all right we are back we got this thing off the trailer
it's looking dusty i'm gonna go ahead and get it all gets washed up real quick spray it off i don't
want to have it sitting here looking all gross got some new rear shocks for it so we'll get those on
and a nice little carbon bar but i'm not gonna put that on and i'm gonna empty out all the
crap in there too get all this stuff cleaned out all right actually cleaned up pretty well
the outside looks good
so we'll get it cleaned up on the inside all right depending on what model you have
or even if you have all the parts you may or may not have the back shelf or the back area with the
speakers i happen to have the shelf thankfully this came with the car as you can see we got one
of the new gas struts in and it looks really good on here i mean even down to the old white writing
just bringing that nostalgia back i guess and i'll link these in the
description below and any parts that i'm using to restore this car so it came with a new strut
and new ball studs for the upper and lower so real simple uh if you don't have any of
the plastic trim on here it's a 12 millimeter just take out each one of the uh studs here
back them out make sure you have uh do them one at a time or have somebody hold this hatch up
because it's quite heavy or have um a vice grip on there to hold the one of the dead shocks
if you have a shelf you're just gonna simply take out the three ten millimeter bolts one two
three this whole thing will pop out you'll undo the seat belt there it'll be a slot for it
and then you'll pop this plastic off and get it in
all right you'll remove the old shock strut there and just spin the new one in and then
the tops here have um little slide spring things you get a little screwdriver pop it up and slide
it up that way you can get this ball in there and you just go a little overhand tight and then
pop it on there and this will slide back down and you can just take a little pair of pliers or
something and just kind of hit it down and it'll go down and that's really it trunk shocks are on
everything seems good so we'll get it washed up and see how it looks at all this stuff out of here
all right we got our all cleaned off
most everything we can get off here come out pretty well
we got the new gas struts in the whole back up it's working fabulous and we're gonna get
the inside cleared out here and see if we can't get maybe the battery into this thing and see if
we at least get some lights to turn on so let me get all this junk out of here now
all right we got our all cleaned up found some miscellaneous parts the other wipers the whole
cargo area down inside here cleaned up pretty well i had some old wedge racing seat brackets
they dropped right in and fit perfectly looks like the floorboard's a little
possibly boogered up not sure i'm gonna have to lift it up maybe they hit something
uh back seats cleaned up really well all i did was vacuum in here like i said i found
the cargo hatch thing all the pieces are back here cleaned all this junk and crap out of there
door panel still got to be cleaned up and the transmission went on it so they just
dropped the transmission the subframe and everything so i got all the parts
i'm gonna go ahead and try and get this thing back together i dropped the battery in it real
quick to see if anything would even happen or turn on so let's uh let's see this will be a first time
all right oh look at that
turns on that's not bad
so yeah we'll get the transmission back in this thing everything seems to be working
all the functions work transmissions in park let's see yep
so all this is still good well yeah so this might be just a drop of transmission and then go
so tell me what you guys think in the comments section is this thing worth 500 bucks
is it worth the trouble of getting let me get everything back in and we'll take a shot of it
okay we separated the transmission from the old junk engine i have been dragging around
this is the automatic ml4a transmission or the 4a transmission there are two different things
i think it's a three-speed automatic as well but this is the four-speed so we'll get all
the seals out and i think these are all the seals i had to go to several different stores so that's
one of the seals you're gonna need
that's the other seal national and then the other seal i think that's torque converter seal
there's three main seals on this automatic transmission we want to change
that one that one and there's one behind the converter that i'll pull off real quick
and there's a converter seal so we're getting everything cleaned off and blown out sprayed off
a brake clean all right we got the transmission cleaned off as much as i'm gonna clean it
we're gonna go ahead and put the torque converter seal in got a little bit of uh
trans gel or assembly lube oil anything will work you don't want to send it in like super
dry you want to wet it up a little bit and then i'm using a 2 and 3 8 socket that fits pretty
good on there most people aren't going to have this but this is the proper way to do it you got
to have something that fits around that seal so let me go ahead and get you to see all lubed up
actually that seal went in without any uh tool i just pressed it in my
hand i hope it don't come back out now we're gonna work on the driver side seal
we're gonna do the same thing a little bit up and see if we can push it in
all right both seals with actually all three seals went in by hand pretty easy
just a little trans gel so i'm going to do is i'm going to clean up that torque converter over there
get that seal lubed up and push it all the way onto here and then tape up the two port holes
and we'll get this transmission back in the car hopefully it works all right we got the civic up
on jacks and jack stands just high enough to get that stinky automatic transmission under there
we're gonna slide it in it's being held up by this harbor freight engine hoist
and we're gonna get it hooked up to the engine
all right we got the transmission in the car definitely helps to have the right tools don't get
the mount on it yet just got it torque converter bolts in and everything's secured up there holding
it with trans jack i'm gonna grab the battery and see if we can bump it off and see what happens
okay we got the trans in the car uh unfortunately i think the fuel pump is not working i tried three
different ecu's two different main relays and i'm pretty sure the pump is taking a crap i
know it's not the distributor or ignition system because i can get some starting fluid in there
my lovely assistant's gonna fire it up go ahead
go ahead keep going
all right as you can see it does start up we probably got transmission fluid spraying
everywhere because uh none of the hoses are hooked up here's something dripping or something moving
go ahead turn it over one more time
you just just turn it over and see if it'll start
all right and that's that lost battery power so this is the end of this little episode here
stay tuned for more and we'll get this thing on the road thanks for watching please subscribe