I Bought A Broken Rolls-Royce 1000 Miles From Home! 1 Day To Fix EVERYTHING Before Hitting The Road!

I mean, the lineup is decent. For a car this old, let's see the water temperature has dropped, so it looks like it could be an airflow issue. As soon as we start up, it goes a little more towards the middle, which is cool because I'll be driving 150

miles

on the highway, hopefully we won't run into any traffic, but we're still going to take a look at this cooling system a shortly before we left, just in case, I looked at how low the water temperature dropped. We were going about 50-ish

miles

per hour and right now it's only like 70 degrees, well we found a Walmart before we found an auto parts store so hopefully they have one of those temperature laser guns so we we can see what this engine is actually running at and, uh, I'll also grab some coolant, so on the valve cover we're at 205 and we've been keeping this thing idling and the gauge right now shows an intake manifold. pretty fixed 207.

I want to get the cylinder head, but you have to be careful not to get too close to the exhaust manifold, otherwise you'll get crazy readings like we're showing here, like 350 on the exhaust manifold, that's not real, There's the head, yes, it's too close, yes, 222, that's the butt. of the coolant temperature sensors are connected directly to the header so yeah I would say the gauge is way off this is totally normal so we're adding some of this wetter stuff with water. I have no idea if this works, I used to put this in cars when I was in high school I make some pretty bold claims works up to 30 degrees colder doesn't overheat and stuff not sure if it works but for 10 bucks I'll just throw it in there and uhI hope that helps a little bit so when we started this journey with this car it seemed like it had a normal, decent amount of coolant and now after driving it and I mean it hasn't been driven at all in years it's gone down a little bit. a little bit so I'm not sure if there was an air pocket or what but anyway we're going to fill it with coolant now before we hit the

road

to fill the tires they're all at about 20 psi so that's good news because that means they don't leak, they are all going down equally after many, many years, so it ended up taking about half a gallon, which could definitely cause a fluctuation in temperature, so hopefully that will help, but we are ready to I hit the

road

, so I've got a tire patch kit, some extra coolant, a bunch of fluids, uh, we can fill the tires with this little compressor and the lighter works.

Oh, and I have to show you the coolest thing in the world that Steve

bought

me. an lsc plate now i'm a legit owner of

rolls

okay so we're at an old school gas station it's really cool i'll show you in a moment but we're actually just getting some air and it's got these really originals. valve stems in the front, but not in the rear, the rear has standard ones uh and we're just checking

everything

there was also a little bit of smoke, oh yeah, right there you see it's a little bit of brake fluid that's leaking from the glass jar right into the exhaust manifold, so we overfilled it for the small leak, although that leak has definitely gone down quite a bit and we barely had to add anything, so anyway we're going to set these tires at about 35 approximately.

Check all the fluids one more time and see you on the road. The 150 mile trip to Florida starts right now. You guys saw my cl 65 road trip video. It didn't go well, it didn't go well to say the least. this is horrible, I don't think we're going to make it, that means this is probably going down a little bit because of the leak, no one should have

bought

this car, no one, a lot of snow, a lot of snow in the middle of nowhere, but me. I feel more confident about this 1961

rolls

-

royce

that just a few days ago didn't run had varnished fuel had no brakes was running bad after we started it what else did we do?

I don't even know what I feel more comfortable driving this thing for some reason, I think we're about 10 miles into the trip, I just want to show you the gauges,

everything

looks perfect. It says I'm going 75 miles per hour, but according to my GPS, that's more like 70 and uh. It's smooth, it's smooth, the alignment is nice, um, it's very floaty, the suspension is, you know, basically, like driving on a cloud and it's a silver cloud, yeah, a silver cloud too. I feel like an old man, I'm not going to lie and I feel like I have to dress differently.

I made a stop with the rolls, not to eat but to check everything out. We're halfway to Amelia Island and, uh, the only thing that went wrong is that the lighter stopped working, so it actually worked. and I was able to charge my phone and now it's not working, so we're checking our fuses, we cut little strips of wire, oh and look at this, it actually tells you which is which, so cigar switch box three, no, no I have idea what it is. is that one, okay, steve knows, steve knows that's the one that's good, all the fuses look good, so yeah, I'm not really sure what's going on, if that's the only thing that goes wrong on this trip, I'll assume filling it is fun.

You just point and shoot and you really can't miss, so I think I filled it right where we had filled it last time and if that's the case, we went 75 miles and it burned like nine gallons of fuel. so whatever the math is, it's bad, it's really bad, okay, I bought some essential bacon, yeah, that's a thing, five hour energy drinks and crackers, water and the best part, I gotta shake to the aviators in this car, so I bought it. Some gas station specials for 12.99 and I'm ready to go again. I keep accidentally going too fast in this car.

I told myself I'd keep it at about 60 65 but I honestly feel so comfortable in it it's such a nice cruiser it just begs you to go faster everything is in the right places your arms feel great your Seating position is great, visibility is amazing, people are giving you the thumbs up, it's like it makes you happy to drive this thing and it makes me really happy. The happy thing is that these gauges are absolutely perfect, so we have the coolant gauge. You can see it right there. Our oil pressure gauge is fine. Everything is golden and I love it.

I'm listening to Frankie Valley on all four seasons, just music from the 50's and 60's. I had a great time in this car so we started in South Carolina I went through Georgia Now we're in Florida and I can't believe this is my car guys , I'm just smiling the whole way, it's so much fun, I never thought that in a million years I'd be driving a 60 year old Rolls Royce to a car show in Florida as part of my job, like I should buy this, I mean , this is great, I can't wait to bring you something. contained in this car too, so I will continue to enjoy this cruise anyway.

This was never on my wish list, but I'm going to write it down and then cross it off because it's so much fun, so I apologize for the noise anyway. I don't have the microphone set up or anything. I'm trying to be safe while driving. I stay far away from anyone because the brakes work well, but they are drum brakes on all four wheels, so they aren't the best for emergency stops. situations, oh shoot, it started raining and I wasn't expecting this. We check the radar. It didn't say it was going to rain, Florida. What is the problem?

I feel like you probably do this all the time. Well does anyone want to guess how to turn on the wipers uh screen and wipers says I have no idea if that works wait look how cute these little guys are they don't do anything but I'm not even mad at them this is awesome okay I guess it's better than nothing, yeah, no. The best, not the best wipers in the world, but if I replaced them it would be pretty decent. They're probably like a million years old. Very pretty, huh, oh, very pretty, yes, it's nice to drive around and just look at that strange little spirit of ecstasy, yes. that's right, that's what this lady was like, she was like a lover of the roles, one of the roles, guys, there were two of them, henry rolls and I don't remember the other one, oh, that's the story and this is one of the lover of one Guys, I'm learning a lot about this car, yes, in this video, this is the first time I've laid my hands on a Rolls Royce before and now it's mine, so you have to make the huge garage, play the harp, yes , sounds. pretty cool that's how you know it's real yeah real metal okay so the wizard is the first other youtuber to see this car so a few more are on the way.

I'll show you the car and that's it guys, not really. There is nothing better than this. We got away with some easy solutions in this case. Sometimes we're not so lucky, but I'll take it so I can enjoy the weekend and then we'll send it

home

, so. I'll see who shows up here next, it's the next morning and I'm following Sam Crack and Rich Reconstruction on the E39 giveaway and I'm following them specifically on the Rolls Royce because of the two cars, this one is the most reliable so we were up . Until about one in the morning trying to get this thing to idle and not fail.

It has some bad spark plugs. I think it has a bad coil, but we couldn't find any parts, so here we are, it's still dying. so i'm here to help in case your rolls-

royce

roadside assistance breaks down completely. Well, I can't park with the rolls-royce people, but I can park next to a sweet alante and me. I could probably fit this thing in the trunk of my car, so I got absolutely no footage of the car at the show. I was walking around talking to people hanging out and I just didn't get around to it, but it was much later in the day and I, Sam and Rich, we're going to eat, we're going to have a little snack at the Rolls-Royce so these guys are already going to the city back here guys take this out what are you doing? what are they doing? we're just getting ready to eat this is normal mustard of course it's Jesus what are they talking about it's a rolls-royce they have to have a big pout these are crazy give me this alex you're the best man come on no I can't this can't be in my car, what are you doing?

Well, oh wow, I didn't know how much you like that stuff. Hey, can I have my mustard back on this? No, it's a gray poupon, oh, okay, here you go, Sam, you can. I'll make an exception this time, this time, that's disgustingly good, no, I'm fine, that's fine, I'm fine, the whole team arrives at the same time. Well, I found a few more guys who feel the need to play with my car. It bounces a lot. Oh, it's not a musical instrument. Although it sounds pretty good, it bounces around a lot. Your tires are too soft.

Yeah, I couldn't get any more air. on them they have like 25 psi if I open the, I mean, as long as it's been upside down, now it's finally maxing out. I'll take it, I mean, I have all the liquids in the trunk, so we're ready to go, it's on the Stay good guys, that'll make it for this probably very long video. We're all going to dinner. Yeah, maybe grab the bagels, I don't know, or walk, so I hope you guys really enjoyed this one if you made it. thumbs up button share the video subscribe if you're new and most importantly have an amazing day I'll see you all in the next one you knew and good job I'll see you all in the next video might I subscribe.

Well, oh, the gray poupon, eat the gray poupon, it's very good, I'll get it, someday they'll sponsor me.