"IT JUST LOST POWER" Jeep Wrangler JK 3.8L V6 GRENADED With LOW MILES!?! Full Engine Teardown 

YEP 👍!

I hate chrysler / jeep

I mean, it's obvious that the speaker in the restaurant drive-through lane the car was idling in was *far* too loud for him to hear what happened. 🙄

I don't know what you're talking about. These NEVER get turned into pavement princesses. haha

18:03 milwaukee in nutshell

Let's not jump to conclusions! The alternator could have bumped through the block and broken the rod!

I have seen pictures of two cat V8 motors in a Boat. One thew a rod and kicked the starter into the other engine. It cracked the block.

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Shake hands with Danger! Oh wait. Sorry. Shake hand with Danger.

Have you heard ‘the tales of the safety tote’? If not, I highly recommend watching some older videos with belt tensioners in the dismantling process

​@@aaronlarsen4674oh I'm very familiar. RIP that forklift driver.

Ouch

Hand injuries never quite no away. There is always some part that was broken that doesn't point the same way. I had my right forefinger torn in half. The surgeon got it put back together but the joint is locked. Having a stiff finger takes time to adapt to. Cue the jokes of the wife liking that.

Uncle Rodney said "I get no respect. I went to my doctor, Doctor Vinnie Boombatz. I told him I'm working in a Chrysler plant. He says from now on, you pay in advance."

Europe certainly went overhead cam in general well before the US, and the Japanese were in between, timing wise. What every European seems to NOT know is that lead-free fuel and catalysts weren't mandated there until 1992. Only 18 years behind the US. Then they began to get really behind promoting diesels, just for the fuel economy. Talk about nitwit bureaucrats which is how I view Europe -- government by professional simple servants who couldn't care less about reality like NOX. Dolts, in other words. On a trip to the UK in '93, I found the air pollution so bad compared to here, I had a reaction where my eyelids swelled up to the point I could hardly see. Had to go to emerg outpatients. Horrible experience and the stench of vehicle exhaust was even bad on the motorways. In other words, it was no different from the early '70s when I lived in London for a while. Meanwhile, the average dolt here today goes on savage attacks against the EPA and a good 75% weren't even alive when the constant smell of engine exhaust was the norm here as well. So they opine away based on zero experience of what things were once like. Typical nonsense. By the time most were old enough to write, a great deal of the existing pollution and Love Canals were cleaned up, as were cars. What the person never experienced, they grandly assume never happened. No unrestrained belching coal-fired power plants, acid rain turning lakes into fish killers, and general grime on everything and lead dust everywhere where they grew up! So it never happened, that's the mindset. Well, I remember even if the pampered softies of today don't. Get rid of the rules, the EPA sucks, etcetera based on zero clues, knowledge or experience. It was Tricky Dick Nixon, a Republican, who brought in the EPA -- that's how bad thins had gotten -- even coservatives realized it. Jet airliners trailed black smoke on takeoff -- made rolling coal diesel pickup idiots of today look like pikers. It was pretty darn bad before the "70s. Cough, cough. Lead in house paint as an added bonus! Asbestos clutches and brake shoes. Ooo--eee, things were just amazingly good in the old days. Well, folks, no they were not. But hey, why worry about history? Just deny it. Yeah. Your average crackerjack today "knows" pollution control is a waste of money. Sheesh. My last car with pushrods was an Audi 100 I traded in '80 for a new Jetta which had been assembled by a team of gremlins in Wolfsburg -- a complete heap as delivered with only three inches of ground clearance in front. Euro 1100 springs on a 1600 with factory airconditioning. As it eventually turned out from some colored paint dots code on the coils. And nobody noticed! VW claimed they had 25,000 "inspectors", but never mentioned they were hired blind. Until I was presented with this piece of crap at the dealership and it was obvious to me. How many Lotus-wedge stance Jetta Mark 1s had anyone seen with butt in the air? Nope, VW QC, the dealer, nobody ever saw such a Jetta, just me, apparently, the new owner with a deposit on it they wouldn't return.. I'd had to wait several weeks for that deluxe every option Jetta to arrive. German quality, pfft. Zero. Such a turd, had to get rid of it after 18 months -- by then was using Vise-Grips as the gear lever! The original broke off. Oh, I knew the dealer service manager well, same twit named Hans who had serviced my Audi for six years. What a prime defender of Germany he was. It was all my fault, of course, despite all the repairs like replacing the aircon. But I digress. The most interesting early version of this Chrysler V6 engine was in the mid '90s Chrysler 300. 3.5 liters, SOHC and 250 horsepower -- that sucker moved out for its day -- a friend had one. Left his old pristine hobby Porsche 944 in the dust. But like everything else, I'll be surprised if anyone but me remembers that SOHC V6 in the comments for this video.

Look at the difference between a LS1 (2-valve) and a Ford Coyote and the latter seems twice as large (much wider)

Pushrod engines have several advantages

@@HanginInSF Like free chopsticks after rebuild

Here in Europe only surpassed by the 2.0 and 2.4 5-speed versions you did not get in the US. Saw a 2.0 the other day with incredible 580 000 kms, first engine and tranny (but 2 clutches and 1 new head gasket owner stated 🙂)

Blue is union man. Member of the International Machinist Union Local ERIC. Blue gets Healthcare and a pension, lucky tool.

I’d like a copy.

​@@dennisyoung4631harbor freight. I have 2 sets

I thought the same thing, went a whole video without a dipstick tube battle.

I too missed the battle of the dipstick.

I honestly got to the point to where I was expecting him to smack it out after he removed the oil pan

technically speaking its eight fingers and two thumbs

@@SHADOW.GGG- No it isn't.

Remember, impact wrenches are finger operated! Just put that saw under safety tote for the sake of us all.

You forgot the 30,000 mile lower intake gasket! (Belly pan gasket) LOL . I have 3 of these vans and run them hard, I consider the water pumps and belly pan gaskets as the only real engine wear items.

Yeah, Eric, what about the dipstick tube? I kept waiting for the wrestling match.

I thought same thing, Eric danced around it the whole shoot and I was thinking yeah this is going to be epic new gag.... Waited and waited.

alpine audio system is one of the best, it also helps the jeep doesnt have a lot of insulation

ehh the 3.6l is one of the most popular engines on the road, a lot of them have a lot of mileage

There's a legendary Formula Ford engine that raced for many seasons - nicknamed "patch" for obvious reasons. It was actually very successful and had many famous drives e.g. Aryton Senna, Roberto Moreno, Mark Blundell etc.

oh this is easy, the Ford 300 is the better engine. I've seen people TRY to blow them up and the engine flips them off and says "please sir, can I have some more?". Jeep 4.0L is a great engine in its own right, but that head will warp in a quick minute if it gets too hot which is really its only bad spot overall. Then again, I think ANY of the old school Inline 6 engines are great, the 225 Slant 6, 200 and 250 from Chevy, the 300 Ford, 232/258 AMC (which is what the 4.0L is born from). The biggest weakness of any later I6 engine is when they change out that cast iron head for aluminum, it introduces a weak point moreso than the iron heads.

@@MichaelAStanhope yep...

Concur - paranoia (about life in general) is a matter of life experience. You get experience with Age.

As a guy who used to change oil for a living on everything from econoshitboxes to semi trucks....... Modern oil and filter tech is leaps and bounds better than it was in the 80s and 90s even. I wouldn't stray far from the 3k mark on conventional oils, but most stuff now requires at least a synthetic blend. On that, with a good filter, easy 5k. Personally I run a full synthetic high mileage oil, and a long life filter and run 10k change intervals. Have done this for many years now, had engines apart for maintenance and found spotless crankcase and oil systems.

@@t-yoonitI am not sure how many vehicles and engines there are but suffice to say that there are many. There are additionally hundreds of different oils. Oil change interval is NOT one-size-fits-all based on the odometer.

Yup, these has serious issues with the lower rings not seating properly. My Jeep burned a quart every 1000 miles and the dealership said Chrysler said that was acceptable oil consumption for that engine.

@@michiganman4398 sounds like the dealer you went to was just trying to brush you off. I work for a dealer and that much oil burning is beyond spec

I’ve driven cars that 1 quart per 1,000 miles would have been amazing!! My old 2000 Toyota Corolla would burn a quart every tank of gas. That is a quart every 250 miles!

@@SatanKarma1 They showed me a service bulletin from Chrysler that said that. It could have been fake but that was the hill they were willing to die on. Given that per them there was nothing wrong with the vehicle I said ok, I’d like to trade this in for that truck over there. Surprisingly they accepted. The truck had a good price on it and I actually got $1000 more in trade than I paid for the Jeep originally so I got really luckey.

I thought it looked somewhat familiar to a 318.

The JK is just universally a step from the simple tough as nails go anywhere jeep to the mall crawling duck dashing visage of modern jeeps. This engine isnt really that bad, it just happens to be attached to a damn 4 door wrangler.

The 3.9 Dakota is what your talking about, a 318 with two cylinders cut off and has a 90 degree V. The 3.8 is a 60 degree V which first appeared in the intrepid as a 3.3.

If it’s not an engine thing or a transmission thing…..it’s the same ole thing…..dodge/Jeep….

Thx for the info, Recently bought an 01 mini van, wow, I was very impressed 😊

I saw the debris laid out on the table and immediately thought "that's how a skeleton is laid out". Demolished "head", various bits & pieces for the "spine" & a shattered pelvis.

My favorite engine, the leaning tower of barely enough power.

The problem is finding a slant 6 that has blown up.

@@lsswappedcessna I pulled one out of a Hesston 6450 windrower that was so worn out you could have knocked the ring ridge off and put .030" oversize pistons without boring it. It only used about 1-2 quarts of oil per day. did a leak down test, 85% leakdown rate

@@austincjett the Australian Valiant had a slant 6 that was beefed up pretty well.

@@austincjett They where making v8 amounts of power with the power pack in the 60-70s. They had 170hp variant. With some work they are actually really powerful.

I was thinking similar

same reason GM sent the 3800 on it's way. it's a fantastic engine, that i will continue to run until i cant get parts

@@andrewdonohue1853 with the millions of 3800's that were made, the earth should run out of parts around 2285. The engines will however continue to run for at least another millenium past then! The joke we always had as mechanics is that GM retired the 3800 engine because they were too reliable and the service departments were complaining about not making enough money. The engine they "replaced" it with (3.6L) is a bonafide pile of crap and I wouldn't own one if it was given to me free.

07 JK and usually run the 10W-40 synthetic but have ran the 5W-40 Euro when finding it on sale.

@@greggc8088 how many miles do you have on yours? Just crossed 112k on mine.

179K.

Mobil 1 0w40 European oil in an 08 with 185k so far

It is much safer to use a snap knife (Box cutter) to just open out the pleats. Please place distant regard to chop saws and the like, we need you all in one piece. Ted from down under.

He won't lose one, im sure someone will find it.

​@@v4lhulme😂

Small block V8 SO FUN !😊

interesting

Not to say top-tier filters may not extend the life of your engine, there are some good ones and bad ones out there for sure, but I think even the lesser ones do the job if the engine (oil and air filters) are maintained properly. Perhaps the better filters do a better job once a driver passes the recommended oil change interval....but I'm going beyond 645,000 miles on a V6 Toyota Solara using Fram filters. Some say they are just a can with cardboard in it and some of the bypass valves may open prematurely.....but my engine is evidence you can go the distance with them.

i worked 44 years at champion lab making oil filters and so far everyone i seen is made in Albion ill all made on the same assembly line just different specs for each filter

The rockers reminded me of a sl/6.

All that damage on the crank counterbalance and a wrecked wrist pin makes me think that the wrist pin and the counterbalance decide to battle to the death.

I hit a buck a month ago and the damage was surprising given that I slowed down some and he walked away from off the top of my hood. The only thing "broken" was the Chinesium side mirror which are disposable one-year mirrors on my car.