Will This Rebuilt 1961 Studebaker Hawk Survive 150 Highway Miles? Finishing My 6 1/2 Year Project

[@tonyb3864]

There's no such thing as "done" with any old car. Another good job !

[@moparedtn]

Jamie seems a bit young to be one of our fraternity of old school wrenchers. That's sort of encouraging, to be honest. - Ed on the Ridge

[@jamesblair9614]

I really enjoyed that. The car sounds great, and a manual transmission makes the car so much more interesting than if it was an automatic.

[@don66hotrod94]

That Hawk is so cool! It looks like Chrysler might be the next Studebaker.

[@JamesAllmond]

Love that Stude... I know, it's not a Mopar, but it needs love too...

[@jittychitty]

Our shop is tired of these old cars.. they never go away! Very glad there's shops like yours out there that will commit to working on them forever.

[@jonellwanger7258]

If you can’t work on the simple stuff.. why would anybody trust you with complicated hardware?? 😶. Odd statement.

[@briang4470]

​@@jonellwanger7258it's not necessarily that is "difficult/hard" to work on the older cars, the problem is that due to most of them being 40+ years old, everything gets worn out/ decayed over time and when you fix one thing, 99% of the time you'll find something else that now needs repaired, so the cars usually end up being extremely time consuming and it takes soo much time that you can't realistically bill the customer for every work hour put in or the bill would end up being more than the cars worth. Plus nowadays lots of parts are now discontinued or on indefinite backorder so a lot of projects are left at the mercy of parts availability so then the car ends up sitting for months-years and then because it's been sitting, now usually needs more work. It's just a never ending project.

[@Bob-Whiting]

@@jonellwanger7258100% what I was thinking, but did not say. ;-)

[@michaelmccluskey1155]

👎👎

[@mrluckyuncle]

Antique and classic cars deserve a specialist.

[@RussB.]

I had to binge watch all the videos on this project. Ive always had a soft spot for the unusual and different when it comes to cars and Studebaker is one of my favorites.

[@butcher390]

I genuinely appreciate and enjoy , Your self depreciating dry humor , And sarcasm ..... LMAO 😂😂

[@dogdoc1]

Thanks for explaining "pinging". I will have to listen again with headphones to try to hear it. 🎧

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

You bet! I plan to film a really good demonstration at some point - but with one of my crappy engines, not a gem like this. Haha.

[@musclecarmitch908]

Great work!👍 glad that cool old studebaker found it's way to you for repairs!👍

[@WillyMcCoy50]

I remember when Washington State plates switched from green background to white. I think we got them from the Shell station by the University Village in Seattle. We had a '56 Studebaker station wagon. I was 4 years old.

[@robertsimmons1716]

You’ve encouraged me to jump back on my ‘59 Silver Hawk.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Awesome!

[@mrluckyuncle]

What a great accomplishment! And it also seems like a lifelong project :-)

[@johndonlon1611]

Hurray for you. You restored and put a real orphan car back on the road that actually holds its own in today's world.

[@minnesotatomcat]

Sway bars are definitely your friend! I bought a 79 power wagon that was most of the way done being restored. It had a 4” lift kit and 33” mud tires and the sway bar was not on the truck but luckily came with. When I finally got most everything done and running and driving I took it for it’s first test drive and all seemed well until I attempted to negotiate the first corner in the road. The amount of body roll and buttpucker was insane. I had to find some longer connecting links from like a 2000’s 2500 but I got the sway bar in and it was a whole different truck, even sitting way up in the air it stayed level and planted in corners. Great vids brother, I can’t believe how clean that Stude is!! 👍

[@ronaldrey8474]

The best idle note... And boost noise . Approved

[@xlmi7021]

Those Studebakers are so cool and so different in so many ways compared to the big 3 U.S. automakers in their day.....love 'em! Keep finding more "Stude" projects please!

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

I’ll see what I can do!

[@pcbullets8726]

Awesome job fixing this ride! It looked like it was not the easiest thing to do, but you did it dude. Hope your wrist heals up soon, not fun dealing with that when you need your hands to work on things.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

This really gave me a good reminder how badly I need my hands. For, like, everything! I should be more careful. I can’t say I will be, but I really should be. Thank you!

[@OllamhDrab]

Been saving this video but hey, Steve Magnante is up!

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

I saw!! Really good to see him.

[@dieselgrandpa4181]

Not a Mopar but still a super cool and unusual car with the manual and cool tail fins.

[@djtherock7062]

I just drove my 57 silver hawk 150 miles yesterday after i Tuned it up and set the Valve's i run it up to a 100mph couple times no problems She's Solid Black all original

[@tom115]

Nice, comes with a swamp cooler.....water running from underneath dash when you stept on it lol

[@p38kris]

Awesome video man glad it made it

[@allanperryman388]

I had a 1959 studebaker lark. We loved it.

[@cbobmonster]

Another killer video and Dave was wearing some very cool pants. Lol lol lol

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Dave is *all* style. He always looks like he’s headed to a photo shoot. It’s impressive.

[@voltairegoethe]

@@DeadDodgeGarage [Style?] check... Dave might need a front disc brake conversion and a highly possible Atrazine detox. and Looks to be pinging standing still... Failure to fix might result in a catastrophic [BruceJenner] head gasket being blown. Because... TrueCare for Males. Care for Cars should migrate into God's own creations... aka The Call. Proper Dia[via]-gnosis - thru knowledge.

[@dannork1240]

I’ve been looking at my all white Hawk half disassembled in my garage so long, it’s actually kind of weird seeing one out driving around👍🏼

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

It’s still weird for me seeing this one drive around after it was a fixture in my shop for… six years? Ugh.

[@randyman828]

Nice job.

[@Brian-Gribble]

Great Job!! Glad to see the Stude on the highway and back to its owner. Now you have more free time to work on the Power Wagon! 🤣

[@chrispiazza7487]

Thanks for the ride! That was fun!

[@tedcorey3054]

Nice work , especially on the troubleshooting .

[@RandallSoong-pp7ih]

Sounds Great!

[@dirtyoldfarmhand3]

Awesome. Thanks for the video.

[@peterbraun3197]

Looks like your car started life in a fabulous, love-it or hate-it, one-year only color : "Flamingo"!

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Yep. Haha. The previous owner had it repainted white, and Dave says it *never* needs to be that color again.

[@briang4470]

If you do more to this car in the future, adding a water/ water-methanol injection set up would greatly help fight detonation and will add a huge safety margin for tuning.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

I agree. That would be a great idea. I didn’t think an absolute maximum of 6 PSI would require this much science…

[@briang4470]

@@DeadDodgeGarage believe it or not even a super small scale, crude set up(like a washer sprayer in the air inlet) will make a night and day difference. I tried to run a draw through type turbo set up on a small block Chevy and even at 5psi with 7.5:1 compression, with 22 degrees of total timing I could not get it to stop detonating, I tried everything (fuel, timing,spark plugs, jetting,etc). As a last ditch attempt I put on a home made water-methanol set up on it hooked to a boost switch and now with 30 degrees total timing and no other changes the detonating completely stopped, ever since then I have been a firm believer in it.

[@dougritchie4625]

Maybe a bit of a problem child, but I love everything about it.

[@SeanJoseph-s2s]

I finished project good content and thanks...can't wait for the next project.

[@staceyrenner5418]

Great success!

[@gasser66]

Definitely adding "unleaked" into my maintenance man vocabulary.

[@clembob8004]

Darn, just when I was starting to get attached to the Stude, away it goes! But, just like a bird, the day comes when it has to spread it's outdated tail fins and fly away. I really like the sound of that engine with the whine from the blower, although it probably sounds meaner than it is.

[@PaulDilorenzo-c7c]

Great work that was a test of your patience and knowledge Awesome body style

[@papaloongie]

The wheel studs I generally don’t want to talk about breaking are usually left hand thread that I wasn’t paying enough attention to. Like on my Pontiac 8-lugs.. Sigh. Keep up the struggle!!

[@tom115]

That thing would look awesome in Black IMHO

[@robertspence831]

What a sweet machine....

[@derekgoodwin4102]

Awesome

[@scottgudell3635]

I like this car! Very cool looking, and sounds great! But it looks like it earned the nickname steadybraker

[@Grandadsjunk]

Sounds real good

[@JohnWalter-i8n]

Awesome car.

[@PhilDodgeFury]

nice 🍀

[@KrisGreenhillsGarage]

6.5 years?!?!? Wow. That car is pretty cool. I'm sad to see it go. I'm sure you're not. But from a spectator standpoint, it was awesome to watch.

[@justme-n-gracie]

Nice work! My guess would be pinging because of no-lead gas. A bottle of "Octane Booster" might help. Vacuum advance delete time.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

In later videos I limited and then deleted the vacuum advance.

[@moyadapne968]

23:40 'World's most expensive fuel'.. haha, in New Zealand we're paying $13+per gallon. $208 to fill my Plymouth. NZ gallon is slightly bigger than US gallon though.

[@nickbruni8041]

Cool cruzer ⛽️

[@steveash9831]

What the heck?! No open wounds! No one had to have an arm reattached! That wrist brace just doesn't do it for me anymore! Of course I don't want you to get hurt, but if you do, I might as well take pleasure in it! It's funny when friends get hurt. I sure provided a lot of laughs in my life, and still do in glorious fashion! Did I ever tell you about the time I broke a Harley in half? Yeah, I know... a 100 times!

[@trojan440]

Gonna wonder if I got the right channel without the hawk in the background somewhere. Good for you.

[@tyhogue8316]

Well of course it’s no supercar but it was at one time! She’s a beauty!

[@brianmatthews9697]

Good video. On the pinging, did you look at the centrifical weight springs on the distributor? I know you can get different spring tensions on those. Sometimes they are tired. Remember , in 1961 leaded 100 octane was available. She might need that, even though your compression is not that high.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

I went through the distributor lately, doing a recurve, and later modified and then eliminated the vacuum advance. I could never get the pinging to completely go away with the vacuum advance connected. It definitely wants race gas. Haha.

[@brianmatthews9697]

I just remember when I was a kid my dad had a '67 olds 88. The leaded gas was getting phased out and dad had to bring the timing back to get rid of the ping. I had cars that some of the vacuum advances were direct to the manifold and others were ported off the carburetor. They used to make adjustable vacuum advances too. Thanks for writing. @@DeadDodgeGarage

[@samuelgoodman2825]

Nice

[@beljames1563]

Yay! The Stude is done. I dub her Judy the Stude. Well no one else has to but I will forever catalog her in my mind Judy. So ya I'm sick in bed with some kind of crud, likely covid so my excuse is sick out of my mind. 'Preiate y'all. See you tonight.

[@blownaway4371]

Great video! Id love to have an ol Studebaker like that. Have you ever weighed it yet? What's the hp rating for that engine? Thanks

[@OlderNotNecesarilyWiser]

I bet you are going to miss tripping over this! LOL! Seriously, It might have taken a while. but it sure turned into a totally different car. You sure have something to be proud of there.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

I don’t miss it yet 😅 thank you!

[@derekstone355]

I love that car!!

[@bombfog1]

A+ for using a superlative word like “resplendent.”

[@kimdelong3429]

289 city super charged maybe 275 hp! Not bad for 1961!

[@todddenio3200]

Those supercharged Studebakers were hot performers in their day and the supercharged Avantis were beyond hot performers and set 29 speed records. Not bad for having only 289 cubic inches under the hood. Personally I would take the Studebaker over any of the so called super cara except possibly a Detomaso Pantera.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

I’ve seen an Avanti running down the strip! It was so cool. Dave says he wants to drag race this one at least once. I’m really looking forward to that.

[@todddenio3200]

@@DeadDodgeGarage Avanti even stomped the Corvettes and was the world's fastest production car for several years

[@dantupper1784]

Hopefully this chapter of the Studebaker's story is done. Now on to the next project!

[@valleywoodstudio7345]

lovely looking car that has a vaguely European vibe to it.

[@herbertwilliams1608]

Is this Studebaker the basis for the Avanti?

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

I believe they are very similar as far as chassis construction, but the Avanti was essentially a clean sheet design - and made of fiberglass!

[@DamnItBoyGarage]

Definitely a cool old car.😎

[@rexkean]

I like Studebaker Hawks. However, having said that, I really only like the body and styling! Crazy, I know... but with a trillion dollar budget, you could really make something neat with it!😂

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

They sure excel in the quirky department… given that Studebaker was on the edge of nonexistence when these cars were engineered, there are many things that aren’t great. But they sure are neat!

[@leefalvey9670]

Such a cool old car, imagine trying to get body parts for that old gem

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

A few years ago, we were actually offered an almost complete parts car. That would really be the only way, I think.

[@ThisValiantAdventure]

Sorta sad to see the ol’ girl go. 😢

[@Ross046]

You're not helping my Stude infatuation. Although it does look a little cramped around the drivers seat.

[@michaelnault5905]

That car is a good example of why I'm watching intensive care as opposed to participating!

[@kenjohnson3641]

Cool car

[@klapaucius77]

I never used to check spark plugs, until I head a dead miss I couldn't figure out. The gap was closed completely and the rest were way too tight. I wish I had thought of that first...Oops

[@jeromebreeding3302]

You mentioned five gears, but I only saw four in the video.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Four on the original knob, and four used around town - but it’s a TKO500 with a .6 overdrive for highway cruising. I guess you didn’t see me go for that last gear.

[@bigwrenchtech]

Oh neat.... So what you're saying it's un-anused.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Probably like 93%!

[@allencampbell3726]

Hate to nitpick your great work here, but that proportioning valve knob is doomed to get sheared off by stones and other debris.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

It’s higher than the crossmember in front of it. If that crossmember bottoms out, we’ve got all kinds of problems. Right in that area is a very common spot to find them. But I agree - it’s not the most ideal.

[@jamesonpace726]

Pleeze tell where I can get a white cop biker leather like Dave's, really....

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

That is above my pay grade 😅

[@bullbutter9699]

🌈🌈🌈 sugar in the Tea?

[@jimringo2569]

Did anyone mention non-leaded fuel may be the pinging culprit?

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

I’m familiar with the lead additive’s octane boosting qualities.

[@drade1820]

It's gone!!

[@geebopbaluba1591]

Talking about a gas leak well I’ve had a problem with trying to find one on my 64 440 and I found it after filling the tank for the first time since I bought the car! The tank was rusted out between the trunk floor and the tank.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Ahhh, yep. I’ve had that once. I can’t remember which Mopar it was, but I recall the tank looked pretty good everywhere I could see it.

[@greghansard357]

And just like that, she rolled out of our lives forever...😢

[@adamhoffman3687]

It looks like a 70s Mercedes and a 50s Cadillac had a baby= Studebaker

[@barryrussell4106]

That car was probably fast in its day.

[@rondyechannel1399]

"Ground control to major Tom"

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Commencing countdown, engines on!

[@PhilDodgeFury]

i think u are a stude dude now

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

I do like them! Haha.

[@martinbalmforth2665]

You u forgot the and remember clean sing pun, a Chrysler is a Fiat in cowboy boots…

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

That’s a new one for me

[@Cfchild1]

un-loosen = tighten

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Correct

[@12v71detroit]

as an armchair critic after all this work fix the tach

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Well it’s going to Redline Gauges to have modernized guts installed, but the owner will handle that.

[@Bradydog-in7ut]

It appears you had quite a relationship with this car…was their any sadness in seeing it go or was it more like the feeling you get kicking someone in the ars?

[@btolley100]

I hated this car on video 1, now, i dont hate it anymore. Kinda wanna drive it.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Interesting. Haha. I kinda also hated it for a while - but I am fond of it at this point.

[@jamesonpace726]

It was a supa car. In 1961. Even older than I am. Quit driving like its a gt350 cuz it's just an olde, antique Rutabaga....

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

It wasn’t a super car then either. It was the best Studebaker could do to try to keep up with a changing world. And it’s really cool. Also, the owner plans to drive the hell out of the car. Potential drag strip action involved. So I might as well start acclimating it now.

[@That_AMC_Guy]

Could the pinging simply be shitty fuel?

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Well, it’s premium - but that still only means 91 octane. It would definitely be happier on something…racier.

[@graydude4698]

👽 .... ..

[@matthewb8229]

"Unloosened"? My friend, I don't mean to be obnoxious, but the correct term is DEloosened.

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Damn it! I can’t imagine any of us will be surprised that I said something de-correctly though.

[@d.j.whitefizzy3753]

No crew all knowledge.

[@jimbo5728]

Bruh does it ever stop raining there? 😂

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

✨✨✨ r a r e l y ✨✨✨

[@bullbutter9699]

What the Hell........

[@williambryson2190]

“5 gallons of the worlds most expensive premium fuel” *laughs in Californian*

[@DeadDodgeGarage]

Yep, good call… ouch.