Using a gearbox to blast car parts

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Жыл бұрын

In this video the most beautiful piece of hidden automotive engineering design is transformed by CNC plasma cutting equipment into a tool to help restore a classic Lotus Esprit.
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@shize9ine Жыл бұрын

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

@joreosuna650 Жыл бұрын

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

@lilosmosis Жыл бұрын

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 👍🏼

@yukiotakata Жыл бұрын

THE SNAZZIEST automotive channel on YT. LOOOOTUS! GeOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRGEEEEEH!

@michaelskinner896 Жыл бұрын

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!

@ClassicCarCave Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

10 points

@NemoConsequentae Жыл бұрын

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

@chrissnow8337 Жыл бұрын

From a Mercedes 722?

@ianbanister67 Жыл бұрын

Always someone quicker - my thoughts exactly

@mdtransmissionspecialties Жыл бұрын

Valve body

@haroldparker3487 Жыл бұрын

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.

@daveg2113 Жыл бұрын

So awesome to see you back on the Esprit.

@johnpartridge7623 Жыл бұрын

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

@simonhodgetts6530 Жыл бұрын

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

@CneyTMS Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@beetooex Жыл бұрын

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

@peterobbo316 Жыл бұрын

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

@LittlePixelTM Жыл бұрын

I think the music is all from the KZfaq 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'

@veteran011 Жыл бұрын

sand blasting is so flippin satisfying.

@doktoruzo Жыл бұрын

That plasma cutting is a work of art. Fabulous.

@guzmangil5476 Жыл бұрын

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)

@tobiasbalensiefer7349 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@tobiasbalensiefer7349 Жыл бұрын

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

@andersjjensen Жыл бұрын

So glad to see you upload frequently again!

@NoHandleAT Жыл бұрын

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

@V8PropaneBurner Жыл бұрын

Your're spoiling us George. Thank you

@rivenmotors7981 Жыл бұрын

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!

@saltpeter500 Жыл бұрын

Hooray, Lotus progess! Awesome video.

@justinkerr3033 Жыл бұрын

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

@jasonshull3106 Жыл бұрын

Thanks , George, for your great videos 📹 👍

@philiprowney Жыл бұрын

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

@MurrayC Жыл бұрын

Amazing how light the Lotus backbone chassis is

@soupclassicmotoring Жыл бұрын

55kg approx

@TheNorthernmunky Жыл бұрын

Awesome, so glad the esprit project has started again

@OpticalMan Жыл бұрын

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

@Blammoification Жыл бұрын

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

@phildem414 Жыл бұрын

Finaly the Esprit !

@markaslade Жыл бұрын

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.

@TheBrendonian Жыл бұрын

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

@wesleycardinal8869 Жыл бұрын

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 👍🇦🇺

@MrMontychops Жыл бұрын

“Mr Vincent Vegas” 😁

@leslieaustin151 Жыл бұрын

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

@dennisobrien2578 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos! Cheers from America 🍻

@marcusoutdoors4999 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love the stop motion

@SteHughes90 Жыл бұрын

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

@danbrown4517 Жыл бұрын

Mesmerizing as always George - great job! Dan

@suegoddard3864 Жыл бұрын

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

@htownblue11 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Super1275gt Жыл бұрын

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.

@davidstuart4915 Жыл бұрын

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

@rustysparks8645 Жыл бұрын

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

@hjp201168 Жыл бұрын

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!!!!!

@corvusala Жыл бұрын

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

@oxo1981 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant as always 👍

@xg5zm Жыл бұрын

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.

@threezerol944t Жыл бұрын

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

@DocJonesGarage Жыл бұрын

Great episode!

@richardoakley6460 Жыл бұрын

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.

@kentmckinnon288 Жыл бұрын

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

@fransb8543 Жыл бұрын

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

@fedorsamokhin4495 Жыл бұрын

Great video and good luck with inseizing the bolt there.

@cristian6766 Жыл бұрын

God damn i love this channel!!!

@shabbirbhaiji4570 Жыл бұрын

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!

@Dundertaker1 Жыл бұрын

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.

@johnginno5671 Жыл бұрын

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!

@andrewfarrow4699 Жыл бұрын

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.

@pontuswendt2486 Жыл бұрын

AMAZINGNES!!!

@KarlMcClelland Жыл бұрын

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

@Michail_Zacharioudakis Жыл бұрын

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….

@brown911 Жыл бұрын

SO GOOOD !

@veteran011 Жыл бұрын

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

@soupclassicmotoring Жыл бұрын

10 points

@AJC508 Жыл бұрын

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.

@NemoConsequentae Жыл бұрын

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!

@pyroboobysmith359 Жыл бұрын

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".

@wurlyone4685 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

10 points

@wurlyone4685 Жыл бұрын

@@soupclassicmotoring made my entire week worthwhile!

@philco7044 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic 😊👍🤓

@FoodLaneAdventures Жыл бұрын

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

@mickthemonkey Жыл бұрын

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.

@stephenhennessy2420 Жыл бұрын

Coola Boola, love the grate

@gertv6777 Жыл бұрын

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

@lets_measure_it Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

How was the progression?

@lets_measure_it Жыл бұрын

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.

@DashDrones Жыл бұрын

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

@sdavifcom Жыл бұрын

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...

@adogmcdizzle Жыл бұрын

Loved the effect at 8:14

@johnsherborne3245 Жыл бұрын

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.

@davidcoleman7674 Жыл бұрын

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

@nickboylen6873 Жыл бұрын

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

@SB-vb8ch Жыл бұрын

Those upper wishbones look uncannily like Vauxhall Chevette...

@soupclassicmotoring Жыл бұрын

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

@richardfiennes3616 Жыл бұрын

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

@torbjornpaulson7520 Жыл бұрын

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

@mariuslouw78 Жыл бұрын

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

@soupclassicmotoring Жыл бұрын

Close, but no cigar ;)

@maxmoughal5183 Жыл бұрын

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

@nikcodling Жыл бұрын

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.

@briangreen6602 Жыл бұрын

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 ?

@NNappula Жыл бұрын

Try brake fluid to unseize the pin

@bartoni79 Жыл бұрын

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

@backpackeradam Жыл бұрын

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

@BackyardMechCon Жыл бұрын

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?

@kjeldlarsen912 Жыл бұрын

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

@Space_Reptile Жыл бұрын

looks like the hydraulics distribution thingy you have in automatic transmissions

@dazzx10r Жыл бұрын

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

@pbysome Жыл бұрын

Burn it George, heat is the nemesis of seizures.

@futten3230 Жыл бұрын

fun workin on lotuses a friend is workin on a europa and when you can carry the frame on your shoulder it tells ya yeah this car is just stupidly light but did you just dry press the bushings and then sandblas them?!

@1one3_Racing Жыл бұрын

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

@kumakendo Жыл бұрын

The automatic transmission valve body off a ford cortina

@soupclassicmotoring Жыл бұрын

10 points, no cigar

@damyde8174 Жыл бұрын

Yes!!!

@DavidPlass Жыл бұрын

I got a little sad until the last-second addition of "and stay stuck in!"

@bwm999 Жыл бұрын

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

@SuperPancake06 Жыл бұрын

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.

@AW_DIY_garage Жыл бұрын

It looks like a part out of an automatic transmission that controls the shifter solenoids and roller(check) balls. No idea if that is correct, I have never been into an auto trans.