Indeed. He even went so far as to pull the very same fan that he could have used to turn the engine over.
Nonetheless, what I like about the 'will it run' video is that it seemed an unscripted honest dialog by a mechanic who on more then one occasion admitted he was unfamiliar with these old engines.
He's definitely unfamiliar with breaker points - and while he did use a VOM to verify that the coil was getting juice - he did not verify a path to ground or that the points were breaking the path.
So he suspects the coil and proceeds to swap it out . . . But the old school teaches us that the coil isn't guilty until the condenser is found innocent . . .
The tear down video is the same. He seems to just explore about while twisting on bolts - no shop manual to be found. For example, he puzzles over the oil pump - can't fathom how it is supposed to come out. The shop manual would have told him that the hard line has to come out first . . .
I found it entertaining to watch over coffee.
Hopefully the shop manual will be present when the rebuild commences.
Staying tuned.
