Taking The Engine Out Of An Alfasud Ti To Fix It Up! | Wheeler Dealers 

" Edd China's Garage Revival " has a couple pilot episodes on youtube. and Edd has another new series on his Edd CHina youtube channel

This is not a new episode

Actually, for many of us, the show WAS Mr China. We were often skipping past the segments where the fat one was prancing around.

Steven Piper I'm well aware it's an old episode. I'm just saying they're showing the old stuff bcuz it was better content

M no one cares for the fat bloke tbh lol

@M If you had been following what Mr Brewer has been saying about Mr China, post-WD, you'd be careful to describe Brewer as a good bloke. He's been extremely arrogant, downright mean. The web & YT are awash with interviews where Brewer is a right prat. Can't say anything about the new guy, I stopped watching the show as they booted China out.

I think they are both great Grease Monkeys.

Thanks for saying that. Ant is good just too much intro and outro since the USA move.

@@rimmersbryggeri The Production comany in the states are fully to blame for the wheeler dealers decline, both Edd and Antare amazing engineers, but the idea to save cash by having more filler and less of the build is what has ruined the show for me (I don't blame mike for this either)!

@@tvandbeermakehomergo Ant might even be sligtly better at some things. His way of speaking can be annoying though. I agree it's the production format that is wrong an I do think mike is getting kind of tedious too. Especially using cockney terms in amerrica that he never used until seaon 8.

Yep Totally Agree with that idea..! Anyone who can't Say 'Something' properly ( Sumfink) is pushing the Cockney charm, a Step too far..! And I was born in The East End. And it Drives me Nuts..!!

Poop vacial

Good news, there's a fully rebuilt from the ground up jobby in Oz 😊

Stunning drive for its time .

Sorry to hear that about your Sud being in the workshop so often fortunately for me mine it's was 100% reliable and luckily for me my supervisor was an Ex Alfa Romeo dealship mechanic and taught me everything about the up keep on the Sud , yes these little buggers handled absolutely awesomely great , used to fang mine very oftenly with 2 mates actually 6 nights a week 😁 on tight twisty stuff which was just a treat I could get the brake fluid to boil , my mates and I would pull over pop the bonnet and watch it boiling in the reservoir haha I know your probably thinking WTH but you did have to drive it like you were possessed

Intriguing.... Happiness in having a 90's, or indeed, any Alfa ?? I take it you rarely drive it, then ? To quite St.Clarkson, "This car is so beautiful, I can almost accept having to walk the last few miles of any journey I make in it...." I love Alfas, but will be surprised if any 25 year old Alfas actually can run for more than 10 minutes at a time. Such sheer beauty, the supreme handling, the comfort in the driver's seat (crap for passengers), those smooth gear changes, the soul of those cars......and all made from tin foil....

@@thefreedomguyuk in my experience the Alfa reliability jokes aren't funny, or true.

YOU COULD REV THE 1.2 TO 7800RPM.THEY NEVER PUT A REV COUNTERON THE FIRST ONE.

Did yours rust?

@@leenevin8451 Rust was a major problem with them.

True. And Alfa have not yet eliminated those electrical gremlins. They are wonderful drives, but best selling them on when they get 2 years old. That's when they start to disintegrate.

All the alfasud range had discs all round. Inboard at front but conventionally outboard at rear as the car had a dead axle. The 33 switched to outboard discs and rear drums so the later sprints had rear drums... but every Sud had 4 discs! I'm pleased to say my Sprint has discs all round rather than the backward step of 33 brakes!!

@@peterjennings8258 Nice to see someone still has one! We rebuilt our Sud from the ground up and now it has the duel carbies and heads off a Sprint, exhaust off a 33 and bored out with forged pistons to a bit over 1.6L. The drive to and from work are my favourite bits of the day 😁

@@davespanksalot8413 yep, mine was my first car.. bought in 1992... so have owned it for 28 years now. A 1983 Sprint green cloverleaf. Mostly standard bar powerflex bushes and 14" speedlines that have replaced the 340 metric speedlines that my car left the factory with...although I do still have the metric wheels too! Not a daily driver for many years bit reserved for nice days when I want to feel 17 again.

Niet te vergelijken, different cars, both very good.

Yes, thought the same, and since water collects there, I would drill a drain hole in the bottom of the newly added piece.

Indeed. That's why you soon sell the car on (-;

Alex Veldhuis indeed. Drill a small hole and fill with cavity wax and seal the hole with a plug.

ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS THEY ROTTED WAS THEY FILLED ALL THE BOX SECTIONS, WHICH DID NOT HAVE PAINT ON THEM, WITH LIQUID FOAM WHICH JUST TURNED IT INTO A SPONGE ON WHEELS PLUS THE CRAP STEEL CLIPPED IN WINDOWS WITH NO SCREEN RUBBERS .IT NEVERSTOOD A CHANCE..MY FIRST CAR WAS A 1.2L 1976 AND 2 YEARS BEFORETHAT A 1.2SE 1975 WHICH MY BROTHER IN LAW HAD FROM NEW.I ACTUALLY SAT IN A SUD IN 1975 DOING 90MPH DOWN M ONE.I OVER TIGHTENED MY BELT TENTION ROLLER WHICH EXPLODED THE BELT CAME OFF BUT ONLY HAD ONE BENT VALVE THATS ALL THE DAMAGE IT HAD. I ONCE DROVE IT 12 MILES WITH THE CLIPS OFF THE DIST CAP.IT PUSHED THE CORE PLUGS OUT ONE WINTER WHEN I HAD NOANTIFREZZ IN IT BUT EASY FIX.IT HAD A RECALL WHEN NEW ON THE CRAPHAND BRAKE CALIPERS THATS WHY THEY PUT REAR DRUMS ON THE 33TO GAIN A HANDBRAKE.IT USED OVER HEAT AFTER 12MILES TO WORKLOOKED EVERYWARE FOR THE REASON UNTIL I FOUND SUM CLOWN HADREMOVED THE THEMOSAT.I USED TO DRIVE IT WITH NO CARBON BUSHESIN THE GEAR LEVER MOUNTING BECAUSE THEY HAD PERRISEDOF ALL THE 13 ALFA'S I OWNED THE ONLY ONE THAT LET ME DOWN ON THE ROAD WAS THE ALETTA GOLDCLOVERLEAF WITH BOSCH INJECTION.BEST ALFA I HAD A 1974 ITALIAN JOB GUILIA SUPER 1600 WITH A 150HP2000 BERLINA ENGINE .I HAD A FRENCH .1.8 ALFETTA 1971 WHICH WASSTILL ON ORIGINAL RUST FREE SILLS IN 1986 AND NO RUST ROUND CLIPPED IN SCREENS.

@@JULIAN8845 yep My first car was a 1975 4 door. When it got rust under the rear window we put in a new section and filled the area around the rear window with black Silastic. It looked better and didn't rust there again. The downfall of my car was an accident repair that didn't get rust proofed. It was 13 years old when i got rid of it and I loved it.

Ford focus has a bolt hole in block to stop crank turning at tdc. Apart from that they're the biggest pita to change belts as there's no marks on cam sprockets.

They do

@@MegaReddevil71 Not on the Porsche M28. You have to have a special tool or be very careful....

season 12 episode 12

Done it with a 33 with a hydraulic tappet engine. Not too bad to do. Doing it with a 16v I wouldn’t like to try!

I don't think Edd has come back, these are old episodes...

@@zambam3 Will unsubscribe then !

@@reloading_and_gun_channel nobody cares

@@stijnvandamme76 except the idiot who replied a year later !!!

@@stijnvandamme76 Except for the idiot who replies one year later ! :-)

Targa UK, anno fine 70 inizio 80, motore boxer 1.5 doppio carburatore 102cv credo

Alfa style ☺

David Wood get Edd back. Period

Simca are widely regarded for making the first "hot hatch", in the early 70's.

Early Sud's had a boot, not a hatchback as such - Only the later ones did - I'd still prefer one over a Golf any day (unless I could sell the Golf immediately and then buy 3 Sud's with the money)

I’d credit the first hot hatch to the Renault 16 TS in 1968, followed by the 16 TX in 1973.

@@chriswest4061 It was reported that designer Rudolf Hruska didn't like hatchbacks. The hatchbacks have an obvious brace between the lower wheel arches.

Sa'ed Rayan he’s not that small, how could you lose him?

Noticed that too👍

Carburettors. Also subjectivism.

Different exaust headers,NA with carbs vs. turbo with fuel injection.

Because the Alfa boxer is italian! Easy! Isn’t it?

The phasing of the crankshaft is different between the two engines. The Alfa's balanced, so running smoothly. The Scooby is 'overlapping', hence runs rough. Similar to the different sounds of an AMG V8 and a standard Merc V8. (Crossplane shaft vs Flatplane shaft) The Alfa was Flatplane, the Scooby is Crossplane.

@@thefreedomguyuk yes hence the 'throbbing' Scooby vs the sweet Alfa boxer

Early in Alfa terms would be pre WW1 lol.

Also had to do with the fact that they built the cars in one factory, and then stored/transported them in open air to the paint shop. no matter what the weather was like, so unprotected steel.. rain/snow/ice .. whatamistakatomaka

These are only metropolitan legends. Iron was new, produced by a steelworks near Naples. And was bought galvanized (only after 1974, so first three years of Alfasud was not galvanized). Rust problems were due basically to bad procedures at plant were suds were made: bad cataphoresis bath, too much time of cars is oven to dry paint, bad teaching on workers etc, ...also sabotations from trade unions...there are many documentaries here in Italy that describe this peach of history.

And expired in '95 ?? (-;

1993 German Mot is always difficult for Italian cars. My Sud had too much rust. I bought the next one and a year later a 33 ti. And than a 33 qv, a 75 limited, 156, Spider v6....... Today, we donˋ t have a modern Alfa, they are all too small for my family.

@@lieberfreialsgleich You are a man of style and of taste. I apologise for my snide remark. I am a true Alfa lover, but saddened by their inherent corrosion issues.

Morten Kristoffersen and we drove these cars on salted roads. In summer, I prefer my 1971 Giulia

Bullshit about the 33.I have two 33 series 3,also I am 1.88 and I fit perfectly.My only complaint is about the tight footwell.Also,no Golf handles as good as Alfasud/Sprint/33.

Mechanically the Golf was primitive in respect to the Alfasud. Unfortunately Alfasud pre-1980 really had rust problems (everything rusted in the '70s, but the Alfasud more than others). The only problem with the 33 was that it was not a real hatchback (it had the integral rear door, but the shape mimicked a saloon) so it was less flexible than the Golf.

I read it reported at the time that Alfa's logic was an extra 20% spent on the engine didn't mean the car cost 20% more.

That engine was very well kept, so not rusted. As the block rusts, iron and aluminum get stuck together. Well done Edd, greasing where pump is fitted.

Eeerh.... The Sud was legendary for its handling. It wasn't a torque monster. The GTV had much more torque, in particular high range torque. How do I know ? I drove them back in the day.

They sold it for £6800, so they make a £1000 profit. Not bad of tot realise today Alfasuds do arround £10000 to £17000. Here in Holland you can pay arround €15000 for a good one. They are even rare to find here

Edd won't go back. And I don't blame him.

Eeerh....That was actually exactly what Alfa was famous for, mainly having boxers from 1970 and nearly 3 decades onwards.

Alfa 33, 145 and 146 also had a boxer engine

That's alright.....The 'Suds had hydraulic tappets.... You don't do such contraptions, they do themselves (-;

Later engines were hydraulic suds were adjustable

Hydraulic tappets came in later on with the 33s. Early Suds had a system with 2 cam lobes per valve, with a hole through the cam between them to pass an Allen key to turn an adjuster screw. Later Suds (like the one in the video) used shims.

Who fking asked you. Dip stick

​@@oliveroneill1388Go cry in the corner MARY

they didn't rust as bad as the alfa suds. russian steel, and the factory stored bare steel bodies outside regardless of weather , while en route to the paint shop which was separate building 6 year old Alfasud's looked like 50 year old early Porsches.

@@stijnvandamme76 The cars are made of sheet steel. All (unprotected) steel rusts it is a physical property, not just in Italy! It was only from 1985/90 that we started to use the steel sheets with zinc! This realy prtected the cars from rust. Until then all the cars were rusting. ALL! Do not go to look for the little gnat in the eye of the neighbor...

You probably pronounce English words as badly though.