250k Mile Engine Rebuild At Home! With No Machine Work For Cheap! 

This may be one of the healthiest and well connected families I’ve ever seen! Props to Mom and Dad.

Y'all are blessed to have a neighbor like BIG MIKE he is the best friendly kind of people that you can get as a neighbor

I wanted to say thank you for the vacation. I felt like I was on vacation with you all. We watch your videos every weekend. You do have a blessed family.

Mr and Mrs sleeperdude, y'all should write a parenting book. Getting kids to do what your kids do in this day and age is nothing short of a miracle. Or maybe they're just great kids.

As a mechanic I have built maybe a hundred engines, you have done it just the way I would have! Great job and yet another great video. Thanks guys, Ya'll awesome!

I have never posted a comment on anything, but I had to. Now. I love your channel and I love this family. Wow it just makes me happy. Bless you and continued success. You guys are terrific.

I think you got the best FAMILY show on UTUBE. The Country needs more examples like you guys. Just beutyfful.

To clean the rain grooves you cut one of the rings 1/2 with an angle cut so that it works like a chisel the same size as the ring

Honestly, I have forgotten more about the "old school" knee deep rebuilding of engines than I can think of from back in the day of spending time out in the garage with my grandpa as a kid of 5-6 years old and on. This channel brings back so many memories of good ole times.

"rebuild at home? Maybe with the kids?" Whoohoo! On a budget

every time u guys say shirley i think of my mom and make me smile keep up the great work

The secret to ring groove cleaning (at least in the compresson grooves) is to take an old ring and break it in half, then use the sharp edge to scrape out the carbon in the groove. Works VERY well!

Impossible not to smile and feel genuine happiness watching you and the family in all your adventures! Thanks for posting another awesome video!

All the babies are completely adorable. 🩵

Sanity in an insane world. God bless

DIY head planer Good quality 2X4 piece of plywood, 3/4 works great you want a flat surface. Cover the surface with fine sandpaper gluing the piece's down then just run the head back and forth till you have a even surface. Works very well for small imperfections.

Growing up my dad, uncle and grandpa were always overhauling an engine out of something and by the time I had finished high school I had overhauled many on my own. I'm 71 now and I love watching y'all doing something like this!👍👏😁

Josh, you are a very lucky man to have such a great family who are not afraid to get their hand dirty and help you on all your projects. Bill

Well, another great family show. I know nothing about cars and such, but I found our visit excited and I just might remember something you all were trying to teach us. Here is hoping you all will have a safe and enjoyable trip in this old beast with a new motor.

Time to unwind and boom the greatest family on RU-vid,has notified me of a new gem

Man that was nice that you had the whole family working on the engine. I am sorry to hear that your son was sick. But I am glad to see him feeling better now. All of you did a nice job on the engine. Good video buddy thanks you for sharing it.

Josh and wa wa killed the lower end. Ralphie and Josh nailed the heads.

Josh, you’ve become so entertaining on RU-vid. Started out a little dryer, and more serious, but now……..best personality on RU-vid!

Great video ! Reminded me of the last engine job I did with my Dad before he passed away in 1990. We rebuilt the 232 straight six engine in our 1966 Jeep J - 2000 , Dad was the instructor and I was the student. We found that three of the pistons had broken rings. Fortunately they did not mess up the bore and we were able to hone them out, but we did have to buy three new pistons due to the ring grooves being stretched out. I believe we did that rebuild in 1984 and that engine still runs fine today ( I actually ran the truck today ). It does not see much road use anymore as I keep it for winter snow plowing. Those old six's were rated at 145 horsepower - not bad compared to my 1980's era Ford 302's that are rated at only 150 horsepower and 270 foot pounds of torque. Thanks for the video and hope Ralphie feels better.

The you and the family cleaned up and rebuilt the engine for the Minnie Winnie was amazing. I just love how the whole family gets into it.

Thank you SO MUCH for being a sponsor of Puddin's truck resurrection/giveaway! So good to see what is happening in both of your builds!!!

Wa Wa is so proud and happy to be working with her Daddy. Cool

Love your channel and i LOVE how the whole family is involved

@Sleerper, you asked how to clean the piston ring grooves in the video. Unkle Tony's Garage suggests breaking a piston ring and using it's sharp edge to scrape the carbon buildup off. I haven't tried this, but I will. The ring itself is the perfect size and shape to clear the debris. Thanks for making this video. You know a ton of tricks and make a great build with the family. I like how you got your kids engaged .

i love that your teaching your kids this stuff i was born in 62 when we were kids everybody was building their own cars most kids today cant even change a tire 20 years from now i see your girls fixing the car while their hubby stays in the house playing video games and ralphie is going to be that guy that can squeeze in a next day valve job not 6 months out

Dear Sleeperdude family. 😁😁😁 Only 2.33 min in and I already had to grin from ear to ear. Dad Sleeperdude is explaining all the technical stuff and WaWa finds all this waffling so extremely interesting that she is yawning (but of course tries to hide it a bit). I absolutely love it. What a sweet family you are. Now let's watch the video...

The secret to cleaning piston ring lands is to put them in the ultrasonic cleaner. They will look like brand new when they come out.

I love how ya'll work as a family!

Ralphie you better step it up, wawa is getting in there and getting after it!! Once that lefty Lucy righty tighty sunk in she’s been on it! And squeeze well she just does her on thang! Love it! Great family, y’all teaching this work ethic to these kids is going to be priceless!

Omg! Wawa is awesome! I love that she’s involved in your builds. She reminds me of myself at her age but my dad wasn’t so fun in the garage. It was all about getting the work done and not teaching. I still learned along the way. We enjoy all your videos, but Wawa shined on this one. Good job, girl!

I’ll be honest…I just want to come hang out with you guys for a day and help. This is awesome and something I’m wanting to get into. Great job and thanks for the great video.

ABSOLUTELY-----> OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

Surely, that was a fun, entertaining and educational video. What an amazing talented family. Seem like no task is too big for the fam. Thank you all!

I am also a retired mechanic and I wouldn't have done anything different. Good job guys and good luck with the rest of the build. Until the next time. Good luck. Love you're videos.

Amazing to see kids. Spending time with their hands on something other than a phone. You are doing a great job. Also did a great job on the motor.

love the videos . Love your family . Nice to see a lovely family that does things together . The animals are great . My Mom bought a 1978 Zephyr sw , dark green . It was ordered from the factory , only options radio and heated rear window. It was a 2.3 with a 4 speed . I drove it for a while after they got a new car . They drove it 10 years , no rust , always dependable. God Bless you all. More videos please . thanks

You are making me a Mopar fan! So many features that these motors had. Love the master class on engine rebuilding! Pay attention kids! Your family is epic!! ❤

I finished watching y'all while they were unloading stop one. It was absolutely incredible how WaWa deeply involved and I like the saddle you're cowgirl cleaning up and painting and was happy seeing Ralph feeling better. Y'all are the new Brady Bunch on RU-vid. Thank y'all.

It’s great to see how interested your kids are and how they work so well together and what a great job they all do. Especially WaWa, you need to put her in a Jr dragster. She’d love it and you’ll be crew chief and Ralphie and Squizy pit crew. And your lovely wife will film it all. People will love it. And you all will have such a great time. I love what you do, and wish you wonderful success. God Bless you Sleeper Family. Keep up the great content. Oh, and they make a ring groove cleaning tool.

Cleaning ring groves, we used to take an old ring and break it in half and use it to clean the groove out.

Love the video and I love to see a family working together. This is awesome keep up the good work can't wait for the next video

This one feels like a masterclass on engine rebuilding. Tearing this one down and doing all the work on it, there's no way not to learn something. One of the best learning opportunities in this one is how to be the best dad and not go off on your daughter when she swings the hammer too early and almost creates a situation. Dad's restraint and keeping himself together in that one second is priceless. Granted, no one knows if there might have been some editing involved after that second, but keeping it together in that second is everything. Huge dad points on that one, for sure! This old Minnie Winnie is getting closer to that road trip and the incredible footage that will follow. Hopefully it continues to go well and this engine is fit back into that van by now. Seeing the floors being put back in is the vid that's been worth waiting for. Looking forward to that happening soon!!

Been watching all your alls videos on the RV's from start to finish! I love the RV stuff!

Good job moving that finger 😎

Awesome! New video! So cool to see the whole family working together and cleaning and rebuilding an engine goes much faster and more fun when the whole family is involved!! Wow getting a saddle at the junk yard that's in good condition or still usable is amazing!! So glad to see you guys aren't Helicopter Parents at all! That chained up Saddle is Great and kids will love it! Squeezy knew what she was doing!

Oh! I forgot to wish Ralphie to get better soon! He wasn’t himself so he must not feel well, for sure! I love that Squeazie marches to her own drum. I get her. Tosh has the best laugh and puts up with allot! And Josh, we appreciate your patience and support for your family in teaching them and us in what you do. Fun stuff!

nice job sleeperdude

Some really good shadetree engine rebuilding 101 in this episode 👍

You are the man my wife and I love y'all's video's keep it up brother

You know that you really enjoy the content of someone’s channel when you happily wait for the next video. Keep up the awesome work sleeperdude family. You all make the best content

Good Teacher Follow Along Folks Who Never Understood How Engines Are Made Can Learn! Good Job!

Great parenting skills! Nice to see some kids are enjoying life instead of social media or RU-vid!!👍👍👍

I tell you what, mate. After watching this video, I don't feel daunted about tearing into an engine again. Last one I did was 30 years ago and when I was faced with doing work on one of mine recently, I chickened out, letting a mate of mine do it all for me. Body work, welding, panelbeating - no problem, but an engine? Nope. After seeing this (and remembering back to what I'd done many years ago), I almost find myself looking forward to tearing down and rebuilding the engine on a project car I'll be taking on in a couple of months. The engine is an unknown that "ran wen parked" and I was tossing up about just dropping it in and seeing how it went.....when really what I WANTED to do is pull it down and check it first....so I'm gonna have a go! I completely agree with you about auto transmissions though. Even my Dad with 30 years of building performance engines for family and race vehicles would not touch one. Manual gearboxes - yep, no problem, but autos, nope. He described their internals as witchcraft and couldn't get his head around how they do what they do.....and having seen the auto box on one of my vehicles in pieces on the workbench of the rebuild shop, I completely agree with him. Even though the bloke talked me through how it worked, with the solenoids, pressure through certain passages doing one thing and valves doing others, it still seemed like witchcraft to me! Looking forward to hearing this baby fire up when she's in place and everything is hooked up. I bet all three of your young 'uns will get a huge kick in their confidence when she fires too, considering they've all had a hand in rebuilding the beast. That old camper won't know itself when she gets back on the road! All the best

Love your channel Josh. Love that it’s all about your family. Also love that you got your interest in cars and learned from your dad. I too am a auto tech by trade and learned so much from my dad. He recently passed a month ago at the young age of 65. Your content has helped me take my mind off him from time to time. Keep up the good work!

Awesome family. These children will be successful in there life.

This video took me a few days to watch it all I kept falling asleep had a super busy couple weeks but I am glad to see the engine put back together cant wait to see it painted up its going to look awesome

Comment for the algorithm: Thank you all for more wonderful content!

I feel blessed every time a new Sleeperdude video comes out. I love you guys! Keep up the great work. That RV will be really nice for your trip this summer. Can't wait to see the adventure!

This was great to see the whole family taking part in the process. It's always fun and interesting to learn some new things about the engines. The oil pressure and compression should both be higher. I've seen a lot of bearings in my life and none that looked like those. I'm anxious to hear it fire up.

So cool to watch this process. I learned alot! Also........the right butt check scene had me laughing so much. Josh's face was priceless

Won't say everything you did and how you did it, is the same way I would, BUT,,... For the most part, you have basically made a complete how to, to rebuild or rather refurbish an engine. I think you will get good use out of it for your RV. Thanks so much for all you do and share, and I'll give you Dad of the year award for including your family like you do!

AHA! I caught this one right away!! Too bad I can't watch now, doggone it! I'm SWAMPED with body & paint jobs! Whew! A lot for an 87 year old guy!! Looking fwd to watching tonight! Well, I just finished watching this video (I did a work a while, watch a while) I'm so glad you did this rebuild; it'll get y'all all the way here to Wyomin' no problem to visit us! Lots of ❤ to all of you! From Candy and me here at Thrif-T body & paint in the land of wheat here.

All of you should be super proud of the work you guys got to accomplish! Great job, great video! It was awesome to get to see Mike again!!! I can’t wait to hear it run! Thank y’all!!

I love watching your family working on the cars and working together to get it done. Another awesome video here. I am looking forward to seeing you getting the RV completed, as I am sure you are looking forward to being done with it. Have a very blessed week.

Thanks for sponsoring Puddin's giveaway truck!

Sleeperdudes translation of his wife’s words cracks me up

Wow..those cam bearings were completely shot...never seen any that bad before. You all did an amazing job on this engine... it will be good for another at least 300k ....Hope Ralphie feels better soon!

Great show guys, I love the way you're hole family get involved and learn more about repairing those old cars and engines, keep up the good work, an Irish fan

Happy to watch another good video I bought a 05 explorer to fix up for my 14 year old daughter to drive hart warming to see the entire family working on a project keep up the good work

Amazed how knowledgeable you are Josh Best channel on RU-vid

Absolutely amazing work Josh we appreciate these videos and I know it's not as easy as it looks it's actually a lot of hard work,wish you all the best can't wait to hear it fire up!

Knock them out and put the new ones in the freezer. You can do it Josh. Your viewers believe in you.

Great family fun. I learned stuff, AND I'm thirsty for RC cola now.

Wholesome family vibes! WORD!

Great job everyone!! Love how you work together!!!

Great video! 👍 I always used to snap off a section of piston ring and use that to clean the carbon out of the piston grooves - worked a treat

Down the road a few years Wawa is going to make some lucky young man a really fine mechanic.

You're so lucky to have a family

We need a Google translate Tash to English 😂😂

Great video guys. Absolutely love how everyone in the family has a part in every video. I did learn a lot. Hope one day our families can meet!!

I'm grateful that my multi-select sprayer has words on each setting. 😍

That's some productive family time!

Love yall show I started watch cause I have an old MGB 1974 convertible sitting in my yard . It hasn't been started in about 25 years or more it was grandpas his eyes got bad and he couldn't ..your animals and family are fun I started watching this on facebook

Hey i gotta share a little story with you about your motor home project. I totally appreciate all the different cars you work on. I'm restoring and daily driving a 1984 Nissan/Datsun pickup with an SD25 diesel engine. Its nice for northern Canada, no rust. 5 speed, extended cab, bucket seats, power steeping. BUT, some parts are hard to find. There is a 1" heater hose connecting the head to the side of the block. Mine popped a leak. It's pre-formed into more than a 90 degree bend, in only 6" of length. Impossible to get one anywhere. I bought bulk 1" heater hose but without a pre-formed bend, it just pinches shut. So i tried putting a copper plumbing elbow at the bend (1" OD) and I even heated it up to make more than 90 degree bend. For some reason the clamps didn't hold, it leaked. So I'm watching you take the 360 out of your motor home, and I see the hose from the water pump to the front of the intake manifold...yep I go get a hose for a 1973 Dodge 360 intake and after trimming an inch off one end it fits perfectly on the Datsun diesel. So thanks for solving my problem !

Good job no nonsense really nice getting the whole family involved, after watching this I think your eldest daughter should rebuild her VW engine by herself maybe a litter help from her proud dad 👍👍👍👍👍

Thank You I’ve been around and repairing cars and trucks all my life and never seen the shoe string trick before. I’m 69 and my father was a machinist and mechanic uncles RC Cola is our favorite

Vennia can really boogie for a growing pig! Love that little pig!

Lovely family . Living out in the country and repairing Mopars …

Tosh, Did you receive the pumpkin seeds that I sent your way? I remember last year you were talking up the pumpkins. I found some more seeds in my collection that are a warty pumpkin variety and I can send you some of those as well. We love the show and all of the baby goats. My little girl goats are 2 years old now and fun as ever! Shawnty and Cheyene are always in trouble with my angora goat Purity! We continue to spread the word about your show and family!!!

That screaming goat, gets me all the time

Your kids know more about engines than me, but still enjoy watching. Take care x.

It's great josh that you teach wawa, and Ralphie how to rebuild the engine and their interested in it all.

Your show, family and your four legged family are awesome. I'm glad you play theme song😂👏gets my head an feet rocking. Say heh to rocky and granny👍🙏

Thier is a tool to clean ring grooves but a old tip is use a piece of the old ring . Use a 55 gallon drum and block it up for a hot tank.

Watching you and the fam makes me happy. I was born 50 years too early sometimes I think and fifty years too late other times. 59 years ago when I was working on old iron Chevy small blocks and a British 4 banger all we had were books. You make me believe I could do this. Thank you. Back then there was too much learning on the job, shop manuals, and no real mentor, so it just did not work out that great at times. I built a very smoky four cylinder and a 327 with 202 heads, crane comp cam, new lifters and valve springs and push rods that lasted about a year before she blew. (I was a little hard on her though). It was so much fun but so stressful. Thanks for making feel like I need a shop again.