1972 Toyota Corolla: Undercarriage Sandblast 

Wiring is really not that bad. You’ll have to force yourself to look at it one wire/circuit at a time. Once you’ve done one, it gets easier. You’re doing a great job!!!

7:51 lmao man just permanently borrowed an unassuming car canopy 😂love this series

I love this series its one of the greatest going on right now. Pro tip for the wiring, the HP academy lessons on wiring are a great help. I was in the same boat as you a year ago and after going through their instructional videos I was able to wire up an old Volvo from scratch with a bit of confidence. I'm still not a wiring expert but I feel like I have enough knowledge to at least not make any huge wiring mistakes. Cheers!

Blast from the Past! Keep working on it, Joel! 😊

Welding is a piece of cake. Its everything leading up to it that's a pain, but you're 95% there already. Just cutting out the rust and fabricating replacement panels now and you're good. I'm amazed at how well that enclosure worked, I expected to see way more grit and dust blown out of there.

My first car was a 1974 Corolla SR-5. It was a blast. I learned how to do most of the maintenance I do on cars today, on that poor thing. But the 72 Corolla is absolutely a classic, right up there with the Ford Escort.

Fantastic video, good luck with the welding

I just reconnected all of the wiring on my 87 GTI, what saved my life was wrapping each connection in painters tape to make a tag, then wrote (to the best of my ability) where it went, THEN took a picture of the wire with the writing where I unplugged it from. Seriously can't imagine figuring it out without doing all that. Tedious but 100% worth it.

best serie here love you project , keep going

Excited to see this through to the end. I've always wanted to do full teardown restorations on cars/motorcycles but still don't have the space (or money). Hopefully some day!

you can use POR-15. They really work great.

I was waiting for this video now waiting for the next. Good DIY job for the sand blasting room.

I Immediately subbed because I saw you doing it the right way with a sandblaster and because you use the same deadman valve as mine. I'm glad seeing someone olse using it too. One tip: put the air compressor on a piece of plywood and stuck up against the sandblasting pot in order for the comp to shake the media down at the botyom of the pickup

I can't wait for the next episode. This was fun to watch.

You'll make welding look easy! Looking forward to the next vid

So excited to see this build process! Looked like an absolute slog getting the under cleaned up. Can't wait for the next.

Great stuff. I keep thinking down the road you'll wish you went the extra mile. You're so close to having everything stripped and redone correctly!

this is going to be a fantastic restoration

You're doing great! Keep up the amazing videos!! Turning out to be the shiey of car content imo

My god! This is a serious endeavor. I know nothing about cars so this would absolutely be my nightmare: Tearing things down and not being able to put them back in place. Wish you the best.

been waiting for this video! thanks for another amazing one!

Well done my man.

caught a bit of asmr vibes in this video making very satisfying you take it apart

I am loving the progressive of this restoration man. I am with you with wiring / electrical...not my favorite thing about a vehicle. Great work!!

Awesome job on the 1972 Toyota

you really amaze me

Good gosh! I really like ALL your videos. This one is well up to your usual superb standard. Your explanation voiceovers more than made up for those little spots where you couldn't wear a microphone. The camera angles and editing perfectly support your exposition. They draw this viewer right into paying rapt attention to what you're doing! Your film...whets all our appetites for more! Well done!

Joel I love you man.. you are a hard worker. !!!!

I just got myself a 1976 Corolla. I don't plan on doing the work myself but this is a great series for someone learning the details of the 70's corollas. At this point i'm just doing research on what I should get done to restore it, what I want and what my pockets can afford

Amazing progress!

Love the series, keep it up

Talking about dedication, praise unto you

You've already gotten a ton of new subscribers since this project began. Clearly, people are interested and the content is excellent. The blasting process is super satisfying to watch 😀 Continued good luck with this project!

I watched your initial Corolla video from 3 months ago, and it popped up again in my feed today and I indulged by watching it a second time! Love the car. I even went on Facebook to see if there were any for sale local to me 😅

this is awesome

Man, I admire your courage to do all this without a jumpsuit, if I can give you an advice, get one before the painting, also, the soldering isn't as difficult, just take your time to train yourself, use some sheet of steel try with it untill you feel is good enough, I also encourage you to try grinding after, it looks better, isn't difficult, but it needs some attention.

Just caught this in my feed…love the old Corollas (TE27s esp.) Be careful with flash rust as we try to have a coating on everything within 24hrs (12 is ideal). High zinc primer would also be a good route to go for long term protection (with a top coat & undercoating). You would have benefitted that “dryer board” by using brass but the concept is solid; autodrains are also fairly cheap and you can pull a few to support your system for $30-$40 each off of Amazon/EBay. Lastly, more than likely the amount of media making it through your nozzle is substantially lower on the more aggressive material subsequently you’re getting slower cut rates; would (may) be difficult to tell by just observing/looking at it (measure media consumption over set times with both). Keep up the good work!

You got an excellent car, the metal es still in good condition, and with this job you are going to have an excellent piece of calssic too.

fuck yea, love seeing progress on this build!

😂The expressions are very rich, much like watching a stage play. I can feel that feeling of helplessness and sluggishness on the other side of the earth!😂 Very good😅

i want to see this project completed, is gonna be one of the nicest restorations in youtube

A trick i picked up along the way is to put bolts and nuts back in place wherever/whenever possible. This cuts down on remembering and potential loss of hardware. 😊

6 hours to get to that point is pretty quick! Great job

Great job on the blasting and grinding,Joel! love the makeshift booth.

Great work! Learning to weld is fun, just start off in areas that aren't critical. Small patchwork and so. Having the car on it's side makes welding so much easier. I had to weld in the rear wheel wells with the car up on jackstands, that was no fun. The video of that is on my channel. Good luck!

I particularly enjoy your laughs of satisfaction.

Love that background music in the beginning of the video

if this is not the best serie on the internet i don't know what is

Thank you for these videos. Just found them. Picked up a 79 liftback a couple months ago

I went through all the same issues. I have a Celica from 74, that needs to be blasted, but am a bit afraid of the aftermath hehe. Anyway great job, definately gonna follow for more :)

Love the editing style, can't wait to see more of this project

I have a 85 GTS, working on removing rust a little bit at a time and it sucks! Very satisfying after each small section is done though, just difficult to get started. You progress is far ahead of mine, which is good because your video help! Next is cutting away the rust, looking forward to that since I’ve been welding for a few years now. Keep it going, looking forward to future videos! Awesome work!

Great work, Joel. Keep up the great work.

Great job Joel been following this build from the beginning. My first car was a Corolla have soft spot for them. Keep up the great work we will continue supporting you. Can't wait to see the final results. Takecare.

Ayo firstttt, love the series!

Looking great so far, I think the tent was a really good move to contain the dust and sand. Really make sure you wear gloves when grinding or using anything that vibrates and or puts pressure on your hands and wrist, vibrations will ruin your life. I have carpal tunnel from this type of work and it isn't fun, nowadays I can't really tension my hands for a long while without it getting painful. Now I do 10 mins of work, a short 5 min break and then 10 mins of work. Other than that just like many others, very excited to see where this is going. I wasn't familiar with this Toyota corolla but I do really like the look of it. Keep up the good work Joel.

this project is amazing and im thriled to see the resolts at the end of it. truly having a great time watching your vids man keep up with the good work!!!

just did a marathon on your vids man. loving this series so far. looking forward for more great content from you.

For your limited skill set, this is quite an impressive project you have under taken. Hat's off to you. Sheet metal repair / welding is fun to learn. Basically you'll need a MIG welder. I have a friend who does sheet metal fabrication / repair on high end exotics and very old classic cars where sometimes parts just aren't available. I remember one time I dropped by his shop and was watching him make a door for this really old Porsche from scratch basically. He told me (and this was back in the 90's) this is gonna end up being a $3400 door. I remember he was doing many, many small "spot" MIG welds along the metal seams. He's pop the MIG on/off and do a quick tiny spot. Move along do a couple more. Then jump to another spot and do some more. He explained he had to move around to keep from heat soaking the panel. I'm sure there are plenty of RU-vid videos how about how to do it. Try to find yourself a MIG welder that allows infinite adjustment on both the wire feed rate as well as the amps - newer ones sometimes have notches or preset levels. I have a very old MIG by Lincoln that allows for variable adjustment through the entire range and more than one guy has commented that "those older machines with the full range adjustment" are the best. When it comes to electrical wiring, do you know how to solder and use heat shrink tubing and all that? I redid the entire wiring harness on my 1990 Toyota Pickup; you can see some of it on my channel.. but if you want some info, feel free to email me directly using the address in the channel about tab. I can maybe dig up some links to some of the high heat rubberized sheathing I used, as well as some of the specific expanding tube that worked well for me. Also, you might wanna check ebay to see if you can find the original Toyota electrical manual for this car. At least or my 1990 pickup, they provided a specific electrical manual which covers everything wiring / electronics on the truck. It's super in depth... it shows each individual connector, the specific pin numbers, the wire colors, everything. When I took my truck all apart and re-did all the wiring, that manual helped me figure out what wire went where and what wire did what.. also when I had to re-pin broken connectors, I was able to figure out which pin went where. Not sure if you are gonna find one clear back for 1972, but here's an example of one from 1983 that might be similar in some areas) www.ebay.com/itm/404175251555

Good luck buddy. Been there, done that... Lots of fun.

That is a big big job I miss that work

Excellent content and excellent taste in music! Looking forward to the continued series.

Another cheap thing you can do for dry air is an ice bucket after cooler. You pipe in a coil sitting in ice water bucket after the compressor pump then use the desiccant filter right before it goes into the tank. The expensive version is to buy a refrigerated air dryer. There are some models out there that only costs $500

pro painting tip: use a brush to do a few stripe coats on seams, fixtures and hard to reach areas BEFORE actual spray painting. Usual caveats of proper surface preparation apply. Saves you time on touching up missed areas after spraying. The stripe coat serves 2 purposes: 1. it build up paint thickness in areas prone to low paint application and it serves as insurance that hard to reach areas by spray is covered by paint. If you don't do the stripe coats, might as well have not bothered to do a full blast on the chassis.

You're making lots of progress! These videos are a lot of fun to watch, and I can't wait to see what's next.

If you want to remember things and where they go take some still phots and print them out. It works with mechanicals and electrical.

the video quality has definitely improved! im excited to see this thing on its wheels

Damn, I just commented on your previous video that I was waiting for your next vid, and this happened

Love seeing the process!

Wiring is super easy if you just isolate the different systems and do them one by one. A big rats nest can be intimidating but taking it slow and not doing everything at once makes it a breeze.

Lovin' these vids and lookin' forward to both the process and progress!

Great to follow you and your willingness to tackle anything in front of your viewing audience. On sandblasting stay away from it unless you are experienced. It heats up the metal quickly and staying too long in one area is a disaster. You can get away with it on the bottom but do use glass media blasting if doing the body. I figure you drew schematics of the wiring off camera. Keep entertaining us guys. You are inspirational.

There's an old evil engineer from Toyota watching this and laughing as he watches you struggle .

This is our car way back in 1995. I'm really looking forward on your build!

i heard people say, "do your best, grind the rest." when it comes to welding. i practiced on some spare junk i had before learinign on the car. experimented with trying to fill holes, with trying to weld different thicknesses. i think the hardest was to get used to not welding a long line all at once.

Great progress!

Much respect for you going into this project without a mentor. Learning everything the hard way is one hell of a way to do it. Just subbed and am looking forward to the finished product man. Best of luck.

Knowing all the parts and how to work on them makes a project easy.... wiring isn't Rocket Science...even Rocket Science takes knowledge and education and experience.... make drawings of where parts are on your vehicle ( take pictures ) and mark every wire and what it goes to ( some are obvious based on connectors but best to label everything and not worry...even guys who do this daily can use help on the layout..but they usually can figure it out by just starting at one connector and laying it out pretty well gets most of it lined up...one step gets you moving and each step closer to the end .. when i started working on vehicles 50+ years ago it seems overwhelming but i soon found just relaxing and not over thinking things gets you going better at a task... everything is simple if you understand that it really is that way... same with repairs..i break it into simple steps and start with the basics..eliminating what is ok or finding an issue to repair ( sometimes unrelated to my real problem but you gotta fix what is broken and retest )..

Pictures and a wiring manual is your friend when it comes to the harnesses, but I can totally understand your anxiety. Also, I'd highly recommend a coupler of packets of cheap goggles (like $3 for 3 at Harbor Freight) and some tape to cover the breather holes in the goggles instead of the included hood for blasting next time. May not fit with your respirator though; I use 3M N95 masks to fit them better. Basically once they are pitted, grab another pair of goggles after about 30 mins of blasting

Hard work. Nice job with the enclosure! I'm looking forward to learning how to weld too👍

honestly, that's not a half-bad result and the makeshift booth did great. that was probably a lot of manual labor, but it was definitely worth it (now that it's over)

For your enclosure, I've used vapor barrier poly to great success for similarly messy jobs

Dude you’re literally like me! I wish I had the balls (and money) tsxkle something like this. One day though!

Love this series!! I’ve been thinking about a project car recently - I haven’t been able to wrench on a car since my first car (73 Beetle that I bought in 1989). Wow, now that I say those years, I’m realizing that more time has passed since I owned that car, than had passed from the time it was new until I owned it - it seemed like such an old car back then. Anyway, I feel like I’m learning along with you. Keep up the good work!

Binged my way up to date on this series on the weekend. Great stuff! I really appreciate you working through all this stuff much like many of us do. An added bonus for me is seeing you do this with equipment and supplies available in BC - it can get frustrating watching US-based RU-vidrs who order stuff like crazy from suppliers that would never ever be available in Canada. Looking forward to following along!

wow , ingenious roller

I understand completely about your fear of wiring dude , what I do is use modern tech to help get yourself lots of different coloured sticky dots stick them on the wires using the different colours for various wire differences and take lots and lots of pictures then you can see exactly where they go without blowing a fuse yourself …well it certainly works for me 👍

Amazing video! I've always wanted to do this myself but i don't have a garage right now, hope to be able to do things like this in the future even though that it's hard work! Subscribed

keep up the good work mate

Great idea on the canopy too BTW. They're usually way cheaper than the whole tent ones, then a roll of vapor barrier will make great sides (it's about 20x thicker than your shrink wrap! haha). I'll be in Van in about a month... If you're working on this first week of august I'll come give you a hand!

This is a really sweet project. It seems like you really enjoyed this work. I think there is a lot to be said for just sending the chassis for a chemical bath. Im not sure what is available to you, but sandblasting will let you down where you can't reach. It also and will make the metal easier to blow holes in, especially if you're a weak welder. Walnuts or bakingsoda are other "blasting" methods that leave you with more metal to work with, non-abrasive.

Just a tip when using the sandblaster always wear long sleeve because the blast media can get imbedded into your skin and it won’t come out.

Your Canadian accent is really coming through in this episode

Pretty solid car underneath considering the age - great find and will look great when it's done. Had a chance to buy one of these along with a Lancer of similar age at a "proceeds of crime" auction but I blew it and the cars ended up selling really cheap too, much regret lol.

Love the videos

Awesome job! Love this project. Also they make anti vibration gloves

Me gusta el trabajo que estás haciendo te felicito, vi todos tus videos y estoy esperando los próximos, cómo lo mencioné anterior mente, te felicito buen trabajo 👍

Love these videos ypur doing great bro, one thing you should have done before removing the wiring is lavel it like you did the brake lines, and maybe next time try remove as much of the parts as a whole, saves having heaps of little parts laying around and makes for easier to remember where it goes, but each to their own really. Maybe get some wire wrap too, would help clean up and protect the wiring on reassemble

Love your turnover fixture 👌

IMO the 60's through say 1974 Toyotas were simply the best. I had a 74 Carina cause I'm 6'4" - it was the only Toy that would allow me to sit upright with good legroom. When the SR Corolla with the 5 speed hit the market, I wanted one for the 5th gear but it'd be like putting a size eleven foot into a size ten shoe. You could to it but the result would always be painful 🙂 I've subbed just to see where you go with this 72.