**A DIY Car Repair Adventure**

As I sat down with my trusty sidekick to tackle the mysterious rattle in our beloved car, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. The rattle had been driving us crazy for weeks, and we were determined to get to the bottom of it. With a few tools and some know-how, we set out on a mission to fix the problem once and for all.

First things first, we took off the speaker grille to get a better look at what was causing the rattle. "Hopefully, we can take the speaker grille off and see what's under there," I said, my eyes scanning the dark space beneath. My sidekick nodded in agreement, and we began to work our magic. With a few deft taps of the screwdriver, the grille came loose, revealing a tangled mess of wires and debris.

As we peered into the darkness, my sidekick spotted something shiny - "I think it's these things here," they said, pointing to a cluster of metal parts. I got to work, using both hands to squish out whatever was causing the rattle. "Well, it looks like somebody attempted a repair of this rattle once before," I chuckled, holding up a piece of 50-year-old duct tape. My sidekick and I exchanged a laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Next, we turned our attention to the heater core, which I suspected was the culprit behind the rattling noise. "Do you see the box that's in there?" I asked, trying to gauge my sidekick's level of familiarity with the inner workings of our car. They shook their head, and I warned them that it could be a nightmare to get into.

**The Cost of Repair**

With the heater core identified as the source of the problem, we began to estimate the cost of repair. "How much do you think it's gonna be?" my sidekick asked, their brow furrowed in concern. I hesitated, unsure of how much our car would set us back. "I have no idea just for the heater core could be a few hundred bucks," I admitted.

My sidekick nodded thoughtfully, and we began to research the cost of replacement parts online. We eventually landed on a estimate of $450 for the core itself, plus labor costs. While not ideal, it seemed like a fair price considering our car's age and condition.

**A Lesson in Car Repair**

As we worked, my sidekick learned a valuable lesson about the complexities of car repair. "I had no idea how much it was gonna cost or the oil leaks or the differential," they said wryly. I nodded in agreement, knowing that experience is the best teacher when it comes to DIY car repairs.

We also discovered that some parts are still held together with ancient technology - like 75-cent steering squirt bottles. "The value of you doing this is 75 cents," my sidekick joked, chuckling at their own cleverness.

**A Reluctant Acceptance**

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, we had the rattle fixed and our car was good as new. As I reflected on our adventure, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in my ability to fix things around the house - or at least, in this case, in our trusty car.

"I'm getting better at this," I said to my sidekick, grinning from ear to ear. They nodded in agreement, and we both knew that with practice, patience, and a willingness to get our hands dirty, anything was possible.

And so, we set off into the sunset, ready to take on whatever car troubles came our way - or rather, what ever car adventures awaited us.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm back with my 1966 Imperial on my way up to Newton to see the car wizard this is an amazing car for the highway the 440 350 horsepower engine really scoots this thing along I can cruise at 90 miles an hour no problem and the ride is so smooth and comfortable and as you can see I am steering with my pinky right now this is just the perfect land yacht I love this thing so much but there are some issues now the seller just drive this car as a turnkey example and when I went and looked at it in person it was pouring rain outside in California and I couldn't test drive it all I could do was start it up and push the buttons and all that stuff so I really couldn't look at it that closely but still I knew there was a leak underneath I could see oil dripping somewhere under the engine and it's a pretty big leak if I leave it for a few days it leaves a puddle yeah big but hopefully that's not a big deal when it up and a lift and take a look there is one thing I'm worried about though and that's with this heater it's a cold windy rainy day and I would love to turn on my heater right now that's coolant is somehow getting into the fan and spitting it out at me basically I'm getting napalmed when I turn the heat on it is not pleasant I'll turn the heat on right now it's good for a few minutes until it really starts pumping around and then it starts smelling sweet that windshield gets coated and I can't breathe so it's things more like Christine it's trying to kill me while we wait for it to try and kill me I'll talk about the other issues I have this squeak in the steering wheel as y'all can hear and my radio unfortunately it has like a rattling noise where the front speaker is this Carly has two speakers of one front right here on the dashboard in the center and then there's beautiful one with the Imperial logo in the back and the front one makes a pretty bad rattle noise when I'm just driving it normally so a few annoyance is there and we were definitely starting to fog up in here the Napalm love the smell of napalm in the morning I'm gonna get this whole car in the shot although I turned on the heater to show the people that the heaters blowing it's napalm in me with coolant it was a bad idea how the glass is all slimy too no you don't want to inhale that stuff yes but here it is wizard my 66 Imperial gorgeous it's gorgeous it's a giant you even see like let me look here oh it's just too big there's no way for me to get the whole thing in the shot they don't make cars like this anymore no they sure don't mission yeah very solid it feels like my rolls-royce it's just an older version of it a really solid bank vault kind of car this is back when they would have built things similar to Rolls Royce the seats are really nice - yeah nice white leather original leather which apparently what made the leather hold up so well as they coated it with sperm oil it's oil of the sperm well not not oil of the is whale oil which is environmentally not good they had to kill whales to put it on the seat but it was so yeah whales died to coat my seats and it's a disaster it is even more than that it leaks a lot of oil it's really smooth and drives great going down the highway but I can visibly see the gas gauge move which you can't fix that that's part of the 440 but you can't look at the oil leak there is an exhaust rattle like a hangers loose obviously that heater issues my heater core I've already ordered one in you said it showed up right yes we have it here yeah and I have a rattle in the - the speaker my front speaker it's just it makes a weird noise like something's loose know if you can tear it apart and look into it for me a little bit yeah we can pull it out and look at it let's get it on the lift and first check the underneath all right this is going to test your lift yeah about five Octus Europe oh yeah look at that drum brakes and they even have a spring on the outside of the drum huh takes up harmonic noise it takes it away that's interesting it stops really well for drum brakes yeah people say old drum brakes are junk but that's what they're using semi trucks yeah very good brakes yeah well the front part of the engine looks looks nice and clean very nice and clean this engine has to have been out before there's just no way the paint color looks like a Detroit Diesel that Alpine green right well that's factory but it's almost too nice I wonder if it's been out and rebuilt I think so probably right oh there's my oil oh boy am i mr. unlucky rear main seal as usual probably it looks like but we could take these bolts four bolts off we can know for sure okay I'll go grab a wrench alright hey can I get a flashlight maybe people can know we'll skip on the flashlight this time around why I got a flashlight I can see what I'm looking at it's all that matters the audience I'm pretty sure won't shine it in your face again no no lights three remain seals dry oh really yes so is the back of the pan here they likely let me see if it's coming up from up above let me check the other side too that's good news good news I think the problem is here that they didn't even put a pan gasket on it look it's just silicone know really just blob silicone sticking out probably needs a pan gaskets about it that's it yep well it's a 440 so it should be easy enough to find I would hope yeah eBay nice so the oil is kind of going back here onto the transmission yeah that's like just making a big felt like the antifreeze are blowing in your face a minute ago all right hey was blowing the oil that's what yeah all right well here's why they were banned from demolition derbies the X frame yeah look at how solid this thing is I was gonna talk about that but look at the frame up here wizard even up here is unbelievable you have splits off it splits off into three ways the frame it's they did not want this to crumple zone at all no they want the crumple to be into the the next person this is basically a wrecking ball I bet it could take down a building and this frame is it is definitely the beefiest frame I've ever seen on a car it definitely is look at that it's I beams this fighting steel i-beams like this is a welded box frame it's all but this stuff here is that's like Empire State Building pieces yeah and it's in really good shape under here it's got a new exhaust looks like yeah I'm hearing a rattle from the exhaust so I don't know if you cannot help me hunt that down might be touching something it sounds like a loose hanger and that yeah that gong feel you just made well maybe I should climb up and run it yeah that'd be good okay there's a yellow ladder right over there there we go let me borrow the flashlight all right that thing the heat riser valve so that puts warm air into the carburetor and it shouldn't be so can you fix that yeah give me my life back fix it yeah in the back here looks very Purdy as well oh yeah there was another big leak I guess maybe from his diff huh yeah it's actually leaving a pretty good puddle as well it's a pinion seal here and then back here was the only part of the car that looked a little crusty to me oh yeah the surface wise but still once again look at this frame coming off in three different directions into the corner it's a tree of metal it's unbelievable well this car has really been gone through by somebody else it's nice for a change to buy a car that somebody's already taking all the arthritic things with a almost six year old car in and gone through it there's a little leak there and easy to fix rattle what do you think I think that you did pretty good on this one really good for once I know okay thank you thank you so there's that one other rattle in the dash hopefully we can take the speaker grille off and see what's under there that would be great yes I'll put it back down try not to I lost a hubcap wizard I didn't know I drove it up here in the rain and there was a giant pothole that was covered by water and it must have popped off maybe you might go back to that area it's probably still there yeah yeah well that's something people back in the day had to deal with all the time you might as well put the roof down for a little extra lighting in here ambience there we go this is class isn't it and a really roomy backseat - yeah it should be for a 19 foot long convertible hey you got it so what's rattling that I think it's these things here squish those like that with both hands is there money well it looks like somebody attempted a repair of this rattle once before duct tape that's like 50 year old duct tape ha ha ha yes so I could get a piece of rubber back here and glue it on and rest on that yeah piece of foam while you're under there do you see the heater core I seen the box that's in there I may be able to get to it fairly easy but I've had some of these older cars where it's a nightmare to get stuff yeah so you have no idea how much it's gonna cost or the oil leaks or the differential my squeak is easy yeah I can spray some lubricant down in there and take care of that and my speaker is easy and that little rattle from the whatever that little thing was is easy heat riser valve so how much do you think it's gonna be I have no idea just for the heater core could be a few hundred bucks 300 bucks really Oh my office and figured oh oh the office he loves to go in there we did it the previa last time and that was much more pleasant oh boy yeah he's ready wizard I'm always worried what's gonna be on your computer when I come in here but now you can have sperm oil you can still buy it huh yeah a couple of them must come from Asia where they still do some wailing but apparently it's for medicinal purposes or great for massages and cuts bruises no I'm not putting a sperm whale oil in my body yeah weird so how's my list okay mmm Ariel yes most expensive thing is probably gonna be the heater for which I already bought right so that was a few hundred dollars for the core itself and then how much to fix it maybe three to four hundred it may be a little cheaper but I don't know it's old enough car I can't look up the data but it gets cheaper from there right yeah good okay I can do 450 that's about normal yes yeah good differential seal I think while people were just pulled opinion off and put a new seal on and then Titan opinion left the correct torque that we heard okay and that takes care of all my lease on a 50-something year-old car that's amazing only BMW and Mercedes and the trimmer two cars could do that he rides around 100 bucks just mostly labor and come spring and make sure it's all good to go yeah yeah I'd take care of one noises huh all that - yes 80 bucks maybe a hundred but probably 80 open rubber foam strips so it quits rattling and put that all back together perfect your steering squeaks I can get a little straw down in there and squirts that's gonna be really expensive yeah 75 cents so if you wait 75 cents 75 cents I will charge you for the one squirt so the value of you doing this is 75 cents you must be feeling very generous today cause normally you sneezing on the car is $45 so this is great we might even able to get some of this oil in there oh I don't want any more sperm oil in the car so what's the total there will be around 850 for everything that's not bad even my Toyota previa ended up being over $1,000 to fix everything so yeah I'm feeling good I'm getting better at this as we go along I say that and then I'll buy some disaster next week what was it I really want this car back it's prime season for convertible so well I want the Maserati back too I want my Wagoneer back - I want my Miata back to depict which one to start on mmm okay Maserati and this Thank You wizard you guys gonna order your well well and all up I'll head home thank you for watchingI'm back with my 1966 Imperial on my way up to Newton to see the car wizard this is an amazing car for the highway the 440 350 horsepower engine really scoots this thing along I can cruise at 90 miles an hour no problem and the ride is so smooth and comfortable and as you can see I am steering with my pinky right now this is just the perfect land yacht I love this thing so much but there are some issues now the seller just drive this car as a turnkey example and when I went and looked at it in person it was pouring rain outside in California and I couldn't test drive it all I could do was start it up and push the buttons and all that stuff so I really couldn't look at it that closely but still I knew there was a leak underneath I could see oil dripping somewhere under the engine and it's a pretty big leak if I leave it for a few days it leaves a puddle yeah big but hopefully that's not a big deal when it up and a lift and take a look there is one thing I'm worried about though and that's with this heater it's a cold windy rainy day and I would love to turn on my heater right now that's coolant is somehow getting into the fan and spitting it out at me basically I'm getting napalmed when I turn the heat on it is not pleasant I'll turn the heat on right now it's good for a few minutes until it really starts pumping around and then it starts smelling sweet that windshield gets coated and I can't breathe so it's things more like Christine it's trying to kill me while we wait for it to try and kill me I'll talk about the other issues I have this squeak in the steering wheel as y'all can hear and my radio unfortunately it has like a rattling noise where the front speaker is this Carly has two speakers of one front right here on the dashboard in the center and then there's beautiful one with the Imperial logo in the back and the front one makes a pretty bad rattle noise when I'm just driving it normally so a few annoyance is there and we were definitely starting to fog up in here the Napalm love the smell of napalm in the morning I'm gonna get this whole car in the shot although I turned on the heater to show the people that the heaters blowing it's napalm in me with coolant it was a bad idea how the glass is all slimy too no you don't want to inhale that stuff yes but here it is wizard my 66 Imperial gorgeous it's gorgeous it's a giant you even see like let me look here oh it's just too big there's no way for me to get the whole thing in the shot they don't make cars like this anymore no they sure don't mission yeah very solid it feels like my rolls-royce it's just an older version of it a really solid bank vault kind of car this is back when they would have built things similar to Rolls Royce the seats are really nice - yeah nice white leather original leather which apparently what made the leather hold up so well as they coated it with sperm oil it's oil of the sperm well not not oil of the is whale oil which is environmentally not good they had to kill whales to put it on the seat but it was so yeah whales died to coat my seats and it's a disaster it is even more than that it leaks a lot of oil it's really smooth and drives great going down the highway but I can visibly see the gas gauge move which you can't fix that that's part of the 440 but you can't look at the oil leak there is an exhaust rattle like a hangers loose obviously that heater issues my heater core I've already ordered one in you said it showed up right yes we have it here yeah and I have a rattle in the - the speaker my front speaker it's just it makes a weird noise like something's loose know if you can tear it apart and look into it for me a little bit yeah we can pull it out and look at it let's get it on the lift and first check the underneath all right this is going to test your lift yeah about five Octus Europe oh yeah look at that drum brakes and they even have a spring on the outside of the drum huh takes up harmonic noise it takes it away that's interesting it stops really well for drum brakes yeah people say old drum brakes are junk but that's what they're using semi trucks yeah very good brakes yeah well the front part of the engine looks looks nice and clean very nice and clean this engine has to have been out before there's just no way the paint color looks like a Detroit Diesel that Alpine green right well that's factory but it's almost too nice I wonder if it's been out and rebuilt I think so probably right oh there's my oil oh boy am i mr. unlucky rear main seal as usual probably it looks like but we could take these bolts four bolts off we can know for sure okay I'll go grab a wrench alright hey can I get a flashlight maybe people can know we'll skip on the flashlight this time around why I got a flashlight I can see what I'm looking at it's all that matters the audience I'm pretty sure won't shine it in your face again no no lights three remain seals dry oh really yes so is the back of the pan here they likely let me see if it's coming up from up above let me check the other side too that's good news good news I think the problem is here that they didn't even put a pan gasket on it look it's just silicone know really just blob silicone sticking out probably needs a pan gaskets about it that's it yep well it's a 440 so it should be easy enough to find I would hope yeah eBay nice so the oil is kind of going back here onto the transmission yeah that's like just making a big felt like the antifreeze are blowing in your face a minute ago all right hey was blowing the oil that's what yeah all right well here's why they were banned from demolition derbies the X frame yeah look at how solid this thing is I was gonna talk about that but look at the frame up here wizard even up here is unbelievable you have splits off it splits off into three ways the frame it's they did not want this to crumple zone at all no they want the crumple to be into the the next person this is basically a wrecking ball I bet it could take down a building and this frame is it is definitely the beefiest frame I've ever seen on a car it definitely is look at that it's I beams this fighting steel i-beams like this is a welded box frame it's all but this stuff here is that's like Empire State Building pieces yeah and it's in really good shape under here it's got a new exhaust looks like yeah I'm hearing a rattle from the exhaust so I don't know if you cannot help me hunt that down might be touching something it sounds like a loose hanger and that yeah that gong feel you just made well maybe I should climb up and run it yeah that'd be good okay there's a yellow ladder right over there there we go let me borrow the flashlight all right that thing the heat riser valve so that puts warm air into the carburetor and it shouldn't be so can you fix that yeah give me my life back fix it yeah in the back here looks very Purdy as well oh yeah there was another big leak I guess maybe from his diff huh yeah it's actually leaving a pretty good puddle as well it's a pinion seal here and then back here was the only part of the car that looked a little crusty to me oh yeah the surface wise but still once again look at this frame coming off in three different directions into the corner it's a tree of metal it's unbelievable well this car has really been gone through by somebody else it's nice for a change to buy a car that somebody's already taking all the arthritic things with a almost six year old car in and gone through it there's a little leak there and easy to fix rattle what do you think I think that you did pretty good on this one really good for once I know okay thank you thank you so there's that one other rattle in the dash hopefully we can take the speaker grille off and see what's under there that would be great yes I'll put it back down try not to I lost a hubcap wizard I didn't know I drove it up here in the rain and there was a giant pothole that was covered by water and it must have popped off maybe you might go back to that area it's probably still there yeah yeah well that's something people back in the day had to deal with all the time you might as well put the roof down for a little extra lighting in here ambience there we go this is class isn't it and a really roomy backseat - yeah it should be for a 19 foot long convertible hey you got it so what's rattling that I think it's these things here squish those like that with both hands is there money well it looks like somebody attempted a repair of this rattle once before duct tape that's like 50 year old duct tape ha ha ha yes so I could get a piece of rubber back here and glue it on and rest on that yeah piece of foam while you're under there do you see the heater core I seen the box that's in there I may be able to get to it fairly easy but I've had some of these older cars where it's a nightmare to get stuff yeah so you have no idea how much it's gonna cost or the oil leaks or the differential my squeak is easy yeah I can spray some lubricant down in there and take care of that and my speaker is easy and that little rattle from the whatever that little thing was is easy heat riser valve so how much do you think it's gonna be I have no idea just for the heater core could be a few hundred bucks 300 bucks really Oh my office and figured oh oh the office he loves to go in there we did it the previa last time and that was much more pleasant oh boy yeah he's ready wizard I'm always worried what's gonna be on your computer when I come in here but now you can have sperm oil you can still buy it huh yeah a couple of them must come from Asia where they still do some wailing but apparently it's for medicinal purposes or great for massages and cuts bruises no I'm not putting a sperm whale oil in my body yeah weird so how's my list okay mmm Ariel yes most expensive thing is probably gonna be the heater for which I already bought right so that was a few hundred dollars for the core itself and then how much to fix it maybe three to four hundred it may be a little cheaper but I don't know it's old enough car I can't look up the data but it gets cheaper from there right yeah good okay I can do 450 that's about normal yes yeah good differential seal I think while people were just pulled opinion off and put a new seal on and then Titan opinion left the correct torque that we heard okay and that takes care of all my lease on a 50-something year-old car that's amazing only BMW and Mercedes and the trimmer two cars could do that he rides around 100 bucks just mostly labor and come spring and make sure it's all good to go yeah yeah I'd take care of one noises huh all that - yes 80 bucks maybe a hundred but probably 80 open rubber foam strips so it quits rattling and put that all back together perfect your steering squeaks I can get a little straw down in there and squirts that's gonna be really expensive yeah 75 cents so if you wait 75 cents 75 cents I will charge you for the one squirt so the value of you doing this is 75 cents you must be feeling very generous today cause normally you sneezing on the car is $45 so this is great we might even able to get some of this oil in there oh I don't want any more sperm oil in the car so what's the total there will be around 850 for everything that's not bad even my Toyota previa ended up being over $1,000 to fix everything so yeah I'm feeling good I'm getting better at this as we go along I say that and then I'll buy some disaster next week what was it I really want this car back it's prime season for convertible so well I want the Maserati back too I want my Wagoneer back - I want my Miata back to depict which one to start on mmm okay Maserati and this Thank You wizard you guys gonna order your well well and all up I'll head home thank you for watching\n"