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Branden's 1977 C3 Corvette Project Part 2 of 4
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2018
- It is time to remove the most bubba wiring job I have EVER SEEN! They don't get much worse than this folks. Just wait until you see how bad the hackery is on this car.
Looks so much better already and has to be 100% better. My favourite part of any work like this is chucking Bubba's work in the bin.
Truly awesome video. Your explanation was spot on. You really made the replacing of a factory wire harness look like a do it yourself job on a C3 Corvette. Two thumbs up!!
Ben..this is the best advertising for the services you can provide..i,too, am amazed at how calm and orderly you attack the situations you encounter...if you ever create TShirts you will have to have one with a Bubba-ized saying somehow..great job..
I just finished last fall my wife’s early 79 Corvette and she has had it since new but times l have had to take it elsewhere for work l realized how many little things got butchered or short cutted and being 61yrs old it was a little harder to get up under that dash for AC venting etc... Watching your patience really shows the dedication you have for these C3’s Thanks great video!
That's the trouble you get into when you buy a car that's 40+ years old and has passed thru countless owners that wanted to put "their" stamp on it with after market stereos, light kits and shade tree repairs. It's like renovating an old house where you tear into the walls and find all sorts of wiring and plumbing, some you can identify by decade by the materials used and whether it was professionally done or a botched amateur repair.
You mean like electrical plugs installed with roofing nails? I really found that!
Hello from Michigan! Great channel. "Bubbaness" is gonna be a term I'm gonna put into use in my daily speak.....lol. We get a lot of that here too. Best of all things to you and yours good sir.......
Every time I watch one of your videos I appreciate my 1979 Corvette more all the time. It is still working in its original stock state, although several components have been replaced along the way. Good job narrating and video recording.
My pupils were dilating for the first ten minutes! You get the award for most bravery in the face of weird. How is it that this hasn't already burned down? I guess a PO decided to "decontent" the car and just cut wires? How utterly bizarre. Looking forward to more on this one 'cause you know this isn't the full extent of the weird on this car, n'est-ce pas?
Bubba has had a wiring party on this car, along with the paint work, this poor vette needs CPR & Dr Ben will make sure it's heart beats well, as long as Branden pays, this Vette has really had butchery done on it...Goon on Branden for hiring you.
I believe the old harness wins the award for the most hacked up added on harness I have ever seen!
Love your videos! I can't wait to get started on the projects we have sitting around! Keep up the good work, brother! Some people should be banned from auto parts stores LOL
Wow, your video editing makes it look so easy but I know this was a very involved task. I admire your patience to scope everything out and forge ahead with a nice wiring installation.
Hey Ben. This is a great video. I really like all your videos, You are such a knowledgable guy. Thanks for sharing all these great projects with all of us.
Howdy Ben! Really enjoy watching your vids! Like the fact that you not only talk about cars, but actually show simple ways to correct the "bubba" mess that is commonly found on older cars. Love the old 50's cars that you're doing especially the Caddy! Your very learned for a young guy & that's amazing that you have a passion for making projects right & safe! Many thanks & kudos Chief!
Ben very nice videos a true learning curve thank you very much.
Superb job! So clean now.!!
Wow you have way more patience than me, great video I learned alot today, thanks
great work, I just rewired my 1970 Nova last week from bumper to bumper, so I can appreciate what you've done. I found home wire nuts holding wires together under my dash.....smh. I also installed a Vintage Air unit and recognized the power block, I can tell you the red wire goes to the battery positive. the white wire for some reason is ground. the wiring diagram is avaiable online a vintage air. great vids! looking foward to the next one
Hold on, I've got to get some popcorn for this. Gotta love that bubbafication!
Hey ben, awesome channel man. I learn alot watching your videos. I just bought a 1985 vette yesterday with 89,000 miles. And the main reason I bought it........ Its all original! Its a shame so many morons rip these old vettes apart and ruin them
Ben , the vacuum hose and wires taped together will go to the vacuum dump valve on the brake pedal. It's for the cruise control.
Badass videos man. I love how you take us through it all. Keep it up, please. I just STOLE an 82 for $3k and its MINT, just needs a bottom end. Has 600 Edelbrock in place of the "Crossfire Injection" and I need to tidy up some of the engine bay wiring.
Thank goodness for Ben, and his "de-bubbafication"... poor abused Corvettes!
Why don't they ever clean the engine bay- or anything?!
A very fine and informative video!
Holy crap Ben. Dude I gotta give you a TON of credit! I wish I could pat you on the back young man. Just watching you working on the bubbamobile had smoke coming from my ears in disbelief. I think I would have thrown my hands in the air and let the chickens have their way with this beater!
Owning a late 77 I can appreciate what you are doing, luckily ours was basically unmolested found just a couple of scotch locks lucky me. Are there bugs you bet. 40 + years on anything things fail.
Again glad the owner ponied up for a new harness. Hopefully, Bubba couldn't figure out how to remove dash or the center console.
Good grief... C3’s seem to be the ultimate bubba Corvette. You have a lot of patience. That hose clamp.... my god.
With vehicles there is a motto to live by: If it doesn't make the car more reliable, more efficient, or faster don't put it on. Bling is in the eyes of the beholder: Crossed and shaded. This was obviously a 'Miami Style' fanboy's former whip. I feel very badly for you to have to un Bubba a perfectly good car. You should charge double for this type of work. Thank you for sharing.
P.S. This one is a great big can of worms and it's now been opened: Welcome to 'The Abyss'. 'Black Hole of Calcutta' also comes to mind; except this one eats money, Lots of money.
You should keep all that old wiring.It ads up to scrap and you could make money off it.Save up a bunch of it and it will ad up..Good vid..
I really think BUBBA is really trying to kill you. .Don't forget to breath. Love ya man.
good work bro
I cannot stand the dirty engine bay. Makes me want to pull the engine, degrease and power wash everything and paint it all so it looks factory. You are a patient man.
you have discovered the original Doc Brown time machine. The flux capicator is buried in there somewhere
I spent days wiring that car if you do not like that do not look under the dash because there were a couple of things I fixed there to however now the dome light works
Less likely to burn to the ground..... lol
Reminds me about a 1960 Chevrolet Impala that was for sale and I looked at.
Grandfather had bought it brand new and later one grandson got the car.
Well, he must been related to "Bubba wire specialist"
6 Speakers holes chopped out from the package tray area with even rear seat damaged because of the "installation"
Some huge amp flopping around in the trunk with wires like a rat nest coming out.
Sill plates were missing, guess when Bubba ran the wires to the dash those were not important anymore...
Chopped out a huge hole on the dash for mounting a stereo.. looked like Jurassic Park.
Just a mess.. speakers in the 2 doors, more Bubba wiring to the fuse panel, just tucked in between a few glass fuses..no connectors, just half ass spliced.
Ignition switch were dangling underneath the dash.
Air-cleaner gone and a newer Edelbrock carb mounted on this 283 engine.
I was so disgusted seeing the "work" this guy had done, and of course 4 "custom rims" with no rubber but sure were shiny !
I didn't buy it, but could been a nice car if he just left it alone..
Pet peeve in multiple videos... bubba wiring
Ahh nice minty fresh new wiring harness. It's a good thing.
Reminds me of when I pulled the harness out of my 92 dodge it had like 5 relays and a couple of random computer boxes stuffed under the dash
i am working on a high end car right now which has a 30 grand paint job.After he got the car back from the (alleged) Painter, The owner got me to look at it because the lights kept blowing fuses. The remains of the harness look like that bird nest too, except someone had installed relays which fed 12 volts straight to ground ...ha ha
Thank goodness for fuses!
Wow, that wiring was a cluster f***. The hose clamp made me laugh. Some people should never go near wiring!
Don't think I've ever seen so many issues on one car! lol
Plenty of jobs to put right you do wonder at the bodging some people get up to and how they think something so shonky is right and safe. Ben, when you showed the power cable bodge the steering coupling looked suspect too?
Wow! This car musta been featured at the bubba electrical convention! Wonder what the inside wiring looks like?
Thanks
Bubba lives! Did this car even run when you got it? Good job on sorting it out!
Bubba must have been on LSD
Any suggestions on a good cooling fan for one of those cars. I'm putting the ac on one right now. I have the system installed and working but the car has the original fan I live in arizona in my area it gets to the 110+ the account works great if I'm driving the car around 55 or more. But once you idle the air gets a little warmer out the vents .
Dewitt's spal fan setup is your best bet
Bubba's been hard at that one..
da bubba is strong in this one
I think I know what happened here, one of the most notorious pain in the ass things about the corvette is the poorly designed Vacuum lines for the headlights and the windshield wipers, its why a common modification is to just flat out replace them with static headlights, so someone must have been trying to convert it over to electric motors and made a huge mess of it
Great vid! Can you give cost estimates for parts please? Thank you
Wow! Mr. Ben, I'll have to agree...what a effin mess! No way one idiot could have done such damage. A whole family of generational inbreeders must have made that Vette a weekend destruction project.
Proper harnesses make it relatively easy...minus the bubbafication.
Good job, as usual. You would know the wiring in your sleep.
What do you think of the 2018 model? I think it's so European, it doesn't look like a Vette, except for the badging. Take care!
Messing up the wiring is a pretty good way to guarantee your fibreglass car burns down to the floor...
How did that car even run? I am surprised it has not burned to the ground. Good that you are on the job. You should be called Super Thecorvetteben.
Bubbafide. Bubbafication. Bubba'd
I love your videos and think you are a good mechanic. It pains me that your work habits are so sloppy. Just clean the cowl before working. Thanks for the excellent video.
I leave them dirty on purpose
TheCorvetteBen Ben I have to say your videos are a great service to me! I’m currently diving head first into getting my 76 L-82 back to everyday driving quality. My dad bought it in 76 and gave it to me it’s literally my baby. Luckily Bubba hasn’t really had a chance to change anything so it’s pretty much stock from the dealer in 76. I just had the original quadrajet rebuilt and put it back on, hopefully I can figure out these vacuum lines smh. If I have any questions or in need of parts how can I contact you brother?
TheCorvetteBen I have videos of the vette on my channel. If you ever have time check out a video or two and see if you can give any suggestions on what I should tackle next for my goal of a daily driver. I can make it all pretty and show ready later down the road for now I can’t wait to drive this thing!! Glad to see another legit corvette freak like myself! Take care!
What happened to the Caddy?
It is a shame what people do when they really don't know what the hell they are doing, if you don't know what you are doing leave it alone. Leave it for the ones that do know what they are doing , the ones that do this for a living.
Hose with wire cruise control
my gosh, what a mess! good luck! yikes!
Did you ever think about getting a laser pointer to help you point out parts
Not a bad idea!
Are you ordering another oem wiring harrness
You will find out by the end of the video!
The times when wiring harnesses were simple when I was rebuilding my 98 Range rover the whole rebuilt took 2 months extra becouse rats paid a visit to the miles and miles of wiring this car has
Did he buy it like that?
Raymond Cline yes i bought the mess like this.thanks to ben ,hes getting it together for me
he is very good at what he does, so you are in very good hands
all this for crappy HID headlights...geez I dont even get why people have hardons over headlights. ooooo im a modder I just spent a 1000 dollars on HEADLIGHTS!!!!
They were underbody glow sticks.
Yuk!
I have factory lights and a crate engine in my camaro, that's the real way to mod a car
Masking tape on wires for wipers, haaa
You say expensive, what is expensive?
It looks like someone just relayed out the headlights and maybe a couple other things. Not a bad idea, execution was sloppy.
"Dam" need to find where this bubba lives, and legally ban him from working on corvettes, he has no idea whats he doing and he gives these fine vehicles a bad name!!!!!!
That wiring looks like it was done by a car stereo/alarm installer. It screams the crappy work they do.
Car fire waiting to occur. What a butchered mess.
Why did that car not burn to the ground
Why do people put that chrome BS on their engines? Valve covers, alternators, etc. Auto Zone specials
twogreatguitars ..lol i know right. When I bought this car those chrome valve covers was already on and they gave me the original covers I'm going to put the original covers back on
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