I love this kind of content. I have been a fan of I Do Cars on youtube for a few years now. He does mostly blown up engines. Seeing how different engines are assembled is fascinating to me. Thanks for sharing. Hope to see more of whatever you decide to do.
I’m really glad I didn’t sell that to someone. I had my suspicions on the condition. It’s actually better than I expected, but still nothing I would have wanted to sell as a “good engine”.
That is a great idea. I could even find a 500$ running car in terrible shape and cut the timing belt partially and get the revs really going. That would be fun carnage to show.
tHanks, that was good. The modern designs are interesting but ......I'm more at peace with older engines. Then again,...if a newer design can go 300,000....maybe it is worth it....maybe.
Very happy to see an upload from you. On the "rebuild"... perhaps that's just what they did... took it apart and rebuilt it... without replacing most of those major wear items... just something that was broken or something. They said it was "rebuilt"... not "refreshed".... lol.
Not sure if you're familiar with DeBoss Garage channel, but they tore down a 5.0 Ford engine and found the same kind of buildup, not sludge, but almost like a varnish. His engine builder attributed it to synthetic oil, along with short trips. Engine never got a chance to get to full operating temperature, and then shut off. And trying to extend the intervals because they were running synthetic oil.
This engine looks like it spent a whole lot of time idling.... Oh, and in terms of manufacturing, lost foam casting is evil. The fumes of the burning foam is highly polluting and a health hazard for the workers. My understanding is its being used less & less because of that.
Very fun video, I enjoyed that, I think the lifters in the 3.6l that makes my Jeep move are even smaller than those… would be interesting to see other makes of 4 cylinders torn down… see the difference in the older Continental block…
