Welding the Crown Vic drivers side was...fun
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Ive spent the last couple of weeks trying to weld the drivers side sill of the CVPI - the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor - this side is no where near as badly rusted but the weather has not been on my side...
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I am seriously impressed with your tenacity in sorting out your Crown Vic. I would have given up and put it on eBay for breaking up for spares. You have saved an American classic.
Its more like a better than before job than anything proper
I remember a guy who welded his lorry bed in the rain while his son was holding a huge umbrella. He needed the truck for work so the rain would not stop him. Thumbs up Mario. ( The welder )
Greetings from Slovenia.
I'm so happy you're saving this great car and not scrapping it! Looking forward to seeing this project completed and the car back on the road! Also anticipating what you do with some performance modifications as well. I can highly recommend Stainless Works tubular exhaust headers. Headers, high flow cats, some good 2.5" or 3" piping and a pair of Magnaflow mufflers makes the 2V 4.6 liter in these cars sound absolutely amazing! Also, look up Marty Ochs of Mo's Speed Shop outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He's the absolute best tuner of these Panther platform cars.
“Stop procrastinating and have a cup of tea.” Truly a motto to live by :-)
It was officially the warmest May ever …… according to the BBC , and they wouldn’t tell fibs would they 🧐
Of course not , what ever gave you that idea!!!!!!
Tele lie vision ,
🙄🥱 Since they simply report the weather forecasts from the Met Office, it's a pretty simple thing to check.
When it comes to Summer in England, I quote a line from the motion picture "Greenfingers" " Don't Get Your Hopes Up."
I think after it is truly finished we could all do with a video of you driving around and enjoying the car... At least 10 minutes lol
ABOUT TIME WE HAD A WET SUMMER SO GREAT START & COULD GET COLDER NEXT WEEK,,,,,,,SNOW IN SCOTLAND
Nice work Matt, at least you'll know at the end that the Crown Vic will be a good solid car. 😊👍
Well done, Matt on being British and carrying on through weather, which so far this year has been truly terrible.
Lovely weather you’re having 😅 glad to see ya with the awesome Crown 👑 Vic 🎉I’m sure you can’t wait to drive it again
I feel your pain Matt, I've been welding up my T4 on the drive the last few weeks and the weather is a big frustration.
Re the regulator leaking, I've had that in the past so I now remove the bottle each time I finish welding (even if I'm going back in an hour or 2). I've also found that the 60l CO2 bottles last better than the argon/CO2 mix ones and are the same price.
Anyway, cracking progress, you'll soon be back driving it and the pain will be all worth it.
Well done for not giving up. This is a rare car in the UK and in a great colour and spec.
Coming on good there Matt and glad it was less on the driver's side for you ...crown Vic back on the road in no time 👍
Hitchikers Guide reference did not go unnoticed all way from Virginia ❤
If you find a decent setting on the welder, write it on the welder, or on the underside of the wire feed cover. You'll then have a setting you can go back to, another day.
You might end up with a few after doing crown vics, minis... 😂
Great little tinkering video Matt, it suddenly went dark up here while watching the video and guess what it started raining 😂😂
Hi Matt, your doing a fantastic job on the Crown Victoria, I feel your frustrations with the weather, im going through the same thing myself long with family stuff as well. I just want to get outside and weld my Cavalier, like you im recording it for RUclips and i have literally days left before my personal deadline 😦
I really enjoy these videos though mate so keep them coming, all the best. Steve.
Sooo glad that you’re nearly there, I look forward to the day when it’s M.O.T ‘d again and you can rekindle your love with the car. 10 out of 10 for perseverance.
The Furious rain welder! Respect 🫡 Matt ! Your perseverance is amazing! You just kept going between the showers! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🆙
10:12 Thought this was going to have a caption stating Matt did not find any gas in the car and so he sits there pondering what to do as he knows if he goes to the shop to get some it will start raining when he comes back. 😂
Keep at it Sir! don't let the brown stuff get the better of you.
With the amount of welding that you have to do would it be cheaper to get a mid size gas bottle for your welder and therefore can run a better regulator than what come with the small bottles. For someone who is self taught on a welder though you have done very well i think
Don’t forget the genuine expanding foam to go with the rust.
Well done, Matt. There is light at the end of the tunnel 💪🏼😃
the front of an on-coming train?
@@furiousdriving 🤣🤣🤣
Well done Matt and welcome back to our airwaves, you have been missed !
Cracking video Matt, the Crown Vic is getting close now! I feel your pain re welding outside, I finally had a couple of decent weather days last week to sort out a crusty Range Rover sill after what seems like weeks of sogginess 😂
It’s going to be lovely and solid when you’re done! I do hope you left some kind of review somewhere for the POS who sold you the thing.
Mat you should have waited until summer to weld the crown Vic
🤣🤣🤣😤 Good job well done .👍🌈🌅☔⚡🌧️
Getting closer to the end of rust repairs on your Crown Victoria
I have some sorry news Matt, i read somewhere that this may be the wettest summer in over a hundred years...
I can easily believe that...
Wow! Here in southern Australia, it has been the driest autumn/winter for quite some time. The reservoirs are only about 20% full and there is countryside full of yellow grass that would normally be overgrowing at this time of year.
Some parts of Southern Germany are drowning at the moment, while in neighbouring Austria the vegetation is exploding (which feels like a good thing considering we had an endless string of much too dry years).
Ots called weather modification ie geo engineering ie cloud seeding ie " chemtrails " we tried to tell YOU all years n years ago
@@matthewc.419 are you high?
get a hobbyweld bottle, they cost a bit to get you going because of the deposit and regulator but you get your moneys worth.
furious rain. well done getting that done with the glorious British weather.
Get a regulator from Machine Mart Matt. 👍🏻
I love Furious Welding!
The Brown Vic gets even less brown every episode, keep it up.
I see next door is building a carport at the front of the garage, why not take the opportunity to extend it over yours, I would, have two carports, it's worth it with all the rain
we did joke about that
With the weather as it is maybe you should of got a Chris Craft instead of a Crown Vic.
What a great job Matt if your paying yourself by the hour 😂, with your wages you can get a new lens, new gas bottle and buy a couple of tin mugs for your PG Tips 😁👌🏻
wages? what are they?
@@furiousdriving If £ coins were raindrops and they were falling on your head when you made the video Matt , you’d have concussion 🤕 by now 😂, look on the bright side, your poor but alive and still have a huge welding job to do , your quids in 😂.
Well done Matt 👍🏴
You have broken the back of it now Matt. 👍
Hi Matt,respect for you persistence
Why not run your welder on pure CO2 using pub bottles or out of date CO2 fire extinguishers as those small argon mix things you use cost a small fortune to run. Look forward to the next vid so keep um coming.
Why did you not just put it under the car port?
the MX5 is roof leaks, and if it caught fire the garage would go up
Did the lean-to have a friend over? I spy another beside the furious welding car.....
Shame the original lean-to is full of cars, would have been handy for welding in there.
they sprout like mushrooms of youre not careful
Why not get a proper gas bottle , cheaper in the run ,pay for bottle deposit and gas then for gas you use refill/ exchange , which is what I've been doing, could you get one of those "tent's"
Lo again Matt, Quick Question, Do you have a gazeebo.? I invested in one years ago and they are very useful for keepn the rain away when you are up to your ass in alligators.. No point in commenting on your determination/tenacity. That's a gimme. No be long noo bud . I hope youve got a track spot booked fur the great day. (Raggn it roon the track) after all the work it would be rude not to. Thanks for vid. Later 🤓
It’s too windy for one here, itvwoyld he up the street in no time!
Well done for persevering and making great content 🤛💪👍
Is this weather normal in Kent or does it just wait until you wish to get busy outside??
It waits for me to step outside
Hottest May on record apparently 🤔
must have been indoors that day
I know how you feel trying to work on my Rover 75 1 day to hot then ☔☔☔ climate change getting warmer 😅 your joking.
Do you think that perhaps the seller (or even the police department that the car belonged to) use foam as a way to deal with rust issues as they don't have MOT regulations like in the UK? So maybe you were not scammed?
Spray foam isn't considered a way to deal with rust by anyone other than Arthur Daley.
I don't think the police force would do that. I like to think they'd like to repair their cars properly...
no way the police would do that, think of the liability if there was a crash, and no, no one repairs with expanding foam, it has zero strength and holds water so speeds up rusting. Only bodgers and conmen use it
@@furiousdriving OK, that makes sense. Thank you. Great series btw
Did u use the tea shelf?
The tea welder was used
How the volvo 740
its fine, it just plods on
Is that your neighbours new car port in the background?
yup, hes copying me!
How many cars do you actually own and what are they all?
this was the last round up ruclips.net/video/fYJjzhGfUpw/видео.html
Cool Thumbnail. Sterling work as always.
Think you may have been listening / viewing the BBC forecast which has become less accurate since ditching the Met Office for the Meteo Group. The ITV ones are more accurate as still use the Met Office. They also show the temperature and weather on the graphics where I am in Cork and more accurate than our Met Office.
Well done for finishing the epic welding project on the Crown Vic.
I feel your pain, albeit to a lesser degree. A few times I've set myself up to do a particular car job and by the time I've got it all ready, it has started raining!
there doesnt seem to have been an entire dry day for weeks now!
Matt stop procrastinating and get the kettle on
One thing you never run out of is - rust...,
THIS WEEK ON CARPORT WARS
Furious welding. The end is in sight. I'm hoping for a long hot dry summer for us all in the UK.
The end is in sight.... Nah, there's still the W123.
@@cjmillsnun I was thinking about the old tank when I typed that. I didn't want to remind him and spoil his day.
@@cjmillsnun and the mini
I cant wait for the so called global warming to kick -in.
Hobbyweld no.5 gas 9l bottle was the route I went check website out I love doing welding but the filling sanding and painting takes sooooo much time. Keep it up
If you're getting a new regulator, get one of the adaptors to let you use a proper gas cylinder; the money savings and the time savings are SO worth it.
I updated my 80's era Clarke welder by doing this and I've never looked back.
I get my gas from Adams Gas via steel and welding supply shop Austen Knappman. There's a one-off deposit on the cylinder, and after that it's just exchanges for the price of the gas.
A 6.35 kg cylinder (less than a metre tall) is roughly £32 exchange.
MATT!! You're welding with too much "stick-out" In other words, you need to put the welding torch nozzle really close to the point that you lay a weld to in future. It won't shortcircuit or anything. With the welding torch very close, then dial the welder settings to get a good bead.
Welding outdoors with that much stickout is going to use all of your gas and make your welds look the way they do. Weld in a wind-free environment with very little (or no) stick-out and suddenly you'll weld like a pro.
Seriously, when you weld anything; throw a lap-fence-panel / tarp up to enclose the carport you've just made and weld in there. It's painful seeing how much better (and therefore far easier) your welding could be, i promise you'll actually start enjoing welding, no lie.
😁
Matt, great effort with your welding, it's great to get stuck in and feel the satisfaction of knowing you did it yourself. Can i recommend a tip for you? To save time and money, ditch the gas bottle and buy gasless MIG wire, the gas is in the wire itself. I have a 30 year old Clarke Weld 90 EN MIG welder which i've been using for donkeys years to weld sills, wings, floor pans, iron gates etc and never bothered to attach any gas bottle or regulator, i just bought the gasless wire, they sell it everywhere, i even picked up a few more rolls recently in Lidl of all places for six quid a roll!! Hope you give it a go it's a life saver.? Keep up the great videos, i'm looking forward to you returning to the Classic Mini. Personal Regards Roger .
Will this vehicle ever stop needing rust sorted ?..... Probably not. Could you have put the Vic in the area where the Rover P6 is under cover?
8:01 these Ninjas don't blend in as well as they did in the 80's
Hi there,make a piece of Perspex plastic shield on a stand for when your welding or grinding so not to damage the camera lenz🙏🙏🇬🇧
"Let's stop procrastinating and have a cup of tea." You should print that on your mugs!
You're getting there with it. When you have the MOT pass you will enjoy driving it again! Smile back on your face.
Tenacity's a fine attribute, Matt. Well done! 👍
“Do I need to build a boat at this point?” 😂 No, but you can certainly weld one.
I dont like the rain in UK, cause we get it here on continent 24 h later. ;o)
I think that would pass inspection in New York and New Jersey. The frame rails aren't rusted, so the car isn't going to fold in half.
Of course, maybe US states don't have inspections at all anymore.
When I was a kid, I think NJ inspection was stricter than NY's. NJ didn't allow holes later than a certain size (maybe ½" or 1"?) in non-structural external body panels.
Of course, most cars were body-on-frame then, like this Crown Vic
My old '05 Jetta passed inspection in NJ with badly rusted Fenders (wings to you), but they're non-structural. Rust in the unibody would have been a fail.
Rocker panels? Pass, as long as they're not structural.
Every state has its own rules, Ohio just has bi-annual emissions! Uk is strict, and corrosion within 30cm of a seatbelt bolt is an instant fail
Great patience, is your neighbours car port an homage to yours?
hes copying me!
Easy to understand Matt cause who wouldn’t want to copy you
Poor old Furious Driving, I feel a bit guilty for laughing out loud when I saw the thumbnail with the lashing rain. Just typical.
I want to go home, somebody else's home where there's no welding to be done.
How about the HubNuts? No wait, Bella the Berlingo needs welding. 😂
Well done Matt at least there is light at the end of the tunnel now with all the welding I feel your pain it’s been lousy this year hasn’t it not many dry days just cold and wet you watch the autumn will be roasting like ever! Well done on your hard work you will
Have a really solid car there
It is a Yank Tank after all.
A job well done Matt! Welding in the rain is not a great idea, lots of volts and sparks in puddles is not a good idea unless you want a cardiac reset. It's great to see the Crown Vic getting closer to being back on the road, OK you've had to rebuild lumps of it but hopefully the end is in sight to get her back on the road. At least she's better behaved (so far) compared to the Rover P6. Great work and thanks for sharing.
I'm not a welding expert but an electrical engineer and I think the only dangerous bit is the mains going into the welder. The output side is very few volts but lots of amps instead, enough to create the almighty arc you want for welding but certainly not enough to kill anyone. So as long as you don't plonk the extension lead that feeds the welder into a puddle you should be safe. Not sure if you could get into trouble with water hitting hot metal and turning into steam that could scald you.
I'm worried about the W123
It’s the safest car of all tucked up in the garage!
@@furiousdriving Ha! No, I mean You're not going to fix it! 😄
Your determination is amazing. Most people would’ve just given up. It will be worth it once you get through the MOT and get back behind the wheel.
I’ve watched a few videos lately where a lot of these get turned into dodge charges in America.
great video as always Matt. what ear buds do you use?
Cambridge Audio Melomania, great sound very good, very good noise blocking but a bit fussy about charging in their case