Welcome to who he's drawn to. The dumbest Automotive channel in all of YouTube And this is my 2003 Aston Martin Vanquish or that's what it was currently it is The Sword in the Stone or basically stuck on this lift right now. Now this is originally the Car Trek 2 Car Las Vegas Challenge Ed bought it from Columbia the country not to Missouri or whatever state has Colombia in it and imported it. Uh, put a new clutch in it and it barely survived card Trek Then Freddy bought it to Vars from Ed after Car Trek did some fixes to it and then never drove it and then he sold it to me and well I let it sit up on this lift up high for the last six months and it suddenly started draining a lot of nasty fluid and then uh, now won't go out of neutral.

So the car is stuck in first gear and because it's an automated manual transmission you know, a clutch but controlled with robots I can't get it into neutral. Apparently there is a release switch in here somewhere everybody says there is, uh, it's supposed to be under the seats behind the seats. whatever I'm looking and I cannot find it. So the tow truck is on its way here and we're gonna have to get very creative on how to get this car off.

Basically a car that is stuck in gear. The rear wheels will not move so uh, we'll see how this goes. I'm going to start by showing you guys what I've done to hopefully make this work and we need to Move. all the cars out of the way that, uh, could possibly get damaged by yanking this thing off of the lift.

Such a beautiful bricked car right now. And yeah, there is the fluid. it's draining out of both sides actually. So yeah, that's quite a problem now.

I've looked all over underneath the seat, pulled back all the carpets, this rear area where the battery is. there is nothing showing to uh, put this thing in neutral. apparently you can get under there maybe and with a certain bolt, you can pop it out yourself the uh, noodly appendage. but you can't really do that with this lovely lift in the way.

So I've devised what I think is going to work. we'll see if the tow truck driver is going to go for it. it's not. Dynasty Sending one of his uh, constituents I have put these lids underneath the tires here so the plastic Lids hopefully will slide off.

I'm going to lift it up a little bit and get that rug out of the way so it doesn't get caught on that and hopefully the smooth surface with the metal and the garage floor will be enough to get it off and then up onto the tow truck. But yeah, I need to move the rug I need to move the Corvette and I need to move the SLR for sure because if this thing, it's just cables. If this thing starts swinging wildly or whatever, um, yeah, it's going to be fun. So fingers crossed.

Once we do get it off, we can get it up to the car Wizards and then find out well, what exactly has happened and whether I should fix it or send it off to England to get a manual transmission conversion done. If it broke really bad, it may be worth doing. But one other thing I did I forgot to show you when I was jacking it up because I'm a complete idiot. Uh, smacked the side of it there and put a nice little Ding and took the paint off right there with the Jack handle.

Yeah! lovely day. All right I have to lift a little bit in the air just to be able to get the rug out from underneath it. But uh, here's the issue here because it could easily start pulling the lift with the car. You can see it's sort of moving right now.

those cables they could pull out with it, which is why I wanted the SLR far, far away from it, but hopefully it slides. This is going to be interesting. Tow truck driver is here and wheels are here. All right.

The tow truck is in I'm sure there's some Aston Martin enthusiasts just losing their mind right now. The lever's right there. Just pull it I can't find it and nobody knows. Uh, so here goes nothing.

we got the tow hook on now. Wheel dollies, you think would be a good idea, but uh, this lift is ripped for nobody's pleasure. so if you had those little casters they would just get stuck. I Imagine on that and not rule.

So I Feel like this sliding is better but we'll see. All right. we'll move. Oh God Okay, it's moving I Came right off.

It's definitely turning the engine over. It started up. Wow. We just pull started.

a Vanquish All right. hey, it went into neutral. Reaction: is that fast? You gotta be a race car driver? Uh, you. You might have fixed it.

Actually yeah, now it's in neutral. Outstanding. There you go. Okay, not sketchy at all.

We just pull started. Um Jesus Christ she's going in reverse. All right. So will you go in first? Now it's going in first.

now. it wants to work now. after all of that, um, all right. Well, foreign about that.

should still probably go up to the car Wizards But it almost went flying into the Z06 Corvette Wow. Okay, now it's acting up. Yeah, it definitely needs to go to the Wizard. So left is going up.

You can see it got pulled out a little bit because it's rocking and rolling and there's my burnout from the launch where it tried to fly into the Z06 and the tow truck. Thankfully I was quick on the brake. all right. Following the Aston Martin up and Wizard is Wizard is wrenching on a the W12 Phaeton's still here Huh? You got you got an oil pan down transmission pan? Okay O-rings were leaking on this one.

Oh like Mercedes huh? yeah. okay. so I'll get some new O-rings on there. Service it and should be the leaks.

What do you think of this goofy thing? uh uh Bentley and a Volkswagen tuxedo I guess or I don't know mullet I Suppose right? I Think everything is that you see it's so hard to work on I wouldn't want to be working on on the weekends on this. I mean you might as well have a Bentley Continental Flying Spur and as well have the Bentley rather than uh Volkswagen huh and there's a lot of Bentley in there. Yeah yeah, these control arms are replaced and they came in a box that said Bentley Continental Really yeah. Well so you get the maintenance as well.

I guess if you want to be kind of low-key but a very strange car for sure. So yeah, I See, you've already started doing a little peekaboo at the Aston Martin but before we go there, uh my, V12 is on its side. So the Ferrari 456 in the last video uh Daniel's son. he did a whole video about tearing it down but you've done some more.

it's on its side now have you? I Guess the Pan's not off yet to look. You want to check all the uh, tightness on everything on this thing now right at this point? Yes! So anything else weird that you found? well I found that one. Woodruff key from that uh timing gear that I showed in the video like the pulley gear. Yeah, you can see that they put the wrong wood roof key in there.

This is like a wood roof key for advancing timing on like little small engines. I Looked up the part number and yes this is wrong. this is not the right key for it. They just jammed it in there and said that'll do I guess so they found it on the parts bin or something.

Wonderful. What? No damage just. other than that so we can replace it and call it a day. Yeah, it's amazing that I track this thing in car track I mean just rev the bejesus out of it many many times.

drove it hard. So I imagine the bottom ends Okay, should we mention that how dumb the head gasket comment was? Oh yes, yes. Somebody did mention that that the uh, the head studs could have pulled away because it overheated like a Cadillac Northstar or something which that's that's not true. Well, it could have, but not the ones exactly.

the ones that were already failing right? That would have happened. How is it only these three or four pulled? The rest of them are perfect, right? No, that's not how it happened. Everything else was tight as a tiger, right? You had to fight him to get them off those those ones on the bottom they just saw wrench I went. yeah, just a normal regular wrench.

Well and another thing to mention, we are down one mechanic, right? Magic Mike No longer works here. He has gone on to do his own thing. So wizard is. Look at his mitts.

he's a little more I'm getting scuffed and dirty and is he a good mechanic? He's the fast one. It's a quick draw. Yeah. so you're back to wrenching and running a whole shop now.

Yeah, until we find someone new I have another one in the works. Oh okay, we reveal him when he starts here. Well, obviously I mean things are still going because uh yeah, you already got the Aston Martin up in the air so quickly. so have you taken a look yet? Yeah.

Danielson actually to put it up on the lift and took a look and we found out what it was. So you've got another video on the 456 to drop as well. right? Yeah, it's coming in a few weeks. All right.

Still working on it. Subscribe to Danielson It's his birthday tomorrow. That's what the cake is here. Got it for me? There's two balls and you notice they're naturally uneven.

That's not natural. Here we go again. Yeah, so why does it have two reservoirs and one's lower than the other? One's kind of like an emergency. It actually feels into the top of the other one so it's more capacity.

Okay, but uh, they're both empty. That's why you go to shift it into gear. There's just enough fluid to maybe get one or two actuations. and then it quits.

and the pump makes like a noise for a second like it's normal. Then it starts doing like it's lost prime or the pump was failing. It's getting air in the system because it's literally empty. Ah, and since the two balls are empty, we have a golden shower going on over here in the center of the car.

Yo, You do have to use oh yeah terms like I mean you could. There's professional ways to describe this rather than two balls that are hanging. Okay, Oh, so it's it's a gusher. Yeah, there's these hoses here.

This is the hydraulic unit. I've done worked on several of these where the hydraulic lines were leaking. especially this one. it has two going into one.

uh-huh. That one's known to fail as well. but we're gonna have to pull this, uh, under sheet off. Yeah, metal? Yeah.

Go through all the hoses and lines. So yeah, they put a lot of holes in it because they assumed you would need to see what the hell's going on here. And you're right. It is a shower of fluid which I did see it from the lift I assumed because it was kind of an oil color like engine oil.

that and it was towards the front that I was leaking engine oil. but no, it's gushing F1 or whatever they call it for Aston Martin it's uh, transmission fluid. yuck. Definitely yuck.

Yeah, but it all makes sense now right? But you know I didn't tell you getting it off the lift was a thing because it was stuck in gear. Is there a neutral release that I wasn't seeing? or do you do something on the transmission to get it into neutral because you know the computer. If it can't do it it, you know it's stuck in gear. Yeah on various different models they'll have a release I don't exactly know I looked and Googled and looked and looked they said under the seat they said in the back I looked everywhere and it's luckily we didn't have to even find it because it did work a little bit to get it on the list.

no it actually it pull started came to life. almost flew into the tow truck because it did a little burnout revved I almost crashed the dang thing. It could have ramped over and gone on the new Z06 as well if it really got pushy and I wasn't quick on the break that should have been that's in flaw that you can kill I Don't think any British engineer ever thought that that would happen, that you would need to pull it off the lift stuck in gear and it would pull start like that. so looks like it's is that just probably wafting back from there.

Yeah, you can see the stream here. It's blowing back. Okay, well so it's a gusher. It's a gusher.

It's a shower. It's an expensive fix since you've done it before. Um, no, we might have to pull that hydraulic unit down and get all the hoses and things off. but it's not too bad.

Okay, well, there's a car that is too bad and that's the X6m, which oh, I've heard stories about that you dodged the bullet there. I was fun to go check on next. but uh, that the Aston Martin is fixable because if it was too bad then I'd probably just send it to England and have it manual converted. But I mean I already have a lot of nice manual cars and four five, six things, so if it's an easy fix or easiest fix, we'll do it.

But yeah, it definitely is the X6m. Well, unfortunately, I Checked at the Car Ninjas and there's no progress on the X6m or it's not an M anymore either. Unfortunately, that car showed up barely running and after digging around, we discovered that there it is not an M motor anymore. It had been swapped with a regular uh V8 twin turbo.

so about 150 less horsepower. But right now it's a negative horsepower because it just runs like absolute garbage. But uh, the Car Ninja hasn't been able to touch it because uh, he's down a mechanic as well. So I guess if you're a good mechanic and want to come to Kansas we can have lots of work for you, but he promises he'll be looking at it soon.

Uh sure, that's all. Thank you so much for watching and I'm so glad I didn't crash the Aston Martin.