 Shaber 1000 here and today a couple things I want to do on this we'll get it up in the air I want to change your fuel filter I think I think it's up here on this one on the C4's so I got to get this up in the air and we'll get that fuel filter change I got it's got two radiator caps on it I'm gonna put some radiator caps on it fill it up with water and start it up I'm gonna have to I've got to put it on the charger because I haven't had this thing started since November but so when I open the door up on it the other night dome light was real dim so a little tiny frog on buddy so then we'll talk a little bit about the master cylinder on this the reason why I don't have any brakes so but let's go ahead and get this thing up in the air I'll put you on a stand we'll fast forward you through that the jacking point the original jacking points right in here you know for the for the the jack that comes with the car there's another jacking point up in here but I can't remember if I can get to that with that side pipe there or not so anyway I'm gonna get the hood up on this thing I'm gonna put the battery charger on it and we'll bring out a couple of inches and the fuel filter and we'll get that changed now and then never starts from Walmart or junk let's talk about this real quick like I said the brakes went out on it pedal just went clear to the floor like there's nothing there and I checked that's full that one's got some in it but if it was in line there'd be a puddle under it and one of them would be empty so what I think it's bypassing there's like a little piston in here that when you push your foot down on the pedal it pushes and pushes it's got cups on it and it pushes fluid out out to the lines now what happens when it bypasses is those cups go bad and instead of putting pressure into the lines the fluid just goes back behind the cup and you go to the floor and then when you let off the pedal it just circulates back around the front of the cup again that's called bypassing I think that's the problem we're having I don't think it's stuck because the car moves so which one we first brought it out here the brake pedal was stuck the brakes were stuck on and I tapped on that tap tap tap and it released I did that a couple times and I told her then well it's probably not gonna last long but so I've got one of them ordered it's a used one because the new ones like over $200 so order to use one and I think what I'll do is I'll run the used one while I'm running the used one I'll go ahead and rebuild this one but until then you know that's what we're going to do but right now let's go ahead and get fuel filter change now it's not the original radiator right down here you can see there's a radiator cap here right underneath this and there's one up here now so when I would run it I would just put water in and as you can see all that rubber is gone so it would just leak out that's not the original radiator so that's why it's got two caps on it so I'm gonna put a what is it a 15 here and 16 or 17 up here so but yeah the fuel filter should be right down here but I'll get you up near I'll get this up near and I'll show it I'll show that to you once I once I get the get it up near I'll bring the camera under and I'll show it to you all right she's up in the air now I'm gonna get up under there let me grab a light too and I'll show you where this fuel filter should be okay so the fuel filter is right up in here right behind all this okay now I have to drop this X-frame down it's clear across there because well convertible you know so I'm gonna have to drop this down if you don't have a convertible you're not gonna have to worry about it you might want to take this shield off here kind of a heat protector so it doesn't vapor lock and stuff and then headers get hot now and also yours might not have headers this one didn't originally these were put on after they this is part of the exhaust right here it's pretty weird set but anyway so I'm gonna have to get a wrench hopefully I don't know I never took one of these down before so hopefully it doesn't bend too much I'll probably put that jack down under there on the back to kind of help support the body so it doesn't bend too much but yeah I might just be able to unbolt these four volts stuff a piece of wood or something up in there right between the floorboard and that X-frame might be able to do that just enough to get me up in there to where I can get a couple wrenches on that I don't know if you can even see it but trust me it's right up in there and so let me go ahead and get these unbolted I'm gonna put a jack under the back of that X-frame there to kind of help you know support it to keep it from twisting that way it'll be even on both sides both sides over there are on the ground both sides here are gonna be kind of up the front's off the ground but the back is you know is not but it's like I got some gel work to do here but that's that's later on guys so let me do that okay guys so got to feel filter off sometimes you can just loosen these and pull that out but I just went in took mine off it's 10 millimeter I'll show you where exactly where it goes here in just a minute but I want to see what look at that see that that could be the reason why it's running rough now that's not that is not rust unless it's coming from the line because that tank is lined it's a steel tank but it's got the plasticish rubber liner in it so I'll get the new filter and I'll show you which way this will go up in there a lot of these will tell you flow that way so it's coming from the tank going into here and coming out this way going this one goes up into your engine okay it's easy to tell the one that looks like a soup can goes to the soup you know what I mean because it's souped up joke but bad joke but now I'm gonna blow through this new filter you can just blow through it just as easy as anything this one you got to put some pressure behind it to blow through it so yeah he's a new new feel new filter for sure yeah real nice and easy that's barely blown if I blow the same amount it doesn't want to blow through I got a really put pressure on it so this clogging I don't know when the last time that was changed it may never have been and also on this one it says out right there it says out so yeah that's definitely it'll run either way but if you run it this way and this is going to your engine it's just not gonna filter it'll still run it just won't filter so and if you got fuel injections like we do fuel injectors like we do yeah that's not good so yeah this is 10 millimeter usually these will just slide out like that so I'm just gonna go ahead and put this one in right now this is a wax filter by the way so it's a good filter I'm just gonna go ahead and put that on there like that and I'll bring you up there let me wash my hands off so don't get gas on the camera and yeah there's probably that's probably water it looks like dirty ass water because well anytime you have fuel in a tank you're gonna get condensation especially in tropical states like Florida you're gonna get a lot of condensation so that filter did its job it kept all this going from going up into the into the injector so I do have the fuel draining out I'm gonna let drain out what drains out I have five gallons of fresh fuel and I've got some heat which is it gets water out of your system all also have some fuel injection cleaner I usually don't like to do use that stuff but I'll explain to you why here in a minute once we get this back up in there but so let me get let me get my hands washed off and I'll show you exactly where this goes it's not as bad as it seemed I didn't have to drop the whole X-frame I probably could have got by without just taking them four bolts out but anyway I'll show you what I mean like there's where it goes up in that right up in there I pulled that little cover off a little heat shield protective shield I can't see what you're seeing but just right up in there okay real easy the line is 5 8 and the the filter is 13 16 okay now what you can do see this is what I got going on back there I can't see what you're seeing I got my screen turn I'm letting it drain whatever it wants to drain out okay because what this does is this comes out the top of the gas tank and then down and then back up into them to the engine what that does is since this is lower than the tank it creates a siphon now that looks like a whole bunch it's not really a lot because there wasn't much fuel in here anyway so looks like we want to get another pan over there but I want to do that on purpose try to get some of this old fuel out of here and there's there's a way you can get by without this happening to you and I'll tell you here in just a second let me get out from under this car you can get something over there hi guys sorry I didn't realize you were zoomed in when I had you up under there just now so I'm gonna let it drain do a thing now what you can do is find your fuel pump fuse it's usually a 10 a 10 amp a little red fuse it'll say fuel on it or fuel pump or whatever find that fuse pull that fuse your fuel pump will not work now then you can start your car up and let it run until it shuts off and that'll get rid of all the fuel that's in them lines and it won't create a vacuum you won't have a problem now the reason why I didn't do that number one was you see how close it was to the headers and the exhaust pipes right there you know the side but I don't I didn't want to you know take a chance of burning myself or dripping some hot stuff onto the exhaust and you know I didn't want to wait another hour to get started on this thing so also I just wanted to let it drain out what it was going to drain out in that line so what you can do is you can blow back through that line with compressed air but you're just blowing anything that's in there already back into the tank and it's just gonna suck it back up again so that'll help clean it out clean the line out a little bit the tank is I know it's clean it's probably got a little bit of water in it from condensation we don't run it very much because well there's no tire well the tires are bad now you know we got the break issue so the master cylinder I think I just got a message said it was being shipped today so I should get it beginning the next week we'll put a master cylinder on I got a I got a tool I've never used this tool before it's really cheap it was like $12 you plug it into your air hose and it will suck your lines it'll suck fluid out of your lines for you break fluid so you can keep sucking that fluid out until it comes out clear and then you know you can bleed them that way by yourself a lot of times I have gravity bled just opened up the bleeders and they'll gravity bleed now I'm not sure if this one will or not I've never gravity bled a Corvette brake system before I always had power bleeders anyway but a lot of times if I was doing brake jobs you know I just like if I'm running all new brake lines back ones once they're on you know I'll make sure they're fluid in the back reservoir sometimes you can't do that you just got a single reservoir but while I'm doing something else let's say and I'll just open them bleeders up keep an eye on them you can also get your rubber hose to come off that bleeder down into a jug or whatever a brake fluid and you go in and pump it yourself and that'll get the air out but again you know you want to make sure there's no bubbles make sure it's a clear line make sure there's no bubbles in that line but like this thing the best thing you can do is get a couple line wrenches even cheap line wrenches will help everybody says well I don't want to pay twenty thirty dollars for for a wrench I'm gonna use once well you know you go to auto zone or advanced auto they have what they call a tool loan you you actually you just buy it and then when you take it back you get all your money back if you can't afford to do that yeah she can use regular wrenches just be very careful because those line those line fittings will will strip out so easy and then you know you're looking at repair kits you're looking at new lines and then you're probably going to get them by the wrenches anyway to put the new stuff back on cuz you don't want to strip it again and now you're looking at a hundred dollars we should just spent the twenty or thirty for the wrenches you know I mean that's just in my opinion I'm fortunate enough to have some line wrenches and I just happen I do have the ones I needed here so but anyway guys I'm gonna let that do its thing I'm gonna finish my cigarette before I walk over there monkey be looking in the camera going was a vet on flames we don't want that it's been in the family 29 years no we don't want that so I'll be back with you guys I'll show you again up under there because I don't know what the last clip got because I was zoomed in for the plate deal I wanted to show you what came out of that old filter yeah those filters they get water in them like that and see their metal inside there too so just watering it your filter could actually be rusting you know that that could cause that that dark stuff but I know the tank's not rusty cuz it like I said it's a line tank there's a liner in there it's it's you know coated it's a coated tanks not a liner it's coated so and you know I was in there when I put a new fuel pump in and yeah there wasn't there was a little bit of condensation moisture in it and so that's probably why it's been running kind of rough so but I got some fuel injection cleaner that I'm gonna put in a heat using that stuff because this one's not gonna be too bad cuz all I gotta worry about is the line and it's getting a new filter so whatever's in the line but you think about if you got a steel tank and if that can clean fuel injection fuel injectors it can also clean everything from the tank on back it's gonna clean that rust and everything it's gonna knock all that stuff loose then what's gonna happen it can clog your filter and it can clog your injectors worse that's why I don't like using it but in this case since I'm putting a new filter on and the filters up front on this one and the tank is coated I think most of that just watering from whatever was left in the old filter so I think I'll be alright using it this time then I'll put I got a bottle that heat to help up dry up whatever moisture may be left in there so alright let me finish my cigarette and I'll get you back up under there and I'll show you again where this came out of because I can't see cuz I got it I gotta put the screen back the screen will go back and kind of close but but this and then the screen will be on the side but then I can't see if I'm on this side I can't see what you're seeing so but it's not that hard like I said I could probably got by with leaving them four bolts in that X-frame but I just I just took it out anyway just in case I needed some more room you probably could get by with that without doing that so but you're definitely gonna have to take that that cover off it's 210 millimeter bolts that's it make sure you put that stuff on too because I had one one time come into my shop it was a C4 and guy said you know started running kind of rough on him and he put a new fuel filter in it and it was fine for about a day he said then it's like when it gets when you're driving down the road it'll start acting like it's running out of gas and he said you let it set for a little bit and started up and it'll run fine again for a while what it was doing was when he told me that I said was there a cover over that over the filter and he said yeah it had two 10 millimeter screws in it I said you put it back on he was like does anybody I said well yeah I do but I'm a mechanic but yeah I said a lot of people they might not have any problems with it but I said like you he had long tube headers too which makes that closer if you just got down pipes and exhaust manifolds it's a little farther away you might not have an issue but since he had the headers too it's closer and it was heating up his fuel vaporizing his fuel so you know you're not gonna have fuel pressure you know and you're not really gonna have fuel so it's called vapor locking that's what I want to explain to you it's called a vapor lock he says well I I still got it since you got it up there I'll run home and get it and he threw it on for me I said yeah I did that for nothing just just those two screws he called me about two weeks later and said that was the issue there he hadn't any hasn't had any more problems with it since so but yeah he said well my friend did it he just threw his way and I said did he have headers and he said no I think he's his was just the regular stock exhaust so I said well that's farther away you know that exhaust is farther away than the headers are because you know you got four tubes coming into one down there and so you know you're looking that big around instead of that big around so it's closer and that's you know that's that was the issue so anyway short story time well whatever anyway I'll be back with you guys hi guys there it is you can see it's pretty easy to get to I probably wouldn't had to take them bolts out come on focus but I did anyway so there it is now I'm gonna put this cover it just goes back on sorry I can't fit you down in here but it's it's pretty simple it's just gonna go up in here like that those two bolts are gonna go back in these four bolts are gonna go back in I'm gonna set it down and then we'll put fresh gas in it and hopefully we can start it up so this is the fuel injection cleaning stuff like I said I usually don't recommend that but since I got a new filter and it is a it is a coated tank I thought I'd give that a shot and then I put some of this in here helps keep the water out oops this stuff here and this is what I put in hi now I'm gonna go over I'm gonna get some I have a little bit of antifreeze what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put enough in because you never want to run just straight water because that antifreeze also helps lubricate your water pump bearings so I've got a little bit over there I'm just gonna put that in it I'm gonna fill it up with water make sure those caps are gonna work make sure it's not gonna leak and then I'll drain it out later on and put regular antifreeze in it it's pretty bad so I got a half so I'm gonna have to back flush this anyway so I don't know what all this stuff is but let's go ahead I'm gonna put some I've got about a half a gallon of regular antifreeze that's used I'm just gonna put that in there for now and then we'll start it up make sure there's no leaks we'll go from there hey guys you missed it so I went ahead I filled the radiator and I've got whoops sorry I've got the tank filled filled up there that's the overflow down there so we're gonna start it up let it warm up and see if make sure there's no leaks sorry guys so hasn't been running since November so like I said I knew the battery was low when I put it on there sure enough was low so there wasn't even no sense in trying it but we'll go and try it now get the keys we'll cycle the key a couple times let it build up some let the pump fill up that line that's just the fan hate that let's hit it hundred fifteen minutes we're gonna make sure everything's doing what it's supposed to do looks like it is circulating at a 15-pound cap on the radiator this one's getting a 16-pound so let me let it build up some heat get the thermostat to open up on it and then I'll be back with you it's getting better now but I noticed one time when I had the belt off of there seemed like it had a little play in that water pump so I think it's probably where it's coming from I hope that's where it's coming from I mean like I said I don't know who actually put the heads on and stuff but I'll give it a minute and I should be able to see it dripping down in there so you can see it coming out there too so alright let me check it out and I'll be back with you guys okay guys so I think it's definitely the water pump like I said I was pretty sure I was gonna have to replace that right behind that water pump is the timing chain cover right behind that's the timing chain while we got it apart why not for a P Jackson gear drive in it huh something to think about right now these water pumps aren't that they're not that hard to put on and they're not very expensive 30 35 bucks maybe so I'm gonna look into that but at least you know we got it running better now I still think I still think there's some water in it that needs to be this moisture that needs to be taken care of but other than that when we get the tires this thing will be ready to go once I put the water pump on so alright I'm gonna hose this down here real quick and so Bruno don't come out here lapping that stuff up right so I'm gonna hose this down and I'll see you guys in the next one thanks for joining me appreciate it and hopefully you learned something so remember if you pulled that fuse out and ran it out of gas when you get your filter changed don't forget to put the fuse back in her own start we'll see you guys in the next one she better admit the man legend gone for now we'll see y'all soon bye bye and take care everyone