Will It Run? My VW Truck Returns From Museum Life.

hey guys how's it going the time has come to pick up my vw truck that has been hiding in there for a year it's the lars anderson auto museum time for a new display time for me to get my toy bag i'm not gonna fire it up or anything i think we're just gonna go put it on the trailer and we'll bring it back to the shop and give her a once through because i did not do that when i brought it here so i want to do fuel lines and stuff before i try burning down a museum so to speak so go get around the track bring her home she's looking good i think the registration expired it's fine keys are in it give you a little spin of where she was parked again ready to flip over and do another exhibition you can see a lot of the stuff's already been removed all the small stuff these vehicles have been gone this thing's cool huh yeah well you gotta help me man i need that kind of therapy never a bad day [Music] is anything on the wheels or anything besides that one nothing yeah does it want to yeah good right there 30 inches [Music] i got a set of them too they're awesome i mean i've done things by myself that you know you want to sneak back yeah um let's go back to the wood just a little bit push it try to get it and yeah it'll give us more room to leave out like cut it you're golden on this side are you okay i think we should probably just take the dollies maybe and kick the essence just straighten it out [Music] i can't believe how simple this thing is not to mention brian i think i latched that gate just hop inside there you go do that yeah hop inside bruh okay let's go you go for first drive yep what's that miraculous see the mirror yeah you got three inches on this side [Music] it's like giving birth yep it is freedom oh so so so [Music] i love that trailer oh that's great i think krusty left a little bit of dna behind though [Applause] [Laughter] i have to change it well i just got to add to it i think it changed itself on the floor well it's glad to see it back home but it's going to need some love it really kind of needed to be serviced when they dropped it off and i'm sure another year didn't help it any i've enjoyed turning the key or doing anything so let's go see we get unfortunately it was in a climate controlled you got power and batteries and somewhat decent i thought it was gonna be stone dead all right i'm gonna go push her up on there we're gonna go through it make sure that uh she even has oil on it because it left a big puddle where she was parked so let's uh without further ado start doing some wrenching so where do you think i was going to push it let's go see if we got anything left for fluid it's actually to the full mark but there was a lake of oil underneath it oh hopefully it was oil yeah i guess let's go quickly put the lift off the restaurant take a peek underneath and see what's leaking where that's going to see what we got and definitely looks like it's leaking from a little bit of everywhere the uh these are push rod tubes and they are replacements that you put in later they always have a tendency to leak you actually see it dripping physically from that one at some point you take the motor apart and you take the cylinder heads off you can replace those two with something a little bit better this was a motor that came out of the nuts backed off of that one back there that came out of a beetle that was sitting and this had a 36 horse in which been would have been a factory engine or in fact correct for the year but they're very underpowered so this is uh just a 1600 dual port that you find like in like a 71 72 beetle something like that looks like trains is all wet too yeah if you own a volkswagen you don't expect them to stay dry but a little bit of everywhere i'm going to say uh possibly the valve cover gaskets on that side too but it looks like just all the pushrod tubes are leaking and it looks like the strainer is very wet too there's an aftermarket strainer on there too there's an oil filter like cartridge kind of thing in there it looks pretty good this thing for those who don't know this thing was rescued from a junkyard in vermont and it was trashed there was no floors these are all new floors and then the upper level is all new to the decking and then i tried to save the outer skin best as possible when i got it it was all covered up with a red oxide primer and you really couldn't see the writing you knew there's some kind of writing underneath it but you couldn't read it and i used goof off and scotch brite looks like the axle seals are leaking too dripping down that's gear oil that's not um yeah oh yeah there it is right there there's your major leak there's peeing all over the tire and that side too it may dry up when it runs a little bit we'll see definitely check the fluid at trends though anyways telling the story about the writing you couldn't see any of the writing that was on it none of that showed up it was all covered up with a red oxide primer you can still see the red oxide like that right there well the whole thing was covered up so i use goof off and scotch brite and that's what was underneath it and as i was working on i do a door do a gate see what it said and a little bit of labor of love who knew what would have ended up in the museum the only thing that was attached was the driver's door everything else was rotted off completely all right let's get uh try to adjust the valves while it's cold and we need to get into there so i'm gonna lower down a little bit and uh i don't know if we'll pop the tires off or not for viewing pleasure it's up to adjust the valve you got to have it on the compression stroke top dead center on the compression stroke and i use just looking at the rotor and the plug wire so this is number one plug wire on the vw is either here or here and what you do is take the face of the rotor and have it face that direction so i'm just gonna throw a wrench on it and we'll crank her over there you go we're all set to go do that one so we're gonna do number one cylinder we'll come back we're just gonna rotate it each time um 25 to the next one and go all the way around adjust each valve this isn't a normal setup these are ratio rockers and they are give you a little bit more performance a little bit more lift on it also both of those are tight uh you want kind of between four and six thou this is a 5000 kilo gauge i think volkswagen had it where it was four but people weren't adjusting them so they bumped it up to six made them a little bit more noisy we got to get us all in there hold on yeah these these are not metric it's an aftermarket stuff but normally you would have metric stuff i'm gonna be dub oh this one all right where are we so i'm just gonna go dial them in so i get a little bit of drag on them unlock the jam nut and the biggest problem is with them that does the damage is they get tight over time and when that happens you're using the wrong wrench when that happens it'll burn a valve like it's hot the gas kind of slipping by and it'll burn the exhaust valve or just start running like crap you'll start losing compression on it too but what happens is the damage will get done from the gas is escaping around it so i'm gonna run around there's not enough room for all of us up in here you get the idea it's making me look clumsy i'll bring you back when they're done that's a little overdue what's the saying release the shmup yeah it definitely was time to have that done normally in the middle there's just a screen you would clean out this one has kind of a filter that is reusable it's a probably stainless i'm not sure pretty fine web in between let's go see what we got for any sparklies in there and then it's got the oil filter too so it's actually got a really good filtration system compared to what volkswagen would use looks pretty good i'm going to rinse all that stuff out put new gaskets on it and we'll pop that back in there so it's got what's called a oil bath air cleaner it doesn't have a paper filament what it uses is oil and like a screen so regular volkswagen takes 2.7 quarts of oil and the last 0.3 goes in the air cleaner you essentially fill it up to that red line so it would be three quarts that a bug uses but not all of it's inside the engine there it is something like that and then there's a center post that's hanging inside the bus that this hangs off of in these four clips go and grab that that hummy here is the battery charger so big bw's biggest issue is they catch fire the fuel line which is this piece right here and from the factory the fuel line is kind of like chinese fingers it doesn't use hose clamps it actually pulls tighter as it comes apart so see what just happened right there the barb fell out generally that is the cause of a lot of the fires most people say is the fuel filter ruptures and all that uh what i found is that when the fuel line does not have fuel in it so if a vehicle sits for a while and there's no fuel in it these lines rot internally from the new fuel the ethanol that is in the fuel and then it'll just still leak right through the the pores of the side of it that and the other thing that happens is the plugs come out of generally it's not the fuel pump it'll be this one on the back of the carburetor right here that does it so you definitely want to make sure that they are in there good and like you can see that's an issue right there the other one that's coming to it this is a piece of marine fuel line i'm gonna leave this one alone right now it seems okay the next time i would pull the motor or do a clutch or something and i need to remove this i will change it uh it's a little on the stiff side but it's not going to leak the marine stuff is pretty good use it for here too but uh that's how it works and as far as like if you want to use regular fuel line it doesn't have the i don't know if you can see it the barbs that are on the outside of it it's like a cloth that's uh woven around it uh the the problem with hose clamps you want to throw hose clamps on it the especially like the fuel filters if you look at the plastic it's not a taper like that so if you put a clamp on it it tries to actually kind of squeeze the end of it right off i don't know if that shows up for you or not there's no real pressure there like two psi if that there's not again not much to go deal with i'm gonna go replace all that i'm gonna go take this i'm going to sand this surface and scuff it up and tap it in i'm probably gonna throw some loctite on there too and uh make sure it doesn't happen because that's that's where the issue is again usually it's the top one that pops out and it pisses fuel all over the top of the hot engine and on top of your distributor some people take the fuel filter and relocate it to a different area uh i have never really had an issue really i've never seen a fuel filter rupture people are going to argue it but anyway that's my opinion it seems like my guess is the when the air is able to get to it but if it has fuel in it it usually stays pretty good that's why the this fuel line doesn't crap out in the one underneath and i mean they all eventually crap out but this is the one that'll get you like essentially every year you kind of want to change it if it sits for you know five or six months because the top of the carburetor is open so what happens is the fuel evaporates out of the carburetor and then the float drops and it allows the fuel to disappear that's inside here and but there's you know there's still fumes and remnants and that's what kind of deteriorates the line that's where we're going with it i haven't checked the points if it doesn't run then we'll do something about it i know it looks funny doesn't it having that right there tuck that in a little bit more we're a tad long all right battery charge has been on i don't know about 15 minutes or so is that humming that you're hearing i will we back you up and we'll see if the thing fires off it'll take a little bit for this stuff to fill up with fuel i'm gonna feed your eyes on it should be able to see the fuel start getting into the bowl then you'll about 30 seconds after that it should go you get so anything yet i have no idea how much gas is in this oh yeah it's full should go in a second if it's got spark wow [Music] confident you know weeks [Music] sounds good burping out a little bit of air like the base of the either the fuel pump or the distributor leaks a little bit oil too a lot of times just oil pressure switch goes it helps like crazy [Music] that sounds good like a kitten [Laughter] tell me yeah i wonder if we are out of gas that maybe that'd be wild bubbling because i know i didn't put it i put it away with not much fuel in it that may be exactly the case i think i got to put some fuel in it they didn't want to store it there with a lot in it well back then you didn't have a gas gauge so i made a gas gauge and pretty much just a dip stick we run that to right there that should tell us what we got we got a half inch in the bottom of the tank and uh the the probe kind of sticks up a little bit so that's a bit it's just out of gas see if she'll stay running this time could take another couple seconds worth so i think we're gonna pop the air cleaner back put it in its place and uh throw some air in the tires make sure that they're all decent so we let her back on the ground we go for a putt that's why i didn't want to start it up in the museum we have a fuel leak you look at the that's the accelerator pump in the back if you watch that you actually see it leaking gas right out of the right out of the center where that post is a better light [Music] that looks like the whole thing's actually loose too let's go shut that down let's see if i'll do it with it let's see if it'll do with it not running yeah not supposed to be doing that so when i was hitting the gas i could hear it it wasn't running right it would fall on its face and go and that's the accelerator pump supposed to squirt a little bit of fuel in it real quick to help accelerate and get out of the hole there get rid of that flat spot we're gonna go pop that away i don't know if the screws are just loose on it or if it's warped or the gasket's blown out of it not sure so we can take it apart anyway we'll just go let's just go see if it's loose or if it's just egged out no they're tight that one was sometimes what happens is the the casing of it too warps common yeah it's a 50 year old piece of aluminum magnesium aluminum not sure on this but over time the only points that touch are where the screws are and it gets like an arc in between so you gotta kind of take them and flatten them out on a like a stone or something flatten it so that they touch all over again this one's got a hole right in it though because it was i was pushing there's no sp not supposed to be gas on the other side of that diaphragm it's only supposed to be on one side the side is towards the carburetor so there's the diaphragm it's not supposed to shoot fuel out of that side yeah it's pretty brittle there's a hole i think right now you guys can see it right there it's like a crack and a hole in it it's a good thing i stock parts go get a kit and somewhere in this dash is a carb kit carb kits there we go that'll do okay get that piece to lay flat so a stone a little bit of oil and it should show like wear marks after i go and scuff it [Laughter] you'll see that it kind of just will touch on the corners see how it's just shiny on the corners so i'm going to work that so i get a shiny line going all the way across then i'll all know that i have a flat surface again normally you could rotate it but the linkages get me [Music] shouldn't take much almost there a little right there and a little right there still needs to be done you see the difference between here's the one that we took out here's the one that's going in uh they may have changed the material finally i know the problem is that they're they're sensitive to fuel the other one just kind of like pops in this location it seems this seems to be a different material so maybe finally they got caught up in and started making something that holds up the ethanol because this is the number one death of uh vw's as far as having a big flat spot when the driving you're going to get on the gas and this falls on its face unless you work the pedal real slow but if you try flooring it just goes that's that gets no squirt a little extra squirt when you're stepping on it hence the name accelerator pump i'm gonna put that back together we'll throw it back on the car casey curious you can see that it's shiny all the way around figure what we had it out you must pop the top off if there's any dirt be a good time to rinse it out if it's really terrible we'll go through it but i don't think it is let's just see what we got it's pretty clean i'm just going to go rinse that real quick i see a little bit of crap not much wherever that is right there and just a little a little bit of junk i sure will show the accelerated pump working go dump a little bit of fuel in there it's got to get there's a set of check balls on the side you can get the fuel higher than that and we're gonna go hit the gas a little bit it's gonna take a probably a second to prime there it goes and you'll look right there you'll see it you little pistains working fine uh sometimes you won't get any right from the like you'll get a flat spot right there but this one seems pretty good sometimes you get a flat spot you can adjust the linkage for it to come in a little bit earlier everything seems like it's good and i do not see any leaking around there like you're milking a cow all right now i'll put the gap back together put it on the car how about now so eyeball it one more time you hear it now the throttle response it's immediate [Music] it's a lot of wind all right it's about a week or so later and we're gonna go on a little bit of a road trip so this will be a cold start it's in that probably about 10 days gotta fix that light doesn't want to go and we're off jokes along 39 degrees that warm up so who's that handsome crew [Applause] look at all these folks [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] good okay [Music] um [Music] two so um so so so so [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] so so so so [Applause] so so hit me [Applause] [Music] green generally we take over a hill on the left over here the regular park is straight ahead but we take over this little area yeah third year's a little too slow do [Music] because it breaks down [Applause] i think he could have a third vw how you doing hi [Applause] [Music] hmm [Music] [Applause] i like the colors [Applause] [Music] this oh [Applause] [Applause] oh yeah it is it's pretty tight in here we came in we were just like which way they went that way camera dad [Applause] [Applause] or any of them hot rods that's how to do it oh you found my crew that's my posse where's your sled right they would love that actually they love this one [Applause] [Applause] okay [Applause] oh uh [Applause] is is you come home with me so you do it he might he smells the food i think did you kiss one yeah if anything happens give me a ring all right [Music] uh you got here so so so so so time [Applause] so so [Applause] and on the side of the road is a lawnmower that says free won't start what do you say we throw that in the truck i'm gonna bring it back to the operating table see what it needs it's a pretty nice machine about 10 years old maybe overhead valve put it in there anything that sucks no way tie down straps in the truck it's all cleaned out let's try to wedge it in there best as possible how about we jam a stick under perfect [Applause] keeper under 100 well guys it made the trip no problem and have any issues with it i don't think it's dripping any fluid underneath looks really dry that's a good sign i'm glad to have it back i didn't want to talk too much during the cruising part of the video because i just wanted to try to put forth the feeling of what it's like to drop a 63 year old vehicle with no radio just going putting around so that's what i did got a little extra in the back on the way home so that's a good uh plus to finish off of the day and speaking of finishing off i think we're good on this one guys i want to thank you all for hanging out with me have a little bit of fun bringing krusty back from the museum and then kind of going through her and taking her for a ride first time in about i don't know 13 months 14 months so with that i'm gonna see you all soon probably screwing with that thing okay

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Length: 70min 37sec (4237 seconds)

Published: Sun May 08 2022