Watching you and Miss HubNut work on the car together with The Boy reminds me of when my mum and dad used to work on the car together while I spectated as a child. My experience was slightly different though in that every time my mum ‘helped’ it always ended up with a lot of shouting, swearing, usually an argument in front of the neighbours, then a cigarette and a cup of tea and everything was fine again. It’s amazing I went on to do this for a living. 😆
The best part of finishing a sod of a job is everything works, even after you've seriously thought about getting the car towed away. It's not just a sense of relief, but the fact that after all the frustration, you've still managed to overcome whatever problems the car has thrown at you . Nicely done!
I had a similar problem fitting my serpentine belt - there was not enough room for a long tool to make it adequately easy to release the tensioner, so it took me longer to just put it back on than removing it, replacing the crankshaft pulley and the idler pulley. I eventually discovered they sell an angled tool for such a job. I improvised by sticking my breaker bar onto the end of my 3/8 ratchet to make an extra long bar to pull it back and when I reached the slam panel twisted it round and put my full weight on to the breaker bar to force it right down. So well done on getting it de-tensioned without using a really long tool! I am no where near strong enough!
I love the innuendo that Miss Hubnut provides. I will Never unsubscribe from the channel. You and Miss Hubnut are the perfect team. Keep up the fantastic video's
Superbly entertaining, loved it. You give smiley faces to those in a sad world at the moment . Loved the intro HubNut. Mrs HubNut brings out the comedian in you.
1st: The best intro ever, love that, 2nd: the sheer exasperation with the serp belt is fully relatable and shared, I would have kicked the Floof out of something at that point 3rd: Returns of happiness as Rita Recommences daily running! Well done, a thoroughly hideous ordeal, your painful perseverance prevails once more, she lives!
I thought replacing the alternator on my 2008 focus TDCI was a pain in the arse, having watching this video I have to say my experience was a walk in the park by comparison! Respect to you!
I decided to take the day off to do some work on my Audi 80, didnt go all that well. Got in and watched this, cheered me up no end watching Ian cursing away!
"I don't know which way around the long bolt and the short bolt go on" Was anyone else shouting at the screen - try them in the old alternator by your side! :) Well done Ian, a triumph of persistence.
Great video Ian. HubNut is the kind of mechanic-ing I identify with: stuggling on in the cold and the dark and going home for well deserved drink in the banger you've fixed for tuppence ha'penny.
The joy of car manufacturers using other manufacturers engines (it is a BMW engine iirc went into rwd cars), making the engine fit is one thing but making it easy to work on with the cars architecture is a whole other thing.
@@zenbudhism the V8 was reengineered to be rear wheel drive so the engine is at least in the original orientation as it was in the Mustang it came from.
I laughed, nearly as much as the time I replaced the mechanical fuel pump on my Rover P6. So little space, brass fuel line pipes, olives, brass nuts, all too easy to round them off. Could I get the arm to make contact with the invisible cam follower? Could I hell... with fuel dripping from the intake all the time I fiddled about with it. Until I did get it set up and bolted it all back together. Standing in a puddle of petrol, in celebration, cigarette in mouth and just about to spark up for a smoke..... Well done Ian, a definite rite of passage, glad it wasn't a dead end.
HubNut is a hero to all of us, that believe modern and near modern cars are just too difficult to work on for DIY mechanics, worst of all, the car makers seem to have done this on purpose.
Well done Mate, persistence will prevail. Even I as an Car Mechanic curse sometimes, but you learn to deal with it when you have to do these jobs. Kind regards from the Netherlands and you and your Family stay Save!!! Akko
I love the innuendo it is hilarious. I must say when you hit the bolt and it shot across the floor I nearly spat my tea out. Great to see mis Hubnut and little Hubnut helping out.
I’ve been binging on your videos for the last couple of weeks and you are living my dream 😎 Those are the kind of jobs that really test the patience and your persistence is admirable! German Engineers are very good, but German machinery (not just cars) is usually inexplicably difficult to work on. Top job 👍
I had to send my child to sit in the car because of the swearing, it's bad enough me turning the air blue without my 12 year old effing and jeffing in my ear.
I know it has been bloody frustrating your 75 , but i think they were a great car . I loved my 04 1.8 tourer , it towed my caravan everywhere . Keep up all the great work 👍
Great camera work from Miss Hubnut, but a special shout out must go to "The Boy" for cable handling skills and wry comments. What a trooper. Good effort by all involved.
Also had this experience back in the day. Including arguing with the scrapyard staff about whether the dead one they sold me was actually dead. Prevailed, though. It was a much easier alternator to replace - large front engine rear drive American car, with the alternator 'right there' & easy to get out from above.
@@boggy7665 yeah .........but in mine too The battery n starter motor at same time !!!!! Also ........so ...I couldn't afford to do all 3 at once !!!!!🤪🤪🤪😫😂😂😂😂
Heres what happened.....Rovers design team go to the pub on a friday afternoon for a particurlary heavy drinking session, stagger back to Rover about 4.50pm, design the alternator system and leave work at 5pm! What a great piece of engineering designed after a friday afternoon booze session - , thank god this isn't your daily driver. Well done on yours and the hubnutees persistance, great work!
Glad it all came together in the end Ian. It must be said that car engine designers give zero thought to those that have to work on it later down the line. And when it comes to those darn tensioners, they are purely designed to skin knuckles and break fingers! But you got there in the end, that is the main thing. All I would say is don't forget to refit the wheel liner, they keep a lot of dirt and water from getting on to the pulleys and tensioner.
Anyone quietly chuckle when Ian yelled 'UTTER TW*T'.?Never seen you get so flustered! Fabulous entertainment! 👌 Glad you fixed it though! Mission accomplished! 👌
OMG. I used to love fixing cars many years ago. But watching you reminds me why I don't love fixing them anymore. LOL that was torturous to watch hahaha
Now in all seriousness Ian, it was good to see the ‘fire’ inside you show concerning the belt, a trait that we all possess, yet rarely see you demonstrate. Fair play bud. 🤜🤜🤜🤜🤜🤜👍👍👍🇬🇧🏴
Have you just added value to the car by fitting a new alternator. I admire your patience and persistence during your quest to get the car back on the road. Must be a labour of love.
Fun fact: it is physically impossible to remove the alternator from a Honda Jazz with the vehicle fully assembled. You can unplug it, and undo the bolts, but there is simply no gap (either at the top, bottom or side of the engine) big enough to get the alternator through. I spent a glorious xmas replacing the broken engine in my Jazz. There's about 40mm of space at the front of the engine. I spent 3 days, with spaghetti fingers, trying to undo things at the front of the engine. Then I relented and made the effort to remove the front apron. Turned out it's only 6 small phillips screws and a couple of plastic studs holding the entire front on. Access to the engine was improved dramatically. Wish I'd bitten the bullet and done it immediately. Just sayin'...
Hi Ian, my 2cv was undercharging, remove two screws pull out brush pack,push in new brush pack do up two screws, put wire back on, start car, fixed !! 10 mins, bring back the old methods to many cars now end up getting scrapped because simple things cannot be fixed, and repair outweighs the cars value, just what dealers want.
