BARN FIND ŠKODA 105- WILL IT RUN? 

I'm so pleased you saved this car from the crusher. With so few kilometers and such little rust, that car has many kilometers of service left in it.

I was trained as a mechanic on these exact cars, in all its variations. I am sure you are aware of it, but just e few pointers: Remember to bleed the cooling system the right way. There is only one right way. Get it wrong and goodbye headgasket. When trying to cold start, be genorous with the choke. Full choke, 8-10 pumps on the acceleratorpedal and let go of it. Turn the key. They will start everytime. I love you are doing this. Those cars weren't as bad as some tried to make them out to be. I owned 3 myself. most fun cars I owned. And have owned a lot of different cars.

I use to work on one of these cars in 1986 the body work was a bit rough but the engine was reliable here in the Uk most people made fun of skoda but u could pick o.e up cheaply now they must become a classic from the 1980s I an a subscriber and I just seeing these old cars bought back to life has I worked on older cars from 1980suntil now so great chanel Love it we want more Phil in stoke in the UK

amazing cars... my first car i had when i got my licence back in 2004.... i lurned a lot about cars tinkering and repairing they are very simple cars and a joy to work on.

I can remember my Uncle having a blue one in the 80's. It was a quirky car in the UK and considered very much a poor man's vehicle. I can remember it being a lot more reliable than most other cars in the family! Unfortunately, he set fire to it when welding it one year. Thank you for bringing the memories back!

Superb little car. Love the way it has a warning light for the heated rear window, but doesn't actually have one. Just to remind you that it's an entry level car.

Congrats 😊👏🏻

Clutch is hydraulic. Master cylinder is in the front and slave cylinder is in the back on top the gearbox. Probably a stuck cylinder. Nice to see it run and to see your enthusiasm! Fuel gauge is probably stuck. Happens after sitting for a long time. Some gentle ticking on the dash will help 😉 in the fuel pump and in the carburetor as well are sieves. Maybe good to check them.

Very nice! Sometimes you get lucky, and it seems like you got really lucky - what an amazing time capsule.

Aside from the blowing exhaust, it sounds as I remember my dad's Estelle, just make sure the choke cable is in good condition, I remember the one in my dad's car snapping, and having to trawl through various scrapyards to find a good cable off another car (which I loved, cos I always picked through parts of the car where people left or lost money, which was fun!!!), and in the interim had to fit a temporary cable from something else that was front-engined and it ended up poking out the middle of the back seat, all just to keep it going as a daily driver... :D

You deserve a break from the rust! I hope this one continues to go well for you as a project.

That was great! What a super car!

Great to hear the old girl fire up. This could be quite straight forward and be a great and different daily driver.

That was great to here

16:04 - YES!!! (now open the doors!) 16:22 - ^Good Lad! eBay: "Clean solid old-ish Skoda, starts and runs, much loved car, honest sale, bid to buy" ^^^ ;)

Great to hear it running. If it was like my 120LS then clutch is hydraulic to a slave cylinder on the bell housing. If I remember correctly if you lift the carpets next to the battery then there is an access panel - remove that and you should be able to see the slave cylinder and bell housing. That then operates the mechanical lever arm that pushes the clutch release bearing. Personally to sort out the clutch I would leave the transmission in the car and just separate the engine and remove the engine out of the rear.

I was looking forward to this video and what is going to happen to it lol I actually enjoy more the little fixes to improve a car rather than big restoration, or maybe even when people "flip cars" (ie fix to make small profit) I also like the way you explain and go about filming it!

For servicing cluch. Just remove engine. It is realy simple. I changed engine on this car twice. Unbolt bumper, back wall with lights, tow hook asembly (it shared bolts with back engine mount, which you need to unbolt anyway). then some bolts between gearbox and engine, some hoses and wires. Then you need two jacks. One under gearbox and second with wheels under oil pan. And just pull :)

I Really love Skoda 105, and i'm sure yours will be absolutely perfect! Greetings from Italy: SEI UN GRANDE (you are great)!!!

I'm enjoying this so much. Great stuff !

Greetings from Norway! I own a Skoda 100L project. Actually I always wanted a rear engine Skoda, managed to find one two years ago.

This is brilliant! Lovely car, interesting video. Please keep them coming!

A few more tricks and must do's in my head, when it comes to changing the clutch. It can go very wrong if you don't do it the wright way. Let me know if you want help

fantastic result , looks like you got a good one , have fun and thanks

This car is absolutely fantastic....im delighted for you...I really hope you decide to keep it long term. I feel you would have to look for a very long time to find another car which has survived so well

What a fantastic little car this is! I absolutely loved this video.

Love it! Nice work, man!

Congrats on firing it up! :D. Sounds so good. Looks like this project goes quite smooth so far.

Amazing, I have really been looking forward to this. I think you should buy a lottery ticket, it seems to be your lucky week :-)

The Skoda lives!! :)

Superb.

Great video, and great car, I still drive Škoda, 105. Only thing that i don't like is that her fuel consumption is like you drive T34/85. So, if you need any help feel free to ask. Greetings from Serbia!

Score!

My dad had a Skoda Estelle ,it was a bright orange colour

Thanks for the brilliant video. At the same time as Communism collapsed, I bought a cheap 1978 105 just to get me through winter. It suffered from over heating 4 months later and went to the scrapyard due to spare part prices almost tripling since the wall came down. It is a great regret that I did not buy a 2 year old 120 5 speed at that time, as the spare part prices fell back quite quickly. I bought a 4 year old Fiat instead and it rusted away in no time. I look forward to any updates you post.

I would buy a new one.... no vw or renault for me. Had a green 120L long time ago..

It's running, allright. But not on all fours.

Sounds like an airplane engine !

Hydraulisk kobling... Slavecylinder er under det dæksel ved siden af batteriet.. Der er et dæksel mere under dét, hvor du kan justere koblingen... Hvis du skal skifte koblingen på bilen, så nøjes med at tage motoren ud, for du kan ikke tage trækaksler af, derfor skal bærearme med ud... Tungt og træls..

jeg kan sku godt lig at det gamle lort started så nemt