So far our classic red Lada has been handling everything we throw at it like a true champ. But how will it react to all of the bushings being exctracted from the suspension? Our instagram / garage__54
Hang on a minute? 1970's utilitarian little Lada 1200 had a 5 link rear suspension setup, and a double wishbone front end from the factory? Jesus ! That's a more advanced setup than a lot of the comparable cars (Ford Escort, Morris Marina, Vauxhall Chevette, etc) we had here in the UK at the time !
Lada without suspension bushings can complete moose test at 70kmh and we have modern cars with bunch of safety systems, flipping at approximately same speeds.
@@nicusor86 if I remember correctly, A class was reason why ESP was invented. After equipping A class with ESP it did much better at moose test. But what is more interesting that you have modern hatches equipped with esp that perform hardly any better than this lada.
@@TheBalija1 Thats because they werent able to compensate for design flaws with electronic stability control. The car itself had good handling characteristics designed in.
>>>>>>>How about a video with a car that has absolutely no suspension? Replace it with rebar. Also use solid rubber tires. Turn a car into a giant shopping cart and then fill with the giant groceries and drive it down the street.
Thanks Today’s video I know what I need to replace on my bronco so it doesn’t feel like it does I didn’t know the bushings were bad but I guess 258,000 miles they probably need replaced. Or it could be because it’s rotten. 1 of the 2 or both
I buy old 90 hondas, and they al seem to come with this mod. The trick to driving these shotboxes is to always be accellerating (in the physics sense). I.e. always turning, braking, etc to keep it loaded and not all loose. Once you 'coast' in the middle range where all the play is, you immediately begin to lose control.
So bushings was a big deal to me at first because i drive Almost 100 miles a day doing 70 mph and i wanted all new parts including steering and bearings. But after 3 cars i noticed new polyurethane bushings are for cornering cars because everything is harder and tighter
I hope Garage 54's Vlad comes out of the Russia-Ukraine war OK. Certainly we won't see any new videos from him for a while once his translator works through the episodes in the can before this all started.
I download your game it's really fun but I have one caveat it direct me 2 your Russian language Channel from the Watch the video segments of the game. Otherwise excellent job.🤣
I was hoping you'd put all new bushings back in. That car looks like it's in pretty good shape, with some buffing and fixing here and there it would be a cream puff.
I know everyone always says this, but this time it's serious. This particular Lada has SO much character. I know this is the English channel and I am not Russian or speak the language, but please don't kill this one LOL. Everyone gets attached to every project of yours and then you crush them or light them on fire hahahahahha and that is very entertaining but maybe one time you could do a full restore? I don't know about the Russian and European audience, but Americans love that kind of thing, seeing things restored and then shown off. Thank you for your continuous uploads and great content!!! Will always be a fan of this channel and Garage 54.
I like the stupidity of the fact that they wanted to remove the bushings in the first place. it's even better that they didnt press them out, but just set them on fire
You guys need to place hidden cameras under the car then get a lady to take it to a workshop and tell them there are funny noises coming from under the car to see their reaction.
That's been done before but the problem is that you get double the gear reduction because the front wheel drive transmission has the differential in it and then you send that to another differential and you end up with a top speed of like 40 miles an hour!!
Years ago I took a ranger 4x4 rolling frame and put a mid 80's Toyota Tercel engine and trans and had a CV axle/driveshaft cobble job going to front and rear axles I had a plastic storage tub of cement/ quickcrete on the nose had 35-12.5 mud tires with tubes and filled about 60% with washer fluid I blocked up the suspension/frame with I beam and used this contraption to pull a trip plow and disc until I finally bought a tractor ,it's not the most reliable setup by any means but did do what I needed it to do for a couple years it was kinda awd..sorta..I think the first time I used it was spring 2005 and crushed it in the winter of 08 or 09, idk I know the crusher was paying $16.50 per 100lb at the time and I was tired of rewelding driveline shafts plus the engine was nearly shot smoked and consumed oil like crazy looked about like a steam engine under load and I had a tractor by then.
I love this guys shop. Dude's got tools from 50 years ago, but they still do the job, so why replace them. I have never seen somebody still rocking a corded droplight with a bulb. I think the most modern thing they have is electric impact guns
I still have a corded drop light from 1965. I have replaced the plug on it but otherwise it still works fine. Back then they didn't come with a switch on them so it is a simple plug in and unplug to turn it on or off.
I want to see a car with all four wheels with different diameter and tire sizes i.e.) 15" Front right, 17" front left, 18" rear right, 14" rear left. In respect to the wheels just listed 195/40/15 stretched on 15x10, 255/40/17 regular fit up on a 17x9.5, 275/35/18 flopped over a skinny 18x8, 205/55/14 regular on a 14x7. or nah? Wooden drive shaft? Wooden sway bars? If done before ignore, if not then I reckon they'd probably just snap under load.
After no bushes, fitting as many shock absorbers and many wheel experiments... Driving WITHOUT shock absorbers. Makes the car really wobbly and bouncy. Best car for this would be solid axle one. UAZ maybe? If not wobbly and bouncy enough: lift it and you will certainly feel like a kid in a playground on a spring rider
Over time, cars develop annoying sounds for a variety of reasons. Here are some of the most common noise-causing issues you are likely to encounter while operating your vehicle: • worn, damaged or missing muffler, • missing tire or missing wheel and tire, • horn switch shorted in the ON position, • wife, girlfriend or small child present as passenger (or passengers), • small, medium or large hole in windshield, • burning bag of fireworks in back-seat, trunk or glovebox, • metal on metal rotors and calipers and/or metal on metal brake drums and shoes, • door (or doors) missing, • fried wheel bearings, • lack of oil in engine, transmission, differential, transfer case, etc., • axe welded to flywheel and/or driveshaft, • broken or missing shock absorbers, broken or missing coil or leaf springs, • cracked, broken or missing radiator hose, • person locked in the trunk vociferously endeavoring to obtain emancipation, There are many more possible sources of annoying noise; this list is not exhaustive. The one thing all of these have in common is that rectifying them requires money - money that is much more fruitfully spent on beer. I have developed two clever workarounds for the annoying sounds your car makes. These workarounds have the added benefit of being extremely affordable. #1: Park your vehicle and never start or drive it again. (Walking is good for the environment!) #2: Increase the volume of your sound system to mask the annoying sound. (If you can't hear it, there's nothing to worry about, right?) You are welcome. I am here to help. Sharing is caring.
Changed the tie rod in my truck recently and got the alignment as close as I could, its annoying sometimes as the steering turning usually slight right seems like its either not enough or too much, turning left is fine, but I can't afford to get an alignment right now, once the Covid crap goes away and work picks back up, first thing I'm doing it taking it to get an alignment.
Mna, I feel sorry for the cars. Here they are very liked as veterans. In russia, test subjects xD Well I just hope there will be enough Žiguli for me to pick.
I might need new bushings on my 2006 Mustang, hard to tell in the video because the voiceover is louder, I have amplified suspension noise over bumps and it doesn't sound good, they're not this bad but definitely need to look at them because when you took it off road it sounded really similar, I just bought the car a couple weeks ago so I hope the bushings aren't shot
That was a really nice looking Lada and not very rotted out. An early one like that would be worth a few quid in the UK. Maybe you guys should try to restore this one. The interior is mint! Maybe you can put a twin turbo V6 or V8 in it or something
They could have sprayed the bushings with carb cleaner. Then the rubber just slips out...learned that trick after trying to burn/cut/grind bushings out lol
no safety harness, no crash helmet, no insurance salesmen hovering around, no environmental activists shedding salty tears, this was how it used to be in the UK upto about the 80tys, life was fun even when you were broke, i miss those days, keep having fun garage 54, i salute you :).
How about you replace all the bushings with bearings? What happens if you add shocks to improve the ride to handle the fine vibrations the bushings absorb?
Now, that you've driven it for a while with no bushings, try putting in those new, beautiful polyurethane bushings, and drive again. I'll bet it will feel like driving a brand new car!
Driving a car like this should be mandatory to get driving license. In a sense that if your car drives like this you should stop driving it. It would be good to know what is unsafe. Just like the food safety thing when they say "if it looks, smells or tastes spoiled, don't eat it." And most young people in western world have never seen, smelled or tasted spoiled food so how would they know?
Nice picture of siberian bushing company products, also "Polyurethan" another russian company makes a really great product you truly won't find anywhere else in the world and actually better than most or all urethane bushing you'd find in the west or usa
I get that ladas are common trash in russia, like a shitty old civic here in the us, but man I would kill for one in good shape. Old soviet cars have such a charm to them. So simple, cheap, but great designs.
