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Love his, lo-tech but refined where it counts, approach. Also enjoy his photography.

The stuff he finds at 1h30m and onward ...

Cats at 1h57m, in case you want to skip the boring car stuff.

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  • Turn on subtitles/CC's if you'd like explanations on what I'm doing throughout the video.
  • This is a 1948 Chevrolet Thriftmaster 5-window pickup. In the 1990's it was driven up from the cities and parked in this storage shed where it then sat until now. The owner, who learned to drive in this truck, reached out to me to see if I'd be interested in getting running and driving again.
Love his, lo-tech but refined where it counts, approach. Also enjoy his photography. The stuff he finds at 1h30m and onward ... Cats at 1h57m, in case you want to skip the boring car stuff. Description: >- Turn on subtitles/CC's if you'd like explanations on what I'm doing throughout the video. - This is a 1948 Chevrolet Thriftmaster 5-window pickup. In the 1990's it was driven up from the cities and parked in this storage shed where it then sat until now. The owner, who learned to drive in this truck, reached out to me to see if I'd be interested in getting running and driving again.
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Diffs and gear boxes of the greatest quality, lubricated with the best of lubricants, always operated within spec would last a very, very long time.

All three of those stars aligning over decades? Yeah nah. I'm told changing the oil in your automatic transmission makes a hell of a difference. But I've only ever driven manual or electric.

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Automatic transmissions are far different than closed systems like gear cases.

How many 100-150 year old tractors have gear oil in the belly that has never been changed?

The tolerances are of a Swiss watche, they don’t need to be. They just need to work, not mesh like a F1 car. Fuck I disassembled a windmill the other day. It hadn’t had oil in the gear cases for probably 30-40 years. All parts worked. Without issue. I turned it upside down and gear dust came out. Lots of it. More than you think. But because the White engineer on aermotor knew the conditions they would be in. The gears are heavy properly case metal. If it was just cleaned and oiled all would go back to work without fail for another 100’years. This one specifically was from 1920.