1928 OLDSMOBILE RACECAR

so as I've stated in a previous video I bought this car off of a friend of mine an older gentleman before he sells his acreage and moves into a retirement community and he is finishing the body work and painting it for me and then I'm going to reass uh finish the mechanical on the car and uh yeah it's a 28 olds mobile the engine's out of a 46 uh military truck it is a 270 cubic inch 6cylinder the rear end is a 74 Ford Maverick the front end's a 39 Chev it's a the body's all custom uh it's a total mismatch of random Parts which is what a Hot Rod's supposed to be and I want a traditional hot rod and it's going to be a nice one but uh it needs a lot of work and that's what I'm here for and uh the body is off and he's going to do the work to it and everything and I've got the chassis at home and it didn't have a drive shaft the transmission wasn't mated to the engine uh the it added exhaust manifold um it's all stuff I yanked off or had to get built and uh and that's where the video starts here so here we are it's time to start working on the old 28 oldmobile Roadster uh The Silver Fox is as done as it can be for now I even went the extra mile and put a stereo in it and now it's got a era correct speckle painted 2 10in caption stubs and uh I tried to make it as uh era correct as possible by doing the same kind of crappy work I did when I was 19 and uh I think I nailed it anyway time to uh start working on the old old's mobile here and uh I got a lot of stuff to do this thing is is mocked up at best we already know this engine runs I he had it running on an engine stand we it was supposedly rebuilt gener like a generation ago and it's in mint condition except for looking dirty and old from sitting in a shed or in a shop under a counter but uh so I got to take it out paint it I already built the headers for it it had a exhaust manifold but it came with headers that didn't fit I made the headers fit I don't even know what engine this is um it might be it might be it's not a 250 it's too old for that it might be a 236 it might be a 251 I I don't I'm not a Chev expert this is a GMC engine I suppose but uh anyway I'm going to take it apart paint it I'm not taking the engine apart I just mean take it out paint it um the transmission it's been made to a T5 so it's a 5-speed which is going to be awesome but right now the clutch is out of it entirely it was all just mocked up like he just put it together got everything lined up so I got to take it back apart put the clutch in put it back together uh I got to build the drive shaft for the back it came with it um it just needs to be built and length changed and then the back brakes are not in but everything's been gone through and there's tons and tons of boxes of random parts that it came with and some of these parts are important like windshield brackets and stuff like that cuz this is a I'm going to try and do a reasonably era correct job on this car I want it to look the part of you know a hot rod in the you know 40s or 50s or something so I got a bunch of work done I got this thing all painted up and then I decided to start checking stuff out before I put it back together I put a new thermostat in it resealed the thermostat housing and uh went through a bunch of stuff looks like a million bucks but water pump so the water pump spun rough the bearing sounded rough so I figed figur should at least check it out and I know I'm sure these things are very hard to get a water pump for and this is a prime example of why you can't believe what you see on YouTube or even believe what people on YouTube say because a lot of the time it's total so this water pump is probably really hard to get I completely destroyed it um the videos on YouTube they just put a puller on it and they it just comes off um if you see how bad I distort Ed the washers those are thick washers I absolutely struggled to get this pulley off by the time I got this off there's nothing left of the water pump uh I had to clamp it in the vice so hard I broke the casting because the this was so tight impacts wouldn't do it I had to double wrench everything I bent everything this puller is garbage I bent a second puller trying um so all that crap about oh it'll come apart it'll come apart it will not that was a lie it didn't even come close to coming apart in fact so I got the pilot bearing in I got the clutch in I got the clutch release lever this uh the uh release bearing everything it all works everything's good I uh I'm actually impressed because the guy I bought this off of is a bodyman not a mechanic and he got it pretty damn dead on I'm I like I said legitimately impressed um the reason I'm showing you guys this is as you can see I've got a ratchet strap and right now it's holding the clutch in the um depressed position so the clutch is released right now so the transmission spins freely even in gear yeah well it's a little draggy but that's cuz I'm not it's not pulled to its maximum length anyway the reason I did that is because they don't make um they don't make a plas plastic insert tool to mate a tmic T5 from like 1987 with a um 1940s uh military GMC engine so I had to line up the clutch by I as centered as I could and then run up the bolts and then I torqued everything and then when I went to slide this together it didn't line up and I had to jiggle it to get it in and it wouldn't quite go in so I had to release the clutch so that the clutch could move up and down and then it just slid together like butter so these are the kind of things you have to improvise on uh another thing I would have done differently had I built this from scratch is the cross member as you can see the crossmember is directly below the clutch and the the bell housing on this thing it doesn't come off you have to take the clutch off to get the bell housing off so the only way to do the clutch on this thing is to remove the crossmember or pull the engine out which is not acceptable so what I'm going to end up doing I think is when the time comes to do a clutch which it should be years and years and years it could be forever from now this cross memory here I'm going to cut it off and I'm going to weld it so it can be bolted in and out this part of it will stay that part will stay the same but that part will get cut out and bolt in and these are the things we do to to fix these problems some gifts just keep on giving so this is an old Derby engine that I pulled out of a suburban and there's something wrong with it it probably has a bent valve or something it never ran properly but uh I want this I want this two barrel car or sorry this uh this carburetor for my uh hot rod project it's a good thing I saved this engine cuz the truck went to the crusher so typically what people do is when you're building a hot rod you want more horsepower than the factory car would have had so this thing's already got a different engine so it's got more power and now it's got headers but now we need to do something with this so what most people do is they throw money at it that's not the name of the game with me um they would put a offen Houser intake that takes two or three of these things Barrel carburetors but um that costs a fortune it does so I think the real answer is to bolt on a more modern two barrel carburetor so we gain the performance without spending any money and it's more traditional hot rod I just have to cut the top off this intake manifold to accept a large ger carburetor it's going to be a little bit of a thing I'm sure but uh that's the name of the game really uh if it was easy everybody'd be doing it so it's all done now um I did a bunch of porting to get this uh on I trimmed all the garbage off the top of the intake manifold and as you can see now it's got a twin Inlet now it doesn't look that big but it's significantly bigger than was before it was actually quite pinched off so I took the liberty of also porting everything out and smoothing it out as best I could to get a little bit better air flow it's not going to help a whole lot when I can't get in here but it's all right the uh this thing there's limits on air flow with this thing anyway because it's only got four pipes for six cylinders so it's just it's never going to be it's never going to be a rocket but that was never going to be the that was never the Point look at that Sassy thing it looks like just a monster carburetor on that thing now so yeah I guarantee you that's going to make a difference I just don't know how much might not be something I can measure very easily and I can't uh can't exactly put the old car back on because uh I modified the out of the intake manifold what you do is is just like anything else you heat the cast iron with a torch or you put it in the oven whatever you want I get it to to the point where you know it's well over 100° C I don't know what that is an F5 damn these Eskimo denominations anyway um I heat it up till it's too hot to touch over 100° see and then I start doing all the welding on it everything has to be good and hot you made it up you weld it up then you heat it and slowly cool it and then it doesn't crack and break off hopefully time will tell I'm sure it'll be fine so the next step to to this project is the car is going to go away to Buddy's place and he's going to drop the body on finish the body work uh we're going to prime it paint it and then it'll come back here and I can do everything I have to do to it mechanically to finish it but I want a test onun it since I built this carburetor Mount and everything and I want to um see if my headers leak really bad which they probably will and it's got no water pump so I can't run it very long I just want to run it make sure it runs I've got it rigged up with a battery this thing is foot start for young people out there who don't know about this it's uh you push on this rod with your foot and it uh engages a starter there so it's pretty uh pretty casual so yeah I just got to put power from the pozer of post on the battery or on the starter to the coil that's it and it's ready to run the reason these old cars are so easy to steal back in the day oh um little side note if you're going to use Spray Nine jugs for uh gas make sure you don't spray spray n in there and it's actually the gas one that you're putting in the carburetor it will not run on Spray Nine sure seems like an asmal Spark so I think I figured out what was wrong and from what I can tell the problem was just the points were corroded on the distributor for people who haven't dealt with points before there's a reason we went away from them but it wouldn't make a spark before oh now it's not sparking again oh that's a bad sign oh yeah it's probably not going to start because there's no there's no continuity between the distributor never mind no it's got sparked I already charged up the capacitor that's why I didn't spark that time well let's see what it does that might be the actual issue with the carburetor too the carburetor might just be no good I mean that that's never [Music] [Music] well other than the idle being set a little bit High that's actually not bad started right away it's uh it's burning off a little bit of garbage on the headers I welded and the head that's painted and everything but that's it's not a big deal let's see if we can't get that idle turn down just a little bit I don't want to run it too hot it shouldn't run too hot not running very long but for [Music] excellent go team so this is an old headlight they're I don't know what they're from I bought them off of the same guy I got the car from paid a hundred bucks for them I think 100 and a quar maybe and they are obsolete absolutely obsolete bulbs um the connections are all rotted it's all garbage all the connections are garbage so I'm going to update them with like everything else 90s OBS Ford stuff so what I did was I hogged out the hole in the center to accept an OBS bulb now I got to build a little holder on the back to hold the bulb in and uh there's even a little spot for a little auxiliary bulb I might put a little LED or something in there but all I did was I cleaned the housing I got the rust off of it I spray painted it Chrome on the inside ride etal Shing and chrome and I spray painted it blue on the outside and uh yeah it should look like a million bucks when it's done this is the kind of stuff you got to do when you're building a hot rod because uh you just can't you just can't buy this stuff like it's the even if you could it'd be crappy LED reproduction and you don't want that look how rough that is full of rust inside and this one just looks like a million bucks yeah that'll work just fine that's the kind of half ay I live for oh it's time to move a car [Music] [Music] e e [Music] [Music] [Music] so to anybody who's wondering why I'm using the old Power Stroke to pull this thing pull Barney it's because the uh the the silver truck doesn't have back mud flaps yet and it's tall and has big tires so it will fling rocks at that radiator shroud which I do not want so I'm pulling it with the 73 Power Stroke cuz it's low to the ground I comparison anyway so this is the hole where the car was and I forgot to videotape me dropping the car off cuz I'm I'm dumb like that um buddy was nice enough to hook me up with the emblem though and the emblem for this thing is spectacular you guys will love this I'll include a picture of it on the car hopefully the next time we see the car it will be painted completely and on a trailer headed here to be final assembled

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Length: 19min 44sec (1184 seconds)

Published: Mon May 06 2024