Judging by the newer looking TrickFlow cylinder heads, studs and nice looking headgaskets, the current customer bought truck the way it sits, and previous owner had a coolant problem, order the trick flow heads studs etc, put it together to find that it still had the same issue, filled it full of stop leak, hence the Sandy looking stuff, and sent it down the road, for the current customer to deal with, unfortunately to many people that scam people in the world anymore, and stop leak causes all of it!
Somebody definitely spent some money putting that thing together back in the day with the Kenne Belle super charger, Trick flow heads, Aluminum expansion tanks, used nice parts. But somebody beat that thing hard it looks like.....
@@cristianduran54 That makes perfect sense. Where the coolant meets the oil. Sometimes there is more pressure on the oil, sometimes there's more pressure in the coolant, like when you turn off the engine.
that sandy looking stuff is from a bottle of head gasket sealer. i tried it on an old chevy 2.8 v6 years ago and then still had to pull the heads off of it. so i saw it leave that stuff all around the cylinders. and the only time i have seen a crack in a cylinder wall was because i kept driving another engine with a bad piston slap in it. don't know if that was the cause here or not. since the cylinder is scored, that would increase the gap between the piston skirt and the cylinder wall. if it was bad enough then it could have caused the slap which lead to the crack. that's just an educated guess though. but i'd almost bet money that sandy stuff is head gasket sealer!
The owner suspected a blown head gasket or something similar. Went down to the local napa store and bought the last 5 bottles of stop leak...cant blame him for trying.
These guys deserve their paychecks because this type of work is aggravating and hard on the body. I beat on wrenches for years and I don't miss it a damn bit. It takes a exceptional mechanic to do that kind of work and deal with the customers.
It’s not that hard on your body. A lot easier than my last career choices in flooring and also concrete work. Being a mechanic is easy as heck compared to those jobs
Right there with ya brother. I did when I was just coming out of Highschool. Was my first "Real Job". The guy that owned the shop taught me Everything. In 5 years I was rebuilding motors and trannys back in 1980 for $500 a week pay. :)
@@ChrisPatrick-q6k Both are physically demanding in different ways. End off. No medal to win here trying to be right about something to fuel the ego. Labouring is hard working. Physically demanind. Mentally demanding.
The oil filter housing is notorious for mixing coolant and oil when gasket goes bad. That looks like the original powder stop leak in the block. It usually comes in a tablet form
I know the 10th Gen 5.4 f150 motors are notorious for the oil filter adapter gaskets failing. It’s a single gasket that both the oil & coolant flows through, overtime they fail & some cases can bleed fluids into one another.
Another item you need to consider, is the Radiator. If i'm not mistaken, the Oil cooler runs though the radiator. I've seen those leak before and start to mix coolant with oil. Just something to check. I'm more familiar with Mopars. Not really a ford guy. I could be remembering wrong. But i do think the cooler is part of the radiator on this one.
The oil cooler on this engine is the aluminum puck hanging off of the oil filter mounting. The cooler in the rad is for the transmission, and trans fluid coolant mix is pink.
@@SkorpyoTFC Not true at all!!! Coolant mix ATF is exactly like what you saw in the footage. I can testify since my 08 Pathfinder had the same issue. And the cooler oil hint in his comment is the transmission oil cooler that ends up in the same coolant radiator thru different contiguous lines with the coolant.
During the disassembly, i saw the oil cooler assembly on the driver side. I had a 98 expedition with the same 5.4 and oil cooler. Bypassed the oil cooler and solved the oil mixing problem. Not saying thats what is going on, but worth a look for sure especially if the engine disassembly is not revealing an obvious mechanical issue.
Damn. I did an oil cooler replacement on my Jeep Wrangler recently. I was stressing for just a little job. Woke up with a hurting back, sore arms and abdomen, fingers cramping up, and just exhausted. These mechanics deserve that money. They damn well earn each penny.
You are right. I worked my way up the ranks in an automotive dealership and some of that time was as a line technician; mostly electrical, not even heavy duty work. Today, I suffer from severe arthritis, had rods placed in both legs, lower back disintegrating, etc. If I even attempted to get under the hood of a vehicle for any length of time, I would stiffen up so badly that I could not move. Just the wear and tear on the body, not to mention the crap techs have to endure, makes them underpaid in my book.
It's fun to see guys doing what I used to do. I left the shop in 2000 to go and fly jets. That was fun for a while. Now, I own my own commercial HVAC company. Because of my 4x Master background, I quickly became a top player in the business. There are some good comments below. I am waiting to see what Dave says.
If I ever had a vehicle worth repairing to the level Daves does, Daves is the ONLY place I would bring it to. Also if I was an aspiring to be a top notch mechanic this is where I would like to be an apprentice
That engine compartment looks like its full of aftermarket components. This customer definitely likes his truck. He found the right shop to take it to. Alejandro is a good tech and a great asset to that shop.
First video of swearing mechanic that wasn’t dubbed out post production, happy to see you guys are just like everyone else who works with their hands and occasional swear words slip out! Enjoyed it.
Good heavens, what a mind to do this WELL. This man has brilliance needs more patience and less anger, I know as I was the same way . Thank you for the captions, even non hearing impaired, can’t hear everything.
This 2003 SVT Lightning and the 2003 Mustang Cobra GT "Terminator" have been dream cars of mine since I was in elementary school. Ford also had a concept Expedition that was going to be called Thunder that was an Expedition with the SVT Lightning engine and trim but never came to fruition. I miss Ford SVT. They made a ton of cool stuff.
I love your videos because of the quality of your shops workmanship. I would like to comment on the Tech not using a line wrench anywhere. I would recommend that a line wrench be used anytime possible to prevent damage to the line nut by rounding the flats to break it loose. Also, the open end wrench can often slip without waning and cause secondary damage to the surrounding parts.
That is silicate from the yellow antifreeze when it gets hot it produces a sand like substance we see more in the diesels and clogging up the oil coolers. That’s why we run a low or silicate free antifreeze in all the big rig diesels
I have been having this problem in my 03 Dodge 3.7l for years. The heater core stops up with this sandy stuff all the time. At first I thought it was crucible material left over from the block casting. Now I believe it is the antifreeze breaking down into crystals from age because it is becoming more of a problem. I have always used Mopar antifreeze mix with distilled water. I need to find a heater hose filter and drain the block with a flush. I like to find out what it really is.
Don’t use distilled water. Use demineralised water. During the distillation process, water is vaporized into its gaseous phase, so all its impurities are left behind. These impurities include a number of minerals, including “calcium” and “magnesium,” the two components of water “hardness.” The water is then condensed back into its liquid phase, so the resulting liquid is pure water - in fact, some of the purest water on earth. But the problem is that when water is distilled, or “stripped,” of its minerals and impurities, the resulting solution is composed of chemically imbalanced “ions.” This leaves distilled water “ionically hungry,” so it will actually strip electrons from the metals in a cooling system as it attempts to chemically re-balance itself. As it chemically removes electrons from the metals of cooling system components, distilled water eventually does extreme damage that could lead to cooling system failure.
@@stephenpage-murray7226 the problem in my area is tap water is disinfectant with liquid lime and highly corrosive to aluminum when heated. Aluminum components on this motor show no sign of any corrosion in very good shape for a 20 year old motor.
@@stephenpage-murray7226If you buy pre mixed coolant from any manufacturer it is distilled water they are mixing with their products. If you get the concentrate they tell you to mix it to 50/50 the same way with the same water. All of them say the same thing. The coolant is developed with corrosion inhibitors along with other stuff that keep electrolysis at bay to be mixed the way it was developed. Just needs to be the correct coolant for the specific vehicle.
Thanks for another great video. I was a Ford tech from 81 to 87. It was great working on the mustangs as they evolved. But we had to deal with the early escort cylinder head issues. Speaking of head gaskets we also had the ihi 6.9 😢. And leftover crap like the VV carb. But I learned a lot. Be well my freinds.
Great channel and all the best for the new year from your Kiwi Fan. I honestly zoom past all the million hose clamps and wiring plugs. If I had to work on one, absolutely brilliant content. A mechanic of 45 years, you never stop learning ☺
I think people think they'll save money somehow by keeping quiet, leaving things out, or straight up lying sometimes. "I better not tell them I did xyz because then they'll 'get me' for this/that." We always find out what happened. Lol
Is the sand possibly from when they made the block. During the process of shaking the sand out of the mold at the factory they didn't get all of the sand out of the water jacket. Just a thought. Nice work by the way of going the extra mile and finding out the problem and now the solution. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Probably somewhere down the road some “STOP LEAK” was put in, and whoever thought they rinsed it out after making a Repair! Looking like a New Engine, do the Proper Upgrades, and his Great Grandchildren will be Showing the Truck!!!
Wow what a mission for the technician to first remove everything 😮😢 n then turning that motor over i said wow u guys find some crazy stuff. So need to check the part 2 out super interesting work u do and we aint even mechanics too cool
the issue with that is, if the oil cooler is mixing fluids, theres another underlying cause to why an oil cooler would get so hot it would crack or why it was cracked by somebody elses mishap, (my knowledge of oil coolers and their fails is strictly from AUDI, VW, BMW)
17:10 common calcium/potassium oxide mixed with zinc manganese oxides, it was filled with straight water a time or two likely because... they are required to do that at drag strips, that also means the head studs are very likely junk as well just because they did it.
but wouldnt a sane person flush with normal coolant again after the strip? i doubt from a few runs over the years it would crystallize that bad. plus it doesnt seem like a full on drag spec lightning just a beefed up engine mainly heads, studs, upgraded supercharger
Studs would only have hydrogen imbritlement if they are the L19 studs. I don't think arp 2000's or 625's really rust or go bad , they are sealed off from any coolant or oil by the head gasket. If they had coolant or water on them, you got bigger issues.
I'm surprised a shop would even take this highly modified Lightning. Hats off to Dave. I guess he also has a speed shop. I've owned five of these bad boys and they have a personality all their own. The only mods I ever did was a ported stock blower, oil separator, plugs, crank pulley, mass air and tune. I've towed a two place V-nose snowmobile trailer all over Michigan for several years and only problem I had with one was the fuel pump went out on the way up to Gaylord. Fragged the trip and cost me $700 not including the car rental. I had the FORD dealer put in a dual pump kit and was good to go.
I have seen coolant that sat way too long get white and chalky from reacting to the aluminum like corrosion. but If its sand then either intake or was at a beach or maybe the casting from manufacturing which would be wild!!
Yep was going to say this. Abused engines (usually that have ran tap water for coolant) I've seen this before. Often the heater core gets clogged with the stuff once it starts circulating.
Powdered metal block sealer. Also the K&D pellet sealer leaves that kind of debris. The entire cooling system, that can’t be thoroughly cleaned must be replaced.
I worked on an engine that had a similar sandy material in the radiator. It was also pressurizing the cooling system overnight. And was able to measure .8V when sticking my voltmeter probe in the coolant.
I remember the original 1st gen lightnings... OOO man as a teenager at the time when the 1st gen of lightnings, generation prior to this one in vid was that one vehicle that I liked even more than the chevy 454ss's, I know right i don't know why it was the ford over the chevy with me but that ford most were red but I wanted the white one I even saw a black one wasn't bad but that white in either 1994 or 1995 was the truck i wanted.. I did however manage to get a new 2003 ford f150 harley davidson 100th anniversary edition that was crew cab with 2 tone black top portion of truck with a silver metallic bottom portion on exterior with 4 bucket seats and 2 fullsize center consoles and man did i love to hear the gear drive on that supercharger I added bigger injectors a smaller supercharger pulley and had it tuned for the mods and man talk about a fast truck that thing was fast stock but the simple mods made a huge difference in the way that baby reacted a friend bought it off me and he still has it to this day with under 69k on the odometer.. I've owned a few ford's in my life that all had fords legendary svo or svt badging on them
Check the engine oil cooler? Easily could've popped. Also, these engines are known to have left-over casting sand and flashing, but the build-up could also be galvanic scale, if he didn't keep up with coolant maintenance.
Dave's posts are AWESOME. Every time I see this stuff I'm reminded of why the old school per-computer/ emissions era cars are so popular. Virtual push lawn mower tech in the older cars vs gee wiz rocket science difficult in so many of the newer vehicles. Keeping a new muscle car or in this case a truck is a lot tougher and way more expensive to keep running properly.
Hello Brother Dave. When dismantling the cylinder heads, I believe that the bolts should be backed off in increments while following the proper sequence so as not to warp the cylinder head. 😮 that goes equally for installation or removal of the heads, especially if they're aluminum. Thanks 😊
Exactly that blower is capable of 600+ whp. The stock rods and pistons in that 5.4 were not adequate for a bigger blower. Not like the 4.6 terminator which got the internal goodies.
Improper coolant thats actually a combinations of dissolved solids from the engine and galvanic crap. Coolant still cools and has its antifreeze properties but the main purpose of all the rainbow coolants and 3yr 5yr and 10yr and so on are for the corrosion inhibiters that get consumed. See this alot in Montana
I don't like fluid to coolant heat transfer systems. We don't get hard freeze where I live, so I install regular oil-to-air coolers. I've read where transmission fluid can be over-cooled, but if you think about it, how can a vehicle run just fine when it's 50-degrees out? Besides, my temp gauge shows normal trans temps around 110-to-125, so don't tell me that's too "cold."
actually many engines dont need a oil cooler unless they are doing a lot of heavy towing or hard driving. they actually can be run too cool and it adds to gum and varnish build up. particularly vehicle that drive around town all the time they dont run enough to get hot enough to boil off the crap in the oil and it then deposits on everything and bakes on.
My guess is a defect in the block or wiring , the sand is actually corrosion by a reaction in the metal with electricity passing through it. Leading the block to weaken and crack . That’s my theory
Love your videos. Old time retired mechanic. Is that a torque wrench he's using ? I was taught to never use a torque wrench to take bolts or nuts off. Have things changed ? Great work that you guys do. Need more professionals like all of you guy m
I applied a thin coating of RTV silicone sealant on the front side of the engines oil pan gasket where it mates up to the front timing cover gasket because I had a crack welded up in the oil pan for my 5.7 litre Chevrolet LS1 V8 engine & even though I filed & sanded where it was welded smooth, it had a few scratch marks where the person who welded it roughly filed the weld back on the gasket mating surface, so it was good insurance to make sure that I didn't have to remove the oil pan again if it leaked oil. I dummy fitted it without the gasket & I ran a 0.2mm (0.008") in between the gap, it fitted snugly so I fitted the oil pan which hasn't leaked for 6 years. I did the same thing with the rear main oil seal carrier a bit over 8 years ago just so that I can be confident that it would seal, I applied a thin film of RTV silicone sealant onto the oil pan gasket & onto the bottom of the rear main seal carrier when doing a rear main oil seal replacement which still doesn't leak. I noticed that the apprentice was using normal spanners on the pipe fittings, when I did work experience as a mechanic in 1993 I was told to use pipe (aka flare nut) spanners on those nuts !
Check the coolant reservoir, see if you got any white mud or sand inside , all this automotive manufacture used to put some kind of sande muds white or slight yellow inside the coolant . Mostly in the 97' to later years , mostly all import and Chrysler as I noticed , when I removed the coolant reservoir tank , even when it was brand spanking new delivery by trucks loads to all the dealership, and when I checked it before being sold to consumers . I noticed
First time I've watched a TH-cam mechanic use words I'm very familiar with while working on a vehicle. Excellent video.
I have a few more I use, like HDSPM!!! LOL
Human dope smoking post Morton
Dam.
Cause it's not youtube mechanics. It's a real bonifide 0:29 high end shop. That does youtubes for advertising
Hijodesuputamadre! I mean damn.....
Alejandro working hard. Building lots of dams while taking down the engine. Perfect balance.
Alonso works harder.
I didn’t get the reference at first but caught up. 😂
You know he dropped a few F bombs off camera, LOL!
I vote for Alejandro to be in more engine tear down videos 😂👍🏽 the Spanish cussing is the best. I love it!
Pro mechanics sounds coming from that man, he's legit
Ah su perra madre? lol
*&($(*& 😬😆
Not much panel/paint protection being used on this vehicle
Alejandro is my new favorite. Dude is comfortable being uncomfortable. Rare trait these days.
That Lighnting was Alejandro swapped at one point. Dude was IN the engine bay 😂
Judging by the newer looking TrickFlow cylinder heads, studs and nice looking headgaskets, the current customer bought truck the way it sits, and previous owner had a coolant problem, order the trick flow heads studs etc, put it together to find that it still had the same issue, filled it full of stop leak, hence the Sandy looking stuff, and sent it down the road, for the current customer to deal with, unfortunately to many people that scam people in the world anymore, and stop leak causes all of it!
Yep
Should’ve been sold as a me mechanic special.
Somebody definitely spent some money putting that thing together back in the day with the Kenne Belle super charger, Trick flow heads, Aluminum expansion tanks, used nice parts. But somebody beat that thing hard it looks like.....
The oil coolers sometimes go in these
@@cristianduran54
That makes perfect sense. Where the coolant meets the oil. Sometimes there is more pressure on the oil, sometimes there's more pressure in the coolant, like when you turn off the engine.
that sandy looking stuff is from a bottle of head gasket sealer. i tried it on an old chevy 2.8 v6 years ago and then still had to pull the heads off of it. so i saw it leave that stuff all around the cylinders. and the only time i have seen a crack in a cylinder wall was because i kept driving another engine with a bad piston slap in it. don't know if that was the cause here or not. since the cylinder is scored, that would increase the gap between the piston skirt and the cylinder wall. if it was bad enough then it could have caused the slap which lead to the crack. that's just an educated guess though. but i'd almost bet money that sandy stuff is head gasket sealer!
The owner suspected a blown head gasket or something similar. Went down to the local napa store and bought the last 5 bottles of stop leak...cant blame him for trying.
@@rfwinc3261 He is paying top dollar for good work. No way that same person dumps 5 bottles of death into a super charged Lightning
Bar Leaks
@@rfwinc3261 didn't have to be 5 bottles. i only used one and it still coated everything. but yes, owner suspected a blown head gasket.
This engine has forced induction thus can exacerbated the piston slap and crack the cylinder wall
Alejandro is moving up the ranks quick. I'm glad there's some young people who know how to work on things.
The people have spoken, we love this guy!
The quote of the day ~ "Sometimes you have to be a chill guy" 😎
These guys deserve their paychecks because this type of work is aggravating and hard on the body. I beat on wrenches for years and I don't miss it a damn bit. It takes a exceptional mechanic to do that kind of work and deal with the customers.
It’s not that hard on your body. A lot easier than my last career choices in flooring and also concrete work. Being a mechanic is easy as heck compared to those jobs
@Lexidezi225 when you get arthritis in your wrist and hands years later tell me it's not hard on the body. I know been there and done that.
@@bradrowe141So you don't think construction is as hard physically as being a mechanic?
Right there with ya brother. I did when I was just coming out of Highschool. Was my first "Real Job". The guy that owned the shop taught me Everything. In 5 years I was rebuilding motors and trannys back in 1980 for $500 a week pay. :)
@@ChrisPatrick-q6k Both are physically demanding in different ways. End off. No medal to win here trying to be right about something to fuel the ego. Labouring is hard working. Physically demanind. Mentally demanding.
The oil filter housing is notorious for mixing coolant and oil when gasket goes bad. That looks like the original powder stop leak in the block. It usually comes in a tablet form
This is why I go to the vehicle specific forums. They know what's up.
Bar's leaks tablets, K-seal? Some one kicked the can (real problem) down the road...
Looked up Bar's leaks tablets. Main ingredient? 70% GINGER extract. Some sodium carbonate. Liquid Copper has Silicic acid, sodium salt 5-10%...
Alejandro is legit! Échale ganas carnal! Good to see young people really getting into the trade.
I know the 10th Gen 5.4 f150 motors are notorious for the oil filter adapter gaskets failing. It’s a single gasket that both the oil & coolant flows through, overtime they fail & some cases can bleed fluids into one another.
Nice answer! From all the people who know...
Damn! This guy is a chill guy
First guy fo sho , the dude inspecting is a bit of a dweeb
Another item you need to consider, is the Radiator. If i'm not mistaken, the Oil cooler runs though the radiator. I've seen those leak before and start to mix coolant with oil. Just something to check. I'm more familiar with Mopars. Not really a ford guy. I could be remembering wrong. But i do think the cooler is part of the radiator on this one.
Yes that's a real possibility, seen it a few times
The transmission oil cooler yes
Happened to me on my gmc canyon and destroyed my perfect running transmission, radiator cracked at trans cooler side and mixed the oil and coolant.
The oil cooler on this engine is the aluminum puck hanging off of the oil filter mounting. The cooler in the rad is for the transmission, and trans fluid coolant mix is pink.
@@SkorpyoTFC Not true at all!!! Coolant mix ATF is exactly like what you saw in the footage. I can testify since my 08 Pathfinder had the same issue. And the cooler oil hint in his comment is the transmission oil cooler that ends up in the same coolant radiator thru different contiguous lines with the coolant.
During the disassembly, i saw the oil cooler assembly on the driver side. I had a 98 expedition with the same 5.4 and oil cooler. Bypassed the oil cooler and solved the oil mixing problem. Not saying thats what is going on, but worth a look for sure especially if the engine disassembly is not revealing an obvious mechanical issue.
Damn. I did an oil cooler replacement on my Jeep Wrangler recently. I was stressing for just a little job. Woke up with a hurting back, sore arms and abdomen, fingers cramping up, and just exhausted. These mechanics deserve that money. They damn well earn each penny.
You are right. I worked my way up the ranks in an automotive dealership and some of that time was as a line technician; mostly electrical, not even heavy duty work. Today, I suffer from severe arthritis, had rods placed in both legs, lower back disintegrating, etc. If I even attempted to get under the hood of a vehicle for any length of time, I would stiffen up so badly that I could not move. Just the wear and tear on the body, not to mention the crap techs have to endure, makes them underpaid in my book.
It's fun to see guys doing what I used to do. I left the shop in 2000 to go and fly jets. That was fun for a while. Now, I own my own commercial HVAC company. Because of my 4x Master background, I quickly became a top player in the business. There are some good comments below. I am waiting to see what Dave says.
That is crazy!!!!! That block is
G A R B A G E!!!! THAT is crazy!!!! Makes no sense!!! I can't wait to see what you guys find out!!!
If I ever had a vehicle worth repairing to the level Daves does, Daves is the ONLY place I would bring it to. Also if I was an aspiring to be a top notch mechanic this is where I would like to be an apprentice
That engine compartment looks like its full of aftermarket components. This customer definitely likes his truck. He found the right shop to take it to. Alejandro is a good tech and a great asset to that shop.
Yup the red ford lighting 🔥
First video of swearing mechanic that wasn’t dubbed out post production, happy to see you guys are just like everyone else who works with their hands and occasional swear words slip out! Enjoyed it.
Good heavens, what a mind to do this WELL. This man has brilliance needs more patience and less anger, I know as I was the same way . Thank you for the captions, even non hearing impaired, can’t hear everything.
Lightning engines are notorious for lifting the heads under boost. Its why we all went to oversized Studs for the heads on them.
Early models spit plugs too.
@24roughing76 yup, my 2002 threw the 7th cylinder plug. Lucky to have it fixed under Warranty.
Only 99-02
03-04 came better
This channel is no doubt one of my favorite TH-cam channels.
This 2003 SVT Lightning and the 2003 Mustang Cobra GT "Terminator" have been dream cars of mine since I was in elementary school. Ford also had a concept Expedition that was going to be called Thunder that was an Expedition with the SVT Lightning engine and trim but never came to fruition. I miss Ford SVT. They made a ton of cool stuff.
I love your videos because of the quality of your shops workmanship. I would like to comment on the Tech not using a line wrench anywhere. I would recommend that a line wrench be used anytime possible to prevent damage to the line nut by rounding the flats to break it loose. Also, the open end wrench can often slip without waning and cause secondary damage to the surrounding parts.
Love the show! Wish it was longer can’t wait for the next episode!
I know Alejandro got some tortas. More content from him please.
Lmaoooo
"asuperramadre" yup he a MexiCAN
He has plenty
That stop leak
He rolls with the Pisa’s fr
That is silicate from the yellow antifreeze when it gets hot it produces a sand like substance we see more in the diesels and clogging up the oil coolers. That’s why we run a low or silicate free antifreeze in all the big rig diesels
Bullseye!!!!!! Give this man a cigar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been having this problem in my 03 Dodge 3.7l for years. The heater core stops up with this sandy stuff all the time. At first I thought it was crucible material left over from the block casting. Now I believe it is the antifreeze breaking down into crystals from age because it is becoming more of a problem. I have always used Mopar antifreeze mix with distilled water. I need to find a heater hose filter and drain the block with a flush. I like to find out what it really is.
Don’t use distilled water. Use demineralised water.
During the distillation process, water is vaporized into its gaseous phase, so all its impurities are left behind. These impurities include a number of minerals, including “calcium” and “magnesium,” the two components of water “hardness.” The water is then condensed back into its liquid phase, so the resulting liquid is pure water - in fact, some of the purest water on earth. But the problem is that when water is distilled, or “stripped,” of its minerals and impurities, the resulting solution is composed of chemically imbalanced “ions.” This leaves distilled water “ionically hungry,” so it will actually strip electrons from the metals in a cooling system as it attempts to chemically re-balance itself. As it chemically removes electrons from the metals of cooling system components, distilled water eventually does extreme damage that could lead to cooling system failure.
@@stephenpage-murray7226 the problem in my area is tap water is disinfectant with liquid lime and highly corrosive to aluminum when heated. Aluminum components on this motor show no sign of any corrosion in very good shape for a 20 year old motor.
@@stephenpage-murray7226If you buy pre mixed coolant from any manufacturer it is distilled water they are mixing with their products. If you get the concentrate they tell you to mix it to 50/50 the same way with the same water. All of them say the same thing. The coolant is developed with corrosion inhibitors along with other stuff that keep electrolysis at bay to be mixed the way it was developed. Just needs to be the correct coolant for the specific vehicle.
This is one those videos that make ya appreciate how much it takes to do this type of stuff
Merry Christmas 🎁🎉🎉 following up from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪 appreciate 2 year's being followed your videos 🌺👍👍
What a chill guy (cue the music )
Damn.... hope he can remember how to put it back together 😂
Nice Kenney Bell. That's not the stock SC
or heads. pretty sure ford didn't use trick flow, or head studs..
OLÁ Dave`s 10/01/25 Conseguiu desmontar um motor com "chave de impacto" sem quebrar sequer um único parafuso. PARABÉNS... VAMOS ORAR...
I had a 2003 one in gray and loved it. I wish I never sold it.
Thanks for another great video. I was a Ford tech from 81 to 87. It was great working on the mustangs as they evolved. But we had to deal with the early escort cylinder head issues. Speaking of head gaskets we also had the ihi 6.9 😢. And leftover crap like the VV carb. But I learned a lot. Be well my freinds.
"I have to go work on my chillness.".....LMAO....sometimes ya just gotta walk away for a few minutes. Go, Alejandro !!!
These trucks sounded great!
Man, he (Alejandro) is fun to watch.
Great channel and all the best for the new year from your Kiwi Fan. I honestly zoom past all the million hose clamps and wiring plugs. If I had to work on one, absolutely brilliant content. A mechanic of 45 years, you never stop learning ☺
Sounds like a customer not telling you the whole story.
I think people think they'll save money somehow by keeping quiet, leaving things out, or straight up lying sometimes.
"I better not tell them I did xyz because then they'll 'get me' for this/that."
We always find out what happened. Lol
I'd always tell my customers- parts and pieces don't lie. Smells, colors, debri, wear, it all tells the story.
You have to be a detective...the engine never lies...the customer always does...it speaks for its self
Sounds like an episode of House.
I don’t understand why people lie. It’s like lying to your doctor. There’s no reason to do it.
Animo PAISA puro Para delante!!!
Did yall even test the oil cooler before disassembly?
As a former owner of a 12-second 2001 Lightning....I can appreciate this video...especially the angry steps tool looks!😅
Awesome Techs/Mechanic's at your shop. Wish we could Clone them.
Is the sand possibly from when they made the block. During the process of shaking the sand out of the mold at the factory they didn't get all of the sand out of the water jacket. Just a thought. Nice work by the way of going the extra mile and finding out the problem and now the solution. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
We need the next episode of this. Great video
Probably somewhere down the road some “STOP LEAK” was put in, and whoever thought they rinsed it out after making a Repair!
Looking like a New Engine, do the Proper Upgrades, and his Great Grandchildren will be Showing the Truck!!!
My guess is that engine was rebuilt before and that’s the leftover from shot cleaning
Wow what a mission for the technician to first remove everything 😮😢 n then turning that motor over i said wow u guys find some crazy stuff. So need to check the part 2 out super interesting work u do and we aint even mechanics too cool
Great video guys
Appreciate you watching!
At 2:37🤣🤣🤣
That got me cracking up too. Wasn’t expecting that one 😂
That one got me too
Best truck ever built ‼️
Another thing we see alot in colder areas is oil cap looking like water oil mixture from condensation from pcv
10:10 oil cooler...oil and coolant mixing but not "leaking" my diagnostic guess😊
the issue with that is, if the oil cooler is mixing fluids, theres another underlying cause to why an oil cooler would get so hot it would crack or why it was cracked by somebody elses mishap, (my knowledge of oil coolers and their fails is strictly from AUDI, VW, BMW)
Sometimes it just happens all on its own, unfortunately @keyscrockett7102
17:10 common calcium/potassium oxide mixed with zinc manganese oxides, it was filled with straight water a time or two likely because... they are required to do that at drag strips, that also means the head studs are very likely junk as well just because they did it.
but wouldnt a sane person flush with normal coolant again after the strip? i doubt from a few runs over the years it would crystallize that bad. plus it doesnt seem like a full on drag spec lightning just a beefed up engine mainly heads, studs, upgraded supercharger
Good guess. Thought of that but could also be the result of mixing coolant leading to minerals dropping out.
Studs would only have hydrogen imbritlement if they are the L19 studs. I don't think arp 2000's or 625's really rust or go bad , they are sealed off from any coolant or oil by the head gasket. If they had coolant or water on them, you got bigger issues.
I ran water w/only Redline Water Wetter in my race car for years. Never saw anything like this junk in the coolant passages.
AC condenser looking like Rocky in the 9th round.
Alejandro my man 💪 😎
I'm surprised a shop would even take this highly modified Lightning. Hats off to Dave. I guess he also has a speed shop. I've owned five of these bad boys and they have a personality all their own. The only mods I ever did was a ported stock blower, oil separator, plugs, crank pulley, mass air and tune. I've towed a two place V-nose snowmobile trailer all over Michigan for several years and only problem I had with one was the fuel pump went out on the way up to Gaylord. Fragged the trip and cost me $700 not including the car rental. I had the FORD dealer put in a dual pump kit and was good to go.
I have seen coolant that sat way too long get white and chalky from reacting to the aluminum like corrosion. but If its sand then either intake or was at a beach or maybe the casting from manufacturing which would be wild!!
Yep was going to say this. Abused engines (usually that have ran tap water for coolant) I've seen this before. Often the heater core gets clogged with the stuff once it starts circulating.
signature word for Alejandro “dam,” lol
Im glad they gave my boy a chance
Great engine stands. You should send this video over to Eric at I Do Cars. He is in desperate need of one of these!
I can not wait for PT.2 of this video
Alejandro showed a lot of restraint compared to the swear words that echo in my garage, especially when I have to work on a Ford.
I could teach you a whole new vocabulary from working on BMWs
come to my place you will learn brand new words that dont appear in the dictionary.
Powdered metal block sealer. Also the K&D pellet sealer leaves that kind of debris. The entire cooling system, that can’t be thoroughly cleaned must be replaced.
I worked on an engine that had a similar sandy material in the radiator. It was also pressurizing the cooling system overnight. And was able to measure .8V when sticking my voltmeter probe in the coolant.
So then what
I remember the original 1st gen lightnings... OOO man as a teenager at the time when the 1st gen of lightnings, generation prior to this one in vid was that one vehicle that I liked even more than the chevy 454ss's, I know right i don't know why it was the ford over the chevy with me but that ford most were red but I wanted the white one I even saw a black one wasn't bad but that white in either 1994 or 1995 was the truck i wanted.. I did however manage to get a new 2003 ford f150 harley davidson 100th anniversary edition that was crew cab with 2 tone black top portion of truck with a silver metallic bottom portion on exterior with 4 bucket seats and 2 fullsize center consoles and man did i love to hear the gear drive on that supercharger I added bigger injectors a smaller supercharger pulley and had it tuned for the mods and man talk about a fast truck that thing was fast stock but the simple mods made a huge difference in the way that baby reacted a friend bought it off me and he still has it to this day with under 69k on the odometer.. I've owned a few ford's in my life that all had fords legendary svo or svt badging on them
Seems like a pretty chill guy
Check the engine oil cooler? Easily could've popped. Also, these engines are known to have left-over casting sand and flashing, but the build-up could also be galvanic scale, if he didn't keep up with coolant maintenance.
That is a legit mechanic right there. He knows the terminology we are used to 🤣🤣
Having owned 2 lightings, been through 4 motors, knew exactly where this was going.
Dave's posts are AWESOME. Every time I see this stuff I'm reminded of why the old school per-computer/ emissions era cars are so popular. Virtual push lawn mower tech in the older cars vs gee wiz rocket science difficult in so many of the newer vehicles. Keeping a new muscle car or in this case a truck is a lot tougher and way more expensive to keep running properly.
nice . thanks . good info.
glad that i kept my 1979 bronco. 🐎
probably the OFA gasket is allowing the oil/coolant mixture.
Hello Brother Dave. When dismantling the cylinder heads, I believe that the bolts should be backed off in increments while following the proper sequence so as not to warp the cylinder head. 😮 that goes equally for installation or removal of the heads, especially if they're aluminum. Thanks 😊
The second I saw that Kenne Bell supercharger I had a pretty good idea what the issue was, lol
Exactly that blower is capable of 600+ whp. The stock rods and pistons in that 5.4 were not adequate for a bigger blower. Not like the 4.6 terminator which got the internal goodies.
U are all awesome and knowledge and honesty is top notch I wish u guys had a shop where I'm at❤
Me too!
It’s a lot more chill than I would be good grief
I had my eyes on that cherry red Chevy BelAir next to it. That is a beautiful classic Chevrolet.
Improper coolant thats actually a combinations of dissolved solids from the engine and galvanic crap. Coolant still cools and has its antifreeze properties but the main purpose of all the rainbow coolants and 3yr 5yr and 10yr and so on are for the corrosion inhibiters that get consumed. See this alot in Montana
Love the dam counter!
alejandro with the memes, my man
10:55 its not " the wrong bolts" its aftermarket BOLTS BROTHA😂😂
I don't like fluid to coolant heat transfer systems. We don't get hard freeze where I live, so I install regular oil-to-air coolers. I've read where transmission fluid can be over-cooled, but if you think about it, how can a vehicle run just fine when it's 50-degrees out? Besides, my temp gauge shows normal trans temps around 110-to-125, so don't tell me that's too "cold."
Same. Neither do Nissan Xterra, Frontier, and Pathfinders.
actually many engines dont need a oil cooler unless they are doing a lot of heavy towing or hard driving. they actually can be run too cool and it adds to gum and varnish build up. particularly vehicle that drive around town all the time they dont run enough to get hot enough to boil off the crap in the oil and it then deposits on everything and bakes on.
the motto of the story you dont need additional cooling on 99 percent of vehicles. what is provided factory is good enough.
My guess is a defect in the block or wiring , the sand is actually corrosion by a reaction in the metal with electricity passing through it. Leading the block to weaken and crack . That’s my theory
Head gasket fix in the coolant passages. It chrystalizes once heated to fill any voids.
Very Good!
Thank you both!
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If you mix green and red coolant together, it can make dirt like substance. You can use either color, just don’t mix them.
Looking for this comment. I agree. Looks like mixing incompatible coolants!
Mixing coolants makes a clear gel like jello , it's a terrible mistake to make
Radiator stop leak additive or head gasket sealer. Something was added trying to fix the issue.
Love your videos. Old time retired mechanic.
Is that a torque wrench he's using ? I was taught to never use a torque wrench to take bolts or nuts off. Have things changed ?
Great work that you guys do. Need more professionals like all of you guy m
I applied a thin coating of RTV silicone sealant on the front side of the engines oil pan gasket where it mates up to the front timing cover gasket because I had a crack welded up in the oil pan for my 5.7 litre Chevrolet LS1 V8 engine & even though I filed & sanded where it was welded smooth, it had a few scratch marks where the person who welded it roughly filed the weld back on the gasket mating surface, so it was good insurance to make sure that I didn't have to remove the oil pan again if it leaked oil.
I dummy fitted it without the gasket & I ran a 0.2mm (0.008") in between the gap, it fitted snugly so I fitted the oil pan which hasn't leaked for 6 years.
I did the same thing with the rear main oil seal carrier a bit over 8 years ago just so that I can be confident that it would seal, I applied a thin film of RTV silicone sealant onto the oil pan gasket & onto the bottom of the rear main seal carrier when doing a rear main oil seal replacement which still doesn't leak.
I noticed that the apprentice was using normal spanners on the pipe fittings, when I did work experience as a mechanic in 1993 I was told to use pipe (aka flare nut) spanners on those nuts !
15:12 OMG….just had to let out a long painful sigh. That poor motor…..Kenne Bell though is beautiful.
Check the coolant reservoir, see if you got any white mud or sand inside , all this automotive manufacture used to put some kind of sande muds white or slight yellow inside the coolant . Mostly in the 97' to later years , mostly all import and Chrysler as I noticed , when I removed the coolant reservoir tank , even when it was brand spanking new delivery by trucks loads to all the dealership, and when I checked it before being sold to consumers . I noticed
What tests were conducted before you decided to yank the motor and tear it down?
Oil was in the coolant and coolant was in the oil.
None needed all oil coolers run 15-20k