How easy is it to pull a 6.0 LS engine in the junkyard alone? 

A buddy and I pulled 2 5.3 engines in 4hrs at the local pick n pull. We didn’t cut anything, $422 out the door for both. Both were good engines when we got them home and inspected the internals.

JR I was in the service 16 years, and gave, and received lots of training, the standard instructor intro was that to preform this task is a way not the way, meaning this is the way I'm doing it, and it will work sooo when you do it do it so the end result is the same as mine. Drive on Brother, it's your time spend it like you like. Thanks for another great video.

Another great video. I have pulled an engineer e by myself and it's a little work but can be done. I don't do the fenders but I think I might after watching this. I never thought about cutting the frame, nice touch thanks JR

Good work. The junkyard will provide!!!

At one point in my life I plan on putting a 6.0 into something so thanks for the video

Our local yard has 11 5.3 and one 6.0. I held out for a year for my ly6 and im glad I did.

Great video, cutting the frame is the way to go, makes life much easier. With the shape of the front fender I would have probably hackzalled them off, but that is just me. The only additional piece I remove is the front bumper. It is only a couple of bolts and lets you "walk in" to the front of the engine much easier. When you get older, you want to lean less. Again, very informative. Battery powered tools are a game changer.

Great video! Thanks for the Real Deal No Bullshit tutorial ! I plan on hunting down a 6.0 today myself. Your content helps you cut through everything like butter 🧈 You Rock Driveway Engineer!!!

Nice Pull!! Super Mario tune almost spilled my beer, LOL!

Always great stuff tell it like it is it’s all there if you want it keep up the great vids👍👍

Another great video thanks JR👍🏼👍🏼💯

Thanks for the informative video! It has definitely cleared up a few things about pulling these types of engines. Keep up the great work!

I’ve learned a lot from this guy. 👍

I live in New England, I have an old o-6 Chevy with a 4.8, just installed gt45, same heads same bottlemen, with ring Gap 28 top-30 bottom, add 15 lb of boost I make 802

Great job and explanation!

Hell Yeah!!! Putting in some work there!!!!

I totally agree with pulling fenders.

Nicely done!

hell yeah always love the videos !

Thank you for the videos

Thank you for this!

i think you've given me the balls to ls my 57 chevy 4 door convesion good job john

The Terrence Popp reference was excellent. 👍

Very cool Thanks for sharing.

Definitely liking these budget minded videos

I only found out about removing fenders cause I stripped my old truck At the dealership I work at and there wasn’t enough room for the hoist between the truck and toolbox on the lift. I said “off with the wings”! And everything got easier.. kept the hardware and sold the fenders too

Good work man

Outstanding. I haven’t watched it yet, But I was hoping you might record some of this. Thanks for bringing us along.

Great info.

Very impressive, this upload...

Hey JR. Round is a shape.lol. You made a good days pay for a day's work.

Gteat video JR if i were near by i would buy you a 6 pack 👍🏼

6.0L is a beast. Had 362,000 on my last one. Going to convert my Yukon XL to 6. 0L as the iron heads are great.

I just pulled one the same way. I always pull the front clip. My buddy has pulled engines for 40 years and has never done one this way.

$240 for an engine complete!?!? That's like $1200 at LKQ in CA. Good score!

did the same with mine! i found that it was easyer (and faster) to just remove the only one long bolt retaining each engine support under the monting engine support from the cross member!

$240 lol. In Australia that’s well over $5000 from a wrecker…….if you can find one! Awesome vid mate. Thanks.

Wish I had a guy like you locally I could hire to pull at the yard and deliver on back of truck to my place for a fee 👍🏻

Junkyard G.O A.T!!🤗

Videos Very helpful

Every tire is in business for itself, I guess I’ve been there it was funny...

Great video 📹 👍

The moral of the story is there's no wrong way to pull a motor at bone yard as long as your not cutting unnessacery stuff im 6'11 so I got no reach issues as most

I will be doing this soon, I might have to do it by myself so I’m trying to get an idea of what I will run into. My hummer h3 is getting a diesel this year and it’s more than earned it for the 430,000 km she went. The old girl still got lots of life left and needs an engine to match it.

That’s awesome, the junkyards in CT aren’t very user friendly, only a couple sill let you in, and all the stuff gets crushed in a month

Just slew an Envoy yesterday and the frame cutting method would work for anything similar. A couch is a glue trap for the unmotivated. Thanks for the excellent video. Self and bro used it yesterday and will harvest another drivetrain tomorrow. Cutting frames is easy and if you slay a pickup truck you own it's also easy to bring the rails together then weld on a Bulldog hitch mount plate (or whatever) and have a handy trailer. They're easy to sell too and helped pay for many of my projects A cut off bare rear frame is handy for storing truck beds of any make and to hold beds for painting off the truck. BTW the salvage yard I frequent hands out cheap recip blades to their own parts pullers but rations their Diablo blades which are worth every penny. I buy them by the pack for the same reasons I don't by toilet paper by the sheet. 9" is fine for frame rails. We've managed to remove engines using one or two Diablos on a good day. We bring: Cordless impacts large, small and extended. Just bought a DCF 900 DeWalt and if it could f*** and do housework I'd marry it. Recip saw (with spare in the truck we've not needed but interruptions mean someone else might get our target engine. Just bought a DCS389B DeWalt and we leave the Milwaukee in the truck. It slices frame tubing laughing all the way. (Much love for my Milwaukees and it will be great to see their response. Tool wars rock.) Small bolt cutters for control cables etc. 1/2" drive extensions and a bit for the socket head style converter bolts. (3/8" drive extensions wrap up like torsion bars under heavy loads). Serrated knives for hoses. Ginsus from yard sales work well and I use a Cold Steel Talwar which works great. Pry bars long and short.

Jr you missed the small gold mine in that 2 door oldsmobile sitting next too the vehicle you pulled the 6.0 from. those 2 door delta doors are worth pulling

Bro I take the fenders off too when I pull a engine and I also cut the front idk why but always have but damm that’s cheap for a 6 liter I can get them all day long for 150 dollars on Saturdays In Ohio and no I won’t tell where at on here lol but good video for people trying to learn more about this stuff

Thank you.

Check out all them washers on the exhaust manifold stud🤣🤣🤣

Honestly I really enjoy the longer videos, similar to Sloppy rambletrons, I like just watching you be yourself doing a project and explain different random things and what you're working on, as well as your reasoning for various choices. At this point, I trust your mindset, and want to know more of your thoughts of various car stuff. And unrelated question, what's your thoughts on blow off valves for turbo cars? Necessary or not needed or situation dependent?

I will add an I wish for my locale lol. I wish they would sell and be worth my while. Too much availability means giveaway pricing. Otherwise I would be pulling every damn 6 liter I find lol.

"I can only do so much to remove your excuses" -- I swear to god, I try to relay this point to my friends and family who are perplexed at the opportunities I 'come across'. They can't conceptualize the idea that I take calculated risks and put myself into positions to receive blessings because I visualize and then *take action*. They expect things to just come to them, but it's the people who put in the work who increase their chances of receiving said blessings.

Here in Washington state lq4 at a junkyard is 1700$ back home u can get one for 800$ on Craigslist..

I’ve pulled and sold 4 of the 6.0L from wellers and luckys the last 6 weeks and let this one go lol

He'll yeah Jr good day at the yard

I really want to do this but I have never taken out a motor. I wouldn’t even know where to start and I would find myself wondering aimlessly around the junkyard.

looking to put one of these in a 94 ram 2500. which would you recommend along with tranny?

"Wish in one hand and shit in the other. See which one fills up first" Seriously though. A lot of these backwoods places have some cool shit. And for hot-rodding, the LS is about the greatest thing ever. From a dollar to performance perspective, it's impossible to beat the LS based engines. LM7 longblock with harness, fuse box and a junk 4l60 for $350? That's where it's at. So many people buy complete engines and just expect the wrenching to just fall into place. At my local hickville track, people regularly turn 8000+ RPM on junkyard SBE 5.3s.

Great video! I’m absolutely sawing the truck in half on my next pull. Lol

🇺🇸MAN I LOVE THIS! 🇺🇸

Where did you use for attachment points to pull the motor with the seatbelts?

I have 1 of them chevy 2500 non hds, mine is a 01, just FYI. ALL 2500s that are NON HD from 1999 to 2004 have the lq4

Our price here for an engine assembly is 550$ plus 65$ core and that’s with no accessories I’m good after all the work and tax they throw on junkyard parts I’m looking at over 1k and tons of hours. Or I can find a scrap vehicle for less and cut the middle man out I swear I hate my local junkyard

Using the ole Pontiac Montana as work station I see lol

Arent 317 good with turbos though? NVM 706 heads seem to make more power with less boost than an engine with 317s

So what you just buy to sell them? Thanks for the tool list!

What yard was that? I don't think I've ever seen one that had a crane by the entrance. Handy.

Grab that 4L80!

Can anyone tell me which is the nost desirable LS engine people look for?

Might be a dumb question but do you got any tips for inspecting a junkyard LS ? Like what should I look out for in the engine.

Jusy glad there wasnt giant mushrooms bouncin off the cars out there. When the music was goin

It’s a way to know if the engine it’s good on junkyard? I

We got the permanent boot for not asking to cut the frame, jr's tech works though

caint wait for a video on a 1998 chevy blazer

jr why or when do we get them 3800 36pound injectors for trying to learn sir

Do u have any 5.3 or 6.0 ls on hand what’s name do u sell your engines on marketplaces? I’m looking for one for my 84 cutlass

Are the 3800 36lb injectors a direct fit for the 6.0 without modify? And if not, what do I need to do? I’ve searched but I can’t find anything on the subject

Which year make model do you get the injectors from?

Little preachey at the end there buddy

Good morning

You have an unusually high amount of Bravadas in that yard…

vid wont play past 45 secs for some reason not my wifi. just so you know vid was really helpful first time i watched but was coming back for a second watch lol

If the engine is old and tired are you going to do a rebuild?

Why do you cut the frame? Does it help somehow? Just curious to know for when I go.

How did you take it out of your bed. I don’t have a cherry picker. Can you rent them?

I've only been to a yard a couple times and I didn't do much besides buy a part. Is there some basic "Junkyard Etiquette" I should know for You-Pull-It places? For example, its cool for you to do whatever to get the motor out? Like breaking things out rather than disassembling? Do you put the leftover parts and scrap back in the car? Can you bring and use a port-a-torch? Do they nickel and dime you for things that come out with the motor like the harness or accessories or is the price whatever they said it would be? Do you pay a fee for the cherrypicker? Sorry for all the questions. If there is a good video to answer some of this I would appreciate the link.

Im working on pulling a 5.3, do I need to pull the fuse box out of the donor truck? I think I can cut the harness going into the firewall but I do have the drive by wire box and harness out already

Is there a Market for used harnesses?

My buddy just bought a 99' 2500 with one of those odd duck lq4s. its got 200k runs decent for a 20 yr old truck but he's already bitchin about its not fast enough. so he's been pestering me for a pile of ls parts i have laying around i don't need. I just don't know if it make any diff swapping to 317s and intake and injectors off a 06' Lq4 out of a Denali? are those iron heads shit? do you know if later intake help? or are they basically the same. Idk much about those early 6.0s other then the heads are iron and the crank n flex plate are different I even got a 04' zo6 ls6 camshaft he wants to fuck with what do you think?

Hey, Jr just curious do the junkyard where you are I guess they don't mind if you cut frames or parts? I take it they don't say anything about it? not asking to be rude of course I just wasn't sure if they had any set rules or anything there? Great Video as always! Gives people a better Ideas

That early lq4 should be a long crank to

So,what did you sell it for?

Hey man you might have a video on this or have mentioned this, but I was wondering if you have any budget manual transmission recommendations (I'm probably gonna stay NA so it doesn't need to hold 400+ hp). The T56 seems like it's usually pretty pricey. Another option I've seen is the AR5 from the colorado, solstice, etc but it seems questionable if it can hold more than 300 wheel torque.

2:13 yee yee 😂😂

damn Mario brothers too funny

That's all new exhaust pipe. Take all that too. Can always use new stainless pipe. Lmao

Hey JR that process you performed to pull that LS would work just the same on a 2010 Yukon eh? Wanna pull an aluminum 5.3 tomorrow morning and this seems to be the easiest and quickest way to do it.

What's the 6.0 going in. What kind of horsepower are you gonna expect

Where is the junkyard if you don't mind