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@@bullred9498 Right on. That's awesome. I think I tried that several times and ended up getting it off with that 3 jaw puller. I know later in the series I needed to pull it off again and couldn't even get it off with the cheap 3 jaw pullers I had. Prob wouldn't hurt to lube up the splines whenever the steering wheel is off. I'll def be doing that in the future.

@@samerajli1340 Hey thank you! Unfortunately I sold my Samurai but here's a link to a video on my other series (there's almost 100 videos) where I was messing with the transfer case. There isn't any shifter cables that I'm aware of, the shifter's are attached directly. You can see what should be there in this video towards the end. th-cam.com/video/2YmM4YixBqM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9f-Fie2sjOXKquDA

@@numbskullskills I know it's nuts how different it is here where it's dry and there's no salt. If a mechanic moved here from the salt belt their jobs would be done in half the time!

@@FixLife119 yeah for sure, everything is rusted together

@numbskullskills Yeah man, in some places the cars are just throw aways after like 5-10 years, it's insane. The frames are just gone.

@@FixLife119 yes they are, sad really

@@grstew4 Hey thanks alot, I'm starting a business doing mobile service of trailers/RV's bearings and brakes. Prob not much video opportunities there but hopefully I can buy a project once that gets going. I'm trying to still put out the occasional car videos, got several coming up. Cylinders 3&4 on my roommates 4Runner are full of coolant, then there's a 63 Nova we're gonna try to fix next week. A channel I really like is Pole Barn Garage. He does some ghetto stuff but he also shows how to do it right if you want to, plus he's hilarious and it seems like he gets a new project car every week. I don't know how he gets so much done. I just learned that Bondo is the worst brand of filler on his channel lol. Thanks again!

I'm so glad you were able to learn relays off my video. I was really hoping alot of people would watch it. Relays are one of those things that intimidate people but as you saw theres really not much to it, and it's very handy to be able to wire them up, so glad you saw this one! Thank you.

That's so funny, this video must be exactly 1 year old cuz its already another birthday.

​@@FixLife119jajajajaja what a nice coincidence, so HBD man, again !!!!

@lugaresyplantas7819 Thank you!!!

@@lugaresyplantas7819 Thank you! Its really good to hear something like this. Makes me wish I had another project right this second. I'll definitely have more projects but I think there was almost a hundred videos on this "Scary to Cherry" series. She ended up like new when it was all said and done. On part 92 there's receipts and a full parts list with links to everything. You have to click "more" a couple times at the bottom of the description area. I hope it's all helpful. Thank you again!

@@jennylopez733 I got it on Ebay. On episode 92 in the description is you click on "more" a few times there's links for everything I bought for this build. Top with bow: ebay.us/BFv5s0 Top without bow: ebay.us/O4bCJc

Thank you 😊

@@jennylopez733 Also, episode 79 is when I installed the replacement top they sent me because I had issues with the first one (they sent it for free and didn't make me return the old one). It went on with no issues, the first one was a nightmare, couldn't tell you why, the second one was perfect.

@jennylopez733 Yes ma'am! 👍

@@TitanfangArtChannel Well, both. The bigger ones are bright but after 2 min dim for the whole rest of the time they are on. Even with more batt capacity they run longer but still dim out after a few min making me think its the circuit board causing them to dim. I'm happy with the run time with the purple batteries in the larger headlamps just stinks that they dim out.

@@FixLife119 Well there is a few things that could be causing it to dim. The PCB could be one factor, another could also be the led it self. Leds can vary on brightness. Without knowing the specs on the led itself it would be hard to figure out the range... now with that said as a person who like to tinker, you can experiment with either external battery packs for the light that can be attached to your belt and a wire ran to the head unit. Or you can test to see how much voltage the led could handle... I'm no expert (partly trained and a lot of self taught experience) but if you have a variable test bench power supply, you can right two leads to test at what voltage makes the led brighter. The purple battery is 3.7v and that would be your starting point. Please also note the led's temps as you test. I was recently given one of those headlamps and it's perfect for me right now, but when the battery fails eventually then I will do this to mine. But as I said without the specs of the led you can run the risk of burning out the led if it isn't able to handle a certain amount of power going through it. If your testing finds it working at like 4.5v (ex. desired brightness) then you would need to build a power pack with a regulator that can drop the power of two purple batteries in series (making a total of 7.4v) to adjust the voltage down to 4.5v the only problem with this if you also want longevity then you would need more batteries in both series and parallel. If you don't know what series and parallel then I would refer to this video: th-cam.com/video/ytEf1hJFn4I/w-d-xo.html then look up videos on building battery packs with lower voltage (or specific voltage). I hope this gives you some help to your experiment :)

@TitanfangArtChannel I think I'm prob done tinkering with these. I will put the flat battery back into the smaller headlamp and prob swap a single purple 14500 into each of the large ones. Keep in mind the big ones were like $1.70 each, so I figured if I could make em last longer for $10-$15 for several of them I'd have some sweet headlamps still pretty cheap. What I took from this is that the small ones are already very optimized, and they're only like $3-$4 each. In the first video I kinda showed the diff between series and parallel, and we found out the led strip in the larger lamps will handle 5vdc off a USB transformer, not sure for how long though. You got me thinking and now I'm wondering if the circuit board somehow monitors the temp and adjusts the voltage to keep it from getting hot as like a safety feature. I noticed the smaller ones do get quite warm while wearing them but they also don't dim out like the bigger ones do. I guess I could repeat that test in the freezer and see if they still dim out at the 2 minute mark or if they last longer while cold. I honestly probably won't though because there's nothing I can really do about it anyways. I want to keep everything inside the head band, like I don't want a remote battery bank. I have enough of them that I can just swap em out when they get dim. Thank you for the comment. You got my gears turning. If I knew more about the circuitry of the board I would try to alter the thermal safety if that's what's causing the dimming but I would honestly just be guessing with what I know, likely a transistor acting as a variable resistor, there was no visible heat sink either. Thank you again!

@@numbskullskills Thanks buddy. Woulda been cooler if it worked lol. I'm gonna solder the flat battery back into the small one and prob solder one purple into each of the big ones. It's weird, I got 4 of those purple 14500 batteries, 3 of them charge to over 4 volts and one only charges to just over 3 volts. Guess I'll throw that one out lol.

@@FixLife119 thing i dont get is why the one blew the board. yeah sometimes thigs just dont work

@numbskullskills Yeah makes no sense, but like u said, sometimes things just don't work. Honestly surprised any of them work for $1.65 each lol. For the bigger ones anyways.

@@FixLife119 well i am real good at one thing an thats breakin it

Hey no problem, thank you.

@@lugaresyplantas7819 That's really great to hear. Thank you! That Samurai is all done, I think there were 97 videos on that one. Seems crazy thinking back lol. Thanks again!

@@lugaresyplantas7819 On Part 92 I made lists of everything and put links to all the parts I bought for it in the description. I think you have to click "more" twice to have the long list of links pop up but it could be helpful if you're looking for something you see in one of the videos. Thanks again!

On episode 92 I linked everything I bought, I was gonna copy it here but it was gone so I went in and updated it. Here's the links to what I think I used: With Bow: ebay.us/2OpvKz Without bow: ebay.us/pIa0K1 Hope this helps!

@@Scr00ples Interesting... I did notice with the smaller better headlamps that they would only charge with the cheesy cable that comes in the box so that's all I've tried with these bigger ones also. Thank you for the info. The new batteries showed up yesterday and I started testing last night. I'll be making a video on the results soon. Thanks again.

@FixLife119 I love the compactness of these headlamps, but I'm pondering whether or not to build an 18650 battery pack with PD charging. Sort of like a miner's lamp. I just don't know if it's that serious. I look forward to your next video. I'll make a decision after I watch it.

@Scr00ples I'm still testing but so far I'm not impressed with the 14500 batteries. They are the same size though. I may try to rig some terminals up in the plastic housing so they are removable. I feel like my actual battery charger does a better job charging than the on board charger. Then 2 of the 14500's would fit side by side. I got like 2 hours and 43 minutes out of one of the new 14500's, which is good, but the cheap headlamps start bright and go dim after a few minutes, I don't think the batteries are to blame. I'm going to do a side by side with the smaller headlamp and put it on time lapse so we can see it dim out. I bet the 18650's would do the same, just last longer while dim.

@@FixLife119 I think they are using a super inefficient buck converter circuit on the driver side. I'd pay triple the price for a higher quality unit.

@Scr00ples Exactly, I paid more for the batteries than the headlamps. Wish I knew a little more about circuitry I would upgrade the circuit board. Even with the better (smaller) ones I just have a bunch and swap them out when they start to go dim. I haven't tried upgrading one of those yet...

@@numbskullskills The batteries I ordered just showed up so I soldered one on to the headlamp I robbed the batteries out of. Gonna test it here soon. These videos never get any views but I still have fun making them.

@@FixLife119 thats all u can do is have fun

@@katspeace5550 Oh awesome. Thanks so much! He's a good guy!

@@Bootlegmike Wow Mike, thanks a lot! Very glad to have you here!

@@daneenduperron8989 Hey welcome, and thanks so much! He's such a good guy.

Lol, I still do this at least once a week.

Thank you!

I see Phoenix is in your name. If you live there you def know what I'm talking about. I thought I edited this video so it showed 112° at the end. Must have been on Tiktok, or maybe I had heat delirium lol. I saw you came from Knuckles channel, thanks so much for coming by!

@ you’re welcome and I’m definitely not in Phoenix. Phoenix is the rising bird from the ashes.

@phoenixprincess5129 I figured it was probably that Phoenix but thought maybe she's my desert neighbor lol.

@ yes 🙌

Thanks very much, luckily you have like 90 more episodes to watch on that series lol.

@@Tech87-7 Oh man, I could imagine. I still miss my 1st vehicle. Got a '79 International Scout II for $600. It had a 345 V8 and 1st gear was pointless so I started out in 2nd. It used 1/4 tank of gas to drive to school lol. Had some good times in that thing. Ya know, I bet its more about the freedom and experiences than the actual vehicle type. I bet everyone remembers their first car. This one is my friend's dad's, we're just trying to get it good enough for him to sell.

@FixLife119 that's so awesome, I'm from the UK so there's not many v8's about at prices like that, how cool for your first car! Vehicles like that are always the best fun! I definitely agree, it's the freedom and independence, it doesn't matter what you're driving 💪! I hope it all goes well and your friend's dad gets to sell her to someone who'll enjoy her!

@Tech87-7 Yeah that was 29 years ago, it was prob worth 3-5k at the time but the lady was rich and didn't want it anymore. She said her ex husband was in the band CCR. She bought it because she thought the plaid seats and little windshield wipers were cute lol. Nowadays I've seen them go for like 10x that price. I guess we're lucky here to have so many older cars with v8's still available for cheap. I love channels like Pole Barn Garage, VGG, Sleeperdude, Junkyard Digs, NoNonsenseKnowHow etc. They find these cheap older cars and bring them back to life. I wanna start doing that but I'm starting a business right now so I don't have the time or money. Hopefully at some point though. Hey thanks for watching!

El carburador Weber podria haber tenido un problema con la valvula de potencia, pero el Toyota 3K functiona muy bien. Solo cuesta $54. Los kits de reconstruccion baratos no funcionan.

@@luisantonioquispechoque7534 ebay.us/bLLrJb $54 y viene con el puerto de la manguera de combustible

@@numbskullskills I'm still trying to get everything set up. There's alot to it and I was waiting around for Bizee to inform me my LLC was good to go and they never did, turns out it was done in like 4 days but they tell you 4 weeks and don't let you know when it's done, so I was waiting for that when I could have been doing the website/domain/email, then figure out how to get on Google, get a bank account, buz licenses, ins, merchant processing, etc.

@@FixLife119 so its coming along, with just a few hiccups. youll be up an runnin by summer

@numbskullskills Oh man, it's gotta be sooner than that. I was really wanting it to be going by the new year. Just working through one issue at a time, trying to get it all right the first time around, which is hard for me cuz I have a prob with rushing things, hopefully soon though. Can you get to town yet? I feel bad for the people who need things and cant get to them.

@@FixLife119 oh im sure itll be sooner,

@@BorisEkner I loved KITT when I was a kid. This is almost as good, lol.

@@BorisEkner I had it in '22 and just recently. It wasn't terrible either time but this time I started taking Ivermectin when my roommates got it so it wasn't that bad at all. The first time after I had it I think I had long covid because I had terrible fatigue for weeks and weeks. I couldn't walk across the house without being winded. Took ivermectin and it went away in like 2 days. I did have brain fog for almost a year though. It's probably much weaker now than it was in 2020.

@@FixLife119 Happy to hear you got through them both. I’ve learned that it can be really terrible.

@@BorisEkner Why, what did she tell you? Lol, for these lil 1.3L they seem adequate. I'm sure the Weber would work great too with a good quality rebuild kit, but for that price it's easier to just slap on a 3k.

@@FixLife119 😂 I’ve been told that guys with large vehicles have small privates. - FYI, I drive a small car… I think you can figure out the rest. 🤪

@@numbskullskills Yup. They had the Weber that was on it and another Weber but they were both kinda needing parts. I'm sure a brand new Weber would work just as well, but they are $300-$400 vs $54. I love them 3K's, can't beat em.

@@FixLife119 well it seemed to work from here

@numbskullskills Yup, sounds good from my house.

@@FixLife119 sounds real good from here too

@@BorisEkner Hey Boris, how are you my friend? Ya it finally sold. A nice younger guy from Phoenix came down and got it. Unfortunately, any profit from that is going into my business I'm starting so I don't have a project right now, but I've been helping my friend fix things on his dad's '86 Samurai that he wants to sell, it's in a different playlist. I'm only doing 20 minutes +/- on those videos and it's much quicker to edit with my software. I hope you're having a good start to 2025!

⁠@@FixLife119 Of course you’ll invest all you can in the business. I wish you all the best with it. I saw a few of your friend’s Samurai videos. Smart to understand the contacts in the ignition switch was the issue to get the starter running. You’re good at this. As said before, you should do more Samurai videos no matter who owns the car. So far 2025 has been a good year, thank you. But it’s only 11 days old so there is plenty of time to get it fuqked up. I wish you the best for 2025, and I look forward to watch more of your content.

@@valerierayburn813 Yeah you're probably right. Not sure if it might have been sucking air through the leaky accelerator pump. When I was editing this last night it almost seemed like there was an issue with the primary throttle valves (the bottom set of butterflies). I didn't notice in real time but on the video it seemed like when I was spraying starter fluid the last time 1:13 it wasn't sucking it in, it was like spitting it back out. Unfortunately we may never know the reason. Instead of buying a new accelerator pump and possibly needed more parts, he bought the $54 Toyota 3K carb and I swapped it out. Ran like a champ after that. I think that's the next video I need to edit. Thank you for the comment, I hope your new year is off to a great start!

Hey thanks very much. I had the idea for years before I ever started making them. I wanted to turn it into a business but the polishing takes so long its not cost effective. They take days to make, depending on how many hours I work on them per day. I've had several people tell me the flap disc version looks like more work goes into them, I was like WHAT?!?! They do look kinda cool too lol. I've made versions with thin red line, thin blue line, carbon fiber inserts, the clock in the diamond plate with rivets at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock. Even did one with LED strip on the back, like undergrow. They weigh about 3 lbs. Hey thanks again for the comment, and Happy New Year!

@@numbskullskills Yes sir lol.

@@larry6315 I can neither confirm nor deny. I'm kidding of course the 3k got it running like a top lol.

@@JosiahMcBeth Hmm, never heard of it, I would definitely like to try it out though, I love trying new products like that. If we can fix that swelled up part that's cracked it'll definitely need to be painted after but I still wanna buy some. She's running pretty good now I just have a bunch of editing to catch up on. Everything else is still kinda rough though. I'm not sure how much time and energy he wants to put into it, I guess we'll find out together. Hey Happy New Year and thanks for the comment!

@@numbskullskills Yessir, tomorrow morning, it's already edited, just gotta add a thumbnail, upload, and schedule it.

@@FixLife119 ill watch it

@numbskullskills Okay but watch at your own risk. My videos have been known to make people dumber. I really should add a disclaimer at the beginning lol. Thanks buddy.

@@FixLife119 thats a very good idea, i put plug in my ears to help slow the loss

@@numbskullskills lmao!

@@cmdfred856 oh ok thanks, that's good to know. I think I also saw a kit to relocate the lock to the top of the door after they sent me the wrong style. I ended up cutting a hole for it. He doesn't really care as long as it works. I'm starting a business right now so money is tight but if the business does ok it'll be project city soon lol. Happy New Year!

The black one is my roommate's (1990 22RE), the white one is his mom's (1999 5VZ-FE). I really like the body style of the '99. Too bad hers isn't a 4x4.

@@larry6315 Yes sir, they're everywhere lol. Happy New Year!

@@MyPaulo1964 Yes Sir, Happy New Year to you and your family. Hope it's a great one!

@@ripnandtearing Yeah, huge bummer. I was hoping to be able to keep it. Happy New Year.

@FixLife119 I salute you for your commitment of documenting all the projects you have done. My son has a Samurai that needs restored and I plan to use a lot of your videos for reference. Happy New Year.

@@ripnandtearing Thank you.. That's really cool to hear. I've loved TH-cam for so long and every year I always kick myself when I look back at all the things I could have recorded so I finally just decided to pull the trigger. I wish I would have done it ten years ago lol. If your son has any interest all you really need these days is a tripod because cell phone cameras are so good. It's good to record anyways in case you forgot how something came apart, then when you're done if you watch it and think this would make for a decent video you can edit it and upload.

@@FixLife119 I have several off road videos but no how to or build videos.

@@numbskullskills Hey bud, Happy New Year! Wanna hear something funny? That half assed video on my roommates uncle's F-150 has gotten like 6400 views in a week. I don't think Samurai's are where it's at lol.

@@FixLife119 happy new yr to you to , dang thats some views

@@garrykennedy5484 Yes sir, the outer pulley was wobbly and he said they had it off at some point. I'm sure it didn't get lined back up so that timing mark was off. That shouldn't affect the inner timing belt pulley behind it that turns the cam (idk, maybe I'm wrong, I've never had one of those off), that outer belt only turns the alternator I think. I'm sure we'll pull it off later because I don't like the way it wobbles, but might have to pull the radiator and there's an elec fan shoehorned in there also (ughh) so it'll be an ordeal. I just used the back one to time it real quick, then it idled much better after that, still had carb issues which we took care of in later videos, I have a bunch to edit still. Thanks for watching and Happy New Year!

You're correct. That outer pulley does not turn your timing belt. But the little pulley behind it does and that's where the Woodruff key is that I'm referring to. However your timing mark is on the main pulley. Call that Woodruff key does is align it for when you took it down. So if you can get it aligned even though the main crank maybe wallowed out a little with her Woodruff key goes, if you get it in the right spot and crank it down tight like it should be it shouldn't move.

@@garrykennedy5484 Hell yeah! You got some fun stuff to work on! I keep saying they are the best project vehicles ever because they were built simple and you can still get parts, cheap or expensive, I had decent luck with some of the cheaper stuff, not so much with others. I'll never cheap out on a carb rebuild kit again, or a combo switch... learned that from my Sammy restoration. So much fun though, and whatever money you put in you should get back because they're appreciating in value.

@FixLife119 I really think you need to revisit the difference between the flywheel timing and your main pulley timing on that new samurai. I just live over on Higley and Baseline if you want to reach out to me and I can show you what I'm talking about in person. It's really hard to explain over text.