Welcome to hoovy garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and today i'm in the wizard shop and he is wrenching away on my latest additions and today we're also going to solve some mysteries here with my 1970 plymouth super bird, which i bought sight unseen On an auction site - and it showed up with tons and tons and tons of undisclosed issues, it turned out a lot of those problems, weren't as bad as they first seemed, but there's some really weird things going on with this superbird that we are going to look At today, some things are fixed and the reason why they were broken in the first place is very, very strange, but another thing happening today, which is very exciting, is my million mile dodge ram 2004 2500 cummins turbo diesel is coming apart and we can look inside The engine with almost 1 million miles and see how it looks and how it's held up so well for so long. In addition, the ferrari 355 is going to begin its teardown for the engine out, which is very exciting, so a very industrious very expensive week at the wizard shop, which i will be uh observing and not touching, because i'm not allowed to do that anymore. Wizard uh, are you thirsty yeah, it's been a rough week. I've been hitting the bottle pretty hard.

I see. Are we doing dishes today? Yes, that is uh. It sounds like dishes, it is an amazing dishwasher. You have there impact, send it to me very, very powerful, ready for the steam cloud.

Okay, it's like a spot, a spa for an oil pan wow - i wouldn't want to be in there while it's running so is that my million-mile cummins oil pan? Yes, how about that? It was caked in years and years and years of oil, which is now coming off along with. What's that, it's like plastic coating that was on the oil pan when it was new. Yes, it looks really really nice. I see a crank pulley as well and what looks like a belt tensioner yep.

They were just completely gunked up in oil and sludge. They aren't now wow, okay. Well, that means, if it's not on the truck it's all apart, so we can see inside. Oh, you got some more bits here.

This is uh some cover. That's the timing, cover okay, cleaned up and ready to go back on. That's a tone ring for the crank sensor behind the main pulley and then a bunch of pulleys and an air filter yep. Well, not very complicated huh.

Now we'll go back together with some of this to help lubricate it the uh. What lube that? Oh sorry, my thumb's in the way oh assembly loose assembly lube? Yes, the reason why it's coming apart is after a million miles, it's leaking. Understandably, from the timing chain cover which is off and the oil pan, which is off so now that it is off, we can see what the heck that's the pickup tube the for the oil. Yes, it's it's massive, so this picks up oil and sends it into the that's got to be the biggest one.

I've ever seen. It's got more throughput than i do that's for sure holy moly. You never have to worry about oil flow with this one, no whoa. Okay, well, that's one reason why these engines last so long, huh, yes, wow, okay! So let's look inside um.

First thing: i'm seeing is the complete lack of a timing chain or a timing belt. No, it's timing. Gears no chains are belts at all on this engine. It's kind of hard to skip a gear, especially when they're as thick as that goes deep.

Those are super thick holy moly. That's why it lasted a million miles yeah, there's no servicing uh gears. They just gear forever right. They keep working yeah, so that'll outlive us all and then underneath is well.

It looks a little more normal underneath, i suppose, with the uh crankshaft huh yep. It looks actually very clean in there for a million miles yeah. You would never know yeah, not a lot of wear a lot of drippage still yep as soon as the pan is cleaned up, we'll get it back on with a new gasket and solve the oil leaks. Okay, pretty amazing, huh, pretty amazing, and now that this is all apart.

This radiator is really tall too well, this is the radiator or the condenser. That's the radiator! That's your intercooler! Oh okay! Here's the condenser! All three oil cooler yep! It looks like a semi-truck radiator. I mean it's a semi-truck engine, so those were the big leaks. I think there was one more right on the back of the uh transfer case: yeah yep, the output seal right here is, you can see a red color there.

Oh okay, you got a new one. There, yes, that's a thick one, very thick, wow, well you're, moving right along here, yeah we're getting it done for you, okay! Well, the credit card's gon na get maxed out uh, but also you found some things on the super bird right. Yes, some weird things on the super bird, so i was a little worried about the super bird when i first got it because i thought it was overheating and i thought it had low oil pressure. But we've checked it's not overheating.

The coolant pouring out was just the radiator cap and on the oil pressure you notice that the sending unit was leaking which could be giving a bad reading. But it's leaking a lot and you've hooked this up and is it reading good oil pressure? Yes, at cold idle, it's like 70 psi. It's really good! That's that's good! So we'll check it warm, i suppose as well right but yeah. I don't think the gauge was showing that before 70 psi, cold idle, no, not even close yeah.

So that's uh. Quite a relief and then a lot of people are saying this isn't a real super bird. It is a real super bird. This is the one of 135 or so hemi cars.

It's not fake! This. This is metal all the replicas and a lot of the real super birds have replacement fiberglass ones. This is still got the original metal nose cone on it. It has bins in places where it should have bins.

It's the real deal, it's just a resto mod, which is very very strange, but what we're finding is this resto mod, which was built 10 years ago, has some weird stuff going on the suspension. First of all, we discovered that the shocks were cranked all the way up to have a normal ride height because before it was stand, sort of like this, and they can't be adjusted so you're able to find a shock to work yeah. I just need to get longer shocks that give it both travel up and down right now. It only has travel to compress they're, so maxed out they're fully extended all the time right, but that was a choice.

Somebody chose to have it stance kind of like an old dragster, which is fine. It's not really that good. Looking in my taste, but the weird thing is with the electrical stuff, because there were gauges that weren't working like the speedometer wasn't doing anything at all and it just wasn't hooked up. That's right.

I actually had daniel my new guy under the dash and he pulled it out, he's like here's, the cable, it's just not even hooked up, and then you said the horn as well, which the coolest part of a super bird other than it being a super bird. Is probably the meat me porn and there wasn't even a wire going to it from the horn at all right, so the horn wiring was all intact up to the dash and it stopped there. It didn't go any further up the steering column. It didn't connect to anything, so why would somebody do that? I have no idea and then now so it works now or the switch right.

There doesn't work the actual push button, but if we short it to ground it works that the horn works great okay. So you have to get me a new button, then huh. Yes, the horn button is problematic, a lot of wiring in there yep. I didn't open that up before no gloves going in that box, so the super bird, not as dire as we thought it was going to be no just need some wiring and some things hooked up here.

We'll get your oil pressure sending unit replaced to get your shock situation taken care of it's really, not that bad awesome. So the only car left really is the 355, which i agreed to do an engine out and that's happening soon. Yes, as soon as we get a list of everything we need on this i'll get the parts ordered and i'm sending daniel right over to the 355. he's going to start ripping it apart cool.

Well, maybe when i come back in a few days to get the dodge, this will be torn into yes. I imagine it will be. Two days have passed now and remember when we were saying in the last video all the nice things about this 348 100 reliability. Uh, well, i parked it outside for a couple of days, because i needed to make room, you can see, things are very tight and it didn't seem to like the cold, all that much made it into a ferrari popsicle and then it started weeping coolant.

And it's now weeping coolant right where those grates are, you can see which is right around where the timing belt is and uh. Well, that means where the water pump lives and replace that the engine has to come out, so i may be facing down two engine outs. Basically, at the same time, or it could be a hose or something simple, so fingers crossed we're gon na head back for the car wizards get this looked at and check on the progress with the other cars, which is all a lot of progress. Yep wizard hello, wizard, what's up well, i did a dumb thing what'd you do.

I left this outside and now it's leaking coolant after some really really cold nights, and it's only doing it when the engine's cold and it sits for a while and it's coming from where the water pump fish is oh, no. This was the good ferrari. We were talking about how good it was and it was listening and it decided to say: hey, i'm a ferrari too guys and yeah. So i'm worried about being the water pump, because if it is that then engine out, i hope that it's something simple like a hose, we'll see and then we'll check on there's an engine out over there there it is holy moly.

Oh it's ferrari, city. Yes, goodness gracious, so i was seeing it coming right out of this uh yeah, there's some some green goo there. That's a lot of green goo i'll get a ratchet and we'll take this little panel off yeah. It's right right in this area.

Oh lordy! Okay, oh not a lot of room to work here. No! It's right around in here! I don't really see much yeah. What the heck you see, oil from the valve cover gasket, which we've known about for yeah, that's been a while a little while yeah well where's. The coolant if we can lower it down and look, i don't really see anything right here.

I saw on the panel it's leaking right right around in there saw some green it's a pretty significant leak when it cools off yeah and sits, then driving. It doesn't seem to actively leak, let's lower it down and see what we see. Okay, not very easy to see things, it's almost impossible to see the water pump, because it's right up against the back of the car and it's covered right, yeah. The timing belt runs the water pump on these, unlike the 355, where it has its own little serpentine belt, but it's coming right through the center of the engine off to the side.

Everything else is dry. I guess, when it's cold, you could pressure test it. Yes, it will, i didn't want to do two at once, can't win for losing okay. Well, i think the timing belt jobs are a little cheaper on this car, not really there's less to do yeah, at least it's not like we're doing manifolds and all these other things on 355, which holy crap.

Let's go look at this thing. Well, you didn't waste any time in the past two days here, huh! No, it's uh, it's gone it's out and it looks like a really cheap, chintzy car. Without this glorious engine, inside of it doesn't it half the car is the engine? Well, it's it's a little wiggly too. Yes, i guess that's part of the structure right, yep and uh.

Well, there's daniel's son working on the magnificent uh kind of scary, actually looking engine. These are the pulleys for the cams and such let's see the water pumps driven by a serpentine belt here, a different belt, but yeah. I was told that these belts were last done in 2016 and you told me something that that may have not been the case. Huh, let me grab one of the belts.

Okay, so you can just barely see the date code. The first two digits are the the year 2009 zero 2009 2009. So you're not supposed to put one of these belts on that's more than you know, you're too old right and they have like a five-ish year shelf life. So i don't think 16 was when the belt service was last time.

No, i don't think so either the previous owner was told that from the previous owner who stole that from a used car dealer so uh, i think they're, probably confusing the 7 000 record for the clutch, and you know just normal other fluids and stuff as the Major right, so i was driving on 12 13 year old belts borrowed time more like it 500 miles home. Yes, rut, row and daniel's son he's peering inside of the engine, there's another thing that we need to check and that's the valve guides. So one of the defects on these is uh. The valve guides can fail because they made them out of bronze.

The replacements are steel. You can see that those are bronze, color, they're, bronze, they're, bronze yep. So a good thing to do as a preventative is to replace those valve guides and they can cause misfires and things they can. They wear and our hair gets past the guides into the intake, unchecked air.

I think it was running fine, though other than actually what we found was causing a misfire. So there was an obvious smoking gun on the misfire. Yes, this ignition wire is broken and just bare barely just sitting in there. Well, that's not how it's supposed to go! Nope cylinder number, seven excuse me there you go.

Oh just one page huh all right! No, but wait! There's more! Oh just wait, there's more! Oh, some tools that we need in a clutch pedal adjustment. I mean it obviously seems to run fine. So maybe we'll leave the valve guides alone. Famous last words right right: we can do them.

If you want we're here, it's up to you. Well, you can quote it up for me and we can talk, but we also need to talk about the super bird because you posted a video and there's a lot of yahoos in there. We need to clear it up so earlier we were talking about the super bird and uh people, saying it's a fake one: well, the fake ones: don't have metal, nose, cones and then they're saying that it's missing the rear supports for the wing, which absolutely isn't true. No, it's not the fake ones; they just have the wings tacked on, but you can see they bolt it to the frame here.

You have it on this side and then this side they mounted the battery cut off in some few things there, but it actually has it. What it doesn't have, though, is the hidden vin that people talk about, which is underneath the trunk liner, which, honestly it would make sense with this car, because it was t-boned on this side. The doors are placed. It would make sense that this panel would have been replaced along with the new floor, so it's not going to have the vin there, but it's a real super bird.

It's i mean all these old 60s mopars. They have panels, replaced they rusted out or they were erect or something. So it's a super. You got the horn back on.

Yes, oh there's, one nice thing happening today. We cleaned the contacts and got it working. I mean it's some consolation for the fact that i'm gon na have to do another major at the same time, but at least the horn blows at least the horn blows, and the is the cummins coming again. It is coming down the road just fine, all the leaks are fixed yep.

Oh, so there's more good news: yeah 1200 bucks. We solved all the leaks, all right well and the 355 wheels magnesium are going to be refinished, so we can load them in the back and the million mile cummins and all i need to do now is drive this thing to get it over. That million mile mark well, i guess to summarize mopars good ferraris well ferraris - aren't bad they're they're, just good they're, just they're good, they're, just very needy, so all right, uh! Well! Thank you! Wizard i'll uh! No, not yet don't make me come at you! You still have a bill to all pay all right. It's here's johnny huh! Yes, here's johnny, here's weather.

So what bill is worth holding me up at knife point that 1200 yeah. You really needed to hold me in the highest point on a 1200 bill. I got to put gas in my yacht that is lower than what we thought on the uh dodge. That's incredible! So it's virtually perfect for twelve hundred dollars, no more leaks, we drove it a few times it's dry and it's got that sloppy rear differential.

But it's probably fine. It's fine for now all right where'd the 348 go. I got it. Did you set it on fire? No, it's back there yeah it's in the recovery room, how's it fixed.

It only had a small leak on one of the hoses. I tightened it up. It revealed itself. Finally, it is harder to find things when there's a camera in your face doing this right yeah, it makes it a little bit more difficult and daniel's actually worked at ferrari for many years, he's a good grab from florida, yeah doing the engine out and not one On 348, so i do have another year i mean i hug you and jump into your arms, but i don't know you that well yet i just i just i just do that to wizard it's okay next time, maybe next time next time, yeah.

Well, i'm still processing all this. It you're, not joking right, i'm not joking! It's just a hose that that 348's just so nice. It gave a little warning that i don't like to be parked outside. So i'm just going to squirt out of a hose for a little bit.

It did and that's it that car it's been good to you all right, i'll load. These wheels up and then hit the road thanks. Wizard yep sounds good. That certainly doesn't look like a million mile underside anymore.

Well, it didn't really before, but what a thing thanks: wizard yo all right: pretty good: okay, bye! What a machine 995-684! So we have 400 miles to get to the finish line of a million miles. In this thing, and i'm i'm so excited to do it, thank you all so much for watching and if you have some time in the holidays, be sure to check out car issues on motor trim plus they're, offering another promotion now for the holidays. Three dollars a month for a year which is quite a deal, you see all the episodes of car issues season, one and two all the episodes of top gear and so much more car related entertainment. It's uh links below the last few episodes have been some doozies.

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