How to change a fan belt | Retro Cars | Car Maintenance | Drive in | 1976
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2024
- 'Drive in' presenter Tony Bastable show the viewers essential fan belt maintenance.
First shown: 25/05/1976
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Tony bastable . Proper bloke .
Imagine presenting him with an engine bay from 2019.
'Take it to the garage, mate' would be his reply.
Funnily enough, having a classic car, these kind of videos prove to be useful
Tony Bastable was a proper car dude.
When fixing your car wasn't a nightmare ...
I miss this style of programme with good no nonsense no frills advice.
I have a Mk3 Cortina. As a non-mechanically minded person, I have to say that this video was genuinely useful!
That nice new Escort , car DIY was very easy back then , especially on something like an Escort , I never had a broken or slipping can belt because I carried out a monthly check on it's condition , but the gutters of most A roads usually had a few discarded shredded examples.
You could use basic tools to attend to most repairs , set a carb by ear and borrow a timing light to check and set the engine timing.
Yes, looking back, cars were ridiculously simple back then.
Ahh them were the days. Anybody could get involved in their cars.
Early 2000s can still be worked on
Back when you could actually do things yourself.
Love my 1975 Capri MkII 3.0 Ghia, despite being the largest engine fitted in Capris, everything is easy to reach.
Replacing the fan belt is a 5 minute job, water pump takes around half an hour to replace.
Never had a 3.0.
I had two MkIII 1.6L, one MkII 2.0 Ghia Auto and a beautiful 2.8i Special in midnight blue.
I regret not buying a 3.0 because I borrowed two of them and personally considered them to be a better experience than my 2.8i.
My 2.0 Ghia was probably my favourite out of the ones I owned.
Keep looking after them!
@@veritasvincit2745 the 2.8 might have been more modern in design but it didn't have the low down grunt of the 3.0.
@@martinnorth2680 That's true. My 2.8 was a lot peakier and revvier than the 3 litres I drove.
They were lusty and torquey low down in the rev range.
I thought the 3 litres rode better too. The 2.8 was a little harsher in comparison. I think they tried to stiffen the suspension up which was OK on a smooth road but it crashed about on a rough surface. The 3 litre rode the bumps better.
Back in the day of cast iron, snap the fan belt and it would still get you home with short intervals and turning the engine off down hills!
Get back home and put the new belt on and off you go again, no head gasket problems or warped heads!
If only fixing car problems was that cheap and easy these days.
Good times really. Long gone. Nowadays you can only start fixing a car by plugging it to an OBD reader and reading fault codes. 🙄
RJFT 1973 which is not too bad, it helps considerably in pinpointing a problem.
When fan belts were short nowadays they are like giant pythons.
No idea who this chap it is but he his one randy bloke for sure. Excellent explanation and you just know the 70's dude with the hair and the accent knows his way around a 75 hp i4 engine bay.
Bastable is God!!
Also one more thing, when working around the alternator you might want to pull the ground off of the battery just in case you accidentally hit the back of the alternator, I know someone who did not do this and when the poles in the back of alternator hit metal it ground out the electrical system and burnt up the ignition box and it cost me a lot of money to get it fixed
Nice content you have going here.
Thank goodness we can still buy new mk2 escort shells, as the base models from the 70/80s are 15k for a good bare she'll 😱
The days when cars had longitudinal carburetted engines with few bits to go wrong and if they did, all you needed was a screwdriver and a spanner. Or small transverse engines if they were front wheel drive. Though I would never want to go back to cars with breaker point ignition.
The old days when you could fix your own car on the driveway using basic hand tools...
I guess DIY’ers are a rare breed in 2019, seems self sufficency is out the window. 😔
Judy Thomas until a catastrophe happens, then basic skills are needed again.
Proper bloke
‘Always carry a spare fan belt’ - hasn’t been a thing since the 1980s, right? I’ve been driving since that time and I have never ever carried one. Even if I could replace or tighten my own fan belt, I’ve never needed to in an emergency.
Anyone know where to find these belts ? I have a 1981 Winnebago brave can’t find them anywhere
No RUclips tutorials to look at back then not many people worked on their cars...
Tony Bastaple. Not a man to be trifled with
Yeah your right. He'd fit you up....or give you belt ha ha sorry
@@stevepearce6689 ....and turn you to jelly after trifling with you! Try not to crumble under the pressure though.
Take a liberty with him and you'd be picking up your teeth with a broken arm
Olympic blue Escort
When men were men, and cars were rusty