I really enjoyed this one ( I also am a native SoCal guy ) , don’t beat yourself up to much for making mistakes in your mechanical journey , in my 62 years on earth and 39 years as a certified mechanic I’ve never ever made a mistake in fact just yesterday I was able to walk on Water.💩💩💩Early on as an apprentice I replaced both front calipers on a 240z but couldn’t get the brakes to bleed , after about an hour or 2 or the 3 seasoned tech’s walked over and told me that I had installed the calipers upside down with the bleeder on the bottom. My point is that You Will Never make that mistake again. In the mechanic world we call it getting your Dic# squashed and you never want that to happen again. I always look forward to your Thursday videos and you release them about 2 hours before My Friday ends( Thursday at 12:30 pm). Take care and have a great day . PS I went to Jockos on Monday night for my wife’s birthday.
Thanks for this video. Very funny. Not laughing at your mistakes. Just the way you relate them to your audience. I am in the process of putting together a 1966 912. I have the engine, trans, & gas tank pulled before sending it to the paint shop. I am not attempting to go as far as you have on your project. Just disassembling the engine tin, getting it powder coated, cleaning the block from years of crud & grime build up on engine block & trans is enough for me. But you have given me food for thought concerning the trailing arms, so I thank you for that. When I go through the braking system, I will be checking the bearings. This car has been sitting for a long time so why not? I won't be doing it though. LOL!
Enjoying the videos. Thanks for posting! You may know now but just in case, if you ever have to remove a race without an edge to catch simply weld a bead around the center circumference and it will literally fall out. Have done this so many times on motorcycle steering head bearings.
Glad to hear that! You mean that weld a bead so you can tap it out? That makes sense. Idk how it would fall out simply from welding a bead..I can't weld aluminum, yet lol
@@michaelgideon6422 normally the race is steel and running a bead on the inside of the race will actually shrink the race itself and will simply fall out or you can tap on the weld (won't take much at all) here's an example ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3P8pn7QRtj0.html&ab_channel=FirePantsFabrication
Yep, I've got a bunch of knucklehead stories from my garage! I was working under the hood of my 68' Chevelle, I put the can of brake clean in the fan housing to grab a wrench, my buddy says "don't forget the BC, well, I took a break for food, came back, finished up what I was doing (water pump), started the engine and there was enough room for the fan blades to clear the can of BC but I leaned over to rev the motor from the carb and the when the motor rocked, it hit the can of BC and exploded in my face! Luckily my head was turned just enough that I didn't get BC in my eyes. Yeah, very dumb move! Love the vid, Michael, we can always learn and hopefully laugh from our mistakes!
Honing a 1970 Volvo B20B engine more than 40 years ago (it was just an old car then, not a classic)... up and down as smoothly as I could. I had read (no internet) about how the right technique produced a symmetrical pattern on the bores of the cylinders, so that's where my 16 yr-old concentration was focussed. Varsol was flowing. Every time I came up, the top of the honing stones sprayed Varsol on me. I didn't notice, or perhaps care at the time. I think I was wearing jeans and the Volvo shop was a long subway ride from home (Toronto). I ended up soaking my midriff - and below - in Varsol for hours. The rash, followed by layers of skin coming off, was unbearable and unforgettable. I can't imagine that anyone makes that mistake twice.
Thanks for sharing! Years ago when I was restoring my ‘69 912, I opened the driver’s door after it was freshly repainted without the door strap in place. The door over rotated and hit the edge of the fender and popped a chip of paint off the size of my thumb nail! DOH! 😖 Man was I pissed!
Really enjoy and can identify with your videos! I'm hoping to be able to undertake larger projects on my '68 912 to which I've only done pedal assembly bushings, shift linkage bushings and other very minor maintenance stuff. I'm inspired by your very cool work as well as the forthcoming and humble description of the path to refurbishment to get the car back on the road. Keep the content coming and thanks for sharing. Regards from Chile!
You did great. I made a lot of mistakes and continue to do so, but it's a learning process. We're not pro mechanics, but the difference is, we care, I'm sure if you had a less than savvy shop do the trailing arms and they made the same mistake, they would have called it good. My biggest regret was buying cheap E-Brake shoes. I spent more time trying to make them fit. Such an epic waste of time. I finally bought Porsche brand and of course they fit perfect first try.
When you described the hot flush feeling resulting from a phuk up, I had a physical sympathetic reaction…. recalling a race seat install in one of my cars and thinking, this is pretty simple….four bolts out/in and the airbag wires. Well, I stripped the threads on one of the bolt-holes, which are integrated into the floor of the car. I totally crapped myself until getting a tap kit and making it work. Just a dumb move by a dumb rookie.
