Being able to be a mechanic, and a welder, and a machinist and a mason and dig a hole 40 feet deep and line it with cement pipe, plus be a dad and not go crazy from a train passing by more often than Elwood Blues apartment has to take a special guy. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out you know how to fly a plane
I enjoy your video's, and your ability to repair or build most things that you need ! I'm a mechanic and carpenter as well as all around handyman, or was I guess I should say. I'm 66 and have COPD or better known as emphysema in my case. So I'm not able to enjoy doing things like your doing anymore and I get depressed because I can't... So your videos help with that, as I watch you repairing and building stuff !! Thank you for doing what you do my friend ! Doug ....
Nice to see your arm is still attached as it should be!!! That cowling repair is fabulous - I know if I'd been doing it I'd have had to use far more individual parts with lots of unsightly welds and none of that lovely shrinking etc - top job, another old engine saved.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Yeah, maybe the shrinker is a cheat, but your repair on that cowling was still brilliant and well worth the effort of doing it properly. I've seen some with a bit of aluminium gaffa taped over the gaping hole etc etc!!!
Nice job James, it always amazes me how you can take something that looks totally shagged out and get it (semi) running again. Keep up the good work on the up-cycling of old engineerings.
That starts very very good knowing that the plunger is knackerd. Usually they are a very pain in the arse to start an engine with worn/pitted fuel pump element.
Got a old lt1 at home I'd like to get running some day. Put it on a wagon and just run it every now and then. Conversation piece whilst having some beers with mates
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 In Texas it is often referred to as hotter than the Axle Hubs of Hell. But any over worn machinery evaluation can be categorized as looking as if it's been as deeply affected by the ''Hubs O Hell.''
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 The Wit of the ''British Common Working man''; just held on tight to my Nation's Atlantic Salt Water Crossing Forefathers that's all. Your welcome.
I hope not mate it's a diesel engine! Early 90's was when they stopped selling it at forecourts, with the aircraft still burning leaded fuel I only ever find lead deposits from combustion onwards.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 duh lol. That makes sense. I've been half out of my head with a stomach bug for a week now, you'll have to excuse me. Are there still a lot of planes running lead?
@@forge20 sorry to hear that mate. Most of the global light aircraft fleet flying today was built in the 70's, most of the new sales are smaller light sports aircraft with unleaded rotax engines but Cessna still sells aircraft that burn leaded and for all the fanfare, the two manufacturers of aero diesels have stagnated into oblivion. It's a dwindling market so very little motivation to change the old ways.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 That's interesting, especially considering I just found out the commercial plane market is a much smaller number of units per year sold than recreational aviation. That was from a video about innovative small aircraft like that designed by Burt Rutan - the suggestion was that there's more innovation in the rec market because of the number of kit or home built planes. But maybe not so much for engines as air frames, hmmm?
@@forge20 the de-regulated categories like light sports and experimental in the states are pretty exciting but its rare for anything to cross over from there into the certified categories unless you count the few in the experimental category that are built as pre serial production as mostly it's a category that is used to avoid a mountain of paperwork. Burt is an amazing guy.
Yes, can get these pretty cheap but they need a bit of fettling to get them to actually work, haven't modded the stretcher jaws yet was thinking of doing a vidy on them.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 1 thing like the 6 million dollar man "we can rebuild him, we have the technology" , can you use old 1 as mould if you tack the broken bit back on ?
@@arwelagrimachinery casting the v groove is difficult, could use the old one to make a blank but it's sub optimal size. The first one I made will go straight on anyway, I just like the iron stuff better it would have been nice to keep it.
