The Joy of DIY: A Story of Triumph and Tribulation

As I stood in my backyard, surrounded by the chaos of construction, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. The rusty old water tower that had been plaguing me for weeks was finally getting the attention it deserved. I had taken matters into my own hands, using a combination of elbow grease and makeshift tools to get the job done. It wasn't pretty, but it got the job done.

The process began with a visit from a dump truck, which arrived at dawn one morning, bearing a load of topsoil that would soon cover up the rough terrain behind my house. Next came a big, yellow excavator, its hydraulic arms reaching out like giant claws as it worked to smooth out the ground and remove the rocks that had been scattered about. As the day wore on, I watched with satisfaction as the machine made quick work of the task, leaving behind a smooth, even surface.

But not everything was going smoothly. In the pond that had once provided a tranquil oasis in my backyard, a new berm was being constructed to protect it from flooding. It was a complex process, requiring careful planning and execution to ensure that the structure would be stable and safe. Still, as I watched the workers at work, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. This project had the potential to transform my backyard into a beautiful, private retreat.

Speaking of transformations, my new beach was finally taking shape. Rather than dealing with the expense and hassle of sod, I had decided to line the area with double-stacked limestone brick, which would provide a natural, weed-resistant surface that could be easily maintained. It was a clever solution, one that would save me money in the long run while still providing a beautiful, beach-like atmosphere.

Of course, no project is without its challenges. One of mine had been the installation of a new fountain in my backyard pond. The plan had been to create a stunning display, with water shooting high into the air and lights dancing across the surface of the water. But as I stood in front of it, watching as the machine struggled to get it working, I realized that it was going to be a lot harder than I had anticipated. The power issue proved to be a major problem, and despite my best efforts, nothing seemed to work.

In desperation, I turned to my trusty Cyber truck, which was equipped with an advanced Power Wall system. But even that didn't prove to be the solution I needed, as it refused to fire up despite my best efforts. It was a frustrating experience, one that left me feeling defeated and demoralized.

But even in the midst of all this chaos, there were moments of joy and triumph. My kids had watched with wide eyes as the machine struggled to get the fountain working, their faces a mix of excitement and disappointment. And when they saw the lights flicker to life for a brief moment, I could see the wonder in their eyes.

Of course, not everything was going smoothly in our household. The water was draining wrong into my condo, which had been completed just a few weeks earlier. It was a frustrating experience, one that left me feeling like I was stuck in a nightmare from which I couldn't wake up. But with the help of some expert contractors and some good old-fashioned elbow grease, we were finally able to get everything sorted out.

As I looked around at the chaos and construction that surrounded me, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. It wasn't easy, and it wasn't always pretty. But in the end, it was all worth it, as I watched my backyard begin to take shape into something beautiful and unique. And with H's garage 3.0 still in progress, there was plenty more to look forward to.

In fact, one of the most exciting developments had been the arrival of a new lift system, designed by a company called Backpack. It was going to revolutionize my garage, allowing me to work on my cars without having to climb all over them like a contortionist. The project involved installing two lifts on either side of a beam, which would support a display system and allow me to access the triple-stacker lifts with ease.

As I watched the workers at work, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. This was going to be something special, something that would take my garage from mere mortal status to supercar-worthy heights. And with the Hoopties stacking up in the shape of an H, it was clear that this project was going to be one for the books.

But even as I watched the progress being made on H's garage 3.0, I couldn't help but feel a sense of trepidation. We were still a long way from completion, and there were plenty of challenges ahead. The budget had ballooned to over $150,000 above the original estimate, which was a staggering sum. But despite all this, I knew that it would be worth it in the end.

As I stood back and surveyed my backyard, surrounded by the chaos and construction of the past few weeks, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. It hadn't been easy, but it had been worth it. And as I watched the sunset over my newly transformed yard, I knew that all the hard work would be worth it in the end.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe only thing we can do from here is get it going again I mean we're this far in right but this is the future it is sad of hooptie buying we're getting into 10 15y old cars that are from the 2010s and this is what that world is like it's not fun like a Buick Grand National you buy one as a fixer upper and it's very simple and easy and fun you know some guy in a shop can rebuild the engine for you and bring it back it's it's a totally different world and it's just it's miserable we're too deep in it so yeah I've heard that many times with cars but never in any other instance unfortunately welcome to movies garage the dumbest Automotive channel in all of YouTube and today is sort of going to be a hoopti fleet update at least on the projects sort of a state of the hoopville if you will and I'm sad to say the state of hoopville is not strong some of these projects seem unfixable A total nightmare and that sort of has to do with the state of cars and how they are nowadays most recently I bought a few cars from the 2010s and onward and when they get to hoopie status they're just unfixable I've seen this over and over and over again and depending on how advanced the car is is the earlier it becomes pretty much impossible to fix impossible to bring back from the brink starting with where we're going today with the cages my 2004 Bentley Continental GT that was a very Advanced car for its time but nowadays all those modules and the twin turbos and everything else that's pretty much in every car has trickled down to everything to Ford F-150s that are failing for the same reason reason the Fisker Karma was supposed to be in this video as well as a prime example of this but it hasn't arrived yet uh Florida is shipping right now because of all the snowbirds going from New York to Florida that's where all the trucks are going and they won't bring my car from Florida to Kansas so that's an issue but also we need to go up to the car Wizards where two cars needed an engine replacement basically on arrival that's three I guess for me in the last year that have needed engine Replacements on purchases on cars that I thought would be totally mechanically fine at least in the major drivetrain department and one seem to be going better than the other but we'll also head over to hoo's farm where I have a bit of modern hoop going on there and things are just totally out of control so let's get started with the car ninjas but before we start the tour to fail I wanted to bask in some 1940s Simplicity here and also thank ship station for sponsoring today's video youtubing has been a full-time job for me for years now and there's a lot more to just putting a camera in your face and then editing the video and going live there's a lot of thought preparation and in my case keeping a steady supply of junky cars coming in to ruin your life it's kind of the same with selling merch as you have to design something you think your audience will like then sell it but the hardest part is fulfilling and shipping those orders out once you make the sale unless you're like me and use ship station ship station is the multi-carrier shipping solution that integrates wherever you sell online optimizing the shipping process and connecting to a network of expert Partners helps you reclaim your valuable time for what truly matters growing the business with ship station you can see reporting and handle customer service from a simple dashboard and with the best discounts in the industry you can save up to 89% off UPS DHL Express and USPS rates over 130,000 companies including me have grown their e-commerce business with ship station and 98% of companies that stick with ship station for year become customers for life so ship station is the Innovative tool that helps you turn your shipping challenges into opportunities for growth go to shipstation.com to sign up for your free 60-day trial that's shipstation.com / hoies now let's go see The Nightmares oh God ninja the old car trek Ferrari still running great yes well this is culprit number one of unfixable cars and I think the fault of these lies primarily with the dealers of Bentley and sort of keeping the keys clutching the pearls to their parts and are very very proud of them it's the same as Rolls-Royce so we have the culprit here an airbag module that failed not because of an accident it just flaked out somebody spilled coffee or something I don't know it looks looks fine yeah so no Bentley logo on this thing whatsoever Volkswagen Audi it's a part made by them probably not special to Bentley but it doesn't match up to anything else it's different enough uh so Audi Volkswagen makes this maybe cost them 20 bucks to make something what do you think yeah they mark it up to2 $2,300 dealer only we've tried used we've tried fixing this one it won't fix try recoding a used one that's been a wrecked car it doesn't fix so you're stuck for a little bitty module $2,300 and it's been well a month or so of trial and error with used ones and things and Johnny pulling his hair out so that's the future with these luxury cars of the mid 2000s and on all these electric modules and things that will fail with age and time and dealers being very very greedy on their prices to where I mean $22,000 that's 10% of the value of this Bentley con LGT in one little part and people just aren't going to fix them the issues will stack up or one light then another light and another light then it's mechanically totaled within a few years so yeah total car number one but I'm a total idiot so I am fixing it I don't know what do you think we're too deep in it so yeah I've heard that many times with car but never in any other instance unfortunately um but yeah there's other projects unfortunately there's many other people dealing with this BMW is a lot more reasonable because you can buy direct from them wholesale Volkswagen Audi the dealership here and they never heard of the part number right Bentley loves to do this with Audi and Volkswagen even though it's Audi Volkswagen parts you can't get uh normal pricing on them and uh Rolls-Royce loves to do this and you know with Rolls-Royce because it's a BMW supplied car with parts you can see how much the parts cost but they will not order anything they won't sell it to you you can only buy it through a Rolls-Royce dealer so a c a part that cost $200 with you you can see it cost $200 but then going through a Rolls-Royce dealer they charge another zero two grand it's just stupid it's greedy and it's really bad for the cars and owners as far as keeping them going but it's not like they're going to stop it's the only place you can buy it it's literally a monopoly so yes unfixable cars Ultra Luxury Cars I know world's tiniest violin Bentley owners having to pay a lot for repairs but it makes these cars absolutely worthless when they get to hoopie level and say you want to keep them going as even doing it yourself I know I'm paying a mechanic to do things but even as a DIY guy you're screwed so yeah next up there's more at the car Wizards and they're actually much much worse he punted this he didn't want to have it he was kind of wise but the stuff I have up at his shop is uh not good weard are you having a little think I was uh on the toilet is that my is that my Landover wheel yeah there's so much crap in there I figured I'd add to the the pond gun there well they were kind of crappy from new but yes driving through the pond certainly did cause some uh problems but the pre-existing one is gone so I'm here because I wanted to talk about the issues of fixing modern cars nowadays as they hate I was at the CES first with the Bentley Contin GT and that airbag module that just won't program right and uh this one well it's a little more hardcore because we're dealing with used engines and we have sort of A Tail of Two engines going on here and the Land Rover uh had the bad head gasket which is this the old one here that is the old one I'll go ahead and pull the uh cylinder head off here so somebody decided to put some stop leak in this or some head gasket sealer to you know limp it down the road to get it sold it eventually ended up to me and died and uh since I overheated it so badly wizard wasn't interested in replacing their the head gasket itself he wanted to replace the engine so so you can see these little Marks here where it was blown these little little pffs Burns yeah two cylinders were blown one of them was really bad one was starting but here's the reason why I didn't want to just reuse this because this entire block is full of all this liquid glass garbage Ah that's right yeah someone tried to seal this up and we fix the head gasket put it back together and you have overheating problems and it's just not going to be good so that's how the head gasket sealer works right there that's the coolant jacket or whatever to keep the cylinders is cool this had failed so I was putting up an extra little coating there just to help it out which works in the short term but screws whoever ends up with it next yes it shouldn't be sold on shelves honestly it's it's not something that's good for any engine but uh yeah so the new one is in yes we ordered it it showed up within a week and things are going pretty well hopefully this one doesn't have a bad head gasket that's the thing you don't like dealing with used engines that much anymore no I have a lot of customers call and they want to try to reduce the cost of an estimate they'll say hey I send you a used engine and I say hell no you do it for me because of our history and me dealing with the stupidity because it's obviously on me if it's not good uh but yeah hopefully this one is okay it did turn over and we did inspect the cylinders it it appeared to be healthy I think you probably got a good engine here okay that wasn't the case though with the gbi no it wasn't so probably got lucky here we'll see when it turns over and starts uh taking it apart doesn't look like it was too massively horrible on this though as far as everything this one wasn't too bad but the Maserati was a different story yeah it was here for a very long time now it's the test Rosa with the engine out this is so dang cool this is who I bought the count from actually um that eccentric neurosurgeon that uh bought the Diablo and the Countach from so now he's fixing his tester Roa and wow this is so cool it's huge isn't it yeah but you had to get uh my Maserati out of the way because the engine did finally show up after a month and no BL out huh yeah we tried to turn it over by hand with a socket and a ratchet and it was seized I mean sock solid so we got a B scope camera down in the cylinders and it's like Wolverine just tore the cylinders to pieces now to give the yard some credit that sent it to me they said it was an accident that they accidentally sent me a core engine after I waited for a month but now they picked up the core engine it's gone and they have $5,000 of my money and no replacement engine here going on two months well was about 4,000 I think was shipping some somewhere $4 to $5,000 and you can see to do the Maserati engine replacement it's uh full aparts it's it's a lot more involved tons more involved so as the time goes by we hope Daniel Sun remembers how all this goes together there the all-wheel drive transmission and such but uh this one also a really bad head gasket failure yeah and Danielson actually got a straight edge across this is called an open deck design each of these little cylinders here they're actually warped so the block is shot this is totally an unusable engine completely toast yes so this is just on rollers right now to get it back out of the way until hopefully I get a good engine to put in so really I think this is accurate it's about a coin flip right you think yeah and I've this is kind of where I came from I've had a couple of customers in the past where there was incident where we went through four engines to get a good one mhm and the customer was like I should have never even bothered with this right and I've learned from those experiences I I just don't do used engines anymore it's such a coin flip I mean I mean you're you're understanding you know this is part of the deal but a lot of the public isn't and this isn't my daily driver something I'm counting on for transportation or whatever most people have that one car and it needs to be fixed like this is a thing where it has the issue you dump it which is what happened to this car and it cycled through a bunch of dealers who played past the turd and I felt like being the guy that stopped passing the turd either was going to go to the junkyard or I was going to fix it and I made obviously the wrong choice yeah the only thing we can do from here is get it going again I mean weth this far in right but this is the future it is sad of hoopie buying we're getting into 10 15y old cars that are from the 2010s and this is what that world is like it's not fun like a Buick Grand National you buy one as a fixer upper and it's very simple and easy and fun you know some guy in a shop can rebuild the engine for you and bring it back it's it's a totally different world and it's just it's miserable there's a lot of dads that say have a fatherson project will fix up an old Grand National 68 Corvette or something you wouldn't want to do that no with today's cars so that as far as a car Enthusiast car hobby thing is dead unless you keep buying old stuff like this which we noticed that the tea Toops on this one were actually starting to rust around the brackets and things so I had it up to the car Wizards the seals I had left it off all winter long and the seals were old and when I put the the t- tops back on they didn't seal at all like it was wind noise it was terrible so uh looks like the rest was a little worse than I thought though huh yeah we got some rust converter on it Grimes is doing it just got some seam sealer and sealed up so water doesn't get underneath those this isn't something that anybody's ever going to see so I didn't really care about making it concore because there's seals over it obviously so just getting it just getting it stopped and sanded down and converted and then this painted black and you you'd never know so and there's sheet metal panels that go over all this it kind of hides all that right so it's not like structurally compromised or any of that kind of stuff so and this here what we're doing here is also one of those things I will only do for you oh so if people start sending their cars to you for rust repair you we're we're not a body shop yeah so that's how things are going with all the cars and then same goes for houses and buildings and things it's getting it it's not it's not fun no it's not fun right now so let's go back to the farm well as you can see it is heavy equipment day on the farm dump truck just showed up to dump some nice top soil big old excavator there to uh cover up move around all these big rocks and uh make this look a lot smoother now that it's all dried out all that pond and nasty dirt there but the cool part is over here with the pond where they're stacking up rocks around the new berm eventually all that field behind me is going to be developed so we kind of want to get ahead of it get trees planted get BMS up to where it still seems like a private Oasis and speaking of Oasis this double stacked Limestone brick here is going to be our beach rather than deal with more grass sod being so expensive as it is it made sense to basically Line This sort of like a flower bed and then fill it in with sand and give us a little bit of a beach by the pond so none of this is hoopy it's just expensive the hoopie part is that thing floating in the middle of the pond which was my new Fountain supposed to shoot up 10 or 15 ft in the air did a lot of work wiring it all up you can see the lights going around uh coming to the hammock there basically to get a wire down this windmill to lead out to the Fountain plugged it in with my whole family in front of me the kids watching it was like CLK griswell family Christmas nothing happened um so I thought maybe it was a power issue extension cord you're not supposed to use or whatever uh so I brought out the Cyber truck with its uh Power wall thing which is very Advanced and it still didn't fire up so I have a service ticket on that I have to take it back out of the water take it apart and send the pump back to where I got it uh no Fountain as of now another small catastrophe with this new building the water was draining wrong and directly into the condo which we're actually living in right now as they finish up the house and all of our furniture was in that little onecar garage and about an inch of water came in and drenched the furniture inside of there but that's all been fixed with some drainage now some gutters will permanently solve the issue but the cool part is happening inside of H's garage 3.0 so if you take a look if you look here bpack has been here and they brought me some lift so I am going to move my existing lift from The Hanger here into the back wall of the garage but we needed more the car wizard is threatening to retire here in the next 5 years I need to get more hands on myself so two work lift two posts on either side of this beam here which is being wired up right now all the electrical and then the display lifts will be on the back wall and I have a triple not one triple but two Triple Stacker lifts that are going to be on either side of my existing lift which means if I don't put cars underneath the triple wide and put all the cars on the triple High I sort of had the shape of an H for hoo's garage with hoopties sort of like Brady Bunch stacking in the shape of an H which is very self-indulgent but I think it'll be very cool for now though it's still a big mess and we are a long long ways to go from completion on hu's garage 3.0 and the house unfortunately and really it needs to be mostly finished for me to get a mortgage so I'm going to have to keep writing checks myself even though at this point we're about uh$ 150 $200,000 over budget so way over what I thought and uh yeah out of money but things could be much worse everything's coming together it does look beautiful the hoopties well they're just being hoopties thank you so much for watchingthe only thing we can do from here is get it going again I mean we're this far in right but this is the future it is sad of hooptie buying we're getting into 10 15y old cars that are from the 2010s and this is what that world is like it's not fun like a Buick Grand National you buy one as a fixer upper and it's very simple and easy and fun you know some guy in a shop can rebuild the engine for you and bring it back it's it's a totally different world and it's just it's miserable we're too deep in it so yeah I've heard that many times with cars but never in any other instance unfortunately welcome to movies garage the dumbest Automotive channel in all of YouTube and today is sort of going to be a hoopti fleet update at least on the projects sort of a state of the hoopville if you will and I'm sad to say the state of hoopville is not strong some of these projects seem unfixable A total nightmare and that sort of has to do with the state of cars and how they are nowadays most recently I bought a few cars from the 2010s and onward and when they get to hoopie status they're just unfixable I've seen this over and over and over again and depending on how advanced the car is is the earlier it becomes pretty much impossible to fix impossible to bring back from the brink starting with where we're going today with the cages my 2004 Bentley Continental GT that was a very Advanced car for its time but nowadays all those modules and the twin turbos and everything else that's pretty much in every car has trickled down to everything to Ford F-150s that are failing for the same reason reason the Fisker Karma was supposed to be in this video as well as a prime example of this but it hasn't arrived yet uh Florida is shipping right now because of all the snowbirds going from New York to Florida that's where all the trucks are going and they won't bring my car from Florida to Kansas so that's an issue but also we need to go up to the car Wizards where two cars needed an engine replacement basically on arrival that's three I guess for me in the last year that have needed engine Replacements on purchases on cars that I thought would be totally mechanically fine at least in the major drivetrain department and one seem to be going better than the other but we'll also head over to hoo's farm where I have a bit of modern hoop going on there and things are just totally out of control so let's get started with the car ninjas but before we start the tour to fail I wanted to bask in some 1940s Simplicity here and also thank ship station for sponsoring today's video youtubing has been a full-time job for me for years now and there's a lot more to just putting a camera in your face and then editing the video and going live there's a lot of thought preparation and in my case keeping a steady supply of junky cars coming in to ruin your life it's kind of the same with selling merch as you have to design something you think your audience will like then sell it but the hardest part is fulfilling and shipping those orders out once you make the sale unless you're like me and use ship station ship station is the multi-carrier shipping solution that integrates wherever you sell online optimizing the shipping process and connecting to a network of expert Partners helps you reclaim your valuable time for what truly matters growing the business with ship station you can see reporting and handle customer service from a simple dashboard and with the best discounts in the industry you can save up to 89% off UPS DHL Express and USPS rates over 130,000 companies including me have grown their e-commerce business with ship station and 98% of companies that stick with ship station for year become customers for life so ship station is the Innovative tool that helps you turn your shipping challenges into opportunities for growth go to shipstation.com to sign up for your free 60-day trial that's shipstation.com / hoies now let's go see The Nightmares oh God ninja the old car trek Ferrari still running great yes well this is culprit number one of unfixable cars and I think the fault of these lies primarily with the dealers of Bentley and sort of keeping the keys clutching the pearls to their parts and are very very proud of them it's the same as Rolls-Royce so we have the culprit here an airbag module that failed not because of an accident it just flaked out somebody spilled coffee or something I don't know it looks looks fine yeah so no Bentley logo on this thing whatsoever Volkswagen Audi it's a part made by them probably not special to Bentley but it doesn't match up to anything else it's different enough uh so Audi Volkswagen makes this maybe cost them 20 bucks to make something what do you think yeah they mark it up to2 $2,300 dealer only we've tried used we've tried fixing this one it won't fix try recoding a used one that's been a wrecked car it doesn't fix so you're stuck for a little bitty module $2,300 and it's been well a month or so of trial and error with used ones and things and Johnny pulling his hair out so that's the future with these luxury cars of the mid 2000s and on all these electric modules and things that will fail with age and time and dealers being very very greedy on their prices to where I mean $22,000 that's 10% of the value of this Bentley con LGT in one little part and people just aren't going to fix them the issues will stack up or one light then another light and another light then it's mechanically totaled within a few years so yeah total car number one but I'm a total idiot so I am fixing it I don't know what do you think we're too deep in it so yeah I've heard that many times with car but never in any other instance unfortunately um but yeah there's other projects unfortunately there's many other people dealing with this BMW is a lot more reasonable because you can buy direct from them wholesale Volkswagen Audi the dealership here and they never heard of the part number right Bentley loves to do this with Audi and Volkswagen even though it's Audi Volkswagen parts you can't get uh normal pricing on them and uh Rolls-Royce loves to do this and you know with Rolls-Royce because it's a BMW supplied car with parts you can see how much the parts cost but they will not order anything they won't sell it to you you can only buy it through a Rolls-Royce dealer so a c a part that cost $200 with you you can see it cost $200 but then going through a Rolls-Royce dealer they charge another zero two grand it's just stupid it's greedy and it's really bad for the cars and owners as far as keeping them going but it's not like they're going to stop it's the only place you can buy it it's literally a monopoly so yes unfixable cars Ultra Luxury Cars I know world's tiniest violin Bentley owners having to pay a lot for repairs but it makes these cars absolutely worthless when they get to hoopie level and say you want to keep them going as even doing it yourself I know I'm paying a mechanic to do things but even as a DIY guy you're screwed so yeah next up there's more at the car Wizards and they're actually much much worse he punted this he didn't want to have it he was kind of wise but the stuff I have up at his shop is uh not good weard are you having a little think I was uh on the toilet is that my is that my Landover wheel yeah there's so much crap in there I figured I'd add to the the pond gun there well they were kind of crappy from new but yes driving through the pond certainly did cause some uh problems but the pre-existing one is gone so I'm here because I wanted to talk about the issues of fixing modern cars nowadays as they hate I was at the CES first with the Bentley Contin GT and that airbag module that just won't program right and uh this one well it's a little more hardcore because we're dealing with used engines and we have sort of A Tail of Two engines going on here and the Land Rover uh had the bad head gasket which is this the old one here that is the old one I'll go ahead and pull the uh cylinder head off here so somebody decided to put some stop leak in this or some head gasket sealer to you know limp it down the road to get it sold it eventually ended up to me and died and uh since I overheated it so badly wizard wasn't interested in replacing their the head gasket itself he wanted to replace the engine so so you can see these little Marks here where it was blown these little little pffs Burns yeah two cylinders were blown one of them was really bad one was starting but here's the reason why I didn't want to just reuse this because this entire block is full of all this liquid glass garbage Ah that's right yeah someone tried to seal this up and we fix the head gasket put it back together and you have overheating problems and it's just not going to be good so that's how the head gasket sealer works right there that's the coolant jacket or whatever to keep the cylinders is cool this had failed so I was putting up an extra little coating there just to help it out which works in the short term but screws whoever ends up with it next yes it shouldn't be sold on shelves honestly it's it's not something that's good for any engine but uh yeah so the new one is in yes we ordered it it showed up within a week and things are going pretty well hopefully this one doesn't have a bad head gasket that's the thing you don't like dealing with used engines that much anymore no I have a lot of customers call and they want to try to reduce the cost of an estimate they'll say hey I send you a used engine and I say hell no you do it for me because of our history and me dealing with the stupidity because it's obviously on me if it's not good uh but yeah hopefully this one is okay it did turn over and we did inspect the cylinders it it appeared to be healthy I think you probably got a good engine here okay that wasn't the case though with the gbi no it wasn't so probably got lucky here we'll see when it turns over and starts uh taking it apart doesn't look like it was too massively horrible on this though as far as everything this one wasn't too bad but the Maserati was a different story yeah it was here for a very long time now it's the test Rosa with the engine out this is so dang cool this is who I bought the count from actually um that eccentric neurosurgeon that uh bought the Diablo and the Countach from so now he's fixing his tester Roa and wow this is so cool it's huge isn't it yeah but you had to get uh my Maserati out of the way because the engine did finally show up after a month and no BL out huh yeah we tried to turn it over by hand with a socket and a ratchet and it was seized I mean sock solid so we got a B scope camera down in the cylinders and it's like Wolverine just tore the cylinders to pieces now to give the yard some credit that sent it to me they said it was an accident that they accidentally sent me a core engine after I waited for a month but now they picked up the core engine it's gone and they have $5,000 of my money and no replacement engine here going on two months well was about 4,000 I think was shipping some somewhere $4 to $5,000 and you can see to do the Maserati engine replacement it's uh full aparts it's it's a lot more involved tons more involved so as the time goes by we hope Daniel Sun remembers how all this goes together there the all-wheel drive transmission and such but uh this one also a really bad head gasket failure yeah and Danielson actually got a straight edge across this is called an open deck design each of these little cylinders here they're actually warped so the block is shot this is totally an unusable engine completely toast yes so this is just on rollers right now to get it back out of the way until hopefully I get a good engine to put in so really I think this is accurate it's about a coin flip right you think yeah and I've this is kind of where I came from I've had a couple of customers in the past where there was incident where we went through four engines to get a good one mhm and the customer was like I should have never even bothered with this right and I've learned from those experiences I I just don't do used engines anymore it's such a coin flip I mean I mean you're you're understanding you know this is part of the deal but a lot of the public isn't and this isn't my daily driver something I'm counting on for transportation or whatever most people have that one car and it needs to be fixed like this is a thing where it has the issue you dump it which is what happened to this car and it cycled through a bunch of dealers who played past the turd and I felt like being the guy that stopped passing the turd either was going to go to the junkyard or I was going to fix it and I made obviously the wrong choice yeah the only thing we can do from here is get it going again I mean weth this far in right but this is the future it is sad of hoopie buying we're getting into 10 15y old cars that are from the 2010s and this is what that world is like it's not fun like a Buick Grand National you buy one as a fixer upper and it's very simple and easy and fun you know some guy in a shop can rebuild the engine for you and bring it back it's it's a totally different world and it's just it's miserable there's a lot of dads that say have a fatherson project will fix up an old Grand National 68 Corvette or something you wouldn't want to do that no with today's cars so that as far as a car Enthusiast car hobby thing is dead unless you keep buying old stuff like this which we noticed that the tea Toops on this one were actually starting to rust around the brackets and things so I had it up to the car Wizards the seals I had left it off all winter long and the seals were old and when I put the the t- tops back on they didn't seal at all like it was wind noise it was terrible so uh looks like the rest was a little worse than I thought though huh yeah we got some rust converter on it Grimes is doing it just got some seam sealer and sealed up so water doesn't get underneath those this isn't something that anybody's ever going to see so I didn't really care about making it concore because there's seals over it obviously so just getting it just getting it stopped and sanded down and converted and then this painted black and you you'd never know so and there's sheet metal panels that go over all this it kind of hides all that right so it's not like structurally compromised or any of that kind of stuff so and this here what we're doing here is also one of those things I will only do for you oh so if people start sending their cars to you for rust repair you we're we're not a body shop yeah so that's how things are going with all the cars and then same goes for houses and buildings and things it's getting it it's not it's not fun no it's not fun right now so let's go back to the farm well as you can see it is heavy equipment day on the farm dump truck just showed up to dump some nice top soil big old excavator there to uh cover up move around all these big rocks and uh make this look a lot smoother now that it's all dried out all that pond and nasty dirt there but the cool part is over here with the pond where they're stacking up rocks around the new berm eventually all that field behind me is going to be developed so we kind of want to get ahead of it get trees planted get BMS up to where it still seems like a private Oasis and speaking of Oasis this double stacked Limestone brick here is going to be our beach rather than deal with more grass sod being so expensive as it is it made sense to basically Line This sort of like a flower bed and then fill it in with sand and give us a little bit of a beach by the pond so none of this is hoopy it's just expensive the hoopie part is that thing floating in the middle of the pond which was my new Fountain supposed to shoot up 10 or 15 ft in the air did a lot of work wiring it all up you can see the lights going around uh coming to the hammock there basically to get a wire down this windmill to lead out to the Fountain plugged it in with my whole family in front of me the kids watching it was like CLK griswell family Christmas nothing happened um so I thought maybe it was a power issue extension cord you're not supposed to use or whatever uh so I brought out the Cyber truck with its uh Power wall thing which is very Advanced and it still didn't fire up so I have a service ticket on that I have to take it back out of the water take it apart and send the pump back to where I got it uh no Fountain as of now another small catastrophe with this new building the water was draining wrong and directly into the condo which we're actually living in right now as they finish up the house and all of our furniture was in that little onecar garage and about an inch of water came in and drenched the furniture inside of there but that's all been fixed with some drainage now some gutters will permanently solve the issue but the cool part is happening inside of H's garage 3.0 so if you take a look if you look here bpack has been here and they brought me some lift so I am going to move my existing lift from The Hanger here into the back wall of the garage but we needed more the car wizard is threatening to retire here in the next 5 years I need to get more hands on myself so two work lift two posts on either side of this beam here which is being wired up right now all the electrical and then the display lifts will be on the back wall and I have a triple not one triple but two Triple Stacker lifts that are going to be on either side of my existing lift which means if I don't put cars underneath the triple wide and put all the cars on the triple High I sort of had the shape of an H for hoo's garage with hoopties sort of like Brady Bunch stacking in the shape of an H which is very self-indulgent but I think it'll be very cool for now though it's still a big mess and we are a long long ways to go from completion on hu's garage 3.0 and the house unfortunately and really it needs to be mostly finished for me to get a mortgage so I'm going to have to keep writing checks myself even though at this point we're about uh$ 150 $200,000 over budget so way over what I thought and uh yeah out of money but things could be much worse everything's coming together it does look beautiful the hoopties well they're just being hoopties thank you so much for watching\n"