You are one of very few channels I watch regularly. Most of them I Used to watch changed (not for the better) after they got lots of followers, yours hasn't. You have stayed consistent over the years I've been watching. Thanks!
Thanks for making this video. You have proven. once again, that you have to check everything when you buy a used vehicle. Poor workmanship from previous owners is the norm, not the exception. Let this be a lesson to everyone.
If you don't know what you're doing you'll never get those hydraulic clutch systems on those trucks bled. It takes a power bleeder and some talent. Good job on the clutch. I've run across a bunch of half assed jobs like this, it always leaves me shaking my head. That's a sweet wrecker. Best regards from Indiana.
Good common sense approach there, Jon. Some would have a new flywheel, pressure plate and clutch disk on order. But that stuff, in the real world will all go again and give good service. It's a neat looking bed with that Holmes gear on it. All the best, Mart in England.
I'm going to call you the Heavy Work Guy because most of what you tackle is heavy stuff! Cats are funny. Our cats at work have clean water everyday but they'd rather drink from a puddle.
Just watched the Stude video you shared with the CWM “rivals”. Obviously, they're humbly acknowledging the real winner. Thanks for all the hours of enjoyment and entertainment you give the world, your generosity even to us degenerate Canucks. And I like the name of your home town too!
6:45 - I like that transaction. Seems like no "reasonable" amount of "cash" would have made him happy to give up possession of that grille, but a "trade" for something of "real value" made both parties happy.
I know where all the original jigs are for those chevy grille guards are. My family built 150 of them a year for Chevy dealers from 1945 to around 1956 or 1957. They were mostly for ton and a half trucks there are a few out there for the pickups but they were mostly for ton and half trucks. Should be a stamping on it someplace that says NELSON. The design was from my great uncle who served during the WW2 and welded guards for army trucks he came back and made a few for a local chevy dealer and the dealer got them in the network. They were built in a small town in NY where the jigs sit in an old barn.
I've spent way too much time going back and fixing work that someone else screwed up. I never fails to amaze me the way people try to shortcut or just be lazy. Those hydraulic clutches seem to always right a proper bleed. Great explanations and diagnostic work!
Always "interesting" to see how backyard mechanics respectively bungler do the work. 🙈 I'm glad that you could eliminate all the problems and that the old girl is running again. Of course I'm eagerly looking forward to watch the next video about this wrecker. I'm happy to see that Nana Catscan likes the vehicle too. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and especially health to all of you.
Hey Jonathan..pretty easy fix I'd say..i hate going behind other people's work when they do a half ass job..looks like it's all downhill from here can't wait to see it cleaned up..see you on the next one cheers 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hey Jonathan, It could be that they didn't know how to pull out the old pilot shaft bushing. I've seen guys use all kinds of stupid ways of trying to get them out including screwdrivers and pry bars. But not bolting the pressure plate in right just shows how good of a mechanic they really were, as you said. Good job - later
I took someone's advice and had to do the job twice. Wish I would have seen this video before. Nice front rack and I dig that airplane. Next will we see a steam powered air compressor for the tires? Good stuff Jonathan.
Well that was perfect timing. I finally got around to watching the first video about this truck and just as it ended, up popped this one. Great information and always. And it has been thoroughly cat scanned, so good to go! Thanks, and Meow to Ninja Catscan.
Shake Rattle and Roll until you got the clutch in right. I'm not sold on hydraulic clutches like that set up. Good thing those rear tires are only flat on the bottom. ColdWarMotors included you in the Great International Road Race. Thanks for playing along Jonathan. Both channels are top notch quality shows.
Vibration in drivetrain, esp work vehicles..IS WORTH INVESTIGATION... YOU diagnosed several issues and all were substandard...as usual.--youre the right man in the rught spot at the right time.. miss your triumph , falcon and motorcycle stuff....
Hi, Jonathan, It's good to see you hard at work, keeping the truck in shape, it's also great to see Nana is still on the job giving her Catscan approval on your work. God Bless and stay safe, and Meow to Ninja Catscan.
Most clutch kits now come with the needle roller piolet bearings, but the older input shafts are not hardened enough to use as a bearing surface. I always replace sinter bronze bushings with the same, also to bleed the older (1985 ish) slave cylinders I don't mount the cylinder and remove the bleeder and point it up and have someone slowly push the clutch in, then put your finger over the hole and let the clutch out. Basically bench bleeding it with the bleeder hole facing up and put the bleeder in and mount it and they bleed right out.
I have ran into input shafts that wear out quickly having the needle rollers running directly on the piolet surface. Since they used self oiling sinter bronze piolet bushings they didn't harden the older ones as much, as they never intended it to have hardened needle bearings running on it. I know people say they work and they do but for how long, the other issue I have ran into is the clutch safety switch, having all that clutch pressure on the thrust surface of the main while starting an engine without oil pressure built up yet, has never been a good idea. Since I only drive my trucks I bypass that safety feature to save on thrust wear, nothing worse than replacing a good crank because the end play is out of spec. Especially when most GM thrust bearings are not perfectly aligned and most of the thrust is only on half of the bearing shell.
Brought back memories. By the way, does you grandson still like the tractor you made for him a couple of years ago? I know kids sometimes lose interest quickly.
Yesterday. $7.95 Good straight talk. Giggles. Have yet to install a clutch, but I can build ya a clear grade oak staircase. I tremendously appreciate your path of thought. I can follow you for you keep it as simple as u can while while somehow endowing your knowledge gracefully. Thank you teacher.
Jonathan, I think my universal clutch spigot tool might even be older than yours. It is a Sykes Pickavant set bought from Brown Brothers in the UK and has a price label of 2 pounds (£) 5 shillings and sixpence. I think I bought it in 1969, to do the clutch on my Austin Healey 3000 BN7 Mk1.
18:14 - Wow! I would have *loved* to have been a "fly on the wall" when the decision was made to drill and put a nail through that fitting😮 Edit: I wonder if John Barleycorn had anything to do with it🤔
Your problems finding people to things right the first time, or machine shops to do what you want done is not limited to your neck of the woods, it's the same here in metro Atlanta. The truck is 30 years old, it's time to get a new one, in their mind
Good Job Jonathan and NaNa!!! Why do people Half A$$ their work, if you are going to the trouble of this Job, do it correctly or do not do it at all!!!
I have a trick to bleed those slave cylinders and get more pedal. I take a big adjustment wrench and push on clutch fork throw out bearing and have someone push on pedal after it is bled no air . You get extra 1 inch throw out of slave piston to get good pedal back.
This was a very informative video, very important information on a craft/skill that is pretty much gone in my area because the older mechanics are gone, everything now is electronic/automatic everything, thankyou for the video.
Sherlock-Holmes-level mechanical diagnosticating solves the problem: jack-leg mechanics doing everything wrong! Jonathan W solves the problem with NANA as his Watson. Looking forward to what the pressure-wash reveals, and the first run down the highway!
Reminds me of putting the newer model transmission in my 93 mustang Man I like to never got that pilot shaft bushing out Took me longer to switch that than it did the 4-speed
9:47 I put the clutch in a jeep once for my friend we put the clutch and the pressure plate in one weekend that's as much as we could get done we left the Jeeps it till the next weekend and the clutch had rusted itself to the flexplate we had to take it back apart to get it to break loose
Good morning 🍩 🌄 Johnathan Great gob diagnosing what they did wrong (& incorrectly ) 🤝 Don't feel bad . We can't find many machine shops in my neck of the woods either Very happy too see this tow truck in your collection ‼️ Probably the last generation of the good GM Trucks
We had a non-release issue on my dad's Jeep truck once. Replaced the clutch and it wouldn't release. Thought we might have put it in backwards. Upon disassembly we saw that the clutch disc had been made slightly too large and the pressure plate bolts grabbed the excess friction material and locked the disc in place. Ground a few hundredths of excess friction material off the outer circumference of the disc and reassembled and it worked fine.
Great info Jonathan. I'm glad you showed that Chevy grill guard because I have one too but never did know if it was a one off or accessory available back then. Good info all through this video plus what can happen when a "mechanic" doesn't give a 💩 about what they are doing.
Great job JW to bad you can't find the late eighties early nineteys Ford's with the straight axle front ends. We still run three of them. Awesome trucks.👍
17:51 you couldn't buy the plastic ones for that anymore. Of course those plastic ones are also included in any decent clutch kit; the Centerforce I bought for my 85 F150 a few months back had one in the box.
I replaced the clutch, pressure plate,release bearing, flywheel,pilot bearing and both slave and master cylinder on my 96 F150 4x4. I can vouch for the hydraulic clutch being hard to bleed but I eventually got all the air out.
Un believable, it is a good thing it stuck. It would destroyed, crank and trans shaft. It'll be a nice rig with the bed and hook swap. Since you're in the business another horse can't hurt.
Jonathan, that hood ornament is not '55 Chevy, possibly '54 Ford?? Again Jonathan, you could write a whole encyclopedia of mechanical information with everything you know! Golly!!!
Yeah , I kinda obsess over missin bolts too ... I always figured they wouldn't have put a bolt there if it wasn't needed . Manufacturers cut costs to the point of failure , without everything bolted as designed .
I got the same line up tool had it for years also and I have saved flywheel and pressure plate bolts for years ..p.s.try finding 292 Chevy 6 standard fly wheel bolts when u need them they not same as 350 ....enjoyed video thanks
It was wise to check things out even though it meant more work. Had you only gone part way you would have been taking it apart later. Really glad to see jack stands under the truck. I knew a guy who owned a junk yard and he had a habit of relying on the wrecker to hold up the vehicles he was working on. The cable slipped and he was killed. Very sad. I bought my first project car from him.
That jack you used for the transmission is actually a motorcycle jack i have a few of them excellent for pulling transmissions on the floor of the garage or whenever you don’t got a lift
You are one of very few channels I watch regularly. Most of them I Used to watch changed (not for the better) after they got lots of followers, yours hasn't. You have stayed consistent over the years I've been watching. Thanks!
he's a genuine dude, fame isnt gonna affect him
Thanks for making this video. You have proven. once again, that you have to check everything when you buy a used vehicle. Poor workmanship from previous owners is the norm, not the exception. Let this be a lesson to everyone.
You did exactly the right thing for the right reasons, and got it fixed . Now you have peace of mind that it is right.
If you don't know what you're doing you'll never get those hydraulic clutch systems on those trucks bled. It takes a power bleeder and some talent. Good job on the clutch. I've run across a bunch of half assed jobs like this, it always leaves me shaking my head. That's a sweet wrecker.
Best regards from Indiana.
I had never thought about a washer throwing balance off but in that assembly you are exactly correct
It definitely would!!!
Good common sense approach there, Jon. Some would have a new flywheel, pressure plate and clutch disk on order. But that stuff, in the real world will all go again and give good service. It's a neat looking bed with that Holmes gear on it. All the best, Mart in England.
I'm going to call you the Heavy Work Guy because most of what you tackle is heavy stuff! Cats are funny. Our cats at work have clean water everyday but they'd rather drink from a puddle.
We have always taken the trans out with the bell . That's a cool story on the grill guard. Thanks, Jonathan.
Central California watching.
Just watched the Stude video you shared with the CWM “rivals”. Obviously, they're humbly acknowledging the real winner. Thanks for all the hours of enjoyment and entertainment you give the world, your generosity even to us degenerate Canucks. And I like the name of your home town too!
Ironically their ineptitude is what saved things from ultimately getting torn up. Good stuff Jonathan.
6:45 - I like that transaction. Seems like no "reasonable" amount of "cash" would have made him happy to give up possession of that grille, but a "trade" for something of "real value" made both parties happy.
I know where all the original jigs are for those chevy grille guards are. My family built 150 of them a year for Chevy dealers from 1945 to around 1956 or 1957. They were mostly for ton and a half trucks there are a few out there for the pickups but they were mostly for ton and half trucks. Should be a stamping on it someplace that says NELSON. The design was from my great uncle who served during the WW2 and welded guards for army trucks he came back and made a few for a local chevy dealer and the dealer got them in the network. They were built in a small town in NY where the jigs sit in an old barn.
Wow, Thats great family history!!
I've spent way too much time going back and fixing work that someone else screwed up. I never fails to amaze me the way people try to shortcut or just be lazy. Those hydraulic clutches seem to always right a proper bleed. Great explanations and diagnostic work!
Always "interesting" to see how backyard mechanics respectively bungler do the work. 🙈 I'm glad that you could eliminate all the problems and that the old girl is running again. Of course I'm eagerly looking forward to watch the next video about this wrecker. I'm happy to see that Nana Catscan likes the vehicle too.
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and especially health to all of you.
You really know your stuff. Always a pleasure watching. Thanks Jonathan 👍🇺🇸
Hey Jonathan..pretty easy fix I'd say..i hate going behind other people's work when they do a half ass job..looks like it's all downhill from here can't wait to see it cleaned up..see you on the next one cheers 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hey Jonathan, It could be that they didn't know how to pull out the old pilot shaft bushing. I've seen guys use all kinds of stupid ways of trying to get them out including screwdrivers and pry bars. But not bolting the pressure plate in right just shows how good of a mechanic they really were, as you said. Good job - later
I took someone's advice and had to do the job twice.
Wish I would have seen this video before.
Nice front rack and I dig that airplane.
Next will we see a steam powered air compressor for the tires?
Good stuff Jonathan.
Congrats on the V8 race win Jonathan. 🤣👍💯
Well that was perfect timing. I finally got around to watching the first video about this truck and just as it ended, up popped this one.
Great information and always.
And it has been thoroughly cat scanned, so good to go!
Thanks, and Meow to Ninja Catscan.
Shake Rattle and Roll until you got the clutch in right. I'm not sold on hydraulic clutches like that set up.
Good thing those rear tires are only flat on the bottom.
ColdWarMotors included you in the Great International Road Race. Thanks for playing along Jonathan.
Both channels are top notch quality shows.
You oil pressure is between 45lbs to 7.42M lbs according to the gauge! I suppose that’s better than none. Nice work, thanks for taping!
It works nice... because its been fixed TWICE!! Glad you knew what you were looking at and it was an easy fix.
Thats weird because it takes me 3 times most of the time, LOL.
I did not know that about the bolt/size/missing/lock washer throwing the balance off - I'll remember that...thank you
Great video and great job fixing the clutch. I can’t wait to see how it cleans up with the pressure washer..
Just saw you on Cold War Motors, your Stude was looking good..Paul from Boone Co, WV
Another great repair. Thanks for showing us what to look for in a clutch.
you cram a lot of useful information into every video; gas or steam, cheers!
You sir, do FANTASTIC work. Definitely a great example to other to learn from.
You make such excellent videos. I enjoy your honesty and bluntness, along with the brilliant mechanical knowledge.
I put the plate in backwards in an Austin 1800. Being transverse engined, out came the engine again!
Great work! You are not afraid to tackle anything. I admire you.
Great to see Ninna again!
Very good, she moves! Always fun playing detective to see what was done before you got to it.
in UK, bad mechanics are called "cowboys"
by the look of this truck, there is plenty of cowboys in USA...
nice repair, should be spot-on now
It's a rare thing to see someone take the time an care to do something the right way now days
Vibration in drivetrain, esp work vehicles..IS WORTH INVESTIGATION... YOU diagnosed several issues and all were substandard...as usual.--youre the right man in the rught spot at the right time.. miss your triumph , falcon and motorcycle stuff....
You know what I'm thinking about 1957 IH 😢❤
I am up all night and up until 2pm
Hi, Jonathan, It's good to see you hard at work, keeping the truck in shape, it's also great to see Nana is still on the job giving her Catscan approval on your work. God Bless and stay safe, and Meow to Ninja Catscan.
Most clutch kits now come with the needle roller piolet bearings, but the older input shafts are not hardened enough to use as a bearing surface. I always replace sinter bronze bushings with the same, also to bleed the older (1985 ish) slave cylinders I don't mount the cylinder and remove the bleeder and point it up and have someone slowly push the clutch in, then put your finger over the hole and let the clutch out. Basically bench bleeding it with the bleeder hole facing up and put the bleeder in and mount it and they bleed right out.
I have ran into input shafts that wear out quickly having the needle rollers running directly on the piolet surface. Since they used self oiling sinter bronze piolet bushings they didn't harden the older ones as much, as they never intended it to have hardened needle bearings running on it. I know people say they work and they do but for how long, the other issue I have ran into is the clutch safety switch, having all that clutch pressure on the thrust surface of the main while starting an engine without oil pressure built up yet, has never been a good idea. Since I only drive my trucks I bypass that safety feature to save on thrust wear, nothing worse than replacing a good crank because the end play is out of spec. Especially when most GM thrust bearings are not perfectly aligned and most of the thrust is only on half of the bearing shell.
Brought back memories. By the way, does you grandson still like the tractor you made for him a couple of years ago? I know kids sometimes lose interest quickly.
Yesterday. $7.95 Good straight talk. Giggles. Have yet to install a clutch, but I can build ya a clear grade oak staircase. I tremendously appreciate your path of thought. I can follow you for you keep it as simple as u can while while somehow endowing your knowledge gracefully. Thank you teacher.
You can't even get a quart of oil for 7.95 anymore. Those were the days. Always love listening and watching u
Type F trans fluid was $10 a quart the other day! WTH
@@jonathanw4942 i hear u... ridiculous. I changed the fluid in my zf6 the other day 130$ insane
Jonathan, I think my universal clutch spigot tool might even be older than yours. It is a Sykes Pickavant set bought from Brown Brothers in the UK and has a price label of 2 pounds (£) 5 shillings and sixpence. I think I bought it in 1969, to do the clutch on my Austin Healey 3000 BN7 Mk1.
Nanna is looking healthy Jonathan.
18:14 - Wow! I would have *loved* to have been a "fly on the wall" when the decision was made to drill and put a nail through that fitting😮 Edit: I wonder if John Barleycorn had anything to do with it🤔
Another successful repair. Another vehicle ready to do your bidding Jonathan! Congratulations!
Yee haw another Jonathan w video is a great way to start a day.
Excellent work! And I always learn something. The job is not completed until Ninna inspects and approves.
the cat scan one liner at 2:19 made me fall out of my chair loll 😭😭😭
the hood ornament is from a mk1 ford zephyr which were made in england
Your problems finding people to things right the first time, or machine shops to do what you want done is not limited to your neck of the woods, it's the same here in metro Atlanta. The truck is 30 years old, it's time to get a new one, in their mind
Good Job Jonathan and NaNa!!! Why do people Half A$$ their work, if you are going to the trouble of this Job, do it correctly or do not do it at all!!!
When doing clutch work, it pays to be thorough. Things like the pilot bearing, the fasteners, bleeding the hydraulics, ....make all the difference.
I have a trick to bleed those slave cylinders and get more pedal.
I take a big adjustment wrench and push on clutch fork throw out bearing and have someone push on pedal after it is bled no air .
You get extra 1 inch throw out of slave piston to get good pedal back.
This was a very informative video, very important information on a craft/skill that is pretty much gone in my area because the older mechanics are gone, everything now is electronic/automatic everything, thankyou for the video.
That clutch job was bodged from the git go, good job of getting her straightened out. Watching from the central Sierras of Calif.
Sherlock-Holmes-level mechanical diagnosticating solves the problem: jack-leg mechanics doing everything wrong!
Jonathan W solves the problem with NANA as his Watson.
Looking forward to what the pressure-wash reveals, and the first run down the highway!
That's smart to do check everything out while under there I like a manual clutch myself.
Thxs Jonathan for showing the right way to do this, great video and info....
Love the Marlboro sign. I have a camel lights sign with an old cj3b Jeep and the guy carrying a tire. Never smoked but love the signs.
Reminds me of putting the newer model transmission in my 93 mustang
Man I like to never got that pilot shaft bushing out
Took me longer to switch that than it did the 4-speed
9:47 I put the clutch in a jeep once for my friend we put the clutch and the pressure plate in one weekend that's as much as we could get done we left the Jeeps it till the next weekend and the clutch had rusted itself to the flexplate we had to take it back apart to get it to break loose
Good morning 🍩 🌄
Johnathan
Great gob diagnosing what they did wrong (& incorrectly ) 🤝
Don't feel bad .
We can't find many machine shops in my neck of the woods either
Very happy too see this tow truck in your collection ‼️
Probably the last generation
of the good GM Trucks
Thanks for the video Jonathan.
We had a non-release issue on my dad's Jeep truck once. Replaced the clutch and it wouldn't release. Thought we might have put it in backwards. Upon disassembly we saw that the clutch disc had been made slightly too large and the pressure plate bolts grabbed the excess friction material and locked the disc in place. Ground a few hundredths of excess friction material off the outer circumference of the disc and reassembled and it worked fine.
Great info Jonathan. I'm glad you showed that Chevy grill guard because I have one too but never did know if it was a one off or accessory available back then. Good info all through this video plus what can happen when a "mechanic" doesn't give a 💩 about what they are doing.
Great job JW to bad you can't find the late eighties early nineteys Ford's with the straight axle front ends. We still run three of them. Awesome trucks.👍
17:51 you couldn't buy the plastic ones for that anymore. Of course those plastic ones are also included in any decent clutch kit; the Centerforce I bought for my 85 F150 a few months back had one in the box.
I replaced the clutch, pressure plate,release bearing, flywheel,pilot bearing and both slave and master cylinder on my 96 F150 4x4. I can vouch for the hydraulic clutch being hard to bleed but I eventually got all the air out.
Un believable, it is a good thing it stuck. It would destroyed, crank and trans shaft.
It'll be a nice rig with the bed and hook swap. Since you're in the business another horse can't hurt.
Johnathan, you might have made a great auto shop teacher back when .
Jonathan, that hood ornament is not '55 Chevy, possibly '54 Ford?? Again Jonathan, you could write a whole encyclopedia of mechanical information with everything you know! Golly!!!
Yeah , I kinda obsess over missin bolts too ... I always figured they wouldn't have put a bolt there if it wasn't needed . Manufacturers cut costs to the point of failure , without everything bolted as designed .
I got the same line up tool had it for years also and I have saved flywheel and pressure plate bolts for years ..p.s.try finding 292 Chevy 6 standard fly wheel bolts when u need them they not same as 350 ....enjoyed video thanks
Great information and tutorial for a guy with two classic cars with manual transmissions.....(3 speed '56 Chevrolet and '63 Avanti.)
Outstanding job Jonathan!
My s10 was the same way. The pilot bushing was way too big when i took it apart. I personally had put like 20,000 miles with it that way. Lol
Glad you got to it to shift …
Nicely done!!!
Awesome always cool stuff always thanks 😎
Good to see more of this one
Jonathan W: Fixing the flubs of others since forever 👍
You are an amazing mechanic.
Cool old truck!
Another successful fix . Good job. Thanks for sharing.
Informative video. Thank you.
Good job 👍
It was wise to check things out even though it meant more work. Had you only gone part way you would have been taking it apart later. Really glad to see jack stands under the truck. I knew a guy who owned a junk yard and he had a habit of relying on the wrecker to hold up the vehicles he was working on. The cable slipped and he was killed. Very sad. I bought my first project car from him.
Good job! 🙂
SCORE. A running wrecker. Money Maker.
Rance here, one word EXCELLENT!
That jack you used for the transmission is actually a motorcycle jack i have a few of them excellent for pulling transmissions on the floor of the garage or whenever you don’t got a lift
Nice job Jonathan
Nice job
Great video as always and very informative.I wish i had your knowledge and abilities,Thanks for sharing Jonathan ..stay safe.
The first time I did a clutch I ended up using a broom handle, I was 17 and the clutch didn't come with anything, seemed to work well enough
I have the same clutch alignment tool, newer, but i like my collection of old trans input shafts better.
Loved the video that you sent to Cold War Motors
Thanks Straight Ahead ✌😎