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Thx. I hope it works out. Buying a 16 year old car, is not everyone’s idea of moving forward 🤣 Merry Christmas 👍🍻

@TheGibby3340 16 yo still new I drive a 30 yo truck to work everyday 🤣

Thanks very much. More scope vids in 25’ for certain. Best of the season 👍🍻

🤣 We’ll see Iain. Maybe I need my head examined 🤣 Merry Christmas to you & yours. 👍🍻

Not yet 🤣 Merry Christmas 👍🍻

Solid, simple and very reasonably priced. Not easy (maybe not even possible) to find in modern cars on offer. Don’t get me wrong, I like plenty of new vehicles. I just don’t think they are worth the sticker price. Thx for watching & Merry Christmas 👍🍻

Thx so much. I have already seen & commented on Denis’s video. He is a super clever fella, great channel. Thx again, and all the best to you and yours . 👍🍻

Thank you Colin. Sweating at Christmas sounds very odd to me, but completely normal for you I suppose 😃 I had the good fortune to visit my Uncle and his family in Australia (98’ I think it was). Memorable trip. Les Patterson (look him up if you are unfamiliar) is my all time favourite Diplomat 🤣 All the very best to you and yours 🍻👍

@@TheGibby3340 Arrived in Australia in 1977 from Northern Ireland did not miss the cold but strangely have a desire to spend time in the cold food section of the supermarket at Christmas.😀👍 Les Patterson is a legend but not liked by the WOKE people. Look forward to more of your videos, stay safe.😂

Close... The Swift’s slightly bigger brother the SX4. Best of the season to you & yours. 👍🍻

There are small nylon bushings isolating the steel pin and aluminum casting it mounts to. Eventually bushing wear and the dissimilar metals contact, corrode and bind the pin’s rotation. 🍀👍🍻

It’s in the description, 2018. Thx for watching 👍🍻

@ thank you Do you have a video in changing he brakes without using the computer to do maintenance?

For the HRV? No. I do briefly detail in the video that there is facility to retract the P/B actuator manually using the torques bit. 🍀👍🍻

Thx very much. And thx for watching 👍🍻

@TheGibby3340 I'm waiting on shift cables from overseas, So I can swap em out. I had the very stiff side to side motion in the stick Like u had in the past. I kept lubing the lever frequently but one day it got extra stiff. I was a bit impatient and forced the shifter and broke the retaining ring at the base of the stick. I got a shifter assembly from a junk yard so just waiting on cables. Should shift smooth again finally. I truly appreciate the videos u make! I'm a visual learner and they're a huge help!!

Setbacks while trying to carry out repairs is completely normal. I break/damage stuff all the time. As you gain experience these frustrations become less frequent. Although never zeroed 🤣 Good luck with your repairs 🍀👍🍻

@TheGibby3340 I'm looking forward 2 driving it again. I use it as a 2nd car. They're awesome little cars and I enjoy driving it. I love my Magnum but the Lil Suzy with the 5 speed is wicked fun to zip around in and great for the winter

Sorry I can’t offer any help. I keep all my vehicles devoid of aftermarket equipment for this very reason. Thx for watching. 🍀👍🍻

Thx for watching 🍻

Might prove handy. Cheers 🍻

Thank you Sir. And thx for watching 🍻

Lots of reasonably priced options available these days. Thx for watching 🍀👍🍻

Thx so much 🍻

Thx for watching. 🍻

Honestly I totally forgot that Modis doesn’t have “Single”. Kinda the whole premise of the video 🤣 Anywho…Hopefully the concept is clear. First cut had me rambling on for some 25 minutes 🤣🤣🤣Thx as always for watching Denis. Cheers 👍🍻

Interesting reading and fair commentary. Thx for the details & thx for watching. 👍🍻

That’s well said. Thx for watching 🍻

Thx for watching 🍻

Thx for watching 👍🍻

Thx for watching 👍🍻

With 98 HP this makes more sense 🤣 Thx for watching. 🍻

Yeah my Pal who owned a Twin Spark sent me a couple of photos of his 156. Thx for watching 🍻

Understood. I was referring to other manufacturers, excluding heavy haulage. Maybe there are, none that come to mind. Thx for watching 🍻

Thx for watching 🍻

The timing belts have an expected average service life of 70,000 miles. Or 1,400 hours. Excessive heat, sand or other contaminants getting past the timing belt cover. Can both cause premature failure. I imagine heat caused premature failure in a static operation like generator use. More engine heat soak, due to much less air flow that a vehicle moving down the road would get. In static use. The belt should probably be replaced every 800-1,000 hours.

👍 Thx for watching 🍻

Honestly there was no comparison between the Dakota I test drove (which was a V6) and my Ranger, power wise. I bought the Ranger because it was far cheaper and thought it would be miserly on fuel. Not so much. But was a very simple easily self maintained vehicle. Just the way I like um. Thx for watching. 👍🍻

You are backwards on the spark timing, it is less with a dual plug system. I have owned and modified my '94 Ranger which has been my daily driver for over 11 years. The stock timing curve is 10* at idle and only 30* full. Here is a link to one of the things I have done to increase both mpg and performance, " ie. efficiency" .th-cam.com/video/jm_Bk1o0Chg/w-d-xo.html .

Less timing with a dual plug arrangement because pressure rises faster, I work with dual plug heads all the time building performance Harley engines in my bike shop, they really worked best with the true hemi combustion chambers of the older Harley engines that have a big piston dome sticking up into the combustion chamber, the higher compression pistons you run the bigger the problem because you've got more dome blocking the flame travel, the flame has to go over and around that big nasty dome sitting in its way, so dual plugs help greatly with the older Harley engines that were true hemis, big twin Shovelhead, Panhead and Knucklehead along with the Ironhead Sportster. Starting with the Evo engine in 84 Harley started closing the combustion chambers and running a flat top piston, similar to what you see here, that results in a vastly superior combustion chamber, it gives you a squish area between the top of the piston and the head, at the top of the compression stroke that blows the air fuel mixture into that much smaller quench area so when ignited the flame doesn't have to travel far to burn all the fuel it can before using up its supply of oxygen, which also benefits less from dual plugs, the newer Harley engines that have combustion chambers that look like these I tell my customers not to waste their money having me dual plug the heads since the gains are minimal, unless it's a full effort race engine where a thousands of a second is the difference between winning and losing it's not worth the cost, the gains are big and worth it with a true hemi engine but one with combustion chambers like you see here you'd just be ekeing out a very small gain after spending $$$, aka no "bang for the buck". If that was my engine when I was putting it together I'd tighten that squish down to .025" to .030" through the use of a thinner head gasket, those squish bands don't really come alive until you get them down to .030" or less, then they really create turbulence when the piston gets to the top of its compression stroke, that'll take another 2° of timing out of the ignition advance (which means you've got an even more efficient combustion chamber), mass production companies are afraid to use gaskets thinner than .050" which amazes me because of all the gains they pass up from doing it, the difference between a .050" thick squish area and a .030" squish is much more than dual plugging a combustion chamber like that and it's free, I've never understood why manufacturers are so shy about going less than .050", I've put engines together with as little as .015" squish, on a chilly morning with every metal part shrunk down from temperature when first started you could actually hear the pistons clapping against the bottom of the head surfaces for about 3 to 5 seconds, well before you could take the choke off it'd already quit doing it, by the time the engine would warm up enough to take the choke off to where it'd idle on its own you could already rev it to 6,500 RPM's without any contact, although experience has taught me .030" is fine since there wasn't any gains from going less than that, so as long as the clay test shows me I have .025" to .030" inch with the head torqued down that's good enough as going less has no benefit. Those are good looking combustion chambers, even without dual plugs they look good, if he's got power problems it's from somewhere else, I'd love to be able to get a good look at the ports in that head, if they're not the reason this engine doesn't make a decent amount of power per ci then it's got to be a bad cam design, bad stroke to connecting rod length ratio or a combination of all of them, but it's not because of those combustion chambers, even with single plugs those are about as good as it comes when you're talking combustion chambers.

@@dukecraig2402 How does the pressure rise faster?

The only thing more underwhelming than the power in that little Ranger was the rear wheel (2WD model) traction. Still it was a reliable vehicle. 👍🍻

Yeah that’s works too. I prefer this approach as it takes 30 seconds, with little to no risk. Thx for watching. 👍🍻

Thx Steve. Canada Post forced me into this approach, as it complicates parts acquisition when the Posties are on strike! 🤣

Well, there’s a lot to be said for ‘working with what you’ve got (or what you can get)’…adapt and overcome…a great bit of problem solving 👍👍👍

Wow… That’s a long way off from my Ranger. DOHC 4 Valve ? (Edit: never mind, turbo charged I see) 👍🍻

When we were kids, one of my older buddies had his license. His father just bought a brand new '87 turbo coupe. Long story short, that summer when we went to the county fair we made it in 23 minutes. Anything else took 45mins.😂 We musta had that tach on 5500 in top gear for a good 12 minutes or so. Wow what a car. You already know ford didn't like bragging that it was 1mph faster than the mustang 5.0.

I have an 86’ Thunderbird Turbocoupe 2.3 turbo installed in my 91; Mustang.

@jeffgriffith7003 kind of a late homebuilt SVO 😀 They do handle a little nicer than a typical v8 car from what I understand

🤣 Now days manufacturers don’t even offer box stock models. Today’s base models were yesteryears ultra deluxe trim lines. Wonder why 🤔 💰💰💰 Cheers Denis 👍🍻

Get one…or just buy the shift lever which comes with the ball stud. 🤣 I had to do this the hard way, as Canada Post (delivers Megazip parts) is currently on strike. With no back to work date in site 🤷‍♂️ Thx for watching 👍🍻

Had its favourable traits too. Thx for watching 👍🍻