Is a Laser Welder the Secret Weapon for Classic Car Restorations? 1970 Plymouth Satellite PT 8
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In this episode of The Questionable Garage, Jared dives headfirst into what might be the most nerve-wracking step of his dream muscle car restoration yet: welding in the AMD quarter panels on his 1970 Plymouth Sport Satellite. It's a pivotal moment for the build, and the pressure is on as Jared confronts his fears about potentially ruining the project he's been dreaming of for years.
With no prior experience tackling such intricate bodywork, Jared knows there's no turning back. But can a first-timer achieve professional results? Armed with determination, a few TH-cam tutorials, and a brand-new HeroLaser welder, Jared tests out cutting-edge technology in the world of classic car restoration. Will this modern tool make the process easier, or is it overkill for such a timeless build?
Watch as Jared takes you through every step of this high-stakes process, from the careful preparation to the first sparks of the welder. Along the way, he shares the challenges, surprises, and lessons learned as he works to bring his rusted nightmare closer to his dream car. This episode is packed with tips for first-time welders, insights into the HeroLaser's performance, and plenty of relatable moments for anyone who's ever taken on a daunting project.
Don't miss this transformative chapter in the journey of the Sport Satellite-where modern technology meets old-school muscle, and Jared's determination is put to the ultimate test. Will he pull it off, or will the dream start to unravel? Tune in to find out!
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JARED! New T-shirt..."I can fix anything with sparks and fire!"
i second this idea
Yep! Was thinking the same
What we really need on a shirt is: "There's something really wrong in my rear end. Or... at least if feels like there is" :D
Do this shirt. And the other one too😅
Personally I find the work you are doing to be exemplary. The fact that you are building a car you have always wanted to this level is inspiring.
As an OG subscriber, I think you are talking about the wedding Supra? I can understand how working on that one can be daunting, not wanting to mess something up that has such important meaning to you
I was thinking the same thing. The wedding Supra
That doesn't need a lot of body work, does it? I was thinking accord limo or that wrecked bmw drift car. But that's not very OG, so maybe you guys nailed it
I'm a mechanic and I love working on cars but I'm one again bed ridden for another back injury. I've had 3 lower back surgeries already and I'm a few weeks from 40 years old. But I just wanted to say I get a lot of joy living vicariously through you working on all of these vehicles. I love the dad jokes.
Appreciate it and hope your back gets around better sooner than later, but don’t rush it!
Same here c4,5,6 6yrs now 42 now been watching since
Hang in there, man! I had two disc decompression surgeries and have been so glad that I went through with them even though I ended up in the hospital for a week with an infection. L4 and L5, L5 and S1 was making my right leg useless and when my back would flare up, I literally had to drag myself on the floor to the bathroom. Now I’m playing softball again and swinging super hard. I’m running running pretty hard and even slid head first into a base a couple weeks ago.
I finally got a welder, its basically the cheapest one Hobo Freight sells, but its a start. So thanks to your encouragement, im going to attempt to fix the rust in my truck.
Use argon gas when you learn to weld or you’ll probably want to give up after all the spatter and ugly welds, and blowing holes thru sheet metal.
@acardiac5983 thank you for the info.
🤗 I bought another T-shirt as a part of my "sponsorship" 😍 Iook how great Jared is making the car come along!!! He is doing just terrific!!! right guys!? 😁👍
Appreciate the support and I'm glad you like how it's turning out!
I also had replaced the entire rear end on my '70 Charger. Talk about a learning experience. I will say, I'm about 5 years into my project and I remember being so frustrated with learning all the metalworking. Glad to see I wasn't alone!
Adding paint and body to your arsenal is just the best move for a serious hobbyist
😂Have you been grinding away welds for 5 years?
@@franswijnands4022 Haha, It's felt like that! For mopars, it's so damn expensive. The car hopefully should be done in the next few months, but, it has a full QA1 suspension, a built 440 with a roots 8-71 blower, roll cage, and a lot of supporting modifications.
Thanks for the shout out for the viewers as your sponsors, it’s always appreciated
As I may have already mentioned. Watching you work on the three wheel car. Watching you take a number of sheet metal parts and build your Mopar. So much more impressive than some guy who continues to claim he is rebuilding an ultra-rare, twenty-gazillion dollar flood car.
Does this same guy also remove the hybrid part of it basically removing the one thing that made the car unique?
He’s not my favorite either
@@jeffreyshepherd8488the hybrid system of said car that is old and obsolete technology that serves minimal benefit to the actual performance of the car?
@@Noslimenor mine. And considering how he has treated people recently, never watching him ever again.
Yes! Back to my favorite car project. 🤩
I appreciate your drive and willingness to do what you've never done before. Following your lead, I've made the terribly questionable decision to rebuild my 4L60e transmission, even though every auto repair manual I've ever read states that this is a job for a professional shop! I'm 70% done, and with some ingenuity, I'll have a rebuilt transmission for a 1/10th of the price of a shop (although, without the joke of a warranty)!
There are a few tricky tools, but as long as you take your time you got it!
Hi Jared nice video and workmanship the car is becoming SMOOOTH !!!
So much positive thinking here, this is becoming so rare, and fun projects. Couldn't ask for more.
This week I swapped the rear end in my truck. I've never done a job quite that big before but managed to get it done in about a day and a half. These videos inspire me. I got lucky my new/used rear end is fantastic.
Something to think about is putting drains in the bottom corners of the rear window channel (similar to sunroof drains). Water collection is how that rotted out in the first place and has become a common practice, especially if that area is getting repaired anyway.
I really love this car !
Jared. You are one hell of a mechanic. I love the way you proceed with caution and not go at it hell for leather. It's a pain staking process but you have once again nailed it.i have so Much respect for you and your never give up attitude even when it seems so overwhelming. You are an inspiration. Thank you for all you do.
To answer your question, I welded in a partial quarter panel on a 3rd Gen Camaro with no welding experience. It turned out very well. Nothing compared to your project there but I have been getting slightly better at welding ever since. But it took that to get my confidence up.
I love seeing a Mopar come back to life. Every minute gets you closer to finishing your dream car.
Way to go Jared! Put the nose to the grindstone, that’s the way to make progress. Don’t be afraid to fail, only excited to learn.
This has got to be the most underappreciated channel on youtube. I don’t understand how this doesn't get over a million in the first week.
@@andrewmathews6005 I appreciate the kind words! We might get there, if not, I still appreciate all of you here for the journey!
Really nice work Jared, it looks great. I'm anxious to see this car come together!
Appreciate you following along!
Wow, great stuff! It's looking awesome and will only get better from here! This is very motivating! 🎉
Yay! It’s so great to see you making progress on this car! It’s going to be wonderful once it’s finished. Thanks again for serving up some wisdom alongside your always exemplary car content.
Great job on the editing and tunes, Editor Duane!
Is your heart car your MKIII wedding Supra?
"lasers" FIRE ZEE LAZOR!!!!
Do you expect me to talk? Why no Mr car. I expect you to weld!
that’s a big project , it’s looking great! thanks to AMD all these cars can be saved.
I'm not sure what music library Editor Dwayne uses, but I very much appreciate that he doesn't just pull the same 3 royalty free songs everyone else uses to lay over the montages over and over and over again.
We pay a reasonable bit to have access to a big library! Sometimes we find the same few songs but he does an awesome job of it.
Outstanding and awesome as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along.
Glad you enjoyed it
I thought it was hilarious while watching Mike Finnegans SEMA video where he was trying a laser welder and gushing over how cool it was. I was thinking, Jared has had one for a while!
That Mopar is coming along so nicely great job and love that ending thought section even if you had no power when it happened hope it was fixed soon
Must feel so satisfying that you have brought that overwhelming rusted vehicle to what you have in this video! Great job and keep up the good work!! Thanks for the excellent content!!!
Watching your videos put me in the mood to fix my Passenger front on my 1993 Celica GT. Had to piece in the upper frame rail (for mounting the fenders), replace all the sheet metal in that corner all the way to the Main frame, and replace the Upper radiator support, and All with a Flux MIG because I make bad choices and couldn't find a gas welder that ran on 110v. That being said, once I cracked down and got started on it, I went to the JY, cut out everything I needed and then some, cut back to what I DID need, stitch welded the upper frame at a crumple zone, and when I was done, was only 1/4" in on that side. That being said, I think I want to pop the frame rail back loose, cut the stitch weld and get it a little straighter now that the rest is in place and perfect.
That sounds like a lot of work, but very rewarding in the end!
@@TheQuestionableGarage oh yeah, rewarding? Not so sure, . The more I looked at the car,I found the frame rails in the floor are bowed up a little, which isn't good. Maybe when I get the little things done and do the V6 swap I will pay to have it put on a frame machine and stretched back out. I would have just bought another one, but Cash for Clunkers was very unkind to these cars, very hard to find any in good shape anymore. It took 5 years to find 2 to get the parts I needed for the front end in the JY!
Also, lessons learned... Don't drill the welds all the way through the car your fixing, just through the donor pieces... Now I know! Filling in all the little holes was a nightmare!
Yea, it’s hard not to do that. The trick of using a belt sander works great when you know exactly what you are removing.
@@TheQuestionableGarage I've been eyeballing the electric finger sander at Harbor freight, don't have access to an air compressor, working out of a 1 car garage.
I’ve been there before on my dream project and put it off for years. Last spring I bit the bullet cut the year crossmember off my 110 and repaired the other damage and did my level best together it all back together properly. Now to. Figure out the efi conversion issues on that rover v8 so I can get back on the road. Keep grinding Sir, we are all working in our shops right beside you
Jared, I think the word your looking for is precision. Maybe even "tightest of tollerances"
Shes looking good Jared, keep on rocking. Laser welds look great, perfect on like rusty bed patch panels where most of the welding is in the open.
Nothing can mess up your day like finding out there is something wrong with your rear end. Luckily it all works out!
All of the MASH-style meatball-surgery you did to turn Tri-Hard from a rusting hulk with holes in the floors to something that could hold together well enough to rally race with is really paying off in quality department of your much tighter toleranced '70 Satellite MOPAR classic.
A grinder and paint for the welder I ain't!!!!
Nice Lucky Costa quote.
Progress feels good!
Awesome progress - it's starting to really look like a car again!
He-he, been performing a major interseasonal overhaul on my RC lately. Building it from a chinesium spec to a mishmash of Traxxas and tuning parts.
It was a lot of the same tune'n'tweak, but at a smaller scale. Most of the things weren't drop'n'bolt whatsoever.
The very first shakedown test drive at a snailish pace - and the right output shaft of my brand spanking new Traxxas tuning-spec differential snapped right off! Didn't last even 10 minutes. Gotta love parts made in USofAs...
Never had such a problem with stock chinese diffs which cost six times less, but they tend to wear out in a season.
Thank you Jared, on the nose.... I've always wanted to knit up a storm but start sweating at the thought of it because I know that my wife will wear the sweater that I will make for her, since I made it for her, and I have always been terrified of the snickers that we will both hear when she is out in public with the sweater that maybe you can't tell if the one short sleeve is supposed to be shorter and bigger around than the other skin tight one or that it seems like maybe it's on backwards or if her face is supposed to get that red from the neck that's quite too tight or that the picture design can't possibly be right, can it? Thank you, thank you, thank you, I'm going to do it..........
Man, I wish I possessed a tenth of your skills! Excellent and congratulations everything is going great 👍
I appreciate it, but most of it has come from trying, and making mistakes along the way. Don’t be afraid to try!
I’m a GM guy but I can appreciate mopars
Good stuff Jared!
I run my welder off a generator because my barn doesn't have the proper hook up right now. You can do it. 😂 I love this build.
woke up couldnt sleep and yay a new episode, and watching this now with some tea ( 01:00H CET in this time zone)
"Great candidate for restoration" on any car listing means its a perforated mess haha. Biggest fear of buying a project car is needing to be a master Pink mechanic. I love the motivational speech at the end!
Amazing work.. so satisfying seeing the progres!
Thank you! Cheers!
It's coming together!
I absolutely love this project awesome work Jared! I can’t wait to see the final product it’s gonna be so sweet!
In a few years.
@ I’ll be here for it either way! Haha!
Imagine how many more of these old Mopars would still be around if Chrysler had built and coated them to your standards! On the other hand, you have authenticated Luke and Bo's technique of beating their Charger into shape!
Nice work; we're enjoying watching you polish an old turd.
Great stuff here!! a a a Getting past the threshold of fear and apprehension is SO IMPORTANT!!! We put ourselves out there, and there's an extra layer of caution because we don't wan tto mess up in front of the free world.... I applaud you sir!! You're inspiring me on my Garbage Camaro, We're gonna burn some metal in a couple of days.. and I've flipped the script from being apprehensive to completely excited. ( partly due to you! Thanks!)
Just need to wear a little more PPE to get the full stamp of approval! I still question the green lense glasses for laser welding, eyes don’t hurt but it feels so minimal compared to our normal welding hoods.
@@TheQuestionableGarage I just jumped on board with "spot-welding" and was nervous at basically sunglasses as eye protection for that process.... I hear ya!
Awesome progress!
Appreciate you watching!
Really starting to come together! Looks great! 👍😎
Appreciate you watching!
Like the shout out Kevin Tetz gave you and this project on his channel.
Love Kevin!
J!!! Don’t be so timid. For a Mopar that thing is looking really good. Welderup! Let’s go. Cheers from near Aspen, CO.
I know how you feel. I did the quarters on my 64 1/2 mustang wasn't a easy task it was my first try at major bodywork
But you did it! It’s just scary to take that step
It was scary for sure but yes i can say i did it. Keep up the good work it's fulfilling when done
nice work Jared, Congrats!
Maybe now thanks to you I'll take my 1st car apart completely and restore it. Just a 67 impala but figured it's something I've been afraid to do but not now.
What a great car! Great job buddy.
This episode should be shown to every public high school graduating class in the nation. Edifying!
Holy smokes Jared thank you for the thing on how to reprogram the windows now all windows can be operated from the driver's seat !!!
Great progress! The dream car is coming to fruition. All the growth comes outside the comfort zone. Great job! Cheers! 😎👍🏎🏁🏁
Great job.keep moving forward
I was very reluctant to rebuild the front suspension on my Camaro as the coil springs scared the poop out of me. It wasn't technical but it was a lot of hard, dirty work. I got it done and didn't even kill myself!
I’m glad to have helped
You're right mopers are cool they're just a tin can with a big motor that's the point they didn't care about fitter finish I never see those seams on 150 miles an hour
nice love this car build .... doing new stuff makes you wiser
Yeah, getting out of the comfort zone is part of the fun!
@@TheQuestionableGarage now when your super super old u got stories to tell the grand kids
Love to see you getting your dream car getting attention 🤪
watching this along side kevin tetz's "garbage" Camaro is the 70's restoration i need
Maybe you’ll see both of the cars and us together!
@@TheQuestionableGarage that would be awesome if you got him to paint it! id love to see this in a "Plum Crazy" paint color variant with black accents imo would be a nasty combo
@@TheQuestionableGaragethat’d be pretty neat! As I was watching this episode I kept thinking that you and Kevin were essentially at the same stages of your builds. Making all those aftermarket panels square up and be correct before welding starts has got to be super difficult! Just to get them to fit together before you get to the “are they square?” Part is crazy
Plum crazy or panther pink would be fun, but.. there are some high speed cross country trips in the car’s future so a less high impact themed color.
@@TheQuestionableGarage Hm...Plum Crazy, then wrap the car. Get to the end of the run, take the wrap off.
Like the Grand Theft Auto video game meme about the cops losing track of a car going into a garage because it came back out a different color.
great learning experience Mr. Pink I wish I were 40 years younger to throw some wrenches with you
This show the patience needed to deal with rust. Is easier to buy a stripped car with no rust and just bolt stuff to it, than a complete car with rust, because it needs to be stripped, fixed (lots of work) and then bolt stuff back
Cool car. Good job. I love old cars.
Thanks! I'm really enjoying this one.
I'm "learning" how to rebuild a transmission by screwing it up, so, yeah, I'm a little outside my normal envelope. Thanks Jared, nice work!
I continue to love the work that you're doing Jared! I'm very excited to see the Plymouth coming along for you! Big fan of the work that you're doing mate and you seriously just have such a good vibe! Keep up the great work and content mate!
P.S. If you ever find yourself in Sydney, Australia, I'd love to buy you a beer haha.
I've been watching you ever since you were a special guest welding Tavarish's "Baller Exhaust". God damn, how long ago was that? 😂 And now I’m watching you build a car! Amazing.
Tony the Welding Jedi did the exhaust work, I first showed up in the 3 day Supra build but appreciate you following along!
@ I totally forgot about Tony. Thanks for the clarification. Keep up the good work!
Great job!
"fast and loose" is the phrase for moper bodies
Love the time lapse music
You will really bugger up your watch mig welding and grinding !
That's patina! :D
I might be adding an Apple Watch to me Christmas list…
"We'd like to talk to you about your cars warranty.."
Jared: I AM THE WARRANTY!!!
I love watching your videos :)your uploads brighten my day. I'm sorry I'm a day late I came down with food poisoning so I been sleeping alot past 2 days
"Mr. Powers, you'll notice that all the sharks have laser beams attached to their heads. I figure every creature deserves a warm meal." Nice work Jared.
You never thought the old rust spots as 'hot spots"? they made modifications for every car because like you said, nothing fits. I never make welds if I can't see the back side, unless I can drill a small hole to at least coat it after. The end of the video is talking to people like me, as a jack of all trades and a product of failures. It was out of necessity because I couldn't afford it done by someone else and videos like this showed me how 🤘just wish I would learn more about custom steering, pedal position and seating position for my biggest project 😅
I always wondered why more people don't use Cleco fasteners when working on auto sheet-metal as it seems so awesome seeing the airplane guys use them.
I’ve got a bunch, and I find they work a lot better in new raw metal fab, and can sometimes be tricky in this style. Race car body work they get used a ton?
Looks great
I'm sure that Chis Birdsong could give you some tips in these Mopars.
Come on it already it looks pretty sweet! I hope it gets some clean electronics in it, such as a PDM.
Great video, Jared. Please, always wear your welding gloves and mask! That UV light is no joke. And yes, I definitely understand the feeling of frustration of wanting to finish or work on a project and feeling overwhelmed by the all the possibilities of something going wrong. I'm in the same position where I have a stack of, far simpler, projects I don't work on, because I'm afraid of what can go wrong. I usually either leave them sit or take them in small steps. That's what my autism combined with a burnout does to me unfortunately.
9:02 been a long time since we have seen this on the channel
Oops… wrong graphic there 🫣
I noticed that too. I had to go back and make sure I wasn't imagining things.
@@TheQuestionableGaragei figured as much doesnt take away from the rest of the Ep lol
@@ste_zace Honestly it was a nice easter egg to see if people are paying attention
Love this car!
And I quote from pole barn garage,” mopars are made from Budweiser beer cans.”
I think you're doing a great job!
Watching your channel is like diving into a world of fun adventures and incredible events. Keep surprising and inspiring us with your bright talent and creativity!❕🦏🐨
It really seems like Editor Dwayne has been having fun with his transitions and montages.
This is my favourite of your recent builds, really enjoying this series. Its also the first time I ever did see a US tape measure. Y'all got fractions on your tape measure? What madness is this?
This level of perfection is greater than my level of patience
Is it finally time to become a supra-hero Jared?
great video!