You know what perfectly compliments a sandblaster? A powder coater and oven!

ATF with acétone is great penetrant fluid, i've used it to set free a couple motocycle pistons and whatnots

George, It‘s an automatic gearbox oil gallery but I bet it didn't just happen to fit perfectly in your sandblasting cabinet 🤣😂 lol. Great video. Cheers Dave

@soupclassicmotoring

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10 points

@NemoConsequentae

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Having watched a 'few' _Precision Transmission_ videos, that's exactly where my mind went, too!

@chrissnow8337

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From a Mercedes 722?

@ianbanister67

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Always someone quicker - my thoughts exactly

@mdtransmissionspecialties

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Valve body

A teacher I had in tech school called valve bodies “hydraulic computers” and once you realize how they work it’s 100% true. Great video as always 👍🏼

It's mind-blowing that suspension arm has been soaking in diesel for 2 years already! Man, time flies when you're working on cars. Anyhoo, I enjoyed this tidbit and am very much looking forward to more on the Lotus. Ya boy!

You really should do a playlist, or CD or cassette or something of the music in your videos - the music is always stunning!

@CneyTMS

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Agreed

@beetooex

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I bet if you joined his patreon he'd send you the playlist

@peterobbo316

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I Shazam the songs I like (nearly all) then download them from the tube. Easy.

@LittlePixelTM

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I think the music is all from the KZread stock free music collection to avoid content matches / having to pay royalties and or have the video demonetised. For example the track playing at 5:25 is obviously a session band doing a soundalike instrumental version of Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky'

It looks like a valvebody from a Mercedes 722.4 Gearbox🤔 You have got a CNC plasmacutter but using a vice to press controlarmbushings. 😍

@soupclassicmotoring

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😆… shade tree 4 life! 10 points and a double ❤️722.401

@tobiasbalensiefer7349

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@@soupclassicmotoring Ha ha now i can sleep fine! Cheers!🍻

THE SNAZZIEST automotive channel on YT. LOOOOTUS! GeOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRGEEEEEH!

Started watching for the uniqueness of the stop motion, which is great. Your personality has come through as likeable. Thank you for all your hard work.

That plasma cutting is a work of art. Fabulous.

Amazing how light the Lotus backbone chassis is

@soupclassicmotoring

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55kg approx

sand blasting is so flippin satisfying.

Anyone can see that grid is a part to fix the DeLorean' s flux capacitor so you can travel to the past and put the Lotus on its wheels before next weekend. Obviously. Cheers mate (and thanks for the juicy content)

So glad to see you upload frequently again!

I'll just echo other People's comments & say the Stop Motion Filming is bloody good 👍

So awesome to see you back on the Esprit.

Art inside of art inside of art. Best to not place two opposing mirrors around whatever you're up to else reality could tear itself apart. Always a treat to see you in action, George!

Your're spoiling us George. Thank you

Great to see the Lotus getting some love! Another magic video, thanks ❤

Great work as always. The automatic gearbox oil gallery was the first thing I thought of also. Who the heck thought that up! That overhead shot of the chassis self-assembling was good. Did you have the camera on intermittent? That would have been a lot of editing to stitch together. Thanks again for all the work, these videos are like magic 👍🇦🇺

Awesome, so glad the esprit project has started again

Great to see the Esprit work continuing again. Keep up the great work 👍

Hooray, Lotus progess! Awesome video.

Meticulous attention to detail to both the restoration process and the videography of the restoration process - as always - Great work. 👍👍

Great to see you back on the Lotus. Looking forward to some more fantastic stop motion video.

Absolutely love the stop motion

Hydraulic control block from an automatic gearbox (blown up several X original size!) Absolutely no idea from what make/model though... Very cool/creative idea for the bottom mesh in your blast cabinet (but then, should we expect anything less from you, really???)

@soupclassicmotoring

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10 points

@wurlyone4685

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@@soupclassicmotoring made my entire week worthwhile!

Mesmerizing as always George - great job! Dan

looks like a gasket from an automatic transmission between the control solenoids and the trans body.

@soupclassicmotoring

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10 points

Thanks , George, for your great videos 📹 👍

Brilliant as always 👍

I use alcohol to help install the rubber bushes. It acts a good lubricant in the rubber and dries quick leaving no residue. This is trick I lear working on lab equipment. There was a Coulter with lots of silicone hoses to replace every 6 moths. We use alcochol to help the silicone on the pass through fittings.

welcome back Lotus :) Looking forward to the journey and what will b one of the best Esprits around

Love the grid for the blast cabinet, watching the last minute of your video and with knowledge of my blast cabinet make some slots around the edge of the tray so that media cannot build up there. I am always amazed about the piles that build up in mine at the edge and there is only 1/4 inch in mine. I have been following the Esprit build partly as my best mate back in the day had an Esprit and when he bought it he came round and threw the keys at me ad told me to take it for a rip.... 10minutes later I return upset... no I hadn't crashed it bring 6foot 6 (2m) I couldn't fit in it to drive it!!!!!

Dude reminds me some good times back in school days... were I would fk around with everything except what I should do to finish my projects

Valve body for auto trans. Nice work. Would look good hanging from a sign post as well.

I thought it was a bit of modern art! Great video - the stop frame is a superb way of editing these videos, always very informative - thanks.

Great episode!

Looks like a grate cover you would find covering a basement street window in an old city street.

Great to see the lotus back again and your stop start filming always makes me smile - it’s like the elves are doing all the work - thanks for that - I’m sure it takes a shit-ton of time to do. A dab of fairy liquid would have helped pressing that rubber bushing in.

Finaly the Esprit !

Great video and good luck with inseizing the bolt there.

I could watch massive, CNC plasma videos all day. Mesmerising. I don't know what a Benz 722.4 valve body looks like but I think I'd like a representation of one for the wall of my workshop.

Love your videos! Cheers from America 🍻

Wow! Getiting back to the shop and the Esprit is really enabling you to make those wonderful videos! Like getting back to the perfect studio set 🎉🎉🎉 It is amazing George, Thank you! But looking at your sandblaster reminds me my big pain: I am stuck for the second time with my W169 in the dealer due to those unreliable 722.8 transmissions of Mercedes, looking again for a used one to replace it….

Looks like a pretty close match to a valve body from a 1983 230E (w123)

Great video-Excellent job editing- especially the "Claymation" effect. Oh, and the machine is very cool as well.

George, I wait eagerly for all of your videos. They must be the best of any you tuber out there, If you were to video paint dry, I'd watch it for sure!

AMAZINGNES!!!

Lovely work on the plasma cutter, George! I guessed what it was based on, having watched 'a few' videos from _Precision Transmision._ Good luck with that stuck one, I fear you will be needing it!

Ahh yes I needed a little fix of Esprit today. Cheers

Doc Brown said to Marty: "If you're going to build a time machine, why not do it in style". If you're going to make a grid for your sandblasting cabinet... Why not...

i came late to the party (about 5 years late ! ) started in the middle and then went back to the start episode and watched them all in order. I'm up to date finally , but now what am i going to do in the evenings ? good to see the invisible elves are still with you. nice work.

@soupclassicmotoring

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How was the progression?

@lets_measure_it

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i could see you were finding your feet a bit in the early ones and that's fair enough. there were times when you would change direction, for example from the lotus to the merc and at first i was disappointed but soon learned to love the new project. i think it's the way you make it engaging and inspiring at the same time. you really are good at this. my BMW e30 convertible was stolen so i have nothing to work on but after one of your pep talks i went out a few evenings and cleaned out the shed, set up a bench and made a space for a car. you talked me into it. still no car but im ready. thank you.

Datsun 240Z's lower rear control arm pins used to be notorious for seizing.

@tedwingate

Жыл бұрын

Subaru does the same to this day with the infamous "Bitch Bolt".

Hmm, very nice an’ all, but as I saw the cutter munching through that plate I thought “that bit of steel would have made a nice welding-table top. Oh well, your design is good to look at. Thanks for the entertaining videos, they are appreciated. Les

Fantastic 😊👍🤓

Pro tip: get a high sided basket with holes in the bottom or strainer to hold small nuts and bolts. That plate is sick…but small things will fall into the media.

You never disappoint. Huge appreciation to you for making these videos, I can't imagine the effort that goes into them, if it makes you feel better about continuing you have a ton of respect from me, and very likely everyone else here. I Saveur every second of your videos!

I want to move to Ireland just to see your cars.

Nice choice of mid-video music George. Very ‘late Daft Punk’. Suits the mood very well. Top tip for pressing those rubber bushings: washing up liquid. Works a treat.

Loved the effect at 8:14

Your channel is so relaxing. Good for my blood pressure.. I can imagone if I had my own channel, it would be quite the opposite. Ranting and cursing at reluctant nuts and bolts. Hitting everything with a hammer to make it fit. Incandescent with rage as simple jobs escalate into interminable projects.

Good choice of tunes, my friend. Much love from Belfast x

Have you tried electrolysis does magic things to caked on rust, don’t know if it will unsize but should be worth a try.

My mate from drog grammar just told me about this channel, it's epic! Your restorations are amazing 👍

You should sell those patterns, I'd honestly love one of them on my garage wall.

Soup, that beautiful rack is what the transmission wizards who practice the dark arts of the automatic shift call the hydraulic computer. Just mint man. Wow as usual.

Yes!!!

God damn i love this channel!!!

My favorite thing from this channel. I want to se trouble. Lots of trouble, usually serious.

I've used Alum powder to dissolve a snapped flush steel stud in an aluminium casting before. Granted it was only M8 in size and took ages, but left to sit somewhere warm ( heat seems key to success ) , it did dissolve it till there was nothing left. The process left no marking, staining or anything on the aluminium part. So I guess you could cut the bolt flush on the insides and try it ?

SO GOOOD !

Valve body of a zf 4 speed fitted to your 124 merc parked next to the shed, he said ignorantly confidant 😁. Cool vid.

@soupclassicmotoring

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Close, but no cigar ;)

Coola Boola, love the grate

I'll never forget the first tie I saw one of those on the ground at a salvage yard.

Galvanic corrosion in the suspension component. Used to see it all the time in Audi front suspension uprights. You could try an air hammer, but you're probably going to end up cutting the bolt flush & drilling it out.

Ya thats the spacer plate on an auto trans valve body, very cool sand blast cabinet grate

“Mr Vincent Vegas” 😁

I found the guyson air gun trigger got siezed and was a pain to hold so I switched to a foot operated valve. Seems to work well.

Try brake fluid to unseize the pin

Can you heat the stud? Induction coil or gas torch? Would you be better off cutting the stud flush and drilling it out? Would a hacksaw blade fit in between the arm and hub to cut the stud?

Aluminium expands far more than steel with heat. If you have a steel fastener or sleeve inside aluminium you want to add heat to release the grip. Even 70C makes a big difference. For example when removing bleed screws from aluminium calipers

Automatic transmission fluid path.

@soupclassicmotoring

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10 points

The automatic transmission valve body off a ford cortina

@soupclassicmotoring

Жыл бұрын

10 points, no cigar

Those upper wishbones look uncannily like Vauxhall Chevette...

@soupclassicmotoring

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Ascona B, so prob the same. Lowers too, those are modded by Lotus for better bushes though. Any spare?

Maybe a little heat to free up the bolt? I don't remember if you tried that before. I still like seeing the frame getting picked up and carried around by one person. Crazy light.

@alexbrown1995

Жыл бұрын

You beat me to it, Chuck. A gas torch used sparingly works very well when combined with a spot of concussion.....

Looks a lot like the underside of the autobox on my old W124 300CE, when I dropped the pan and changed the trans fluid and filter.

Thank you just loooove your videos, say how about drilling a small hole in that aluminum and fill it with some wd 40 maybe you can loosing it up that way

Get that link in a bath of Bilt Hamber Deox C, or alternatively Evapo-Rust.

Try a few drops of "KANO KROIL" on that rear lower link. Amazing penetrating oil.

Did you try an air chisel with a piening end on it? I've broken some surprising stuff loose with those. They punch rivets out of truck frames, so... Otherwise, just crank on it til you snap the stud and drill the rest out

Check out one of the Furious Driving videos where he uses an induction heating tool to loosen seized bolts

I 'm going with gasket patterns.

Hydraulic control unit for the ZF4HP22 in the Range Rover? Great idea for a mesh.

regarding the seized bolt, have you tried electrolysis rust removal? worth a go, I have had some quite good results doing this.

Lovely work. Is that a ZF? Looks vaguely familiar from when I was contemplating doing my own Autobox rebuild for my Disco2...

Range rover automatic gearbox valve gallery, maybe??

@soupclassicmotoring

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10 points, no ❤️

its the trans oil flow plate for an auto box

@soupclassicmotoring

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10 points

I thought it was the floor plan blueprint of the colony in Aliens that Hudson brings up

Can you get a hacksaw blade in between the link and the upright on both sides? Cut the bolt, and then press it out once they're apart? Replace bolt with new.