After 40 Years, Ed's Golden Nugget Is DRIVING And Back On The Road!!

Golden Nugget's cruising. Cruise along 50 mile an hour. Alright, today's the day we've been looking for for like six months basically. This thing's ready to drive. All the little stuff's buttoned up pretty much. She's done. We're test driving it. We fired it up. We've driven it forward and backwards a couple of feet is basically all. Now's the test drive. We're gonna go see if all the steering works, all the brakes work. We'll get them seated in. See if everything's good to go. Today's the day. Test drive time. There's no shifting action right at this second. We'll go figure that out. We'll go loosen the cable. First test drive. A little tight. We got a second. Brakes need to get broken. So a little bit of adjustment. A little adjustment on the detent cable. And then we can go for a proper ride maybe. Alright, we gotta do a little detent adjustment here. Looks like there's plenty but... It doesn't shift? It hasn't yet. We got a second coming back. Had to get her up in the R's to get it to shift. Had to get the RPMs wound up a little. Sounds pretty good. Okay, that was a little adjustment there. We need to order some front brakes. Clunk. Clunk. Alright, one more test drive. Let's see what we got now. Oh yeah, there it is. That's better. That's what we like. Mine's actually pretty good. Smells like new exhaust. Oh yeah. I like it. Burning every side of it? Let's just pop the hood. Make sure everything's good. Fan's on. Oh, we never fixed that. Oh, we've got a radiator leak. Somewhere. Oh yeah, we're pushing coolant out a little bit. That's all I could smell. Alright, we'll figure that out. The fan's wired backwards. Yeah, it is. We'll go deal with that. Let's go fix that. Alright. Isn't that a good? That's the smell. Yep. We'll go unpin that fan. Oh. Unpin the fan and wire it back and we're good to go. Make the fan blow the right way. Figure out where that coolant came from. Yeah, we've got a fan to fix and a shifter that actually drives a lot better than I thought. Way better than I expected. Yeah. I'm just happy to be driving this thing. Well, a couple items to do. First test ride, it's not bad. We've got to work on the brakes a little, bleed them up, switch the fan. We've got a coolant leak. Coolant leak to deal with. Some rattles and stuff, but all in all, pretty good. That's pretty good. First ride, not bad. Okay. Oh. Ha ha ha. That crappy hose you talked about? It's crappy. Ha ha ha. That's our coolant leak. Ha ha ha. Hey, I was debating putting on that orange hose, but I'm not too sure about that orange Let's see what it looks like. Now we know why. That's a pan, Jace. That's a junky hose right there. That is a junky hose. So we're not leaking anywhere other than what it was supposed to be doing, cycling between the two and the hose blew out. We're going to put a hose on this that doesn't leak. Let it cool down some. It's still a little warm. It's still hot, in case anyone was wondering. Hey, I'm back. I see that. You haven't even crashed yet? No. Putting some miles on it. I guess I should have listened to you, huh? Hey, I didn't like that hose. It just didn't look right. Now we know. Well, it looked weird. Now we know why. It's just rubber. There's nothing inside of it. It's a looker hose. Look at that thing. That is swollen everywhere. I think we're going to need to drill a hole in the top of that, too. Give it a vent? Yep. He's going to go make a hole in that. I'm getting a different hose clamp. Basically, this system is all sealed up. It's building pressure, and I don't want to. I need it to transfer back and forth. This should do it. That should let a little bit of stuff out. It's called nitrous. Okay, now we just have to unpin that thing. Swap them. Okay. Now it should suck and not blow. It's not empty. It's self-leveled. It's good? Yeah, it's good. Oh, we've got to fix that brake pedal. Oh, we've got to pull that off. We ain't getting enough straight travel. That timing helped a bunch. Oh, baby! Yeah, that timing helped a whole bunch. Better call it. All right, guys. We've got this sweet aerial rider. We've had it, actually, for a couple months. I've never tried it out. Today's the day. It'll probably be okay. What are all these buttons? I think if you push this button... Holy crap! This turns her into two-wheel drive, I think. Look at this. It's got a sweet little screen on it that tells you how fast you're going to go. Oh! Stop it! Highway! Kid tested, mother approved. Take her for a burn. It's awesome. Check it out in the description below. All right, we're going to go try the kick down and see if Ben got her adjusted properly. Oh, yeah, she's got brakes now. Brakes work. Kick down's good now. Brakes still are... Never mind, they're good. We just need to get those pads wore in. These are rattling. We've got to fix that. 65 or 70. That's cool. That's almost 4,000 RPMs. We did some good measure when we put it together. Yep. I think we'll get us a Coke. I don't know. Sounds good to me. That's what this thing's for, is going to the store to get a Coke. That's right. She's cherry. Let's go get us a Coke. Thank you. Yep. Have a good one. We should have put cup holders in there. Yeah, I was just thinking about that. No cup holders. But, it's done what we made it for. And it started. Fired right up. Away we go. We're in the chipped. Yeah, we've got to fix that rattle. Yeah, that rattle. That rattle's pretty annoying. We've got some down shifting problems here. We thought we were done. For sure. We got some kick down problems. We'll go pull the cable apart and see. Won't shift. The side kick. It's nothing that can't get fixed. Clear over here. We'll float around a little bit. I'm happy. It cruises right along smooth though. Yeah, for a complete rebuild. We're golden. More importantly, she doesn't run hot. Runs good. Stays cool. For me? We couldn't haul another one. No, that's probably true. Alright, we've had the day over. The golden nugget runs, drives. Got a little more test driving to do. Matt's coming tomorrow to load her up. We'll do a little driving with him so he can get a feel for it. But, she's good. I like it. Until tomorrow. We're done. It's locked up. Oh jeez. Are you kidding me? We're going to get locked up.