And i think you are 100% correct….just push it in a canal and make EVERYONE ELSE pay for it, by causing THEIR insurance rates to go up……there are no victimless crimes.
I’m sure the circa £36k pay out they would have got would more than cover any insurance rise! But yes, like you said, it wouldn’t have been without some consequence…
Very brave. That looks like a very bent connecting rod and a smashed piston. No doubt caused by a faulty crank case ventilation valve and the previous owner not checking the oil. You’ll make it good again, I’m sure. Good luck.
Cheers mate, me too haha! There's a lot going on but she's pretty well stripped down now. Some good news and some bad news to follow in the next video...
Hi Alex, more great content 🙂 Don't forget to replace the PCV valves (part of the spaghetti of plastic pipes on top of the engine) - a common cause of 'stealth' oil starvation on AM V12s and possibly the cause of this failure. Good luck with the engine strip down. Andrew
Great advice, thanks Andrew! I'll be looking to swap them out and I did find some oil in the intake manifolds so it's likely they were beginning to fail/had failed.
Hey Alex. Great to see you’re doing good. Well done on the engine removal and the start in the cylinder head. It’ll soon be in the road again I’m sure 🤗👍
Great work Alex. Looking forward to cracking my engine open soon as well but mine should not be as bad as yours! lol. I am out of town for Thanksgiving this week so very jealous that you are making such great progress. Can’t wait to get home and get wrenching.
I heard there is an oil starvation issue in the engine block gallerys on some if these V12s. Some owners in the States were trying to get a class action started against AML
The only oil starvation issue is running the engine low on oil. If the crank case ventilation valve is faulty (very common) and you don’t keep an eye on the oil level you have an imminent problem.
Well done Alex take my hat off to you not an easy job on your own, I was very pleased with my self on my first engine in/out job, had a Subaru at the time and my new second hand engine arrived on a pallet at 12:15 by 3:00 I was driving up the motorway 😊
Thanks for the clear video instructions. Do you put all the nuts and bolts in different zip lock bags with labels from where they are from so they dont get mixed up?
Sort of, yeah - I bought off Amazon a pack of 50 plastic tupperware boxes and lids. I've been putting bolts across all 50 labelled up where they came from! They shouldn't get mixed up now and for instance when there's a couple bolts that have a different size, I'm just making a note by photographing where they screw into.
Thanks for that... what a job it must be, perhaps on one of the videos you can show us the boxes all lined up so we can see how much work it takes to keep them all in order for when they all go back together... @@itsalexbaldwin
It's probably too late but.... I would have put a coloured marker on each hose and the fitting it came off just to ensure that you put them back together in the right spots.... Especially where two seemingly identical hoses fit close together! These are the easiest mistakes to make!
Yeah a marker would have been a good idea - I just take various photos and notes on my phone saying something like "shorter hose with kink to right hand side, longer to left". Hopefully it'll be okay but I've also got the raw video footage to watch back at normal speed if needed!
Haha thank you man! Honestly, it's such a ballache only made worse by the rusted bolts/screws. Dare I say it wouldn't be so bad if all bolts/screws were easily removable! With the oil starvation to the rearmost cylinders, sounds like it's better to have too much oil than not enough haha - and frequently check the level!
@@itsalexbaldwin The early V12engines suffered with oil starvation on the rear cylinders, normally number 12. They shorten the dipstick too try and correct the problem. Once Cologne start to build the engines it seamed to cure the problem. Have a look at the part number on your dipstick.
@@craigwilliams4072 ah right yes, I’m with you. Funnily enough I talk about this in the next episode that I’ve already been filming for a couple of days - I think oil starvation is exactly what happened! Dipstick number is: 4g4e-6750-ac
@@itsalexbaldwin It looks like the right number but may have been fitted after the problem had been identified. The Cologne built engines start at 10000.
The Cologne built engines are from around Sept 2005 onwards, looks like this DB9 is 2006-2007 so it will defo be a Cologne built engine. Cosworth built engines will have an engine number AM04/0....., AMEP built engine AM04/1....... Most older V12 engines had the dipstick replaced years ago to a shorter one, and all V12's are suspectable to oil starvation if the PCV's fail, oil then gets sucked through to the air filters, together with owner not checking the engine oil.
And i think you are 100% correct….just push it in a canal and make EVERYONE ELSE pay for it, by causing THEIR insurance rates to go up……there are no victimless crimes.
I’m sure the circa £36k pay out they would have got would more than cover any insurance rise! But yes, like you said, it wouldn’t have been without some consequence…
Very brave. That looks like a very bent connecting rod and a smashed piston. No doubt caused by a faulty crank case ventilation valve and the previous owner not checking the oil. You’ll make it good again, I’m sure. Good luck.
What a nerve wrecking job. Hope you’ll be able to get it back together!! There’s a hell of a lot going on there with all of those 12 cylinders
Cheers mate, me too haha! There's a lot going on but she's pretty well stripped down now. Some good news and some bad news to follow in the next video...
Hi Alex, more great content 🙂 Don't forget to replace the PCV valves (part of the spaghetti of plastic pipes on top of the engine) - a common cause of 'stealth' oil starvation on AM V12s and possibly the cause of this failure. Good luck with the engine strip down. Andrew
Great advice, thanks Andrew! I'll be looking to swap them out and I did find some oil in the intake manifolds so it's likely they were beginning to fail/had failed.
Hey Alex. Great to see you’re doing good. Well done on the engine removal and the start in the cylinder head. It’ll soon be in the road again I’m sure 🤗👍
Cheers Roger - I'm aiming for before Christmas but we'll see. Tick tock!
Great work Alex. Looking forward to cracking my engine open soon as well but mine should not be as bad as yours! lol. I am out of town for Thanksgiving this week so very jealous that you are making such great progress. Can’t wait to get home and get wrenching.
Cheers Gary - honestly after yesterday stripping it down, it would be extremely hard for yours to be any worse! Haha.
I heard there is an oil starvation issue in the engine block gallerys on some if these V12s.
Some owners in the States were trying to get a class action started against AML
The only oil starvation issue is running the engine low on oil. If the crank case ventilation valve is faulty (very common) and you don’t keep an eye on the oil level you have an imminent problem.
Well done Alex take my hat off to you not an easy job on your own, I was very pleased with my self on my first engine in/out job, had a Subaru at the time and my new second hand engine arrived on a pallet at 12:15 by 3:00 I was driving up the motorway 😊
Haha wow! I take my hat off to you in turn! I’ll be happy if from the point of engine going in, I get the car roadworthy in a week 😂
Thanks bud, I’m sure your be fine mate, can’t wait to watch the rest of the build 💯👌
Thanks for the clear video instructions. Do you put all the nuts and bolts in different zip lock bags with labels from where they are from so they dont get mixed up?
Sort of, yeah - I bought off Amazon a pack of 50 plastic tupperware boxes and lids. I've been putting bolts across all 50 labelled up where they came from! They shouldn't get mixed up now and for instance when there's a couple bolts that have a different size, I'm just making a note by photographing where they screw into.
Thanks for that... what a job it must be, perhaps on one of the videos you can show us the boxes all lined up so we can see how much work it takes to keep them all in order for when they all go back together... @@itsalexbaldwin
well done for getting into this, that missing piston could well mean a new engine block is needed. hope not and good luck.
You're on to something with this comment!
It's probably too late but.... I would have put a coloured marker on each hose and the fitting it came off just to ensure that you put them back together in the right spots.... Especially where two seemingly identical hoses fit close together! These are the easiest mistakes to make!
Yeah a marker would have been a good idea - I just take various photos and notes on my phone saying something like "shorter hose with kink to right hand side, longer to left". Hopefully it'll be okay but I've also got the raw video footage to watch back at normal speed if needed!
So great content. I hope I will never need to do this with mine 😂 Yearly Oil change and dip stick use
Haha thank you man! Honestly, it's such a ballache only made worse by the rusted bolts/screws. Dare I say it wouldn't be so bad if all bolts/screws were easily removable! With the oil starvation to the rearmost cylinders, sounds like it's better to have too much oil than not enough haha - and frequently check the level!
Hey, where do you get the instructions from? the steps to remove stuff from the car?
Hey man - I got the pdf Workshop Manual from a website called ‘Manual libs’
Good 👍
What is the engine number. Is it a Cosworth built engine or Cologne built unit?
It’s an AM04, how come you ask?
@@itsalexbaldwin The early V12engines suffered with oil starvation on the rear cylinders, normally number 12. They shorten the dipstick too try and correct the problem. Once Cologne start to build the engines it seamed to cure the problem. Have a look at the part number on your dipstick.
@@craigwilliams4072 ah right yes, I’m with you. Funnily enough I talk about this in the next episode that I’ve already been filming for a couple of days - I think oil starvation is exactly what happened! Dipstick number is: 4g4e-6750-ac
@@itsalexbaldwin It looks like the right number but may have been fitted after the problem had been identified. The Cologne built engines start at 10000.
The Cologne built engines are from around Sept 2005 onwards, looks like this DB9 is 2006-2007 so it will defo be a Cologne built engine. Cosworth built engines will have an engine number AM04/0....., AMEP built engine AM04/1....... Most older V12 engines had the dipstick replaced years ago to a shorter one, and all V12's are suspectable to oil starvation if the PCV's fail, oil then gets sucked through to the air filters, together with owner not checking the engine oil.