What Happens If You Never Change Your Oil? How To Kill A Toyota 4 Runner!
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- This Toyota had 255,585 when it died. And when she went, she went with a bang. Change your oil folks. Its the automotive equivalent to the blood in your body.
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That sludge did a fantastic job of preventing oil leaks...
Yes it did!!! 😂
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Lol.
“ 1 owner, garage kept, and well maintained” - car dealer
Hahahahhaa. Pretty much. “Always serviced, and fresh fluids!”
@@linksgarage1985 honestly the peace of mind knowing I’ve always changed the oil and serviced my car on schedule is worth the extra price of a brand new car vs used. A lot of Toyotas and Subarus actually don’t cost that much more for new anyway. I’ll sleep sound knowing exactly what’s been done and not done on mine.
@@joe28753 I feel exactly the same way! I keep my cars forever, so I don't care about this "depreciation" that everyone else seems so obsessed about. I bought both my Toyotas brand new, and I've personally performed all maintenance on them. Even if a used car has maintenance records, I still wouldn't trust it. There are enough stories out there of dealerships or quickie lube places claiming to change the oil, when in fact they didn't. They just take the customer's money and do nothing. Or they put 5w-30 in every car, regardless of what the manufacturer actually requires. Buying new is definitely worth it for peace of mind.
The OEM oil filter and clean oil inside makes it look like a dealer tried to sell the engine as well maintained. I get why the oil was clean though. The old deposits are so dried out they just couldn't wash out, I would assume every oil gallery and lubrication feature would be to clogged up to prevent any lubrication either.
@@Marc83Aus it was totally junk after this. I scrapped it.
I haven't been in the business as a technician for a long time, but I have never seen this kind of abuse before. I am actually impressed by how long it lasted without lubrication...
Me 2. Tough to kill a Toyota. But no oil will definitely do it. Thanks for watching!
The thing of it is that testing a engine for reliability & longevity is one thing BUT torture & abuse is another
Most Japanese engines are engineered to run either pampered, or severely neglected like this one......
255,585 miles before dying. THAT is the Toyota Reliability
You are correct!!
Wow considering the ignorance of the owner the cams actually look in reasonably good condition and look like they have more life left in them.
I work on buses which have been well maintained over the years, admittedly with higher mileage and the cams are much more rounded down.
@@kerkiraz well the driver car was snapped completely off. So not that good. But the lobe wear wasn’t extreme.
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@@brotherdj777 why here
I was told 50 years ago that the cheapest mechanic is a gallon of engine oil !
That is a very good saying. And very true as well.
A new gallon every 6 months or 5000 miles is my formula.
Works well on my '97 Camry.
That old workhorse still runs almost as good as new. Just needs a timing belt & new tensioner.
@@davecrupel2817 - well I replaced this engine. All of the work and videos are in my channel. It got new everything. Timing belt, tensioner, crank seals, cam seals, intake gaskets, upper and lower plenum gaskets, water pump, belts, pulleys, valve cover gaskets, spark plug gaskets etc. it should run forever now.
L G ...as a ASE CERTIFIED AUTO TECH For 30+ years ..I can tell you that is TRUE!...
@@stevedeleon8775 you are correct!!!!!!!!!
Breaks my heart. One of the most reliable vehicles on the road and it gets treated like that 😩
Don’t be heartbroken. I rescued it with a new engine out of an 01! 7k miles and still going strong!
@@linksgarage1985 🙌🏻🥳 Woot! Thanks for the reply my friend.
@@ClearBrookExotics thanks for watching I appreciate it!
@@linksgarage1985 that's good to hear, you're a great mechanic. Still, the original engine, the roaring heart is gone, the owner ruined it, an engine that would have run flawlessly.
@@summushieremiasclarkson4700 I appreciate that. You are correct. Simple oil changes at regularly scheduled intervals would have prevented this. That being said, if they did that, I wouldn’t have been able to rescue it. So it worked out. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
I change my oil every 4000 to 5000 miles with full synthetic. I am fully aware the oil “can” last for 10000 miles but I’d rather spend $100 and have a reliable car than spend $5000 on a new engine.
100% agree. Common sense is in short supply these days!
I change my oil a lot more frequently that that. Forget 4-5 thousand mile oil changes, 2,500, at the max, and the old comes out, the new gets put in with an oil filter to.
@@danbasta3677 I don’t think that’s necessary. I use full synthetic. Reason why I do it at no more than 5k miles is because oil filters are generally only good for that amount of time.
@@BabyBugBug Disagree. Sorry, not sorry, I like to take good care of my truck, my car, my tractors, everything I own. Take good care of your machinery, your machinery will take good care of you.
@@danbasta3677 Well synthetic oil is rated to last 10000 miles. My oil changes are expensive at $150. So I compromise and say 4K to 5k miles. Car has been magnificent so far. 2500 miles is a little soon but hey if you can afford it more power to you.
It's amazing that it made it that far. Toyota six cylinders are great engines.
The one I put back in it is running flawlessly! Pure neglect. No other excuse. Thanks for watching!
@@linksgarage1985 hope you called them and told them to change it. Breaks my heart looking at a 2UZ like that
@@unodfredy - it’s actually a 5VZFE. And I took the vehicle in for a project of my own. I did share the video with the previous owner though!
That thing is ROASTED.
This is the most insane shit I've seen in a while. Completely astounded by the lack of maintenance from the previous owner
Yep! It’s like dried volcanic ash in that damn thing!
Dude when I got my 99’ 4runner it had roughly 242K, pulled the valve covers and the sludge was worse than this. I wish I still had the pics. Idk how it ran.
@@nick0394 crazy!
@@nick0394 Goes to show just how well they make those engines though. A lot of people would kill for 242 with good maintenance.
Thought with mechanics, it could be a case that a non mechanically enclined owner paid a garage for all these oil changes and that the scammy garage simply didn’t do the work
Holy hell its a Christmas miracle that engine went even that many miles. Incredible engineering for a machine to work so long with virtually no lubricant.
It is insane for sure! Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
They will never make engines that good again, they've decided to make them 150-200K throw aways and too expensive to repair.
Yes...but that Toyota engine ran 20 years 200k miles and never had an oil change.
That is an indestructible engine.
Kind of depressing since it makes you wonder how long it could go if the owner regularly changed the oil
@@jackcarraway4707 yep!
Toyota engines are immortal they can never die they last forever and even if you never get an oil change they'll last forever they can never die it's been proven
It was also common for people to just not change their oil. As I got a commission on everything I sold I regularly pushed people into oil changes. In 1977 a fellow came in a 58 Edsel and claimed he had never changed the oil. I convinced him to get an oil change, a terrible mistake. When I removed the drain plug nothing came out so I poked it with a screwdriver till it did. After the oil change, he threw a rod pulling out of the parking lot. Tried to sue the gas station but he lost.
Wow. That’s crazy!!
It's not that unlikely that the oil change actually killed the engine by loosening up old crap that then clogged the engine. This is not so different to what happens when people get strokes due to clogging up of arteries. Sometimes it only needs some crap to break off somewhere on the blood stream and down it goes up the point when it can't go further.
The car would probably have needed multiple flushes over the course of days or weeks to safely dissolve whatever crap it has built up so far and then start with really low revs at first. But it's also likely that it would have leaked oil like mad afterwards.
"The owner should be jailed" I think Scotty Kilmer would suggest.
Scottys post would say “ If you do this to your engine, you’re stupid!”
I change mine every 5,000 miles. Easy to know when to do it and you're not risking of going too long. Some say synthetic oil can go 10k miles but my philosophy its better to be a little too early on car maintenance than a little too late.
I do the same. I dont push it all the way to past 5k
Oil and filters are cheap...Engines are expensive!
Synthetic I change every 7K
I actually work with a guy who went 4 years not changing the oil in his wife’s car… he’s an idiot, no excuse for that.
PS I love the display of old glory in your garage 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 thanks man! 💪🏼.
And yea, that’s pretty dumb.
I don't even work on cars I just love watching these videos.
😂. Thanks for watching!
Burned to " ASHES".
People who treat TOYOTAS like this should not be allowed to drive. I have a 4Runner with 400,000 miles on the original 3.0 3vze engine thanks to Amsoil and Donaldson oil filters. This engine was supposed to be the worst every engine built by Toyota. I would repurpose that engine in your video bro into a dune buggy or something. Great video.
A large car dealer used to call my MIL every 3 months with her Toyota oil change reminder. When they sold her a brand new Toyota that came with 'free oil changes' for as long as she owned it, they never called her once.. 4 yrs later she took it in for her 1st oil change. When she asked why they hadn't called her they said she had to make the appointment. I said they never called her because now they're paying! On the prior car she was, and that's why they gave a damn. lol
Damn!! That’s wild. 4 years? Geez!
In the early 1960s, my brother and I bought a 1956 HEMI Dodge sedan at Farmer Jones cars. It ran rough. It was full of sludge and had a hole in one piston. Not too bad for $50.
My dad had the same stories! Buying all kinds of cars for $20-$50! Crazy!
Excellent video Scott. I have a 4 cylinder GDI turbo engine. Oil changes are at a maximum of 3000 miles using Pennzoil Ultra platinum and factory filter.It’s baffling why people do this crap to their vehicles. Liked and Subscribed, Thanks.
Thanks for watching I appreciate it! I don’t get it either! It’s amazing this engine survived 255k miles!
So ridiculous that the owner treated their engine this way. As a former Ford Dealer tech back in the day for over 10 years, I was always stunned at how little people cared about doing oil changes and it's such an easy maintenance item that is so cheap compared to replacing your engine. Pick a quality oil and filter and do it religiously and you'll be fine. That great Toyota engine would still be running if the owner had followed a solid maintenance schedule and used a synthetic oil with factory filter.
You are 100% correct! It’s 2 simple to be this difficult.
Not just oil changes, also check the coolant: this engine overheated and burned the oil away
I change my antifreeze either yearly or every two years. 50 50 mix with water, 60 40, 70 30 mix with water. Antifreeze will freeze, you HAVE to mix it with water. It's what your suppose to do.
That was my comment...That engine has definitely been VERY hot! Severe overheating might also explain the seizure that broke that timing belt pulley off the cam shaft.
The "factory OEM oil filter" was likely the one installed when Toyota assembled the engine.
Very Possible!!
I bet that thing is solid now.
I live in Michigan and had a 97 4runner. It had 390K miles on it when I sold it for scrap in 2019 which was a bummer because the body was still in great shape. Unfortunately the frame was rusted on both sides near the front end but more on the right which caused a bumping every time I turned left. The motor was still running great. It was the best suv I've ever owned.
I’ve had several Toyota’s. They are just insanely good. Rust is always the achilles heel of these machines. This one was saved with an engine from a 2001. I’ve driven it 7k miles since this video!
@@linksgarage1985 Good to hear it is still chugging. The worst problem I've had with my 4runner through the years is when I started it one day and quickly realized my Catalytic converter mysteriously disappeared.
@@GreggRoberts damn that sucks. I hate a thief!
Looks like Penzoil or Quakerstate!!
I did a valve job on a 71 Ranchero that my grandfather bought new and Always changed the oil religiously. He was an old Quakerstate Fan!! Lol
The motor had just over 100k miles on it.
When I pulled the valve covers it looked just like that! I bet it's just like Wax.
Penzoil and Quakerstate were designed for Race Engines. They are PARAFFIN BASE! They are great for Race Engines that were never built for everyday driving.
With the multiple heat and cooling cycles the paraffin will separate and build up in areas where the oil moves slower.
Like the top end of the motor.
I had to literally dig and scrape the wax build up out of the 351c heads to rebuild them.
So even with regular oil changes if you're running these oils from the Lube Jockey places you can get the Wax Build up.
Hope this helps shed a little light on what possibly created this failure in the first place 👍😎
And just for proof my brother drove it for another 100k+ after that running Castrol GTX and the top end never had any build up at all!
This gives a whole new meaning to “Stupid.” How in the world can anyone treat their vehicle so poorly.
Pretty crazy stuff!
I saw one worse. I removed a valve cover (was afraid to remove the second because the first was so bad) on my mom's 1965 Ford Fairlane with a 289, and it was caked full of the same kind of oxidized and carbonized oil, everywhere there wasn't a moving part. I don't think it hit 100K before it ended up in the junk yard.
That’s a damn shame man! Crazy stuff
5:54 "This is the craziest shi..stuff ever" lol
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Saw a Ford V6 from the late 80's that had never changed the original oil. Ran for 40,000 miles before it seized. The sludge was so hard impact hammers had to be used to break parts free from the sludge build up. Yikes!!!
Holy crap! That’s insane!
I recently talked to someone who claimed you can go about 4 years or a 100k with the same oil. He knows I work on cars and I know he has zero technical schooling or experience working on cars. Yet he stood by his claim so I showed him a video like this one. His reply: 'Maybe that engine had a blown head gasket or the owner was driving it very hard'. We argued for a bit, then he said; 'I'm not confinced yet, these are different opinions'. Responses like that are an insult to both me and the people making these videos.
Somebody else I know said you don't have to change the oil, except on turbo charged engines.(?) Both these men have a (very) high education, so they are not really 'dumb', just stupid...
An education is not equivalent to common sense. It’s in short supply these days. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
There's your problem... they have a high education, you don't, therefore you can't be right...
This may help: Some people listen only to respond, not to learn or understand.
I actually had a loose cam bolt not too long ago. It ended up stripping the threading in the cam itself, so a machine shop had to bore a wider hole. This was on a Honda H23 motor.
That sucks. But good thing you got it fixed! Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
Bought Daewoo Leganza T22SED 2.2 from California. Mileage 69,000 miles. The engine condition is identical. The pressure relief valve of the oil pump has stuck, destroyed two oil filters. Cleaned with a pressure washer only. Hi from Russia.
Wow!!!! That is crazy with such low mileage! Cheers from Kentucky!
@@linksgarage1985 In 2005, the car was four years old, of which a year in a recycling park (with a ban on operation in the United States).
@@alexwoods2836 - yep. I don’t even think we have Daewoo here anymore.
@@linksgarage1985 Now, after the rebranding, it is the Chevrolet Epica.
Leganza havent seen one of those in yearsss
A testament to Toyota quality that it made it to 255k with such severe neglect.
Indeed. Been driving it for 7k miles so far
If you use Royal purple it cleans all of the cams and everything out of the engine all of the oil it makes it really easy to just wipe away with a towel so I use oil purple every 20 to 30,000 miles and then I use just regular cheap synthetic oil every 3,000 miles. And I changed my oil every 3,000 miles to 4,000 miles
I was a mechanic as my first career in the mid-70s. Virtually all engines looked like this or much worse. The common belief of the cause was paraffin-based oils.
That’s crazy! The oils have progressed amazingly over the years!
I have a 1970 Mustang, and it looks like this under the valve covers. I’m wondering if the previous owner neglected oil changes or if was due to crappy oil back in the day, or a combination of both. It runs like a dream though!
@@nagonzo I would say both. And that dream can turn in to a nightmare if not corrected ASAP. Best of luck with it!
keep it up brother you show some real content,
Thanks! I appreciate you watching!!
Have a 2005 4Runner. 140k 50% city miles. She rarely went past 4K w/o an oil change. If you are attuned to the sounds of your car, you’ll hear the difference after the oil change. Now when she’s a touch warmed up, you can barely hear her idle.
That’s what I’m talking about!!
A testament to Toyota's engineering that it went for so long without an oil change. I've seen a Holden on another channel that did 70,000KM without an oil change, and it was just grease coming out of the sump.
Crazy stuff!
Had a 1979 Dodge Power Wagon which I purchased used in 1989. The 318 engine in the truck looked like this when I took off the valve covers. I scraped off the chunks of sludge with plastic and wood utensils, the best I could. I then vacuumed the chunks and stuff out as I didn't want them running through the engine. I then put some Marvel's Mystery Oil (MMO) in a spray bottle and sprayed/soaked the hell out of the mess. Then I put in new oil with a 20% mix of MMO and 80% engine oil. I religiously changed the oil every 3000 and replaced it with the 20/80% mixture every time. One year later, I took off the valve covers, and things looked great. Just the normal varnishing one would expect in an older engine.
That’s awesome!!!! Unfortunately for this one it got so hot it seized the cam and it snapped.
I once owned a new '97 Lexus es. Factory interval oil changes. Switched out to Amsoil post warranty. (5th year). In the 9th year the engine sludged. Ultimately Toyota replaced the engine with a new one on the house as there was a recall. (97-2001 oil sludge settlement)They named their gesture "goodwill". So, always keep your receipts and remember to tip the service managers and they will always treat you like a somebody!
Wow. Crazy!
I once bought a grand marquis’s with a 460 and when I went to change the leaky valve covers it was pure sludge from the head to the valve covers except for the rocker arm moving area. I made the mistake of flushing it and became the local mosquito control till I replaced the engine. It was clean everywhere else just like yours.
Crazy as hell man. People amaze me!
40 years ago I worked in a shop and people brought in all sorts of crap, including a mid 50s Plymouth with the same affliction as your Toyota.
Customer wanted a tune up. When I pulled the valve covers, I stood back in horror! The Plymouth ran reasonable for never having the oil changed.
Crazy stuff. I will never understand why people do crap like this. It’s crazy. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
That went past the jelly "sludge" phase. That's something else.
Tilt was super bad. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
Oil is literally the lifeblood of engines, changing it with quality oil and filter at regular intervals, (I do it myself at 3,000 miles,) can lead to many years and miles of reliable service.
I bought a new 83 Toyota pickup, 22R carb engine and auto trans. Drove for many years, only an alternator change and two water pumps, went for 340,000 miles and the odometer failed. Continued driving it for another few years, it was getting tired, but still reliable and minimal oil consumption, no smoke.
Bought a new one and donated the old one to a charitable organization, but oddly I felt a bit sad to see it leave on their trailer. Missing an old friend issue I suppose. Great video, on point, thanks.
Got to love those older mechanical Toyota’s. My father in law had an 80 and an 81. He drove the 81 for 25 years. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
Those old 20R and 22R Toyota engines were the most reliable engines ever made. As long as they have oil and water in them, you couldn't kill them. They were like the inline six engines in American cars. (even though the Toyota engines are 4 cylinder) They just wouldn't die. I liked them, because you could adjust the valve clearances. Because of that, I have NEVER burnt a valve in those engines.
I have only seen one engine that bad in my time as a technician. Ford Focus Zetec engine, same scenario, the oil was crystalized just like yours. Look at how hot those cams got! Crazy
Now that’s a HOT CAM! 🥵
That engine has been hot...REALLY hot! That's the only thing that would make the sludge dry and flaky, rather than just "asphalt".
Damn that oil turned into dried up Jelly lol. I have been getting my oil changed for years every 5000 miles full Synthetic Oil, my vehicles drive like it's in showroom condition, regular maintenance. You go to a great mechanic or a dealership, that have great auto technicians to service your vehicle. I have a friend that told me you can change your Oil Filter every ten thousand miles, I looked at him like yeah right. You change your oil filter everytime you change the oil. You don't leave the same dirty filter with new oil. Thanks for showing this video, you can have the most reliable vehicle, but don't change the fluids, you will see how reliable it will become. Lifetime fluid doesn't exist. Any one that tells you that, doesn't know vehicles at all. Thanks again for showing the internal parts of this neglected engine. It's another mechanic on youtube as well, David Long owner of Omega Auto Clinic, is often referred to as the "Car Wizard" on Hoovie Garage. I appreciate what you guys do!
The car wizard is amazing! I replaced this engine, and I’ve driven this Toyota 8,000 miles since then with ZERO issues. Fluids are the best bet. Don’t try to save $25 and cost yourself thousands. Spread the good word my friend. I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!!
Here in Europe Opel (GM) owned recommend oil and filter changes every 20 thousand miles while BMW recommend every 18 thousand miles.I own VW diesel and VW recommend every 10 thousand and that's what I do.Those intervals must seem strange to Americans but that's from the manufacturer service book.
@@eugeneoreilly9356 That's Europe, we are talking about America, if that was done here most vehicles wouldn't last long. I never recommend someone change their oil every 20,000 miles. You can do that in Europe not America.
I do basic backyard type of mechanical work, like oil changes, air filter ect ect. I serviced a vehicle that was 11ks or 9800 miles I think for usa, had not seen a oil change since 2017 and it was a petrol engine even after a engine flush when drained the oil was the color of a diesel
Cheers from KY!
Once my father bought a vw beetle engine to make a half vw to fly an ultralight plane and was very nasty, heavy on black sludge but less crystalized, than the one on head of this yota. He made the engine totally rebuild. Never flew with it because of it having high vibration at flight rpms. He made a 2 stroke 550cc like a Rotax and that was a success.
Ultralights are sweet! Yea, this one was super nasty!
Back when I was an apprentice a long time ago I had a car in I think it was a celebrity with a 2.8 L carbureted engine it was squeaking when it was running. Pull the front valve cover you couldn’t even see the valves the springs nothing so full of sludge. Ended up taking off the other valve cover and clean all the sludge/dirt out. Drop the oil barely came out of the pan. New oil ran pretty decent when it left. Lasted about another 3000 km then a spun a rod bearing done. Not sure how many kilometres were on the car I think it was like 250,000 km. This person had bought this car used didn’t know.
That sucks! Crazy what people will do!
"Oh would ya just look at that"..."Just look at it sir"
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A great testament to the crap a toyota can go through...that said it is so said to see a toyota engine be so neglected.
Agree. That’s why I swapped in a new one from an 01. Running 7k miles strong so far with zero issues.
If you haven’t change your oil for 20k or more miles even on synthetic oil, you will have problems and will need a remanufactured engine.
AmSoiL
Depends how you drive
People are like. I have no problems financing a vehicle for 84 months at 600 a month. But spending 65.00 every three months for an oil change while you sit in the vehicle??? You have lost your freaking mind!!! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I have a friend who works at a Ford dealership. He says you wouldn't believe how many people completely neglect any maintenance on a vehicle. They believe the extended warranty will cover anything.
Good video that give us an idea what happens if we don't do oil change.
Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
81,400 miles on my 2018 Civic EX-T. I always change the oil/filter early. Honda oil change indicator hits 30% (about 4200 miles) and I change immediately. Even though It uses synthetic 0W-20, I plan on changing even earlier (40% on the indicator) moving forward. I’m extra vigilant because it’s a turbo. If I don’t get at least 250,000 miles, I will be disappointed.
That’s awesome! I’m the same. Oil is the cheapest mechanic you can ever buy!
I did not change oil in my 2016 Camry for 2 years. I am in Canada. The oil is 0W20, I assume it is synthetic because it was a dealer who changed it 2 years ago. Due to COVID I was scared to go to mechanic. In two years I travelled only 1,200 km or 800 miles, while the Manual tells to change the oil at 10,000 miles or 12 months whatever comes first. My total mileage is also low - only 3,700 miles as I do not drive much. Please, advise should I worry that I did not change the oil for 24 months, while having very low mileage in the last 2 years?
Although your mileage is low, I would advise getting a change. 2 years is a while to not get it changed. However, I don’t think you should be worried about any conditions like this. I would get it changed whenever you get the chance. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
@@linksgarage1985 Thanks!
@@linksgarage1985 Thanks.
Another question - the Toyota dealer recommends to replace brakes fluid, but my total mileage is only 3,600 miles after 5 years of use after I purchased it brand new. Dealers often recommend unnecessary service just to increase sales. This is why I am not sure if I need to replace the brake fluid with such a small mileage. I would appreciate your opinion.
@@NobleCrow10 I would not replace the brake fluid. If it looks semi clear, and the brakes feel fine you are good to go.
Look at the colors on the shiny parts of the camshaft purple means temperatures were 700 hundred plus degrees
Yep. The lobes should not look like this!!!! You are correct. It’s amazing. This truck had 255k. No telling how long it was in this horrible condition. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
Lack of lubrication causes overheating baked the oil, had this happen to my 5.4 3v lost oil pressure looked just like this when I pulled the valve covers.
@@paulsosa1872 that sucks! Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
5:25 When you pulled the dipstick and it had too much oil and it was clean, how does that happen? Or does that mean someone poured new oil into it just before giving it to you?
I would assume they just filled it with clean oil. Even though it was trashed.
Impressive it went 255.585 miles without oil change. Many other brands would have failed at max. 100.000 miles.
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The cam lobes still in good shape :)
Yep. Not bad. It’s the end of the cam that is shit. Completely sheared off! Ha
Only at first glance. You can see from the color they got very hot.
Change every 3,000 or less!
Also it how lond did it go since its last oil change before it crapped out?
I have no idea. I got it like this with very little back story. I’ll never know.
“Look how they massacred my boy.”
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Well, I guess that's a testament to Toyota reliability that that shit even considered moving lmao
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Where I live, this is common. I live in the Caribbean where the cheapest oil is used and oil changes are not done regularly. Seeing vehicles with their second and third engines is pretty regular event.
That’s crazy!!!
@@linksgarage1985 it drives me nuts. Conventional oil costs 40+ US dollars a gallon here. So I get it, but it's still cheaper then an engine.
@@jd6898 100% agree. Use good stuff and it won’t be an issue! Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
I've noticed this trend specifically with Toyotas because they have a reliability reputation people tend to not maintain them because according to the reputation they have this idea that you can throw the thing around and treat it like a piece of trash and it'll always run no matter what
I know that's not everyone but people need to respect their Toyotas
True. They are generally reliable even with minimal maintenance. But most are super reliable with GOOD Maintenance. Thanks for watching!
I'm sorry to day I have seen much worse than that. A buddy of mine inherited a 65 Dodge Dart GT 225 sl/6. When his grandfather owned it, it was spotless, inside and out. But my friend and his wife had it for about 7 or 8 yrs. He said the engine knocked & asked me if I wanted it. I said, sure. I could hear the valve lash was pretty bad so I pulled the valve cover. You couldn't even see the rockers, and the sludge had conformed to the inside of the valve cover like a jello mold. The pushrods come up through a wide open chamber in the head & block castings. When I pulled the pushrods out, there was a solid brick of sludge probably 18inL x 2inW x 6inDp with 12 small holes left by the pushrods. It still ran, but if you revved it up it began to knock. I pretty much just scrapped the car.
That’s crazy man!!!!
Very sorry
Not sure if this was ever mentioned or not, but I would have loved to see the Crank, and rotating assembly on that engine. just for poops and giggles.
Matt- I should have filmed that. I took it all apart. The bottom end actually looked pretty damn good!
That 3.4 is bulletproof I miss my 4Runner but I needed a pickup and my Tacoma has been flawless. I will only buy Toyota nothing else. How people can neglect one of you most important investments is beyond me
Completely foolish! I have a video of a supercharged 3.4 T100 5speed I had on my channel. You may like to check it out!
That oil is so old it's turned into coal.
It’s pretty bad stuff!
How can people do that to the 3.4 it will run forever if you take care of it 🤬🤬 awesome videos man
I know, it’s insane!!!!!!!! And thanks for watching I appreciate it!!!
My neighbor asked me if I could check his daughters oil as she nor he knew how lol. This is on a Dodge Ram with a v10 and beat to hell. I pulled the dipstick and I shit you not, I did not see one drop of oil on the dipstick. I couldn’t believe that damn truck even ran and didn’t have an issue. We added oil, changed the air and oil filter and it ran for many months until she’s finally got rid of it as it was an all around nightmare!
Thant’s insane!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing. I appreciate you watching!
Wow!!! BG engine flush treatment
how long did they own it? How many owners before them? Incredibly surprised that it ran like that!
Unsure if the details. Second hand info told me they owned it for a very long time.
Some people should not own any car. I had a co-worker who used to lease cars and never changed oil on the car. Below out two engines.
wtf his driving licence should be revoked asap . great video
Yep! It’s insane! Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
That was trippy. Dam.
Yea, pretty crazy stuff! Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
I know a person who only changes their filter and add oil when needed. He has been driving the same truck for 40 years.
Cool
How does he change the filter without spilling oil everywhere?
@@Asto508 😂
I bought a 78 Malibu that had been stolen off the lot new, 67, 000 miles when it was towed in (guy ditched it), Engine cooked, still had original filter and no oil.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Late eighties I changed a timing chain on a 79 Ford P/U where it looked like that... Owner was a buddy who admitted he never once changed the oil. I believed him when I scrapped the crude off the oil filter it had the original Ford filter. Who knows how long it was bypassing.
That’s so shitty. Crazy what people do
Well i remember my old engine on my old 4 stroke scooter. the tappet cover on the lower side of the head came loose while on a ride. While doing 50mph the engine seize. at that point i knew my motor is done. havent heard any cluttering noises maybe because i have a big exhaust on that scooter. but lo and behold. Still manage to run the bike to home thats when it decide to just seize permanently. Open the engine and well its like that. For sure im changing my oil on a monthly basis but the oil dried up and got cooked while my engine doesnt have a lubricant and overheating. It kinda looks like charcoal tho fun times =)
CRAZY!!!!!!!!!
Good on the Toyota for some how running in that condition
Let me ask, what if 30,000 miles before the big bang, what if the guy had drained the oil, filled it back up with a 50/50 mix of new oil and diesel and a fresh filter, let it idle for 20 minutes, then drained and repeated the whole process three times. Would that have cleaned out a lot of this gunk and maybe saved the engine, or would it really have done nothing?
I doubt the large pieces would make it back to the pan. Probably clog the return passages.
That's no ordinary sludge... It's a dried ass one!
Basically volcanic magma!
@NoCovid you nailed it!
No problem. A bottle of engine flush and good as new. Lol. Crazy!
Yep! Hahaha. I scrapped this engine. I put in one out of an 01. Running strong so far with Zero issues after 7k miles!
I'm impressed that the cam broke before the timing belt.
Me 2!!!!
the heavy crystallization i have found in blocks where they just keep adding and do the 10k oil changes..
The old timers used to just fill the blocks up with kerosene and let em soak for a night or two then they tore into em
as it flushed all the crap out. I have seen where folks have added a qrt of kero as a flush.
but i am thinking if yah put a few qrts of kero in em then pull the distributor and primed the pump with kero it would flush alot. hmm
next tear down i might just have to try it. or hope someone else does first lol YT up up and away....
I’ve heard of that. This damn thing was nasty man. Super nasty. The engine I put in it was super clean! It’s running awesome!
Had a friend who never changed the oil on his Mazda 323 until the check engine light came on and it would not pass the states emissions test, he had over 100,000 miles on it and just added oil to it. I guess this is not that uncommon.
Crazy man!
I can't understand why people ignore simple basic maintenance?
One of life’s mysteries we will never be able to process!
Before I could get my 1st car I had to be able to check and identify all my fluids. I quickly learned through the years that is not something every parent teaches.
@@melissabriceno3139 - cheapest insurance ever! Don’t be fooled by shiny, clean cars. I’ve seen beat up old trucks be way more mechanically sound than a shiny 3 year old new car! Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
Ok holy shit how on earth did that run for 20 years??? If anything thats a testament to Toyota, no engine should be running even close to that level of neglect.
Agree. It’s insane!
Would of been a good chance to try engine flush products to see what actually makes a diffrence
Is there any way to save that engine? Other than a whole new motor or heads?
I’m sure there was. I scrapped it. But I could have chiseled all the shit away and replaced the cam. But I just replaced the engine.
Surprised the cam journals looked as good as they did.
Agree
1 Previous owner........Ben Hur!😁I bet the oil pickup strainer was blocked, full of that crap, thats why the oil looked clean it was just sitting in the sump going nowhere, experienced this on sevral corollas!
Crazy stuff!
Nothing recently have I seen that looked like that. When I worked in an auto parts store about 20 years ago I remember seeing cores come in. Small block Chevy and Fords that looked that bad.
Crazy stuff for sure!
I bought a 2015 f250. While doing the oil change I noticed inside the valve cover was full of sludge. I have never seen so much sludge… I’ll I’ve put about 8k miles on the truck in the last 3 months. I have done 4 oil changes. I’m gonna keep changing the oil ever 2k and see if it cleans up the truck runs strong for having 146k miles. I’ll let y’all know how long she goes
As long as the sludge hasn’t turned to volcanic ash, she could still live. This one, was toast amigo. 💪🏼. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!
and this is why you always change your oil. I have service intervals for every 10,000km ( 6200 miles ) and have been doing this for 15 years..
You are correct!
"but the car came with oil when I bought it?"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂exactly!
Purchased a non running F250 with a failed engine.
Found the same sludge from a lack of oil changes.
Engine wasn't even rebuild-able. Every moving part was unusable.
Obtained another engine to rebuild. 45k trouble free miles on that engine today.
Same exact scenario here. Tossed the engine, rebuilt one from an 01 (videos in my channel) and swapped it about 8k miles ago. Zero issues since.
My father in law hasn’t changed the oil in his T-bird since 2000. It’s a 3.8 v6
Bad idea.
@@linksgarage1985 Right! He claims oil is ok well beyond 3k miles. It’s probably got about 6,000 miles on the 20 year old oil.
@@jrod264winmag - I just don’t understand. I would spend $40 on new oil before I fired that thing up again. Such an inexpensive option to protect an expensive investment. But hey, it’s his! Let him do as he pleases. It’s a free country. 💪🏼🇺🇸