Chevy C10 Forgotten for 11 Years - Will it Run and Drive 700..........Feet?
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- A viewer brought me this 1981 Chevy C10. He wants to get it running and driving for his son. The only problem? It's been sitting for 11 years. Can we save it?
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Walnuts roasting on a 305. Wes is pondering a fire, but before she can go, the wheels, they must roll, so get a hammer, the air hammer, get the hammer and she’ll go…. 🎼🎹🎄🤣😂🤣
I have a 86' Chevy 3/4 ton Scottsdale/camper special. 350/350. She's got 135,000 rounds on her, she's just getting broke in. It's my daily up here in Northern Minnesota. I still have the original camper that it had on it brand new. Runs great, starting to get some 'weight reduction'..lol most dependable truck I've ever owned, and I'm 62! I love Dems ol' Chevy trucks! Thanks for the video Wes, they are always appreciated!
Up here in Canada, I haven't seen a 305 without a few walnuts roasted on the intake. Almost a factory option!
@@paulcooper2897 up here in Canada I haven’t seen a truck that clean that wasn’t restored in a very long time. Lol we got nothing but rusted out junk where I am…. So sad
Those pickups are the best we ever owned by GM, Ford or dodge. We have 6 of them on the farm.
I absolutely love the old Chevrolet/GMC square body trucks!!!! ❤️❤️. Want to have to a restored one some day.
In 1981 Chevrolet and GMC introduced "Electronic Spark Control" or ESC which was also on a tailgate emblem. As far as I know this was their first knock detection system. There was a knock sensor in a freeze plug hole, and there was a module that monitored this knock sensor, and when detonation was detected, it would retard the timing. It allowed them to run the timing as high as possible for maximum economy, but protected the engine from detonation. I sold these trucks, and I would demonstrate this feature-- with the hood open, engine at idle I would tap on the exhaust manifold, and the engine would slow down because the timing was being retarded. Stop tapping-- and the engine would speed back up.
I have an 82 that I daily drive, all factory (except emissions) it has this feature but I don't know if it is still functional. I'll have to test it.
@BL Dontmatter it does not, there is a 4 wire plug that has no where to go, I suspect the distributor must have been replaced before I got it.
Awesome!!
Wes....this is a wonderful resto opportunity!!! Not a full one but a functional one!!!
I hope to see more of this truck!!!!
Agreed, this is one I'd enjoy seeing more of too. Always loved this body style since first seeing a black K5 6.2 Diesel my early teens (I live in the uk, so not the most common lol). Definitely one on the bucket list if I ever can afford one, ideally '81 4x4 Blazer in black/black and definitely diesel, maybe turbodiesel and ideally manual. Either stripper spec or top end, highly unlikely though lol sorry for going that far off the point I'll get my coat and take my tangent with me now.
Would love to see you restore this beautiful truck!
Moar pls
@@danmackintosh6325 😂👍
The face your missus pulls getting in the truck is priceless.
I think you flooded it when it wouldn’t start. My experience with a SB Chevy and a Q-jet is that other than a cold start, never touch the accelerator. They are easy to flood.
Yep. It only started after he held the throttle open *while cranking*. Plus the “I smell gas…” comment. Classic case of “stop pumping the throttle, man, you’ve flooded it and you’re just making it worse!”
Had an awful old 4350 carb on my Lincoln for a bit, which rightfully earned the nickname “old faithful.” It had a float that was fond of randomly staying sunk, occasionally even when driving. I’d get to a stoplight, hear the engine load up as raw fuel poured down the intake, and it would inevitably flood out. After un-sticking the float, the only way to get it running again was a lot of cranking at WOT - it would first fire on one cylinder, then two, and eventually the rest would chime in. Just like with that truck.
@@dphoenix1 Yep, plus he was pumping the crap out of it when the choke butterfly was closed. I was yelling at the screen stop pumping it the choke is closed. He wasn't listening. And yes it only started when he held it to the floor but as soon as it got a few times he started pumping again.
@@dphoenix1 up in canada pump twice and hold to the floor start outside at -30 mine never failed me in 15 yrs and over 400000kls
That goes for all carbs. Only one step on the gas for that initial spray and then leave it
I was watching that like, "bro, stoooooop!"
Quadrajets are a good carb. Easy to work on and tune, with a little study. Have the original one in my 69 Corvette. Yep, 52 years old. Still works fine. No goofy plastic diaphragms to go bad. Give 'em a chance. Many many hotrodders luv 'em!
Never had any trouble with them. Don't know what the hate is about.
Quadrajets in my Oldsmobiles growing up were great. Good fuel economy for the size car. Never bogged. Nothing beats pushing the accelerator a little harder, moving into the left lane, and hearing the giant secondaries open up and smoothly add power.
Yes and super forgiving as the miles add up and things wear out, they still run pretty well. We had an 84 lesabre with the olds 307 and quadra jet. Got 24 mpg on a trip to florida.
🎶Oh, rust and smoke, the heater’s broke, the door just blew away. I light a match to see the dash and then I start to pray-ay. The frame is bent, the muffler went, the radio it’s OK. Oh what fun it is to drive the Rusty Chevrolet 🎶 ( from Da Youpers)
Sitting for 11 years, sounds like some of my work shy colleagues.
Poor maligned Q-jet. I guarantee if that was a Holley after 11 years she’d be puking fuel all over from the bowl gaskets if the floats weren’t bound up. If you properly got the secondary wind up set up correct the typical Quadra-bog complaint would be gone. Quite easy to tune also. Hated hollys in the marine environment because of off season lay up all kinds of start up issues in the spring.
Yes sllow the drop you have a machine
Qjet is fine. Its just hard to find one working correctly. Had a qjet on a 72 c20 and it was a dog, after changing the jets it worked very well
I had a similar situation with some pine needles and stuff once. I grabbed the shop vac and vacuumed it all up. Turns out there was a couple of embers in what I vacuumed up and I ended up catching my vacuum cleaner on fire. Pretty exciting day.
Can't get enough of this Wes! Really enjoyed seeing her come back to life, even if only on 7. 💯
Nice to see Mrs Wes helping out.
Hufflepuff towing
You can tell it's winter, Wes has a plow truck in the yard...lol
Fun fact:
Back in the day, the rear bumper was an option on these GMC & Chevy pickups. If you lived in a state that didn’t require a bumper, you could order one without it. In a state like mine (N.J.) where a back bumper was required, you had to pay an additional $150.00 or so for one to be installed and shipped to the dealership.
Thanks for bringing that up. I remember somebody buying one new around here with no rear bumper now that you mention it.
Love the attitude of the pickup - "I don't wanna go!" , while the driver's rear tire protesting loudly - locked up tight.
In 80 you could still get the round headlights. It was the V22 RPO code option that gave you the big square ones. In 81 the base headlights were single big square headlights and the V22 RPO option was changed to offer the quad smaller vertically stacked headlights. I believe that was also available on all trim levels not just Silverado. And i believe in either 88, 89, or 90 on the 1 tons and suburbans that V22 RPO code got you the quad horizontally mounted headlights. The grills changed every few years as well. 81-82 were the same, 83-84 were the same. 85-87 were the same, etc. I love the old squarebodies. I've got 3. a 79 K10, 86 C20, and an 86 K20 suburban 4-spd.
And desite the little year over year differences most of the stuff will interchange without much fuss. in the 80's they moved the windshield wiper controls from the dash to the steering column, 81+ the cowl vents are in the cowl rather than being part of the hood, etc. But you can pretty much change the door panels around, etc. And the front clip swaps are pretty common especially for guys wanting those 91 style headlights, etc. Great trucks. Like i said, love them!
- Pedantic A-Hole.
81-82 were the only years with the directional lights in the front bumper 83 and after had them in the grill no matter the headlight configuration. Early 80 and late 80 was a mid year split when the front clip changed, front fenders, hood/cowl, grilles changed from the round 70’s to the square 80’s
Nice details!
You have so much stuff, which leads me to believe you have more 10mm sockets than anyone on the planet. You have probably also lost more 10mm sockets than anyone on the planet. Wes, the legendary tool man, successor to Tim.
Wes could save the world with a big enough air hammer
Thats the best sounding engine of all the "sitting since Noah" vehicles I've heard on this channel....very cool
You're finally working on my era. Was cool to see the engine compartment of that truck. I haven't seen one since 81 when I left the repair business minus a small stint in the mid 90's. Most people back then were afraid of Quadrajets but I found them to be easy considering I worked on many hundreds of them and 2 GC's etc. Once again, GREAT video and THANK YOU for the time you put into them. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and the family.
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Certainly an interesting one. You’re collecting some interesting stuff at your place. I’m stunned it has a cab let alone a cab floor! Look forward to seeing a bit more of this one.
Its always a pleasure to have two amazing youtubers in the same video.. hell yeah 😎
My first thought was "Hey, the horn works. You're halfway there". :)
Maybe it's me, but lovely assistant seemed cold and unhappy. You owe her big time for this one, Wes. 😁
Mortske = walking square-body encyclopedia, impressive.
Shoot, I only know a fraction of the stuff!
That era sbc was designed to run fine on 6-7 cylinders, since the cam was usually missing at least a couple lobes by 75K
Anything over 6 is just extra, right? Cylinder de-activation or something? Wes, Derek did a low buck spruce up of his 80 last winter. He even painted the door panels. Said some crazy stuff about selling it, but if you know Derek.....
lol...I changed so many then. Mr Softee metal then.
It's even worse now that there's no zinc in any oil anymore.
@@JuiceSpringsteen88 roller cams I got 300k on 4.3 vortec runs like new.
380k on 6.0 chevy LS perfect . All fleet trucks I run any good 5w30 oils with STP always.
Now they rust out before wear out.
Or trans blow up . Still cheaper than a new $60 truck insane expensive I keep older trucks pre 2008 GM in fleet.
@@MitzvosGolem1 Oh, no doubt! Roller cams don't need the zinc, but the older flat tappet cams definitely appreciate it! I recently replaced the failed engine in my 1985 K20 with an L31 Vortec crate engine from GM specifically so that I would have a roller cam!
"Well, I kicked the tires and I got in the seat and set on a petrified apple core and found a bunch of field mice livin' in the glove compartment. He says, "Her shaft is bent and her rear end leaks, you can fix her quick with an oily rag. Use a nail as a starter; I lost the key. Don't pay no mind to that whirrin' sound. She use a little oil, but outside a' that, she's cherry." C.W. McCall / Classifed
Was the dog's name Frank?
At 23:23 "Walnuts roasting on a 305...Chipmunks chewing on the hose...all though it's been said many times many ways Merry Christmas to you", fade out with jingle bells. Great video Wes thumbs up.
Yep had a couple of those square body Chevy's, those was always fun to work on. Even had one that was a C-10 Diesel that had an inline 6 stuck in it, with hydro boost that was Jerry rigged up so the power steering would drive the hydro boost on that inline six. I like what Mortske said about the square body chevy's, and he was pretty accurate on the info. Think the one thing he missed, was that some of those square body Chevy's had a one piece drive shaft, and others had a two piece drive shaft. I eventually pulled the inline 6, and stuck a 305 in it after the inline 6 threw a rod through the block. And a gasoline conversion was common with the C-10 diesels, as they had a Chevy 350 converted diesel in that that was just junk. The other thing I remember, was I got a $1,000 dollar rebate certificate to use on the purchase of a new truck because I had 2 of those square body Chevy's, due to the outside gas tanks rupturing on those trucks in an accident.
350 diesel was made by Oldsmobile, and was NOT a converted gas engine
Oh Yeah . Bring it on Wes and Thanks for all your hard work in filming and editing.
Speaking of choke... I think I'll open the door!
I had to 😆 LOL! Thanks Wes, I needed that.
Good to see Mortske giving some free advice 😂🤣 I bet he would kill for that lift 😁
Good ish bones. She's trying to come back to life... and good find. Treat to see a couple of my favorite shop guys. Ole Mortske is a good dude for sure.
Thanks Steve!
love your videos my dude, thanks for doing what you do
My uncle had an 83 GMC Sierra 2500 I was gonna buy as a project, but I was advised I may not be able to find certain parts for it. So I passed on it. Then a week after he sold it to someone who pulled the engine, transmission, then scrapped the body. I discovered LMC truck magazine, I kicked myself after that. The Sierra was 2WD with a 350 V8, and had duel fuel tanks
“We’ll break that later” 😂. Yup, gotta love the 30 year old plastic bits.
More like 40
Fun to see you working on some older stuff. Can't wait to see how it acts on the road!
I will be watching this repair with great enthusiasm. I am contemplating restoring my 1984 Chevy C20, and every little tidbit of info you record is a gift for me. Thanks!!!
I loved helping my Dad working on drum brakes I was the tool man and the nasty grease guy then he taught me to pack wheel earrings man I was a drum break mechanic at 10 years old. I wish I could set down under a old Oak tree with him one more time.. People would come for miles for him to work on their cars and Trucks. He had the touch from T-model Ford , to Detroit muscle. He was a wizard with a four barrel carburetor.. lord I miss him
It's always nice to find a survivor. My Volvo T22 from 1949 is a survivor.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series 👍
Great film Wes, thanks for taking the time to share. Looking forward to more on the Chevy! 🖖👍👊
What a sweetheart indeed. A little work and it will make a nice little going to town rig.
Wes laughing like a French villain when it popped off made my day
What a classic channel I love the humor however subtle fantastic job Wes keep it up and thanks for sharing
Mortske on a cameo... good stuff been watching him for sometime he's a nut. Love his channel, duff dogs the best!. Thanks for helping him not lose the shop! Oh and send any used starters his way, he collects them! We had many square bodies back in the day when my family ran a boat manufacturing company. Most of them dually's, bb 454 th400 with the occasional 350/350. Rebuilt a many in the shop. back half's a little chewy, pretty decent truck though much life left. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks much for the kind words Robert! And send me any good used starter motors you may have!
@@MortskeRepair You got the GM "worthless knowledge" exactly right
Loved it, super excited for this series, hopefully more then just a couple videos! Thanks for sharing Wes
A little tip from someone that grew up with carbed vehicles, if it doesn't start right away don't pump the gas continously , just floor it and crank until it starts, you just keep flooding it by doing so.
As seen in my avatar I am a happy owner of an 84 c30. Back then, 8500lb GVW and up, no emissions. My truck was built with the heavy spec package, 10,500 gvw, bigger, thicker frame, doubled under the cab, 500lb overloads, M code 350 and rumor has it that meant a forged crank. Also no cats/air pump and dual exhaust. All the info is confirmed in some GM cab and chassis literature I have. Simple is always better. 40 years from now, cars today will not be this easy to revive
So true about the current cars in 40 years.
So much for a carburetor that was considered “quadrajunk” ,I’ll take this over this OBDIi garbage, not bad for 40 sitting still for 11, I miss my 85 Scottsdale 305 4bbl 350 turbo 350 transmission, good truck
Man, that radiator clamp brings back nightmares. I had an '88 Tempo that was overheating and losing coolant. I took it to a Ford dealership to get it repaired, and $980 later, the problem wasn't fixed. I didn't know anything about cars at the time, but I raised the hood and eventually discovered that the clamp on the lower radiator hose had corroded away (the car came from Chicago). After getting screwed that badly, I went and got a job at AutoZone, and started teaching myself about cars. I'm far from an expert, but I have about 20 revivals under my belt now. Cars are my passion. I love being under the hood.
One of the best things you can do for yourself is find and frequent one of those self-serve junkyards. Take your tools, pay the admission, and go have yourself a field day. Unless you're looking for something a bit on the stranger side (I keep my eyes out for French stuff, Citroens in particular), you're bound to find something similar to tear down and learn on.
@@billh230 Go there and buy a part you need. Tail light, trim piece, whatever. Fill your pockets with globes, nuts, bolts, clamps, etc. And use the junk car to practice on.
How do I remove the power steering pump (or whatever you aren't sure about)? If you risk damaging something by using the wrong/improper technique, practice on their car first.
Mortski repair is a Awesome Channel Great Guy will always try to help Even when he is busy @Watch Wes Work
Definitely one of the best platforms to build on or customize, the aftermarket with parts availability is definitely through the roof.
My two favorite you tubers!!! Wow this is amazing. Keep up the good content Wes greetings from PuertoRico.
Looks like a fun project, Wes. Looking forward to it!
That was pretty cool you featuring Mortske, he’s a sharp guy. It was great how you guys called out the comment section.
Thanks much Steven!
Hey Wes! I have an 84 k10 diesel I've had for 20 years. Fixed everything on it when I was younger. Been sitting 4 years now, off the road for 14. Hopefully my winter project this year. Good luck! Ps haven't put air in the tires in 10 years Good year wranglers. On the truck since 1992
My dad bought a set of conti-tracs back in 2000 for his work truck, scrapped the truck a few years ago and gave the tires to my buddy. I don’t they’ve ever had air put in them either haha and never had enough miles out on them to wear them out
I love both your channel and Mortske's channel. Please keep the good content coming. Thanks!
Much appreciated for the kind words Craig!
Wes, Mortske, VGG and Halfass Kustoms...boom...there you go.
the Mount Rushmore of old junk
Merry Christmas to you Wes and your family. Thanks for all the great content.
Thanks Wes! Now i am inspired to get my 1980 C30 SRW 2WD Silverado going again. She’s been parked for about 7 years, so will need some coaxing. She has dual tanks, air bags and Doug Thorley headers. 454 crate engine only has about 20k miles and the speedometer shows 180k. Lots of people have offered to buy the truck, but no way would I sell. C30 non dually is kind of rare for 1980. I will be very interested to watch you work on your Scottsdale.
@BL Dontmatter I am blessed to live in the south where rust is not a significant issue.
Don’t make em like that anymore, love it!, that engine is sweet after 11years, great project👍🇮🇪
Another great vid and awesome content. Thanks for sharing!!
Wes love seeing you bring back old vehicles! Awesome video! 👍👍👍
Great video!! Old school vehicles last, newer does not.. Should look into those Holley Sniper EFI carbs. They're pretty neat!
You know that you have a GREAT channel when I hit the thumbs-up button even before the video starts. Keep up the excellent work and merry Christmas.
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Amen, love his channel!
Hi Wes , I love the truck !
Hope to see many more Videos on it 👍👍👍
My first truck was a 1981 square body I had so much fun in that truck. Until I hit a traffic light pole doing bout 75 i was 17 at the time. The tow truck driver that came to get the truck told my dad that If I was driving my mom's 2000 Silverado that he would of more than likely be planning my funeral. I will definitely own another square body one day.
Nice to listen to the conversation with you and Motzkie...lookin forward to the rest of this project...good luck ..
Thanks for suffering through hearing me on this channel!
The main reason that Chevy wasn’t completely turned to rust was because it had Scottsdale on the side. Any vehicle associated with the Southwest doesn’t rust - we all know that! Boy, Mortske has all those individual model details down cold!
There's a lot more I'd like to know.
Fun to see you working on some older stuff!
As you were working with that shop vac all I could think of was that song, " Chestnuts roasting on an open fire....."
Love working on the older Chevys finally had to trash my 98.The frame rotted in half but it had over 350 thousand original miles on the old girl ,keep up the great work Wes, love your videos
So do we😄🤗
I grease and oil all my frames and underbodies. Only way to protect my investment. Just did an oil change on 6.5 diesel and sprayed all 7 quarts of the used on the underside.
@BL Dontmatter thank you, I try to convince everyone. A lot of the responses I get are “but then it’d be dirty and I’d get dirty working on it” haha I tell ‘em well then pressure wash the area you are working on and the reapply the oil.
I didn’t pay all kinds of money for a used duramax in excellent condition to watch it rust away
Mortske is a good dude, and very entertaining. Just like you.
Wes is an even better dude for letting me participate in his shenanigans!
Another great project anxious for the next episode. Merry Christmas to you. Mrs. Wes and little wes and super max wishing all many blessings in the new year
👍👌👏 Great to see you having a nice project. I definitely always enjoy your projects with several video parts.
I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas time and a happy new year.
Best regards luck and health to all of you (including Max of course).
Such a beautiful sky at 02:20!
And i think the handbrake is stuck on 😆
Thanks Wes! Looking forward to this.
Erm... Aren't those V8s eminently tuneable? You've got all that space under the bonnet.
Do you know how many CCs? It sounded smoother when you got that eighth cylinder working.
I know you probably did it off camera but how's the gearbox oil looking?
In the UK it'd be a boring 2 litre turbo diesel straight 4 or 6 if you're lucky.
But i love that cute little V8. Lots of potential!
If its a 305 it will probaby need a camshaft, the 80s Chevy V8s were well known for developing a miss and you could just pull the valve covers to see which valves actually moved. The fuel tank issues were often the valve that connected tank to the fuel pump.
That is a super clean bed and tail gate for the age and Location it lives in impressive not bad on the interior @Watch Wes Work
Good to see the channel bringing a little business in. Stay warm and safe, brother!
Sweet rig Wes. I bought an 86 f150 xlt lariat with the 302 a couple years ago. 45000 miles. Has a six digit odometer so it’s not rolled over. It is a Canadian truck and has NO RUST AT ALL. It must have never been winter driven. Got it for $2300. Steal of a deal. Still have it. She’s just an old sweet heart. Love the old school trucks. Cool find. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@BL Dontmatter I don’t do hillbilly shit like that lol. I use the real deal. Fluid film. Best of the best. Check the stuff out.
Drove pickups from before the time i could legally drive on the road. Farms, helper jobs, etc... The first pickup I bought was a (used) 1981 F150 with the I6. I wish I still had that in some ways. Plain, simple easy to work on. It didn't even have A/C. AM only radio and 1 speaker in the center top of the dash. But alas, living the CT, the super corrosive shit that seems worse than salt the state puts down to melt ice took my truck away from me. 1 steel molecule at a time. The only thing I didn't like was the POS 4 speed manual transmission, and the 2.73:1 rear end. I would have changed both, and probably still be driving it today. I think the transmission was called a SROD, or Single Rail Overdrive.
Is ur name Gilbert?
@@hillbillypeakgarage6797 Nope, not me.
Man wes I love these trucks I so hope you go through this bad boy. It doesn't need to be perfect but just the love it deserves to get her sea worthy again.
Made for a great video bro, look forward to updates on this project. Safe travels
A proper motor, a little motor to go to work in, almost a computer free zone. If there is not anything serious wrong with the engine it could trundle about for years !
"Darn kids, it's like they are walking biological wepons" hahahah, I couldn't stop laughing for an hour over that!!! Havnt laughed that hard in a long time.. 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂, this hit home for me cause the kids are allways bringing some kind of sickness home to me.. lmao.. thanks for the laugh Wes.!!
You know. My wife makes those same faces when I ask her to help me in the shop. Must be a teacher thing🤣
What a cool truck ,great project looking forward to see the final result,
Love the project truck! Looking forward to seeing it all come together... my daughter and I are looking for a project truck someday ... Love the square body GM trucks. As always great content keep up the great work! Great bonus footage with mortske great channel... "slingshot engaged"!
Thanks much for watching me ruin this video Mike!
@Mortske Repair haha no way bud lots of great info... love your projects...you have some nice trucks!!
@@MortskeRepair going to check out your channel. 👍
@@scotthicks8338 Much appreciated Scott!
@@mikejohnson3685 Thanks much!
Eh, small block Chevys always start. Great truck Wes, I hope it's yours. It may not be your cup of tea but Chevy nuts are kinda like John Deere nuts and they'll give you way too much money for a good old survivor. You think there's room in there with that engine? Find one with a six banger in it. Great video, thanks.
Best regards from Indiana.
My first truck was a Scottsdale with 4H/4L and 2H. Loved it! I went everywhere I wanted to go. Grew up in Crystal Lake, IL so it saw plenty of snow. Good truck
Great video! Remember old Chevys never die, they only look that way!
Maybe we should just drop off our Town Car including the long list of stuff to fix too? Who wants Wes fight our 88 LTC, it got some tricky stuff to fix like the digital dash, and it was to several other shops with a now smoked AOD tranny thanks to one of them....
Labor charge; Miscellaneous:
Regraveling parking lot:$75
Hufflepuff nuscience fee$25
Wes. Thank you for this video. Really needed something to get my mind off some things and this was perfect. Might sound silly, but it's true.
So amazed on the knowledge he has amazing work my friend
Hi, watching this from Europe makes me wonder: Do you keep / repair those rigs out of nostalgia, or is it still cheaper to fix it than to buy new? Over here, none of these rigs would survive 100m on the road before being pulled out immediately for "imminent danger". Makes me wonder...our "used" cars that get sold to south east Europe look much better than that ;)
Thanks for your videos, these keep me sane during our lockdowns and reopenings and lockdowns...
A lot of places in the USA have no inspections for vehicles and yes currently it is much cheaper to fix anything you can get parts for. New vehicles especially trucks are very expensive now.
That one is probably going to be a “farm truck”. Hope all your lockdowns end soon.
It depends on the particular state's regulations. Wes is from Illinois (as am I). Illinois used to require yearly light truck inspections, but haven't for many years. The state doesn't require any inspections at all for light vehicles, which means (combined with the high cost of living in IL) that old vehicles often get used way past their expiration. Some towns in Illinois do require emissions inspections. A lot of the damage you see on Wes' channel comes from the use of road salt in winter. Some states/municipalities use it, some don't. As a boy, I remember that Illinois used very little of it- salt was expensive, and drivers here were expected to use snow tires and common sense in the winter. Now, they literally salt the roads (at least the Interstates) if snow is even "possibly expected"- regardless of whether it's actually snowing or not. Seen it happen, many times.
Other states are more stringent about inspections, just depends on where you live.
So far as nostalgia goes, as you're probably aware, there is a great interest in classic cars and trucks, but most of them are restored and babied, and not generally daily drivers- certainly not in winter.
@@YeahJustMe so in the UK we have an annual safety check for vehicles between 3 and 40 years old (if the latter have been re-registered as ‘historic’ I think) but our vehicles are usually under sealed at the factory - I understand that’s not always the case over there and many rust before their time, is that true? We salt our roads here too but winters are nowhere near as severe here, nowadays anyway. They were often fairly snowy in winter up until the 70s.
@@sprint955st So far as understanding or undercoating: as usual, it depends. Sometimes it's a factory option. Dealers ALWAYS try to upsell it as a dealer-installed option. My personal opinion of it is that in general it doesn't work well unless it's done on a new or almost new car, the surfaces are thoroughly cleaned first, and the installer is conscientious.
Newer vehicles tend to have better materials used (though not always) and seem to last a bit longer IMHO. Stuff from the '70s and '80s sometimes started to rust before they left the lot. Newer cars tend to have specific issues, for example Chevrolet and GMC trucks have well documented problems with rotted brake lines after only a few years. Which isn't to say that other brands don't have rust issues too.
Salt or other snow-melting chemicals are a big issue in the Midwest and Northeast here, but definitely not the only causes. My mother inherited a car from her father that had lived for about 7 years in Florida. Eventually it had to be scrapped not because of road salt but because of the Florida environment; the body was perfect but the suspension components and frame looked like Swiss cheese from rust.
As a final note- older cars tended to be scrapped after 100k miles or so, generally because the engines wore out and/or the electrical systems went bad. With the widespread introduction of the automatic overdrive and fuel injection/ computer controls, engines tend to last 200k miles with ease and often much more; it follows that car bodies would seem to be rusting more commonly when in reality they are being asked to last much longer than they once were. My two cents, anyway.
Germany's junk cars end up in Poland or CR
23:27 CAUTION: When thermostat/temperature light illuminates OR you detect an odor like the last time your wife tried to bake, this indicates your engine is overheating. Immediately pull over and turn off the vehicle.
Really ?
Max the good old shop dog Keeping the grounds safe from rodents and The family safe always putting in his opinion and to adorable @Watch Wes Work
I love these "Will it run and drive" type videos