So, who's car is this? Maybe a member here or should be.
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circlepilot
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PO (who had some dollars to burn and no knowledge) must of taken it to a "shady shop" with some delusional ideas; they bled him dry and blew him off. The new owner is in for a "BIG" surprise. We have an airplane in our shop right now with very similar problems. A young lady bought it without a "pre-purchase inspection," was really taken advantage of. She brought it to us for an oil consumption problem, and by holding an inspector rating it was our responsibility to let her know about the "visible problems" with the plane. Now the FEDS and some lawyers are involved...but, not us.
Norm
Norm
Lots of good parts but man, what a mess!
abodyjoe
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lol.. what a mess.. someone had no clue what they were doing. some people just should not be working on these cars.
What I like about the video is the owner doesn’t know what they are looking at and found this fella that knows some basics as well as some caveats like the flexplate balance issues. Self admitted to not knowing everything by the “Not sure” statement, it’s showing honesty upfront. But smart enough to know something may be off.
I feel bad for the owner who was probably taken for a nice pile of hard earned money but at least he did the right thing by getting a pro on the job.
The previous workers in the car should hang up their wrenches and try another career like digging ditches. If the exhaust X pipe wasn’t convoluted enough for anyone, the brake calipers upside down is so bad, a red flag doesn’t cover it. More like a Red neon flag 50 stories high would be a bit closer to correct.
I hope the new owner can get this done. The expense in having a pro do it may well be worth the money when you don’t know but it was the expense that got me wrenching and learning in the first place.
I feel bad for the owner who was probably taken for a nice pile of hard earned money but at least he did the right thing by getting a pro on the job.
The previous workers in the car should hang up their wrenches and try another career like digging ditches. If the exhaust X pipe wasn’t convoluted enough for anyone, the brake calipers upside down is so bad, a red flag doesn’t cover it. More like a Red neon flag 50 stories high would be a bit closer to correct.
I hope the new owner can get this done. The expense in having a pro do it may well be worth the money when you don’t know but it was the expense that got me wrenching and learning in the first place.
bcschief
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P.T. Barnum Quote "A sucker is born every minute"
bcschief
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Any Cars.
bcschief
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I once worked for a shop that did work like this, and I quit said shop over a job that I refused to do unless the owner of the vehicle came in and saw the problems and still approved the work. Got into a yelling screaming match with the shop owner and quit, went and got a trailer and loaded up my tools and demanded to be paid before I left.
Maybe the owner will give up and give somebody a great deal on that car!!
My first thought was that someone's "uncle" (cough, cough) shouldn't be working on these cars....
But that's not very nice, so I won't say anything like that here.
The new mechanic making the video seems to know just as little as the other *** that did the work. I would take the car somewhere else after seeing this video if I was the owner.
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69FBCuda
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919 area code on the van.
The 919 area code is a phone area code for North Carolina. It covers the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary areas, as well as other cities in the Research Triangle.
The 919 area code is a phone area code for North Carolina. It covers the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary areas, as well as other cities in the Research Triangle.
Dartnut
Don't hate me because i'm beautiful
Terrible work.
Caveat Emptor or ''Buyer Beware'' holds very true here...
Caveat Emptor or ''Buyer Beware'' holds very true here...
But the thing with the mechanic is he was honest right up front to the whole YT world and did so display some working knowledge of a possible wrong or certainly wrong flex plate. When it came to the calipers, he did t know what they could have come from and said it outright.
Honest. Can’t beat it with a stick.
This also doesn’t mean he doesn’t know, may have not remembered at the time as well as look up the caliper in a search. Do note he knew enough that a spindle swap and as he said “Could” be the fix.
Personally I can’t remember all of this ****. Why bother when it’s in a book. (On my shelf and maybe even this guy has one at his shop?)
Your awful hard on the guy with one video out of his many where he works on much newer modern cars and not the now ancient.
The “Other ***” is a roving disaster to say the least. Far from the video maker.
missing linc
Loose nut behind the wheel
Lots of good money spent on parts, but holy hell, what a mess! Looks like the transmission is on an angle too, but maybe just not bolted to the crossmember. Yeah, that "X" pipe, wtf?
A 9 inch Currie differential doesn't come cheap, plus rear disc brakes, somebody has a lot of good ideas, but it sure went sideways.
A 9 inch Currie differential doesn't come cheap, plus rear disc brakes, somebody has a lot of good ideas, but it sure went sideways.
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
I said it in my build thread a while back, every car I’ve ever bought I’ve had to go through the entire thing and unfuck everything the previous owner(s) have done. Giving myself the nickname, the Quintessential Unfucker. This car is a perfect example and sadly not uncommon.
bcschief
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Or bite the bullet and have it fixed. I have watched a lot of his YT videos for the last few years and Kenny seems to be a good mechanic with pretty good diagnostic skills and yes, he is in NC, most of his videos are modern cars but he also owns an old hot rod, but I don't recall the make.
mopar head
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Kenny`s a good mechanic, I used to watch a lot of his vids, mostly modern stuff. Then suddenly he disappeared from my feed, and I forgot about him.
I was disappointed when he spoke of how he loved reading uncle Tony when he wrote for the car mags. I hope he was a better writer then as now a you tuber.
I was disappointed when he spoke of how he loved reading uncle Tony when he wrote for the car mags. I hope he was a better writer then as now a you tuber.
bcschief
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Classic cars are not cheap to buy or own especially if you have to pay someone else to maintain and repair them, they are not for the faint of heart.
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
There is a difference between a mechanic that doesn’t know, and is smart enough to ask the question, and a mechanic that doesn’t know and thinks he does. This guy seems like the former, and a good mechanic.
missing linc
Loose nut behind the wheel
I worked at a shop in the early 90s, owned by a friend of mine, we worked mostly on late model stuff, but we got the occasional older (70s) car. One day a young kid came in with a late 70s Firebird with a pooched 301. He wanted a new motor put in, so we said sure, then he gets a wrecked 75 Trans Am towed to the shop and says he wants us to put the 400 from it into his 79. I said no, my boss got pissed off at me, but I outright refused to do it, believing that it would be a permanent headache for us that would never go away. He finally agreed with me and we sent the kid away.
I was not hard on the second mechanic at all. I just believe the owner of the car would be better off finding someone that works on and knows these 50 year old cars. If the man didn't know those are 73 up mopar calipers And all that needed to be done was swap the calipers Then he never worked on many Old Mopars.
mopar head
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Some kind of AMC I think.
Looks like an incompetent mechanic bit off more than he could chew and then tried to just get it out the door.
While finding what would now be a specialist due to the cars being so old, that mechanic did know something as opposed to nothing and yea, you were hard on that guy for not knowing the MoPar niche.
Nether did I nor did I care to think about it. You really expected a guy to peg a 53 YO caliper on something that rarely comes into his shop?
Perhaps.
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