We Got Dem Sloppy, Sour Street Hemi Blues 

and then the pub!

no kidding...a 426 Hemi is like a Boss 429--many internal race parts, few of their wedge descendants have. Big boy bank account material. This is the reason why so many fooled around with wedges.

100% agree. Words of wisdom indeed!

on a high demand, big ticket consumer item...expect there to be some cheatin' involved. We still use the expression "truth from the horse's mouth" because before cars, folks dyed the hair on their horses to get them to look young and sell for more. You had to look at the teeth and gums to spot an old hag ready for the glue factory. Seller mentality has not changed. Caveat emptor--and budget accordingly.

Me n my old boss both swapped high mileage Tdis into older vw. His was bored over. And ultimately burned oil and required 2nd bore over. So the block is basically done. I honed and refreshed my reused internals and I’m still been driving it. Many thousands of miles. Daily. His was a restored mint vehicle and only gets occasionally mileage. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. But if you never try to do it on the cheap (uncle tony style). You never stand a chance of saving money. But be my guest to just throw it away for peace of mind. Not saying the car doesn’t deserve a nice motor. Just sayin. Logic is one thing. How it plays out is another.

@@fastinradfordable respectfully....checking out an engine before blowing it up IS cheap. Its cheaper than laying waste to expensive parts that can be saved if remachined/reassembled the proper way. One of the magazines UT worked at, tested a yellow Boss 351 Mustang after they went up in value, and found a piece of cardboard used as a gasket on the autolite carb. There is a long history of folks flipping cheap--in fact UT has a few videos on what he's seen. so its not paranoid to suspect a Hemi, the king of flips. there is cheap, and there is "penny wise, pound foolish". just sayin'. I've seen cars advertised for "too good to pass up" prices, until i investigated...and found enough wrong to realize it was a complete build and I already had 5 at home. sometimes we focus on today's price and ignore the long term--like the $200 rust bucket that will one day cost more than the $2,000 solid southern dry climate car. that's the cheap that really isn't. just sayin'.

Heard that bullshit on Roadkill when they had the 63 Galaxie. "Motor was rebuilt" as it cranked and never developed oil pressure????

Some guys idea of a rebuild is putting new gaskets in.

@@tonybarracuda3505 The Typical rebuilt engines for sale around here are basically emery cloth used on the crank and rod journals, new bearings, and rings right out of the box and slapped on. New gaskets and it's in the paper as a FULL rebuild. There are of course the guys with that do new gaskets and paint the engine "rebuild".

Back in the early '70's I looked at a '68 440 Road Runner that was for sale. A friend was with me and we had it fired up and idling. I was sitting in the car and depressed the clutch. My friends eyes went wide and he told me to come look at this. We swapped places and when he depressed the clutch, the crank move forward almost .100! Let off, it'd go back. The guy said he'd just spent $2K getting the motor rebuilt. I showed him that the thrust bearing was shot and the engine needs to be torn down to check everything. He was trying to sell the car for $3500.....I offered him $800.... He wasn't happy...

anybody who really knows engines, knows that even "crate engines" slip thru with Monday morning/friday afternoon quality. Or it can just sit long enough on a shelf, Gas Monkey had that with a 472 Cadillac engine. wanna buy an engine for racing? pay for a guarantee. Life isn't free.

Willing to bet it will end better

@@chaddavis7228 no doubt.......

TV is mind-rot. Turn it off.

Luckily we won’t have any twist endings, like the crankshaft decides it suddenly wants to be a cam

Here is another saab owner from northern sweden that likes this channel.

This was a can of freaking Dune shai-hulud sandworms!

@@ScottKenny1978 you nerd. I love this comment. :)

@@TheArcticWonder I wear the title with pride!

@@ScottKenny1978 lol nice. Flesh and c note eaters.

depends on the can, too. A Hemi, a Boss 429--these ain't engines you run thru the local remanufacturer and then spray with nitrous. A lot of race parts, a lot of tolerances, a lot of parts they don't see on Chevy 305 targetmasters very often and don't have the tools to measure.

My thoughts exactly. Seems as thought they milled both the block and heads and were too cheap to buy correct length bolts and studs

Exactly. Because if they just wanted it to sell it because of what it is. They obviously didn't build it to keep it.

Only see a deer video

I just use a $3 Prestone Flush kit and the garden hose on my Mustang with the solid rocket fuel powered rear diff that run's 9's and lifts the front wheels 6 feet off the ground

@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS Sick bro

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electrolysis is great, and there's molasses dip, too. old farmers and blacksmiths had a clue back in their day. but today we have "instant gratification" and folks don't want to wait for either process to work.

Couldn't be worse than anyone else the past 20 years

Uncle Tony will get my vote if that ever happens

I've noticed that the quality and quantity of videos have gone up since the move. Glad they pulled the trigger on this shop

Good thing they found this now, otherwise it would have bit them in the butt!

Yeah.....I really like the old school feel of these episodes. Two dudes just working on an old Mopar. Never mind these things are in value with some Ferraris. This is what it looked like before auctions drove the value of these things to ridiculous prices.

Yup. Many moons ago ('70s) all the guys expressed to me how careful they'd have been while lugging Hemi heads around - but they're the easiest of them all to handle if you ask me. The casting on the intake side for the rocker cover flange provides a perfect grab handle. Easy peasy.

Ha yeah I took my '64 heads to my engine builder for inspection, dropped one of the heads on my foot. Pretty much broke my toe but luckily ok enough to live with. It's why I wanted to run '65 aluminum heads but the ones I have are a total mess and need quite a bit of work. Turns out one of the '64 heads has a water jacket leak I have to fix. And so the engine builder wants to use the nice '69 heads I have. That's a bit disappointing to use on a '64 block but they are about 10lb lighter per head than the '64 heads that had more nickel content. Hemi's are complete misery but the day I get one running will be worth it.

@@mindeloman the good news about all those big prices? now you can restore a 340 mopar--the parts are availible in a catalog. back in the old days, you cut up a solid 383 just to save a rusted Sixer or Hemi

Well, there's also a lack of logbooks here. At least with aircraft you know who to go after when a repair is crap!

I am not saying it was was aliens..........................but it was aliens.

Man them pesky critters get into everything lol

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Defiantly, squirrels brought the nuts to assemble this engine.

@@oldpolak5203 LOL, magic nuts.

He'll definitely be a lot happier with it after they are done than he ever would have been before. Itll be like a new engine

Tony has done tons of G-body work in the past, he knows those cars inside out.

It's actually a 76 that is a A body

@@thman6453 he can fix anything from that era, he used to work on other people's cars all the time.

Rubber hose crypto. Or maybe even a lead pipe.

@@jamesplotkin4674 great one. :)

caveat emptor, baby! can't afford to pay, can't afford to play. Hemis were never, ever known for cheap HP. that's why folks grabbed 2bbl 440's and went to town on those to make the average out of tune Hemi look sick-whether fresh off the showroom floor or off the car show lawn with a trophy in the back and a trailer waiting in the parking lot.

ditto

Haha.. ya that slant sounds absolutely nasty. I cant wait till he runs it down the track

Me neither. I never seen inside an elephant before

Lol, I think a part of me would just check out of this world.

bolts are garbage for so much machining was done was the washers poor cheap idea on builder and still failed sealing head to block. not only that, they bottomed out giving false torque reading of head seal pressure as UT pointed the carbon between cylinders, also leakage would mess with cooling engine performance. glad owner opted the right decision. proof not re-use bolts, torque to yield is gone

@@enduser6982 I don't think so. My thoughts is that this was just thrown back together with a bunch of used parts. If there had been a bunch of machining done the decks wouldn't look like a soap dish and the alignment pin holes for the rockers would not be wallowered out.

@@patrickradcliffe3837 wallowered out is they ran loose, correct engine was tossed together with stretched bolts. in video of engine running, the valvetrain can hear that from UT's old garage.