The Engine out of my Daily Driver Alfa needs A LOT of work! 

Nice to see the Patented Alfa Romeo Rust Inhibitor Dispersion Unit is functioning well. Nice thick protective layer evenly applied across the block, engine bay, and trans.

The fact that the speedo drive unit is serviceable just shows how mechanics back in this era of cars thought differently. Instead of disposable "just replace the assembly" thinking, which was my reflex, we have a level of craftsmanship and frugal thinking. Amazing work, keep the videos coming!

Best content on RU-vid

You have one of the best automotive channels Jethro. Always just the right amount of detail, great video and narration.

Great to see Porco getting some more love. It is hard to not delve too deeply down the rabbit hole. Great work again.

Your exquisite videos are a real pleasure to watch. Informative, beautifully shot, and oh-so soothing... Looking forward to the next one already!

As an orthopedic surgeon and Alfa nut, your skill and technique is impressive!

Nice that your socks match the engine bay, a very bold fashion statement indeed. 😂

Just rewatching this 2 months later to remember where Jethro left off. Although by the time a new video drops I'll probably forget everything again...

The no music, great aesthetic and clear explanation of all your action make your videos a real pleasure to watch :) Keep up like this, I'll be happy to see the next episode !

It’s really nice to watch you treat the car, engine and all parts with care and love. Looking forward to watching the next🍀🍀🍀

Duuuuuuude!!! Talk about a cliff hanger, I'm spitting feathers can't wait till the next episode. Would love to visit your workshop, buy you lunch and talk about your projects. Great content and really really good editing.

Your dedication to saving old parts and restorations are like a breath of fresh air thank you for these videos and what you do its a shame that you don't upload more but I guess that's fine when the quality is optimal.

I don’t understand why you have only this number of subscribers. It is an amazing channel, good old fashioned wrenching, eye for detail, love for your brand, good camerawork and a very pleasant voice. Keep it up!

I'm never disappointed when viewing your vids.. simple, precise details about what you are doing. Bravo!

So cool to see an old Alfa getting some love.

I think what I find so enthralling is how these videos capture the idyllic parts of car repair in contrast to the brutal over-metricization of modern shop work.

this was so cozy man, and with the rain. Thank you for posting

This is one of the best channels in the hole of RU-vid ! Great mechanic and a very down to earth person This car makes my blood boil , grew up in one of those , keep up the excellent work !

Watching someone else suffer through Alfa ownership has never been so relaxing. All jokes aside, yours is some of my favorite content on this platform - the narration, editing and content are on point.

Dude this is one of the coziest videos I've watched. beautifully shot too

Always a pleasure to watch one of your videos. I know from the number of views you get that you aren't making any money from YT so your efforts are doubly appreciated.

a mechanic with the mind of a film maker means some beautiful videos

Many years ago, a friend of mine welded a dial indicator base to a former spark plug. So it made it super easy to find TDC with that.

Jethro, it's so relaxing watching you work. First class content Sir!.

Jethro, I’ve watched since a few hundred subs to where you are now. Your content is relaxing a long day at work. Please don’t lose this passion so many folks love your content. - Mal

Tactile, informative, intelligent just the right amount of info and superb camera work, this is how it's done.🌞

What a beautifully resolved alloy drivetrain. Alfa clearly inspired Japanese engineering to come.

Great work on a lovely old car. Thanks for sharing

Excellent very interesting and informative your machinable knowledge is amazing.

Ah finally! Been waiting for the next episode! Best channel on RU-vid ❤️

I feel that you've overlooked an important detail about how bad the flywheel is looking like it desperately needs machining otherwise you go through all that work just to have the clutch chattering on you.

I do like the way you do your presentation. Oldfashioned engine , kind of relaxing to watch. Allen Millyard does it like you do. Thanks and Greetz.

Love how the engine becomes the main character and evokes sympathy from the viewer. "Wall E" Engine. Satisfying to watch the oil dissolve. You're a mechanical magician!

What a nice designed engine!

Loved hearing the rain on the roof. Awesome content as always. Thanks Jethro

I really enjoyed this. I loved my Alfas and miss them. Working on the engine out of the car is a delight and a delight to watch. Thanks for your excellent narration and camera work!

one of the best on youtube for car repairs only sreten from m539 and you are these good for the home mechanic DIY

What a beautiful engine, how lucky are you to work/own a truly great piece of automotive engineering

Can’t wait to hear this engine run again.

Beautiful, thank you! This gave me motivation to do some work on my moped!

I always look forward to your videos, they’re simply just the best.

I've been waiting this whole time to watch all that grease coming of the engine!

I was actually looking on the internet today on how to remove the rev counter assembly. I have a problem with it on my '76 Alfetta. Now I know. Thank you

I'm not an Alfa guy..,the fact you from SA and your knowledge you make want to own one..... Greetings from Northwest

New bushes , pistons and rings , big and smallend bearings , valvetrain with seals and bushes , and if necesary two new camshafts and she is fine for another 60 to 100K miles of high rpm fkying ! I know , had my 2 liter done back in 89 . Treat her well , fluids on top and...........every first 10 miles NO exess above 3000 rpm ! Once warm you can trash her all day with no problem , day in day out . Wonderfull engine , absolutely wonderfull piece of machinery !!!!!!!

I consider Jethro's videos to be extremely well filmed and produced - most likely more effort in filming/producing the video than performing the actual restoration work. The only other RU-vid producer that I consider to be on a similar level is Soup Classic Motoring, however it’s a shame that Soup does not feature Alfa Romeos. However Soup's current project is a Lotus so I'm now hooked. Look forward to future videos that feature the wonderfully patinaed Giulia 1300.

If the timing chain causes the valve timing to be so much off, I would replace it. They last longer than a belt, but not eternally. Maybe 100.000 miles?

Love watching your videos - so calm and everything done in a controlled manner without haste and none of the shouty-shouty and preaching of many other content providers. Awesome that you restore the cars of my youth in the country of my youth. I miss both my father's Giulia Super, TP 4192, with 1750 motor and a few other mods, that I had access to in my late teens and early twenties - that was an awesome car and was purchased from Dawie de Villiers just days before he opened Glenwood Motors in Pretoria, plus the powder blue Alfetta 1.8 saloon, GWY 985 T which I purchased from him later. The latter was a rust box though, built by AR in the Brits factory, while the Giulia Super wasn't (built by Datsun in Rosslyn). Will be looking out for your valve-train reset video - that's a job I did with my dad a few times! Thank you for filming your hobby.

Looking a lot nicer at the end of the episode and a lot of work to be proud of. The dreaded "While I am at it" bug is better than the feeling of "I should have just fixed it when the engine was out" problems.

Incredibly satisfying to watch, even the rain (no matter how loud) makes it soothing. Looking forward to the next one.

I know next to nothing about old alfas but you still make me really interested and better understanding of the inner workings of cars.

So glad to see Porco getting the love. Very well edited and excellent “storytelling” as usual. Can’t wait until next installment!

Thank you sir. Excellent.

First time watcher, I like the way you work, clearly very competent, subscribed.

Great progress!

Thanks a ton for the content. I am really looking forward to the next episode

You have more self control than me… can’t resist fixing it right when it’s out. I pulled the trans in my ‘83 Mercedes 300D to replace 1 piston and ended up fully rebuilding it

Im more invested in seeing your daily be brought to running condition than anything on NETFLIX Right now

Fountain Pen, Hand micrometer, Pepsi bezel dive watch, Alpha Romeo. You have good taste mate.

Awesome spirit in you video, Sir. Very refreshing, different. Love you cars, garage and attention to detail. Subscribed !

I like the honda C50 in the background ;)

Thanks for the video Jethro, I am currently working on a Berlina 1974. Looking forward to the next video, as the valve clearances is one of the jobs I am not looking forward to.

Nice work!

We all go off "into the weeds". Right now I just finished installing the Heater box after replacing the core and valve in my '74 Spider. Your video inspired me to totally refresh the heater box. I installed a dash cover to cover the cracks since it was off but I can't install the dash until after I put the upper and lower sump back on. I was chasing an upper sump oil leak. I hope I shouldn't have pulled the engine to chase leaks. Thanks for the video. Recently I found out why there are so many right and drive Alfas in South Africa --- having a factory in South Africa helps a lot.

Great content!... love your videos😃 keep em coming!. Greetings from Hungary, ex Benoni boy.

Excellent filming. Thanks

Back in the day I recall reading that the classic alfa 5 speed box used 3x synchros for 1/2, 3/4 and 5/... gears. The idea was that you could swap the 5/... synchro with the 1/2 synchro and the usual weak synchro performance on 2nd gear would be solved for free.

There’s nothing wrong with all the caked and baked oil covering the engine. It just means the seal has moved from the inside of the engine to the outside 😅

Absolutely love you content👍🏼 could watch these episodes everyday

14:32 nice watch 😄

Easily the sexiest mechanic on RU-vid.

Just a thought, to save yourself time later. Use brass nuts on the exhaust studs , much easier to remove later. Stay well stay safe.

The red sled will once again live!

Truly excellent content. Nice to see the various watches, and the big bonus, the fountain pen and the lovely blue ink. Class.

I like your style enough that you just got a new subscriber. Can't wait to see the next episodes.

Good stuff Jethro.

Thank you, thank you, *thank* you for not having music during the wrenching portions. It helps immensely with the immersion

Thanks again for your great videos.

Sir, you provide exquisite content on this channel. No dumb remarks, no loud obnoxious music, just pure content at a professional level. Rare thing these days. Keep it up for our viewing pleasure. Thank you.

I should resist watching these within hours of release to not fall victim to not knowing where the story goes next. 😁

And down the rabbit hole we go!

Great work! And yes, it is better to adress these issues now then leave them be and wishing you did later on.

now this is what I was waiting for, nice

Great work and footage and nice to see Porco getting some much needed fettling as such an amazing engine for the era - looking forward to hearing the car roar back to life 🤓🙏👏🎯

The Alfa was really needing a lot of work and there is more to do but man will you have something special when it is done

Your work and the actual engine itself is art at its highest level. It is a privilege to follow You.

Great EP

Love this kind of videos!

Scraping the old oil off the engine with a palette knife! I've done that before with my Mercedes diesels, it's quite satisfying.

Excellent stuff, keep it coming ....

I just happen to have another one of these..., and a better set of that..., you know, just lying around... lol. We can't get enough Jethro - pure Zen.

Just lovely content as always. Thank you 👍

Beautiful cars, nice attention to detail, great camera work with relaxed calm narration. You are doing everything right for a channel like this, keep up the great work. You videos are always a pleasure to watch.

Mr Bronner you have the attention to detail and the calmness of a God and your concise narration is akin to that of Sir David Attenborough. Thanks once again for an enlightening and educational gemstone. Also the 105 series engine's are just about the most workable, high performance engine's known to humanity. Hallelujah, old school Alfa Romeo.

Babe wake up, Jethro posted a new video

I love this ! cant wait for more of these beautifull cars u have, gotta lova those Alfas

Well done. They'll be great satisfaction driving it again after all this attention. Good luck on the valve train adjustments!

Great episode Jethro! Thanks!

interesting exhaust and rear disc brakes, back in a day, very interesting car