@@jonellwanger7258it's not necessarily that is "difficult/hard" to work on the older cars, the problem is that due to most of them being 40+ years old, everything gets worn out/ decayed over time and when you fix one thing, 99% of the time you'll find something else that now needs repaired, so the cars usually end up being extremely time consuming and it takes soo much time that you can't realistically bill the customer for every work hour put in or the bill would end up being more than the cars worth. Plus nowadays lots of parts are now discontinued or on indefinite backorder so a lot of projects are left at the mercy of parts availability so then the car ends up sitting for months-years and then because it's been sitting, now usually needs more work. It's just a never ending project.
Sway bars are definitely your friend! I bought a 79 power wagon that was most of the way done being restored. It had a 4” lift kit and 33” mud tires and the sway bar was not on the truck but luckily came with. When I finally got most everything done and running and driving I took it for it’s first test drive and all seemed well until I attempted to negotiate the first corner in the road. The amount of body roll and buttpucker was insane. I had to find some longer connecting links from like a 2000’s 2500 but I got the sway bar in and it was a whole different truck, even sitting way up in the air it stayed level and planted in corners. Great vids brother, I can’t believe how clean that Stude is!! 👍
Those Studebakers are so cool and so different in so many ways compared to the big 3 U.S. automakers in their day.....love 'em! Keep finding more "Stude" projects please!
I remember when Washington State plates switched from green background to white. I think we got them from the Shell station by the University Village in Seattle. We had a '56 Studebaker station wagon. I was 4 years old.
Awesome job fixing this ride! It looked like it was not the easiest thing to do, but you did it dude. Hope your wrist heals up soon, not fun dealing with that when you need your hands to work on things.
This really gave me a good reminder how badly I need my hands. For, like, everything! I should be more careful. I can’t say I will be, but I really should be. Thank you!
I just drove my 57 silver hawk 150 miles yesterday after i Tuned it up and set the Valve's i run it up to a 100mph couple times no problems She's Solid Black all original
Darn, just when I was starting to get attached to the Stude, away it goes! But, just like a bird, the day comes when it has to spread it's outdated tail fins and fly away. I really like the sound of that engine with the whine from the blower, although it probably sounds meaner than it is.
What the heck?! No open wounds! No one had to have an arm reattached! That wrist brace just doesn't do it for me anymore! Of course I don't want you to get hurt, but if you do, I might as well take pleasure in it! It's funny when friends get hurt. I sure provided a lot of laughs in my life, and still do in glorious fashion! Did I ever tell you about the time I broke a Harley in half? Yeah, I know... a 100 times!
The wheel studs I generally don’t want to talk about breaking are usually left hand thread that I wasn’t paying enough attention to. Like on my Pontiac 8-lugs.. Sigh. Keep up the struggle!!
If you do more to this car in the future, adding a water/ water-methanol injection set up would greatly help fight detonation and will add a huge safety margin for tuning.
@@DeadDodgeGarage believe it or not even a super small scale, crude set up(like a washer sprayer in the air inlet) will make a night and day difference. I tried to run a draw through type turbo set up on a small block Chevy and even at 5psi with 7.5:1 compression, with 22 degrees of total timing I could not get it to stop detonating, I tried everything (fuel, timing,spark plugs, jetting,etc). As a last ditch attempt I put on a home made water-methanol set up on it hooked to a boost switch and now with 30 degrees total timing and no other changes the detonating completely stopped, ever since then I have been a firm believer in it.
I bet you are going to miss tripping over this! LOL! Seriously, It might have taken a while. but it sure turned into a totally different car. You sure have something to be proud of there.
Yay! The Stude is done. I dub her Judy the Stude. Well no one else has to but I will forever catalog her in my mind Judy. So ya I'm sick in bed with some kind of crud, likely covid so my excuse is sick out of my mind. 'Preiate y'all. See you tonight.
Good video. On the pinging, did you look at the centrifical weight springs on the distributor? I know you can get different spring tensions on those. Sometimes they are tired. Remember , in 1961 leaded 100 octane was available. She might need that, even though your compression is not that high.
I went through the distributor lately, doing a recurve, and later modified and then eliminated the vacuum advance. I could never get the pinging to completely go away with the vacuum advance connected. It definitely wants race gas. Haha.
I just remember when I was a kid my dad had a '67 olds 88. The leaded gas was getting phased out and dad had to bring the timing back to get rid of the ping. I had cars that some of the vacuum advances were direct to the manifold and others were ported off the carburetor. They used to make adjustable vacuum advances too. Thanks for writing. @@DeadDodgeGarage
23:40 'World's most expensive fuel'.. haha, in New Zealand we're paying $13+per gallon. $208 to fill my Plymouth. NZ gallon is slightly bigger than US gallon though.
Those supercharged Studebakers were hot performers in their day and the supercharged Avantis were beyond hot performers and set 29 speed records. Not bad for having only 289 cubic inches under the hood. Personally I would take the Studebaker over any of the so called super cara except possibly a Detomaso Pantera.
I’ve seen an Avanti running down the strip! It was so cool. Dave says he wants to drag race this one at least once. I’m really looking forward to that.
I like Studebaker Hawks. However, having said that, I really only like the body and styling! Crazy, I know... but with a trillion dollar budget, you could really make something neat with it!😂
They sure excel in the quirky department… given that Studebaker was on the edge of nonexistence when these cars were engineered, there are many things that aren’t great. But they sure are neat!
I never used to check spark plugs, until I head a dead miss I couldn't figure out. The gap was closed completely and the rest were way too tight. I wish I had thought of that first...Oops
Four on the original knob, and four used around town - but it’s a TKO500 with a .6 overdrive for highway cruising. I guess you didn’t see me go for that last gear.
It’s higher than the crossmember in front of it. If that crossmember bottoms out, we’ve got all kinds of problems. Right in that area is a very common spot to find them. But I agree - it’s not the most ideal.
Talking about a gas leak well I’ve had a problem with trying to find one on my 64 440 and I found it after filling the tank for the first time since I bought the car! The tank was rusted out between the trunk floor and the tank.
It appears you had quite a relationship with this car…was their any sadness in seeing it go or was it more like the feeling you get kicking someone in the ars?
It wasn’t a super car then either. It was the best Studebaker could do to try to keep up with a changing world. And it’s really cool. Also, the owner plans to drive the hell out of the car. Potential drag strip action involved. So I might as well start acclimating it now.
Jamie seems a bit young to be one of our fraternity of old school wrenchers.
That's sort of encouraging, to be honest.
- Ed on the Ridge
There's no such thing as "done" with any old car. Another good job !
Love that Stude... I know, it's not a Mopar, but it needs love too...
I really enjoyed that. The car sounds great, and a manual transmission makes the car so much more interesting than if it was an automatic.
That Hawk is so cool! It looks like Chrysler might be the next Studebaker.
Our shop is tired of these old cars.. they never go away! Very glad there's shops like yours out there that will commit to working on them forever.
If you can’t work on the simple stuff.. why would anybody trust you with complicated hardware?? 😶. Odd statement.
@@jonellwanger7258it's not necessarily that is "difficult/hard" to work on the older cars, the problem is that due to most of them being 40+ years old, everything gets worn out/ decayed over time and when you fix one thing, 99% of the time you'll find something else that now needs repaired, so the cars usually end up being extremely time consuming and it takes soo much time that you can't realistically bill the customer for every work hour put in or the bill would end up being more than the cars worth. Plus nowadays lots of parts are now discontinued or on indefinite backorder so a lot of projects are left at the mercy of parts availability so then the car ends up sitting for months-years and then because it's been sitting, now usually needs more work. It's just a never ending project.
@@jonellwanger7258100% what I was thinking, but did not say. ;-)
You’ve encouraged me to jump back on my ‘59 Silver Hawk.
Awesome!
I genuinely appreciate and enjoy ,
Your self depreciating dry humor ,
And sarcasm ..... LMAO 😂😂
I had a 1959 studebaker lark. We loved it.
Hurray for you. You restored and put a real orphan car back on the road that actually holds its own in today's world.
Great work!👍 glad that cool old studebaker found it's way to you for repairs!👍
Thanks for explaining "pinging". I will have to listen again with headphones to try to hear it. 🎧
You bet! I plan to film a really good demonstration at some point - but with one of my crappy engines, not a gem like this. Haha.
Sway bars are definitely your friend! I bought a 79 power wagon that was most of the way done being restored. It had a 4” lift kit and 33” mud tires and the sway bar was not on the truck but luckily came with. When I finally got most everything done and running and driving I took it for it’s first test drive and all seemed well until I attempted to negotiate the first corner in the road. The amount of body roll and buttpucker was insane. I had to find some longer connecting links from like a 2000’s 2500 but I got the sway bar in and it was a whole different truck, even sitting way up in the air it stayed level and planted in corners. Great vids brother, I can’t believe how clean that Stude is!! 👍
Those Studebakers are so cool and so different in so many ways compared to the big 3 U.S. automakers in their day.....love 'em! Keep finding more "Stude" projects please!
I’ll see what I can do!
Not a Mopar but still a super cool and unusual car with the manual and cool tail fins.
I remember when Washington State plates switched from green background to white. I think we got them from the Shell station by the University Village in Seattle. We had a '56 Studebaker station wagon. I was 4 years old.
Awesome job fixing this ride! It looked like it was not the easiest thing to do, but you did it dude. Hope your wrist heals up soon, not fun dealing with that when you need your hands to work on things.
This really gave me a good reminder how badly I need my hands. For, like, everything! I should be more careful. I can’t say I will be, but I really should be. Thank you!
The best idle note... And boost noise . Approved
I just drove my 57 silver hawk 150 miles yesterday after i Tuned it up and set the Valve's i run it up to a 100mph couple times no problems She's Solid Black all original
Another killer video and Dave was wearing some very cool pants. Lol lol lol
Dave is *all* style. He always looks like he’s headed to a photo shoot. It’s impressive.
Been saving this video but hey, Steve Magnante is up!
I saw!! Really good to see him.
Awesome video man glad it made it
Great success!
Sounds real good
Definitely adding "unleaked" into my maintenance man vocabulary.
Maybe a bit of a problem child, but I love everything about it.
Great Job!! Glad to see the Stude on the highway and back to its owner. Now you have more free time to work on the Power Wagon! 🤣
Awesome. Thanks for the video.
Nice job.
Sounds Great!
Nice, comes with a swamp cooler.....water running from underneath dash when you stept on it lol
Thanks for the ride! That was fun!
Darn, just when I was starting to get attached to the Stude, away it goes! But, just like a bird, the day comes when it has to spread it's outdated tail fins and fly away. I really like the sound of that engine with the whine from the blower, although it probably sounds meaner than it is.
I like this car! Very cool looking, and sounds great! But it looks like it earned the nickname steadybraker
Nice work , especially on the troubleshooting .
That thing would look awesome in Black IMHO
Great work that was a test of your patience and knowledge Awesome body style
I finished project good content and thanks...can't wait for the next project.
What a sweet machine....
What the heck?! No open wounds! No one had to have an arm reattached! That wrist brace just doesn't do it for me anymore! Of course I don't want you to get hurt, but if you do, I might as well take pleasure in it! It's funny when friends get hurt. I sure provided a lot of laughs in my life, and still do in glorious fashion! Did I ever tell you about the time I broke a Harley in half? Yeah, I know... a 100 times!
The wheel studs I generally don’t want to talk about breaking are usually left hand thread that I wasn’t paying enough attention to.
Like on my Pontiac 8-lugs..
Sigh.
Keep up the struggle!!
If you do more to this car in the future, adding a water/ water-methanol injection set up would greatly help fight detonation and will add a huge safety margin for tuning.
I agree. That would be a great idea. I didn’t think an absolute maximum of 6 PSI would require this much science…
@@DeadDodgeGarage believe it or not even a super small scale, crude set up(like a washer sprayer in the air inlet) will make a night and day difference. I tried to run a draw through type turbo set up on a small block Chevy and even at 5psi with 7.5:1 compression, with 22 degrees of total timing I could not get it to stop detonating, I tried everything (fuel, timing,spark plugs, jetting,etc). As a last ditch attempt I put on a home made water-methanol set up on it hooked to a boost switch and now with 30 degrees total timing and no other changes the detonating completely stopped, ever since then I have been a firm believer in it.
6.5 years?!?!? Wow. That car is pretty cool. I'm sad to see it go. I'm sure you're not. But from a spectator standpoint, it was awesome to watch.
Awesome
Well of course it’s no supercar but it was at one time! She’s a beauty!
I bet you are going to miss tripping over this! LOL! Seriously, It might have taken a while. but it sure turned into a totally different car. You sure have something to be proud of there.
I don’t miss it yet 😅 thank you!
Cool cruzer ⛽️
Yay! The Stude is done. I dub her Judy the Stude. Well no one else has to but I will forever catalog her in my mind Judy. So ya I'm sick in bed with some kind of crud, likely covid so my excuse is sick out of my mind. 'Preiate y'all. See you tonight.
Looks like your car started life in a fabulous, love-it or hate-it, one-year only color : "Flamingo"!
Yep. Haha. The previous owner had it repainted white, and Dave says it *never* needs to be that color again.
Gonna wonder if I got the right channel without the hawk in the background somewhere. Good for you.
Great video! Id love to have an ol Studebaker like that.
Have you ever weighed it yet?
What's the hp rating for that engine?
Thanks
I love that car!!
Nice
A+ for using a superlative word like “resplendent.”
Good video. On the pinging, did you look at the centrifical weight springs on the distributor? I know you can get different spring tensions on those. Sometimes they are tired. Remember , in 1961 leaded 100 octane was available. She might need that, even though your compression is not that high.
I went through the distributor lately, doing a recurve, and later modified and then eliminated the vacuum advance. I could never get the pinging to completely go away with the vacuum advance connected. It definitely wants race gas. Haha.
I just remember when I was a kid my dad had a '67 olds 88. The leaded gas was getting phased out and dad had to bring the timing back to get rid of the ping. I had cars that some of the vacuum advances were direct to the manifold and others were ported off the carburetor. They used to make adjustable vacuum advances too. Thanks for writing. @@DeadDodgeGarage
23:40 'World's most expensive fuel'.. haha, in New Zealand we're paying $13+per gallon. $208 to fill my Plymouth. NZ gallon is slightly bigger than US gallon though.
Those supercharged Studebakers were hot performers in their day and the supercharged Avantis were beyond hot performers and set 29 speed records. Not bad for having only 289 cubic inches under the hood. Personally I would take the Studebaker over any of the so called super cara except possibly a Detomaso Pantera.
I’ve seen an Avanti running down the strip! It was so cool. Dave says he wants to drag race this one at least once. I’m really looking forward to that.
@@DeadDodgeGarage Avanti even stomped the Corvettes and was the world's fastest production car for several years
289 city super charged maybe 275 hp! Not bad for 1961!
Definitely a cool old car.😎
I like Studebaker Hawks. However, having said that, I really only like the body and styling! Crazy, I know... but with a trillion dollar budget, you could really make something neat with it!😂
They sure excel in the quirky department… given that Studebaker was on the edge of nonexistence when these cars were engineered, there are many things that aren’t great. But they sure are neat!
lovely looking car that has a vaguely European vibe to it.
Hopefully this chapter of the Studebaker's story is done.
Now on to the next project!
Such a cool old car, imagine trying to get body parts for that old gem
A few years ago, we were actually offered an almost complete parts car. That would really be the only way, I think.
You're not helping my Stude infatuation. Although it does look a little cramped around the drivers seat.
Cool car
Oh neat.... So what you're saying it's un-anused.
Probably like 93%!
That car is a good example of why I'm watching intensive care as opposed to participating!
I never used to check spark plugs, until I head a dead miss I couldn't figure out. The gap was closed completely and the rest were way too tight. I wish I had thought of that first...Oops
You mentioned five gears, but I only saw four in the video.
Four on the original knob, and four used around town - but it’s a TKO500 with a .6 overdrive for highway cruising. I guess you didn’t see me go for that last gear.
Sorta sad to see the ol’ girl go. 😢
Hate to nitpick your great work here, but that proportioning valve knob is doomed to get sheared off by stones and other debris.
It’s higher than the crossmember in front of it. If that crossmember bottoms out, we’ve got all kinds of problems. Right in that area is a very common spot to find them. But I agree - it’s not the most ideal.
It looks like a 70s Mercedes and a 50s Cadillac had a baby= Studebaker
Did anyone mention non-leaded fuel may be the pinging culprit?
I’m familiar with the lead additive’s octane boosting qualities.
That car was probably fast in its day.
Talking about a gas leak well I’ve had a problem with trying to find one on my 64 440 and I found it after filling the tank for the first time since I bought the car! The tank was rusted out between the trunk floor and the tank.
Ahhh, yep. I’ve had that once. I can’t remember which Mopar it was, but I recall the tank looked pretty good everywhere I could see it.
"Ground control to major Tom"
Commencing countdown, engines on!
Pleeze tell where I can get a white cop biker leather like Dave's, really....
That is above my pay grade 😅
🌈🌈🌈 sugar in the Tea?
It's gone!!
And just like that, she rolled out of our lives forever...😢
It appears you had quite a relationship with this car…was their any sadness in seeing it go or was it more like the feeling you get kicking someone in the ars?
as an armchair critic after all this work fix the tach
Well it’s going to Redline Gauges to have modernized guts installed, but the owner will handle that.
"Unloosened"? My friend, I don't mean to be obnoxious, but the correct term is DEloosened.
Damn it! I can’t imagine any of us will be surprised that I said something de-correctly though.
It was a supa car. In 1961. Even older than I am. Quit driving like its a gt350 cuz it's just an olde, antique Rutabaga....
It wasn’t a super car then either. It was the best Studebaker could do to try to keep up with a changing world. And it’s really cool. Also, the owner plans to drive the hell out of the car. Potential drag strip action involved. So I might as well start acclimating it now.
Could the pinging simply be shitty fuel?
Well, it’s premium - but that still only means 91 octane. It would definitely be happier on something…racier.
un-loosen = tighten
Correct
👽 .... ..
Bruh does it ever stop raining there? 😂
✨✨✨ r a r e l y ✨✨✨
“5 gallons of the worlds most expensive premium fuel”
*laughs in Californian*
Yep, good call… ouch.
What the Hell........
No crew all knowledge.
Pretty sure I’m mentally damaged after this video.
You should get that checked.
I'm blind typing in brail@@DeadDodgeGarage