- Alright, here we go again.
Brad Phillips here with Hagerty on
the red line rebuild Sunday and project.
For those of you that have watched this whole thing
and I believe this is episode nine,
I've had a lot of comments on this thing like
why doesn't Davin just fly in
and do this thing over the weekend?
Well he can't,
because of this whole COVID thing and the social distancing.
So I'm stuck here by myself
and I appreciate everyone's patience
'cause I can only work on this a couple of days a week,
but let me tell you what we got going on here.
This episode, the subframe is gonna be made back to the body
and I've managed to adjust it
in between these things down,
so there's just a little bit left to go.
I figured since I can't really get underneath there
and film very well anyway,
I just cut a little bit of that out
and what you're gonna see are these four bolts going in
and I'm gonna show you as many details as I can
about all that process.
I'm also gonna take a little footage this time of
with my iPhone, So you can see some closeup uses some things
I'm trying to get better at this
and I appreciate everybody hanging in there.
So without further ado,
let's get this thing rolling on four wheels again
and then I can get to the top of this thing
and not go underneath it again.
Alright, here we go.
I got a flashlight and I'm gonna try and show you guys
what it is that I'm doing.
If you look at my light,
you'll see that and that and that underneath.
I'm getting really close
and you can see kind of a paint line there
that'll show me I'm exactly lined up on that side,
when it lowers down
and then the same over here.
This one is really, really close.
So I'm gonna go underneath the car
and I am going to be putting these up in there.
Now, if you watched the first one of the first few episodes,
you got a sense of what it was like to remove it
and I've got it to where it's just about ready.
You remember that whole big thing last time
about me putting in that radiator?
Yeah, I had to take it out again
because this there,
which is part of the steering rack,
boy was it dangerously close to the radiator
and I just couldn't have settled myself
if I had gouged it in some ways.
So pull the bolts out, got it out of the way again
and you can see how I have to make notes for myself
that it's got no brakes, the coolant drained ,
no start it, oil pressure pressure's open
or I can take that one off 'cause I actually
put the oil pressure thing back in.
All right, let's see,
two out of three again.
So we've triangulated it.
We've got one in the front and one in the back
and now we're gonna do the other one on this side
and then that,
and this is exactly as much fun as I remembered it being
and Oliver is super helpful.
Alright, here we go.
Yeah, like we talked about in,
think with the motor bounce the same thing if these,
all these items aren't perfectly lined up
spherically with each other,
you'll just round out the bolt and gall it all up
and man, that's a problem.
So I'm just hand tightening these with
there's still a little separation about a 1/4 inch maybe,
but this will get it up
and now I can just push it all together with the Jack
and then make the final tighten.
This is the front one.
- This one here.
- Okay good.
- It almost looks like the things move forward.
- Well, I can move back a little bit here.
- Well, yeah.
- Well
- I'll just put it I think I'm actually .
- I got to loosen the other ones slightly.
- I think is this one.
- So which one?
This one here.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I think that'll be okay,
All right.
- Larger,
its going up.
- You got the pencil in there.
- Yes.
- That's a really smart trick,
I've got to show that to people.
Actually I can just tell everybody
what my son has done is,
he's put a number two pencil in the top of the hole
and as the bolt goes in from the bottom,
it pushes the pencil upwards so he can tell that
it's actually doing good job.
This one's pretty close,
so I wouldn't mind seeing it
if I could just make this go up with this on this side
'cause it is really close.
So tell me what you think?
- I guess if I see this thing start to move upwards,
which I do, I see it kind of rotating up a little bit.
- Yeah this has got a little slack in it,
tighten up the other one.
All right that one's not going to go up much more,
so I'm gonna leave that andgo to the other side.
'Cause I don't think that Oh,
yeah okay that's touching.
All right let's tighten these bad boys up.
Oh my God that's not even.
(upbeat music)
Okay what do we got next,
radiators back in the way it was with the shroud
and actually I think I mounted it
a little better than it was.
So always some progress and things you have to do it again.
So if this is all correct, I've got the wheels straight,
straight as it looks like to me,
really, even on both sides, the wheel I never moved, okay.
So that's right, hopefully everybody can see this.
Just put a little bit of that on there just to help it in.
And I did clean and degrease all these bolts so,
I think everything would be good
and I have corresponded steering bolts
and everything ready to go.
So let's get this down in there.
All right, how about a little under dash?
Okay, so this is underneath the steering column,
I've got one bolt in,
working on the other one here, okay got it,
(laughs)
Yeah, that's gonna happen about 40 more times.
Okay, let's get that in there,
I love this car.
This thing was in sold originally in Miami
then it went to Colorado
and then New Mexico where I bought it
and then brought it out to the East coast,
which is not generally the best direction to take a car
but hey, I'm having a lot of fun with it.
All right, we got the brake lines back on,
so something else very satisfying
is taking off my notes,
telling me where to put things
because now it's done.
Freshly painted generator bracket.
Generator bracket, we're getting there.
Now you can get an idea of why
this oil dipstick has to come from the original motor
because the stock one would end up around up under here
and work right?
I don't, I think it would get in the way of horses
and all this stuff,
so the tiger dipstick is very specific
that comes up further so you can get it up above here.
So, just one more little fun tire thing.
Okay, this is about as far as I can get tonight,
we made really, really big progress.
This car is sitting on four wheels.
It rolls, the brake lines are connected,
the generator a bracket painted no less is on.
I've got some various wiring things
on there already like voltage regulator,
The other two plugs are in
because I was able to put it in fourth
and bounce it just a little bit
to get it back to 12 degrees.
That's the good initial timing
so I can get that distributor stuck in there.
And I put all the radiator and shroud
and all that stuff back on once it was mounted.
So it was as confusing as I thought it was going to be
with trying to do it by myself,
I'm really glad I had some help from my son.
Oliver's gonna get some honorable mention
with this entire project which is great
and steering's connected.
Next time we're gonna get the rest of this finished,
Maybe we're closer anyway.
All right see you later, bye.