HI KEVIN, FRIENDLY ADVICE FROM AN OLD BLOKE IN AUSSIELAND THAT WORKED AS AN P.I WAY BACK IN THE DAY, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANYONE ROCKING UP AT YOUR PLACE, AND YES I AGREE, DO NOT FILM YOUR HOUSE OR DRIVEWAY, YOU HAVE GIVEN MORE THEN ENOUGH INFO FOR ME TO FIND YOU SITTING HERE IN AUSSIELAND, AND NO I WOULD NEVER GIVE YOUR LOCATION AWAY, OR DRIVE OVER FOR A BEER, JUST TO FAR FROM FROM AUSSIELAND, BUT SERIOUSLY, TAKE IT FROM THIS OLD BLOKE, I COULD FIND YOU IN A HEARTBEAT JUST BY USING .... . . . . .. THAT IS AVAILABLE TO ANYONE ON LINE. I USED TO GET PAID TO FIND PEOPLE BEFORE THE INTERNET, IT IS SO MUCH EASIER NOW. BEST THING TO DO IF YOU DON'T WANT STRANGERS COMING OVER FOR A BEER, OR WHO KNOWS WHAT, IS TO NEVER REVEAL ANYTHING LOCATION WISE, REGO PLATES ARE SOMEWHAT HARDER FOR THE AVERAGE JOE BLOW, BUT FILM, PHOTOS, ROADS, AMOUNT OF HILLS, SIDE STREETS AND SO ON IS MAKING IT WAY TO EASY. I LOVE YOU GUYS AND YOUR VIDS, SPECIALLY ANYTHING FORD, SO PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY, JUST TRYING TO POINT OUT TO INSURE YOU GUYS STAY SAFE.
Hey Kevin. This video is one of the last videos my dad ever watched before he passed away on the 18th. We used to always talk about your videos, and I found he just bought a new “have a beer about it” shirt. In his honor, I will have a beer about it. Thank you for being apart of our lives, and giving us something to connect about.
this is the first restore video that actually shows HOW to repair a rad, rather than just intsall a new one, not everyone can afford to JUST buy a new rad, Thank you kevin
That's what I've always loved about this channel. it's always been about car guys doing car guy things (usually) on a budget and making it far more relatable to most viewers. JYD gets a car with a blown motor? He replaces it with a $500 questionable motor off marketplace, and uploads a 1.5 hour video showcasing the absolute fails that are probably going to happen 🤣 then you have other youtubers that, in a similar situation, would swap the motor with a $10,000 crate engine and upload a 15 minute video on it showing none of the work, then probably blowing the new one up because they have stupid amounts of money to blow
Yes, but you also need the leak detector, brushes, soldering iron, solder, flux, cleaners and of course the skillset to do all that. For most people, that way will be way more expensive than just putting in a new radiator.
@@youtoobe169 The soldering stuff is pretty cheap and is good to have regardless (but I admit as an electronics nerd I have pro-soldering bias). The fancy leak finding stuff may be expensive but you I don't need that. If you can pump it full with a few psi from an air compressor you can just use soapy water. Don't have a compressor? Get one. I'm not even a car person and I have one. It's so much faster at filling tires than the old battery-powered inflator I used to use, and the airgun is super useful.
Glad to see you have Angus full time, He is a huge asset to the channel.... Keep him happy which I know you will... We definitely want him to stick around!
Bet the neighbours in those houses loved the dusty burn out. Love the red interior. Miss the days when the interiors matched the outside. Thanks for the entertainment. Pole barn will love that one.
I always enjoyed the videos in the past, but the addition of Angus really has raised the hilarity level to new heights. Funny AND informative? Heck yeah!
"I can see really well in the dark" LOL. I don't know why people get these ideas that just because you make videos of fixing junk, that you would want them to show up at your door. Keep it safe out there man.
Years ago, I worked with a lady who had a Cougar that looked a lot like this one-- except it was painted black. Someone backed into the car, and after she got it back from the body shop it looked like brand new... except the name across the trunk lid said "COGUAR"! She didn't even realize it until I pointed it out!
We traveled straight through the middle of Iowa 6 times going to and from Colorado. There's nothing there. Our van did pick up some old gas and broke down. We found this old shop in the middle of a corn field. These older guys one with a long white beard out a fuel pump in the van for 150 bucks. They really helped us out. This was probably 20 years ago now.
The random Chuck Norris radio cameo made it into a twilight zone Junkyard Digs episode. Totally worked. Glad you made it home to Mook. She looked happy to see you, even if the cat wasn't!
decent looking old Cougar. I'd put that one back together. Little porta-power on the right fender, find some bumper brackets, right headlight door and side marker. Golden. Oh, and those tire-mangled quarters, but Angus brings so much to these efforts. More Angus all the time.
Couple small tips on using that wheel lift...back in the day when i had one of those i never used the cable (since cables can snap). I always hooked a chain to the boom and lifted it with the hydraulics. Then if youre going a really long way there is usually a way to pin it in place (maybe you did that-its hard to tell in the video). Also also...you really dont want to tow from the front. Spinning a dry transmission for more than a few miles is not ideal. Either pick it from the rear or pull the driveshaft if you want to be safe -you can just unbolt the back and strap/bungee it up.👍🏻
Nice to see the tow truck showing its worth again. I just find it absolutely amazing how you managed to fix and own your own tow truck for projects like these
I'm British (land of the narrow roads with multiple corners) and usually do not like big American land yachts. However, I do like this one. Sadly buying fuel for it over here would be very painful.
I love the fact that you guys upload at 8pm english time, it means that when i am in bed doomscrolling, I get to have a little notification on my computer and my son asks if its the machine man!!! thanks for being there for me and my family!
Love how the shop is getting more in house, y'all are coming up higher and higher. All the toys....er tools we all want to play with. Recommendation to help your ease of actions by the tire machines.....everyplace I worked at had a high speed air grinder by the mounter, throw a brass wire wheel on it, zips off rust and crust, gives a great sealing surface especially on aluminum rims. Keep it up kids!
351 Windsor is a great engine. I had one in a dirt track car that overheated which threw a rod on cylinder #3. Next morning we started it running on 7 cylinders. Been a Ford guy ever since. Great video, Kevin and Angus!
@@swamp-yankee James Doohan was Canadian, and he also fought in WW2 don’t ya know. Sorry, I am still learning the Min-a-soda dialect so I am going to have to defer to you on repairing that joke. (Meme of Scotty saying he knows the Enterprise like the back of his hand right before he walks into a beam and falls over)
@@keith_5584 I’m a back woods new Englander hey. Can’t help on fixing that, but I love how those midwestern northerners talk. If Scotsmen brogue, I wonder what those northern midwesterners do. I have it on good authority me and mine lilt, but it’s tough to tell what your own accent is.
I highly recommend the 387 Stroker! We built one for our Budget Foxbody and its a blast! A few things not mentioned about a 387 is the rotating assembly will definitely need ballanced, depending on what pistons you use you might have to notch the skirts and if you run aftermarket heads you might have to flycut the pistons. 38:56
Even back when all these barn find cars were new/new-ish, we usually never sprayed hi pressure water under the hood.... but if we accidentally did, we gave the inside of the distributor cap a good shot of WD 40 for the fix... Fun vid guys... lots of laughs! A+++++
I was thinking rubbing alcohol since it absorbs water and evaporates quickly, it's what we like to use when cleaning electronics. WD40 also seems like a good idea (since WD means water displacement) and it's more likely to be found in a mechanical shop.
I checked his video out about the old blue & white Ford pickup truck & cool 😎 & what happened to Mooks burnt Nova she was working on because I didn't see it in the shop,did she sell it & when is she going to make some new videos because it's been awhile since she's had a video out,let me know something okay, I would Appreciate it very much if you can okay thanks
I had a ‘79 Cougar with the 351W. Had to replace a couple of wrist pins because someone never changed the oil over 90,000 miles! 2 inches of sludge in the valley and the drain holes were plugged! But it had t-tops, sport buckets and center console. Total sleeper and smooth as silk on the highway!
YES!!! A new junkyard digs to brighten up everyone’s Sunday! I’m really looking forward to watching this once I get home from mountain biking. Maybe I’ll cut the ride short so I can watch Kevin work some magic
This brings back a lot of memories for me. My grandfather bought a 1978 cougar brand new. It was silver with a burgundy interior and the 351 Windsor under the hood. It was a beauty and it was his baby. I still have a fond memory or him taking my brother and I from north of Detroit down to Dayton Ohio to go to the air force museum. He was a ww2 vet from a b17 bomber crew. Sadly it was lost in a garage fire in 2005 while I was deployed to Okinawa.
Even if the entire drivetrain had been toast, the body work and interior being in that shape makes it worth working on. The fact it took so little to get it running is....just short of a miracle.
My mother remembers these around her town. Her friend had one that was blue and there were a few others. She had her own Ford made barge. A white 1975 Mercury Marquis 4 door with a black vinyl roof (engine is unknown).
Hello Kevin. My neighbor has a 1970.5 Falcon with a 302 and a c4, original owner, no rust and never repainted. All original just cool patina. It’s such a cool car.
@@JunkyardDigs How long until we see you and Angus doing boiler tube annealing on the channel? lol. The Big Boy's smaller brother, the Challenger is currently being restored at the old Rock Island shops over the river in Silvis IL. Google for UP 3985 and you'll see how big that one is too.
That rotor was turned so cleanly, all I could hear on repeat in my head seeing it in the wheel well was an old sesame street song... "One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time I finish this song?!" yay... 🤣
Nice Cougar. My aunt had a 78 Thunderbird Diamond Jubilee Edition. My uncle had a 79 Cougar. Both cars came back with them when they moved from California to Kansas City. Love these old cars. ❤😊
It would be pretty cool to see a series of taking the tow truck and building it to be an ultimate tow rig for revivals.. refresh the engine or make it nasty and ourfit it with tools and etc, you could get a bumper and make it hold air for an air compressor❤❤
Great video man. Loved Angus's Cougar joke for the intro😂. Pretty amazing that it basically fired right up and drove around after sitting for that long. Just goes to show old cars don't die they just go to sleep for awhile😂
In 98, I bought a completely original 77 XR7 with 30,000 miles from an old man who had an 87 as a daily driver and a complete 67 sitting in his barn. I begged him to sell me the 67, but he said over his dead body. I'm still waiting.
Kevin, great show as usual, but I'd like to point out one thing. Brake drums get out of round and brake rotors get out of parallel. If the rotor was out of round, the outer diameter would be oval or egg shaped. The inner and outer flat surfaces are parallel to one another, therefore, when the two flat surfaces are not perfectly flat to one another, they are out of parallel. Keep the projects coming.
@@closewatermelon understood I’m sorry man. It’s just I feel I try and leave a comical or nice comment and get attacked all the time. Sorry if I sounded like a jerk
When on the farm we had a race that would spin. We would tap it out with a punch. Then use said punch to hit the surface where the outer part of race would be about every 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Then tap the race back in place with said punch. Worked every time.
These radiator tips can save so much money. Different car way back, Alfa Romeo 156 (perfect car for AR fans) but there was a leak, so I tried all the leak fixes which are not cheap in the first place, then you find out the radiator costs less than the fix kit. But you learn from mistakes and of course for older cars you need skills, since parts are not always available.
My friend bought one brand new - i believe the AOD transmission was new for 1976,his had one and it turned out to be very troublesome. But you couldn't beat the car for absolute quiet - and 80 mph would sneak up on you in a hurry.
There was a time when people could buy a car, drive it for 10 years, it broke down and they parked it in a shed and went and bought another car. Today, you need a trade-in or $3k down to buy a car.
@swamp-yankee Meanwhile, on the other side of the iron curtain, you had to wait years to save up enough to then apply for a car, then you waited another few years for the car to be made, then you got the keys to a Fiat from the 70's which was meant only for the city but you are forced to use it to go everywhere including on a 1000km trip to Bulgaria
@@berownik1246 for what it’s worth in the United States I could never afford to do what he did with a land based business now. The working class is still running those glory days rigs.
@@berownik1246 I've heard that used cars were more valuable than new cars. If you had the money you could drive off with a used car but as you said if you wanted a new car you'd need to wait.
I guess not only me, but many of us have already figured out exactly where you live. Just I assure you, your biggest fans, me included, would never share your address nor would show up uninvited! Keep up the awesome work! You are the inspiration for edventures I have never had courage to experience myself!
A tip for when you're mounting or dismounting tires, spray the bead with soapy water in a spray bottle to lubricate it while you're working. It'll help with getting the tires on and off as well as helping the tires to pop onto the bead and get seated. Another tip is to make sure the bead of your rims are clean and are clear of corrosion (use a wire wheel on a grinder if they need cleaning, careful to not get a wheel that would dig into the metal) and keep an eye on your valve stems because they can develop leaks as well due to corrosion. If you need to replace a valve stem then you should cut out the old one, clean the metal around and in the valve stem hole, apply a little bit of rubber cement to your valve stem after roughing up the rubber inside the notch with a file, then use a valve stem tool to pop it in. The rubber cement will act as a lubricant to help the new one pop into place and the rubber cement should help to prevent corrosion and as-such should help to prevent leaking valve stems in the future. Lastly one more tip, get a bubble tire balancer as well. If you know how to run one then they're not bad. The only downside is that balancing a tire on a bubble balancer is only affective up to 100 miles per hour or so. So if you're planning on going faster than that, high speed balancing is the way to go.
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HI KEVIN, FRIENDLY ADVICE FROM AN OLD BLOKE IN AUSSIELAND THAT WORKED AS AN P.I WAY BACK IN THE DAY, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANYONE ROCKING UP AT YOUR PLACE, AND YES I AGREE, DO NOT FILM YOUR HOUSE OR DRIVEWAY, YOU HAVE GIVEN MORE THEN ENOUGH INFO FOR ME TO FIND YOU SITTING HERE IN AUSSIELAND, AND NO I WOULD NEVER GIVE YOUR LOCATION AWAY, OR DRIVE OVER FOR A BEER, JUST TO FAR FROM FROM AUSSIELAND, BUT SERIOUSLY, TAKE IT FROM THIS OLD BLOKE, I COULD FIND YOU IN A HEARTBEAT JUST BY USING .... . . . . .. THAT IS AVAILABLE TO ANYONE ON LINE. I USED TO GET PAID TO FIND PEOPLE BEFORE THE INTERNET, IT IS SO MUCH EASIER NOW. BEST THING TO DO IF YOU DON'T WANT STRANGERS COMING OVER FOR A BEER, OR WHO KNOWS WHAT, IS TO NEVER REVEAL ANYTHING LOCATION WISE, REGO PLATES ARE SOMEWHAT HARDER FOR THE AVERAGE JOE BLOW, BUT FILM, PHOTOS, ROADS, AMOUNT OF HILLS, SIDE STREETS AND SO ON IS MAKING IT WAY TO EASY. I LOVE YOU GUYS AND YOUR VIDS, SPECIALLY ANYTHING FORD, SO PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY, JUST TRYING TO POINT OUT TO INSURE YOU GUYS STAY SAFE.
$300/month back... at $0.25/gallon max means someone is out here buying 1200 gallons of gas a month at the minimum.
Still waiting for international shipping! My trike needs it's immortality sticker!
Hey kevin you should do a revival on all your vehicles that would be a great video
Hey Kevin. This video is one of the last videos my dad ever watched before he passed away on the 18th. We used to always talk about your videos, and I found he just bought a new “have a beer about it” shirt. In his honor, I will have a beer about it. Thank you for being apart of our lives, and giving us something to connect about.
R.I.P to a legend right there man sorry for your loss bro
@@OhioGaming1031 he loved these videos. We always planned on building a 71 ford pickup together, but we never had the chance.
this is the first restore video that actually shows HOW to repair a rad, rather than just intsall a new one, not everyone can afford to JUST buy a new rad, Thank you kevin
That's what I've always loved about this channel. it's always been about car guys doing car guy things (usually) on a budget and making it far more relatable to most viewers. JYD gets a car with a blown motor? He replaces it with a $500 questionable motor off marketplace, and uploads a 1.5 hour video showcasing the absolute fails that are probably going to happen 🤣 then you have other youtubers that, in a similar situation, would swap the motor with a $10,000 crate engine and upload a 15 minute video on it showing none of the work, then probably blowing the new one up because they have stupid amounts of money to blow
Yes, but you also need the leak detector, brushes, soldering iron, solder, flux, cleaners and of course the skillset to do all that. For most people, that way will be way more expensive than just putting in a new radiator.
@@youtoobe169 especially when a basic aluminum radiator is like 100-200$
@@youtoobe169 The soldering stuff is pretty cheap and is good to have regardless (but I admit as an electronics nerd I have pro-soldering bias). The fancy leak finding stuff may be expensive but you I don't need that. If you can pump it full with a few psi from an air compressor you can just use soapy water.
Don't have a compressor? Get one. I'm not even a car person and I have one. It's so much faster at filling tires than the old battery-powered inflator I used to use, and the airgun is super useful.
Be good if you could find a copper raditator to fix . Most raditators are aluminum.
The opening had me rolling "not the first time ive been with a cougar"
lol I love cougars!
Also, I bet it was those stretchy jeans that tricked Angus. Those will getcha
It's even better if you watch the first video they did with a mercury cougar.
Lucky I wasn't drinking soda right then. I would have snorted Diet Coke up my nose.
@@nlopez2909 Same here!! 😂
That PRRR plate made it worth the whole adventure no matter the turn out. 🤣✌️
that radio clip was perfect😂
IM CHUCK NORRIS AND I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING
@@JunkyardDigs that sums up having to work on a car
Is Angus scared of his mother@@JunkyardDigs
Thats lady chaos saying, Hello Sailor!
@@JunkyardDigsname it chuck
Glad to see you have Angus full time, He is a huge asset to the channel.... Keep him happy which I know you will... We definitely want him to stick around!
He is a hoot!
Bet the neighbours in those houses loved the dusty burn out. Love the red interior. Miss the days when the interiors matched the outside. Thanks for the entertainment. Pole barn will love that one.
Now everything is black or charcoal gray, just lifeless, cheap and a magnet for heat.
I'm sure they're used to it by now.
Those days ended in the 90s my 92 s10 has red interior and was 2 tone red paint ..
They got cancer after the burnout sadly
Children must play
Oh please Dalton don't trash her!! She is gorgeous! Throw some good looking wheels on her, fix the body some, and THAT is a bad azz machine!
I wouldn't say that this is the most memorable car or the most memorable video, but "sparks are made of electricity" is certainly a memorable quote.
"How do I get mine to go limp?"
13-14 beers and a couple of lines of blow ought to do the trick!
Jesus😂
Finally someone I can relate to😊
"We won't have to do brakes!"
"Don't say that."
"We'll have to do brakes!"
"Don't say that either."
*Very confused Phil noises*
Hi Phil I'm Philo😂
Kevin and Angus in a three way with a cougar?!!? Cue the cheesy music 😅
Giggity, allll right!
man that wrecker is one of the best purchases you guys made
Flat bed wrecker would be sick a f
I always enjoyed the videos in the past, but the addition of Angus really has raised the hilarity level to new heights. Funny AND informative? Heck yeah!
...Well, there was this one time I quit my day job to work for this RUclipsr, 😆! Priceless. We love Angus here!
Yes Angus's humor was on point.😁👍
Yup, I loved this show before Angus showed up, but if Angus ever leaves I'm going to be big mad. haha
"I can see really well in the dark" LOL. I don't know why people get these ideas that just because you make videos of fixing junk, that you would want them to show up at your door. Keep it safe out there man.
Angus's mental stability is noticeably deteriorating. Why would Dalton do that...... 🤔
Years ago, I worked with a lady who had a Cougar that looked a lot like this one-- except it was painted black. Someone backed into the car, and after she got it back from the body shop it looked like brand new... except the name across the trunk lid said "COGUAR"! She didn't even realize it until I pointed it out!
We traveled straight through the middle of Iowa 6 times going to and from Colorado. There's nothing there. Our van did pick up some old gas and broke down. We found this old shop in the middle of a corn field. These older guys one with a long white beard out a fuel pump in the van for 150 bucks. They really helped us out. This was probably 20 years ago now.
The random Chuck Norris radio cameo made it into a twilight zone Junkyard Digs episode. Totally worked. Glad you made it home to Mook. She looked happy to see you, even if the cat wasn't!
The energy in this content is wild. Love it.
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You should've heard when Dalton and Kevin drove the JJJAAAAAAGGGGG and the van home from wherever it was. Those two together are hilarious.
decent looking old Cougar. I'd put that one back together. Little porta-power on the right fender, find some bumper brackets, right headlight door and side marker. Golden. Oh, and those tire-mangled quarters, but Angus brings so much to these efforts. More Angus all the time.
Couple small tips on using that wheel lift...back in the day when i had one of those i never used the cable (since cables can snap). I always hooked a chain to the boom and lifted it with the hydraulics. Then if youre going a really long way there is usually a way to pin it in place (maybe you did that-its hard to tell in the video). Also also...you really dont want to tow from the front. Spinning a dry transmission for more than a few miles is not ideal. Either pick it from the rear or pull the driveshaft if you want to be safe -you can just unbolt the back and strap/bungee it up.👍🏻
Yes definitely a good way to wreck a trans
Some people should not be allowed to drive a tow-truck, it's serious business and can cost people's lives. Leave it to the professionals!
When you mount the tire. line up the DOT number on the tire to your Valve stem. The truest way to get a tire to balance out.
Nice to see the tow truck showing its worth again. I just find it absolutely amazing how you managed to fix and own your own tow truck for projects like these
They need decals for it that say:
Junkyard Digs Towing
"Banging around Cougars since 2022"
@@ThatChargerPursuitGuy They shouldn't be using if they don't know how to use it properly, some very unsafe practices performed there!
I'm British (land of the narrow roads with multiple corners) and usually do not like big American land yachts. However, I do like this one. Sadly buying fuel for it over here would be very painful.
I love the fact that you guys upload at 8pm english time, it means that when i am in bed doomscrolling, I get to have a little notification on my computer and my son asks if its the machine man!!! thanks for being there for me and my family!
Love how the shop is getting more in house, y'all are coming up higher and higher. All the toys....er tools we all want to play with. Recommendation to help your ease of actions by the tire machines.....everyplace I worked at had a high speed air grinder by the mounter, throw a brass wire wheel on it, zips off rust and crust, gives a great sealing surface especially on aluminum rims. Keep it up kids!
Judging by the Crab Dance Angus was doing, you might need to improve the ventilation in the shop...... LOL 😅
351 Windsor is a great engine. I had one in a dirt track car that overheated which threw a rod on cylinder #3. Next morning we started it running on 7 cylinders. Been a Ford guy ever since. Great video, Kevin and Angus!
I think Angus should start using a Scottish accent like Scotty from Star Trek...."She canna take it Kevin, She's gonna blow", ect.
Dont give him ideas
That only works if Angus is secretly a badass Canadian.
@@keith_5584 he’s from so far north he might as well be
@@swamp-yankee James Doohan was Canadian, and he also fought in WW2 don’t ya know.
Sorry, I am still learning the Min-a-soda dialect so I am going to have to defer to you on repairing that joke.
(Meme of Scotty saying he knows the Enterprise like the back of his hand right before he walks into a beam and falls over)
@@keith_5584 I’m a back woods new Englander hey. Can’t help on fixing that, but I love how those midwestern northerners talk. If Scotsmen brogue, I wonder what those northern midwesterners do. I have it on good authority me and mine lilt, but it’s tough to tell what your own accent is.
I highly recommend the 387 Stroker! We built one for our Budget Foxbody and its a blast! A few things not mentioned about a 387 is the rotating assembly will definitely need ballanced, depending on what pistons you use you might have to notch the skirts and if you run aftermarket heads you might have to flycut the pistons. 38:56
The prrr plates are cool af!
One hupcap cost me 35. Bucks in 1981
Definitely keeping those😂
@@JunkyardDigslemme buy 50$
@@JunkyardDigs I just assumed they were why Dalton wanted the car.
"It might not be fixed, but it is different" is definitely a shirt that I would buy. MAKE IT ALREADY!!!
You should make sure those dollies on the tow truck work so you never have to worry about the cars tires holding air.
Even back when all these barn find cars were new/new-ish, we usually never sprayed hi pressure water under the hood.... but if we accidentally did, we gave the inside of the distributor cap a good shot of WD 40 for the fix... Fun vid guys... lots of laughs! A+++++
I've been pretty fortunate in the past! But it caught up to me on this one😂
I was thinking rubbing alcohol since it absorbs water and evaporates quickly, it's what we like to use when cleaning electronics. WD40 also seems like a good idea (since WD means water displacement) and it's more likely to be found in a mechanical shop.
Check out Steve's video where we fix the F100 and he drives 400+ Miles home! ruclips.net/video/vGRdruAKNrc/видео.html
I checked his video out about the old blue & white Ford pickup truck & cool 😎 & what happened to Mooks burnt Nova she was working on because I didn't see it in the shop,did she sell it & when is she going to make some new videos because it's been awhile since she's had a video out,let me know something okay, I would Appreciate it very much if you can okay thanks
Cruise control vacuum diaphragm leak.
Why did you not use the dollies onthr tow truck
Please take the mustang 🐎 2 and put a healthy V8 in it and fix it up.
What's up with the gmc step side?
I had a ‘79 Cougar with the 351W. Had to replace a couple of wrist pins because someone never changed the oil over 90,000 miles! 2 inches of sludge in the valley and the drain holes were plugged!
But it had t-tops, sport buckets and center console. Total sleeper and smooth as silk on the highway!
YES!!! A new junkyard digs to brighten up everyone’s Sunday! I’m really looking forward to watching this once I get home from mountain biking. Maybe I’ll cut the ride short so I can watch Kevin work some magic
You spelled Angus wrong...
This brings back a lot of memories for me. My grandfather bought a 1978 cougar brand new. It was silver with a burgundy interior and the 351 Windsor under the hood. It was a beauty and it was his baby. I still have a fond memory or him taking my brother and I from north of Detroit down to Dayton Ohio to go to the air force museum. He was a ww2 vet from a b17 bomber crew. Sadly it was lost in a garage fire in 2005 while I was deployed to Okinawa.
Sad Story...... Thank you for your service
@DanCullen-zd1ll Thank you for the support.
I demand fair pay for angus. Also sick upgrades and additions to the shop. The future is now old man!
By fair pay if you mean minimum wage, I concur.
@@ForeverDownByLaw I’m sure he’d be happy with a 12 pack and a couple spice mc chickens
@@ForeverDownByLawMinimum wage?!?!
That's communism!!! That stuff is *not* allowed around these parts.
Fair pay? Nah. I'm sure you could talk him down to a small travelling carnival.
Even if the entire drivetrain had been toast, the body work and interior being in that shape makes it worth working on. The fact it took so little to get it running is....just short of a miracle.
My mother remembers these around her town. Her friend had one that was blue and there were a few others. She had her own Ford made barge. A white 1975 Mercury Marquis 4 door with a black vinyl roof (engine is unknown).
Well hell look who's back on a roll with videos and this one with Angus's favorite, a Cougar lol
FARAH FAWCETT DID A COMMERCIAL FOR A 75. COUGAR. ITS ON YT
I got a 1978 Cougar XR-7 Night Cat for high school graduation, I loved that car. It had the 351W and a moonroof and a quadraphonic stereo.
All modified 400 and 351 have a square chunk of iron next to the distributor on the top front of the block. Cleveland and Windsor do not.
Angus the "Cougar Killer" You guys are hitting it out of the park.
From a junkyard digs channel to junkyard digs seamlessly. Saved my Sunday
That green Pinto, that is what you should put the Windsor in. Tub it and paint it black. You'll have a race car all will want.
Hello Kevin. My neighbor has a 1970.5 Falcon with a 302 and a c4, original owner, no rust and never repainted. All original just cool patina. It’s such a cool car.
That is the Torino-bodied Falcon!!!
T shirt idea - picture of the car with the headline “Angus loves cougars” or the “Two time cougar champion”. YMMV
I get back from chasing the Big Boy across Iowa (and past the Garage) and there's a video waiting for me. Thanks JYD.
Waiting in Texas for the Big Boy, was it as cool as I can expect
@@WilliamWebb-eo9gw Absolutely it was. Especially cooler when they goose it to get up a hill.
Saw that ourselves! That thing was HUGE
@@JunkyardDigs How long until we see you and Angus doing boiler tube annealing on the channel? lol. The Big Boy's smaller brother, the Challenger is currently being restored at the old Rock Island shops over the river in Silvis IL. Google for UP 3985 and you'll see how big that one is too.
6:13. 😂😂 I Just knew he was going to breakout with "You Know this ONE TIME at Band camp"😂
I was born in '83 and I've been attracted to '76 cougars a few times myself.
That rotor was turned so cleanly, all I could hear on repeat in my head seeing it in the wheel well was an old sesame street song...
"One of these things is not like the others.
One of these things just doesn't belong.
Can you tell which thing is not like the others,
By the time I finish this song?!"
yay...
🤣
God, you guys absolutely have to get it on the road with those vanity plates
Kevin : "Just warning you, i can see really good in the dark" hahahahaha Your awesome Kevin.
nothing better than wrenching on a dusty old car with the boys hope yall are having a good day
Good to see Angus has finally been driven to madness.
Gotta love a cougar!
That's why I married one....lol
The Tow truck is a keeper, great buy!!
I hope you all buy the neighbors behind the shop a pie or something lol.
Or a free oil change once in a while.
for someone who knows nothing about old cars/carbs and just being a 2000s kid i love classic cars like this.
I really appreciate seeing the friendship you and Angus have. You guys are cool bros.
Look at the beautiful Barn Cat. Love it. PRRR indeed.
Nice Cougar. My aunt had a 78 Thunderbird Diamond Jubilee Edition. My uncle had a 79 Cougar. Both cars came back with them when they moved from California to Kansas City. Love these old cars. ❤😊
It would be pretty cool to see a series of taking the tow truck and building it to be an ultimate tow rig for revivals.. refresh the engine or make it nasty and ourfit it with tools and etc, you could get a bumper and make it hold air for an air compressor❤❤
No doubt Kevin will get this Cougar running like a top. Those Ford engines never die. Bet it cleans up well.
Looked like 25,000 mile's wear in 5 minutes. But yes.
Great video man. Loved Angus's Cougar joke for the intro😂. Pretty amazing that it basically fired right up and drove around after sitting for that long. Just goes to show old cars don't die they just go to sleep for awhile😂
You need to get those remote turn signals on cables that are magnetic and mount on the car you're pulling.
Bro that red interior looks so good
In 98, I bought a completely original 77 XR7 with 30,000 miles from an old man who had an 87 as a daily driver and a complete 67 sitting in his barn. I begged him to sell me the 67, but he said over his dead body.
I'm still waiting.
46:00 - 4:00 Look at the tear on the fabric under the hood. Demonstrates the power of the engine. Nice to see the car still does its thing.
I didnt expect this one to be a survival drama.
14:08 same Angus, same.
Me too
My parents had a 76 Cougar as our family car during the 80’s. Was pretty much rusted away by 1988
You need to call this car "Everything Norris" because of the radio bit.
I had a green one. Solid cars. The 351M wasn't efficient, but it would move.
Kevin, great show as usual, but I'd like to point out one thing. Brake drums get out of round and brake rotors get out of parallel. If the rotor was out of round, the outer diameter would be oval or egg shaped. The inner and outer flat surfaces are parallel to one another, therefore, when the two flat surfaces are not perfectly flat to one another, they are out of parallel. Keep the projects coming.
Ohhh what a treat. A new JYD on A Sunday afternoon. I’m getting a beer and putting my under ware back on Let’s Do This
@_KNOX_ Why were they off on the lords day
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@@closewatermelon I’m sry I don’t get it, I was just happy to see a new video. Are you trying to to dig up an argument, I don’t get it
@@__KNOX__ no a feller was just making a joke, that you had your dogs out on the lords day, Sunday. That’s all.
@@closewatermelon understood I’m sorry man. It’s just I feel I try and leave a comical or nice comment and get attacked all the time. Sorry if I sounded like a jerk
Best birthday present I’ve ever received is this a junkyard digs video hell yeah
That "I can see really good in the dark" threat is great lol
Pray to god I never need it
Exactly what I was gonna say, gonna have to remember that threat. Though it would be a bluff on my end. Young as I am my vision sucks
@JunkyardDigs it is at least a phenomenal deterrent
20:15
Your neighbours must LOVE you
Those Vanity plates were Prrrrfect 😂
When on the farm we had a race that would spin. We would tap it out with a punch. Then use said punch to hit the surface where the outer part of race would be about every 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Then tap the race back in place with said punch. Worked every time.
This 2:56 and the pack of smokes you guys found are honestly top two on my list lol
These radiator tips can save so much money. Different car way back, Alfa Romeo 156 (perfect car for AR fans) but there was a leak, so I tried all the leak fixes which are not cheap in the first place, then you find out the radiator costs less than the fix kit. But you learn from mistakes and of course for older cars you need skills, since parts are not always available.
My friend bought one brand new - i believe the AOD transmission was new for 1976,his had one and it turned out to be very troublesome. But you couldn't beat the car for absolute quiet - and 80 mph would sneak up on you in a hurry.
Nope, No AOD ever in these!, These ether had a C4 or FMX behind the 351W and 302, The AOD didn't come out till 1980
@@jdpinbaytown FMX. Never a C4 behind a 351, even though it would've worked fine.
The opening line from Angus is classic. @junkyarddigs Great job bringing him on.
You’re killing it with these revivals at the moment!
Best watch on my YT !
Keep em coming 👍🇬🇧
There was a time when people could buy a car, drive it for 10 years, it broke down and they parked it in a shed and went and bought another car. Today, you need a trade-in or $3k down to buy a car.
An old timer I know used to buy a white dodge every two years, and if the local dodge was out of white ones he’d go get a white Chevy. 🤷♂️
@swamp-yankee Meanwhile, on the other side of the iron curtain, you had to wait years to save up enough to then apply for a car, then you waited another few years for the car to be made, then you got the keys to a Fiat from the 70's which was meant only for the city but you are forced to use it to go everywhere including on a 1000km trip to Bulgaria
@@berownik1246 for what it’s worth in the United States I could never afford to do what he did with a land based business now. The working class is still running those glory days rigs.
@@berownik1246 I've heard that used cars were more valuable than new cars. If you had the money you could drive off with a used car but as you said if you wanted a new car you'd need to wait.
Real
The tire machine is huge for you guys. So jealous of the shop setup. Keep up the vids, love what yall do! That 67 mustang vid was halarious.
YAY!!! ANOTHER LONG VIDEO!!!
I know, my day instantly got better!
I guess not only me, but many of us have already figured out exactly where you live.
Just I assure you, your biggest fans, me included, would never share your address nor would show up uninvited!
Keep up the awesome work! You are the inspiration for edventures I have never had courage to experience myself!
This one looks like it might clean up nicely.
A tip for when you're mounting or dismounting tires, spray the bead with soapy water in a spray bottle to lubricate it while you're working. It'll help with getting the tires on and off as well as helping the tires to pop onto the bead and get seated. Another tip is to make sure the bead of your rims are clean and are clear of corrosion (use a wire wheel on a grinder if they need cleaning, careful to not get a wheel that would dig into the metal) and keep an eye on your valve stems because they can develop leaks as well due to corrosion.
If you need to replace a valve stem then you should cut out the old one, clean the metal around and in the valve stem hole, apply a little bit of rubber cement to your valve stem after roughing up the rubber inside the notch with a file, then use a valve stem tool to pop it in. The rubber cement will act as a lubricant to help the new one pop into place and the rubber cement should help to prevent corrosion and as-such should help to prevent leaking valve stems in the future.
Lastly one more tip, get a bubble tire balancer as well. If you know how to run one then they're not bad. The only downside is that balancing a tire on a bubble balancer is only affective up to 100 miles per hour or so. So if you're planning on going faster than that, high speed balancing is the way to go.
If you used the dollies you could tow anything with 4 flat tires.
Those dollies probably have 4 flat tires😅
😂 No one except Angus, and you can have the crazy things you both do. Thank you for sharing this video 😊😅
Ladybugs must render Angus catatonic!!
Ladybugs, Ladyfingers, yeah, pretty much anything female.