An Introduction to Classic Engine Maintenance
Ed HughesBasic engine maintenance is essential for guaranteeing a long and healthy life for your classic car. As long as you provide the engine with regular checkups, careful inspection and timely parts replacements, you can rack up a ton of miles and see the world in your classic car. So in this multi-part instructional video series from Skill Shack, we’ll help you discover the basic engine maintenance methods professionals use to keep their classic cars running in tip-top shape.
Welcome to Basic Engine Maintenance for Classic Cars from Skill Shack with Practical Classics. In this course, we'll cover basic engine servicing, checking an engine for wear, setting valve clearances, timing the ignition, and replacing and gapping points, and checking the carburetor. Hello, my name's Danny Hopkins and I'm editor of Practical Classics and we're here in the Practical Classics Workshop for another installment of Skill Shack. With me is Ed Hughes. Now Ed's been restoring classic cars for most of his life.
He's also a qualified lecturer in science, maths, and technology, which basically means there's probably nobody better qualified to talk to us about basic engine maintenance. So Ed, what can we expect? Well, Danny, we'll be looking at basic engine servicing, how to change your oil and things like that. We'll be finding out how to check your engine for wear and for its general health very easily. We'll learn how to set valve clearances so the engine will just purr that bit more nicely, how to time the ignition, how to check the carburetor to make sure that that's working perfectly, and last of all, how to take out and replace the contact breaker points in the distributor.
Sounds great. So if one of those topics appeals to you, then click on the title to view the class.
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