I filmed this back in the early summer, The ending test drive footage was lost so I never got around to editing it. Thanks for watching and Keep It Outta The Cabbage!!
1 guy, full engine, cross member, suspension out, strip, reassemble, back in - yep, 20 hours. Particularly when it’s an unfamiliar vehicle. Pity you don’t live in my neck of the woods. Nice work.
I started driving in 1968 - 70's emission controls seemed so complicated at first - now I look under the hood of my 78 and 79 Camaros and they seem so simple. Great channel.
Great job!! You really know your stuff. I'm a Commercial HVAC mechanic and I know the technology and experience needed to work on modern day vehicles. In my opinion guys like you are more intelligent that a CEO of a corporation. Let some office geek try that job. Your the man.!!
LKQ Sharonville is literally five minutes from my house. I've got quite a few odds and ends parts from them in the past. Awesome place, good people! Just realized what that music was from. Mega Man! 😂 That's awesome! 😎
eighthof8 I definitely am (17 hoping to learn about cars) I kinda am in a tough situation because my car makes the same sound and I’m still making payments on the car. I was thinking about engine swapping it and then selling it after I’m done making the payments but I don’t have a garage or a lot of tools to work on it, let alone a lift. Don’t really know what to do about the situation but I’m not giving up on working on cars
@@devonharas9014 cars are fun to work on but you need to be persistent as all sort of vehicles with different problems will come and you have to set your mind to invest in diagnosing equipment and tools. So far I have around 15k in diag equipment alone, 3k on a pico scope along with sister oscilloscopes totalling around 1200. Dpnt be afraid to enter the world of electronics because that's the new thing coming. Any grease monkey can turn a wrench but not all will find hard to diagnose problems such as a jumped timing, misfire due to poor ground or computer supply fault of either.
Purrs like a kitten! Just stumbled on your channel about ready to tackle a job on my mom's 2015 CTS but after this video NOPE I'm taking it to my buddies shop where he has a lift.
That buzzing fly would have driven me nuts. I hate it when people just hover over me working. And the frequency of his visits? Gosh. You're a better man than me, Amesie. ;p
An absolute nightmare I’m doing a 2013 CTS and was committed to pulling out the top even though I have a car lift. You are absolutely correct what a nightmare pulling out the top. Zero tolerance available. I don’t know what the car manufacturers are thinking these days. I am now on the fence due to the availability of room I do think I’m going out the bottom now LOL. Rock on!
Bought my 06 STS for 700, I’m swapping my engine tomorrow. All around im spending around 2 grand to get it fixed, its worth it in the long run if you can get the caddys cheap🤝
A Just did a 2017 Ford Fusion Hybrid engi e swap. Made à HD rolling table similar to what you used. Way easier swapping wiring, parts and lines on the table.
Those Cadillacs especially 3.6 have problems with the oil pressure being low. Mine went out early would idle at 10-11 psi oil pressure an no check engine light or anything. Until.. at start up it’ll make a little clacking noise from the timing chain going out.
I’m laughing when I swapped my catalytic converters from stock to test pipes on my g35😂 my engine blew and it sounded exactly like the car in the video. And it all happened the same day I swapped them
Is the motor worth replacing on this car or should I just rebuild my original moyor I have the same cts and im debating if I should waste the money on replacing the motor or should i just have it rebuilt
I wrecked my 2011 STS 3.6 LLT so I went bought a 2008 CTS LY7 beautiful car with a blown engine...I was just gonna swap out the motor and transmission from the STS to the CTS using the STS harness and computers...will that work?
Question for you? How big of a rolling table do you have for this? Thinking about swapping out an engine over my vacation and may need to pickup a table. Curious on how big I'd need. Thanks!
+Colin Johnston no sir it was not their fault, however practically every repair on it is way to cokplex, my sympathy was for the mechanics not the foolish person who neglected to observe proper maintenance
Yes but the engine is expexted to last the lifetime of the car, and the only way to make it more accessible would be to increase the size of the engine bay and therefore the entire car. He stated this was an 05 so personally I'd have sent it to scrap as it's end of expected life span amyway. He has paid way more than it's value for not 1 but 2 replacement engines. But hey it's not my car so.. Btw the mechanics are paid by the hour so it's not really a hardship. I'm sure he is grateful there is work to keep him busy.
I'm doing this job on 2009 all-wheel drive, I don't have a lift and I work in the dirt. I went underneath my car 4689 times today and still forgot my 10 mm socket.
If we got the shop/service manual for this car would it tell you how to drop that Engine and sub-frame assembly? Like how do you know what to do there?
Can someone help me wrap my head around why a customer could justify the expense of a new/used motor X2 and the 20 hours of labor X2 for a 2005 Cadi. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the cost just doing it once.
Is it better to do an engine swap or a rebuild? I have a 1991 ford escort station wagon. 5 speed stick shift with 340,000-ish miles that I just cannot part with for sentimental reasons.. It was overheated and makes whirring sounds like it has no compression so I assume just a head gasket wouldn't do it.... I wouldn't even know how much a rebuild or swap on a car like that would even cost.
I had the same problem bro. To answer your question yes. I swapped my engine sat n the driveway for a year. Take the ecu to dealership with the vin. Then you'll have to get the key reprogrammed
2.8LL V6 what?! thought those had what were they called the northstar V8's or at least a V8 in them. at this point hear 3 stories about the cadillac CTS duck the CTS ill never own one. btw awesome job with the engine swap. did you ever rip to see the damage on the inside?
Cool music dude, sounds like Masterblaster / Startropics, Mega man, Paranoid (Black Sabbath) Rock N' Roll racing, Born to be wild. Neat job, nice to see the whole subframe down with engine, tranny and suspension. You got another sub :-)
haha, I figured so and it wasn't meant to be bad against you! I am anal about leftover parts and would rather spend 30 minutes whilst assembling, vs much later hate of broken things :)
That car cost around 2-3k for the same amount of miles. Ofc used. And this job was probably 5-10k including the engine. And it’s not hard to remove. Only took one person, most 2. Me and my brothers did the same job in my front yard. The engine cost us 500 with 120k miles. So I agree with the comment. “This job cost more than the car”
That car cost around 2-3k for the same amount of miles. Ofc used. And this job was probably 5-10k including the engine. And it’s not hard to remove. Only took one person, most 2. Me and my brothers did the same job in my front yard. The engine cost us 500 with 120k miles. So I agree with the comment. This job cost more than the car.
As far as I can tell, modern vehicles are hell to work on. Mainly there's no space under the hood. You either remove the cab on Ford pickups, or you remove 6 things to get to the broken one on most everything else. Then there's diagnosis via the ECM error codes, possible but very ugly. I watched one guy do that and I swear his job was more like debugging electronic hardware than wrenching on a car! Do you trace problems via the ECM output Amesie? Oh yeah, did you beat the flat rate hour estimate? That's how to make decent money on flat rate jobs.
20 hours for this job is not outrageous. A customer came to my shop with an estimate from the dealership in the amount of $9,485 for a used engine. $4,500 was the labor. So, I don't see why a local mechanic shouldn't charge half that. The hours marked by the dealer was 24.5hrs.
@@devonharas9014 yes, but it take one hell of a wiring job and a ton of hours.. Have to refab the motor mounts and install a whole new drive train. My buddy ls swapped his, it was about a 12k job with him doing all of the work.
I got a 2006 Cadillac STS 3.6 that I’m pulling the engine in the drive way out the top and it’s a pain in the ass all ready got the new engine.I’m to old to be doing this shit I’ve been a mechanic all my life .started in the 80s cars to day are over engineered peace’s of shit. I’d take a carbureted 302 or 350 or 327 or 351 any day.
I filmed this back in the early summer, The ending test drive footage was lost so I never got around to editing it. Thanks for watching and Keep It Outta The Cabbage!!
20 hours are you kidding?.....is that including several naps
4 -6 hours tops
Bullshit buddy.. You got a lot of bullshit coming from you.
I don't write the labor guides..
1 guy, full engine, cross member, suspension out, strip, reassemble, back in - yep, 20 hours. Particularly when it’s an unfamiliar vehicle.
Pity you don’t live in my neck of the woods. Nice work.
I started driving in 1968 - 70's emission controls seemed so complicated at first - now I look under the hood of my 78 and 79 Camaros and they seem so simple. Great channel.
Great job!! You really know your stuff. I'm a Commercial HVAC mechanic and I know the technology and experience needed to work on modern day vehicles. In my opinion guys like you are more intelligent that a CEO of a corporation. Let some office geek try that job. Your the man.!!
LKQ Sharonville is literally five minutes from my house. I've got quite a few odds and ends parts from them in the past. Awesome place, good people! Just realized what that music was from. Mega Man! 😂 That's awesome! 😎
Hope you inspire many young people to become interested in the trade; we need 'em.
eighthof8 I definitely am (17 hoping to learn about cars) I kinda am in a tough situation because my car makes the same sound and I’m still making payments on the car. I was thinking about engine swapping it and then selling it after I’m done making the payments but I don’t have a garage or a lot of tools to work on it, let alone a lift. Don’t really know what to do about the situation but I’m not giving up on working on cars
@@devonharas9014 cars are fun to work on but you need to be persistent as all sort of vehicles with different problems will come and you have to set your mind to invest in diagnosing equipment and tools. So far I have around 15k in diag equipment alone, 3k on a pico scope along with sister oscilloscopes totalling around 1200. Dpnt be afraid to enter the world of electronics because that's the new thing coming. Any grease monkey can turn a wrench but not all will find hard to diagnose problems such as a jumped timing, misfire due to poor ground or computer supply fault of either.
Purrs like a kitten! Just stumbled on your channel about ready to tackle a job on my mom's 2015 CTS but after this video NOPE I'm taking it to my buddies shop where he has a lift.
That buzzing fly would have driven me nuts. I hate it when people just hover over me working. And the frequency of his visits? Gosh. You're a better man than me, Amesie. ;p
It’s hard to find mechanics like yourself who are willing to knuckle up and get a job done.
I just did one of these with all wheel drive. This video helped me a lot. Thanks for posting this.
I like the 8 bit sound track, it harkens back to my childhood.
An absolute nightmare I’m doing a 2013 CTS and was committed to pulling out the top even though I have a car lift. You are absolutely correct what a nightmare pulling out the top. Zero tolerance available. I don’t know what the car manufacturers are thinking these days. I am now on the fence due to the availability of room I do think I’m going out the bottom now LOL. Rock on!
You have the patience of a saint my friend. I love working on my old hotrods, but this looks like a nightmare.
Nice 8 bit soundtrack. My son thought that I was playing a video game.
Love the NES themed time lapse music.
That job was worth more than the the whole darn car.
How much did that job cost?
@Kenny Argueta Ventura what year and engine size u got?
I replaced my engine in my 07 STS labor cost 1300 engine was 1500 after taxes and shipping
Bought my 06 STS for 700, I’m swapping my engine tomorrow. All around im spending around 2 grand to get it fixed, its worth it in the long run if you can get the caddys cheap🤝
Become a mechanic they said , it's a great career they said
24 years later my hands and arms and back all hate my guts
Who said it would be a great career
Hey Amesie, how are you doing. Great job man, pulled it right out of the cabbage!!
Thank you for the video. Take care and hope to see you here soon.
I enjoyed your video. Approximately how much did a job like this cost, all parts and labor?
A Just did a 2017 Ford Fusion Hybrid engi e swap. Made à HD rolling table similar to what you used. Way easier swapping wiring, parts and lines on the table.
How long did it take you to feel comfortable enough to do your first engine swap? I'm New to the trade
Can't help but wonder what was the total cost for this job? How much was all that labor. Might not be hard, but SUPER intensive and lots of steps.
If 20hrs in my town they r chargin 110 hr
Those Cadillacs especially 3.6 have problems with the oil pressure being low. Mine went out early would idle at 10-11 psi oil pressure an no check engine light or anything. Until.. at start up it’ll make a little clacking noise from the timing chain going out.
Man I see so many of these Cadillac CTS models in the salvage yards around here.
That sound is the new awesome for repair shops
I’m laughing when I swapped my catalytic converters from stock to test pipes on my g35😂 my engine blew and it sounded exactly like the car in the video. And it all happened the same day I swapped them
Always well time spent with you. this one, GOLD! .. missing your personal cars though. patient I am. thanks man.
Is the motor worth replacing on this car or should I just rebuild my original moyor I have the same cts and im debating if I should waste the money on replacing the motor or should i just have it rebuilt
Julie Vidal its better to swap supposedly it costs more to fix it ive been waiting on it to be replaced though for like 5 months
Good job, repair probably cost as much as the car is worth. If they got the money, I got the time.
I wrecked my 2011 STS 3.6 LLT so I went bought a 2008 CTS LY7 beautiful car with a blown engine...I was just gonna swap out the motor and transmission from the STS to the CTS using the STS harness and computers...will that work?
Question for you? How big of a rolling table do you have for this? Thinking about swapping out an engine over my vacation and may need to pickup a table. Curious on how big I'd need. Thanks!
Where are you located, I need that job in my Cadillac and I can't found anyone to help me 😢
I just love the mega man soundtrack
What do you think about getting a cradle for a ctsv and rear ,cross member how hard would it be do the electronic part of it
Wow. Blaster master? Good shit
You know the engineers that design POS like this should have to wrench on them
Tom Burgess was it the engineers fault the car was run with no oil?
+Colin Johnston no sir it was not their fault, however practically every repair on it is way to cokplex, my sympathy was for the mechanics not the foolish person who neglected to observe proper maintenance
Yes but the engine is expexted to last the lifetime of the car, and the only way to make it more accessible would be to increase the size of the engine bay and therefore the entire car. He stated this was an 05 so personally I'd have sent it to scrap as it's end of expected life span amyway. He has paid way more than it's value for not 1 but 2 replacement engines. But hey it's not my car so..
Btw the mechanics are paid by the hour so it's not really a hardship. I'm sure he is grateful there is work to keep him busy.
Flatrate is not hourly haha
Travis Whatsittoya what are you on about??
I'm doing this job on 2009 all-wheel drive, I don't have a lift and I work in the dirt. I went underneath my car 4689 times today and still forgot my 10 mm socket.
how much does a job like this run? im at the point where trying to decide to change the motor or scrape the car
Nice :) Awesome soundtrack, too :)
we all thank you for that, thank .
What is the estimated price on Cadillac SRX 2012 engine swap labor alone?
Way easier from the top..I have done 3 cts swaps .just make sure to leave the radiator/trans lines hooked to the radiator.
How did you get the harness out without removing virtually all components is what i want to know.
If we got the shop/service manual for this car would it tell you how to drop that Engine and sub-frame assembly? Like how do you know what to do there?
I don't have a fancy lift so i took out mine the old fashioned way through the top
Is it still a automatic after you put the V8 engine
Can someone help me wrap my head around why a customer could justify the expense of a new/used motor X2 and the 20 hours of labor X2 for a 2005 Cadi. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the cost just doing it once.
Wow, that engine is a whole new meaning of toast.
Great job
Is it better to do an engine swap or a rebuild? I have a 1991 ford escort station wagon. 5 speed stick shift with 340,000-ish miles that I just cannot part with for sentimental reasons.. It was overheated and makes whirring sounds like it has no compression so I assume just a head gasket wouldn't do it.... I wouldn't even know how much a rebuild or swap on a car like that would even cost.
Do I smell a free donation to the cause :) :) ?? Lol.
Any chance you disassembled the old engine? Would have made quite the cautionary tale piece for other car owners
Amesie can i get help with my 2007 cts, swapped engines from 2005 cts im having problems with electrical,ecm engine wiring harness ect.
awesome Video thanks Amesie U got lots of Patience
Loved the tunes. More 8 bit!
You made it look easy :D
Yes the music was a little too much👂
Is it worth replacing the engine on this car second time?
Yes, if you put in an LS
Paul could you fit a ls in it?
Did you have to remove the wiper module as stated in service manual?
Music sounds like super Mario etc. Do you think it was the cats being blocked or lack of oil caused this.
I believe this was Metroid...
Great job, I'm impressed !
when u swapped the engines did you have to reprogram the ecu to the key to the car? i got my engine swapped but it will not crank or start
I had the same problem bro. To answer your question yes. I swapped my engine sat n the driveway for a year. Take the ecu to dealership with the vin. Then you'll have to get the key reprogrammed
All in a few hours eh? LOL! Good job!
2.8LL V6 what?! thought those had what were they called the northstar V8's or at least a V8 in them. at this point hear 3 stories about the cadillac CTS duck the CTS ill never own one. btw awesome job with the engine swap. did you ever rip to see the damage on the inside?
Cool music dude, sounds like Masterblaster / Startropics, Mega man, Paranoid (Black Sabbath) Rock N' Roll racing, Born to be wild.
Neat job, nice to see the whole subframe down with engine, tranny and suspension.
You got another sub :-)
Was the change mechanic light on? ;>) No wimpy jobs in your neighborhood. Nice job and toons!
what I want to know is, how many left over bolts =P
None, there was missing hardware from the hack before me. More bolts went in then came out.
haha, I figured so and it wasn't meant to be bad against you! I am anal about leftover parts and would rather spend 30 minutes whilst assembling, vs much later hate of broken things :)
did you ever get a look inside the old engine?
No it's a valuable core that has to go back to the seller.
That car cost around 2-3k for the same amount of miles. Ofc used. And this job was probably 5-10k including the engine. And it’s not hard to remove. Only took one person, most 2. Me and my brothers did the same job in my front yard. The engine cost us 500 with 120k miles. So I agree with the comment. “This job cost more than the car”
I have the same car I paid 950 for the engine 132k on it there's no way that was 5 or 10 k job
Impressive!
That car cost around 2-3k for the same amount of miles. Ofc used. And this job was probably 5-10k including the engine. And it’s not hard to remove. Only took one person, most 2. Me and my brothers did the same job in my front yard. The engine cost us 500 with 120k miles. So I agree with the comment. This job cost more than the car.
great job need mine done
how much does a job like this cost
Shame the test drive footage was lost. Awesome Auto jib though. What a hassle. Can't believe it is the third motor.
As far as I can tell, modern vehicles are hell to work on. Mainly there's no space under the hood. You either remove the cab on Ford pickups, or you remove 6 things to get to the broken one on most everything else. Then there's diagnosis via the ECM error codes, possible but very ugly. I watched one guy do that and I swear his job was more like debugging electronic hardware than wrenching on a car! Do you trace problems via the ECM output Amesie?
Oh yeah, did you beat the flat rate hour estimate? That's how to make decent money on flat rate jobs.
beautiful
Great vid Paul. POS car. What's the instrumental version of born to be wild? Funny sounding band.
From a Super Nintendo game called Rock And Roll Racers.
Good work!
Wonderful
Thank you
So what ya gonna charge me to replace mine when it finally goes heh? Ill tow it right on up haha
20 hours for this job is not outrageous. A customer came to my shop with an estimate from the dealership in the amount of $9,485 for a used engine. $4,500 was the labor. So, I don't see why a local mechanic shouldn't charge half that. The hours marked by the dealer was 24.5hrs.
If the new engine ready it's 5 hour job 😏😏😏😏
I pay mines 900$ labor and buy a good use engine for 1100$.
Hey Amesie. Two sonnets on BaT Craigslist San Fernando valley for your intrest.
8-bit music is beautiful!!! :) What game is that from?
ffatheranderson I recognize me some classic megaman anywhere.
Awesome vid..
How much for a job like that I have the same engine?
mexico hector 5-10k
@@louisluisss no.. Im getting my motor swapped rn.. 1200 for the swap and 1,000 for the motor 120,00 miles..
Good job.
Awesome. Show
Amsie is that blaster master I hear for the music? Haven't played that game in years.
And mega man sweet!!! Miss being a kid.
Yes, yes it is.
A hell of a job. I can't imagine a 2.8 in a Caddy. Sad.
Nice to see you dont respond to questions..
I do but on the Facebook group. Far too many comments to keep up with on TH-cam..
Life resson:Be kind to your mechanic, don't buy cadillac.
P.S. Megaman tune made my day!
MEGAMAN!
Give me an old Volkswagen beetle engine to replace every time easy out easy in.
Yo you sound like Robert Downey jr
This is why I left this industry. 500k in tools and no pay.and long days on the same car.yea yall can have that crap.
This didn't help I need a video where I can hear them talk about what they are doing especially the exhaust
Thought it was going to be 5.3L LS swap.
Sorry..
Would that even fit?
@@devonharas9014 yes, but it take one hell of a wiring job and a ton of hours.. Have to refab the motor mounts and install a whole new drive train. My buddy ls swapped his, it was about a 12k job with him doing all of the work.
Blaster Master music LOL
I got a 2006 Cadillac STS 3.6 that I’m pulling the engine in the drive way out the top and it’s a pain in the ass all ready got the new engine.I’m to old to be doing this shit I’ve been a mechanic all my life .started in the 80s cars to day are over engineered peace’s of shit. I’d take a carbureted 302 or 350 or 327 or 351 any day.
Cake cake
The only critique I have is the music... 😖. Wears the heck out of you after the first minute. No worries 👍