The Wizard's Apprentice: A Journey to Restore a Vintage Subaru 2.5 Engine

As we stood before the ancient relic, a 1984 Subaru Wagon with a mysterious Subaru 2.5 engine, our wizard's apprentice exclaimed, "This thing sat for 10 years and it's in really good shape." Our journey began with an oil change and some routine maintenance to get us started on the long path to restoration. We tackled a few electrical issues, but nothing too pressing – just the usual suspects that come with aging machinery.

Next, we approached the task of installing new parts. The broham (a mysterious component) was a challenge, but our wizard's apprentice persevered, even going so far as to say they could have done three of these swaps in the time it would take to do one Apollo 911 swap. Despite its age, the engine looked remarkably vintage, and we couldn't help but be impressed by the simplicity of the job.

As we delved deeper into the project, our apprentice revealed that this was their first major restoration, and they were eager to prove themselves. With each passing day, the car began to take shape. We fitted new coolant lines and fuel lines, and even managed to get the engine to turn over – a minor miracle considering its age.

Despite some initial difficulties, such as finding replacement parts for the roof rack and seals, our team remained determined to see the project through to completion. However, one particular challenge proved particularly vexing: a missing license plate holder. Our apprentice joked that it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack – or rather, a rectangular piece of plastic fitting into a mysterious bracket.

As the final stages of the restoration drew near, our wizard's apprentice reflected on the journey so far. "It's been a long process," they admitted. "I'm not sure I'd go back and do this all over again." Despite some minor setbacks – including lost items like the gas cap – we were thrilled to see the car coming together.

And now, after nearly a year of painstaking work, our Subaru Wagon finally had its final buff applied, leaving it looking sleek and pristine. As we prepared to take the car for its maiden drive in a year, our apprentice couldn't help but exclaim, "This thing just wants to live!" And with 198,000 miles on the clock, it's clear that this car has been missing out – but is now ready to hit the road once more.

As we embarked on the final stage of the journey, our wizard's apprentice confessed that they were both excited and apprehensive. "It's kind of like the last Lord of the Rings movie," they mused, referring to the extended conclusion of the trilogy. "The ending takes over an hour." Indeed, this restoration project had taken its time – but now, as we prepared to drive away in our freshly restored Subaru Wagon, it was clear that every minute (and every wrench) had been worth it.

And so, with a final farewell, our wizard's apprentice bid us adieu, leaving us to contemplate the journey we'd just shared. As for them, they vowed to be more cautious with replacement parts – but also to appreciate the little things in life, like a freshly restored Subaru Wagon and the sense of accomplishment that comes with bringing it back from the dead.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to hoofy's garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and today is a hooptie fleet update we will be covering this my 1991 bentley turbo r but in addition to some bad news here there is a lot of good news but we can start with the bad news one of them is i lost a memory card and on it was the best hoovey's garage footage you have ever seen in your entire life it included me taking my grand wagoneer to my friend zach to get it wrapped to put the new wood paneling on and well that footage of me dropping it off is completely gone additionally there's no footage of me taking my other woody my 51 ford country squire for its first drive and on that drive well uh something catastrophically failed in the engine it started ticking and uh well it was kind of bad news there the bentley turbo r is back of course because it's the biggest piece of junk ever but there's a lot of good news going on here at the wizard shop so today we will do a humpty fleet update of all the wizard projects here a lot of my vintage cars are getting really really close so let's find the wizard and start walking around oh wizard this this this bentley this yeah sounds like yeah it sounds like a toilet flushing it kind of does it's flushing money down the toilet thank you very much yes but you can see the turbo really clear here so uh this bentley broke down on me and it was unrelated to this it's an electrical issue that you were able to fix with a new alternator you put it on and then you probably had to take it off to fix this massive oil leak that developed uh while this thing was sitting had a little oil leak but then it got really really big and that was the the crank seal yeah the front crankshaft seal and that's what this is all the way down here yes sadly they put it on the inside of the timing cover so you have to take all the stuff apart to get to it and then you found another leak from the brakes right yeah over here on the caliper on the front right it's leaking from where the two halves come together it just keeps going and going it's it's never going to stop so this is supposed to be my winter bentley my beater bentley but uh the winter is rapidly uh uh going it is and it's yeah it's getting torn apart once again this is more your your fixture your mascot here in the shop it just keeps coming back let's move on to some good news huh the van that i gave you for christmas uh you're putting it back together yes yes we put a new heater hose on it we've got all the interior back together really a new belt did you get the mood lighting working yeah that's very important oh yeah wizard flip it on oh you did it look at that this is actually a really nice van for 900 bucks it really is and it drives wonderful so you just fixed the few little things the coolant leak and the belt and yes i see you got a bow on it so planning to re-gift my gift yes it's going to be a re-gifted gift what do they call it a white elephant gift well no it's called re-gifting it re-gifting i guess that's what i'm going to do normally it's offensive to the person who gave you the gift but i totally understand so you're giving it someone who needs it yes i have someone who has health issues and a van would fit the bill perfect for them well wonderful well um well the maybach uh not giving away we just did the video on that definitely not unfortunately the country squire had a little misha oh my god uh a mishap here yes it had a issue with one of the pistons started knocking yes so i only had to replace just the one piston right so a little piece of the piston ring fell off i think something went on with the last rebuilder i don't know if there was a piece of it in there but it was a piece of a piston ring it was like this big and it got just got mashed in there yeah because i took it on a test drive and then i did a couple of you know harder accelerations and then that last one is when something went tick tick tick so it locked dislodged it or whatever yeah a piece of the piston cracked and the piece of the piston ring came up and got jammed in there luckily we were able to reuse your cylinder head i replaced the piston new set of rings and the wall was okay on the cylinder we were so lucky it didn't damage the cylinder walls so it's back running again i just got to reset thing everything up again so everything that was put together had to come off and then come back on again right it's more money and the rebuild you said was a long time ago wasn't it yeah 30 40 years ago something like that this thing sat in the museum so i'll be driving this one again soon that's exciting and then the mustang which i'm was not manly enough to own apparently you got magic mike working on this is my 66 gt350 tribute and it is manual everything manual transmission manual brakes and there was manual steering but i just i just couldn't i mean i could handle it but it was really hard not just in parking but just like driving out of my neighborhood it just took so much effort right and we talked about doing say a power steering from a 66 mustang with the old style whatever it would feel like crap or modernizing it with rack and pinion which would have been very expensive but this this was the more interesting way which it's a flashlight oh no this is my steering it's a steering column yeah it's been modified to fit this beautiful little electric power steering conversion yes we're doing prius power steering so we this way we didn't have to add power steering pump and route a bunch of hoses and lines and this is very clean and very simple and a lot cheaper yeah well it looks nice yeah it'll work nice good instructions easy to put in yeah not too bad okay whistle work then then i can actually park this mustang without looking like a girly man yes right and it's adjustable you can adjust the sensitivity of the motor oh so you can make it like lanyard pinky if you wanted to huh yeah yeah well very interesting thank you michael and it looks like uh it's like you got someone working on another one of my hoopties there's it's a bunch of hoopties my cadillac's getting all torn down for paint so when you take a car to a shop like this i mean like a mako they're not going to take apart all this trim nor would you probably want them to because they don't they're not going to take their time or really know what they're doing and then if they mask it off and they you know spray it then there's a chance that they'll get overspray on it that they'll get the masking line a little wrong so the more you can take off yourself or pay the wizards apprentice to do it their chinchilla down there the better off you're gonna be on a nice result which is what we're doing here and there were some things to do on this thing right like uh oil change and yeah there was an oil change just normal maintenance and then a few little electrical things but amazingly this thing sat for 10 years and it's in really good shape so it's definitely worthy of a paint job only 52 000 miles on it 87 broham i haven't got the broham off yet is it a sticker probably some nuts on the inside i'll help you right here i'm going to get one see i'm working and that's yeah that's a lot more work right there yep wow being d trimmed d bumper everything broham yes my back spider that's getting a subaru 2.5 engine put in it and it looks boy it looks very very in wizard yes we're getting closer and closer every day we've got the ecm done the wiring done i'm starting to figure out the intake we've got to run coolant lines and fuel lines it's just about ready to start really it actually will turn over right now seriously yeah okay do it yeah for sure you can hear the ecm go through all of its little you're kidding me it's almost there we're getting very close well that's absolutely awesome wizard so this must have been way easier to do than say the old ls swap 911 back in the day right oh yeah i could do three of these oh in the time it would take to do the apollo 911 swap it's pretty straightforward and uh yeah it looks right you know for being a 50s body with a a 2000s engine in it it looks looks pretty appropriate if you just look past the computers and the wiring and everything yeah looks pretty vintage you know well i appreciate all the hard work wizard i'm gonna leave from here and go pick up my wagoneer okay i'm gonna try and drive it home it hasn't been driven in a year because it's been sitting in body shops so chances are i'm going to be seeing you with it very soon as well but but maybe not who knows all right after almost a year here we are look at it it's a woody again oh man and i chose the same wood pattern that it had because some wagon ears they have this trim going all the way around but not the 84 yes super confusing it was oh you were googling images of that kind and not this kind correct and in the instructions it showed the one with the trim all the way around yeah we did a great job it looks it looks great uh it's been a long process though i don't know if i'd go back and do this all over again i may have just left the rig as is and there's a few things there's a few things you left undone because of missing parts right the windshield wipers were they have some weird bracket that i don't understand okay the wizard yes sort of stuff and my roof rack needs new these thingies and seals yeah no big deal and then this this has stumped us a little bit because where i get all my wagoneer parts uh they don't sell something that mounts for these reflectors here it's like a it's like a license plate uh little plastic piece that slips in except it's rectangular so hopefully you all can help me with that but otherwise oh yeah it does look like it was a little stressful with the uh natty likes of modelo red bulls that's uh that's what fuels this huh well very nice by the way okay i lost the gas cap too so i need to get that uh but it's it's coming back together i need to get up to the paint shop to have the final buff with all the little imperfections come off of it in the car wizard from it's sitting for such a long time but uh we're so close but now i'm gonna try and drive it for the first time in a year i've used flatbeds to get around because i didn't have any stuff on it but now i mean it should it should drive it moved okay right it moved off the tow truck good and started last night it's amazing how well this thing drives after sitting for a year in a couple of body shops it's like this thing just wants to live 198 000 miles on it too and even though we're not quite at the end yet it is close enough to call it a happy ending it's kind of like the last lord of the rings movie i think the ending took over an hour which is gonna happen this it needs little trim pieces and other stuff little things fixed but it'll always be broken i mean it's an old chrysler product or amc i suppose thank you for watchingwelcome to hoofy's garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and today is a hooptie fleet update we will be covering this my 1991 bentley turbo r but in addition to some bad news here there is a lot of good news but we can start with the bad news one of them is i lost a memory card and on it was the best hoovey's garage footage you have ever seen in your entire life it included me taking my grand wagoneer to my friend zach to get it wrapped to put the new wood paneling on and well that footage of me dropping it off is completely gone additionally there's no footage of me taking my other woody my 51 ford country squire for its first drive and on that drive well uh something catastrophically failed in the engine it started ticking and uh well it was kind of bad news there the bentley turbo r is back of course because it's the biggest piece of junk ever but there's a lot of good news going on here at the wizard shop so today we will do a humpty fleet update of all the wizard projects here a lot of my vintage cars are getting really really close so let's find the wizard and start walking around oh wizard this this this bentley this yeah sounds like yeah it sounds like a toilet flushing it kind of does it's flushing money down the toilet thank you very much yes but you can see the turbo really clear here so uh this bentley broke down on me and it was unrelated to this it's an electrical issue that you were able to fix with a new alternator you put it on and then you probably had to take it off to fix this massive oil leak that developed uh while this thing was sitting had a little oil leak but then it got really really big and that was the the crank seal yeah the front crankshaft seal and that's what this is all the way down here yes sadly they put it on the inside of the timing cover so you have to take all the stuff apart to get to it and then you found another leak from the brakes right yeah over here on the caliper on the front right it's leaking from where the two halves come together it just keeps going and going it's it's never going to stop so this is supposed to be my winter bentley my beater bentley but uh the winter is rapidly uh uh going it is and it's yeah it's getting torn apart once again this is more your your fixture your mascot here in the shop it just keeps coming back let's move on to some good news huh the van that i gave you for christmas uh you're putting it back together yes yes we put a new heater hose on it we've got all the interior back together really a new belt did you get the mood lighting working yeah that's very important oh yeah wizard flip it on oh you did it look at that this is actually a really nice van for 900 bucks it really is and it drives wonderful so you just fixed the few little things the coolant leak and the belt and yes i see you got a bow on it so planning to re-gift my gift yes it's going to be a re-gifted gift what do they call it a white elephant gift well no it's called re-gifting it re-gifting i guess that's what i'm going to do normally it's offensive to the person who gave you the gift but i totally understand so you're giving it someone who needs it yes i have someone who has health issues and a van would fit the bill perfect for them well wonderful well um well the maybach uh not giving away we just did the video on that definitely not unfortunately the country squire had a little misha oh my god uh a mishap here yes it had a issue with one of the pistons started knocking yes so i only had to replace just the one piston right so a little piece of the piston ring fell off i think something went on with the last rebuilder i don't know if there was a piece of it in there but it was a piece of a piston ring it was like this big and it got just got mashed in there yeah because i took it on a test drive and then i did a couple of you know harder accelerations and then that last one is when something went tick tick tick so it locked dislodged it or whatever yeah a piece of the piston cracked and the piece of the piston ring came up and got jammed in there luckily we were able to reuse your cylinder head i replaced the piston new set of rings and the wall was okay on the cylinder we were so lucky it didn't damage the cylinder walls so it's back running again i just got to reset thing everything up again so everything that was put together had to come off and then come back on again right it's more money and the rebuild you said was a long time ago wasn't it yeah 30 40 years ago something like that this thing sat in the museum so i'll be driving this one again soon that's exciting and then the mustang which i'm was not manly enough to own apparently you got magic mike working on this is my 66 gt350 tribute and it is manual everything manual transmission manual brakes and there was manual steering but i just i just couldn't i mean i could handle it but it was really hard not just in parking but just like driving out of my neighborhood it just took so much effort right and we talked about doing say a power steering from a 66 mustang with the old style whatever it would feel like crap or modernizing it with rack and pinion which would have been very expensive but this this was the more interesting way which it's a flashlight oh no this is my steering it's a steering column yeah it's been modified to fit this beautiful little electric power steering conversion yes we're doing prius power steering so we this way we didn't have to add power steering pump and route a bunch of hoses and lines and this is very clean and very simple and a lot cheaper yeah well it looks nice yeah it'll work nice good instructions easy to put in yeah not too bad okay whistle work then then i can actually park this mustang without looking like a girly man yes right and it's adjustable you can adjust the sensitivity of the motor oh so you can make it like lanyard pinky if you wanted to huh yeah yeah well very interesting thank you michael and it looks like uh it's like you got someone working on another one of my hoopties there's it's a bunch of hoopties my cadillac's getting all torn down for paint so when you take a car to a shop like this i mean like a mako they're not going to take apart all this trim nor would you probably want them to because they don't they're not going to take their time or really know what they're doing and then if they mask it off and they you know spray it then there's a chance that they'll get overspray on it that they'll get the masking line a little wrong so the more you can take off yourself or pay the wizards apprentice to do it their chinchilla down there the better off you're gonna be on a nice result which is what we're doing here and there were some things to do on this thing right like uh oil change and yeah there was an oil change just normal maintenance and then a few little electrical things but amazingly this thing sat for 10 years and it's in really good shape so it's definitely worthy of a paint job only 52 000 miles on it 87 broham i haven't got the broham off yet is it a sticker probably some nuts on the inside i'll help you right here i'm going to get one see i'm working and that's yeah that's a lot more work right there yep wow being d trimmed d bumper everything broham yes my back spider that's getting a subaru 2.5 engine put in it and it looks boy it looks very very in wizard yes we're getting closer and closer every day we've got the ecm done the wiring done i'm starting to figure out the intake we've got to run coolant lines and fuel lines it's just about ready to start really it actually will turn over right now seriously yeah okay do it yeah for sure you can hear the ecm go through all of its little you're kidding me it's almost there we're getting very close well that's absolutely awesome wizard so this must have been way easier to do than say the old ls swap 911 back in the day right oh yeah i could do three of these oh in the time it would take to do the apollo 911 swap it's pretty straightforward and uh yeah it looks right you know for being a 50s body with a a 2000s engine in it it looks looks pretty appropriate if you just look past the computers and the wiring and everything yeah looks pretty vintage you know well i appreciate all the hard work wizard i'm gonna leave from here and go pick up my wagoneer okay i'm gonna try and drive it home it hasn't been driven in a year because it's been sitting in body shops so chances are i'm going to be seeing you with it very soon as well but but maybe not who knows all right after almost a year here we are look at it it's a woody again oh man and i chose the same wood pattern that it had because some wagon ears they have this trim going all the way around but not the 84 yes super confusing it was oh you were googling images of that kind and not this kind correct and in the instructions it showed the one with the trim all the way around yeah we did a great job it looks it looks great uh it's been a long process though i don't know if i'd go back and do this all over again i may have just left the rig as is and there's a few things there's a few things you left undone because of missing parts right the windshield wipers were they have some weird bracket that i don't understand okay the wizard yes sort of stuff and my roof rack needs new these thingies and seals yeah no big deal and then this this has stumped us a little bit because where i get all my wagoneer parts uh they don't sell something that mounts for these reflectors here it's like a it's like a license plate uh little plastic piece that slips in except it's rectangular so hopefully you all can help me with that but otherwise oh yeah it does look like it was a little stressful with the uh natty likes of modelo red bulls that's uh that's what fuels this huh well very nice by the way okay i lost the gas cap too so i need to get that uh but it's it's coming back together i need to get up to the paint shop to have the final buff with all the little imperfections come off of it in the car wizard from it's sitting for such a long time but uh we're so close but now i'm gonna try and drive it for the first time in a year i've used flatbeds to get around because i didn't have any stuff on it but now i mean it should it should drive it moved okay right it moved off the tow truck good and started last night it's amazing how well this thing drives after sitting for a year in a couple of body shops it's like this thing just wants to live 198 000 miles on it too and even though we're not quite at the end yet it is close enough to call it a happy ending it's kind of like the last lord of the rings movie i think the ending took over an hour which is gonna happen this it needs little trim pieces and other stuff little things fixed but it'll always be broken i mean it's an old chrysler product or amc i suppose thank you for watching\n"