Is The Classic Car Market Dead, Or Is This The Calm Before The Storm? Uncle Tonys Garage 2026-09-25 | Is The Classic Car Market Dead, Or Is This The Calm Before The Storm?
Survival For The Budget Car Builder - DIY Transmission Rebuild From A Junkyard Core Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-04-17 | With the cost of living running out of sight these days, it's becoming more and more difficult for the average guy to lay out big money on project car parts. One of the biggest expenses is a transmission and associated parts.By starting with a basic junkyard core, a handful of tools and a weekend to kill, anyone can save thousands by going going through and rebuilding it yourself.Here's a typical core transmission that we've torn down to assess it's internal condition and the steps and parts needed to bring it back to life. @kiwiclassicsandcustoms9160 @DrArtshotrodrehabMERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Ma Mopars Least Loved Musclecars - The 273 Commando Early A Body Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-04-12 | Chrysler's 235 horse 273 4 Barrel was a sweet, well rounded little powerhouse and when installed in the light, nimble first generation A Body made for a fantastic mini musclecar. But tight packaging of the small block in a space originally intended for a Slant Six, a fragile rear axle and styling that was more than a bit awkward compared to Ford and GM offerings meant that when these cars came to the end of their useful life, most were scrapped or left.to rot, making them relatively rare today. We dropped by Kiwi's to take a look at this beautiful survivor and point out some of the things that made these cars both unique and difficult to work with. @kiwiclassicsandcustoms9160MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
UTG Wednesday Night Tech Talk LIVE Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-04-11 | Hold the pepperoni, it gives kiwi gas
Bang Screech GO! How To Powershift (Speedshift) Any Car And Make It Look Easy Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-04-10 | The days of manual shift cars dominating on the street and strip may be over, but there's still a lot to be said for letting the clutch fly and ripping through the gears while keeping the gas pedal jammed against the carpet. Here's a quick beginners guide on how to practice and master the ancient art of powershifting along with how to do a stationary burnout in a manual car without a line lock.MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Mission Improbable - Pure Hot Rod Fun That Nearly Anybody Can Afford Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-04-07 | For a true gear head, nothing is more fun than a mechanical challenge, and given today's economic realities, one of those challenges is completing a project without having to hurt the family budget too badly. So, on top of all of this projects tight restrictions, we've also included an unrealistically low price cap on the entire build. Also, we go over the details of our Jeeps first drag strip outing, and talk about tires, traction, weight loss and what the plan is going forward. #cars #dragrace #costofliving @DrArtshotrodrehabMERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
This Thing Is FUN! - Mission Improbable Hits The Strip For The First Time Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-04-06 | The first outing with our bone stock stripper 5 Speed Jeep XJ went better than we expected, despite mysterious computer glitches, a lack of traction and zero experience working with a combination like this.We got several runs in, and it looks like our goal of knocking out a 13 second ET using nothing but stock, year/make/model 1996 XJ specific parts is a lot more realistic than originally thought. @DrArtshotrodrehab @kiwiclassicsandcustoms9160MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Mopar Hemi Deep Dive - Comparing 1st, 2nd and 3rd Gens. Variations, Design, History And Trivia Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-04-05 | Firepower To Hellcat, we look at the similarities and differences between the three various generations of Chrysler Hemi. How each evolved, their strong and weak points and how each was modified and improved for their ultimate applications.#classiccars #cars #engines #nitro #musclecarMERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Rust-Oleum Reinvents The Spray Bomb Yet Again. New 5 Way Can Offers A Position For Every Purpose Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-04-03 | Just when you thought the Turbo-can was the last word in spray paint innovation, Rust-Oleum one ups itself with an adjustable spray nozzle that lets you shoot just the right volume of paint into just the right position by clicking a dial built into the cap.#diy #cars #painting #engine MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Viewer Feedback - The Blessing And The Curse Of The YouTube Comment Section Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-31 | The video we posted yesterday on our latest trip to the track with Slaghammer spawned a hundred comments on the state of our tow rig and how it was crazy and dangerous and suicidal, but as with most things in life perspective is everything. Here's what nearly everyone missed.The Lost Video Of Slaghammer: youtube.com/watch?v=LYROLf8uZ3sMERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Power Goes Up, Traction Goes Down. It Really Is That Simple Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-30 | On the plus side, our experimental XJ Tow Rig worked out great. On the downside, Slaghammer picked up a significant amount of power with the jett change, but that power was wasted spinning the tires and eating up both sides of the lane.Next up is some fresh rubber and another crack at the clocks.MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Its ALIVE! Mission Improbable Is Stronger Than We Expected - Musclecar Jeep XJ Too Easy? Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-29 | After two days of ripping around, powershifting our Marketplace 2wd 5 Speed XJ it seems we've actually underestimated the performance potential of this combination. Here's our initial impressions of this ultra low budget tire shredder, what we've learned so far, and where we go next in our quest for an all stock part 13 second Street/Strip Jeep.MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
UTG Wednesday Night Tech Talk Live Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-28 | Genuine youtube certified mechanics run amok
Our Mission Improbable Drag XJ Gets A Bunch Of Parts And We Total Up Our Costs So Far Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-25 | Our never ending search for economical Hot Rod fun has led us to flog on a stripper Cherokee XJ,, and as it turns out this thing is the total contradiction of the idea that working with Jeeps is an expensive proposition. Here's a rundown of all the parts we've secured and a running total of how much bread we've laid out so far.MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Dodge Is Bangin On Deaths Door, But Can Combining Two Ancient Mopar Concepts Save It? Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-23 | The introduction of the new Electric Dodge Charger was a complete debacle. For all intents and purposes the already ailing company seems to have both jumped the shark and screwed the pooch at the same time. Recent mass firings at Stellantis hint at imminent doom. But what if Dodge was to truly act like the rebellious anti establishment company it claims to be, and come out with a car so radical, so unique and so unorthodox, the rest of the automotive world would be left in its dust.Here's the vehicle we would build to turn things around in a hurry.MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Hard Starting Mopar Follow Up - We Never Expected To Find This Stuff Inside! Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-20 | In our last video, we cranked and cranked and cranked and could not get the engine in Big Richard to fire to save our lives. Since then, Dr. Art, in surgically clean fashion, has torn the engine down, and to our surprise it was loaded with a variety of substances that could only be the result of taking an extended dip in filthy flood waters.@DrArtshotrodrehab @kiwiclassicsandcustoms9160 MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Will It Run? Dodge Truck Has No Compression And Blowby While Cranking - Lets Try It Anyway! Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-18 | We knew going in, it was a dumb idea. The dead 318 In Big Richard, Kiwi's D100 that Dr. Art is taking on Power Tour is going to be replaced by a Hemi before the year is over, so we thought if we could get it fired up and running that might free things up and save us the trouble of a re-ring job on this temporary engine. Well, this is how it went. @DrArtshotrodrehab @kiwiclassicsandcustoms9160MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Stitching Our Exploded 426 Hemi Block Back Together, Plus Mission Improbable And The Propane BB Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-15 | We got the urge to start picking away at the work on our Facebook Marketplace Hemi block, and so far the results are looking good. Also, an update on our Drag Jeep XJ, and the Big Block Chrysler propane project as it inches ahead.#diy #cars #mopar #classiccar #engine MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
UTG Wednesday Night Tech Talk LIVE Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-14 | You Ask, We Bluff Our Way Through And Try To Answer
Rat Dodge Pickup Gasser For Power Tour? Kiwi And Dr. Art Team Up For A 60 Day Wonder Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-11 | The long term plan is for us to build up Kiwi's 392 Chrysler Hemi and drop it into his long forgotten D100 pickup, but the completion of that is several months in the future. In the meantime the truck just sits, and Dr Art is on the hunt for a Power Tour project. So, why not put it all together and hit the Tour in June using the 318 currently sitting under it's hood.#cars #mopar #classiccar #diy @kiwiclassicsandcustoms9160 @DrArtshotrodrehab MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
2024 Dodge Charger - The Decline Of Our Civilization Embodied In A Car Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-08 | It's a slick, beautiful package with two available powertrain packages. An overworked twin turbo six banger, or all electric, featuring fake exhaust, fake nitrous, fake transmission and a mode specially designed for anti social idiots to better take over city intersections and terrorize locals.MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
How To Create The Everlasting Engine Gasket And One Common Mistake To Avoid Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-06 | Most automotive gaskets are designed to be one use only, but when you dig into your engine on a regular basis to tinker and modify, replacing wasted gaskets can cost a good bit of cash and burn down a bunch of time. Here's a simple old school trick than will let you reuse paper, rubber and cork gaskets over and over again. Also, a common gasket included in nearly all overhaul sets that really should not ever be used.#cars #diy #automobile #engine MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Its Never The Computer...Until It Is- Troubleshooting A No Start, Plus Rules For Mission Improbable Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-04 | Sure, we had lots of things to accomplish over the weekend, but who can resist digging into a mechanical mystery on a new project vehicle? After being abandoned at the back of a used car dealership for 9 years we knew there was going to be a catch, and we found it.Also, we lay out the ground rules for mission Improbable and add a new dimension to the project by including a measure that we'll let anyone attempting a similar build can compare their results directly against ours using any vehicle.@dexjs @DrArtshotrodrehab #cars #engine #computer #diy MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Project Mission Improbable - An Unlikely Vehicle With Enormous Potential. Lets Make It Rock! Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-03-02 | At 3040 pounds, packing 190 horsepower and a super low geared 5 speed transmission, this rare 2 door, 2wd 96 XJ has everything it takes to run low 15 second ETs, or about on par with the average, typical muscle car of the classic era. But, we've got bigger plans than that. Here's what we've got and what we intend to do with it, plus a quick update on a few of our other long term projects.MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
The Most Satisfying Automotive Experience Ive Ever Had - Lessons Learned With A 5.0 Mustang Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-28 | In 1987 the Fox Body phenomenon was in its infancy. None of the parts and knowledge that are taken for granted today existed, and we were all flying by the seats of our pants. It was an era of constant experimentation, trial and error and drag racing 7 nights a week. But we had a challenge. Take our bone stock 87 LX and go head to head against not only modified cars, but one in particular that was backed by Ford itself...and for a brief moment, we led the pack.#cars #ford #history #autorepair And this is why we do what we do today.MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
When Good Projects Go Weird - Why We Stepped Away From Mission Impossible @UnityMotorSportsGarage Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-24 | It started with a pretty simple premise. Take a common low performance engine, and using only stock parts, maximize every aspect of the engine and attempt to generate one HP per cubic inch. But this experiment of applying science and trickery to a stock engine quickly evolved into a situation where those stock parts were being replaced with better and even aftermarket substitutes thus rendering the original concept obsolete.Andy's video: youtube.com/watch?v=lzKC68t0H-U&t=1sMERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Flipping Cars The Right Way - We Break Down Our Costs For Resurrecting A Dead Jeep Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-24 | There's a negative association to the term "Car Flipper" but in truth there's no better way to turn your hobby and skills into hard cash than picking up a dead player from Craigslist or Marketplace and bringing it back to life. Our 99 XJ looked like it was on its way to becoming a parts vehicle at best, until we noticed that under the mold, grime and general disgust was a solid, rust free survivor with good paint and all it needed was a good cleaning and some relatively minor engine work. A few days of labor and $1600 total investment later, we've got a sharp looking, perfectly running late model classic that could net us a several thousand dollar profit in today's market.#diy #sidehustle #cars MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Super Low Budget E Body Mopar Build? Eat Your Heart Out Kiwi, The New King Of Patina Is Here Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-21 | This 1972 Dodge Challenger may have suffered a bit of heat damage, but Ratty muscle is the in thing these days, and ever since Kiwi rescued his patina-perfect 59 Plymouth wagon, it's been the only thing we can really think about...until this!The big question now, is if Dr. Art can whip this bad boy into shape in only four months to make this years Power Tour with it.@kiwiclassicsandcustoms9160 @DrArtshotrodrehab #cars #classiccar #diy MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Even MORE Slimeball Classic Car Dealer Shenanigans - Impossible Numbers Matching Car Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-19 | The old saying when it comes to used car dealers is that if their lips are moving, they're lying. In the case of this 1974 340 Roadrunner advertised as an original numbers matching car, the problem is obvious... They didn't build any 1974 340 cars! We pointed this fact out to the seller on Facebook Marketplace, and he acknowledged the mistake and promised to correct it immediately, but when we checked the ad one week later to the day, nothing had changed. Probably because he had about 20,000 reasons not to correct it.#cars #classiccar #mopar #scamMERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Dealing With Trailer Sway - Keeping Your Tow Rig Shiny Side Up And Out Of The Ditch Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-17 | Towing a trailer is something that's simple and easy, until it's not. More often than not, the worst problem you are likely to encounter is the phenomenon of Trailer Sway. Here is a description of what Sway is, how it occurs, the factors that can set it off and the things you need to be aware of to keep it from happening to begin with. Also, we get into trailer brakes, trailer brakes controllers and the things to take into consideration when choosing and locating them in your tow vehicle, plus an update on our experimental Jeep XJ tow rig.#cars #rv #travel #autorepair MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Post-Mortem Tour Of A 426 Hemi Block Plus More Trivia Than Youd Ever Want To Know Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-14 | We bought this completely blown up Street Hemi casting because we wanted to experiment with some unusual repair techniques and didn't want to permanently destroy one that was easily fixed. Here's a look at this block and its damage along with facts on how to identify different castings, the history of these blocks, deciphering their common markings and our plans for it.#DIY #classiccar #hemi #engine #mopar #426hemi MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Meet Large Marge - Ultimate Road Warrior, Parts Chaser and Patina Queen 1959 Plymouth Suburban Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-12 | Kiwi scored with this one! Fresh off a 2000 mile run from California back to home base in Nashville, the ancient Poly still runs strong enough to pull down 18 MPG on the highway, but she's tired and has an appetite for oil. The original plan was to build and swap in a 392 Firepower Hemi to replace it, but now it seems the old Poly has begun to grow on Kiwi, so we're going to leave it for you guys to decide. Chrysler Whale power or a Stroker 390 inch Semi-Hemi.#cars #classiccar #engine #survivor #roadtrip MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
So Youve Got A Blown Head Gasket - Heres What You Need To Know To Make It Right Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-11 | In our last video we gave this 4.0 Jeep engine a compression test, and determined that the gasket between cylinder's 3 and 4 had blown out. Now, with the head pulled, we can see the obvious damage, but it takes some mechanical detective work to figure out why it happened in the first place. Here's what we found, what we determined and the steps we're taking to make sure it doesn't happen again.#cars #engine #autorepair #diy MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
How To Do A Compression Test And Decipher The Results - Tools, Technique And Reading Wet Vs Dry Test Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-09 | After we did a snap diagnosis of blown head gasket on our 4.0 Jeep, we decided to go back and give it a proper compression test. Here are all the things you need to know in order to prepare for the test, what the results mean, and how to use oil (wet test) to determine what kind of damage is killing your cylinder's compression.#diy #autorepair #engine #cars #classiccar MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
Can The Jeep XJ Make For A Decent Tow Vehicle? Not Likely, But Were Gonna Try Anyway Uncle Tonys Garage 2024-02-08 | The mighty Cherokee XJ is legendary for it's toughness and versatility both on and off the road, but can it be used as an effective tow vehicle over the open road? Here are the reasons we want to try it, why most people consider it to be a bad idea, and how we plan to overcome it's issues.#towing #classiccar #project MERCHANDISE:Get Your UTG T-Shirts Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-t-shirtGet Your UTG Stickers Here: uncletonysgarage.com/product/utg-stickersOUR STORE: uncletonysgarage.com
