Bought The Best Toyota Ever Made

hey guys how's it going i just bought the best toyota ever made but it's 38 years old and it does need some love so we've got to do some work on it but first let's go for a ride hey let's go for a little putt i'll point out some things first is about to give a description of what the car is it's a 1984 toyota celica gts i believe they made i don't know if there's anything below the gt it's a and gt supra gt is kind of in my mind is more of a plain jane body style the gts is the supra without the straight six engine it's running the 20 r or 20 re depending what year it is once carbureted ones feel injected it's running a five speed this being the gts it also has a moon roof the flip up headlights fender flares mag wheels uh rear spoiler i'm sure there's a bunch of other stuff that i'm missing too but things that don't work i already know of gas gauge yeah you got to guess on that it's got remote control mirrors but they don't work so they got a piece of paper wedged in them try to get them to go on a straightaway i'll show you in a second and you'll see that the steering wheel yeah she's not straight i don't know if you have to pull the wheel off or you can pull the wheel off and just change this little location and be straight again not sure on that the exhaust [Music] is a little drony and it does rattle it's okay if you're putting around town i want to be a little sporty but after a while like if you drive a car for a couple of hours it just vibrates your brain i know i'm getting old anyway so i like to try to quiet that up a little bit see if we can maybe change out the muffler see what's going on if there's any leaks in it the car is a original paint i don't believe it is from new england because everything in new england is rusted to death nice view huh this is uh i forget what they said it might be like a california car or down south is definitely by looking around it you will notice that it's not our typical new england toyota that's rusted to the door handles with the frame falling out of it [Music] same drivetrain essentially as a 84 corolla and is we're pretty much the number one reliable car for that time frame so that's why i feel this is actually even better than the toyota corolla because it looks much better than the toyota corolla it's got a sporty look to it got some style let's go pull up here and we'll do a quick walk around and we'll take a look at the outside of it that looks like a quiet place to go do our building let's go in there all right pulled over in areas a little on the quieter side hopefully we'll just do a quick walk around the outside of it it's a good looking car i really like the way it is uh color i probably would have preferred something maybe a little different but being original paint i'll take it well so hard to come by in this area you know west coast might be a different story but on the east coast all this stuff is rotted out to death got the hideaway headlights mag wheels moon roof fender flares the visor or louvers over the back window and it's got all the options on it for an 84 cars fairly decent it's got cruise control power steering power brakes ac rear wiper rear defrost power windows uh power mirrors kind of five speed which i like over an automatic and it's got a nice bulletproof engine yeah it's got some boo-boos on it tail lights whacked on the right-hand side there so i'm gonna put some red tape over it the crappy job glue on it [Music] the exhaust i don't know what they got on there for a muffler but it kind of rattles and uh again a little noisy side for me for a four cylinder car all right guys with that let's go back to the shop and bring up on the left go see what the underside looks like any issues under there we'll start doing some rushing hopefully you can get some of the stuff accomplished [Music] there you got her up in the air let's go take a look underneath and see what we got and it was confirming with a friend of mine the backstory on and they did drive it out from california so it's originally a california car i believe it's been here about five years now on the east coast i don't think about a gts and a supra i got some moisture going on there is it's got independent rear suspension you should be a live axle in the rear now you see it's got cv joints with the pumpkin in the middle yeah they come with independent rear suspension on the gts and the supra here's that aftermarket muffler that's on there it's rattling away probably on that tin right there and the body looks good all the way around i really don't want to repaint it because as cars get older if they have original paint on them they are worth more than ones that have been repainted looks like we got a bunch of oil dripping down looks like we're missing a clamp right there that can make for a rattle or possibly break it we're gonna go find out what that oil leak is looks like it's all over the place it's free undercoating right yeah the rest of it looks pretty decent though i don't see hits anywhere hmm definitely really clean all right let's go bring her down we'll pop open the hood and take a peek inside there see if we see what that oil is coming from it looks pretty much as good under here as it did under the car no rust no shock towers tops of the fenders hood looks decent got a little bit going on the lip right there so you could find that oil leak it is a 22 re 22 r i believe is carbureted and re i believe is the fuel injection and see hopefully it's not a head gasket that would suck that's why it was cheap see a vacuum line off sure if that goes to anything it looks like it's kind of running down the back i'm going to say it's the valve car gasket i don't know if you guys can see there better than i can and it looks like it's it's wet even up this location right here i see i see it on the manifold right here so i guess it generally is not going to push it upwards it's going to have to run down if there's an oil pressure switch that could probably do it too so this uh has a mechanical adjusted valve so we might as well take the valve cover off and get a new gasket for it we'll go through adjusting the valves and going from there so about cover gasket i want to grab a muffler should probably grab an oil filter tune up parts i'll wait on we may go chase some of that later though all right i'm gonna do a little bit of shopping and we'll get into it gotta find out that's a hot or cold setting too on the valves these are a tapered washer uh not a washer but a bushing a seal i'm trying not to tear them up you see that's the angle that's around so and we're free looks pretty clean like it's had the oil changed fairly decent in its lifetime my guess is the oil leak is these guys right here they kind of shrink up over time get brittle so i'm hoping for anyway all right let's go adjust the valves all right so i'm getting ready to adjust the valves get the valve cover out of the way they are adjusted hot it's 8 and 12 thou the valves are kind of easy to see where the engine is because you can actually see where the lobes are on this one's an overhead cam so you're able to directly see what you're doing uh you can put a ratchet on it and ratchet the engine over so that the lobes are facing down essentially what you want to do on each cylinder the loads are offset something like that you want both of them in the down position along roughly along those lines that the lobes are not interfering as i said you can put a ratchet on it or you can kind of cheat this is called a remote start and all it has is two wires coming out of it one goes down to the starter the starter has a heavy lead and a little fine wire lead the heavy lead is the 12 volts supplying the starter with energy the little lead is the signal coming from your ignition switch telling the starter when the turnover so one of the ends go to that and the other end just goes to the 12 volts on the battery hence you pull the button crank's over make sure it's in neutral that's that's going to hurt i'm just going to go look at those lobes and i'm going to bump it around until i get these two lobes out of play just a hair more right about there so both of those lobes are facing down we can now adjust that cylinder and that cylinder let's go get a feeler gauge a wrench and give them a tweak let's go see we got in there for someone it's kind of noisy so i would suspect it's got some issues the intake is the eight actually that one feels pretty good and the 12 on the other one actually feels pretty good too not saying that we're not gonna find one but those seem to be okay so i'm gonna go to the next cylinder go bump it again around you don't have to do what i'm doing a lot of times if you just like certain valves you can adjust you can put it in one position you can get like these two valves one valve here one valve there i rather just look at it though and make sure i got the lobes in the right position on each one that i'm trying to do and take she looks good on that one that one's loose the other thing that you can do which helps if you don't have access to get a say a wrench on the front of the pulley and the car is standard you get the plugs out of it you can take it and put the car in like second or third gear leave the emergency brake off and you can actually roll push the car forward and back a little bit and it'll bump the engine over and make sure that well it'll have no plugs in it so it won't run but the no plugs is so you're not fighting compression and i'm just gonna roll up on that one you get a nice drag difference between hot and cold adjustment usually about a thousand depends on the engine like if this energy was cold i'd probably go a little tighter i could probably still go for a little more a lot of times too when you you feel like it's okay you tighten the jam that down the measurement changes so yeah that feels pretty good now it's got some drag i'm gonna do the last two cylinders i found one that's way out i'll bring it back yeah so number three super loose on that one there's no drag at all and the same thing on the intake both of these are really loose yep the further back i went the worse it is that one's super loose that one's okay that exhaust valve is super loose that's probably where a bunch of the clacklin noise was coming from all done took longer to take the valve cover off and it took to adjust the valves yeah so as it was good in the front progressively worse as it winch at the rear i don't know if that correlates to anything maybe the last guy that adjust them was short just couldn't do the back ones so that's all set the issue is not so much with the valves being loose that just kind of makes for a noisy drivetrain the problem is if they go tight the other way wants to go burn a valve there's not enough if it gets too tight where there's no gap the valve doesn't close all the way and then the escaping gas mostly around the exhaust valve is gets hotter and hotter and it that that gas flowing by the edge of the valve will overheat the valve and burn the corner of the valve away a little bit and let's say we'll see here you get burnt a valve well that's what it is all right let's go get that valve cover gasket swapped over get that changed and we can put all that back on and see if we could stab that out of there that's probably the original one yeah it's kind of stiff and these are i think are the uh the culprits for the most part and our new one nice even give you the grommets for the top of the valve cover the two half moons will get set in the crankshaft let's make sure we have no rolls in this we got to make sure that all right come on there you go just wiggle that around perfect it's much prouder too you can see how much higher it's sitting than the other gasket probably is about an eighth inch sixteenth of an inch from the surface in the two half moons i'm just going to go push right down on the cylinder head block them up like about putting a sealer on them let me literally regret that we'll see all back together shoe but i'll just turn the key on now it won't start because they have that wire disconnected but we should just hit the remote and have it fire it up let's go give her a listen then there's that a little better not quite as cranky they gotta get put somewhere that's not how they're supposed to be let's go with that does look decent i don't think the ac works all right we want to work on next let's go finish up let's go finish up engine stuff kind of give her a once over just check the fluids i got a new oil and filter i'll throw that on there that'll take care of that take the air cleaner just all the basics normal stuff then we'll get into uh maybe poking underneath and see what we do about that that muffler system that's on there let's even get ourselves a little urine sample here and we are looking for how many balls float that's that'll be your protection it tells you right down there one to four i think all but one was 40 below so that's more than fine kind of looks really decent in it it's not like it's nasty so i'm not going to bother changing that what happens if you buy higher grade stuff pop the air cleaner off there's not even a mouse nest in it kind of unusual for everything i drag in here so i think i talked about the fact that once in a while the battery will be stoned yet on it and other times it'll it'll stay just fine so it's just a regular test light you can go make it a positive position negative delay will light up it doesn't matter which polarity you do doesn't care i'm going to look for a drain on the system and one way you can go about doing that take either terminal off it does not matter and if you go from the terminal to the one that you took off it lights up till the light is coming on and it kind of goes dim more than likely that is just going to be for radio the memory of the radio but it will get brighter the brighter it is the more of a draw it has me i'll open the door so the interior lights come on see if that light will stay see how we got brighter that's just showing you how much of a draw is on it so if the key is off and the interior lights are off radio is disconnected and you have a light that's on there generally that's something running the battery down it's staying on when the car is not running and a good way to try to determine what circuit is causing that is pull one fuse out at a time wait for the light to go out and whatever circuit that fuses on will more likely tell you what is going on unfortunately this one's in a minute it seems like it doesn't it doesn't do it so i don't think that's just a draw for the radio if it stayed that bright then i definitely know i would have something on sometimes like with it being intermittent it would be like a relay that sticks when you shut the car off the relay doesn't turn all the way off and again we still have a problem with the headlights on this is it related i don't know but as of right now it's not doing it and just to follow up on that it will run the battery down eventually like if you leave a car for a month and it's got a radio that's especially the older ones that they draw a little bit more for the memory will run the battery down a lot of people put battery disconnects on it a lot of new cars can't even do that because it holds the memory for the computer go power it back up later on if it's been sitting and the computer needs to get reflashed that's why i like old stuff i know the ac doesn't work but i want to go see if i can push on the schrader valve and see if we have any kind of pressure in there see if you hear any kiss or you know if it dumped all the the fluid that we know it's gonna leak in the system yeah i don't think we have any i don't have any gauges to hook up to it but it may have ruptured like the condenser or something if it had a hiss to it i would just probably just try dumping a can in it a freon i think it's gonna need a little bit more love than that yeah we're not getting anything nobody help him i could disconnect that starter wire so this the jumper that we put on it i know the shadow is getting you i'm just going to replug that lead back in that's the signal coming from the key get that right in there done it's got a lube sticker under the hood that says oh six seventy thousand miles hopefully somebody else has done something since then or else it's got twenty thousand miles and 16 years or so on it definitely needed it should be 3.3 hopefully it doesn't overrun my bowl now i just got to figure out where it goes we're out back i'm going to go jump on that muffler so look at that swapped out unfortunately they welded it on my hope is that the other muffler can kind of come this way a little bit maybe we can cut it right here and sleeve it right over don't oh my god create the other muffler and take a peek at it so we have to work with so what are the chances the thrush hush will be quieter than what's already on it almost looks like the same thing doesn't it i don't know what we're going to do for i think the other one you can see right through at least this one has you know a bit of a baffle going around through it let's see there's another direction to it it's physically actually when we want to go something like that right so if we get that on there we'd have to go in about that far and i think if we cut the old tailpipes off we butt weld let me get the setup i wonder if we slice this right off and we just butt weld it to the edge of it instead of trying to sleeve over it again i'm not sure what the diameter is off i'm gonna go check this one too let's go get a caliper there's a diameter of that and diameter that see if it'll fit all right so this one i don't care what the number is we're just going to use as like a measuring tool is that wide and that hopefully you can drop into that one yep good let's get to hacking slice that probably would i guess a sawzall probably be our best game in there off with its head not punch through the gas tank on get started get my finger out of there he's trying to pinch on it there we go trying to get unhooked the hook goes around so far i can't get the bend out of it i'm going to bolt it there i think we have to use that over anyway because the other muffler doesn't have one so i have to cut that hook off and and weld that on there or make a new one let's see if we just shove that muffler on there i wonder if we should fire it up and just see if it makes any kind of sound difference all right you were there with me it showed that it fit [Laughter] i got what's called a uh that's the right one right yeah i got a pipe you expander shove it here and try to open it up i'm going to take a some kind of flopper disc or something we'll clean up this outer edge so it doesn't have the debris on it [Music] somewhere over here first shot that's what these things are little pipe expanders you put them in the center of it and you crank down this draws into the middle and these open up and there's also a cone the cones just for the very edge if it gets deformed you hammer them in it kind of makes the surface right again let's see if one of these will work for us though right about there hopefully there's enough room and it'll hit you in the gut let's see if we can get a little expansion you can even see right now it's like it's making it like an octagon i'm going to back it off try to rotate it a little bit try to put those sections now in there i'll try to push on those areas until it looks around see if it did anything i don't want to overdo it probably wouldn't hurt while we still got it here let's go take that cone one we'll ring it in there just to get rid of that again that that eight-sided look to it let's see if he'll see if she'll receive yeah we're over it anyway i think a couple whacks with a hammer we'll be able to get us i don't know if we're going to throw a clamp on that if you want to try welding it we gotta do something about this heat shield too that heat shield's right against it oh if we could just manhandle it away the gas tank a little bit there it's hidden and that's where i was rattling on before too where can we suck this pipe can we bend that hanger he's trying to get like a two by four so we'll try to wedge in here see if we can give her a little bit of push away i rather get a little bit more air gap from the gas tank all right right now we'll measure it we got i'd call that an inch from it see if we can influence that hanger i felt like it did something huh but i went a little too far it's about three yeah i definitely think i was thinking we're gonna get some spring back on it i think we gotta find a fine line does that do it that's got it perfect right there leaves about three eighths of an inch gap from the heat shield good let's go quickly [Music] i think it'll fall off good enough to run it for two minutes and yes i did put oil on it not much different it's a different sound i actually kind of like it better still loud though i'll go with that mike we have a choice right i already cut it off all right so let's go and cut the tailpipe off the other muffler we'll assemble that before we put it under the car give that a hack guess we should probably go off the well towards the muffler more [Applause] break that off there's the original pipe huh okay so on this one i'll show you with the camera you can see right through the muffler that one you can see right through there's not much of a baffle doing anything or not but the other one it has a couple of chambers that it does go through so it does give it a different sound yeah you can see inside this one it's got more of a chamber going to it no light can't see through it i'm going to butt weld them together yeah because they're the same size i might drop over it let's get that inner ring though what if we could punch it now they welded to that back to butt welding we've got to get that galvanic coating off of there not going to be able to weld to that stuff let's go clean up that edge let's kind of square it up too does it look straight hope so good attack on it anyway speak now forever hold your peace i think we're okay [Music] [Music] that's ugly who blobbed that on there turned her down a little bit a little too too much so we can't forget about that hook that has to get welded on there for support so let's go clean some of this up while it's out too [Music] well i got the welding cart out and it has the plasma cutter on so i'm also playing with another toy i like to see if we can go possibly cut right through here not kill the muffler or the bracket see how we make out watch your eyes and she's a little warm watch out for the hot spots go see how that does for us i should hit it with a rubber mallet but that looks pretty good i don't think we're going to weld it yeah we could bend it on the angle we want we'll look at the tailpipe see how they exit the car and maybe we'll put that hanger on there what do we want well maybe we just put a couple tacks on we won't weld it solid case i don't like it what do you think go a little bit more that way i don't want to get too close it's a plastic bumper you know so i don't want the heat cooking this i want to leave a fairly good air gap i think before that was kind of crushed up a little bit more but it was you know exiting out here should be okay unfortunately it's a white bumper so it's gonna show right i'll try tweaking it a little counterclockwise and we should be able to get our bracket tacked on right there and they could weld the front plan we got one yeah welded on let's go give her that feels pretty good i'll find out when we go for a drive getting a rattle to it better than it was though let's keep picking away at little issues and one of them in fact there's nothing holding the battery in place when i grabbed one of the universal hold down brackets and then one rod has a rod that runs down to the bottom of the battery tray grabs it and then it's supposed to attach to that we may have to i don't know maybe weld something on there we'll see let's get this stuff out of the package see we can do i see how this looks so that runs down and supposed to have one on each side that's how these are normally used they have a bar as like i said it runs down the bottom of the battery tray there's a hole down in there it grabs on to and then that would lock onto you wait for me to short across the battery aren't you that locks on there to there and now we need to get to that bolt i know we can just maybe flatten that out and weld it to it probably the best bet huh yeah let's go try that all right see if we can melt some holes in this [Music] this falls right off so good enough wrong size 7 16 on one side 10 millimeter on the other that won't fall out at least a little off the top please [Music] the next thing you should jump on is the fact that it has no high beams it has low beams and high beams when you pull like the indicator towards you you know you're flashing somebody that they have the highs on or warning somebody cops coming uh so i don't expect the bulbs they're working high and low i don't believe they are a different circuit uh let's see we'll start looking at the obvious first which is going to be probably like the fuse box what we got we got listed head like left and right well that's going to be just for a left and right we have both of one thing out not a left or right let's go pop once you can latch down the cover's off should probably probe maybe a little bit actually what's that that's kind of cooked huh was that the would that say fusible links yeah that circuit doesn't say what it is though let's go get a meter and see if power is still going across that or if that's an open circuit that would do it huh let's see if we get anything check our light first sure that's working always test your equipment it'll screw with you all right you may not have anything how it does let's say with the key off all right so that still has power going across that's not it this thing also had a big uh whooping stereo in it so it's a possibility that uh that may be the issue i wonder if we can uh just whatever ones have power i'm just gonna go see if there's any opens some fuses wild power some won't yeah let's go turn the key on turn the headlights on and see if we could poke around a little bit well i actually had it wrong there's no low beams these are those headlight circuits right would that cover go so that's why the high beams work the left and right can be those two over there but it could have two blown low beam headlights that would make things simpler uh that's why we hit it to the high beam switch it still has high beams let's uh can i get to the back of a bulb of one [Music] let's see how this stuff is kind of hidden in here we even if we just get the plug let's go shut the headlights off and go back down let's see if we can get the plug off and then we'll see if we have power on uh two of the different probes all right can we see the back now yeah that was easy the problem is that's gonna do the rotation when we turn the headlights back on let's go see [Applause] yeah we can get to it that's good all right i'll get you uh out of my hands in a stand let's go probe that and we gotta flick it over to low beams and see if we got power on one of those all right we're in low beams one's got power why would i have power on all three i am on negative of the plug so did that mean the ground went away right can't have power on all three that doesn't make any sense is it feeding back through the other headlight all right let's go figure out i'm going to go put the high beams on we'll do process of elimination we'll figure out which ones are what just by all right that's high beams so that top one's dead and that one so that is that ground uh the next best thing we can go do i'm gonna go shut the headlights back down again because i'm a little perplexed sometimes they're pigtailed together so what it does is the bulb on the other side it goes through the element and back for you to the side and kind of screw you i'm gonna go to flip the headlights now i'm gonna go probe the headlight bulb itself and see if we have it open we got a brand new high beam low beam not the right shape but let's just plug that in and see we get i have a feeling we have other issues though find the hole [Music] been a while yeah nothing so it's not the headlight headlights let's go keep probing see we can find it's gonna be another fuse box i would think too i think we started chasing relays it's saying that that one should be that one i am going to go pop the headlights on low beams kind of give them a couple whacks and then i don't have anything to replace this with unfortunately parts stores are closed right now we could possibly open it up just kind of fire it with our fingers but i would figure one circuit is going to be coming from the switch telling it this to latch and then making a pass going on the other ones possibly just jump it out too and check it if not we're gonna go under the dash i think it's another fuse box under there so i put it on so the high beams are on and they're off right now and they plug it back in the headlights come on and the relay feels click so it's not this oh my god the wheel well it's like somebody's definitely been here before it's huh let's just swing open and come off that's just floating that doesn't make any sense huh going on here yeah it's not a hinge so where is it hiding it plus out the fact that that wire is cooked definitely has me kind of speculating that well there it all is that something is a riot see if we see anything that says fuse or headlights and you can probe that one radio what is that what's head rtr there's a joke there somewhere let's give that a little seven minute i'm sure that at some point if we don't find it here possibly it's going to be up by the uh headlight the uh switch itself in a column come hoping it's not that but we'll see all right we need to go find that one that's supposed to be there not exactly a bunch of room it's working let's say we make a little bit of elbow room so you can get this out of the way wraps all around you see anything better and i did screw up how do you grow up you ask i did not have it's the original diagnosis i have high beam and low beam it is just no high beam in its normal resting place you click it towards you it does have the high beam come on how i screwed that up i'm not sure onward right so we got to figure out what is happening and which fuse it is so which one was it again yeah i forgot the orientation of the panel first right sometimes they give you like the mirror image sometimes you hold it like this it's the actual so i gotta go figure out where there's a 20 amp fuse and a seven and a half i can get my orientation from there as long as somebody doesn't screw it up fuses so that is going to be you guys got a much better view than me it looks nothing like that how does this have two fuses going across and that has like four i don't know why my meat head is gonna be like that again i can't see it's my excuse i'm sticking with it i can't see okay so what's that one right there tell me i'm gonna say it goes like that and [Music] our headlight would be this one man they can't get in there something some of them come with like a little tool you can grab them pull them out i'm gonna go get a pair of needle nose pop that fuse out let's see if there's any issues with it let's go just go see if we can probe it was that was it that one power on that side power on that side there's nothing wrong with that fuse that is not our issue ah i am to the point where either a relay or the high beam low beam switch and also that steering wheel is out of whack too so i wonder if somebody's in there ahead of us kind of probing some stuff around and didn't fix it kind of like the gas gauge scenario what is all that that looks like somebody's stereo installation maybe then it goes into the regular harness it doesn't look like toyota though does it it's got two markings on it all right so probe diffused got power on both sides it's not the fuse i do see loose hardware this thing fell out and we got a bunch of relays and stuff and wires and crap kind of looks like half-hazardly flopped around inside there i definitely think we are chasing somebody else's attempts at fixing stuff so let's go get this cover drop down see if you have a little bit better access to what's going on yep more spaghetti i don't think that's from the factory they haven't hooked up to again it was there's big wires in the back for something like an amp or something that was in here and they ripped it out i am looking for some type of relay or something that runs the hello controller i guess it's gonna look something like this that might even be it right there i don't think the um this has an owner's manual i'm going to go check and see if there's anything in there sometimes the older cars are a little bit better with telling you what's going on well tore apart this side poked and hoped over to the other side there's another couple of relays and whatnot on that side poked and hoped the problem is i do not have a book on this car and i did a quick online and i was not able to find anything really kind of zeroing in so far on it so i may have to go back to this the only thing i found was a old forerunner book i was trying to go poke through that so you can give me some idea where the locations of the uh you know the breakers everything is wired no good it's uh too far away from this vehicle i've had like a crawler or something i'm sure would probably be fairly close to the same setup but i have a feeling it's probably going to be right in the stem just the contacts are not making it you know for the high beam part of the switch but i think we're going to jump past that i got to order a book on it and see you know we still got other stuff to go chase the gas gauge isn't working i have a low beam i have high beam high beam you just have to hold in the up position again it's better than not having uh the other way around so we're gonna go leave that b for now and uh probably going to run into the same thing for the next item that we're going to jump on which is just see what we can do with getting these mirrors they just kind of are floating around they don't stay put they just you know very hard to work with as far as trying to see down the road again i tried wedging a piece of uh plastic inside here but as soon as you shut the door the mirrors move on you so let's go see if we can go pop one of those apart and if there's anything we could service on the inside of them it looks like somebody's already been jumped over to the passenger side because this is floating this broke off you got a screw there and we got a controller for it here those two screws even though there's another one up there even if we can go get it just so that it has a lot of drag on it to stay put you know wherever you can kind of set them by hand i'll be happy with that but again that they just pop it around too much and let's go see what we can see it looks like somebody's already what is that right there somebody goober some paper or something in there stop it the first time [Music] that is i don't know if we could pop the glass off like a a socket and get it out of the way looks like it's got a little electric motor right there right and another one see a big spring or something looks like a spring doesn't it well possibly can break the mirror but i have a feeling we might be able to just kind of pull on it and it's got like one of those those nubs in the center let's go find out kind of good that we're starting with the passenger mirror a little come out there it goes good yeah somebody went and put all that crap in there to tighten it up so what is these little pads must push like they must come out and steer the mirror did they break off or right it would just kind of like push on those two things wouldn't it so i wonder if those are make sure you're in frame let's i don't know if it's the mirror or not probably two weekend well i mean why did you get coming out of that just three or six three we could probably probe that too just like turn the switch where it wants to see if we're getting power to it i'm surprised we can't get these to i guess maybe they're threaded will they turn yeah if we turn them they get longer [Applause] never had one of these apart so we pop that back in we could adjust it mainly one time [Laughter] i wonder like two like if it's running because there's not much drag on that at all if um they just kind of vibrate and work their way all the way in that'd be a pain yeah so huh trying to set it up we have to we will all right let's uh screw it around let's go get a test light and see if we got any power going to the mirror see if there's a problem with the mirror or a problem with the car i got the key on let's just go grab one of them and there we go there it goes so definitely i'm trying to rotate the mirror in the center and it's getting a signal on the light let's go see i'll figure one of them to ground though right yeah so that's one another watch the third one do it to me too right yeah so that's nope i wonder if it has to switch back and forth out of one of right so it's a motor you got to go forward and back so you're going to need the each post to go from positive to negative we know we got power coming to each one of those but then it has to switch over to being ground it has to switch the other direction for the electric motor to go back the other way right so let's uh put the test light this end of the test light on 12 volts on the battery and we'll try it again we see if we get grounds going to those three all right so now my test light is hooked to 12 volts on the other end so any touch part of the body that i touch will let me know if i have ground going to it or not so let's go do the same thing can you see the and plug see if anything lights up now all right there we go so that's what it is it's switching back and forth between hot and ground i don't want to jump across these i'm going to arc them out yeah so that's the scenario they seem like they're working seems like all the issues are in the mirrors themselves yep each one has the capacity to jump back jump back and forth between positive and negative to run those little electric motors let's go look back at the mirror again see if we can do anything with those see if they're stuck if we get them to move i don't know so before i go crazy i am just going to go plug it back in and with the mirror off of there we'll just kind of confirm that these aren't doing anything else if they do anything that one's working okay all right they didn't do that before i know for a fact i'm gonna go switch over to the other side how come they're both working now neither one did anything before i don't know if we just disturbed something in the wiring when we're screwing with the other stuff let me go pop that glass back on there and see if it will come back to life and we'll start ranking those little motors apart that's weird huh wouldn't it have to have would think there'd be like a spring that was that point and that point you would think that there would be like a spring opposite or or something pushing against it gravity did something go on that little tit that broke off hmm see a big sprint the big spring i think is if the mirror itself gets hit and you know pushed on the car it springs it back i don't see anything else missing to you let's go without that piece of paper in there so it's like that right before i break it see how floppy that something's not right we're missing something i'm gonna get cocky break it i wonder if we could put something around that to tighten the socket up let's go something's got to hold the mirror better than that we should pop the glass out of the other side see if we see if there's like something laying in it like somebody was definitely in this one we saw the paper that was in it right can we go try to pop the glass out of the the driver's side and see if we see see what we see see damage this one oh my god crap this one's got stuff stuffed in it everywhere i don't see anything different though do you think it's just the same scenario as far as the sloppiness of it i think we could probably get something around the socket i wonder if that's all it was like this was supposed to have so much tension on it but what would like so you run both sound noise out right bulb motors you tilt it up like that so for it to come back what would pull what would pull the mirror back towards these two posts like there should be something in my opinion linked from here to here the hold it against those two those two pieces because even if the socket was tight right if the mirror was run all the way up both motors out and then you backed off what's going to draw it back towards it i wonder if we could just like add a spring i don't know how we're gonna get it on there though or i wonder if like a spring if we just put a spring up in this corner to give them something to fight against i'm not sure i'm gonna think about that a little bit that's probably our best bet right let's go make sure these are moving so that one's not changing it's not changing its height just staying there a piece of plastic just broke off of it too you think they're like supposed the outside's supposed to be glued to it what are we doing that's that one so they they go round and round but they're not doing anything on this one all right let's go work with the passenger mirror and see if we can do like those seem like those two things were working right maybe we could put like a spring up in this corner we'll try to get the passenger mirror back together and we'll just kind of screw with this one yeah looking back at that other one i have a feeling that's the scenario that this both of these had like little tits that popped off of it and locked into each one of those and that's what made it to pull and push i don't know if we can rebuild that or maybe we should just move forward with what i was saying and try to mount yeah so is that like okay lift that right out of there shouldn't that be part of the it's probably this is probably a miniature version of something like this yeah you can see there's a little bit of a nub there so can we get if they still push out can we do it like i said can i glue a light spring in this corner they have something for them to push against won't hurt to try right so i unthreaded one of those out of there and i think what's supposed to happen is these are not supposed to rotate so that the one that's on the driver's side that was just sitting there i wonder if we hold them with our fingers and they'll they'll run in and out but the fact that instead of them turning on the threads the whole thing is turning is allowing it just to stay where they are so we would have to also kind of come up with something to keep these from turning or else they're just going to sit still yeah i i spun them out my fingers right how do you get it together too is the other part of it i see you popping the frame of the mirror on there right that's what one looks like was that all one piece no pain yes i rather just have mirrors you can just grab with your fingers again it's it's 38 years old shouldn't be complaining threads already on the inside or the outside see something on the outside so would you be able to push them in let's go see like how would you assemble it and now i'm gonna have to rotate odd huh hmm unless again like they just had like little knuckles like that they just it it popped onto them well i say we got nothing to lose i think we should try mounting a spring maybe around that screw and get it in there cut it down some to probably about half of it and that'll give some push against these two and hopefully there's enough push against these maybe we'll all dribble some like light oil or something inside these so that the outside if it's got pressure against them maybe they won't spin and they'll kind of work correctly yeah i think it's going to be our best bet if not we're going to need whatever these guys are and how they attached to their whatever stop them from turning you'd think that all they would do is like cut a a slot in them and then they have like a slot on these that they would just pop them on they won't turn yeah yeah let's go put that on there somehow and see if we can make it work it's like the thing behind your door how short you think it's not a very it's pretty light and i will rather cut a little too long and too short let's go with that much see if it'll work for us are you in poor enough well that that's where it's supposed to be against the spring and it should it should push it like that far i probably should have left it maybe full that's no good we got to come up with something a little more beefy than that something a little bit more zest i probably again left it long because that you know i was thinking the outside edge was where it stopped you know i was thinking the mirror kind of stopped there but really you rock the mirror comes all the way out to there so let's go find something a little bit more beefy all right pick one i'm thinking so the original one is this you can see the thinnest of the wire let's try a full length of that let's see how it does for us kind of snuck it around the corner there get out there idea that up under there you know i'm going to stick it under my nail and i should do it can we get it to lean let's just see what happens with that punches right through the glass i bet there's not like a can get like a in a cavity i wonder if we can get it so the post is there we are coming roughly in this area right try to direct it so like that pocket will hold it you know it doesn't want to slip behind it and go sideways there you go so that that's spring we have to get it back up a little hold on so that spring we have to get it to go up in the upper corner you can get like a flap blade yeah we can get it to sit maybe right here it's already better actually i wonder if we run those two cylinders out will that do it i feel like it's got like a lot of room to move though like that mirror needs to be that far i feel like those things would fall right out that one that one break right off that sucks yeah i think that one just got so brittle yeah look it's it's shattering it's just falling apart we were so close you got one i would have to try to come up with something that looks like that right yeah this one just turned to dust nothing left of it there's all the pieces of it so these things are like almost like a wax there's not much to them you know i think what they did was they put the when they put the glass on and they just started both motors and they ran it in and it kind of cut its own threads is my guess but what i found i found a bolt that a thread into it again i have a feeling what's going to happen is this thing just sits in the motor and this is not supposed to spin but i have a feeling what's gonna even if i cut it and it's got some pressure against these little pads i still think they're gonna kind of instead of the bolt getting longer and shorter i think it's just going to go spin how we go about getting all that together i don't know i'm going to go cut this one i'm going to go cut that part of it off thread it in and then just kind of hook it up worst case i'm just going to go take them and i'll turn what i have here i'll dial it in so the mirror is in the right location location and doesn't move around i ain't letting anybody drive my car anyway so the mirrors will be set up for me and at least work they won't be flopping around like crazy so let's give it a shot this will give it a fighting chance we'll put a little bit of lube on the thread part of it you know so that it doesn't that's still hot which one's more important up and down left and right stop it that's gonna be our one that down almost all the way we'll leave that one about halfway out what's your thing third time's the charm the mirror's not going to be white anymore by the time i'm done all right there we go yeah it looks good if we gotta go if that motor will run out for us i probably should have set that one a little bit more find out hopefully that's enough pressure against it where it'll allow it to do its thing i think what happens though when it runs all the way in then it's kind of screwed so and see if it does anything make a noise yeah i think it's just rotating around that's the problem [Applause] that way it works that's this way yeah do i smash it onto the floor by accident all right so you know this one i just need to run that one out forever if i should make a bolt for each one of them [Music] ah yeah it drove in but not out [Applause] that way works [Applause] the metal part the metal one i put in works yeah just the other one tilting doesn't i don't know if i have any more of those though the bolts if i can get with the ball so change them all over to that because that wax just has too much drag on it all right other than totally dirty on the outside from my paw prints all over the white paint i got that one functioning i actually put two bolts in that one did the same as i showed you i can't find any more so that one works it's a little iffy you can tell like the bolt is like slipping a little bit but it does catch the other one the other bolt that i made i cut it on an angle so i had like a bit of a knife edge on the front of instead of being flat so it kind of wants to dig into the plastic of the mirror and then you know the posts go in and out so now that i know i'll go to the hardware store i'll try to grab you know three more of those and i'll cut them this one i got i just kind of fine tweaked it and it is in the right spot just by itself right now as long as i don't play with it and then we could just put this in a neutral spot for now and we have at least functioning mirrors that we can see out of i am going to go and button up all this plastic junk i tore down until i get a book or whatever i need to go find on the high beam low beam scenario and i i still think it's probably part of the switch and i actually have a feeling this wouldn't be was in there that's why the steering wheel is on an angle on us see the battery charger on it too having the lights on for so long so it's all put back together mirrors function and i was going to go for a test drive but it's already dark out so i figured what i'll do is i got one of those rug shampooers they use for your house a little handheld attachment maybe i'll give the seats a shot see if it cleans them up and then it can dry over the evening and we'll pick it up tomorrow so i'm going to give that a shot and see how it works out i thought i had one with the little rotating heads on the thing spinning around this one's just spraying suck give it a shot see what it does [Music] so so so so i go do that for a while and then we'll let it dry the next day and we'll have an idea whether it did anything at all doesn't look like it's lifting it does it i'll work it well it must have done something because that's the dirt that came out of it yeah i know right still wet and i can still see some like light staining in it but definitely appears to be better than what it was i'm going to go through a fan right in the window or up in the sunroof i'll leave the back open let air kind of flow through overnight and we'll pick it back up tomorrow morning and this next morning had a fan blowing across the doors battery just connected so the lights stayed out and i say they look better i still see some light staining on them second coat probably wouldn't hurt especially on the left front of that seat and the bolster here on that for most of the heavy traffic is you know but not bad usually all these you look at all the seats are all torn up so they're holding up pretty good let me go shut that thing off and i'll show you something now all the modern cars have all kinds of stuff that the seats do move turn shift around but back in 1984 it was kind of a rare thing and this one has a little air bladder you pump up and as you can see the center of this heat blow up and you got little controls over here you can let the air out of it and you could manipulate how the back of the seat contours your back it's super comfortable you got a little headrest that rotate into different positions they'll click and you reset them plus they recline all the way back which is nice yeah you still see some getting through in there light colored seats unfortunately well i think we should go put the battery back in throw the mats in it and go for a little putt see how the exhaust sounds all right cold start [Music] [Music] i know it's loud still but actually in my opinion it sounds better my rear wipers on i got to figure out what works that and one of these nope that [Music] see if that stops it oh you know what i didn't take the trucks out of the wheel [Music] my mirror went twang over the night this is the one that still has the two pieces of wax in it instead of the other the spring over came the wax and pushed down on it [Music] that one's still good again i gotta get those bolts [Music] all right let's go head out on some open road sun roof's open right let's go give her a little run through the [Music] gears that tax definitely off no way i'm doing 2200 rpm at 55 miles an hour in second gear so i wonder that's related to the uh gas gauge yeah exhaust is no quieter different sounding but no quieter [Music] seems fine it's all warped up got a bunch of stuff to chase but i think it's going to be as far as mechanicals on this video so we have ac not working gas gauge doesn't work that attack seems like a idle's okay but when it revs up it's it's not even close the high beam switch the only thing i need for inspection which is due at the end of the month is get this high beam uh set up set up fixed i gotta go chase a book a repair manual and just some more troubleshooting on that brother's just kind of clean up stuff get those two bolts for that mirror i could do it right on the car i don't need to go remove the mirror anymore and uh straighten the steering wheel out should have done that on this ride you should loosen it up or putting around and just pop it back on straight but if i got to take it apart for this i'll take care of it then it's a nice car again it's 38 years old so like you don't expect certain things to go wrong i may or may not make another video on this i'm not sure depend maybe how this one does generally would get it to a certain level and then just like every half hour you get like a half hour here and there a part comes in you take care of one item at a time instead of trying to knock out a whole video on one topic i hope if i turn the cruise control off [Music] all right [Music] i'll see if i get used to that muffler may end up going for stock one real fan of the old toyota stuff i had a first gen it was a 73 st celica st they had a gt and an st i think back then smaller version each generation seems like they get larger and larger kind of people um so i'd like to really find one of those they really rusted bad that and uh first gen 4runner are still on my list so i keep an eye out for those i'm trying to get stuff that's not a total rust bucket like this one again being from california it's not a total toilet welding quarter panels on apache fenders and put frames underneath them and all it's nice just to go have to go pick away with little small issues like this and i'll run this all summer i'm running arrows and i don't need my truck i'm gonna plan on using this i'm not gonna run in the winter i'm not gonna you know kill it for uh salt and everything but nothing's seen i can't run it and have fun with it [Music] all right guys with that i think we're gonna to the point we're gonna go sign off i think i'm gonna go run to the diner and go get myself a little bit of lunch and then i gotta go put this video together for sunday i'm running late i'm usually more ahead of the time than this just the way this week worked out for me so i will see you soon we'll do it again sometime and uh let me know if you want to see more in this well actually i'll i'll go by viewership if it's an underperformer then i'll just take care of the stuff on the side we'll move on to something else i get some other ones to go finish up the go-kart the batman go-kart we got to finish and uh we'll jump on them if not this one does real well people have an interest in it i'll get a bunch of parts for it and i'll do another whole video knocking out some more issues that are on it but as far as this one's concerned guys thank you so much i appreciate it it's like it's gonna rain and i'll see you soon later all right i had to fix the wheel and turn the idle down the idle was too high that might take a little bit of persuasion right about there we'll put around the block and see if that's still straight

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Published: Sun May 29 2022