Guys go hook the coil back up, i refueled it the white wire, i refueled it fire it up different plug in it see if that skip goes away, that was it bad plug. Now it's on all four smooth. Two all right awesome running out of gas. Now yeah there goes here the idle come up, and i mean it's running lean at the last couple seconds nice we got it purr's like a kitten, all right, all right, hey guys and how's it going hey we're going to continue working on this uh 1970 amante Gt kit, car the body's a 70, the chassis is a 65 carbon gear and pick a year.

What you want to call it anyway, so we have two videos on it already, the first one was kind of going getting it and taking the locked up engine out of it found that that engine was uh pretty roached out, but it came with another one. So the second video is putting two of those engines together, putting it back in the car being able to get it to run. So that's where that is it's it's up to the point. We can go into it with a key fire.

It up doesn't have any fuel, you know the gas tank's, all corroded, no uh throttle is hooked up to it. There's tins that need to be addressed in the back, but you can start it with a key when you fill the gas line up with fuel, that's where it's left off. We have much more work to do so. We are going to hopefully carry the torch.

A little further in this one, i think i want to start with well one of the biggest issues is i don't fit in it. That's a slight issue right, uh off the camera. It didn't have any keys for the doors and the ignition, so that has been taken care of in the door. The door has been uh, all the cards and stuff have been replaced back on it, but here's where the issue is the dimensions of me in there.

I kind of smash into the steering wheel and then down to the pedals. So there's really not enough room for me to fit in there a couple things you can kind of do one possibly get a smaller steering wheel and or kick that seat back further. I'm kind of opting for kicking the seat back and see how that works out for us and, at the same token, there is some corrosion underneath that carpet down on the floor there. So i think it's going to be our direction.

We'll start with that and see where it goes, we have to get in there and kind of free up pedals, and i think i want to heat that clutch one up and bend it over. So all this stuff has to come out of there before it goes. Poof in the big flame, so all right, let's get set up, let's see if we can get that out of there and start doing some wrenching going to the driver's side, and this is where it's a little crunchy. You can literally stick your finger up inside to push the carpet up, so i know this area is kind of blown out.

I think these are the four bolts for the seats see i think, back to our for the seat belt. What do you think the chances are that those are studs coming out of the seat and they're not going to spin when i go to turn them? Well, i'm going to go just because all the rest, that's out, i'm going to go in with a wire wheel. Give it a fighting chance. Me luck, ha it's one anyway! Thank you all right see if that'll wiggle right out of there come on, come to me, they're fiberglass buckets, i think, they're out of a 1914, also just different, covering on coverings on them any money.

No, you got that whatever. That is what do you think that did it's got a separate. I think that's choke right there, but it's an automatic choke. It doesn't have a manual.

One anyway might have had a different engine. Who knows all right? We got a couple of seat belts, you probably should grab them while we're under there huh. Let me go clean this out of here. Let's even get this carpet right up and down looks like it's got old uh.

They found. What is that? That's a directional switch. It's one of them old house uh, carpet underlayment, but it's i think, i'm getting a little on the petrified side and get the seatbelt brackets out of there probably have to go. Put vice grips on them to keep them from spinning, and we yank all this out.

Do i have to get this out too? Will it get from underneath it nope just right up to it good it ended up taking this piece of trim off, it did have part of the carpet captured. It smells like the 70s yeah. Look at all that in the front and all that crap hopefully come up, not looking great. Is it let's dig all this crap out of here.

That's where i really expect it to be nasty as well all the water, puddles and then especially stuff like this. It just holds it there a lot of times, there's a brake line that runs across the back here and that brake line will rot out up by the pedal cluster, because water sits there too. So we may end up getting into that, but i can get all this out of here. Get a shot back back me up, bring you back, see what it looks like she's cleaned up a bit.

I got that out of the way and the back kind of expected it you know, saw that from underneath, but as i'm looking up front, you can see the light down below you can see it all through there, these punky holes there pulls there. So it's almost a whole thing. I think this is karma gear. Floor karma gear is wider than a beetle.

By about four inches, i think i have a patch panel. I don't know if it's for that side or that, so i'm gon na go grab it. We'll lay it in here again: it's for beetle, we'll see what that looks like if we could possibly use it for some of it. If not, we might end up making some of our own see how this goes there.

It is hiding back there come on. I can already tell that is going to be way too small. I mean we could fold down that edge. We have to that's for a battery a lot of times.

It might be the other side. Also not that's gon na matter for us on this. So if we tuck it right into that corner, what do we have for corrosion over there that we got ta fix yeah, it's right up to the edge it's right past it? No, i think i'm gon na go we'll get the rest of it out of there. We'll take a look at the other side.

Maybe we'll do a little shopping online, see what's available. What's gon na take to get to us yeah it's money and time. Sometimes you know stuff takes a couple weeks to get to you too, and i kind of want to keep moving. Let's get that out of there get the carpet out of the center, get the shifter off the e-brake.

Maybe we get that rear section out of there. It's all got to come out anyway, because we can't weld with this crap in here. This stuff will go up like a a greasy rag, and the mess on the passenger side did not find any money or any other vw type of contraband from the 70s looks like they hacked into the tunnel. What is up with that? Oh, i didn't know what they probably did.

They probably moved it. They must have moved the emergency brake and they cut the whole tunnel section right out of it, move the the uh shifter location, more than likely in the emergency brake location. So i think i think that's the regular seat bolt right there and they are back um 15 inches on the seat, location, yeah, i'll, go get all this cleaned out. If i have to take that console out to get the carpet out, i thought we could slip it out from underneath there got some crusty ready, crusty rusty screws.

Let's see, if that does that move yeah, we might be able to slip that carpet right out from underneath there, i'm gon na unbolt the shifter. This has two bolts in the center, but we'll get that out of our way and see if we can slip that carpet right out, i kind of want to inspect a little bit. Of that, too, is that back deck more the same. Hopefully, the metals get underneath here, though, this with a actually that's, that's, probably less kit car right there.

That's all the fiberglass of the car. What a mess all right, we're gon na go, do some more digging. Get all this crap out of here - i don't know if we're gon na get all this carpet out of here. We just essentially gon na concentrate on the floor, but i do wan na get this crap out and you know replace it with something else.

That's not like crackers. Well, that was a literally a painty ass, my old carcass up in there they riveted the carpet on in all the places. All those spots are where rivets are and usually you know those screws you take the screws out and rivets generally, you would drill them out to get them out, but when you're trying to drill with carpet it catches the carpet and spins it around. So i ended up just kind of like ripping right around where the carpet pieces were oh well.

As far as the floor is concerned, passenger side is in better shape. It's got some blowouts in it could definitely be patched the front's not too bad. I think this is the only section right here in the front on the uh passenger side. Driver's side definitely has more issues on it, so i'm going to go, do some shopping, we're either going to make them or make patches or we'll try to get if they? If they make sometimes they make like half panels, because the other part is shipping too they'll nail you if you try to get a full pan, which is all the way from there all the way to the front.

It's oversized shipping, so it'll cost you a hundred bucks, a piece just in that part of it not even including the price of it. So i don't want to get like you know. You start spending five six hundred dollars just in pens. I don't want to put ten fifteen thousand dollars into a five thousand dollar car, probably to put it right, so we're gon na see what we can do around that plus i i kind of wan na continue to um toning, my metal fabricating skills work on.

I don't even call it so we'll see. I'm gon na go. Do a little bit of shopping, see what's available all right, so the next night uh yesterday i was able to locate floors for it. Uh sections there's comes in four different pieces, the two rears and the passenger.

The front was not available. It is on back order, so we can still chase the other three possibly make the one that is missing by using the one that's going to be for here. It's pretty much the same thing flipped over just the the bumps go the other direction, so possibly we could make that might be make more than that see what we get when that comes in again, that should only be a day or two. Let's continue on and get see, get to see more what it means.

I know the gas tank is really nasty, got ta, come out, get cleaned and or replaced so get that off. I think the master cylinder is underneath there we're going to check to see what the condition of that is and then pull a couple wheels off see what the brake uh wheel, cylinders and shoes and all that kind of stuff looks like too and get that stuff. On order, so we can start getting all the bits together, not sure if we have to unbolt those whether they're event or not. Let's get the gas gauge part off.

I think what they did is they took a a beetle gas tank, spun it around the opposite direction and then took the filler neck, which is right below you. You can't see it looks like it's cut down and it they re-welded it, so it would fit under the hood. Just taking the screws out of things see that even the crap on the screws alone. I don't think this is a terribly expensive fuel tank and that all adds up right.

I see what we can there's only one bolt. I don't see any bolts down here around the front. The only thing i see is one right there, so you can get that out of there after we get any movement out of the tank, probably got ta flip it up to a gas line out from underneath it had vice grips. Underneath is the same.

You think yeah i'd say so: safety first huh one bolt. We have a gas line down under it, see that goes into the tunnel and a little splitter. It looks like it goes off forward, probably to the heater. Let me get that up.

I'm going to get a little screwdriver on that um fuel line there and get that that off. This should be enough play to lift it up, though, i'm going to work on that a little bit a little bit more wiggling see what these guys are getting pinched in what they're doing they're breezed onto the tank so right there they're braced to the tank they're, Not it's not going to bolt them they're going to do anything they're still attached to the tank part of it. They maybe think that it'll come forward and up and out maybe i just had two lines going on it. This is the regular where regularly would come out when one of those lines was connected.

Yeah one was the one fuel line and there was nothing on the other one which must be a vent. I would guess, then, going to it see some kind of line plugged off here, there's a master cylinder and then this is the line going down the tunnel which goes down the inside of the car and pops out in the back. I see another line there. I wish that's what i popped off.

That's probably the one that was on the other side of it, which was just capped off. Oh stinks the car. Not me all right! Well, that's it. One bolt holds it on one bolt through the fiberglass on an angle.

We'll call it good in the factory: let's go, i'm probably gon na go put some water in there and let that smoosh it around a little bit get the initial crap out of it and maybe apple cider, vinegar, prizes come out of here, oh yeah, that is From literally when i was in the eighth grade, that's how long it's been there and it's about the same shape as i am too oh that smells so good resemble gas. Our rust came out of it too. I got that sitting on a drain pan and i'm going to go rinse it with some water and take a better look. What we got, but let's get her up on.

I don't know maybe one side or the one of the axles to start getting the tires off of it. Take a peek what we got for brakes. This puppy works, youtuber sent it to me wheel, adapters, but fortunately they're the steel ones. They make a like a cast aluminum one too.

Those are kind of nasty. We get that dust cover cap off with the wheel, bearing apart and get that front drum off, normally that center right there would run on a beetle. That's a speedometer cable and this one does not have one in it. So i don't know if this thing ever had a speedometer in it at all.

There's no cable here at all nope, that's not it! It's got a folded over clip that locks two jam nuts. Together or two nuts together to make a gm nut one side out of the way, hopefully you know one set of pliers: it shouldn't be very tight and just enough play on the bearing that has a hair capacity to rock just a hair. Some people also will take the the thrust washer back here. They'll put a screwdriver behind it, and they'll just feel for a little bit of drag on that thrust.

Washer. That's the preload on those bearings that should just slip right off of there get a rubber mallet and tap on the center while pulling it off. I think the inner seal is probably just holding. Definitely the inner, so what's happened on the back side is a bearing just like that, but there's a rubber seal going around it.

Well, the bearing is stuck onto the shaft, so it kind of wants to leave the bearing behind, but the seal is holding it. So i got to get some pressure on it to get it to pop. Apart from there, the bearing really shouldn't be stuck on there, but you know as good as spun just might have crap on it. Normally just pulls right off this thing's, a gentle tug.

That's all want to bet it left the seal behind nope. He pulled it off. What do we got from brakes? I'm gon na go pop them off and see if those cylinders even turn. I moved you over to the other side the shoes up here.

What happened was the inner race stayed behind and it's not supposed to do that i'll show you in a second right here, that's supposed to go with the bearing and pull off. That's what was holding it up. I knew it had too much resistance. We may be able to get that off of there and reassemble it so far it hasn't done.

Any damage depends on where you can get that off with an air gun without scoring the surface. You know first see if these will turn now they're locked up solid. So this is the wheel cylinder and what happens is hydraulic fluid the masses when you push the mast. Cylinder inside here is machine surface with a spring in the middle, a hole in the center, where the fluid comes in two cups that are like rubber and then two metal caps, which are these on the outside.

So you can get one of them out and you can kind of generally tell the condition of a wheel cylinder, but when you pull the boots up, if you pull them up, you see a bunch of fluid it's automatically junk. Sometimes you can save them. There's that piece that's solid and that has a rubber cylinder that pushes on it. You can look if you see a bunch of uh pitting and all on the inside.

It doesn't look painted, but it does look like it has a lot of corrosion growing on them. They are not terribly expensive, it's not something that unless it's really hard to find, you really would not change you might as well show you the rest of it right. She can knock it out of there. These are supposed to be floating.

I've been exactly called that building, that's probably going to go piss some brake fluid out too, when we, when i punch that center out, if it'll come out, let me go, get a rod or something to drive it out. Let's go pop the guts out of that yeah supposed to be floating in there, don't launch the rest of it, but essentially it has that with a spring and a cap on the other side of it. Okay, so that's the parts that are in it right there, along with the two metal plungers on the outside, that part of it is the whole setup and fluid goes in the middle pushes out on those two. Those push on the metal parts and the metal parts push on the shoes.

If you look down in that wheel, cylinder except maybe like underneath that too much see how crappy and corroded they are now you could hone them and they sell like little rebuild kits. But you know they're like under 20 bucks, a piece and probably the rebuild kits - will cost you 10 a piece as it is so we're gon na pull one of the back wheels off, but we pretty much know what we need. I what's more important to me is actually even get a part number off of these that don't quite know what it's off of my guess is going to be 65 karma gear. But again it's a mix and match of parts same with the master cylinder in 65.

They had a single master cylinder that is a dual master cylinder, so i had to go find one of those that kind of match what we got. Actually, it is a single, isn't it if all the brake lines are in the front yeah. That is a single check out the compression fitting like at six o'clock five o'clock. That's a compression fitting out of the line.

That's that's a no-no not supposed to put those on brake lines. It could be flared on each end, i'm not sure but uh. It looks like a compression fitting to me and for the back just got one big nut in the center. I think i might getting a little overzealous with this kind.

Let's see, if we'll take it off, though supposed to be torqued down pretty good too. So this should be able to slide right off the splines. There we go. Let's see break looks like somebody pulled the emergency brake cable.

This right here can get you i like them. If you can't see anything, can you it's on a vw? This arm should be back. This is the emergency brake arm. You pull the cable up front, it's already shrunk down and the emergency brake is all the way down.

So what happens? Is you have to adjust these brake brakes manually and then, as the shoes wear, your pedal gets lower and lower low? You got to readjust the brakes. Well, what happens is the emergency brake is taller and taller and taller too. So if you don't adjust the brakes and instead you adjust the bolts on the emergency brake, the studs and emergency pull more cable. It creates this problem and then your brake pedal is always low, because every time that you have to go hit the brakes.

Even if you go to adjust them afterwards, the emergency brake is already taking up some of the slack, so your adjusters are off and you have a big space up on this wheel, cylinder, which is right now you can see how that shoe was not touching either Side i was able to wiggle it back and forth. I had two hands, i could show you see how that's moving and it's not moving the cylinders. The cylinders are all the way in, but the shoes are floating over that. So every time you hit the brake pedal, the very first pump that you're doing is just taking the gap up just to go out and touch the shoes, and then you hit it again.

Now it's actually pushing your shoes, that's a big problem with uh the old manual adjusting brakes on vws, where you can't get a good brake pedal people think it's the master cylinder, not always. Sometimes it's just that somebody adjusted the emergency brake with the with the rear, brake adjustment out of black people, get all them off as one assembly too. That's a funky. Looking clip, that's not normal vw.

That's looks like jc whitney vw. If you're able to get those off, get it out of the top and then get the emergency brake cable off, because what happens with that? Is the emergency brake pushes on this bar? The more you push on that bar the more the shoes separate, the more the shoes separate, the larger that gap gets up top that i was just talking about. So that's why it has to be back all the way. So these are in touching the wheel, cylinder disc brakes.

Don't have that probably the disc brake it auto automatically goes to the uh. You know the caliper closes to a certain distance. It doesn't have to back way off every time it just stays right there. Next to the pads and pushes you know each time, just a hair, more and just relaxes where a brake shoe breaks, you relaxes the whole distance, whatever the gap is between the shoe and the drum all right.

What do you want to do once you can get that out of there? First we're going to see if they turn that one sees same problem. You have it again. This car hasn't been used, since i was in the eighth grade everything in it gon na need it. You can't remove those and they're supposed to be floating in there.

Now it moves a little. So that's good! I'm going to go inspect the brake lines, see how they look on the car, the solid lines i'm talking about in the back, there's flex lines in the front and look at those and make myself a shopping list. Get a quick look at the drums. I should be able to cut them they're, not down metal to metal.

They got a little bit of rust on them. I do have a brake lathe machine. These actually do not look bad, that they got a little bit of crap on them, but they're fairly smooth. This is what the front ones look like, there's a lot of rust, but i don't see any heavy grooving heavy grooves in them.

These need to be cleaned up. It's where it's been parked for a long period of time and the the moisture gets in on them. So measurement you measure across you can only cut down to a certain amount and it'll be stamped in the drum. What the dimension is usually stamped in the drum like 10 inches, 10.00 or 1020, like 20 thou over somewhere on it says it.

Let's go shopping. This car, i believe i had gotten some wheel, cylinder or something for it at one time and it was the wrong size. This is a 68.. Let's go see that i think those are flex lines also and then we still have to water other ones.

But it's nice to try to be able to use up what you got right. Yeah, it's a little small! Don't they we'll bring one of those over? Actually they might be the rear. Your front brakes do most of your brake works, they're, usually larger um hard to say: let's go the same diameter overall length. Let's see how this one's all squished out, you can squeeze them in those might be it.

The gap here is wider, and sometimes they are asymmetrical. The caps on the end will not be a straight cut. You'll have one side that dips lower. You know they actually look straight, but sometimes they'll be on an angle.

Maybe are the old ones now they're pretty straight too, just that what i'm looking at i that's gon na affect it or not, but just the gap on the end of those are ones this one's fatter than that one. The other is the offset that goes. The bolt on there are they gon na set because there's a two inch i think one and seven, five or and one and a two which is different width of brake shoes. So the offset of this is about a half inch difference.

Yeah, it's actually pretty close. All right, so i got a pair of the rears. Let's go shopping for some other stuff forgot about the flex lines. It looks a tad long.

I think they'll work. Actually, you know what it is, because that has to go in that holder, that much and that one has to go in the holder that much yeah okay, they look like they're good too. These lines look like they're, decent, going up and around those are back in there. There's a union right here where the line comes from the back from the front of the car to the back and splits over to the two axles, and you actually want everything to be fairly good in this car.

Because if you have a single circuit uh, you lose one wheel, you lose all your brakes where what's called a dual circuit, you'll have a rear circuit in the front circuit. One of them fails, the other one still works, so you can put a dual in it and i may do just that some miscellaneous brake parts, what it looks like what's that these are boots drums shoes that looks like a new set right there go bring them Downstairs is it front and rear, it might be front and rear. Folso actually is a pedal cluster too here unless we got because you might, we might not like that gas pedal that's on there, so we keep that in memory. There's a single master cylinder, but that looks like it's into a vw.

I don't know what that's too well, i'm going to keep digging. If i find anything else, that's uh good for us i'll bring it back on so those are set, i'm not quite sure they do not look like vw, they might be for something else, and then it has two just shoes - and i was thinking - maybe that's part Of this backing plate set because they all look like they're new, that's like a new wheel, cylinder, possibly that might be the same as the front. One we'll take a peek see if i have another one of those over in this little vw horde. These are some parts that we're taking came with another question.

I think these are the other shoes that were over there, that we were missing the other set to one of those. Maybe those are those crazy keep coming you're just saying the outside edges will be fine and that's only if we uh can't get new ones within a easy period of time. That looks like it goes new takeoff that one not so much. I don't know it is just a brake fluid pissed out of the let's see if they still squeeze yeah now we're gon na go bring these down to see if they can work for the front ones.

Those are too short. We're gon na need still new flex lines for the front. What else we got while we're here to put our memory bags in the future when we say i need one of those - and i say i remember right that gave me play this - should be all type 2 bus stuff. This came with a bus, that's downstairs, yeah.

All that stuff's going to be too big if we find it in there. So it looks like we got front shoes, rear hardware, kit, brake lines, rear wheel, cylinders, rear wheel, cylinders and lines. The other wheel, cylinders that we brought down are too big for the front. The other shoes are for a later model.

They are the larger setup. I'll show you what i'm talking about as far as um the wheel cylinders are of a different offset because the shoe see which bigger that one is than the other that's drastic but uh. You know there's a couple sizes in between so the dimension between here and where it rubs on the wall changes. So the dimension of where that wheel, cylinder sits, does the same too.

You know later they get the larger the brakes get but uh you got bb ones on this good thing, it's a light car right all right, so i need rear shoes, front seals, front, flex, lines or rubber lines and front wheel, cylinders. Anything else, i'm forgetting. Ah, we also want to grab a set of um motor mounts and a trans mount we're gon na get uh we'll get two sets. So i have some here for because they're all the vw stuff's pretty much the all same.

My shopping list well yeah tires. I might have a set of tires that'll work on this, we'll see even for another car, but at some point they're just going to go to dust so tires. I got some new old stock at the house that might work another page apple, cider, vinegar for the tank. We're gon na go, try that well.

I definitely see she looks worse than when we started that's just part of it, though uh. Unfortunately, i wish i had more parts to start reassembling putting stuff together on a video instead of just taking the car apart, but that's the way it rolls. I got ta go chase parts and get that stuff in. I do have somewhere a set of mirrors.

Fender mount mirrors that are nice for there i got ta go find them yeah tires the tires i have are like the one bias ply that came off their rear. I liked the way those looked these look ridiculous, they're just too tiny for the wheel. Well. Well, let's go see if we go get some tires.

Unfortunately, they are out back and uh, not exactly easy walking, so we're gon na go. Take a little free-wheel drive my battery's good enough. It was three degrees. Last night i ain't waiting for that to start glowing.

All right, yeah we got enough battery, i don't think, try it one more time, foreign, let it run for a minute back here, hidden away along with mike my very first tractor and what 26 years ago, little gilson hydrostatic drive, i think, is a tank and someday. We are going to make a very nice video of bringing that one back to life, but not today, let's get those tires, they are some very old critters living in them. What size are they firestone? I thought there were red walls, maybe red walls that are so uh yeah, they're, red walls. Just so dirty.

You can't see them go load them up in the bucket and bring them to the shop that should work. So i took up some time and mounted a wheel. One of those tires on the wheel rather - and i like the way it fills up the wood, the real well, it's the suspension is up, so it will drop, but the problem is, it does touch there and if you go all the way that might be an Issue so the suspension, that's underneath there pivots back as it travels. So as the suspension comes down, the tire does move backwards, but unfortunately i think it's just such a large diameter tire.

What was on there was f's before and what i have on there now is a g and on the f, when i put them next to each other. This corner is a little bit more rolled off where the g it's more squared off, and you know, of course, that's what's hitting see what i mean by i'll square it off the corner. Isn't it it rubs? On the back of the headlight bucket, the lower headlight bucket, can i adjust it maybe get in there? Can i trim the front fender i can. I don't know if i want to go through that on the back, there shouldn't be any problem.

We can go swap that around over to the other side and again when, when the car's down and that gap goes away on top it'll really fill the wheel well out nice and in my mind i keep having the you know the mach 5 in my mind, And for some reason, those wheels kind of come to mind with other than the fact it needs the uh, the three spoked spinner in the middle. I think that seems kind of like what they look like the other tire that was on a tiny tire was just ugly. It's this. You know that just looks goofy, sorry, just it's not it and the problem with all the modern tires, that's how they are they're.

They don't have a a tall profile, most of them. You know this dimension is fairly small and they have a wide tire. It's hard to try to get the opposite, like the old tires were where they were more squared off. So i do have one other option.

On the 56, i got from jason, he has these on it and i really don't want to put these on this car. This is too early of a car to have those old styles that it's an oval rag top and they just don't quite match it. So maybe we'll go grab one of those pop it on there take a look see how it fills it up and make me maybe make a decision from there hey. I got a little bit better light.

Still, i don't know the rim isn't terrible, but the space around it i'm just not a big fan of so i think i have to try to come up with something in between the back one's, not in all the way but yeah it gives you an idea. Difference, i don't know if they even. I would think these probably still sell bias ply tires yeah. The other thing is they ride like crap too, when they're cold they get a flat spot in them, shake your teeth for the first five ten minutes of riding around.

I do have somewhere right here. Is these set of four which are like 205's with the white wall? I guess out of four of those they were for the econoline i'm going to do the mag wheels on that. Maybe we'll take some time i'll go clean up. Another wheel we'll get that one off of there we'll put that tire on there we'll stick that on the front, see how it looks, and i i do like those wheels just the tires about an inch too big joke there somewhere.

Well, i definitely say that's better and it looks like we have enough clearance around the front, just the aesthetics of it. I just still kind of like the thin red line with this squared off tread on it. Just it looks more vintage. It's probably the best way to put it compared to the modern style tire of that, but nothing says any of this is etched in stone right.

I can always kind of keep looking, but what i may do for now is just put these four that i have on these rims and we'll call it good and was keep an eye out for swap meets and stuff something crosses my eye or, if i even See a you know: instead of those bias pies, i think this is what was originally on. The car was this size, which was the f's on there. So if i could find an f4 would be an e underneath that maybe just a little bit smaller, give it a little bit more room or s for the rear and ease for the front to give a little bit of play. Anything's better than those little tires.

That were on it. They were just not doing it. For me, i could probably paint those white walls too huh i painted them red or not that they're bad with the body. I also kind of like the way the wheels the offset with out the wheel adapters.

I tried putting a regular sealy back on it and that tire was sucked way it just really looked goofy, i kind of like the alignment of that. So you ended up dumping out the old gas, just an update and throw it in the wild. It's all in the same video, so i i dumped out the gas that i had in there and they took some crap out of the bottom, but not a ton. So i switched over to lock a thinner and lacquer.

Thinner really seems to be a number on it. Let's see if we can get it it's a pitch hold on this might work better. So if you get that stuff to go flow over there, you can literally see that sure you can't there you go. You can see that the stuff is really dissolving.

It looks it's looking really good too. So i'm going to let that sit overnight and the tank is not really that rusty, there's, not much rust in it we'll see afterwards. Maybe we'll hit it with a little bit of acid, but it definitely looks like it's breaking up that good half inch of sludge that was sitting in the bottom of it. It's been i'd, say 24 hours the lacquer has been in here.

It really hasn't moved around much every once in a while. I come over and splash it, but let's see what we got, i would say it definitely did a lot better than straight gasoline did. Let me get rid of that. We'll put some fresh stuff in it.

I'll, let that go through, let's go get a little uh light and look inside going in. Oh yeah. Big difference still have some sludge back in those back sections, and what did i do? I'm gon na go throw some more in it. I think i'm just gon na set this in the back of my truck.

I thought about putting some hardware in here to rattle it around, but i'm not shaking it that much in a truck. It's not, you know, tied to a wheel and it kind of splash around what i'm afraid of one of these pickups goes down on an angle, and you also have the sending unit for the the gas tank. I don't want to beat that stuff up and fatigue that in and break it off inside there from having literally hardware hitting it all the time. So that's why i'm kind of going away from that? Oh yeah, let's, let's just settle right out of it.

I think we'll get it well. 15 years ago you tell me the dust on the box. I bought some mirrors for another project that never got used. I already put one on the car.

I forgot to grab the camera, but i'll show you what i got little bullet ones. They're gon na go sit up on the front fender, where the crappy ones originally were they're. All mixed. I am so glad there is rubber below the uh map.

Is that for a blooper? I guess that spring supposed to be hooked onto that tab. I think that tab is broke off well, you know take stuff out of the package for 15 years. Here's a little nipple, that's supposed to hook onto that, and that was some ice falling off the roof anyway, i'm gon na go. Try fixing that we'll go put it on the car and see what it looks like.

There's rubber mats right below us and i put them there just in case and just in case paid off. I guess so it looks like what they did. They slid a clip on and then put the glass on. First, you think our chances are.

We could do that without breaking the glass put that out of harm's way, because that's got a lot of spring pressure on it. So i just have to go. Get that hooked on the inside after i redrill a hole, pull this assembly up through here and lock. It on then re-glue the lens on the front.

Wish me luck and i need to drill a hole down into that into that tab. I wonder if that's glued in yeah, i don't think we have any other option but trying to maybe drill it right where it is. But it's not a funky angle. I don't know if you can get a center punch on there, because it's just a diving board right.

Well, don't know what you try so deep in my stash there's this long set of drill bits and i was always wondered if you would ever use them. I guess today's the day what size you want to go for, let's see the spring, is that diameter, so we want something, a hair bigger than that. I guess even go a little smaller than that, because the more we take off the less meat is going to be left. Maybe that one, so you go even smaller.

You could always go up from there right. Let's try it. I think it's gon na walk on me, though sometimes running in reverse. Try to do that.

As you can see, you can't really center punch it, though, because i don't know, i'm gon na try getting a big piece of heavy metal under here to support it and try hitting it with a punch yeah. I know i should have done it the first time you can get a dent right there. I need three hands something to hold that weight down. If i have to, i can probably go much lower.

You just get a longer spring. I have to get a longer spring. I think anyway, let's just go for it. See we get bit is so flexible too.

You can favorite, it's gon na fall out there. We go it's about center, too, too much light. It's in the middle, focusing focusing there. You go now.

We just got ta be able to get it hooked together. That's gon na be the fun part, so i need you to get that hooked into there. I got something wrong. I got it backwards.

Okay, that's too easy! I don't know if i can come behind it with a set of needle nose. I'm gon na take a wire wheel, clean all this crap off of here. Maybe we can get behind it with a pair of needle nose or some kind of tool as a fork. Get fed up into there.

Look at this. That's gon na go like that. I think it's something you got to come up through the hole with, though to grab. You know can't be under it because that's going to take up too much room i'll be able to grab it.

What's your thoughts on that one, what would you do if you were me, it looks like if you it on a really strong angle, you're fairly close. Let's go hold on: let's go, try kinda like when you're a kid, and you took the rubik's cube apart and you cocked it on an angle, you're able to get it slippery. I think we might be able to get it like that here. We just kind of grab it with a pair, a needle nose, very thin needle nose moving it up and over and kick it in.

I foresee that going like doing that a couple thousand times. I wonder if i can grind a little a couple little flats on that. Maybe two boom fishing. It's like a dexterity.

I don't think these vice grips, have a good enough bite to them. Vice grips needle nose, yeah. I think i might take it in ground little flats on there, so i don't slip off the edge. It's gon na probably still slip straight up, but yeah you need a pair.

I need something a little bit better than these there's another pair that might work. I know you guys want to see the money shot as what much as i do, but i might have to change the camera, so i need to be where you guys are looking. I need something a little bit of a hook on it. These might be too big.

Let's see what happens watching right now. You know what i think happened. I think the aluminum is so corroded down below it just broke away again. Ah, that's what it is it's just whatever this metal pot metal is made out of that's.

Why i failed in the first place, it's just gotten brittle over the years. I almost had it too. I was there, so i drove another hole further down, but we are definitely going to need a longer spring. I found that one so far, but the the pull of it isn't going to be that strong.

So this is my plethora of a spring stash. Let's see we can find in here worse. If i don't find anything, i will use that one that we got i'll. Try to wing it with that.

You know i'm going to dump them out to go, find what i need. Well, i'm going to go cut the other one down. I didn't find anything better if not cut that one down. Let me try stretching this one out.

First gone a little, i might have overdone it. Let's see what happens so close. It is. I think i might over stretch that one though you ever get it with my fingers come on get in it might be okay as long as it's got enough tension to hold it where it needs to be all right.

I'm not gon na complain we're gon na. Go call that for a win, let's go get it on the car i'll glue the lens on later, when it's on the car just in case, but let's go get the car it mounted on the car stop here. So i think we'll go with a little bit of black cheese, whiz how's that it's the right stuff, it's like gasket maker, but it remains flexible, just kind of squish that down onto there kind of like recent headlights, we'll put a little bit of tape. Oh, that's: set up crack i'd, call that a save well guys it's getting late in the evening, so i'm going to go wrap this one up, we'll call it to an end right here.

Floors came in. I don't know if i showed that already but uh three of the four i got to make one. This is the passenger side. The driver's side needs, which is unfortunately, the worst one, but they didn't have it.

We have to make one the inverse image of that. We'll see how that goes. As far as the car is concerned, i took some time and used dish. Soap.

A scotch brite and whatnot kind of went around just got all the grime out of the car that was on it. It was really filthy. I don't know if it shows up all that much i did the headlight one headlight bucket. I did not do to give you an example.

That's what it used to look like that's what the rest of the car looks like now. Hood pins are in mirrors, are done, i'm probably about another four or five days out yet from all the brake hardware and tune-up parts coming in that i ordered cut the brake drums, while i was waiting, they are done front and rear tires are mounted got those On the two in the front are good. The two in the back, the rims, are kind of iffy one's bent this one's bent. When i had it on the wheel balancer, it's got a bit of a wobble to it, so i was iffy and that's the one that was really rusty.

I tried cleaning it up, but yeah there's just no chrome left on it, so it definitely looks like crap. So i'm gon na keep an eye out during the summertime, the swappies and see if i can find another set, that's similar to that that same style wheel doesn't have to be the same exact. You know width or offset, but those are chevy. Four and three quarter.

Lug pattern 14 inch. I think they're seven inch wide six or seven. So i find something within that i'll put the fatter of the two on the back, but for now we're just going to run what's running what we've rung just looking pretty good, though all the glass in the car is on, i said, is uh amc. Marlin is what they are out of that big back window, the side windows and the windshield.

I also grabbed in my stash. I got these at a yard sale a couple years ago. These are corvette, hubcaps, not sure what year they are, they got spinners on them. They come off with a screw.

I may try making those go fit on the center caps from those rims. I did order new center caps, so they'll be here at some point too. There's only one screw holding them depending on how that flange lines up to it and whether it looks good or not, we may try adapting putting them on there. Some of you guys are calling me sacrilege right now.

I've taken these apart. I don't know if they're valuable or not, but i probably paid 20 bucks for them. 10. 20 bucks for him at a yard sale.

I think that's it. Oh the gas tank guessing i threw in the back of my truck with the uh. What am i using? Not thinner, i forget i'll, add it down below anyway. So that's uh sloshing around the back of my truck as i drive around that's kind of cleaning up uh fairly well, like a thinner house, that's in it uh and threw some hardware in there too.

So you can kind of turn up the bottom. I think that tank will come back fine for us to go use and we still have to make the tins for around the back of the engine try to work on the cooling part of that engine. So it doesn't cook itself again, that's another project on its own. I said i think the next one is going to be getting into the floors getting that done and then all the metal work will be done.

It's really not that far. I shouldn't say that, because it's how you drink your jinx yourself, it's really not that far from being on the road, still the dead middle of winter right now, but it's really not that far! I don't feel from getting back together. It's not like we're doing a bunch of bodywork and paint at this time, so it's just getting brakes. Fuel system together fix the floors.

Put the interior back in it drive it all right guys with that. I'm going to sign off and thank you all for kind of hanging out with me a little bit of fun, doing some wrenching and uh playing playing in the garage with that guys. I'll uh see you soon until then later bye.