My Abandoned Rolls-Royce Made It Home! I Started Fixing It & Found A Secret Control Panel & PROBLEMS

welcome back to legit street cars in today's video we're going to find everything that's wrong with this my 1961 rolls-royce silver cloud 2 and we're just going to go ahead and start fixing stuff because that's how we roll here at legit street cars [Music] and speaking of fixing stuff many of you have asked if i could fix your car now that i have the new legit street quarters shop which is almost done by the way and unfortunately i won't have time to take on any customer cars but if you guys have a broken or interesting and broken car you'd like to sell definitely let me know at legit streetcars gmail.com but about a half hour away from me is one of the best shops for repair work maintenance work custom modification and everything in between and that is fluid motor union in naperville illinois so i will leave a link down below these guys are typically about 30 40 percent cheaper than the dealer and they fix it right the first time and as you can tell here they work on quite the array of pretty much everything including normal cars like a honda element all right so oj is racking the rolls royce right now so we are about to get right into this and this video is going to really just determine whether or not i got a good deal or not this is a clean title 1961 rolls royce silver cloud 2 and i paid 26 000 for it and i think that was a really good deal but it does need to be sorted in order to bring in top dollar or at least more than what i paid for it so i can turn some kind of profit on it we'll see and something you guys probably noticed in the first video because i most likely pointed out i don't remember um is the interior really just the seats though the seats are shot so these are the original seats the original leather and they're not in the best of condition as you can tell here but there is more good than bad in the interior it is basically fully intact okay all the wood is in excellent condition nothing is cracked our little trays they work perfectly and these actually look really really nice i don't think i need to really do much to those um and the headliner awesome it doesn't have any stains or rips and the very very expensive carpet although it's a little dirty is all there there's nothing missing on the carpet even here on the driver's side nothing is worn through it just needs a very thorough cleaning so as i uh pulled up here to oj's the handle for the door came off that is right there so we got to fix that we'll put that on the list um but the interior is really in nice condition all of this wood is excellent and it just needs a little bit of sanding and probably a coat of polyurethane or whatever they use on car interior wood let me know in the comments section i've never done any of that work but i'm going to take care of the wood myself i'll be sanding this myself and making it look all shiny and pretty while the seats are sent out because fluid motor union has an excellent interior guy so as long as i take these seats out he'll pick them up and redo all of the leather and they're going to look perfect this is definitely going to be the most expensive part of the project we're going to get into the mechanical right now but i just wanted to point out uh that the body on this rolls royce is in excellent excellent condition there's no damage on it whatsoever all of the chrome is intact the grille is intact everything looks perfect there's no rot or rust i mean seriously there's nothing to do to the chrome now the paint's not perfect it was probably repainted who knows maybe 30 years ago or something like that there are little rock chips that i can fix and it's just very dull and has a lot of swirl marks but i think this is going to clean up really really nice so i don't think it warrants a complete paint job i mean if you wanted it to be a hundred percent mint but i think this will look better than driver paint once i'm done with it and i just got done driving it in the rain so it's it's quite dirty first things first i want to fix the exhaust leak it's kind of annoying and it's not that big of a deal i think we could basically fix it for free but first i got to get this hubcap off and these are a pain in the butt because you don't want to you want to be gentle you don't want to bend them and you don't want to drop them either these are probably really expensive wow look at the pinstriping on this this is so cool and these are actually brass lug nuts they're only torqued to about 25 foot-pounds and they are reverse thread just on the right-hand side so yeah what do you think oj the oj torque meter 25 perfect right i torque these myself if i don't have to uh put the wheel on the ground yeah they're about there it's a little weird just tightening these up to roughly 25 foot-pounds because you think the wheel is going to come off but that's that's what you got to do it's actually the left hand side that's reverse thread so this is normal thread on this side and look at the gigantic brake drums with the cooling fins these are like really deep cooling fins and then we have a massive air duct look at this huge coming from the front flowing here where there's also coolant tubes going to probably a heater core so very very interesting but we can start to get a pretty good look at the frame and the overall structure of this car and although it's dirty this was a southern car so it's in really good shape stuff like this would be rusted out if this was anywhere near chicago or the midwest or the rust belt yeah so anyway let's get this off i want to tackle this exhaust leak straight on i think this should be a pretty easy and free fix so in the owner's manual rolls royce calls a breakdown a failure to proceed yeah only a rolls royce right now we're taking this metal panel off so we can access the exhaust manifold flange which didn't cause a failure to proceed but it's quite annoying here at ticking all day and you can start to smell a little the exhaust in the car which is not proper all right we're on our last bolt and let's see what we can see all right here we go splendid you can see our flange right here there's a little bit of a gap and there's a metal gasket which is nice i think we just need to tighten up a nut and here is the culprit of our exhaust leak so you can see here this nut hasn't been tightened as much as these you can see the stud kind of sticking out more over here and you can straight up see a gap right here and it's got a metal gasket which is nice so we're gonna try and heat this nut up uh and tighten it and i think that'll fix it so let me show you guys what it sounds like now so we have a nice before and after the old paper trick and it's just blowing it away so there's a leak right around here mostly mostly right here this sounds pretty bad so i'm actually going to try spraying some tv blaster or something on there first and just see if it'll tighten up i i the nuts look fairly new i'll just hit them all being the former dealership technician that i am on flat rate pay we have to be efficient when we're doing anything so right now the penetrating oil is soaking and we are going to hook up the ac machine and suck it into a vacuum and that way we can draw it down and let it sit for probably about 10-15 minutes to see if there are any leaks and hopefully there isn't a leak and we may have a fixed exhaust leak and ac in my rolls royce before the end of this video so very very excited to get this ac fixed up it's a very rare option on this car so i definitely want it to work and we have all the paperwork the original sales receipt showing that this car had factory ac a lot of people retrofitted it later but this is exactly how rolls-royce wanted it well minus the 134a conversion but you know all right it's been soaking for about 10 minutes just going to go at this with the quarter you know actually i'm gonna first kind of loosen it off yeah first loosen this up and it's coming right off so in south carolina without any kind of penetrating oil this did not feel good i thought it was going to break but oh yeah this is nice let's go ahead and tighten her up all right let's take this off i think the stud might be stripped out that's why whoever put this on last time couldn't tighten it oh wait a minute wait a minute oh yeah this nut is totally stripped out all right so i'm going to pop another one off and we're going to measure the thread see if we can get a normal nut to fit on i believe that this is a brass nut possibly something like that it's a much much weaker metal than the steel studs and these threads look great so look at the threads here on the stud they look really nice so we might get lucky here and it might just be a weak nut that stripped itself out so maybe rolls has used brass nuts other than holding the wheels on i'm not really sure let me know in the comments section if you guys know god i'd imagine these would have been replaced at some point could this be the original exhaust hardware we're having a hard time finding a nut that'll work so i might have to make a hardware store run and i know this rolls royce is pretty broken it needs a lot of stuff but just look at how pretty it is it's so good looking it's so comfortable it's so fully waterproof wait a minute now i'm just talking about my vessy shoes they're comfortable and very very waterproof vessi sneakers are the most comfortable shoes i've ever owned not only do they look and feel amazing but they are 100 waterproof i'm talking walk down a beach and submerge your shoe fully in water and your old socks may have holes in them like mine but they'll be totally dry these shoes are made with dimetex which keep your feet warm in the winter and cool in the summer but fully protected from water and snow so no more heavy rubber boots so vessy makes many different color and style sneakers for both men and women and you guys can browse their entire catalog and get 25 off your next pair of shoes at evesy.com lsc or by clicking on my link in the video description box and using coupon code lsc so a big thanks to vessy for making some amazing shoes you guys are going to love these things and for continuing to support automotive content creators like myself now let's go fix this exhaust leak and hope we don't just open up a big can of worms of even more exhaust leaks that would that would not be good so oj found some nuts and they're actually standard so i'm gonna go ahead and put this one back on and let's see and hopefully the threads on this stud are in decent shape there we go nice so far so good please tighten this isn't the right size not the right size socket okay so we got that one tightened again all right found a standard socket it's tightened up baby oh yeah it's pulling it up it's tightening up nicely all right good deal wow these are all loose give that one a titan as well okay all right for the kids okay good deal let's see what happens so we didn't really recover much at all unfortunately so we pulled it down into a vacuum and now it's holding it's doing its leak test and it looks pretty good so we don't want this line to move at all and it's already been over two minutes and it hasn't moved so that's a good sign at least there's not a gaping hole somewhere otherwise it wouldn't hold any vacuum at all so crossing my fingers on the ac just needing a charge and let's cross our fingers again that we don't have an exhaust leak right now hmm i think we might still have an exhaust leak oh no no we don't we don't we don't from here nothing this is perfect this is great it does sound like it still has some kind of leak underneath though so we have to check that out uh well we found it pretty quick right in here you can see there's like this little brace here that's supposed to uh attach the exhaust pipe and it broke off and it's leaking not good not good so we're gonna have to replace probably this section of exhaust pipe right here and it looks like they already did a bunch of it they just didn't continue on so could this little pipe here be original maybe so the rolls actually passed the leak down test i'm very very surprised uh but as you can see here it didn't leak down much at all maybe a little bit but it was good enough for it to pass the test which is crazy so now we have to figure out how much refrigerant this guy holds and then we'll see if it works we couldn't find anything online so we're gonna go with two and a half pounds we just injected a little bit of oil and we're gonna start off with two and a half i'd imagine that's roughly what it would be and then we'll just look at the pressures and see where we need to go up or down but if i had to guess just the size of the interior on this car and everything that's what i think it would be and we're going to find out real quick all right so it took 2.5 pounds let's see what happens uh-oh generator light oh go away generator light all right um we got a generator light that came out i don't think that's too much to be concerned about but let's see here oh wait whoops wrong way now i don't think this works the upper there's the compressor now what what'd you find we couldn't get the compressor to work and uh oj the mad scientist found something what'd you find under here so i knew that just from working on all these old rolls races that come into us that uh given the amount of time that they're on the road people always find a way to fix a system one way or the other it looks like someone wired in a switch panel for climate control that's just way back here but no way so as soon as he hits that button we can hear the compressor kick on it was set to off and then so that's just like aftermarket i'm assuming so like i don't think that is part of where it is but i could be wrong i mean every single rolls royce we have come in here always has some sort of something funky switch wired in some different way that runs something that you wouldn't expect so like what what is that this is your odometer um like it clears it rolls it back so i think that is actually supposed to be there but uh what do you mean it clears it and rolls back it like rolls through you mean just for the trip yeah for the trip oh it's the trip wow well i mean look at like the wall or whatever that it's wrapped in what in the world all right so we just connected the gauges again this thing has gotten quieter it was making kind of a little knocking noise and here are the pressures so we could be a little undercharged here might have to add a little bit more in there but we're starting to feel some cool air that's for sure so you just turn it back on and the low side goes right down all right we're gonna try a little bit more refrigerant it could just be really low well this isn't working out either we're just gonna go ahead and recover everything we've tried between two and three pounds nothing really makes much of a difference we do have the compressor kicking on now which is nice and you can see a little condensation here so the compressor is working to some extent but it's not blowing any cold air inside the car that could also have something to do with a blend door or something along those lines so for now we're just gonna recover everything i'll do a little bit more research on exactly how much this takes and then i'll have to take a look at the blend doors in there and just dig a little further so kind of a bummer i was hoping we could have at least fixed the exhaust leak and gotten some cold ac out of the deal for cheap or for next to nothing but i guess uh there's no such thing as a cheap fix on a rolls royce who would have known here's our washer fluid tank it's completely empty no big deal there and i wasn't expecting this but change the oil filter every 5 000 miles i thought it would have been much sooner first time inspecting the rolls royce on a rack when i bought this in south carolina we were just working on our backs trying to rig it up so it would make it 150 mile trip to florida so i didn't get a chance to kind of explore see what's wrong with it but also check out the interesting engineering and how this old rolls was built so probably going to run into a bunch of stuff i've never seen before maybe you guys as well and we're going to start off with this tank right here right off the bat i don't know what this is for there's one line going to it a little drain right here and then looks like we found our first issue we have a little bit of a leak here coming from what looks to be a cylinder so this is a cylinder it's got two lines going to it and let's trace it back here it goes into the subframe and it connects to the steering linkage so i wonder if that is a power steering assist cylinder that connects to the steering linkage which has a lot of joints so we have the outer tie rod joint here and then we have four inner joints another joint there uh let's see we have a joint there and then this is the steering gear box so that's where it connects to the steering gear box and the steering on this car is quite loose and yep i don't know if you guys can tell but this joint is bad let's check this out yep this one too oh yeah a lot of play so that's nice at least we know why the steering on this thing has a ton of slop in it and hopefully just by replacing these uh we can fix that it's gonna be fun sourcing parts for this thing i'll tell you that much but it doesn't ride any lower the ride height looks great these springs don't look to be cracked everything's just kind of dirty and we're gonna need some new sway bar end links those are bad rubber is breaking loose so all normal stuff so far look at the gigantic starter man that thing probably weighs a ton this could be the oil level switch because you can actually check the oil level with a button on the dash so that could be that i'm not really sure and yeah just a lot of linkage a lot of stuff that can go bad so here is the transmission linkage look at how many joints there are bam bam bam bam i mean they're all over the place this is crazy there is a lot of stuff that can get kind of thrown out of whack here look at this we have more here i don't know what this is for all right not totally sure we have the servo on the side of the transmission which assists the brakes believe it or not so this is something new for me and it looks like we have a little bit of a tail shaft leak on the transmission and check out the motor mounts it's just pieces of rubber stacked on top of each other so those probably are not really prone to failure although i can imagine maybe they collapse a little but no issues with engine vibration or anything like that so we'll probably leave that i don't know if you remember the weird foam thing from the first video no clue what that is what do you think oj it's actually a pretty good condition um it needs some stuff but you could tell that this car was from an area that wasn't like a rust belt area these cars the the frames were actually pretty robust so you wouldn't see them right out the frame it all looks to be structurally intact and just in need of some i don't know elbow grease yeah i think it just it just needs a lot of cleaning but look at the x-frame on this thing it says classic on the drive shaft also by the way that's kind of weird but this rolls royce weighs about 6 000 pounds and a lot of that has to do with the frame i mean this is one of the beefiest this is the beefiest car frame i've ever seen i mean this is wild it is all the way around look at this and just solid very solid no issues at all and i know the history behind this car spent most of its life down south you can tell it was driven it's not perfect under here but this is just minor minor surface rust because it was coated apparently and some of that has come off so overall i'm very very impressed with how this thing is structurally underneath and that's really what's important we can fix all of this little mechanical stuff but you can see here totally solid and what is this is this the fuel pump fuel pump yep wow look at this fuel pump is that two fuel pumps uh no i think it just grabs it from there and then pushes it forward okay it uses both sides of it technically it's one but wow this is crazy that is the fuel pump on a 61 rolls royce awesome just to take this thing apart in just nuts there's like 40 nuts to take it apart look it look there's more there's probably more than that this is crazy so it's got a little bit of what looks to be a pinion seal leak no big deal on that one but we also have these leather boots over the leaf springs and this is kind of crazy and from what i understand these are usually missing on these older rolls royce it's very nice to see that on there look at that it's got little belts it's literally got leather belts holding it together so only in a rolls-royce here's the leaking brakemaster cylinder so i'll have to get a rebuild kit for that and this leak is getting worse it will leak out completely in about five days so i have to top up the reservoir all the time we have a little pinion seal leak here at the back of the transmission no big deal but the engine surprisingly doesn't really seem to be leaking much it needs a good cleaning and that's about it so that's that's kind of nice i was expecting it to leak a ton of engine oil a little play it's got a lot of slop in the steering but it goes over bumps nicely don't hear any weird noises or anything what do you think wheel bearing a little bit feels like the wheelbarrow yeah so i might have to make some adjustments to the uh wheel bearings like this massive complication box there yeah that like like the mechanical looking thing that's the shock absorber get out of here yeah that's how they do it see look right here that whole thing is the shock well i mean it's not called the shock absorber but it's basically what they use for a shockwave on this car what so there's two of these boxes four technically oh there's two in the rear too yeah so this is our shock absorber this is the weirdest thing oj was just pointing out you're not looking for a traditional shock this is crazy i didn't even notice it was missing what would be a normal shock but this arm right here is connected to this funky little box here and there's fluid in there and some valving and that is our shock wow what are the chances that works uh they were pretty problematic so i'd say uh working 100 probably probably pretty low but uh they usually ended up leaking or the the little uh valves that they run to it don't fire there's a multitude of issues they have but none of them really ever equate to them doing anything more than sagging or riding rough okay so it rides beautifully and the ride height looks good too so yeah it actually uh didn't look through the rolls-royce sag that uh a lot of them do find the barn finds i mean it's like it's caked and i don't did they coat this or something or no no it's probably seeping just over the years but yeah it's self um undercoated itself quite a little act quite a little everything on there but yeah it's uh that's kind of how they look at video gym guys this would be the perfect candidate for one of those dry ice blasting videos because it's structurally all there it's in good shape it's just nasty it just we need to fix all these leaks and then dry ice blast the entire bottom of this rolls and it'd be beautiful again something else that's interesting with this rolls is that it has mechanical and hydraulic rear brake so as you can see here this gigantic rod that goes back here to this linkage this is the mechanical connection for the rear brakes but you can see here it also has a line going in here for the wheel cylinders just for your normal hydraulic operation so it has both it has both in the rear mechanical and hydraulic it's got the two master cylinders as well and it has the servo assist for the brakes uh by the transmission so lots of redundancies for the brakes they really wanted to make sure this rolls royce could stop properly and you know at six thousand pounds with this gigantic x-frame i kind of get it oh this is so cool licensed under general motors corporation british patent numbers and then a bunch of british patent numbers very cool i love this plaque so gm and rolls teaming up for trans probably a good company to team up with these gm transmissions from back in the day were very very stout but uh yeah they've definitely added some stuff here and this trans pan is like feels like it's a half inch thick you don't see that anymore even though we still have a little exhaust leak this is much better than it was before it was ticking away before from right over here where the flange is uh so now you can just hear it kind of more underneath the car but i think we definitely have to look at the ignition system a little bit and then possibly take the carburetors apart um and see if we can clean those a little bit this sat for about five years before i bought it and then i could just see right now see like the coolant hose right there that's gonna fail eventually it's really hard to see but there's another coolant hose right down there in that little hole right underneath the intake manifold and i think it's original so that thing's probably gonna burst any minute so we have a lot to do a lot to do i think we're gonna take the entire intake manifold off we have to play around with these schrader valves as well i think we're having an issue with the schrader valves it's just really weird the way this thing was charging and then we were only able to recover like a pound even though we had put in like a couple pounds two and a half pounds or whatever it was so that was odd but we did get some condensation on this hose it was getting kind of cooler in there so i think we have a possibility of the ac system working and so overall we have a lot of little things to do to my rolls royce we have the exhaust to fix a few oil leaks some suspension work especially in the front end to take care of a ton of cleaning top to bottom the seats need to be sent out so i think the game plan is i'm going to bring this back to legit three-quarters once it's done we'll find a good flat stall for it we'll take the seats out send them out and then i'll start on all the mechanical repairs like removing the intake replacing any hoses and belts that need to be replaced looking into the ignition system because i still think it's running a little weird um and yeah just kind of going through it with a fine-tooth comb and just making it a really really nice driver although it already looks to be just amazing guys i've never gotten so much attention in a car every time i drive this thing there's at least three people that stop take pictures want to talk about it it's pretty crazy so i look forward to learning a lot more about this car and of course sharing this experience with you guys so i hope you're enjoying the rolls-royce series so far we're gonna get back into the mercedes v12 kind of bounce between these two as parts are available i have to make a big list and start ordering stuff for this so follow me on instagram at legit streetcars and on facebook as well and i'll post up how much all this stuff is gonna cost i'm a little scared but with that i hope you guys really enjoyed this video if you did give it a big thumbs up share the video subscribe if you're new most importantly have an awesome day i'll catch all of you in the next [Music] video you

Channel: LegitStreetCars

Views: 463,503

Keywords: Rolls-royce, abandoned rolls-royce, fixing a broken rolls-royce, legitstreetcars rolls-royce, silver cloud 2, grey poupon rolls-royce

Id: 3WaSYPXkkSc

Length: 28min 46sec (1726 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 26 2021