2CV: Danger to the manifold Part 1
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- My 2CV blew a hole in the exhaust, but not where I expected... Follow me as I lose tools, drop nuts and generally ponder my hopelessness. If you think this one is bad, wait for Part 2...
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0:00 Introduction
2:55 Remove front wings
3:05 Remove exhaust manifold
21:40 Outro
Don't forget to like the video if you like it, and share with your friends if you really like it! Thank you all. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Be kind to yourself Ian, you may lack professionalism, proper tools and planning, your strength is your ability to be vulnerable, you share. This is what sets your channel apart from others. Keep on HubNutting and tea drinking in 2021. 😊
Also, I have a huge connection with the idea of spending more time looking for things than doing the job.
Love this comment Robert ... So well balanced
I'd also add that Ians road test of the new electric Ami was one of the best pieces of you tube journalism I have watched and listened to for some time. It was professional and to the point and got straight to the essence of the machine. Congratulations Ian and have a good rest over Christmas.
That’s why I love Ian’s channel. He’s not afraid of failure, which I think is a great quality in itself but his channel is warts and all. No making out it’s all perfect and dandy, we are exposed to everything.
I really love the less 'polished' hubnut way of doing things because I watch and I can convince myself I could try this myself where more glitzy shows are a little more intimidating!
Exactly this is why the HubNut channel works.
You can try it. It's just industrial lego and as long as you have some kind of process you follow it really helps in the beginning. Same as the process of laying everything out before you start cooking so that you know you have everything. (Ians process is to do away with much of the process though and thats entertaining).
@@volvo480 and he is so honest with it , really should have his own tv channel . .
Exactly this is real life, warts & all. The real world, which is what Ian is all about👍
@@rimmersbryggeri agreed. I have a mk3 XR3 and do all my own work. Sometimes I fail, sometimes i have success. It’s all about taking your time and being methodical.
I did an engine/gearbox change on my Dyane in the street in Headingley in October 1977. I converted it from 435 to 602. I had hoped just to change the engine, but for some reason the 602 engine didn't match the 435 gearbox, so I obtained a 2 cv gearbox from a Scrap yard in Rotherham. Then I found the brake pipes on the new gearbox didn't match the old pipework so I had to drill out the 4 way (or was it three way) junction fitting to get it to work. It worked and the car was much improved with the extra HP and torque.
You are just a hero, specially changing motor / gear box of a Dyane who is less practical - and in the street ! I swapped a 602 cc for a 425cc with centrifugal clutch and gearbox in a bitter cold windblown shed and at the end of the evening...the gimball transmission shafts did not match ! I had to WALK away... welcome to the club !
This is why your channel is so good, I think most of us who tinker in garages, sheds and on driveways are just winging it. Struggling without the correct tools, stripped threads and cold concrete are what many of us contend with and it's what makes your endevours so relatable.
Agreed Paul. I do all own work on my MK3 XR3 and sometimes I fail, so sometimes I have success. It’s all about that can do attitude and taking your time.
@@matty6848 ...And the satisfaction of doing it yourself makes all the pain worth it. Probably...
@@paulbennell3313 agreed Paul I changed the springs on my XR3 just before Christmas bitch of a job lying on the floor in a cold garage but saved me a small fortune and I was well chuffed with myself lol. Just waiting for them to bed in now before I take her for a run🚗🙂
@@matty6848 Ooh, McPherson struts, scary job! Nice one, well done! I did that job on the front end of a mk4 Cortina once. Felt like I was defusing a bomb when I was winding down the pressure on the spring compressor!
@@paulbennell3313 cheers Paul. Yes I was the same. Luckily I had some help from a mate but my fingers & thumbs were shaking like. Leaf🤣
This is how 90% of us get by.just relax and go with the flow.Happy Christmas to you all and a happier new year for us all.🤗
You’re not rubbish, you’re one of us!
Agreed. This is real life, where failure is a part of life.
Unexpectedly varying bolt sizes reminds me that Ettore Bugatti (not a name often heard in HubNut circles) made his fasteners in odd sizes so that customers would have to get replacements from him.
And also French.
6:56
nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.
I think we’re all guilty of that Ben😂
Small hole in the manifold is somewhat of an understatement! ;-) And the extravagance of a spare manifold when clearly a baked bean tin (washed or unwashed) and some wire would have sufficed! Happy Christmas to you and the rest of the HubNuts when it arrives.
Aluminum (aluminium) Coke can and worm clamps ... and a little epoxy
Considering the mild mayhem with tools, parts and fixings randomly strewn across the constricted floor space in the gloom, working to to a constant philosophical commentary, fitting the wrong manifold was sadly, a foregone conclusion!
But....that’s what’s so endearing about this channel! 🇦🇺
Don't change Ian, your style is what makes you so watchable. I find you to be very much like James May in that regard.
At least Ellie is dressed like Santa for the festive repair 🎅
Ellie gave us the best Christmas present of all in the form of a heavy duty Hubnut tinkering episode. Best present ever. Thanks Ellie!🎁
Ellie never gives less than her all
Completely understand spending more time looking for tools etc than actually fixing the car! I think that's part of the attraction of this channel - I don't really identify with someone with professional tools (ramp, airline on tap, machine tools etc) who's idea of a 'quick fix' is well beyond my skill level ("we just quickly knocked up up this widget on the lathe"). You show the true home mechanic - and are honest about not maintaining cars as much as you should (think many are guilty of this but would not admit it!).
You mean like a certain "We need a bracket!"? :-D
And now I'm going to be singing, "Danger to the manifold" to the tune of, "Highway To The Dangerzone" for the rest of the day. Thanks for that.
My blood runs cold
My memory has just been sold
'Cos Ellie blew her manifold
Ellie blew her manifold
@@GuyChapman
“Does she start? Does she run?
Does she drive complete?
Hubnut’s double-chevron angel
Always shook him in his seat...”
Thanks for that!
I love the HubNut way of tinkering. Have a great Christmas HubNut family 👍
Don’t apologize... your garage experiences are so much like my own that I can relate completely, hence the appeal. We can’t all be Project Binky, and that’s just fine with me. You remarked about the accessibility of the 2CV engine; I concur. After years of digging into the dark recesses of my MG Midget, I installed a rebuilt engine in a friend’s Triumph Spitfire, with the bonnet removed. What a difference. The front tires even provide seating while fiddling with engine bits. Luxury.
What I like bout Hibnut is it is real. Not everything works, you don't have everything you need and can't find it if you do. Added to that you never know where the vlog will go. Long live Hubnut!
Thanks for your excellent videos throughout this strange year. They have kept myself, and I'm sure many others entertained. Thanks again.
Loved the little timelapse.
As for walking tools......
It's why I buy so many tool sets......
Have one in each corner of the garage...... then, once a year, sort through them all...... 🤣
Another great video.
Rust is the poor man's shake-proof washer.
In 1991 I went from France to the UK in my 2CV with some friends. I had never encountered such friendly people. The very first time we stopped at a gas station, an Englishman came to me and gave me a booklet with all the good addresses to get ones 2CV repaired.
Please never be like telly Ian. I love these videos. They show car tinkering exactly as it is, at times totally frustrating, but when you get to the end the sense of achievement is great. But it's usually a long hard painful journey as I'm sure everyone who works on cars would agree!
I can't wait for the next instalment! Always top real life stuff Ian and thanks for not editing out the painful bits. Happy Christmas to All Hubnuts!
More woes for you, that's what we love about you is that you have these little setbacks, but overcome them you do real life, thank you for being you
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, Miss Hubnut and The Kids, Ian. Thank´s for your efforts and long may you continue in entertaining us hubnutees.
Merry Christmas to you ,Miss Hubnut, and the Hubnuts!!!
Cracking tinkering video, shows your knowledge of tin snails is indeed deep.
Old cars aren't really unreliable, possibly a bit temperamental and you could do way more PM but it would still want repairing.
That's why we love them really, the thrill of completing a decent sized journey successfully.
But you've been able to take a comparitely large piece of your 2CV off with hand tools and in a shed.
A blown headlight bulb on a modern could entail bumper removal, letting a garage do it, then taking it to main dealer to have the fail fault indication reset.
At least you're in control of this repair. 👍
Hi Ian wishing you, Miss H and your family a happy and safe Christmas. A huge thanks for the videos you’ve entertained us with over the year. I see you’ve now got 70,000 subscribers (possible rounding but we won’t quibble) - well done, sir. Looking forward to more laughs, dreadful car purchases and sharing various journeys with you in the new year. You’re top value mate 😀
Good on ye for being honest. Tinkering in the garage can be fun...It can also be frustrating as all hell. Appreciate your genuine portrayal. Cheers👍
Merry Christmas to you and miss hubnut and the little hubnuts
Wonderful stuff as always. loved the ending. 10mm spanners can be found with all the odd socks and 13mm sockets.
It's nice to see you working on a car that you know so well and is easy to do. I'm sure it has worked out fine. Cheers
Yay! You're fixing something!!!
Merry Christmas
Always find it relaxing to watch a hubnut tinkering video, I think it’s the joy of watching your real life approach, never gets boring.
Have a good Xmas Ian, all the best.
In my early life of 2CVing (you would have been about 4) i had the traditional novices baptism of paper-hose-fire. I yanked it off, tossed it in a ditch and all was well. A few miles up the road, a fire engine flew past in the other direction. 2 minutes later it was behind me, flashing!
Someone in a house had phoned in the fire!
The back of Foxanne reminds me of both ends of that new Ami.
good one...
Happy Christmas mr hub nut & family really easy going content and funny just what we need in these difficult times keep it up 👍
Great as always, Ian. Love bodgery at its very best! Keep on being your own charming self. Love watching you. Sometimes as a how not to instructional video, but somehow you always win in the end.
Happy Christmas to you, Miss Hubnut, and the Little Nuts. Have a great time.
Bloody hell Ian!! How can you work in all that mess? You started out with the best of intentions.
I still have my 1/2 length 10mm spanner which was created for working on some vehicle (the make & model escapes me).
I admire your 'real' approach, it feels a bit like watching myself working on an old engine!!
The end of the video is priceless; fitting the old part back on is something that’s happened to us all. 😂 happy Christmas to you and your family. 👍
That and swapping out a perfectly good suspension part because you don't know O/S from N/S!
I literally laughed out load when you said "Have I been using the 10mm (Spanner) as a makeshift spoon".
Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your Family from NZ
Congratulations on reaching 70K subscribers, an excellent tinkering video, almost professional by HubNut standards. Merry Christmas to you and Miss HubNut keep up the good work in 2021
You make that all look so straightforward Ian. Gotta love cars.
I'm impressed how you can work and talk at the same time. I can't do it. My words would just slow to a stop.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours.😷😷😷
"I was using my 10m spanner as a spoon"... this is why I love your channel Ian.. Have a great Christmas and a safe and peaceful 2021 (although with the fleet at the minute, that may not happen ) x
I believe Miss Hubnut may need to help you sort out your unit before she starts working on the cars with you. Keep up the great work I love your content. 👍
Lovely Jubbly video, oh dear Elley Mr HubNut doesn't need problems like this at Christmas Time.
I always enjoy watching some tinkering time on Elly. Hope she's back in fine fettle soon. Enjoy your cuppa and a Merry Christmas to the HubNut crew.
Happy Christmas Hubnutters
love your videos .happy christmas to you mrs hubnut and children. thankyou.... leon
OMG I was laughing my head off when you said that at the end you fitted the wrong manifold better than what I did when I was mobile mechanic came and took off and I’ll cam belt of a Mondeo which was a three hour job and went and put the old one back on good memories of the old guys stay safe and happy Christmas
"I should be like telly.....and I'm not..." Excellent. Never a truer word spoken. Please don't ever change. (But also please find your actual lights and stop leaving tools everywhere and anywhere, it might make your life easier!)
Congrats on 70k subs 👍👍
Still one of my favorite cars. I want one so bad but they're uber expensive here in North America. I actually saw a yellow and black one going down the road a couple of months ago. I was at a red light and it went right past in front of me. I was so happy to see it. I wish that Citroën would do what DeLorean does and assemble a few new cars each year at request.
Merry Christmas to all you guys. And here's to a happier New year.
It's not you, I just put a blown Xmas light bulb back in and spent over an hour wondering why they weren't working again 🤣
Some days I think I'd like a classic car, or one with character. Then I watch HubNut. lol x
I know what you mean. Then I go outside to my daily driver and wonder if I am crazy or brave, since my only car is a 31 year old Volvo 240 Estate with 400,000 miles on the clock. Still, Old Arthur goes first turn of the key, even at -20 degrees.
Well the way you work is the way i work on my cars, witch i never used to do till i started watching you a couple of years ago and going back to an old fleet of cars myself
I much prefer your style Ian, it gives me some confidence that I can do these things myself! When you see channels with all the fancy equipment it makes you think you NEED all that to do the job, which of course you don't always.
Liked your musical time lapse , so more , I like
Ian you say you would like a work bench.You know that it would become a storage shelf!!!!!Love your channel it makes me realise that its ok to try and fail and still keep trying.
If it all went to plan, then we would not be as interested as we are to watch! Always enjoyable to watch. Have a merry Christmas 🎄 with your family in this strange time!! And keep the vids coming 👍😀🚘
Your niche is fine, Ian! Recent "mighty car mods" have been pants. Three shots of a spanner, massive time lapse and it's done. All production values, no content. You're like the everyman version of Retropower.
Happy xmas to and the family .all the for the new year .
I watch loads of car channel's yours is the best don't change a thing
Nice to see Ellie getting some attention again she is a good iconic car nice to see about the place
Oh goodness, another vehicle acting up!
It actually doesn't surprise me that the manifold developed a hole, many here in the US do it all the time, and I think I was guilty of that years ago! Now that you sorted out Foxann's exhaust issues, Elly decided to have a hissy fit, something in the road did some damage as well, and there you have it! And putting back what you took off to replace is disappointing, but not surprising, I think we have done that at one time or another!
Another item I noticed is Elly's front tyres are looking good, little wear, either from not being used much, a good front-end alignment, or a combination of both. I applaud you in that sense. Hoping your assistant will be able to help you after the New Year, it will make life a little easier, and hopefully you will get just a bit more organised!
Wishing you, Miss HubNut and family a very Happy Christmas!
"I need a workbench" No, it then becomes a storage shelf and your back on the floor! Maybe a huge lap tray with a cushion on the back, contoured to sit square on a neighbouring bonnet (hood). Happy New Hubnut Year.
Love your tinkering videos. This is what most of us would be like in similar circumstances. Maybe a workbench is needed or maybe ( if they still make them or can find one ) a Black & Decker Workmate. I had one back when I lived in the UK and it came in handy for all kinds of bodg.....I mean repairs.
Hello Ian, Happy christmas to you all, dont worry to much about not being proffesional, you are doing it in reallity not tv, the way we all do it at home, with the tools we have at home,not specialist tools, the way you can find a way round jobs without these tools, the best specialist tool ever made is the hammer! You show the stupid mistakes everybody makes, these others do not, and that is why we all watch, and we all get a laugh, Keep doing it your way.
Please don't ever change HubNut I like you just the way you are mate it's real.
Don't change Ian. If it wasn't all a bit wonky then it wouldn't be Hubnut. Replacing the wrong bit is part of the "joys" of home car repair. A couple of years ago one of the sons helped me replace the serpentine belt that I decided had failed on our Volvo XC70 which we had just sold and the new owners wanted to pick up. It took 7 hours with the wrong tools, working well into the night and cold and the problem was still there at the end. I sent it to a mechanic who found that a bolt had worked its way out of a pulley (apparently a common problem for that engine). Still an expensive pain to fix but a lot less work than our misadventures.
Excellent viewing as usual Ian . Sat here because I am off sick with ,not Covid but a painful Hernia. Thank you for cheering my mood 👍
Best wishes.
Hopefully the hernia is fixed quickly. Pain is not a good sign. If the pain becomes severe, off to A & E with you. The last thing you need is a strangulated hernia. That means an urgent bowel resection.
Will be watching the Ami first, then this later today. Just to let you know that Christmas arrived this morning with my daughter bearing gifts of a gorgeous Ellieversary Hoodie. 🎅🤶⛄☘️🏴
Hopefully Santa will bring you a light, couldn't see anything under that bonnet.
Yes, sorry. It took too long for me to realise how gloomy it was.
It was a bit of a black hole!
@@HubNut is it an idea to wear a head-mounted camera and light? You can keep using the stationary camera for cuts in between.
He has got a light - but lost it... it is somewhere...
''You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didnt blow the welds on the intake''. Happy Christmas Hunbut.
...that may have happened if Cleetus McFarland/James Taal got ahold of Elly...glad they didn't!
Shouldn't be like telly Ian. Telly is boring.
Telly is slick and scripted. This is real.
Too right. It's CZcams all the way for us nowadays.
I dont have a TV Licence, rather be here, seeing a man fiddling with old cars and putting the knackered manifold back on... silly billy!!! :)
Yep. Give me channels like Ian’s any day over boring BBC and ITV.
@@workonesabs same here Paul. Give me real life over the mainstream media any day. Scripted, edited rubbish!
As I watch the begining of this when you are describing everything you have to remove, I am reminded of before you took your big trip in Ellie before you went to Austraulia. You had to change the whole engines 2 days before you set off. That worked out. Lets see how this pans out.
I did say in my head when I saw you refitted the knackered manifold "feckin' eejit!" as if I never make stupid mistakes myself!
Yep with you over the Disappearing 10mm spanners.
I think they Go to the Same Blackhole, that Biro's and the Odd socks, Bugger off too.
I spent a Few weeks looking for one of my Larger Magnetic trays. It was gone, to be found Nowhere.
Until I went back under the car, and there it was Somewhat Dirty but still stuck
to the body, where I last used it...!
Sometimes I (we..??) just don't Deserve all these nice new Gadgets..!!
Cheers to all from Oz.😎
Pure HubNut ................... right to the end.
Poor Elly, she did sound a little hoarse with the blown manifold, merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family x
The people's mechanic,never change Ian.
Those carb to manifold nuts are always 12mm and sometimes 13 (if they've been replaced), a crowfoot spanner job when the manifold is on the car! another strange nut size from Citroen internally/externally. Most important not to forget the spring washers underneath them as these have a habit of working themselves loose creating air leaks. For exhaust gaskets I recommend using the 'carbon fibre reinforced' gaskets from Ecas (£4 each?) as the rubbishy normal ones available now do have a habit of blowing out the side quite quickly. I also always use Holts exhaust assembly paste, it works :-) Always good seeing your videos Ian :-) Have a safe Christmas.
Oh dear poor Elly, Well it is nice to see you doing some un expected tinkering work.
oh, Elly, stop playing up - no presents for you...
Twc seems to be paying a lot of interest though!
Love it. Real world tinkering.
Working through the fixes, to do the fix!
I have started back with a Myford ML7 in my garage. It really does show how little light one has. Easy solution a couple of slimline outdoor floodlights20W LED is the equivalent to 200W bulbs with a reflector behind. I recommend them & they are not dear to buy. Will make a world of difference.
I nearly spat my wine over the keyboard "I was using a 10mm as a makeshift spoon" I can't say much though as in 30 years of Flour Mill engineering I have used the wrong things for food/drink & fixing machines :o
Fortunate you have a spare manifold as quite rare now. Quite an involved fitting job but so worth it. 👍
Watching your tinkering reminds me of weekends spent with my dad under my Opel Kadett. Indeed, aside from the obvious differences of accents and manufacturer, the vernacular is curiously similar.
The MCM guys ARE telly now, with a telly budget and editing. They're a different experience, and enjoyable in their own way. I don't have a workshop in an industrial estate with sponsored parts and tools. I have to borrow a shed and my tools come from the local equivalent to Poundland. If I can't fix it, I'm on the bus.
A £10,000 budget gets one past the moment of "How does THAT even break? It doesn't (very sweary word) MOVE!"
Its Christmas time, the time of year when all cars break down and require costly repairs
Yes, this has happened to me a few times....🤣🤪
Ha ha! Usually I have some white good break down in sympathy and demand immediate replacement at the same time! ;-)
On Christmas Eve 2017 my V70 broke down horribly. Had to wait two weeks for repair and the bill was over 700 quid.
@@volvo480 funny you say that. My 1990 240 Estate decided to spit transmission fluid all over Hell's Half Acre. I got lucky, though. It was only a cooling line. $152 Canadian, about £75, and back in the road. Only 1 hour of labour. Could have done it myself, but I was not about to be rolling around in a foot of snow at -10 degrees with a stiff breeze.
Last few seconds: O......... M..........G!
I like how if something goes wrong with the 2cv or any car you car about you fix it like this video tearing half the engine out to fix the situation but when you have brought the other 2 project cars you’ve not done anything. A few fail videos out trying to get them started. Instead of them out and cleaned and even take the engines out to help access to try and get them running. Please bring back hubnut the one who did the fox project. Bring him back for 2021!
This makes me miss my 2cv so much
My pal the mechanic tech often says, "All you can do with gloves on is wet your pants"
Any part can fail with age, and some of the newer ones even sooner. Have a nice Lockdown Holiday, Cheers!!