THIS 50 YEAR OLD CAR BREAKS THE LAWS OF PHYSICS

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On today's episode of WatchJRGO we are in the shop with the craziest car I have ever bought.
A two-wheeled balancing parade car. What is going on guys I am WatchJRGO and today we are
going to jump back in time right now to where we picked up this balancing parade car. I see
yeah so it might be I think I can get the jack all the way under.
Yeah I'll get under the axle. I don't know what's easier but I can throw that in from back here too.
Well guys this might be the worst car we've ever had to load up but luckily we've got good help
here. How much did you help Ruthie? Five? Ten? All right give it a bounce for us.
Push on the bumper. Show us show us the little balancing wobble. Just push up and down on it.
Look at it go. The headlights aren't that strong. All right this was fun.
Yep we got her loaded up. Let's go go wash it. We got to start by washing it. It's so nasty.
So we had rodents build a giant I mean this stinks actually stinks what's coming out of
the wheel there and inside it's completely full of poop and all kinds of weird stuff
and then let's make sure this seat is actually locked in here.
What a machine. Don Kirk. Sounds like I could be in the mafia. Don Kirk. This thing is the
this trailer always floats when you go through the drive-thrus here. You get a little drag right there
at the edge but this thing is the nastiest most hydraulic fluid leakiest. Every single inch of
it's just covered in fluid so we have to start at the car wash. And there you have it. We have
killed ourselves today to get this car here for you guys. Now a friend of mine found this on
Facebook Marketplace for $300 and immediately he was like you need to buy this and I was like yes
I do. There's never been one of these on YouTube before. No one's ever seen any of this crazy stuff
before right? It doesn't exist. So I immediately messaged the guy and I got that Facebook message
that says this person hasn't responded to many messages recently. It's the worst message you
could get. It means they're being flooded with like a message every minute and they're not
responding to any of them. But my message to him was I'll give you $600 right now. He was asking
$300. I doubled it and he was like well there's a guy that says he's gonna come get it on Sunday
or something and I was like no I'll pay you double. He was like done. I said I won't ask any
questions either. So that always helps you out and we showed right up with the wrong trailer. This
doesn't move so luckily he had some wheel dollies so we jacked it up put on wheel dollies and we
were able to get it out of the barn where it had been sitting forever as you guys saw in the video
right there. Once we got it to the edge we tried to pull on the trailer. It weighs so much it
immediately bent the ramp on the wrong trailer so we drove all the way back to my dad's shop to
borrow his trailer that's bigger and we got this thing drug on with a winch. I mean you have to
flat drag this thing on. It will roll forward barely but when you look at these tires you
think they were tires. They are not. This is going to blow your mind when you guys see this.
This thing is basically a tank. It's a ZTR, a giant ZTR lawnmower. I think these are custom
hand-built frames but it's all hydrostats. You can see the hydrostatic motors. There's one right
there. Here's one right here and then there's so much hydrostat insanity going on right here that
makes this drive and it's nothing like you would expect right. You can see that it's like a weird
forward and back control pedal. I don't know how you're supposed to turn this thing at all but they
do turn. You guys have seen these in parades. They're the guys that are doing wheelies and
stoppies and then driving with the front end in the air and it's really cool when you see them
in a parade but it doesn't make any sense how you control it right. You only have hydrostat forward
back basically. So what steers because that steering wheel oh it is connected to something.
Look at that. We thought the steering wheel wasn't connected to anything but it looks like
there is a steering shaft there. Is there anything down here under this? Oh there's a
hydrostatic valve connected to the steering wheel. Okay, okay. So right here a bunch of hydraulic
lines run up here and the main hydraulic pump is right here. You can see it right behind the grill
and then this is another hydrostatic valve and there's double air horns which is hilarious.
There's a giant air tank for the air horns right there. There's an onboard air compressor. This
thing is hilarious guys. I mean it is wild. There's even a fuel sender. You can see their
fuel sender on that giant fuel tank. Hydraulic tank right here and then there's a ton of controls,
charging, fuel level, hour meter. 143 hours is insane for this and oil pressure from that old
Onan Performer. So unfortunately we're going to have to figure out if keys exist for this thing
because we won't be able to steer without keys. I might be able to just break the ignition off
which is probably what I should do because it doesn't really need two cylinders here. This key
turns everything on. This key unlocks the steering column and that's how you drive it and then you
have a throttle pedal too. So you have to modulate all this stuff at once and it goes around probably
being very very fun. You know these were the coolest thing in the world when you were a kid.
It was either the Shriner's go karts or these balancing cars. Unbelievably cool when you get
to see them during the parade. So inside the wheels here you're looking at this and you're
like well just air up the tires that are flat. No that is not how these work. These are like
tank treads and inside of this is an entire drive wheel setup made of like little tiny wheels and
those little wheels are actually sitting on the ground right now and that's part of how it balances
right. So once you get in it, it sits level because you put some weight behind the axle
and then once it's level the wheels inside the wheel there are driving it and keeping all the
force on the ground. So the tire is completely fake. Unbelievable right? The mice have had a
heyday in this thing. Every single time we move it more and more trash keeps coming out of here
and I kind of think oh the interior ones are supposed to be inflated. Okay okay so you unbolt
the tire. The tire is bolted on. You unbolt the tire and then you fill up those wheels inside
there and then this rolls. This is going to be a project. You know when you have to inflate the
wheels inside the wheel that's when it's a project. Anyway what we need to do first is get this thing
running and I have a feeling it's going to run right? These old Onan Performers are awesome old
engines so it shouldn't be too big of a deal to get this thing spinning again and I need it to
move out of the way of the garage door. That would be critical. We won't be able to make another video
at all until this thing moves because it is stuck. It's so stuck. I can't tell you guys if
you don't have a forklift you can't move this. So unfortunately it is in the way of every project
so it's now the most important project on the channel but we're gonna figure this thing out.
You have to love that screw-on gas cap right there but hey if we can unscrew it
not bad. We can at least throw a camera in there and see what's going on with the fuel.
Now you guys have been on a tour of this thing. If you have to make it balance better I guess you
add weight in here. I do have more Cadillac hubcaps. It's fully Cadillac'd up when you're
rolling on the ground so there's a hubcap for each side there and what we have to do first
I wonder if the fire extinguisher is charged. That's still good look at that. Gotta have a
fire extinguisher. Basically what we need to do now is unscrew this ignition and jump it. Now the
mice have had a heyday on this thing. There are literally just random wires all over the place
and they are all chewed in half. This thing has been in a barn for like the last well since 2012
that's what we heard. So you can see there's just wires power wires all over chewed through
and if we unscrew the ignition here hopefully we can pull this guy out.
Uh-oh he like has it screwed into the wood. All right and then we can pull it out of here and
jump it. That's probably the best way to start this. So give me a minute here or at least give
me some alligator clips and we're going to make this thing run again. I just want to hear like
the air compressor work and the air horns work. We got to make some progress on the electronics
then we'll hit crank on the engine and I bet the engine comes back to life. Not much to check there.
This is an Onan Performer 20XSL which should be 20 horsepower if I had to guess. Let's open up this
air cleaner here. Mice even made it in there. These mice are as you guys would guess mice are
relentless but the air filter stopped them. Shout out air filter. Oh that's so gross.
We'll put some starting fluid in there and she'll rip to life. Guys I just wiped out my back doing
this so I can really no longer move at all. I need to go take like six ibuprofen or something
an obscene amount of ibuprofen. Oh that's already loose. How come the terminal won't come off?
But yeah I am in trouble. Absolute trouble right now.
But I do have a battery and we're not going to give up. I'm not the type to give up here.
Oh the new battery is bigger. Let's see if we can get that in here.
The new old battery. My arms might work but the rest of my body isn't mad.
Put the fire extinguisher back where it belongs. Oh the choke cable even works.
Crazy. The mice truly succeeded on destroying this thing. I mean there is just wire like this
eight all the way through all over the place. So I hope it even turns on. It might not. Do a
little check-in. Let's see if we got some power up here at the front. I'm gonna guess the power
comes up here to that starter solenoid that's over there. But if we do some of this nothing
nothing nothing. Here's that giant power cable. So we'll make sure we got power from the battery
which I'm sure we do. Oh yeah 12 volts. Okay starter solenoids, fuses. Let's check all this
fun stuff. Nothing. Nothing. Where does this mystery wire go? Oh there's a big turn on relay
right here. I see. I see. All right well what do we have to do to power you up? I'm checking the
ignition switch real quick here. Let's see where power in is. I kind of oh it's starting to smell.
We washed this thing. That's not power in. That's not power in. Power in. All right so start looks
like the one with two wires on it and all the rest well they look like the one with lots of
wires on it. We got the hour meter. It says it's completely full of gas. I bet the sender went bad.
Okay here we go again. It's trying to crank over but we're not getting anything.
That was definitely the starter relay pulling in there but for some reason we have
no starter. That's not ideal. Starter!
There's a lot of trash inside that engine. Let's see what we got here guys.
Nasty oil but it's totally full. I'm happy with that. So the guy that owned this thing wasn't
anywhere around but the guy had a lot of fun like Shriner looking stuff in his collection there. So
he had you know the little go-kart. It looked like a little tiny VW. He had three two at least two
Model A's and then like an old Dodge truck. He had a bunch of cool stuff so I bet he took care
of this and it kind of lets me think that this thing's going to start right up. So that's what
we're hoping for here is that it just runs. Too bad. Okay okay if we trace this wire back. Let's
see. The bottom wire is supply into the relay and let's pull the cover off the relay here and then
we'll jump this starter solenoid and it should crank. So we got a little starter solenoid right
over here. Come on please. Get the giant alligator clips on here and we should have ignition power
already obviously because the hour meter's running. So I think that's it. I think it's going to start.
Ready. Clear. Cranky cranky. Tell you what we don't have. Spark. Alright time to do a little
spark troubleshooting here. For some reason we don't have coil power. We do have fuel. There
is fuel pouring out of the fuel line right here at the car. Fuel line is cracked. Good news. I'll
take a cracked fuel line any day. So this fuel pump here is working and this line here is broken
but not broken enough. It should go. We just need to power up this coil right here.
What power is it? It's got to be this red wire here. That's no good. No volts no good. Oh you
know what? It looks like he hooked up both ignitions. This Honda ignition does have wires
going from it. I wouldn't doubt that we have to like force power into this coil.
So let's do just that. There's a lot of wires going to this one.
It seems like that would be the positive. So I guess what we should really do here is ohm out
the negative. Beep beep. Neither one's a ground. Tell you that. So the black one must be coming
from the trigger on the crank or the magnet pickup. This is my class in hot wiring 101
and also it's going to work after this. Start. Nothing. Tell you what that fuel pump works.
It is straight dripping fuel. Gross yellow fuel. Well giving the coil power apparently didn't work
so we're probably we're missing something else here. Check it out. Mechanical oil pressure.
That's very cool. We need to do a lot more checking on this thing here but in the meantime
I'm going to go find a wiring harness for a Performer 20 XSL. I'd love to just Harper
Fred convert this. The easy fast way. We'd be rocking and rolling in no time. But in the meantime
you know how I told you guys it has onboard air right? It's got an air compressor. It's got air
horns. Check it out. We've almost got 10 psi built up already. That's awesome. Now we got to find
power for this relay but whatever runs the air horn here I mean clearly it has to have a relay
inside here or oh there it is. There's the valve. Okay so black wire which is this wire here is the
air horn turns into yellow. If we can find the yellow wire we can run the air horn. Give it a
little beep beep. I did just find out why the air horn doesn't work. It's that one. Jumping everything
has already gotten annoying. I think we're going to go straight to O'Reilly's and buy a ignition
switch. So let's rock and roll. All right guys we are here at O'Reilly's and look right there.
That's Eric's old king ranch. Okay let's go get an ignition switch so we can make this thing work
without a bunch of jumper cables. Mission accomplished guys. We have some more heat
treat butt crimps and a brand new ignition with a key. Like I was saying the guy I bought this from
wasn't actually there when we picked it up. He is like on a trip somewhere. I mean he's probably
like an 80-90 year old guy and they're clearing out his barn. They said he might have the keys
but he wasn't around to ask. So this one who cares right? It's better to put a new switch in already
and this is a 30 amp switch. It's probably better but we won't have the keys of the old Honda steering
column that's in there. Time for a quick little ignition switch change. 85936 the standard
doormat ignition switch. It is the answer to everything. So first of all let's get the keys
out of here. Pull the nut off. This one didn't even have the backing nut on it so we'll do the
same. Let's go ahead and get rid of that. Looks like the wood's thick enough that you don't need
to back it up. This one's pretty prettier than that. All right so let me go grab a nut driver
that fits this guy. All right battery unhooked. No matter what it's going to be hard to get in
here. I don't know how you're supposed to work on this thing. Like really for everything you need
to do you kind of need to unbolt the entire dash they built out of wood here. But with that said
I think we're going to make this happen. Too big. Try this guy. That's the one.
All right so whatever's going on here we got to figure out what it connected to
and find a way to get it all reconnected with a new wire and a new green terminal
because that's a mess. What a mess. And I can't really tell where or what it went to.
Hooking the battery back up. All right so far nothing bad. Let's put the keys in and see if
we've got some updates for you guys. Four keys? That's crazy. What do you need four keys for?
All right. Volt meter. The hour meter worked before. Huh. So the start relay pulls in but
it doesn't pull in the starter solenoid. Headlights. Nothing. Air compressor works.
Amazing. Air compressor definitely works. It's even holding air. But what we don't have over here
is the starter relay is pulling in but it's not pulling in the actual starter solenoid. So
something's going on between that relay and this guy right here. So that's our next order of
business because we know the solenoid here works just fine. It pulls in and cranks and the starter
is very happy. So we can pull our remote starter out of here and we can move on to troubleshooting
here. Wow that old e-tape. I wish I would have washed the engine bay out a little bit too
because everything under here is covered in the nasty. You guys already know what it is.
You know what the nasty is. All right so this relay here pulls in and of course watch it's not
going to have a proper relay base on it. Why would it? Why would it be done right? I bet oh yeah of
course it's got four spade connectors on it as they always do. Wait a minute. What does this even do?
What does this do? The starter relay one is coming from the key on the steering column because all
of this Honda stuff makes no sense. It all just needs removed. But for some reason there are still
wires going in and out of that and I think the answer here is cut it all up. You need to cut it.
All right so I took the wood cover off the steering column. Hilarious right? Matching wood.
Love the matching wood. And then I used the whatever the die grinder to cut slots in the
screws so we could remove. Obviously these are those twist off you know they tighten them in
and then they're just locked in forever. So I cut a slot in there. Once that was done we were able to
remove the ignition lock that's holding the steering wheel so we can't actually drive it
right. So we have solved our key problem and then check it out. This is the craziest thing you guys
ever seen. It runs so well. It's absolutely beautiful how well it runs. Go Onan. It's getting
better and better and better. I have to learn how to drive a tank here. Okay so reverse throttle
reverse. Oh okay it wants to go forward but it doesn't want to turn. Oh she died.
This is crazy to drive guys. It's crazy. All right I think I should get a jack under it and
tear the wheels apart and figure out the drive system. And also I'm not getting obviously part
of the reverse. But for the most part it's just working. If only we could have our air horn.
Come on. Come on air horn. It's shorting out the fuel level. It moves. That's progress guys. That's
most progress honestly. How do we tear these wheels apart? That's our next big problem here.
Let's get a jack under it and just see what happens. The motor runs again. The hydro on
this side was stuck but after beating it back and forth and back and forth well you can see why it
was stuck. It only makes sense. A spider's coming out of there. That's like the fifth spider I've
smashed. This is impossible to work on too. It is literally the worst thing you've ever had to
work on. You have to get your arm all the way inside that wheel to every corner in order to
get these nuts and bolts out here. All right another round of poison. I'll probably end up
in the hospital after this. Also all this came out of the wheel too. I do want to note. Sanding disc,
stick, ziplock bag, all of that was shoved in there. So now we're going to try to air up those
wheels that actually run this thing and stay sitting straight up and down there at the bottom
after we get all this trash out. This is a project. The mice made it their own. They truly went in
there and they took out a mortgage on this thing I'm telling you. Serious business. Tell me that's
not insane. All right guys once you get the wheel torn apart you can see what's inside. This is what
actually keeps this thing level all the time. The secret of the balancing car is two wheels spread
12 inches apart. Isn't that crazy? From there to there that's what makes all of this magic happen.
So these are flat but they did beat those I-beams in so I could air it up. So I'm going to go ahead
and air up that one. I hope these hold air. If they don't the nightmare of taking this thing back apart
is real. But I'm going to go ahead and grease this hub. It's got a greasable hub in there.
The back is just a bearing and then the drive itself comes out of here. So this is the hydraulic
drive out here at the end. And then the middle just floats on that gigantic bearing. So these
are crazy right? This is an invention for sure to make this car balance. And it's not something
you're going to want to build. I'll tell you that. What this would cost now would be insane to
reproduce. So let's get this thing running. I think we're going to drive it here in just a second. This
wheel runs great now. Look at that. I mean it's a little flat from sitting but it runs way better
than it did when it wouldn't move at all going off the trailer. And then I think the other one's
full of trash too. So I got to disassemble it too. But at least this one moves. You know what?
This one's just flat. I actually don't think this one has... I think if we put a jack under it we
can air up these tires. There's not as much trash in them. All right we got some air in here. 40
pounds in each one. I mean it maybe it should have more but I think you want a reasonable ride here.
So these are nasty. You can tell like the copper on those old valve stems or brass has turned green
so that's never a good sign. But it's time to put the wheel back together and try again. Dad's here
and I had already called him because I was like hey I'm working on this Onan and I gave voltage
to the ignition coil which goes right there. That looks like a power in. Yeah. Yeah so I gave it 12
volts and it didn't start which was really odd here. I'll counterbalance you. But oh now you're
moving. It's like also the seating position is tight. Oh my. Look at the seat position. I have
to squeeze in there. All right. This ain't gonna kill me. Dad and I just fought to the death. It's
not done yet but we got two bolts back in the wheel which is an absolute nightmare to try to
reseat those beads. They don't want to go on. What's funny is now that you're sitting in there
it looks like they're it's gonna go on but now we're not lined up because we have to index it
but we did yeah you need your you do need your hot wire system. Milwaukee ignition. That's the key.
Yep that's the key and then you turn this key on then you turn that key on and then crank.
Got all the way to crank with your Milwaukee key. So you're gonna take off is it? No it should be
no it won't. Isn't that awesome? Look at this. Okay this is a hydraulic valve and then that is
lawnmower hydraulic valve and then your throttle is your throttle.
So you know when you see these in the parades they're always going like this.
Now we know why. It's literally undriveable. That's why they wear those little hats.
It's the helmet for the clown hat. I think it's out of oil. You know it might be out of oil.
He's digging holes in my...
Dude it's just back it loses. I didn't check it. What's funny is it keeps fuel.
Yeah I know huh. Tricky. How's the air? Oh man it's got 100 psi in the air tank.
If we could make the air horn work this would be flawless. All right so the oil tank is...
That foot operator is that terrible. It's crazy. This is crazy. I moved it a little bit.
All right so to check it. Oh wait wait wait. So I opened that valve and it was closed.
Do you think that's a bypass? Pull this out. Is that a pump bypass? I don't know.
I was thinking... This was closed? It was closed and I thought maybe it was hydro...
It would release the pressure off the hydro so we can move it. Which I do think that's
neutral right? Wouldn't that make sense that it bypasses? Because it's this hose here and it goes
to the front. It goes to the pump. I wonder if that's a... Well wait a minute. Where's the...
Okay so somewhere there's a... That's just an AB valve. That's A, B, P, and T right? Yep. A, B,
P, and T. And so I think the front one is too. It's the same valve. It looks like it.
Okay so see these two right here? Uh-huh. Those are the hydro. They're coming back to there so
that means that's A and B. Uh-huh. So one of these is P and one's T. Well it's probably filtering
going back to the tank. Yeah this one says out. Yeah so okay so this will be filtered to go back
to the tank. Uh-huh. So that means that's suction and it's going up to the pump. Okay. Yeah it goes
up to the pump and comes back right here. Right? Yep. All right now. Do you think that's a dipstick?
Oh a dipstick. Look at that. Can't see it. Oh the puddle of hydraulic fluid under this thing was
five foot around. Yeah it's out of oil. I bet it's out of oil too. It just needs some DTE24.
Just some lightweight hydraulic. I don't know what that is. I think I have AW32 and AW64.
AW32 is fine. Okay let's see what I got. I gotta fix my whole house.
It needs a bigger tire. It needs a bigger back tire.
I'm surprised I didn't run over the car. This has to be the greatest machine on the planet.
Oh there's one more wrench inside it. It's gonna fall out. Wrench in where?
Oh it was in there but it fell out. Okay cool. We're good. They all fell out. All right we got a
one gallon AW46 here. I was hoping I had 32 but luckily we didn't drag out the five gallon bucket.
Yeah this tank must have been leaking for years. It was nuts. Yeah there's a lot of places for a
leak on this thing. Oh no doubt. And this is, I mean this was horrific. We took it to the car wash
and dumped a whole can of gunk in it before we started. Really? Yeah. I mean it looks like it had
a battery. Oh that's the battery. It does. I just didn't put it back. There's wires everywhere that
I'll pull all this out so we don't lose it on the road.
The road. You're pretty optimistic. We're gonna make it to the road. We're trying again with the
valve in the closed position. This is dad's new car. I know you're gonna drive it home after this.
I really should have a clown suit when we're driving this thing. I don't anybody know who it
is. It's the funniest thing ever. Just watching it rock back and forth is hilarious. Yeah you gotta
be in it. You gotta use the key. It's very unpredictable. So dad thinks this thing's
still starving and I'm sure the pump sounds like it's starving. This is a fun way to,
you nailed it. Going bluetooth. I mean this tank's what 10 gallons almost? She's a big girl.
But whenever it rocks forward and back it sounds like it's uh. Yeah you can hear the pump starving.
Also the tank is 100% full. We filled it with fuel system cleaner.
I went too hard. And then we tried to fill it with gas and it just immediately spilled out.
Man it's gonna take that whole thing isn't it? It was empty. Now there's a drain plug on the
bottom of it. I saw when we were picking it up. Yeah you guys can see that drain plug forward
there. This caster's had a rough life. The caster that's supposed to catch it? Yeah. Yeah it's
it's had a rough life for sure. But anyway that tank drain there was leaking. It looks like it's
still leaking. We might have to put this on the actual lift and then swap out like a crush washer
or something. When you see these in the parades every time they take off they slam them all the
It sounds better. The throttle on this thing is tricky. The throttle is kind of a joke.
It needs a thumb throttle. It really needs a thumb throttle so you can drive it.
What did the 180 instant? I just barely turned the wheel.
You had it in go step. Yeah you gotta use your foot. Oh man. No kidding. Yeah.
It's a big mower. Yeah it definitely needs a front wheel. There's a bunch of oil coming out of it
somewhere. Is there? You mean a bunch or like a little? Well you're already leaking. It's hydraulic
oil. Yeah. Oh I don't see it. Better put a diaper under it. Yeah well I'm telling you the puddle
under this thing I think you could see it in the video where I picked it up but I mean it was this
big around. Oh yeah. I mean it's a leaker for sure. They all would be. What an invention man.
It's a Mack truck. Yeah. Golden Mack. But yeah it needs a it has a bunch of weights right here.
Yeah. But it it really needs uh it really does need a wheel for me to rock back home.
All right we got the hood on it. Gas going out again. You can't stop.
You really have to drive forward. It's a pain in reverse.
Reverse is dangerous. All right guys we brought this thing back from the dead. I mean the battery
that was in it was dated 12. So you know that was probably the last time they took this out on a
parade. And the fuel kind of seems to represent that 12 year old figure as well. It is yellow.
So we're actually just going to leave this thing out here idling for a long time. I'm going to let
it idle all the way out of fuel. And then we'll change the oil. We'll put some new fuel in it and
it'll be ready to rock. And we're going to add even more hydraulic fluid. But I think it totally
works. This thing is sorted and it is unbelievably fun. I mean you can tell my dad didn't want to
get off of it. So now my turn. I'm going to take it back out and drive it some more. The steering
wheel is nasty. Filthy. Nasty. It's you stick to it every time you touch it. Anyway that is it for
today guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to head on over to shop watchjrgo.com for
cool shirts just like this. And please like share subscribe do whatever you want to do. And I will
talk to you next time. Well there she is. The most fun thing I've bought in forever. And you know no
one's ever worked on one of these before. So it's wild. We did get the wheel back on the bead but
it's not lined up. So now I'm going to have to pull the bolts back out. And the washers are all
in there too. There's washers behind each one of these. And then spin the hub until the tire lines
up which might take a while to get this indexed. You got six chances. Well unfortunately the horn
has started working completely accidentally every time the key turns on. So it's not the horn button.
I just cut all the wiring out of there. This is all the wiring from the horn button. Very very nice.
I don't know what shorted in here but I gotta do a little gotta look around and we'll figure it out.
Maybe this horn button works. I kind of wonder if that's what he hooked up because there was one
wire that still worked. Nope it's not that. This is a terrible thing to have to troubleshoot. It's
so annoying. I feel horrible for my neighbors. So I might just cut the wire that runs up here through
the hood. I didn't have to cut the wire. I pulled the hood off and this is what was left of it. It
was just in there touching something. So I think if we go like this we're gonna be good to go. No
All right we're all clear. She's fixed boys and girls.
I like how this thing slides into place perfectly. I think that new ignition switch
needs rewired because you only ever hear that relay pull in. I think that relay is the master
that turns on all the rest of this power except for the air compressor. Air compressor works as
soon as you're in this mode but you hear that relay pull in and it shuts off the ignition when
the relay comes in. I think that really turns on all of the lighting circuits because none of the
lights ever turn on. So I think we know what's up with the horn now. I just need to replace a little
bit of yellow wire right there and then we'll be ready to rock our air horns and then I'll get the
lights sorted out and we'll put the cover back on here and she's ready to go. I did take some baby
wipes and start cleaning the wheel and it's a hundred times better already. Look before if you
touched it you would stick instantly. So now this the Honda steering wheel is kind of working. There
you go YouTube's first two-wheel parade car project. Did I mention I had to pay double just to get
this thing? Crazy. I think it's worth a lot more now that it runs and drives. I think it's a pretty
easy thousand based on all the messages that guy was getting but I mean this thing is super super
fun. Slap your company branding on this thing and just take it to some parades. I don't know if it
can stay here that long. I really want to go do a parade with it. It would be so cool to rock a
parade but it would have to be around for quite a while. We'll see. A little Watch JR Go Wichita,
Kansas would be cool though. You can see this one also said Don Kirk. I know you guys haven't
seen my wrecked abandoned Grom yet but I've been working on this for a minute. Dad came
over while I had that wheel all apart and then just hopped right on this and left.
But he loves it. Who couldn't love a Grom?
