Led lights first made their appearance on commercial trucks, but their low-energy use, high output intensity and indestructible design made them a natural fit for classic cars. United Pacific continues to add to their extensive line of Classic Car LED lighting with a over 7,000 parts available including 800 plus parts for the 1960 to 1987 Chevrolet C10 pickups alone. Join Mark Simpson and classic truck owner Garrett Carlson as they set out to improve some of the lighting on Carlson’s 1969 Chevrolet, big block powered, C10 short box pickup. A new set of United Pacific headlights adds a whopping 1600 lumens of intense white light certain to light up the darkest country road. But they didn’t stop there, adding a new level of safety to this ride is a set of United Pacific sequential taillights, and the added safety of stock appearing stealthy turn indicator side mirrors.
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3:17The Shade Tree Mechanic: Engine Repair
George Vondriska pops the hood on Brent Ackley’s 1966 Buick Skylark to take a look at its 225 V6 engine and talk about what it means to be a shade tree mechanic, or someone who can learn to fix some of the problems in a car’s engine with the basic tools they have lying around…
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4:57“Getting a Grip” on Your Muscle Car
Cam Benty takes you for a ride in a 1968 327 automatic Camaro and teaches you about numerous aspects of the car that can help you “get a grip” on your own muscle car. He suggests changing the suspension to performance mode through Hotchkis performance for both racing and safety purposes.
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1:01Tips for Timing the Engine of a Classic Car
Brent Ackley teaches you how to time an engine for a classic car. He explains that all you need is ordinary chalk to mark the timing marks between the harmonic balancer and timing grid.
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0:57Classic Car Maintenance: Using a Cleco
Mark Oja demonstrates how easy it is to install and remove the Cleco, a tool that most classic car maintenance professionals use to easily and effectively joint sheet metal panels on their cars.
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I like everything you you showed and did, except those blasted Scotch lock connectors. I have had so many problems with them in the past trouble shooting electric problems. Bad or corroded connections!