don't get your money back in your because you're on, you ordered your panel, but it never shows up. This passenger side should be the mirror image of the driver's side pan.
So i think maybe we would try doing try doing what we could do to go. Make our own panel close enough and we'll use that to go hack in there. I can see it anyway. Right, it's a good place to go practice on.
I'm not sure if i want to try doing a bead roller or try folding it on a break for those bumps they're fairly deep, but uh. Don't worry another we're gon na get it all right. Let's go, get set up, start cutting some metal and have some fun, so they look like just sitting in there. This is the again the passenger side and they overlap each other pretty good.
So i think we'll be able to do a full floor. The front panel that we're missing, that is actually just the inverted panel of the other side. So we could actually use that and we should make a mirror image of it or try to make a mirror image of it to repair the other side. And we don't have to go that large, we're not going to use that whole pan.
Unfortunately, if you can see on the floor over there, where the the body kind of rolls out over the floor pan it sticks out, i don't know about four or six inches coming out over there. We're not gon na be able to get up underneath there to uh do any welding, so we want to try to maintain you know in about this far of an area for us to work with. So we got the size on this one now we'll call it 30 by 30 by 23.. What gauge is it i'm guessing it's going to be 18 or 20.
18 sloppy. I believe it's 20. yeah a little bit of an edge on it all right. Let's go get us a piece of metal to work with what we say was 23 by 30.
right there. So i take the two panels together. I think we're just going to make some guidelines going right across from the old one or from the mock-up to the new one. Let's say we just do something like that: we'll just keep going foil all right fit down in the groove.
You know what i mean. So i'm going to go chase those see if we can go get ourselves some tentative lines you got to get kind of close, especially if i cut it in with a hump sar it's going to have to line up to what's under the floor. If i can get past that not an issue, but i have a feeling we're going to be like inside there where we're trying to do the cut, so we have to be fairly close. So i'm going with something like that is the rough layout of what we need and we got to make it so that the dents go down again. This is the opposite of what we need. I have a feeling i may make the same level we'll see how it goes anyway. We need the dents to go down, let's go get a piece of scrap metal and try running in the bead roller again. This is all kind of like you to me.
I'm trying to learn - and i guess you're going to learn with me and we'll see what we kind of get from a little bit of response with different rollers and see how close we can get to mimicking what we got on this one over here. Homemade homemade adapted bead roller, as well as manual ones made into power. I haven't gotten to use it much. I guess we're gon na go.
Try now. I'm thinking these dies probably give us the biggest step. I'm not quite sure. We got a bunch of different profiles down there.
This one's gon na leave a just like a raised ridge. We need to step it down. So i think that's what we're going to need to go with. Let's go get those on.
There see how it works. That's a little gap between the two of them. Let's go see what that does for us. It's a decent step looks actually looks about probably about right.
Let's go look at the other piece of sheet metal, real, quick! I got ta crank down. Let's just get it right now: it's it's very open. Let me just get it to the line right there. You could always go over twice.
Let's go see what we get, though, going the wrong way. I am going the wrong way. That's not good yep! You want that down. So that's going to put: let's go.
Do that other line? It was a 50 50 shot. Wasn't it that's what we want a little bit more in the center all right, i don't know if i have enough room to spin it around. You know how how deep the machine goes that way to get the other line, so we may have to mark the other side and we can flip it over and do the other bend going the other direction we can catch all these, let's see what that, how Did this, how did that do for us? You think that's decent again we're just trying to get it, so it doesn't oil can when it's installed. Let me see how that goes.
For the rest, i'm probably going to go, try and do whatever lines. I can get depth wise, we can only go. We can get to this one. I think and then i'll mark the other side do the same.
We'll flip it around we'll try to grab the other one going. The other way now i'll bring you back. Hopefully, i'm not going to go to the ends and hopefully that'll try to keep the panel from warping too much, but we'll see i got a bunch knocked out. I'm up to right here.
I flipped the panel around. I want to do the reverse one and see how that's going to work out for us before going any further. Let's see what got ta bump up the voltage, so that does force again to 24 volts. I had it on 12 before looks pretty good huh. I don't exactly say the lines are the straightest, but it's a floor and we're just practicing. I like that all right, i'm gon na knock the rest of them out. Try to keep a little bit. Straighter 24 volts seems to be the ticket too.
That seems pretty good. Sometimes you just got ta play with your tool to know what it can do right or instead of drawing on the back side and trying to bend it the other way. Why don't you just take the rollers flip them around, so the profile's going the other direction yeah, i heard you see how that works for us looks good my pattern. Look a little on the wide side might be try to cheat the line a little favor to the inside of it.
Sometimes you go faster. You actually get a straighter line. Stop definitely don't want to hit the trigger when your fingers are in there kind of hit yourself with a hammer and the hammer stays starting to look like a floor. It worked out decent, except for one thing i was afraid of as you you make the panel more like that it kind of shrinks.
The panel up i was holding by hoping. If i left a lip alone, it would not allow it to go. Do that, but you can see we're like if i were to line that one up and probably be right there and then, as you go across as we get towards this one, you can see how much of a miss it is from the rest of it. These two - i guess, really don't matter because they're not going to touch up to anything again, but if i'm going to try matching that up to what's in the floor, that is going to be what the issue is.
I guess it is what it is: we're going to kind of keep moving forward. Maybe we'll try sticking this in the break and just flattening the edges. I wonder if maybe if i would have folded that before and gave it a little thicker brim or left more material out here, did it and then came back later on and sliced it back might have been a better idea. But again, that's the whole idea of learning right just give a little bit of a bend, maybe that'll help it yeah, really, hmm and just making it worse more.
I tried screwing with that more of a curve to put on the panel yeah, just it's getting oil key in like crazy, no more screw with it. That's the nature of it we'll get her in there, though yeah, by trying to flatten the edges there. It actually made it worse. I didn't think you think that went through.
I guess we can kind of, but i have a feeling what we're going to end up doing like i said anyway, we're probably going to end up cutting it back to right here. So this stuff may go away and the panel can kind of relax and we'll fudge it into place. So i think we should go over to the car and start whittling away and some of the rust on the car getting that crap out of the way and see what we can do as far as getting that installed, get you in by that pedal cluster. So that's got to come out of there. It's got two bolts in the back that hold it in place, but it's got a weird. This gas pedal normally is not here on a beetle. It's right up on this roller. Instead, they put a linkage up to this pedal.
This pedal is like three inches further forward than it should be. That's why it's probably so uncomfortable to work. The pedals too. It's just an odd um orientation between where your foot goes between the two of them.
Kinda looks like it would be natural being even but on a regular beetle. It's just laid out differently, so i may try going back with the original setup. Okay, get rid of all this get this pedal out of here. We're gon na get the cluster right out and then the master cylinder is right there.
It's the back end of the mast, cylinder and the rod that goes to it. So all this stuff is going to just come out of here that master's getting replaced anyway. So let me do some gutting so there that is out of the way. There's a clutch cable inside the tunnel that hooks to the pedal, the brake and then the throttle cable is right.
There jeans he can hear that clutch cable in the hole, master, cylinder forward and throttle cable is up there. We'll worry about that cluster afterwards. How i want to kind of go set it up and go back to regular beetle setup heat the petals up and kind of bend them out a little further give us a little bit of room uh. This is a caramel ghia.
Pan the karma gear pin is wider up here than a beetle is so you can. You know, kick the petals a little further separated apart. This is the brake line. This is the one that is shot.
That's going to get ripped out of there and then this was another fuel line they put in the fuel line that was in the car that goes through the tunnel. You might be able to see it. Okay, you can in the tunnel there that's the fuel line going through the center of it. I was able to clear that out and get that cleaned out, and that is what's hooked up right now, whether that functions for us or not.
I'm not sure we may go back to this one, but they have a couple of rivets this one right there all right there we're going to bend that up, lift it out of the way as far as just cutting, though i think we're going to try to Stay, we could probably go to the lip this, this blind you, this wall comes down. It makes an angle and there's about a three quarters of an inch reveal that this pan is welded to so we may go right to that on this edge. As far as forward as we go, maybe we'll stop right here and we'll kind of tap around on the hammer we'll see. If that front is solid, we don't have to get crawl up inside there and do that.
Maybe we'll leave well enough alone and then we'll slice we'll try to slice. First, we'll slice right at where this plastic lip is here we'll see. Maybe what we can do is we'll put the pan. We put it in we'll go above the lip here. Maybe we'll go underneath here and come up to the floor. We can weld it from the bottom and we can kind of you know crawl under there a little bit more. I don't want to screw with any of this. I don't want to have to get into taking the body off and all that try to work around this, and i really don't want to cut a bunch of this away.
I don't know if it's really adding any to the structure, but if i can leave it there, i'd like to, i think it was time for a funky, colored, sharpie and uh. Let's go do some drawing we're going to go cut. I see we go right in the middle that one and then we'll just come right to the the edge whatever we can get with the plasma cutter and then on this side, we'll kind of we'll stay away, because you don't want to screw up that lip. That's on the other side, so we're going to leave about an inch or two we'll cut that with the plasma cutter and then, when we get in here, we'll uh just get a chisel, we'll roll that piece of metal up and reveal that lip.
I think i should do us see what you've been doing to me. It does it's on. I never turned the air on that's. Why so look at the back panel sitting in there right now too.
I think i want to try and go fit that roughly into the hole where i want it to go, and so there's one problem with this car is that there's not much room between the steering wheel and the seat if i can get the seat to drop Down a little bit lower, it will be of much more usefulness, so the pan - that's underneath, looks just the same as this. So it has this lip. My thinking is, if we were to shave, say right there and i always leave the same lip on the bottom panel. We can kind of maybe get a little bit more depth out of it.
I can drop the seat down a little bit, so let's go do that. Let's go: take the plasma cutter, i'm going to go, trim all that right off of there we'll try to sink that down into the pocket and then we'll start cutting down the front one, and you know kind of dance back and forth between the two of them. They were a little closer i'd say i was leaving that tab on the front, not quite sure if we needed or not it has to go more. That way, i already sliced some of that off.
I actually think we can get rid of. Let's see we kind of knock it right down to there actually now, let's go give a little more, i'm not sure if i want to go to the wall with the front, i'm kind of second guessing that that area over there, whether we're going to go all The way to the end and this side as long as you can tuck it underneath this tunnel, let's go call it roughly right there yeah. I cannot draw a straight line to save my life. That way, we can kind of kick it under on this side and then, while i get the plasma cutter going, i'm gon na go do the same.
I think i'm gon na go slice out right down to the base of this and we'll try refitting this rear panel in again, we'll i think we're gon na work from the the rear and work our way forward into that one, because this is more the manufactured One instead of the uh, you know that one we got that bottom piece cut out and trimmed a little bit. On the top hand, you can see it's got to go back another about another half, but it looks like right here is where it's holding this up plus, you know, like, i said, i'm trying to extend it down a little bit further. So essentially, this would have been the lip that went to there, so i'm kind of trying to over fudge it. I think this has to get bent up some more to be able to receive it, and i was looking at there's three bumps right here. One two three that would have lined up to those three: i don't think they would ever line up because that's a good three inches off and that pant is not three inches more forward than what it should be. I think it's just the way the pan was uh stamped out again. You know it's it's an aftermarket piece, so we're just gon na hammer them smooth and we'll just kind of dent in where we need to when we're done. So i'm going to go, pull that back apart, i'm going to take a flapper disc, i'm going to go clean up the edges of both sides of it and probably take a little bit of work.
Maybe working on this. Bringing this lip up a little bit and see how we can kind of fudge the back one into its location and then maybe we'll just put a couple of screws in it to hold it. So we can remove it and start jumping onto the front. I got like three or four tack screws in it.
Maybe five six, the rear section, is kind of the line where i want to get at the front. It's still sitting up a little proud again we're gon na marry it to the other panel. I think we should do we'll lift the car up, we'll take a quick, peek underneath and see what kind of gap setup there is and what we can do. You know if we have to go hammer it down or do any kind of fudging underneath you can definitely see it's sitting lower than the other one.
At least it appears to be go see how our gap looks. I think we can tap all that flush with a hammer, actually doesn't look too bad. What about over there yeah. I see the same thing if i actually drop this side down and down on the hole a little bit more too.
This hammer fit that lip closer. I think that'll be okay, nothing, team, sealer can't hide all right. Let's go start screwing around with that set up there. Let's go cut out, we'll oversize the front piece and, like i said we're not going to go to here, so we actually probably slice that whole front section right off of that panel.
Let's see, that's how it goes so you buy one cadillac, something like the yellow bug. There's like four of them on facebook, yeah, that's what happens! Yeah, i'm low chip. You want to work, the gas and all kind of happy stuff and all yeah i'll. Give you power all right see if she goes. Let me know when you're ready to rip i'm ready break that throttle a little coughing smell it. She wants to i'll, do one more and i'll. Let that start to cool down yeah go for it! Here you go. Let it cool down a few minutes later.
You probably just want to crack that throttle. Maybe white wide open, just crack it open, yeah, clear out. He just flooded. Oh, that's good huh! I think your plugs are soaked yeah.
I think we'd flood. This spark plug socket. Go pop them out a little bit, battery's dead, ready. If you are, you could work fuel and intake.
You want to give a little fuel in there ready get some more give me some more give us a throttle. Almost went. Let's go give her some of that. She even makes it better or worse, promise him yeah stop it.
I can't get the fires of it. Oh yeah, yeah, good girl, just stay right above it when it gets going like dribble it in. If you can yeah, we lost it. What we lost it seems like getting nothing.
Let's try it look, we lost spark. Yes, i think one of the plugs right out of a look and see what the plug actually does. That should be enough to do what it needs to do. Yes, i i dump fuel down the uh number four plug right in it, see what it does.
It's not taking it yeah, it's not like it's. It's not sucking. You put your hand over it. Does it got ta draw to it when i crank it or yeah? I think it does but yeah all right so doesn't have an intake leak.
What are we doing we're doing see? We are getting very low on light, so we're gon na give her one last hail mary. Yes, it's pretty low, i'm light. I wouldn't put anything in it for fuel yeah, it's just kind of funny. I can see it in there.
So, let's go give her. One last spin see what she does doing it again. You don't like that. I don't think you're gon na get it tonight yeah.
I think you just got to let everything charge up, so you get everything. It needs more power as soon as we started as soon as we went yeah it had more a little more spin. It wanted to go yeah. I think you charge everything up.
Give her and uh try her for another day. Does this have a crank on the front yeah right a rope, put a rope around it and give her a yank yeah? I think you're right, i'm cooking, he's cooking, he's cooking! All right cook all right, so you wanted to try it with no fuel and see you guys see what happens anything yeah. Do you want me to open up the yeah that'll breathe it welds itself to the ball? Oh yeah come on. Don't trust yourself! Starter holds up i'll, give a little fuel now here we go that'll make for a good fire on my leg.
Just work run slow run in front of the camera. If you catch fire, make sure you catch that all right, there's bees in the car, it's going! What do you got for throttle full throttle? Yeah, i got full throttle. Um it likes a little more fuel, i'm gon na lower the car level. It out try to get the motorcycle a little bit more flat. So when we jump gas in at the front, cylinders are getting a little bit of fuel right now, everything's going uphill and only number four cylinder, probably seeing i fuel, i go all the way down. As far as you can don't bring me down, it's better yeah. It's easier to get on and off the trailer too it's gon na roll forward. Now yeah.
I don't think it's rolling. This is my sister's jumper cables very lady like they are, i think, there's a warning on them. Oh, it says: inspected past inspection sticker on there like these are the ones that you get with the kit, the little pink uh kit. Those are the ones that came with the volkswagen.
Actually, so that's reverse! So it's negative positive. Does it look odd to you that we're putting positive on the ground british right yeah, you want to give her a little bit of dribble. If i'd love to you ready, yeah, we're recording, shall we cameraman. It will never do anything unless you put power to it.
That was a prime hey career yep. Does it just loop and plug in on the other side? Oh just it just ties into halfway yeah. I think that happens. Let's go uh because that looks old, that everything else looks new, but except for that, so they make shitty electrical systems would make awesome starters.
They really do they had to make awesome starters, because i think um, i think leveling it out, helped it a lot yeah. I i don't know if it's just got low compression and just not enough to make it kick. It's got time in gears, not a chain right yeah. It's time, it's! Oh! No! That's good! Yeah chain! No, there's enough room for it! Gene! No! You want to grab a spark plug socket with a compression tester.
We just throw it into one cylinder. You can idea what we got if it comes out like 70 psi, then we know we're kind of yeah, we'll look up what that's supposed to be big. Well, it should be 100, at least it says zero. Does it no just crawling through the roof, either 68 or 88, most likely the lower number? It is a triumph, but look how clean it is in there.
That means you should at least run on that one cylinder yeah. Those two are a pain to get at what, if we just feel like a regular plug in it too, that weird would throw like some beetle plugs in it, maybe yeah. I just don't like that. The little it looks like it's like a 50 thou gap with that little tiny yeah.
That's weird! Isn't it it's like huge, but i think these are those fancy fancy spark plugs. Let's go look up. One look up at ngk, there's a no! It's supposed to happen! Triumph harold spark plugs. I should his wife is mod.
They show me spark plugs. They don't tell me what they are. Oh, they show you. What it looks like that's great thanks, famous radiator is stand part just because that spark is weird that sparkling. What it does is uh, it's very yellow. I wonder if they one if they're too long too and if it needs a shorter plug, i'm not being hitting the pistol yeah, but i wanted to have something to do with it question. What is that point? This is a bpr5egp. 25 000 is the gap than any 25 000.
That's for sure. But how do you gap that? Let's get that tiny little? That's something we put a regular bug plug in it bug plug that's pretty close to the yellow plug. Is that the right plug - i i don't know so, trying to find out gsp 4366? No, it's a standard plug for it. It's a ppr grab some bug ones with a um with the uh tip.
If you go yeah, i don't have brand new ones. We can go with that. You want boss, since the boss are longer whatever's close to that right. Normally, they take a distributor out to get the other two out.
Don't forget to take the cardboard off kind of like the plastic they put in the bottom of your shoes. Had somebody landed with a ski strap. Lady complained that her boots were really uncomfortable, sold a brand new pair of boots. She came in like a week later and the plastic that's in the boots was shove down on the bottom of the boots.
I don't worry if i spin the paint with that cardboard. That's left in them he's achieving me. You know how hard it was to tell her that what did i do? That was funny some reason he loves scaring me. I don't know why somebody likes to watch the joke things that can entertain you yeah.
This is just me. This is the new one right. Yeah, you can say no just for that. You've got a purpose, maybe they pulled the distributor out to change the spark plugs and they can distribute in the wrong spot.
I don't know because it seems like it wants to fire, though where it is, it does seem like it could benefit from going a little bit more in that direction and we could jump the um wires jump to make yeah i'll. Try that and then maybe i just do one three four two one three four two that sounds familiar well, that one's got an interesting. You can see it. Oh wait! Let it float.
What is that? The spider? It's an eevee tv, it's a metal there. It's just crud you're on auto focus. How do you get to manual places right there? Who knows you want to see what i'm talking about that might be an issue. I haven't used that oh m put it in manual mode.
You can still record manually just blew it away i'll, try. It, though, give me another new plug, sir. There you i'm gon na get go. I haven't figured that camera out, we'll figure it out one day, one day, that's what i'm practicing with this one right here that looks like a good 25..
That's what they come right there. You know 28.. Is it what they come from? This should be yeah. It really does, did you already under this one? I can't say i've ever done this trick before it works.
We got stan and smith and it's anybody else. What kind of carburetor is that? Oh, it's a cell phone, you could probably get a vw car right now. I was you know what you're totally close to the it's the same as a it's, a regular. It's like a 36 horse. What is it i pick? 28. It is a thick. What does it say on there? I think it's a pic say pick 30.. Now i was going to give another rip potato chip and then, if it doesn't go we'll try you're going to get three of the four plugs.
Of course, but um we'll see uh what happens if we take the wires, we'll stitch them one back across and that would eat again that time machine could do that. Give her some open throttle. Sir. Well, there's your problem.
There's your problem. Shitty plugs wrong plugs. She left it did a choo-choo back though i said, look at it look at it, you do what i tell you to do all right, all right, so we'll go see if we get one more plug in there and uh matter of timing chain or timing gears. It ran ready, yep, just don't give it too much gas, i'm just trying to keep it.
Okay go ahead, something actually stung a little where's that coming from, i think it's the rust. So our problem is totally wrong. Plugs such a weak spark. Every time we get too much gas, it just killed the spark that yellow spark that we're looking at just wasn't enough to do it cool.
I don't know if you want to try you feeling the carb, maybe a little bit. Let's get that, i can feel the flow yeah, it leaks like a sieve, but yeah, but it might run off of it. Can you fill it? This is loose right yeah. Can you just dump it right in the where the goes you have to refuel, just going right out, that'll make for a good fireball yeah right on the header? Oh perfect, um! Yes, i have a brand new cardboard.
I might be able to throw on this. What do you say to that we'll? Try it we'll just see what kind of what it does you want to try back in uh, just go and idle right now and just drip a little bit. If you want to see if it'll kind of idle, okay, actually sounding pretty good, too oops, oops don't pour out yet here we go there. You go actually sounds pretty good yeah, it's not too smoky back there yeah, that's a really decent drive, the motor part of it anyway.
I don't know about. I don't know the fact that it doesn't shift out of gear and the body's falling in half other than that. What flew out of the exhaust, what exhaust? What frame? I know it's bad. I think this is that's the frame yeah though you tried yeah.
No, i pulled i i reached under there. I was like there's nowhere really to tie this down. There was nothing on this side, so i just went to one side, i'm like it's not gon na fall off. Well that note we're gon na go call this.
I guess a win for now. You want to go, throw a carburetor on you. Can you probably get it to run off a few a bottle, but it was running pretty good. I mean that wasn't bad.
You could also take it to another level, too, is uh free up that linkage and that linkage may have been bound up because it was torqued forward and yard. Does it have a seat even in the driver's seat? There's a driver seat in there yeah you drive it tires. You got one tire hole in there. I think they're, four by 100. she's the peach. No fire, though i can set it on fire. If you like, sir, you ready, you want to prime her i'd love to yeah, i probably feel the football too yep should be good power, ready rock and roll yep fingers nothing running off the carp too much. It definitely was running off the car.
I fill it up again and we'll just try it off. Yeah, we'll see what it good yeah it's leaking out of the car, pretty good. We might want to be careful. It's sleeping right on the air.
Careful, okay, okay got like a run for just that's. Definitely running off the car, let it go, let it show i wanted to run. We should have made bets on how long it would run. I don't think a beetle will run awesome.
That's pretty cool sounds good.
The Herald chassis was under the Spitfire. The later (1500) ones were good looking and sporty little alternatives to the MGs. Sorry that kit car is horrible.
If you hadda English Wheel you could pre-stress your panel and then run thru the bead machine. Leaves your panel flat & accurate.
Whoa matey take it easy we will still be here till ur better make sure you and yours are fit and well. Keep taking the fluids (beer counts as fluids in my book)
Speedy recovery 🙂
I learned to drive (on the road) in a Herald…. no sync on 1st gear 🙂 and for cranking….I'm sure it had a hole in the front bumper (fender) for the crank handle…that could have been a morris thousand tho…. 🙂
Great to hear it fire up!
Always looked at those kind of 'drop lid' lights with distaste… I mean, you've basically built in an 'air' scoop' that'll affect the aerodynamics of the car. If you're going to do that – at least have some way for the air to flow through – maybe a grill round the lights and vents in the fenders.
PS. An 'Air Intake' at the very rear of the car would be a poor choice… you'd have a partial vacuum (lower pressure) at that point – you might actually draw air in – but you'd be straining the intake fan.
PPS. Watching you and the potential/actual YouTubbies in action just confirms the kind of man you are. Patient, kind and motivated to teach. You're one of six I watch avidly, including: Kris Harbour, Mike Hadduck, Andrew Camarata, Matthias Wandel and Poroldchap – for innovation, entertainment and downright homespun ingenuity.
Bit late, I know – but welcome back Mustie… had a couple of health issues myself so catchin' up on your channel… ya always bring a smile to my face.
Get well and a full recovery.
Unfortunately there are still people who think the Corona Virus is a hoax and not protecting themselves.
That virus will try and kill you & your family. Protect your self!
Cool Triumph. I used to own a Triumph Vitesse which is essentially a souped up version of the same car. The Vitesse has a 6 cyl engine with dual carbs same as used un the TR models and it has a different hood with 4 headlight. Tons os fun to drive
Get better soon. Covid a nasty piece of work that's for sure. Still amazed some think it not real and the vaccine risker then covid. In the USA there a 1 in 8 chance of getting it and a one in 61 chance of dying from it which are frighting odds.
Take your time and get well. We'll be here when you're ready to teach again. We got lots of your re-runs to review and pick up some stuff we missed the first time. Peace brother.
Given Mustie 1’s Trumpian “Stop the steal” screed, earlier in the year, I doubt that he was vaccinated. I think we should allow him to enjoy the benefits of “my body, my choice.” Surely the benefits outweigh 28 days of nasty sickness. His choice, so it’s not my place to second guess him. I wish Mustie 1 a full recovery from his choice.
Here's to a speedy recovery from Covid. It's a nasty virus. I've seen a few YouTube channels take a break for a while from catching it recently. Get well soon and take the time you need.
Sorry to hear you got Covid, very glad to hear you are recovering. I love watching your videos you are very talented in fixing things.