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Summary: Our expert custom-car mechanic racks a vehicle to begin work on a differential leak repair; find out why in this free auto-restoration video on car maintenance.
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Doug Jenkins Doug, of “Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods”, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable. ... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi. I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now we're going to fix a differential leak. This '57 Chevy pickup came to us in a million pieces. It had been started by three other shops and kind of bungled along so a customer across the country hired us to come get the truck and we finished it up and took it for a drive. Some of the work that had been done before we got it was a little shaky so we're going to remove the differential and fix a leak it has. First thing Dan's going to do is make sure it is safely on the lift and he's going to pick the truck up in order to get good access to the underside of the truck. You can do this laying on your back but this is what we do for a living so we have these expensive lifts to keep us standing up comfortable and we can work a lot faster this way. This '57 Chevy has a Ford nine inch rear end in it. It's got a modern fuel injected engine, disc brakes, power steering, air conditioning, cruise control, the whole thing, but we're going to start with the diff.
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