Another video masterclass. Thanks a lot, Richard. Makes me wonder why anyone working on cars and videoing it needs to do anything else. The production of your videos (and HubNut), are spot on, and don't need all the other stuff, smash cuts, multiple camera angles etc. Doing this is hard enough, stick with it, please don't change!

@rimmersbryggeri

2 жыл бұрын

Yep its a classic car channel not a video wankery channel.

@torresalex

2 жыл бұрын

And the banter is spot on. No "eer"s and "eeerm". I could hear Richard blather on all day about cars. It's brilliant.

@rimmersbryggeri

2 жыл бұрын

@@torresalex Don't you jus want to be in the garage with him? So unpretentious.

@steveworth544

2 жыл бұрын

The subject is interesting to people who like working on cars, especially odd ball or quirky ones. You are absolutely right, it doesn't need the fake jeopardy and nonsense a production company would through at it. Cheers.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Was speaking to Ian about this the other day, funnily enough. It's difficult to film 'tinkering' (or whatever you term it) as you're not working on the car to give yourself something to film, you're working on the car because you've got something you actually need to fix! You just happen to be trying to capture it on video (and then editing it afterwards into something watchable), so the fixing needs to be the primary focus, which makes the videoing harder to do.

The repair to that pipe was done by the side of the road in Rural France. The only reason we saw the leak was coolant coming out when we parked to take a photo. There is no coolant level warning on the car be which is a big mistake in my view. No warning either from that leak or when Snows in Basingstoke knackered the thermostat housing when changing timing belt. The was just a smell of coolant in cabin. Great to see her getting the love she needs!

@niallsommerville9941

2 жыл бұрын

Active engine mounts but no coolant level warning? Is it just me?

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

It will be getting a low level coolant warning in a future episode :-)

Just been explaining Active Engine Mounts to my wife and children on the basis of this video. For some reason they're not sharing our enthusiasm.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Mine are the same! Clearly something wrong with them.

Strangely therapeutic. (Not necessarily for you, of course) but easy to watch and understand. 👍

The top balljoint doesn't knock........yet! Great video!

Excellent music. Short but tasteful.

Some proper mechanicing (is that actually a word 🤔) going on there. If the bugger don't fit, make it fit! A man after my own heart, not to be beaten by something as simple as having the wrong part. Good man 👍👍👍

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think it is a word, you know...

Sorry for my mistake Rammstein also the video is great as always and full of useful information !

Noice. I reckon, what, another 5 episodes? Excluding gearbox... things. Excellent. So satisfying putting wrong things right. Seems I'm not the only person up at a stupid time on a bank holiday weekend.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Probably 2-3. I need to spped up to cover everything I've done, so I can bring it up to date and introduce the next 'chapter' of the C6

Lovely Jubbly, always a pleasure to watch and learn from.

Your videos are fascinating, entertaining abd a great demonstration of your engineering skills.

Never thought I'd hear you discussing bush trimming! 🤣🤣🤣

Again awesome video and logical well thought out engineered solutions to overcome those ever so small issues 🤪 that are never highlighted in any instructions included in replacement parts oem or aftermarket parts 🤔 Polly bushes great solution but as you have encountered can be dam right pigs 🐖 to fit in some cases 😉 Onward and upward to the next gripping episode ! So much more entertaining than what the mainstream TV in UK put on these days, never looked back from cancelling the TV licence 🤣🤣

Another excellent episode. I like the way you find everyday solutions to the problems you encounter!

You have the interesting vids. Very informative.

Another enjoyable Video Rich, really informative as always, look forward to the next video.

This is when it becomes apparent that originally expensive cars benefit from a cossetted garaged life away from salted roads. I've noticed on Google street view UK owners pull out the front gardens of Duplexes and pave the area for the car ..so it hardly ever gets a chance to dry out in a damp climate. Although used car prices tend to be more in Australia, we don't have salt.

@alfamonk

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it's a weird habit, people on our road pull trees down and leave a barren paved area in front of their house. Ugly and not good environmentally.

@mrc7478

2 жыл бұрын

Household garages are generally too small to usefully store vehicles in the UK. And parking is often very challenging in towns - hence the paving of front gardens.

@alfamonk

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrc7478 sure - but there are ways o doing it without ripping anything green out and concreting it.

@mrc7478

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfamonk I agree with you.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Modern houses in the UK are so crammed in, and the roads so busy that people will do what they can to park their car. The C6 wouldn't fit in my garage at home, I know that. Garage is tiny, even the BX is tight, and the house was only built in the Eighties!

Nicely done with the bushings!!!! Also, this series of videos is getting better and better, I don't even own a Citroen (tho my brother has a '06 C1) but every time I see the ↑↓ UpnDown notification I already know I'll have a good time watching you!!!

great stuff- really enjoying this. Makes my old Dsuper5 seem easy in comparison.

Great content but ALWAYS use safety glasses when using the drilling machine

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, I normally do. I just didn't include the footage (it took FAR too long to actually turn those bushes down!)

Interesting video nice job 🚗🚙🚘👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I do enjoy these vids, I did the suspension bushes on my Chimaera a few years ago and they were a pain to do, and if the powerflex ones had not been so expensive I would used them, instead I mullered a few lengths of threaded stud to get the new metal ones back in.. I now have a powerflex swear jar for when they next need changing..

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

The PF ones are quite pricey, though the cost of the standards with all the new thrust washers adds up surprisingly high, too.

Fascinating.

Did I say, on an an earlier episode, that I fancy getting a C6? You can officially scrub that, I’ve changed my mind.

Volvo used active engine mounts in the P2 platform cars. They work on vacuum

Brilliant video again. I learn so much from your content and the humour is just my thing. Never seen a C6 before. I wonder if they made it to New Zealand 🤔

@mikescudder4621

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure they didn't... there are some C5's around though.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Time to import one!

That upper ball joint is a bit of a concern, the ones I've worked on have had a nylon spherical insert. If considerable heat has been applied, it might have ..... melted a bit. A de-burring tool usually works quite well, even on steel, to create a decent chamfer / lead in, without having to resort to filing. The Rangie P38 has bushes that are about 2.5mm oversize when measured free, the fitting tool has a long taper to compress it during fitting. Interesting stuff, especially the active engine mounts. Thank you.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I think it'll be OK. There's zero play in it.

Just weld an suitable long iron bar to that upper ball joint and turn it off. That works with C4 lower ball joints, which are pain to get off :-)

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Too much risk of tearing the thread out of the upright, though, it being alloy.

Maybe you could try to use a dremel with a carving or router bit as cutter when using the drill as lathe?

I went to school with a Polly Bush.

Okay, the active engine mounts powered by boost are officially mind-blowing. It's such a shame that this kind of engineering is all but dead at Citroen today. Another brilliant video sir.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I think technically they're powered by electric solenoids, but those are governed by boost (as I understand it). Means you get have it very soft at crusing speeds, which is good for NVH, and if you start giving it beans they firm up when needed.

Awesome job as usual! Love seeing methodical people work. Perhaps you could do one on the Tilton slave upgrade on the T5 on my Cerb? 😬

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! It'll make the job take three times longer if I keep stopping to film it...

@RobsCars

2 жыл бұрын

@@UPnDOWN haha, I am trying to twist your arm to get it in! 😂 Plus, if you haven't already you could monetise your account. 😉😬

Those tools have saved you a lot of time and misery. There is also a universal set for removing and installing bushings and rubbers, which I saw at Project Binky.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I know, I tried to find them afterwards online, but had no joy.

Hate to say it bro but i reckon you'll end up having to replace that upper ball joint in quick succession, it won't resist the forces acting on the car. As a guy who has traveled all round South America with a fairly unique car i tried everything to continue with my shot ball joint. Opened it and stuffed it with washes, used car batteries to weld it... all sorts of BS but it didnt last. Ended up modifying a new balljoint from another car using the old electric drill and angle grinder 'lathe' technique! Great job on the bushes!

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I'm quietly confident, but even if I had to, it doesn't take long to get it back to the position I'm in there.

@mikescudder4621

2 жыл бұрын

@@UPnDOWN All good bro! I´d order that special tool so you´ll have it on hand in the future. Fingers crossed.

Who said Citroen's are not weird any more? Active motor mounts? What?

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

That's not actually that weird, these days. But in 2005 it may have been.

More often than not the upper ball joint takes the thread out of the upright if they'll come out at all... Which then leads to a 400 quid visit to the dealer anyway..

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

That was my concern. It REALLY didn't want to come out.

Another great video mate. Upper ball joint and tool issue ……. Your too small ball joint tool looks to be for a pug 405 or 406. The tool you need looks identical but slightly bigger . Try Laser 7332 on eBay-fits mine. Fits pug 407, Citroen C5, C6…..dimensions given in advert. The upper ball joints come off easily with this tool, 1/2 “ breaker bar and a trolly jack handle on the end of the bar for extra leverage. You probably know that you need to secure the tool to the ball joint cut outs by screwing it’s nyloc nut to lock it there then a large socket on the end of tool itself . Heat is good for loosening the thing up but also will have melted the plastic housing within the ball joint to take up slack…… hence it seems tighter. ……. It will wear quickly now and need doing again soon………. Please don’t ask me how I know this as I am still receiving counselling and detailed recall will cause palpitations and relapse…. Oh no….. I can feel relapse starting at meet though……..whilst you’re in, renew the lot !

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

That's interesting, about using the nut to hold the tool on! I'd never thought of that! Will bear in mind, if these ones cause any future grief.

Really enjoyed this one except for the bit where you removed the lower bushing with the special tool (envy). I've spent hours each time I replaced one in C5 X7. And that one was chewing them like bread. I have experience in “resizing” bushes for GS the same way. Learn such skills in Australia when getting a proper one shipped from uk/Europe could take weeks.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

That tool really did make life easy!

Hi there. been watching with interest whether you are going to be successful with those purple bushes. I went through this last year and apart from not fitting correctly as you identified, my Citroen guy came to the conclusion that on the C6 the difference in tension played havoc with the computer and we resorted back to the original bushes and all was well.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

The issue with the ride was there before (in fact, it was worse) so I don't *think* the bushes are a factor to it, but then every day is a school day!

WIP title? Jokes aside, looking forward to watching this, you're keep me up now!

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

A glitch in the matrix!

.... very good, logical engineering work - well done - I only have one concern, may I enquire as to where the previously mentioned 10mm dimension, for the thickness of the spacers has come from ? has an actual C6 Exclusive part been measured ? the larger poly bush diameter may of been to cope with the increased applied load from the change in force with the moved fulcrum position ? - (thus the hole being so tight, if the bush was specific for an 'Exclusive') hope this makes sense? - keep up the excellent, ever improving (little edit flares, sound and visual effects are becoming pro !) KZread work - regards Andy

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

The 10mm was measured by comparing a C6 arm to a 407 one, on the C6 forum. As for the bush...just my guesswork as nobody else seems to fit them!

Nice work. I'm starting to dread my 407,, I don't have a lift :'(

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I had a 407SW for a year and never needed a ramp for anything. Was a decent car.

Think you need to Patent that Poly Bush reducingt tool thingy.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I'll be a millionaire!

From one tech to another. We never have time for own motors. But i cant help think your going to revisit that ball joint in the near future. When it's really not convenient for you. Great vids from a genuine guy

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Normally I'd agree, but it really does move so little that I don't think it'll be an issue for years yet. If it were a conventional bottom balljoint, then yes, definitely, but it pretty much only rotates.

Where did you get the poly bushes? I’ve been looking for a set for my 2005 C5

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Powerflex do them, but I don't know if they will for a mk1 C5.

If you had a lathe you could have turned down the outside of the bush to be non concentric to the hole down the middle, and eliminated the need for 5mm of the spacers

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

But then the bush would have been very thin on one side, and possibly worn through?

I come for the spannering. what we need is some "up n down" merch I'm thinking bobble hat. maybe something saying "Because Citroën" I'm sure my fellow viewers can come up with better.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I always joked that if I hit 10k subs, I'd do merch (thinking I never would). Now 6.4k! They say the first 10k is the hardest, though, so I may not yet have to stick by my words!

Hi There That first piece of music Ramstine ?

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

No, just KZread's playlist.

If you decide to sell it, my dad would buy it

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I'll bear it in mind for the day I can't afford to run it any more!

My Volvo S80 has vacuum operated engine mounts,similar?

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Quite possibly.

Audi's have stupid active engine mounts, always fail/never work.

Safety glasses please, it's really not worth risking your eyesight for this kind of stuff

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

I did, for the most part.

Ahhh the special tool strikes again. Makes a job so much easier but spending the guts of 100 quid on a tool you'll use once is never an easy pill to swallow.

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully I'll use it again!

No thumbnail for the video, makes it look like it's unavailable, just saying..

@UPnDOWN

2 жыл бұрын

There was a glitch in the matrix (in other words, I f***ed up!)