All right here we go what's a battery when you've just done a massive engine out the bill's going to be good. Oh there we go. Oh yeah, wizard is wizard, it's been so long. Oh all right! Welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube - and this is my recently repurchased 1984 mercedes 300 sd.

If you saw my last video you'll know that i sold this car years ago, but it's actually the very first car in hui's garage to be featured on the youtube channel six years ago. It's also my honeymoon car as the car wizard calls it, because the wizard and i sort of cemented our friendship, lifelong bond in this car driving to amelia island well in 2016.. So that's coming up on six years as well, and i bought this along with a buick roadmaster estate wagon. That is outside that i also really regretted selling, but it's not the actual old car that i owned.

Unlike this, this is the exact car. This is the one that really i should have never sold, and now i have it back, but i may sell it again because i told myself i'm only keeping one, but the wizard is so excited that i bought this car back that he wants to see it Right away, he wants to inspect his work from six years ago. He actually manual swapped this car was originally an automatic. Now has a four speed from a euro 300d i'm getting attacked by geese anyway, we're gon na.

Take it up to him and also he has a lot of good news for me. Apparently no bad news on this trip and hopefully not a massive bill with the ferrari 355 and my shelby gt350. So, let's hit the road in the old greasy deezy hello, wizard license! Oh look another one, multiple greasy daisies thumbs up. It's healed, wizard hello! This car really really takes me back.

It looks familiar. Doesn't it yes, this is so special. Are you getting emotional here? Okay, i kind of am you know i uh, oh my goodness, it's like all these emotions are flooding back to me right now. Well, i took my wife on our first date in this car, but well, this is our honeymoon.

This is yes, i told them it's your honeymoon. Yes, us together uh going to amelia island, i even had you drive. For always. I was on my laptop working on something i don't know but uh wow here it is.

I know you have somewhere your own 420 sel, the v8 gasoline one somewhere, it's back there getting some new upper control, arms and that's another 300 sd it is. This is actually how we met was through mercedes diesels on an online forum for mercedes. I had bought one about a year before you, you bought one. It was the first person on the diesel forum that was actually like local and close to me, so we kind of met because of that.

But things really didn't blossom into our wonderful relationship that we have now until well. Probably this trip right yeah. This was this was cemented the deal here. I think yes, yes, we we uh, we constantly, we didn't well.

What are we? I don't know like consuming. We constipated, i guess, or whatever i don't know i don't know, but anyway, this is one of the early examples of you being a wizard. How you got your name, the car wizard, because you made a four-speed work on a 300 sd and as far as i know, even in europe, i don't think they made a 300 sd turbo stick right. I think there were some gasoline and non.

I don't think in a 126, oh, i think they were all automatic, so you did some things. Some real wizard things to make this possible something i didn't show in the original video, but i haven't seen it and at least underside in five plus years. So we can check on your handiwork to see how it's holding up, but things that don't work since i've had it this antenna. Well, it doesn't pop up.

Unfortunately, i know these things need to be lubed regularly in this car sat. So that's not working and the seats definitely need to go off for uh the horsehair padding replacement because they actually used horse hair for padding instead of foam in the seats something in your car, which is the late 80s. They fixed it because now it's foam, so it doesn't break down, but it starts to smell like a horse and then you're just sitting on the springs as it breaks down it sucks. So that needs to be fixed but otherwise seems fine.

But to get me by, i think that bmw i gave you had some cassette tapes in it. It did. I had a cypress heel, tape and guardians of the galaxy tape or something yeah there's a lot of good tips, so the cassette deck still on this thing. I believe it works, so let's go grab some of the cassettes, all right, yeah, there's your car with uh.

What's that flag, that's blackbeard's pirate flag! That was his official flag on his ship. Oh yeah, beautiful yeah, there's the uh 89 and 91 seats, which are way way better. 101 000 miles nice car. I love this car yeah.

I saw your video, so this is the first bmw that i've brought up to you in years and then this is what you do with it. Absolutely really! Yes seriously: it's beautiful! You just took a sledgehammer to it me and mrs wizard did. It was fun too. So the whole purpose of buying this thing was just to hit it repeatedly right, as all bmws deserve all right.

Well um. It did save me a pretty hefty bill. So i guess - oh, my god, okay yeah! Let's get some guardians of the galaxy jimin hendrix, cypress hill yeah that'll work. That'll, keep me entertained uh, but you said you had some good news for me.

We walked past it yeah we do. The 355 is on the ground. Yes, it's about 95 percent done. I had the wheels refinished, they are back on new michelins.

It's got an ugly lug nut, though you might have to put a new lug nut there. It looks like just one wow, so we have it back together. It's running, it runs, runs very well. Is it driving it's driving? I'm gon na have to drive it.

Oh yeah! Well, you don't have the hatch on yet right in case there's any things we need to tidy up. We left some of the stuff apart, like the hatch and the wheel, liners. Okay, do our road test, final checks and then you're going to turn it back to me? Yes, but no bill yet not yet i can drive it though you can drive it. Okay, well i'll do that in a little bit, but also mustang has some fun going down.

Huh yep danielson's been working on. It he's got your park. Lamps brake lamps working turn signals wired in so that was a nice discovery. I had no brake lamps, none at all.

I knew about the no turn signals and that kind of stuff, but i had no brake lights, which is quite dangerous. I knew the headlights were really really dim, but basically not working. So that was something simple. It was a melted wire, oh okay, all right and then the uh instrument binnacle, is out.

It looks like you have rigged a key which i wanted yep we got the key switch in there. Okay - and i see an extra little thing - is that my turn signal yeah, nice, okay, we're making this thing a little bit practical, but what about the gauge cluster? It's right on the other side, oh mama! Oh that's pretty! Oh! That looks so good. Okay. So that's the gt350r actual instrument pinnacle with the uh replica gauges.

Oh that looks so good. It'll look very good in there everything's going very well, and then i guess you're working on the ml63, which is a surprise hit of putty. Yes, magic mike's been working on it and he's found that there's some issues with the hatch it won't close, and it's just sitting there constantly trying to close, open, close open and kills the battery there's also a check engine light, but all the codes are basically just Low voltage codes, okay, so maybe fixing that hatch would fix the battery drain issue. It's very likely.

We just still have to dive into the vacuum leak and see, what's going on there, that little weird whistle noise yeah, but then it's a usable car for not anyway. I was not expecting that i was expecting it to be a total disaster, like, oh, my god, look how terrible this thing is and well it's not it's not amazing. Okay! Well, i'm gon na take the ferrari out and then we can look at the old diesel. Huh, yes, look at my handiwork from what, like almost a decade ago, five or ten years getting there.

Yes, you had hair, i did have hair. Your beard was was short yeah. It was much shorter, he's still sexy all right. Here we go what's a battery when you've just done a massive engine out the bill's gon na be good.

Oh there we go. No lights. Horn works here. You go buddy just in case.

Yes, yes, yes appreciate it. Okay out, we go out into the light and when i bought this thing, i did drive it all the way back home from houston uh, not knowing that it had an ancient timing belt on it from like 12 or 13 years ago. So i shouldn't have done that most certainly, but now we're all fresh. It also had horrible noises because of exhaust leaks, and it was misfiring.

Let it warm up a little bit, but so much quieter have that exhaust on it. I mean quieter where it should be quieter. As far as the exhaust, the noises of the engine sounds so much better. Let it warm up and then we'll give it a good rip here.

All right shall we man that is incredible. With that noise and the high revving zinc way valvoline engine, this is so good. These guys nailed it. This is wizard's, first, ever engine out belt service on a ferrari in a shop of course, daniel son has done uh several the wizard.

He is a wizard and, of course, the last 355 i had the wizard did uh, diagnose and fix something that two other shops couldn't figure out for a misfire and he had never seen a ferrari 355 before so just incredible, a guy in newton kansas is talented Enough and now he's built a talented enough team to tackle things like this, and the new tires. Certainly do this car a huge favor as well. It's completely transformed all right. Well, let's go back and look over the greasy deezy wizards, uh, very old work and we'll see how it's doing, but this ferrari is coming home soon.

Oh yeah! That is all good now, but there's still the cosmetic issues to take care of, like this whole right side had a pretty good hit on the bottom here. The paint's peeling on the door and also the hole in the top has gotten bigger, but it's been converted to manual now and opening and closing pretty smoothly in that sense. So just replace the canvas and we're we're good to go. Wizard is wizard wizard.

Are you nuzzling the the diesel been so long? Oh all right! Well, i'm glad you're happy to see it's back. Shall we look at your amazing wizardry underneath here i don't know if it's amazing from 10 years ago, but we'll take a look. What you doing sucking out your overfilled oil level? Oh the wizard, had something to do in the office. Hey zach, hello.

I was noticing that's 2011 right, yep, so old tires very old tires and a little leaky leak for the oil pan oil pans leaking a little bit from the turbo up there. Oh that's probably pcv vacuum or something pcv leak. I mean not enough to do anything about no, it's an old diesel. Yep looks like when we do an oil change.

We can probably fix it's leaking from up top where the oil filter canister top, is oh, okay. It's a tiny seepage there, not bad here's. Your manual transmission, we put in right, you did this out of a 240d. Actually it was a 300d euro.

Oh that's right! It was 300d. I was thinking it was a 240 which is much shorter than an s. Obviously, but you were able to make all the linkages work, i think there wasn't too much to modify well. There was some modifications yeah, here's, your welds right, mm-hmm.

Those are some ugly welds, but they've lasted all this time very functional. So then, that goes into the cabin, and then we see the drive shaft, which obviously the sd is way longer than a 300d. So this is a very early wizard solution here. The drive shaft.

This is factory from a 300d and then this slightly girthier things from from what was it from a honda crv, a honda, so you like slid it over and so the drive shaft goes in quite a ways right, deep insertion, and then you weld it to where It's permanently inserted right and then there's no in and out movement, obviously yeah and i think the clutch and all that stuff just came from the 300d. You mounted the pedals. That was a little bit of a custom thing in the floor with the pedals, but yep. Nothing uh, nothing, serious earth shattering there and then here's the back of the drive shaft, which i guess you don't really see.

It was up there where you lengthened it right yeah it was up there. You won't be able to see the other weld right. This is the 300 sd drive shaft, well, very, very clever. Basically, you went back into the parts bin and found like a broken.

Honda drive shaft and you thought well, that'd probably be about the right size and then just lizarded it together. It was a nice tight. Just barely fit in and i just welded it, and there was no balance issues and also it's lasted all this time. It's done great awesome.

Well, there's really not much to do with this thing other than i mean those kind of leaks. You have to expect on a diesel, it's just it's impossible to not have this thing leaking some. What oh look at this muffler set up very odd yeah. These are like kidneys, very odd, so it goes in both and then out, one yeah.

What the heck! It's! The same on my 420, this was all rusted out. I just put a straight pipe there anyway, it's good to have it back. I think i know which one you want me to keep based on what you were making out with uh five minutes ago. Please don't get rid of this one.

There's there's a lot of sentimental attachment to it, but roadmasters are so cool. They are cool, but this one's cooler. I suppose. Well, i'm not done with both cars.

Yet there's more things i want to do so: i'm not selling them right away, but thank you all so much for watching and thank you so much for your support when it comes to merch and stickers. Here's a few sticker posts from earlier on twitter. Thank you. So much for that also hoovie's garage t-shirts.

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