Garage 54: The only channel that purposely destroys engines, but still changes oil filters and even fills them up with oil every time before installing
"I tried on many unsuccessful occasions to make holes in blocks, but this time it was easy" 😂😂 This is why this is and always will be the greatest automotive channel on RU-vid.
It can be done. My dad did it to his 292 engine in a square body Chevy that threw the #6 rod and although the thing still runs it seeps oil through the weld over time.
@@Cristobal_Ygnacio_Arriaga it sure can, in the shop they will do something called powder welding to fix cracks in the deck by grinding out the crack and filling it back up, but iron needs to be preheated to not get small cracks, im sure thats the only reason it seeped oil. also use an arc welder and the proper rod.
yep, my thought, fix the holes with glue or whatnot, stick in another old piston and off we go, I actually did that on a johnson outboard 9.9HP engine that blew a rod at 12k RPM, the engine worked for another 6 months without any issues, did some boat racing in my time. 9..9 engine to start off, when I worked it over it had at least 20hp, didnt make it to the finish line, duh
@@redneckasmr-xd1gg oh the iron block on the 292 didn’t just had a crack..it was an actual hole like in this video, they somehow managed to patched. We where lucky the hole was right below the sleeve of the cylinder and didn’t damage any oil/coolant passages. But yeah the oil does seeps through over time from the weld of the patched hole.
Done it in a VW Vento and a Volvo 740. The VW was intentional but the Volvo strangely wasn't. The Volvo just started knocking and threw a rod after driving a while, then started and seized a few hundred meters later while revving some.
I love how you guys out the motor back together with so much care and attention to detail just like it was a customers car. I bet you take good care of your patrons. 👍🏼
No experiment is too stupid, unsafe or too much work for Garage 54. That's why they are the best! Who else would do a full engine teardown and rebuild just to blow it up?
The bolted rods needed to be braced on both sides to keep everything straight. With only one brace, the compression and tension are always off-center and kicking things over to the side. One of the bolted rods was practically guaranteed to fail first.
They probably get together at night and get smashed on Vodka. Then at Three in the morning someone calls Vlad, I just had a good dream, Lets weld con rods together and bolt some. I think this is how dreams become videos, and it works! LOL
@@fryloc359 I'd love to, but I don't have much contact with him. I'm constantly in touch with, hm, I guess you can call him the manager, who does all the behind the scenes work and rarely pops up in the videos.
ENGINE: "ya I am so thankful that you are repairing me" VLAD: " So we are going to take this grinder here and cut all the connecting rods, bolt some together and weld the others" ENGINE: Blaaaaaaaaat
Man, that cam girdle and the size of those rods! No wonder these engines are indestructible! The parasitic loss of that engine would be terrible but it would go forever!
BMI RUSSIA, please talk to Vlad about doing a collaboration with an American car channel sometime. Doesn't necessarily need to be the same type of content, just another car channel in general. I think it would be a big success in many ways. I would even like to see him do something with Anni and Lauri of Hydraulic Press Channel and Beyond the Press possibly.
My father had a Moskvitsh. The engine blew up and people in the car next to him laughed at him. He saw pieces flying and stopped on the side of the road. Hole in the engine, but he decided to start it again anyways and it started, he could drive it. The car who passed my father were at the next lights and they were really surprised to see him. Tough cars.
You missed the part when it threw a rod or something such when calling it tough 😆 My VW Vento did the same when I tortured it, threw a rod but started & drove still. ps. torilla ei tavata
I only found this channel 3 weeks ago and it's become one of my favorites already! Awesome content guys! Here's an idea if you guys haven't done it yet. Got blinker fluid? Can you make a blinker that works from a liquid?
Well what do you expect when you rev the pants off that there engine with those there con rods, but was surprised it still drove you home. Still a hell of a starter though, DAMN!
Back in the day that no spare parts were available my uncle needed a rod for a KX125 but could only found one that fit the piston and another that fit his crank. They were also different lengths. He had a local machine shop that is known for being the welding experts cut them in half, space them correctly and weld them. It ran forever! Welds are superior any time something doesn't require disassembly.
Great basic real Edutainment here. just the job for the Apprentices and older Masters alike! Thanks to the team for making the efforts so we my learn. Cheers.
I gotta say I love this channel slot of this stuff reminds me of stuff like me and my brother used to do. He died in 2013. We used to do crazy stuff and we're together all the time to the point my wife and his girlfriend were jealous. I'm glad we were close and got the time we did though. But yeah the stuff you guys do remind me of things we used to do in the shop and such keep up the excellent videos
What happened - the thin metal plate holding the conrod together snapped. Then we have an engine spinning fast with the bottom part of the conrod smashing into the loose piston and conrod very fast. Especially with holes drilled out of it the conrod was ground into fragments. The bottom part of the conrod managed to break loose from the cylinder now allowing it to fling outwards with centrifugal force becoming a flailing mace, thus smashing against anything it could reach. This is why the breaks are all along the path it would take. Welds are stronger than bolts. Whilst this wasn't a fair test - the thin metal plates are very weak in comparison to conrods, bolts are rarely going to beat welds. The bolts drill out large portions of the metal severely weakening it, and carry the strength across a small thin portion of metal. Being separate bolts (as opposed to a single large one) they can break individually making them weaker than the sum of their parts. The welds take nothing out of the material and keep the strength, whilst adding an amount of fairly strong metal. Welds are continuous so the individual pieces can't break and it spreads the load better. Of course there are always exceptions, but in the majority of cases a good weld which is properly done will be better than bolts. To improve the test one would want to use a similar method for both welds and bolts. Ie as a separate piece of metal must be used for bolts, the weld should also use a separate piece of metal to bridge the gap. Ideally it would not be so weak - it needs to take just as much load as the thick heavy conrod is taking itself.
I think garage 54 falls more into the artistic realm of auto repair like how they find bugs embedded in famous oil paintings all the time lol i love seeing diffrent theories being tested i feel like the valuable info in this show is worth its weight in gold 👍
Subaru: "I know I just had gaskets done all the way round but my head gasket is scratched a little; I'm going to die on the highway 1250 miles from your destination and not start up again." Lauda: "[Piece of block defects to the snow and engine loses all fluids] Is okay; We can make it home. Do we need to grab anything on the way?"
Looks like same failure that my '99 Camry (5SFE) had and everything. at almost 300k miles, I hotrodded it a bit too long (Even on new oil) and cylinder number 4 spun and eventually let go, even after we attempted new rod bearings and new oil. Took out the block, pan, yet still ran and drove for quite a while. After we let it cool down it even drove 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) to my house on 3 cylinders and no oil. It eventually got hot and seized, yet when cooled down, even starts still, but won't run much because compression was practically dead at that point. I still feel bad, that car was the toughest car I've ever owned, and the most trouble-free. It was so good to me that it deserves/is getting another motor. Edit: I can probably upload some of the videos if people really want to see the failures and startups.
Those were the equivalent to a k-car back in the day here. My father had a rod knocking in his plymouth acclaim for months until one day it just let go and blew oil and a piece of the engine block all over the street and then continued to drive it not letting it idle of try to stall just to make it another mile down the road to work so he didn't have to get a tow truck and be late. Everyone was amazed when he flew into the parking lot with smoke, sounds of metal just banging and clanking away and it just died a few feet from the door.
I once saw a Slant 6 in a 77 Aspen wagon... #5 and 6 had exited the block. Dude fished out the big pieces, covered the hole, tweaked the carb and timing, and made two more trips back n forth to work with his "Slant 4"!!!🤣
Welding all 4 with 4 different welding processes and put it back on the road and see which one last the longest ,,, that would have been a really educational experiment ,,, we knew the bolted one will give up ,, in any case great insight at design and materials strength conceptual basis ,, with a humorous line !!!
Remember: Welds don't "break" they "fail" so if your weld doesn't do the job, just weld it again! Unlike bolting pieces together; welds don't require additional structural materials to be sacrificed to support the bond so even a mediocre weld can outperform bolts as long as the fundamental elements of the weld are correct 😄❤👍 Bolts certainly have their own strengths to be fair, but as a welder by trade I'm biased. But hey at least I'm honest about it 😅
I want to buy the shop next to this guy! Life would be complete at that point. I have driven saturns on 3 cylinders with holes in the block and oil pan like this before.
That would be REALLY time consuming with having to strip and rebuild an engine each time they needed to grind another couple millimetres off the rods, but I think it would be pretty bloody interesting to watch.
Idk if I should be annoying in requesting different piston sizes for a video. But I’m requesting you make a video with 4 different piston/cylinder sizes. Will the car rock itself apart? And you might be able to achieve this by boring some cylinders out and maybe resleeving another cylinder to add thickness. Bigger rings, smaller pistons. Vice versa. I just would like to see if it could run, and if so, can you smoke some rubber on a truely frankenstien engine? Cheers.
This one should be hard to drive: independent brakes - 4 master cylinders connected to a joystick in an X layout with pushrords to the master cylinders, which are separately connected each to a respective wheel. Drive, and use the joystick to activate each brake independently to steer. Or use 4 brake pedals? Also, hook up the throttle to the steering wheel.
That was awesome! Seeing it still kinda ran it should be thrown back together, taken outside and started with the throttle bricked... Let it run till it stops or it scatters more bits
I recently got another engine experiment idea: try putting some Cerama Bryte brand cleaner for glass and ceramic cooktops into it. The substance isn't supposed to scratch delicate surfaces when used as intended. However, I think we can agree that putting it inside a motor with parts moving at very high speeds and oil that it can potentially interact with chemically is far from its intended use. It could be fun to observe the results.
The man ls got balls for leaning in that motor while cranking. I wouldnt wanna be near it when it kicks a rod 🤟 Also Ive never doubted that the bolted rods would give first. Its a no brainer I think. The entire force is on a small part of the metal holding the rod together. Especially if youre wrong by half a mm. That alone would be enough the fatigue the metal since it would be streched or compressed the whole time.
Someone underestimated the power of a good weld. Depending on several factors, but usually welds are much stronger than the parent metal. Drilling holes and sticking Bolts through them, just makes the structure weaker.
@@glenncaughey5044 replace them in time and you are good. But i get the point. In a VW you are better off with a belt. They make shitty timing chain systems
I suppose you could even resume the test with blocking the holes in the engine and running it on 3 cylinders. You told us these engines were tough! Now would be the best time to prove it! I believe you could even resume on one working cylinder, if you just block the other paths.
The look on that guys face peering over the steering wheel was hilarious. Like dang I just bet 20 rupees that it wouldn't start. Lol I live in Canada so I have no clue what Russian money is worth lol
