1970s Car repair | How to repair your car | 1970s Cars | Drive in | 1976

[@nickname1812]

Happy days. Memories of adjusting the tappetts on my old Triumphs around that time. So much room under the bonnet of that blue Escort!!

[@rowgli]

It's weird watching informative and technically challenging television like this, in an era when people are willing to pay to have a bulb changed. It's amazing to think this was ever broadcast. What have we become :(

[@robp8218]

Lazy, we have become lazy...

[@mclare9817]

'MILLENIALS'😃😃

[@ghenkhoash2440]

OK, Boomers!

[@markm49]

Maybe it’s because in some cars you need to almost remove the entire bumper just to get to the lights.

[@graememorris4950]

@@markm49 That's fair enough, but I'm not talking about those examples, and places like Halfords will probably refuse those jobs anyway :p

[@automotivel3501]

Just love these history programmes, When was last time you needed to adjust valve clearance? Engine cold , rule of nine, feeler gauges, oil everywhere.

[@darrenmeears4667]

Just realised why Sundays are so boring now we just don't need to tinker with are boring Euro boxes I need an escort RS 2000 and a workshop manual 😍👌

[@finkfebruary5328]

That's funny but I won't accept a need to fix your car as a pleasure. The good thing is now you can just play video games like the rest of us or do anything else for fun instead

[@SuperZedd]

Did anyone else smell a whiff of oil and grease whilst watching this video?

[@Mod-rw9cw]

Feeler gauges and tappets,grinding valves in,changing piston rings,gungum on the exhaust.Changing plugs and points adjusting rotary arm on distributor. Tights for a fan belt.

[@pit_stop77]

That car, is so clean.........

[@smorris12]

One, two, three and so-on - a lot more convenient than bothering to say four! (Yes, I know, I6s)

[@CORRIGEEN71]

7 /16 af socket thankyou for metruc system

[@raincat9408]

In general do these tapets need tightening as opposed to loosening? Is this the main cause of clicky sounding rockers?

[@mcmcolm]

They essentially get smaller due to wear, you’re compensating for that by adjusting them.

[@Landie_Man]

A chatty tappet is a happy tappet. Too tight is worse.

[@PeterTOrganist]

@@Landie_Man my Renault 5 has very happy tappets then!

[@Landie_Man]

Peter Thomson haha. Good to hear.

[@Mod-rw9cw]

The good old days when you could actually fix your own car and strip the engine and easily access everything. Me and my Dad spent hours fixing up cars and selling them I used to pass him tools and bring him rags and cups of tea.I was only about 9.

[@richardclarke376]

"Don't forget to grease those trunnions people. And remember to add a quart of oil every 500 miles!"

[@Jamieunit]

Haynes book of lies, love the rocker shaft held in with a washer and split pin

[@honeymonster5589]

Haynes was good once ,but true they don't get it right, Haynes today Page 1 ' take to main dealer' Page 40 'collect from main dealer ' Lol

[@katieoreilly7846]

What was wrong with simplicity ??

[@georgejacob3162]

No money in simplicity. Now to change a light bulb means changing the complete headlamp unit and anything up to £500!

[@katieoreilly7846]

Unfortunately you’re so right !

[@ThePuffin77]

Sadly simplicity doesn't mean efficiency

[@mikemartin2957]

@@ThePuffin77 ford slogan in the 80s "Simple is efficient"!

[@kingshearer2]

I should save a fortune now.

[@fredjackson9231]

Engines better then

[@ghenkhoash2440]

Engines were absolute crap back then, so much more fail rate comparing to today.

[@mikemartin2957]

@@ghenkhoash2440 early cars if the engine failed at say 60,000 to 100,000 miles then in an ordinary saloon like an Escort then you could either rebuild it your self, buy an exchange unit or a known good secondhand unit from a breakers yard! Nowadays if engine fails then there are far too many associated components like turbo,flywheel esp dual mass and timing belts etc need replacing that its uneconomic to sort the Car and ends up being scrapped before even the first rust pimple has appeared.

[@PeterTOrganist]

@@ghenkhoash2440 not if they were properly maintained. Nowadays cars end up in the scrap yard at ten years old usually due to an electrical malfunction which costs to much to fix!

[@honeymonster5589]

Spray tube blocks up and you get a square cam

[@mclare9817]

At first I thought someone had stolen the engine out of that blue Ford.....Just a big blue hole uder the bonnet!😆😆

[@Avrelivs_Gold]

back when cars were meant for transportation. thankfully electric cars bring back simplicity

[@jakehodgson443]

😂😂

[@Nudnik1]

New cars suck never need fixing now.

[@PeterTOrganist]

tell that to my boss whose two year old Peugeot is forever in the garage!

[@swaneknoctic9555]

Engines were absolutely rubbish back then. As with everything research and development only results in improvement. Anything from Televisions, computers to car engines. A 1.8 engine can now produce more power than a 3.5L did back in the 70s, in an also much quieter far more reliable fashion.

[@KRhythm2013]

A Pinto engine and adjusting tappets is easier than any complex engine you will see today, and as for power, well take it to the right tuners and a tuned pinto will turn out 180bhp all day long, mated with a 5 speed box and a body weighing less than a ton normally makes for an Audi, BMW or Merc killer and for the fraction of the cost. Yes no electronic or safety systems but its not what you buy classic cars for. I still drive a Capri as a daily car

[@a.fritzbecker8986]

More horsepower, but not more torque, plus that 1.8 liter engine has to rev higher, needs high octane fuel, and likely requires a turbo charger to boot, which are expensive and troublesome. There is an old expression in racing/hot rod circles, "There is no replacement for displacement".