**The Struggle is Real: Rebuilding a Carburetor and Restoring a Classic Corvette**

Rebuilding a carburetor, especially after five years of disuse, can be a daunting task. The thought of cleaning out all the little passages and gunked-up parts inside seems like an insurmountable challenge. But that's exactly what our host, Magic Mike, decided to take on. He wanted to hear his car run right and so began the arduous process of rebuilding the carburetor.

**A New Holly Four Barrel**

After realizing that rebuilding the carburetor wasn't feasible, Magic Mike decided to buy a new one. A brand new Holly four-barrel carburetor was purchased, and it looks almost identical to the original except for its clean condition. The cost of replacing the old carburetor was significantly less than the time and effort required to rebuild it.

**The Joys of Flushing**

Flushing out the radiator proved to be a challenging task. A garden hose was used to flush out the water, but despite running multiple bottles through the system, the water remained brown and contaminated. The process seemed like flushing a sewer, with Magic Mike remarking, "it's like cleaning a sewer." The bucket under the car revealed a shocking sight: rusted and corroded engine components.

**Thermostat Housing and More**

As the flushing continued, the thermostat housing was discovered to be clogged and rusty. Magic Mike couldn't help but think of sewage drainage, and he joked about needing to go hit the bathroom himself. The good news was that after several flushes, the radiator seemed to be clearing up.

**The New Thermostats**

Once the radiator was flushed, new thermostats were installed, and the car began to feel more like its former self. The sand clutch was also replaced, and the blizzard system was put through its paces. Magic Mike observed that the new thermostats were doing their job well.

**The Carburetor Adjustment**

After the flushing process, the carburetor was adjusted to optimize its performance. However, a slight ticking noise was still present, indicating that further adjustments might be necessary. Magic Mike noted that feeling the engine's valves with feeler gauges would help determine if any repairs were needed.

**Road Testing and Concerns**

Before taking the car out for a test drive, Magic Mike wanted to ensure it wouldn't overheat again. The ticking noise was still a concern, and he decided not to risk driving the car home. A little doobie was added to the fuel tank to stabilize the engine's performance.

**A Lesson Learned**

Magic Mike's experience with rebuilding the carburetor and restoring his classic Corvette serves as a reminder that sometimes, it's better to leave things alone. The cost of time and effort required for restoration can be substantial, and not all problems can be easily fixed. As our host so aptly put it, "I'm very bad at endings." Despite the setbacks, Magic Mike's project is far from over, and we'll continue to follow its progress.

As a side note, Wizard was observing the process and managing everything with ease. His professionalism is evident in his work, unlike our host who learned from him. The final result will be exciting, but for now, it's uncertain. One thing's for sure, though: Magic Mike won't give up on his beloved car anytime soon.

In conclusion, rebuilding a carburetor and restoring a classic Corvette requires patience, dedication, and a willingness to learn. Magic Mike's journey is an inspiring example of perseverance and the rewards that come with restoring a piece of automotive history.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enoh wow oh this is good this is really really really good no it didn't get far now it's overheating so oh that's the poo water oh no what does that one taste like wizard i don't think i'm gonna taste that one no no you're not i know what that is you taste everything you don't need to identify what it is welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and today is a fantastic day because i got a phone call from the car wizard and he said that my corvette is not only running but it is running and driving this 1966 chevrolet corvette 427 coupe the first year of the big block 427 and i bought it not even a week ago barely running from a barn or a storage building whatever you guys want to call it it was a barn find in my eyes it's a barn find and it was all kind of taken apart he had put a new five-speed transmission in it a new shifter a modern five-speed this thing came with a four-speed that was called the rock crusher known for well not crushing rocks but a very tough transmission that whined he replaced it with a modern transmission modern shifter and now it is all it's all put together there are some other things that need to be put together as well and i guess i guess it's all done we'll consult with the car wizard and then and then drive it wizard you wonderful wonderful man you it's a living breathing corvette oh i'm basking the nassau blue again and i see everything is put together and tidy in here you got me a reservoir for my clutch huh that's a wood reservoir yes okay and we haven't updated the brake set you just you just fill them up right yeah and they work i think the guy put all the hoses and upgrades and things and that's as far as he got he didn't get any fluid in it once we got fluid in it they're fine okay so the clutch works yes brakes work yeah and shifter is in it is in i think i could use a boot to hide the bolts but nothing was included with the car we're going to have to research and see what could go there to make it look right well that looks pretty good and it's a short throw shifter huh it clicks into gear very nicely so it feels good yes okay well one other thing i wanted to check on this car before i go is we were debating whether it has original paint and i was doing some research and i guess if it is original paint then it will have this dot right by the cowling and uh when it gets repainted of course they sand this away for some reason in the factory they put a little dot here some kind of raised bump and it has the dot it's still there it's still there so this this is an original paint from the factory nassau blue 427 coupe the engine is not numbers matching unfortunately but uh looks like it's a lot more fun than what the original engine was have you driven it yet uh mike has driven it magic mike he says it drove fine okay so it has been out once but now i'm i'm the ultimate stress tester obviously yeah we haven't done any burnouts or anything crazy we just verified that it runs and drives okay well i'm gonna take it easy at first and then i guess we'll see huh yeah we'll see so it has fresh fuel in it the old feels out it has fresh fuel you're going to need to get some more fuel but we got enough in there for the road test okay all right and a fresh oil change okay no five year old oil that's good yep all right well i guess i'll start it up let's see what the shifter feels like oh my goodness that is that belongs in like a new porsche not a 60s corvette wow oh that's like oh smooth action that's great clutch clutch is very firm but not not too firm all right holy smokes all right nassau blue in the sun oh it's it's so pretty and the shifter is amazing clutch is firm maybe a little too firm but not that bad compared to say other exotic cars oh oh wow oh this is good this is really really really good and actually smooth too the tires they don't feel out of round are you sure you were sitting for five years obviously the steering wheel is way off because they added power steering so it needs an alignment but it's it's going down the road straight all right i'm feeling good enough about this car to get up on a highway on-ramp here so i can open it up a little bit okay seems seems a little down on power at the higher rpm but it's going it may need some tuning on the carb after all he did force a lot of rotten gasoline down his throat and it's been sitting forever and things dry up in there but overall it shouldn't be driving this well it really shouldn't the fuel gauge is showing empty empty though so i'll stop for some gas this is unbelievable the nice thing about that rear race tank back there is you can fill it up from either side whether it's the most convenient you can pull up to either side of the gas pump no problem uh this thing's driving so well i think i think i need to take it on a longer test drive so i'm just going to let the wizard know that it's not coming back anytime soon wizard what's up hello wizard um yes you fixed the tachometer and you didn't tell me it's working yes it's alive what'd you do uh we've had to buy an adapter an msd adapter for the distributor and it worked perfectly okay well it's it's driving so well uh that i think i'm gonna test it a little bit more oh it's not coming back no no you may you may see me in a day or two okay in a day or two that's all right no problem we're just filming oh that's urination bob's car you're a nation bob's car yes well have fun with that and i will uh enjoy this uh 427 hopefully i come back on my own power and not a flatbed but it's it's doing great honestly yes all right bye wizard yeah let's let's take this thing home for sure oh yes no it didn't get far now it's overheating so let's get it back here well it got a little hot just just a little bit hot pulled over about two miles from the car wizards and uh wait for it to cool off and then i will put putt back to a shop darn dern maiden voyage i asked a lot for this car i guess oh the car has been sitting for a long time what do you think wizard is it the thermostat could be it could be the the fan is not working very well how do you check that when it's hot it should be starting to stiffen up that's too it turns too easy you might need a thermal clutch fan squirted a little fluid out but not much yeah that's an aluminum radiator yes i'm at the thermostat just no good okay we'll get a thermostat on it we'll put a new thermal clutch fan that should take care of it then i'll try it again i'm the best test driver there is wizard you know that really is a stress tester this is what happens when a car sits for five years you just have to get out there and drive it and see what's gonna happen and you have to work your way through this guy forgot to do this forgot to do that well that's just if it's a sticky thermostat that's just from sitting right yeah but there may be other things as you drive it more who knows all right well to be continued yep i'm not disappointed yet not even close i'm back i'm back well you guys are always here but i'm back it's been a few days and to recap the car badly overheated i was trying to drive it home and i turned around because it was overheating and i guess wizard knows why yes yes the cooling system from sitting so long is so full of rust it's like caked inside the radiator really yep so some nasty water then huh very nasty water i just did one round of it it's all sitting down at the bottom still yeah there it is yeah oh that's the pooh water sewage oh no that's it in the bottom of there is all flakes of rust and all kinds of nastiness well that's not from the aluminum radiator so is that the block that's rusted or what's what's causing that it's from the block that's where it came from cast iron block so that's from coolant going bad and getting corrosive right like just putting in straight water luckily we're able to flush it out we'll get it cleaned out it'll be fine but there was just flakes and flakes and flakes all inside the radiator what does that one taste like wizard i don't think i'm going to taste that one no no you're not i know what that is you taste everything you don't need to identify what it is okay so the second issue was when i got on the throttle there wasn't any power it was actually shuttering a little bit about 3000 rpm almost like we hit a rev limiter but uh i looked in the ignition which is under there under that blanket and you pull off the little tab and it was set at 6200 rpm which is the right rpm yes oh wizard doesn't have fingernails but yeah it's set at the right rpm under there so it was something else and wizard discovered it pretty quickly with this carburetor huh yeah the four barrels the vacuum secondaries were not even functioning this carbs been setting so long that all the little passages all the things in there are just all gunked up it probably didn't help that i started it up with five-year-old fuel but i wanted to hear it run right and rebuilding these things you know takes time a lot of effort and really replacements they aren't that expensive right and it looks just like it so i guess it showed in the box here new holly four barrel brand new brand new looks absolutely identical except nice and clean yeah for the cost it would take for me to go through and clean all that in the gasket so you're not too far away just to buy a new carburetor it doesn't make sense anymore to rebuild them right so easy enough we'll do some more flushing i guess magic mike can do that part and maybe i'll play with a carburetor well in typical fashion is it normally works out whoever's more capable usually takes pity on me or is very concerned about what i'm doing and just completely takes over i had the linkages all wrong i had a lot of things all wrong he's basically doing everything over again i've saved him zero i've added time to this job actually but the carburetor is on carburetor is on and now we can go back to flushing poo water maybe i can help with that or at least observe and then give it another try so that's a garden hose that's a garden hose we're going to flush out your radiator we got your upper radiator hose disconnected we're gonna run some through there we're gonna run some through here and we're gonna run some through your lower radiator hose as well you've already done this once i've already done this once we're probably gonna have to do it three or four times ah until the water is clear until it's clear until it's not poo until it's not poo wonderful oh that's that's still very brown still very brown that is all you can eat taco tuesday with a bean burrito for dessert gross it's like flushing a sewer it's a nassau blue corvette wizard is not a sewer you might change your mind if you look at the bucket down there you guys are just cleaning the radiator wait till you clean out the actual engine where all the gunk came from oh this is a thermostat housing so brown and rusty in there oh no thinking of sewage drainage i think i need to go hit the bathroom myself i'll be back in a little bit just snug them up a little bit okay and then we'll see how she does oh that's not looking too bad oh okay a little brown and there's some green yep that's good okay well she's all flushed huh all flushed i see the new thermostats on new thermostats on sand clutch going any going any maybe blizzard is is observing yes i'm doing management he's managing this thing's going to be amazing when you get the four barrels working like they should be i bet it's gonna just burn river all over the place green going in green concentrate going in so we already got some water kind of sitting in the block and a little bit in the heater core as well we're gonna do about three bottles of this pure concentrate he's very professional wizard yeah unlike me i learned from the best yeah yes yes carburetor probably needs a little bit of an adjustment oh yeah that throttle is much much better all four barrels opening up all four barrels that's good it sounds a little a little ticky though yeah if you've got something going on on this side we'll probably have to make a valve adjustment on it yeah it looks like we'll have to make it oh yeah you can feel it yeah we'll have to make a valve adjustment on it do both sides they are solid lifters yeah wizard is this is a solid lifter car right yes so you need to go through with feeler gauges and hopefully nothing's messed up from sitting for so long i hope not but i don't i don't think it is it just needs a valve adjustment and i think we'll be golden if it is it's pretty simple up there right there's no it's not tough to do at all right but driving at home today probably not the wisest idea with it making that ticking noise just in case yeah we need to get that taken care of before you take it back around the road again okay we also like to road test to make sure it's not going to overheat again right right so a little bit of a doobie continued but progress yeah i did get to drive it briefly you did very exciting well to be continued i suppose subscribe make sure you don't miss any more updates on this car i'm very bad at endings thank you for watching oh that's still very brown still very brown\n"