The Ferrari: A Major Engine Out and Waiting Game

We've seen one in a while, even with stock wheels, and it's interesting to guess about the timing of various projects. I've made the rounds, but my attention has been distracted by multiple tasks. The Ferrari is another big part waiting game, but will that finally be done? We did get the tensioners in today, which means we can put the belts on and valve covers can now be addressed.

We're getting close to putting the motor back in, a major engine out for this 96 F355 model. One of the most notable changes is new belts; they'll ensure proper function without any premature wear. The hill engineering tensioners are also being installed, which means we have multiple pulleys working together. These are lovely and will help to keep everything running smoothly.

We've got some boots coming in for the axle, including one that's been damaged – a boot that ruptured. We're being cautious here, as this car has never had its engine out before. Big repairs can be costly and complicated, but with experience and patience, we'll get through it. Hopefully, it won't be a frequent occurrence, given the age of the vehicle.

I'm curious about the Countach; will it have any major issues? I hope not – it's a significant investment for this car. We're trying to avoid common problems like rocker panels or frame restoration, which can add up quickly. Let's see how things go without any unexpected surprises. We'll be balancing and checking everything as we go along to ensure that the motor mounts and other components are in good condition.

There have been some interesting stories about people intentionally crashing their cars for YouTube views. One individual reportedly crashed his plane, which was somehow captured on camera with three GoPro angles. This behavior is not something we'll be doing here; our Countach will remain safely in the workshop.

The engine compartment contains a few minor issues to address. There's a tiny drip coming from one of the oil filters – likely due to some sort of seal or gasket issue. We can easily fix this and move on. However, there is something more significant happening up top: we'll need to remove certain bolts that are quite tight. We're not going to cut holes in anything; let's see if we can find another way to get the job done.

After some investigation, it appears that a slave cylinder needs replacement. This isn't entirely unexpected – old cars can develop issues like this over time. A new clutch slave cylinder will ensure everything is functioning properly and safely. With most problems out of the way, we're nearing the end of our project.

It's been a year since we last worked on this car, and it's been relatively trouble-free. We've had our share of normal maintenance issues, but nothing too major. The Countach has turned out to be a great car to work on – we can't complain about most things. As long as the parts show up at a reasonable time, we're in good shape.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to hoovy's garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and this is my 1989 lamborghini countach 25th anniversary edition and we're having our own little anniversary right now one year since i purchased this thing on a whim i had no idea i wasn't seeking out to buy a countach but an eccentric neurosurgeon just a few miles away from me down on dirt road sold me this and a lamborghini diablo so he could buy some more tanks for his museum both the cars had been sitting for a very long time and needed quite a bit of work but this car well it has been a joy to own truly a rewarding experience by every definition of the word but it's uh decided to give me a little gift on its one year anniversary and that is a big old puddle of something where it was parked so it has broken on the one year anniversary and we are going to take it up to the car wizards today to see well what has happened yes there's the cute little puddle right there the most recent one from the last few days since the last time i moved it's smaller than my foot but still that's definitely a leak but i can't be that mad at the countach because it has been well almost totally reliable no issue is left to be stranded or even close to leaving me stranded and all the issues for a car that had been driven 200 miles over the course of eight years wasn't that bad as opposed to the diablo which i bought at the same time from the same person well that's been a massive massive waiting game and well issue after issue nothing new has really popped up broken on this car but as we sort through all the layers of issues with the diablo and we order the next round of parts for it it just never ever ends you know four months for steering rack front shocks was another couple of months now the whole exhaust system is making a weird noise so we're waiting on that but we're getting very close i'm not ready to give up on this car quite yet and it is way way more comfortable than the countach but it hasn't been as blessed of a year as it has with this 1989 countach which is of course an icon obviously the original poster car so much so that i actually had the poster my dad had this in college he hung it basically over my crib so i've had it in my room my entire life and a year ago i was finally able to buy one this one is the most common though it's in 1989 25th which is the horatio pagani styled one the most ridiculous one with the side strikes to kind of look like a testerosa i guess interesting thing though it's kind of a fly catcher where they fly into it and die i don't know why it's doing that with this carpet that's what it's doing but a beautiful pearl white over red leather interior and i'm probably one of the few countach owners in existence right now that has put a thousand miles on their car in the last year i bought it with 17 000 i think 700 kilometers now it's at 19 321 and well still running fantastic the issues well there haven't been too many when we bought it of course the tires were rock hard and old that was a major expense there were a few leaks in the climate control and there were some electronics that weren't working but that was an easy fix and then after all that unfortunately we had an issue with the original ignition box the magnetic morelli system was acting up to where it was sputtering and almost stalling but still made it up to the car wizards we converted it to a modern msd ignition system and really it hasn't given me a lick of trouble since i took it to california on the countach rally which was incredible celebrating 50 years of the lamborghini countage all up and down highway 1 to monterey car week driving on laguna seca seeing the all new countach which you know it's not the same a really really fun experience made a lot of friends on that rally and lamborghini countach owners in general are a lot like me basically people that saw the poster always wanted one and buying it is a dream fulfilled i never detected an ounce of snobbery or pretentiousness with any of the owners and then we shipped it back to kansas and well i have driven it some obviously but not nearly as much as other cars have come in but the thing that's hanging over my head in this last year are the prices for a car that i don't use all that much that i'm kind of scared to use because of this pearl white paint i put one scratch on it there's no way you're going to match it you're gonna have to repaint the whole car i could sell this thing and pay off all of my car debt and a good chunk the majority of my mortgage one car that i bought right here for well a very very low price with another lamborghini that i could keep john tamarion have curated an outfit that specializes in these countages has checked in with me ever since i bought it but also he's checked in a lot over the last year to see if i wanted to sell or how things were going mostly checking in to be nice but he also believes these cars will be million dollar cars in the not so distant future so if i sell it now i would be selling myself short but at the same time as this car gets more and more expensive the more scared i will be to drive it and i'd hate to have this thing sit and more issues to start popping up because the more you drive these cars well the better they run and with that being said well let's run this thing up to the car wizards with the little drippy drip in the oil and actually before we go i'd like to mention the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube has a new t-shirt out it's inspired by these vintage lamborghini countach t-shirts that i have bought over the past year my sister's a graphic designer designed this really cool countach themed t-shirt that you can pre-order right now supplies will be limited we don't run these shirts forever so get one while you can also hooves garage stickers only five bucks get you a sticker to cover up all of your hoopty issues and i would love to see where you put these stickers so i'm going to give a little contest buy a five dollar sticker put it in a cool place my favorite one that i see each week when you tweet me at hooves garage i will share at the end of the video so get your hoovey's garage sticker and your hoovies garage countage t-shirt while supplies last lambo yoga complete i don't fit but i don't care now once i'm in i'm i mean i'm kind of locked in i guess oh yeah i love this thing i love it it doesn't matter that it decided to sort of break on its one-year anniversary hopefully the oil leak is minor though we'll see what the car wizard has to say oh this car oh wizard i fall in love every time i drive this car that's why it's so hard to get rid of isn't it it is very hard to get rid of even though it's quite valuable but uh it also wanted to come see you oh how's that it's left a little oil puddle about you know it it pooted i had driven it for you know 45 days or so and it wanted to let me know that hey drive me or i'll do stuff like this so it has a little leak but it's just one year anniversary so we should give it a look over anyway for one year okay but wonderful car it's been a great year it has it's been a great year and it's amazing how well this runs wasn't you on a countach rally recently yes yes it did great on the countach rally yeah for two cars that have been sitting for a long time completely different stories with the diablo versus the countach i mean the diablo it's not really that car's fault it's just waiting on parts which is something you're dealing with on everything now right right which is kind of a story on some other cars around here so before we go on the lift let's uh let's check on some things huh okay starting with well oh 3 48 is it is it it's good to go it's ready to go okay that's actually a two year anniversary there on that car so it's just an oil change there was a leak that uh danielson was able to fix real easily a coolant hose clamp he went through did all the clamps tighten them all up that's ready to go so other than that clean bill of health yep my last year before the engine comes out for the belt service which we're dealing with right now on another ferrari but we'll get to there in a little bit uh waiting game still on the audi r8 we did find that the crank sensor itself was bad and i ordered another one and just like i mentioned on some of my videos just where just because they say it's in stock doesn't mean it actually is yeah so pretty much the same place where we were two weeks ago because we're waiting on parts and this is on you know a pretty normal generic sensor for an audi volkswagen it's it's a normal part that is taking weeks yes unfortunately there's a few blasts from the past in here this is a e320 diesel huh yes it is from vermont i had one this exact color really yeah i would get 40 miles per gallon in it too 40 yeah wow it's just the last good mercedes diesel i think huh it's a sweet little ride doesn't need a whole lot of serious work it just needs to checked over and a few things right well and then this is your nation's bob's it's a 76 grand marquis 75 75 yeah look at that red and white dash hey this thing is just absolutely mint very nice i don't need to do it again though i did it with a lincoln that was nice i don't think i need to revisit that i don't think so but maybe vantage mercedes life because i know you've been enjoying the 420 sel right yes i've been loving it it's such a nice ride on the way home it's just so comfortable and easy on me hmm well oh you got junior mint doing something to it he's putting new plugs on it i'm looking i'm looking at his flashlight head setup wizard where he doesn't have to put it in his mouth like you i like putting it in my mouth anyway uh super bird uh super bird still had a little oil leak yep we had to replace one of the 10 a.m fittings and it's called 10am that's the size of it oh is it this metal this one here that goes down to that cooler it just wouldn't seal we replaced it and and then we have to figure out how to stop it from overheating when it sits in idles which maybe a tune maybe something else it may just be a characteristic of this engine which is pretty common as i've seen in the comments but i'm not going to give up yet i mean at least it'll be a drivable car as long as they don't get stuck in stop and go traffic basically right so my goodness i'm getting distracted by this this monstrosity here timing belt water pump diamond belt wow sc 430 these were some goofy goofy cars i haven't seen one in a while even the stock wheels yes interesting i guess i've made the rounds i'm getting distracted here but the ferrari another big parts waiting game but is that finally done yeah we did get the tensioners in today now we can put the belts on valve covers oh good we're getting close to putting the motor back in to start reassembling 96 f355 with a major engine out oh i see new belts yes that's good new belts and then the hill engineering tensioners right to uh these are over here got the tensioners lovely and then we have the hill engineering pulleys yes oh cool well just one tensioner multiple pulleys yeah nice and you have uh ooh that's a greasy thing that's the cv joint this boot goes on for the 355 oh for the axle we got some boots coming so it ruptured yep ruptured it's it's boot interesting well i'm curious what's uh ruptured on the countach i'm curious as well please be kind something simple a little hose clamp i hope so because this car has never had its engine out before so with a car that's never had its engine out for a big expensive reseal you're gonna deal with things like this regularly because it's 30 years old but hopefully it's in an easy to reach spot plea please please you're not finding rocker panel and frame rest again are you no no not here that baja that was really something that was definitely something i sold it actually for four thousand dollars somebody's well the motor's worth close to that i suppose so somebody's partnered out so you guys have seen all the memes with cars falling off the lifts we're trying not to do that not not this one no without any other one we could do it for views all it takes is to check the balance just like i'm doing check it here make sure it's good to go right you know there's that guy that there we go supposedly purposely crashed his plane for youtube views oh yeah he happened to have a parachute three gopro angles on it we won't be doing that with a countach no we're not doing that today well we haven't been in here for a year a year huh nope we'll start up here where the power train starts okay there's a little drip here is this coming from that little cover on the shifter that could be it is that where you're seeing the oil yes because it wasn't necessarily engine oil and it did seem right in the middle just that little cap needs to come off and be resealed huh kind of a girish oil gear wheel yeah okay let's go ahead and check it over and the rest of the way i'm not seeing drips of anything there's seepage but it's just really not anything to worry about right there's a drip there on the oil filter but that's probably from the last yeah it's definitely not further back it's that middle one and it was a weird color that wasn't quite engine oil so that makes a lot of sense but i see what four pretty easy to reach bolts yeah and that's it should be let me take a look those those bolts up top though look a little tight yeah they won't come all the way out we may have to take it off here oh so what does this thing do that's your shifter oh oh we'll just see if we can get the cap off there might be a way where we could partially lower this down just enough to get the bolts out we'll see yeah don't cut a hole in this one no we're not going to cut holes it is but yeah this isn't a hooptie mercy logo yes okay well it's something to do but still very simple huh yep there's a tiny bit coming from right here looks like your slave cylinder on oh i'm seeing okay that's the second puddle because it's kind of like a different color yeah there's a little drip there okay so we do have something to do so we need a slave cylinder clutch slave cylinder for a countach yep okay so that's it all right well none of that is yeah because there's that and then there was just a little bit there but it was kind of it was oily but then it was kind of blue which was weird so i had sprite brake fluid or something because that's so there it is a year that's it a great car i really can't complain over the past year i mean that's just normal old car stuff that's not going to be that bad if the parts can show up at a reasonable time so thank you so much for watching don't forget my blouse here uh new hooves garage t-shirt that kind of looks like this it's a countach themed shirt and stickers wizard there's stick stickers yes yes thank you so much for watchingwelcome to hoovy's garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and this is my 1989 lamborghini countach 25th anniversary edition and we're having our own little anniversary right now one year since i purchased this thing on a whim i had no idea i wasn't seeking out to buy a countach but an eccentric neurosurgeon just a few miles away from me down on dirt road sold me this and a lamborghini diablo so he could buy some more tanks for his museum both the cars had been sitting for a very long time and needed quite a bit of work but this car well it has been a joy to own truly a rewarding experience by every definition of the word but it's uh decided to give me a little gift on its one year anniversary and that is a big old puddle of something where it was parked so it has broken on the one year anniversary and we are going to take it up to the car wizards today to see well what has happened yes there's the cute little puddle right there the most recent one from the last few days since the last time i moved it's smaller than my foot but still that's definitely a leak but i can't be that mad at the countach because it has been well almost totally reliable no issue is left to be stranded or even close to leaving me stranded and all the issues for a car that had been driven 200 miles over the course of eight years wasn't that bad as opposed to the diablo which i bought at the same time from the same person well that's been a massive massive waiting game and well issue after issue nothing new has really popped up broken on this car but as we sort through all the layers of issues with the diablo and we order the next round of parts for it it just never ever ends you know four months for steering rack front shocks was another couple of months now the whole exhaust system is making a weird noise so we're waiting on that but we're getting very close i'm not ready to give up on this car quite yet and it is way way more comfortable than the countach but it hasn't been as blessed of a year as it has with this 1989 countach which is of course an icon obviously the original poster car so much so that i actually had the poster my dad had this in college he hung it basically over my crib so i've had it in my room my entire life and a year ago i was finally able to buy one this one is the most common though it's in 1989 25th which is the horatio pagani styled one the most ridiculous one with the side strikes to kind of look like a testerosa i guess interesting thing though it's kind of a fly catcher where they fly into it and die i don't know why it's doing that with this carpet that's what it's doing but a beautiful pearl white over red leather interior and i'm probably one of the few countach owners in existence right now that has put a thousand miles on their car in the last year i bought it with 17 000 i think 700 kilometers now it's at 19 321 and well still running fantastic the issues well there haven't been too many when we bought it of course the tires were rock hard and old that was a major expense there were a few leaks in the climate control and there were some electronics that weren't working but that was an easy fix and then after all that unfortunately we had an issue with the original ignition box the magnetic morelli system was acting up to where it was sputtering and almost stalling but still made it up to the car wizards we converted it to a modern msd ignition system and really it hasn't given me a lick of trouble since i took it to california on the countach rally which was incredible celebrating 50 years of the lamborghini countage all up and down highway 1 to monterey car week driving on laguna seca seeing the all new countach which you know it's not the same a really really fun experience made a lot of friends on that rally and lamborghini countach owners in general are a lot like me basically people that saw the poster always wanted one and buying it is a dream fulfilled i never detected an ounce of snobbery or pretentiousness with any of the owners and then we shipped it back to kansas and well i have driven it some obviously but not nearly as much as other cars have come in but the thing that's hanging over my head in this last year are the prices for a car that i don't use all that much that i'm kind of scared to use because of this pearl white paint i put one scratch on it there's no way you're going to match it you're gonna have to repaint the whole car i could sell this thing and pay off all of my car debt and a good chunk the majority of my mortgage one car that i bought right here for well a very very low price with another lamborghini that i could keep john tamarion have curated an outfit that specializes in these countages has checked in with me ever since i bought it but also he's checked in a lot over the last year to see if i wanted to sell or how things were going mostly checking in to be nice but he also believes these cars will be million dollar cars in the not so distant future so if i sell it now i would be selling myself short but at the same time as this car gets more and more expensive the more scared i will be to drive it and i'd hate to have this thing sit and more issues to start popping up because the more you drive these cars well the better they run and with that being said well let's run this thing up to the car wizards with the little drippy drip in the oil and actually before we go i'd like to mention the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube has a new t-shirt out it's inspired by these vintage lamborghini countach t-shirts that i have bought over the past year my sister's a graphic designer designed this really cool countach themed t-shirt that you can pre-order right now supplies will be limited we don't run these shirts forever so get one while you can also hooves garage stickers only five bucks get you a sticker to cover up all of your hoopty issues and i would love to see where you put these stickers so i'm going to give a little contest buy a five dollar sticker put it in a cool place my favorite one that i see each week when you tweet me at hooves garage i will share at the end of the video so get your hoovey's garage sticker and your hoovies garage countage t-shirt while supplies last lambo yoga complete i don't fit but i don't care now once i'm in i'm i mean i'm kind of locked in i guess oh yeah i love this thing i love it it doesn't matter that it decided to sort of break on its one-year anniversary hopefully the oil leak is minor though we'll see what the car wizard has to say oh this car oh wizard i fall in love every time i drive this car that's why it's so hard to get rid of isn't it it is very hard to get rid of even though it's quite valuable but uh it also wanted to come see you oh how's that it's left a little oil puddle about you know it it pooted i had driven it for you know 45 days or so and it wanted to let me know that hey drive me or i'll do stuff like this so it has a little leak but it's just one year anniversary so we should give it a look over anyway for one year okay but wonderful car it's been a great year it has it's been a great year and it's amazing how well this runs wasn't you on a countach rally recently yes yes it did great on the countach rally yeah for two cars that have been sitting for a long time completely different stories with the diablo versus the countach i mean the diablo it's not really that car's fault it's just waiting on parts which is something you're dealing with on everything now right right which is kind of a story on some other cars around here so before we go on the lift let's uh let's check on some things huh okay starting with well oh 3 48 is it is it it's good to go it's ready to go okay that's actually a two year anniversary there on that car so it's just an oil change there was a leak that uh danielson was able to fix real easily a coolant hose clamp he went through did all the clamps tighten them all up that's ready to go so other than that clean bill of health yep my last year before the engine comes out for the belt service which we're dealing with right now on another ferrari but we'll get to there in a little bit uh waiting game still on the audi r8 we did find that the crank sensor itself was bad and i ordered another one and just like i mentioned on some of my videos just where just because they say it's in stock doesn't mean it actually is yeah so pretty much the same place where we were two weeks ago because we're waiting on parts and this is on you know a pretty normal generic sensor for an audi volkswagen it's it's a normal part that is taking weeks yes unfortunately there's a few blasts from the past in here this is a e320 diesel huh yes it is from vermont i had one this exact color really yeah i would get 40 miles per gallon in it too 40 yeah wow it's just the last good mercedes diesel i think huh it's a sweet little ride doesn't need a whole lot of serious work it just needs to checked over and a few things right well and then this is your nation's bob's it's a 76 grand marquis 75 75 yeah look at that red and white dash hey this thing is just absolutely mint very nice i don't need to do it again though i did it with a lincoln that was nice i don't think i need to revisit that i don't think so but maybe vantage mercedes life because i know you've been enjoying the 420 sel right yes i've been loving it it's such a nice ride on the way home it's just so comfortable and easy on me hmm well oh you got junior mint doing something to it he's putting new plugs on it i'm looking i'm looking at his flashlight head setup wizard where he doesn't have to put it in his mouth like you i like putting it in my mouth anyway uh super bird uh super bird still had a little oil leak yep we had to replace one of the 10 a.m fittings and it's called 10am that's the size of it oh is it this metal this one here that goes down to that cooler it just wouldn't seal we replaced it and and then we have to figure out how to stop it from overheating when it sits in idles which maybe a tune maybe something else it may just be a characteristic of this engine which is pretty common as i've seen in the comments but i'm not going to give up yet i mean at least it'll be a drivable car as long as they don't get stuck in stop and go traffic basically right so my goodness i'm getting distracted by this this monstrosity here timing belt water pump diamond belt wow sc 430 these were some goofy goofy cars i haven't seen one in a while even the stock wheels yes interesting i guess i've made the rounds i'm getting distracted here but the ferrari another big parts waiting game but is that finally done yeah we did get the tensioners in today now we can put the belts on valve covers oh good we're getting close to putting the motor back in to start reassembling 96 f355 with a major engine out oh i see new belts yes that's good new belts and then the hill engineering tensioners right to uh these are over here got the tensioners lovely and then we have the hill engineering pulleys yes oh cool well just one tensioner multiple pulleys yeah nice and you have uh ooh that's a greasy thing that's the cv joint this boot goes on for the 355 oh for the axle we got some boots coming so it ruptured yep ruptured it's it's boot interesting well i'm curious what's uh ruptured on the countach i'm curious as well please be kind something simple a little hose clamp i hope so because this car has never had its engine out before so with a car that's never had its engine out for a big expensive reseal you're gonna deal with things like this regularly because it's 30 years old but hopefully it's in an easy to reach spot plea please please you're not finding rocker panel and frame rest again are you no no not here that baja that was really something that was definitely something i sold it actually for four thousand dollars somebody's well the motor's worth close to that i suppose so somebody's partnered out so you guys have seen all the memes with cars falling off the lifts we're trying not to do that not not this one no without any other one we could do it for views all it takes is to check the balance just like i'm doing check it here make sure it's good to go right you know there's that guy that there we go supposedly purposely crashed his plane for youtube views oh yeah he happened to have a parachute three gopro angles on it we won't be doing that with a countach no we're not doing that today well we haven't been in here for a year a year huh nope we'll start up here where the power train starts okay there's a little drip here is this coming from that little cover on the shifter that could be it is that where you're seeing the oil yes because it wasn't necessarily engine oil and it did seem right in the middle just that little cap needs to come off and be resealed huh kind of a girish oil gear wheel yeah okay let's go ahead and check it over and the rest of the way i'm not seeing drips of anything there's seepage but it's just really not anything to worry about right there's a drip there on the oil filter but that's probably from the last yeah it's definitely not further back it's that middle one and it was a weird color that wasn't quite engine oil so that makes a lot of sense but i see what four pretty easy to reach bolts yeah and that's it should be let me take a look those those bolts up top though look a little tight yeah they won't come all the way out we may have to take it off here oh so what does this thing do that's your shifter oh oh we'll just see if we can get the cap off there might be a way where we could partially lower this down just enough to get the bolts out we'll see yeah don't cut a hole in this one no we're not going to cut holes it is but yeah this isn't a hooptie mercy logo yes okay well it's something to do but still very simple huh yep there's a tiny bit coming from right here looks like your slave cylinder on oh i'm seeing okay that's the second puddle because it's kind of like a different color yeah there's a little drip there okay so we do have something to do so we need a slave cylinder clutch slave cylinder for a countach yep okay so that's it all right well none of that is yeah because there's that and then there was just a little bit there but it was kind of it was oily but then it was kind of blue which was weird so i had sprite brake fluid or something because that's so there it is a year that's it a great car i really can't complain over the past year i mean that's just normal old car stuff that's not going to be that bad if the parts can show up at a reasonable time so thank you so much for watching don't forget my blouse here uh new hooves garage t-shirt that kind of looks like this it's a countach themed shirt and stickers wizard there's stick stickers yes yes thank you so much for watching\n"