My Friend Spent $2k trying to get his Project Corvette to Run. I Fixed it for $10 in 5 Minutes!
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We bought this Super Cheap C5 Corvette with a ton of Aftermarket Modifications. After just a few weeks, the car wouldn't crank nor start... Thousands were spent trying to fix this really simple problem.
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Come on, Sam...with all the hard work that young man has done for you, sponsor some serious support for him.
He probably already did
I appreciate the support, but sam helps me out as much as he can!! Thanks
Rebuild that car for him!
😂 what have you seen on this channel that gives you the impression that he's financially generous?
Besides, he sold the wheels and tires to him... Only $400... from that Corvette that ended up getting the hideous bronze wheels.
Sage's biggest mistake was throwing parts at it instead of using the factory service manuals and diagnosing the issues.
I was preparing to make same comment.
Shotgun diagnostics
Yea, I saw those manuals, and was like they havent been and never will be touched
Sage has got a great attitude, what a good guy
I thought you were going to give him a big Christmas present there. C'mon Sam, give him a big boost!
Sam is definitely a nickel & dime type of man.
@@garyg8036 100%
@@garyg8036 I’m pretty sure his ex-wives would agree with that assessment!
Sage had learned well, as if he had taken a cue from Sam, that is, how to enthusiastically start a project, diagnose a problem that is more expensive than thought, park it under a tree on the lawn, and forget about it without ever finishing it. 😅😂😂😂 ❤
tale as old as time... Like on marketplace, if it's parked in the grass, PASS
NEVER BUY anything with a PUNISHER sticker on it!
Facts
Only thing punished here was that poor vette😂😂😂
Oh man. So happy to see this comment!
13:05 just changing the starter because it's a no-crank is a parts-changer mindset, how about a proper diagnosis first, you can measure the voltage coming to it to see if it's the starter or something else that's broken
I highly agree
LOL, shifter was disconnected and he throws so much and even wires a push button to engage starter. Sheesh.
Whenever I get a vehicle that doesn't crank the first thing I do is mess around with the shifter to make sure it's in park, that would have instantly revealed the problem. Then you could confirm it with a scan tool if you wanted
This is part of why I sold my Corvettes. Most owners mod with no taste like they won a shopping spree through JC Whitney.
Taste is relative. Just because your dream doesn't match somebody else's doesn't make yours any better. I would even venture to say that your "taste" is poorer than those you're looking down upon. They enjoy theirs a HELL of a lot more than you do, yours. Odds are, they're doing a lot more with less than you are, too.
I remember those catalogs
@@kender1412 extensively modding your car is an artform, very few are actually good at it. For a lot of people it's just an expensive, time consuming and difficult way to make their cars broken and/or undrivable and destroy yet another future classic. I'd say the government is happy for a large modding scene, since it has probably destroyed more old cars than any scrappage scheme.
@@jochenstacker7448 -- Art and beauty are all in the eye of the beholder. You may (probably do) find some things to be beautiful that I consider trash I wouldn't use to wipe my butt with after defecating because that would mean it would be defiling my feces covered (until I use the bidet) anus with the trash you consider to be beautiful art. I bet you have a low rider four wheel drive SUV with a half an inch of clearance on low profile tires. Your "art" is trash that would ruin toilet paper if its image was printed on said toilet paper. My art is beautiful. More power to you for enjoying something I wouldn't allow to touch my feces or my anus. These cars you say the owner "destroyed" with their body mods bring them joy. You are a despicable excuse for something somewhat resembling a human being for saying they shouldn't be allowed to have that joy. Because of your extreme judgementalism and narrow views of what is and is not attractive, not only to yourself, but to anybody else, the world is much worse off with you in it.
@@jochenstacker7448 -- Again, art and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. I'm sure there are things you find beautiful that I find to be horrific injustices to humanity and the automotive world, like lowered four-wheel drive SUVs or pickup trucks that have a half an inch of clearance on huge rims and low profile tires. I don't like them. I consider it a waste of a truck or an SUV. For that matter, I consider a truck or an SUV that is so "nice" and/or expensive that you don't want to get scratched/dented or track mud into the interior to be just plain wrong for SO many reasons. They're supposed to be rugged workhorses that go into the dirt and mud getting scratched up, dented, and dinged along the way, not asphalt bound status symbols. Those dents, dings, and scratched are medals of experience and character. Those "wasted" trucks and SUVs bring their owners joy, though. So do the modded vehicles you consider "destroyed". Who the hell are you or I to deny them that joy? To them, they are beautiful works of art and there is nothing you can or should do to change that. To do so would be despicable. You are taking away somebody else's joy just because you are too narrow minded and unable to appreciate the beauty in the thing that they love. Finally, after years of buying the cars that most people considered to be eyesores or "undrivable" because they normally go for REALLY cheap after they don't sell for several months, I know a thing or two about them. There is very little you can do to a car that cannot be relatively easily undone. These cars aren't "ruined" or "destroyed". They just need the right person willing to bring them back to stock or mod them the way THEY find appealing, that brings THEM joy. Hell, half of the time, the owner you're buying from still has at least some or all of the stock parts they replaced and will just give them to you if you ask.
@ 9 mins - I cannot believe how much money was thrown down the pipe on absolutely useless upgrades or replacements before determining if the entire drive system was stable and solid. The fact that it was running before it went for paint and not running after being painted should have eliminated initially spending any money on ECM's or any expensive engine parts since it seems pretty unlikely they would have failed randomly just sitting at the paint shop. On the plus side, it's getting an education in this way that makes the knowledge stick in one's head LOL.
yeah dont work on cars unless you know about cars... that shifter doing nothing shouldve been an instant red flag. Also the "parts cannon" will break you every time. But then the title is still jacked and theyre gonna shove it off on someone else???
@mrtegu and then the other side of that coin is I learned about working on cars and engines by taking a stab at rebuilding a 1964 Volkswagen bus engine in a dirt floor garage Bay 16 years old and didn't know my ass from my elbow really. But that experience was a major step in my getting into becoming a Gearhead so it wasn't a loss in my opinion. So go ahead and work on cars even if you don't know much about cars it's one of the ways you will learn! And there's no evidence they're going to shove it off on someone else as long as they're honest about what's not right at the time they sell it. Sounds like you're presuming they're going to screw somebody and there's no evidence of that whatsoever.
I feel sorry for Sage, he deserves a nice Corvette. I remember the trial you gave him with that deliberately made bad car that he couldn't drive through the gate and lost the bet. He's a good kid. I wish he'll find a good C5 for himself.
As someone who's rebuilt his C5 Corvette multiple times, I'm surprised he had so much trouble. Probably one of the easiest cars to work on. I wouldn't mind that car if the price was right.
Thats what I was thinking! If hes defeated working on the simplest and bullet proof drive train in the automotive industry, then he doesnt need any project anything. Stick with the new corolla.
Yep love mine
@@mrtegu Not only there's plenty of room in the engine area to work on, but the car comes with it's own ability to display codes. You can just Google and find the info needed to fix it, because the community behind it is huge. I was able to tune mine after putting in a cam and headers with 100% free software. No HPTuners needed.
@@DukenukemX How did you tune your C5 free without HP Tuners, I have headers and X pipe to put on mine and will need to tune it?
I owned a evo x for a year and had over $20k invested and sold it for $7k but the day I sold it I was so happy! Sometimes you just need to take a loss and move on
😂😂
I owned a really average 110cc scooter with vibey engine, warped frame, and overall unpleasant vibe. The thing was reliable though. I rode it for 100-200kms a day regularly and it almost never broke down. None-the-less, the day I exchanged it for a 125cc new one, I was way happier.
Sam I would love videos of you fixing this up, putting it back together & getting it back on the road! It could be Sage’s graduation present!
except they still cant title it...
I can totally relate, when you just spend so much time and money on a car you loved and instead of getting better it just gives you more trouble, you want nothing to do with it.
Poor sage I was really hoping his c5 was going to be fixed so he can drive and enjoy his dream car. My dream car was a c4 and a c5 and when they both quit running and I spent a lot of money on them and they still wouldn’t run right I was ready to burn them to the ground until finally after one more attempt both of them were back to running like a top
Saw the dry nitro lines, 1st thought melted pistons and bent rods 😂😂😂
Me too!! NEVER NEVVVVER buy a car with nitrus lines!
Poor sage. That car has been to hell and back in a trailer park.
WTF is wrong with trailer parks? I am grateful for the cheap living and open environment the trailer park offered to me while I was working on my engineering degree. That schooling doesn't come cheap. Many of the better and more ingenuitive builds I ended up making were on a cement slab with a couple of buddies and a twelve pack (or four) from the trailers on either side of mine. We made SO MUCH out of nothing during those days and had many hours of good times on the track. When you forget where you come from, you end up right back there, or worse off.
@@kender1412 I'm enjoying your fussy and preachy comments! Go git em!
Learning from projects like this will certainly make him as sage as you Sam
Hopefully sager...
Learning how to diagnose and repair vehicles is invaluable. Welcome to the club, thousands upon thousands of dollars saved down the road and making your vehicles bulletproof yourself. Invaluable! Nobody cares about your "Stuff" than you. Cheers from Canada :-)
This Vette reminds me of the green Ferrari. Clapped out and over modified.
that does NOT look like a new paint job
Hey Sam, I've been buying these turds all my life. I always buy the cheapest car at the auction and most of the time you have to do a bunch to it. Every once in a while you get the diamond in the coal mine. A few weeks ago I bought two Saturn Ions just alike. One said ride and drive, showed minor bumper damage. The other said no start, engine fire. i thought if nothing else I could put them together and have one good one. Come to find out the ride and drive one had the oil pan knocked off by Copart and cracks in every body panel. The engine fire car was not an engine fire but a burned and melted headlight. I jumped started and found out that it Had over 100,000 less miles and didn't even burn the wiring harness. Fixed them both for under $500. Name of the game.
Buy from Window ads local supermarket, you need a 2nd hand car off an old lady ☑️
"It's got a brand new Optima red top battery". Ooof! Sorry to hear that. Oh well, just 1 more thing to replace.
If it came with the repair manuals, how come they weren't used to troubleshoot it?
Definitely a good lesson...ALWAYS make sure you can title / register a car before spending any money on it. We all have lerned the hard way over the years. My best rebuild story i guess is of a 2014 Ram 2500 bought at IAAI. It looked beat all over but not bad. It had no keys but I found the previous owner and he sent me both keys and it fired right up, perfect. After taking some measurements i found that the frame was bent and twisted from a hard front left impact into a ditch. So at that point i was either out $6k and part it out or go all in. So, I ordered a new frame from the Ram dealer and swapped everything over in my yard/ shop with an engine hoist and my tractor. It ended up needing front end sheet metal, all 4 wheels were bent, and a front axle... plus thousands of other work. In the end, I put 10k miles on it before selling it (and making a little on it), but it's still one of the best trucks I've ever owned. I made some KZhead videos of that project.
Yeah Sam.. be the support that he needs… some people just need a LITTLE push to get over the top.. from your videos, he’s been doing great for you.
A good lesson to learn. I appreciate Sam staying back a little bit to let Sage learn. I was in the same spot. Throwing parts at a car you "love" so much. I can relate. I bought a old Volvo for 7k, ended up spending 20k on it, just to sell it for nothing a year later at 5k. We all sooner or later learn that there is a fine line when we are on a budget.
Oh my god Sam help sage out with his dream project back to old school mechanicals needed start a fresh and figure things out like the goon squad guys cheers pal
Loving all the content coming through lately… keep it going ❤🇬🇧
It looks so much better with all that horrific aero removed! A factory hood would help it a ton too.
You definitely need to know when to call it quits on a car. I put $5k into a Subaru outback that was worth maybe $2k on a good day, only to have the engine let go a month or so later. A painful lesson, but one I needed to learn and now I know better haha
I had the same problem with my 2010 corvette. Dealership wanted $650 service plus $90 parts. The dealership would only replace the cable that connected the shifter to the transmission. I spent $11 on a new bushing and fixed it myself.
Very cool!!! Would love to see more work on this car!
Sam, you know more about these issues, surely you gave him some guidance when he was doing these repairs rather than let him go on his own? It would have saved him a lot of money that he cannot afford.
of course its all made up for show.
Great job diagnosing it, Sam. Also, hilarious Stamps ad. 😄
that bushing is very common i had one that broke off from the back side it was definitely a tight fit to do it with out removing any parts on the under side but a lift helped a lot
I just had the same thing happen to me, we had a 05 vette come in and I had some work to do on it. got done with it parked it and the lot people went to move and next thing you know wouldn't shift into gear and wouldn't start. fortunately its pretty common issue i found after some searching on google. replaced the same bushing (everyone skips over putting the shifter back on probably because its a bit of a PITA. hope you guys get it going straight.
Lesson learned. Confirm the essentials before cleaning up the little stuff. Can you get it to run and drive and can you get it registered. I see the guys at JR Garage do this all the time. They clean and they fix minor stuff before they find out if the engine is blown. To their credit, they almost always win so I give them credit for being astute buyers.
The real treasures are the friends we found along the way.
Hi Sam. This a definitely a lesson learned for poor old Sage. It was good of you too fix it for him and putting him back on the Road lol. Great Content Sam. Very Enjoyable 😅😅 🇨🇮🇨🇮
Love the deer running across the field in the background at 10:42
Come on Sam, you can help Sage... He is been loyal to you man!
I bought a "project" type C5 about 6 years ago , I would have been out of luck if I hadn't found the Corvette Forum , if there wasn't already a thread that covered any problems I was having I could ask a question and someone would be more than happy to help , a lot of VERY experienced , knowledgeable and fun People on there , hope things go good with the ZO6.....
Man, around '98 we were camping and my mother-n-laws's Ford would not turn over. I was like 25 and was a young shady tree mechanic so I tried jumping the solenoid. nothing. we tried other things but ended up having to get a tow. Of course the shifter wasn't completely set.
You both have great attitudes!
I had this exact problem happen on my friend’s 03 mercury marauder years ago. Ironically got stuck in park outside of a parking space. Ended up pushing balanced on top of jack into a parking spot where it was promptly fixed within an hour after the parts stores had opened.
Good job Sam ! He's still just a least amount of experience kid ! When someone says it's only in reverse then one would assume it's a transmission problem and don't bother looking else where !
I had loose shifter bushings on my 1979 Mercedes Benz 300SD just like this Corvette same problem. Wouldn’t start unless you fished the shifter around to get the neutral safety switch to activate because the bushings were sloppy and worn out. Like $10 in parts, a bushing press tool from Mercedes Source and about an hour or so of time and had it working great
Hope you get it going again. Welcome back to the channel sage
Good luck, and next time try to prioritize the spending a bit better -- like don't fix the radio until you know you've got a running keeper
So a 05 X5 4.4i fell in to my lap. A buddy at my job owned it left the key in it and had It stolen. It was recovered a month later. The key was gone and the gas cap was too. The driver door panel was missing. It sat in his driveway for a year, he was trying to sell it but nobody wanted to gamble on it. I showed interest so he sold it to me for $600 + I had to buy the key $375. It started right up with the new key. It's a solid suv but it does need some work. I'm sorting it out now. I'm almost done but yeah it's a fun experience.
I have 2011 328i that I bought and driven home 3 and half hours and ran for less than a week. Check engine light came on due to broken vanos, oil pan gasket leaking. After 6k in repair she runs fine with. I learned my lesson
I bought my dream C5 two years ago. Few issues but nothing major. Since that one is a 98 if the knock sensors go bad good luck lol. That's the main issue I have now.
I feel bad for Sage. But I guess we've all fallen into the "cart before the horse" scenario on a car we WANT to believe in. Always get them running right before making them pretty!
Or at least registered
Thank you for the yellow arrow, I wouldn't of seen the car without it.
Bought a flooded Mercedes that ran and drove when i bought it. Several modules later and I had $12k in it. When I decided to sell it, it would no longer start. Dumped it for $4500. That one stung
sage is lucky to have you as a mentor, and you are lucky to have sage, hard to find kids these days that are trust worthy
Now that it's running and driving with a new paint job, keep the car. Sam you can sponsor Sage a bit. He deserves it. Greetings from Germany, Martin
Sage loves that big beast of a motor 🤘🇬🇧
These C5 Corvettes are an all around great car. When in doubt just return the car to stock to fix any problem a modified car might have!
Heavily modified usually means some kid beat it to death
I've bought a couple cars with title issues. Usually case where previous owner signed title on purchase but never retitled in their name. Thankfully Texas makes it easy to get a bonded title. I've got a branded title for a truck I rebuilt and it was just a basic inspection too. Some states make it more hassle than it's worth.
The C5 might have problems starting due to the loose pins by the main power circuit door driver or passenger. It happens to me, and it fires back on. Changed starter, knock sensor, battery, and alternator didn't fix it but still got new parts
Excellent a new video Greetings from England
I see you're following the AAR KZhead model. Loving the extra videos Sam keep it up
What's AAR ?
@@ianmangham4570 he was just posting a lot of videos. AAR is auto auction rebuilds YT and he posts almost daily. Although his videos don't get "TONS" of views, since he posts so frequently he actually surpassed Sam's views a month
Great point, you live and you learn. Sell that one and hook him up with the yellow Z06!
I have a 50 year old 450SL. Pretty useless here in Florida most of the year because the AC is junk (from new) Every time it leaves the garage it needs another wad of cash spending on it.
Sage believe me when I say this every single person who buys and sells cars have always had issues like you so we learn and move on that's 1 way for a person to be successful in life so wish you all the best and you got a good mentor and even he makes mistakes for example Sam's 360 FERRARI
Good episode - shows the value of 'back to basics' diagnostic checks 👍. I have a question - if you aren't able to register it for road use, what's the point? Or were you preparing it as a track car? I'm unfamiliar with USA rules, so maybe I misunderstood the problem with the title?
We weren't told that the title had an issue. We were under the assumption the car was totally fine to register. The car can be "rebuilt" and inspected for road use, but the process will be a total pain since the salvage records date back over 20 years. If it was totaled 6 months ago and we bought it from the source it would be easier because the records are much better nowadays
The trouble is everyone on car forums and FB pages have opinions. I had an issue with my exhaust pumping out smoke but only after engine breaking. It was a turbo car so after a head gasket leak test proving negative I could only assume it was oil but unburnt so passing across the turbo seals - which it was Sometimes (as this video shows) a back to basics logical thought pattern is needed
Good lesson Sam, you can’t win them all. With a little elbow grease and the determination anything can be achieved
This looks like every car near the Norfolk Naval Base !
I'm REALLY looking forward to if the "Grinch" is going to make a comeback this year before Christmas.....
When I was growing up my parents had a couple cars with automatic transmissions where the neutral safety switch (auto trans start cutout) failed. Whenever I have an automatic transmission car that’s no crank no start I always check if there’s anything funky with the shifter. Sucks that the linkage completely disintegrated.
Same shit different day with Sam. I'm honestly fedup of the same cars that sam loves then hear him complain about his builds
This is exactly why I don't subscribe. I don't want to give him the money or credit. I only watch occasionally.
I recently bought an e39 525i, it had parts in it and seemed to only need the coolant lines that came with it, I get it running and driving but then it suddenly throws codes and typical bmw stuff like limp mode and an annoying whistle I still can’t find, I got a great deal for $900 and in its condition I can hopefully get anywhere from 2-3,500 but for a first project I’ve learned lots from it.
This video just reminds me there is no substitute for experience!
I had this EXACT problem with out 2006 Chevy Venture van. Wife went to the library with the kids and it decided to break. Had to use a wire tie on the tranny shift fork to get it home. Mine broke on the tranny end.
Been watching Sam for a while. I feel like this is a weird troll and we will see that Vet agian really soon. Gives me stepmom vibs 🤣
I don’t know why he removed the carbon fibre shin severing blades, they were one of the only functioning parts of this classic
Nice of you to support that young man. Hi to your stepmom 👋🏻😁
My first car? I was 15. Mark 1 Ford escort. No paint just primer. Got it running but it was never any good. I worked 2 paper rounds and early morning milk deliveries to pay for it. It wasn’t enough so I moved it down the road. Pity though, be worth a bit today here in the UK
When I got my BMW 750 it would kill the battery overnight or 2hrs in -40 weather all because the stereo amp was moody. Did a bypass test for $3 then a new amp for $200. Mulf has since died and still need to get the camera and trunk modules.
I have a 2002 bug eye Subaru wrx sedan automatic and for two years I chased my own tail looking for the reason of a crank but no start I had power to the starter and the relays, I took the starter off got it tested it was good the battery was dead so I bought a new one but it didn’t help so I kinda just put it off because I have another car, my gears on the dash said it was in park so the thought of my safety neutral switch never crossed my mind. Long behold I put a flat head into the gear lock out to put it in neutral and it cranked right over like it never went to sleep. About 10 seconds of idling the trans coolant lines blew out of the radiator, I got the radiator changed sprayed the safety switch that’s on the side of the tranny with pb blaster and it’s been fine ever since. But it still gets me that a safety neutral switch malfunction had let that car sit for 2 years. But I never gave up on it really happy I didn’t.
Bought a mini at Salvage with front end damage. When I got it, it was full of mice and they ate the wiring harness. I bought another one with opposite end damage and swapped over the parts and sent the first one to salvage. That was my only horror story I have purchased two minis, two land rovers, one Jeep and a Ram 2500. The others went pretty well. The Jeep Wrangler was scary at first. It was advertised as a roll over. Reality was it hit something with enough force to bend the front axle and control arms, then rolled. Front springs popped out of their seats as well. When they brought it out my daughter told me she could see the horror in my face. It actually came out nice and she has been driving it four years now.
Car just looks too good to even think of giving up on it… No project car is perfect. Title issues aside, it’s still in better shape than that yellow basketcase
Man it ducks he got his dream car & it was a lemon! Hopefully he can get close to what he spent & get something good
Sam and Sage good couple. The best. Make Sage christmas good.
I remember a long time ago when Sam was giving away a car (can’t remember which one) if he could fix it. When ppl got pissed off cause he couldn’t get the car fixed and therefor didn’t get the car. Sam clearly said that he drives a McLaren…Yet he had to save up to get a busted ass C5?
maybe i can see a newbie throwing some parts at a no start situation but someone going through the trouble of replacing a starter (especially a starter where you have to cut out the exhaust to do so) without even testing the starter first and then also going to the hassle of hot wiring a bypass starter switch in while the whole time never catching the whole problem was something as simple as the shifter cable being disconnected is someone who should probably choose an extra curricular activity requiring abilities that are less mechanically inclined.......
And that's called experience. Good luck sage, get another C5
never, ever, EVER, fire the Parts Cannon until you're positive of the diagnosis.
10:40 biglike for the photobombing deer :D
lesson learned. the yellow one is soooo much better. ... probably. I had a 2006 cayenne S and went through it heavily replacing everything to get it perfect and extra clean. ran awesome for a year then the engine blew up.
She sure looks beautiful 😍 she's got alot of character, looks stunning from all angles
Love the Dallas intro.
When I heard "washed, salvage title" I was like...NOPE!
Ugh i am learning the same kind of lesson, i bought a project car too. A Matra Murena, its got a different engine inside and wont start
Oh keep that car. I love my C5.
get the thing pressure washed, clean it out, and make a few videos on it
😂😂😂😂 the best episode ever "reverse"❤