I’m thinking we remove the engine, take it back to the shop, tear it down, fix it and sell it at a huge profit. After all, it IS highly desirable!! And by we, I mean you work, I watch!!
All those in favor of Wes pulling the motor and bringing it back to the shop for a nice rebuild series, give a thunbs up. If I lived closer Wes, I'd come down to help yank it with ya.
My experience with evaporust is that the metal needs to be pretty much grease and oil free. I used it on a pair of pliers that were so rusted a hammer wouldn't budge them. Overnight in evaporust and they worked freely by hand.
"work"? Surely work is what you do prior to getting home and finding 3 missed calls and 7 messages because you were too busy to look at your phone all day?
@@chasevans7171how do you have 3 missed, but 7 messages. I spend at least the last few hours of my day doing emails log sheets and work tickets so there is alot of boring ass computer work to be done so it helps to have something going in the background
It was a long shot but a relatively cheap intervention. I've had good results with Evaporust on light surface rust but I couldn't predict how well it would deal with a seized cylinder. Anyway, it was a worthy experiment and there was some good insight about fluid compatibility and density/buoyancy. The active ingredient is a chelating agent which pretty much guarantees it's water-based (being non-toxic, non-acid, and non-caustic is also a clue). Sucks that it didn't work out in this case but we all learned something and now you have half a jug of Evaporust to play around with.
But Wes but Wes.... you didn’t try my great grandads secret sauce for breaking them loose!! Lol you need a team of horses 3 bottles of Tabasco sauce a box of thumb tacks and some of that sticky stuff that comes on baseball cards... it will be running in no time! Granddad always swore by it
Actually, thumb tacks (or sheet metal screws, which is what I use), are very useful for cleaning rust. Put some in a fuel tank with some detergent and shake it like a maraca.
Ah well, now you know. Thanks for taking us along for this and your other adventures in 2020! Happy Holidays to you, Mrs. Wes, Lucas and Max! Nice new logo, by the way.
That engine is actually rare and is actually saught after by old school truck an car guys believe it or not the gmc 302 set a land speed record of 200mph its featured on an episode of road kill
@@wes11bravo In the early 90's I built a V8 conversion street legal Toyota Hilux mini monster pick up truck, with cherry bomb mufflers. It would set alarms off driving round parking lots, it got embarrassing in the end. The truck was fairly quiet if the gas pedal wasn't stamped on hard, it must of just been the right sound frequency to do it.
@@super6954 - 100% brother! I have the complete stock exhaust for it that I will be installing as soon as I can motivate myself. It was somewhat amusing to set off car alarms but the novelty is wearing off!
One thing I notice using Evaporust on motorcycle fasteners etc is that they come out with a weird texture like they have been sandblasted. They also start to flash rust again in hours. Its a great product if you're going to paint or treat the item afterwards.
I can’t see Wes giving up this easy. Maybe a sequel will follow. Merry Christmas Wes to you and Mrs. W and the kido plus the pup. Thanks for another year of videos.
You can't give up Wes, you never give up, I honestly think it's time to lift that engine out, get it back to your workshop and strip it down. That whole project is worth every second of video footage. You know you want to! Go for it mate whoop whoop whoop 👍👍👍
A very close friend, who I have known since around 1958, has a 1929 Chevy sedan with a GMC blown 302 GMC six cylinder engine. It runs VERY well. And those engines are highly desireable.
"3cyl yugo engine from the bottom of a lake"...had me gasp for breath from laughing...Wes, love your comments, also the boiled crocodile tears... :-D Thx a lot!
Caught that comment you made. We'll let it sit for 24 hours......three weeks later. Lol Good one Wes.. Thanks and if you don't upload beforehand I hope you and the family have a merry Christmas
Perhaps another quick visit to just pop the head off and satisfy the curiosity? It was a fun science experiment, thanks for sharing. A big ole stuck engine thumbs up. You never disappoint on the videos!
Haven´t tried it myelf, but a mix of acetone and ATF is often mentioned. Only engine I´ve gotten un-stuck was an old Citroën DS. I had the head of and bashed the pistons with sledgehammer and wood and tried every oily stuff I had lying around. The thing that did the trick that time was a LOT of WD-40 and using the starter on it. Did it survive? Guess what, it´s twenty years since I did that. Runs like a dream. It also had every substance known to humanity in the crankcase and possibly some alien stuff. Even antifreeze which people claim that it kills the bearings. It might have sounded a little strange for a while but it got good after a while. The Citroën has a very overbuilt engine but that old iron is no moped either.
Yes after he removed the most of that diesel he should have used a propane torch and stuck it in the spark plug opening and cooked all the residue from the cyls and that heat wouldnt have hurt anything. Then put the evapo rust into a dry cyl to give it the best chance to work.
Yeah - a lot of the skilled restorers are pretty careful to put items through the parts washer (or just a bowl of solvent) before using Evaporust or MC-51
I can also confirm. I just submerged a camshaft in evaporust to clean some light rust off it. I had cleaned most of the remaining oil and grease off it with carburetor cleaner. I left one spot between lobes with some oil on it. After three weeks, the oil turned white, and the metal under it was unchanged. Everything else I had de-greased was de-rusted quite nicely.
Ayy up Wes,Another good vlog,I hope you and your family have a good Christmas and a very good new year.All the way from Yorkshire England I hope you got Mrs Wes a nice present
I'm only 0:20 seconds in and I'm imagining Wes takes the engine out and sticks it in a vat of evapo-rust like some people do with turkeys and oil around this time of the year. Merry Christmas / Seasons Greetings :)
What I did on a sa200 lincoln that was seized was I plugged the exhaust and intake off and took 4 compression testers put them in the spark plug holes and put compressed air to all 4 cylinders at once ( make sure to remove the shrader valve ) for a few hours I used atf and acetone 50/50 ratio the air pushes the mixture around and through the piston rings make sure to take out the drain plug and put a catch pan under it so you can keep reusing it I did this for a few days working the crank back and forth until I get freed up
At this point, it would be interesting to pull the engine and go through it to see if you can get each piston moving again. That, and to see if there is anything else that would stop it from running again.
@@NoWr2Run It would take far to much of Wes' time to do that. Now if 'someone' were to start a GoFundMe page, then we might get some action. Thought not. 😉
Sounds like a good winter project if you can rip that engine out and get it back into the shop...I'd love to see what the bottom end looks like. Easier said than done, but nothing is impossible if you have enough time (and enough tools to throw when you get angry 🤣). Merry Christmas to you and the family, Wes.
*Boiled crocodile tears.* Oh Wes, I'm so glad I wasn't drinking something when you said that or I would not be able to type this comment until after the replacement keyboard was installed. I enjoy your videos and enjoy your humour even more so *Thank You Wes!* LLAP 🖖
If every viewer of this vid donated just a quarter, he'd then have enough to hire a tow truck to pull the entire carcass out of its resting place, tow it to Wes' shop, and pay him shop rates to tear the engine down, and prolly have enough left over to buy every part needed to build the engine right back up to its original "highly desirable" state. *parts availability not guaranteed
As for freeing stuck motors I will throw my hat in the ring. When dad retired from dairy farming he worked at a farm dealership. At that time they were scraping combines dad got a nice chevy V8 out of an MF 750. He piped the coolant pump into a stuck 1928 10 20. He let the V8 run at high idle for a wile a cople of times and it worked the 10 20 freed up nicely
It's funny you mentioned the Yugo. I was recently mentioning to Scott from Cold War Motors that my grandmother had a Yugo in the 80's and how I wouldn't mind getting a chance to drive one. We zipped around everywhere in that little car. Honestly the Evapo-Rust was a good idea. My brother has used it quite a bit on various projects and it does a great job. I wonder if there is something else binding that engine up like the valvetrain. It would be cool to pull the head off and see what you're actually up against. But since Winter is upon us and you're up north in the tundra I foresee that as a project that can wait a few months. Thanks for the videos, Wes! My brother and I both enjoyed the Ford dump truck series.
Thumbs up for Cold War Motors ( my favorite channel along with WWW and SMA). Wes should watch the straight 8 challenge for some tips on freeing up a stuck engine!
If my memory of the earlier video is correct. He scoped the bores and it looked like an old cave full of barnacles and other interesting stuff ,it was rusted that bad. Like he said a few cylinders still had liquid in after 3 weeks, kinda thinking his famous quote of "there's your problem lady" might apply to this motor. she's stuffed beyond anything simple freeing it sadly.
Evaporust has worked great unfreezing rusted solid vise grips, adjustable wrenches perfectly. As long as it's around 60° or better. Won't work at all colder than that. You said it was getting cold. Amazed what that stuff can do usually.
Put a bent piece of rebar in the spark plug hole and tap the top of the piston while some one puts a breaker bar on the crank pulley moving it back and forward slowly. It’s worked for me over 50 times.
I use Metal Restore. Found at home depot. Works pretty good. The only thing is environment needs to be warm not cold outside for evap-o-rust or metal restore to work
At least you tried. That tighter than a Dutch wallet made me laugh it’s so true lol. If we had a bad year farming and if anyone would ask I would say Dutch wheat... lots of straw not much in the head lol. Some Dutch guys around here don’t get it. Go figure!
I'm pretty confident Evapo-Rust is citric acid with maybe some surfactants. I've used both with identical results. So now I buy 10lbs of citric acid and make batches as needed. Timely reactions require temps 80 degrees f and above. Lowest temps I've tried was around 50f and progress was glacier slow.
Hello Wes!! Good try with the evaporust anyway. Those 302 engines were used in the Army deuce and a half trucks for a while from the late forties through to about the mid 1950's, they were a rugged old design, but they did the job, but the trucks were limited to about 50 mph or so tops! I had a GMC 2 1/2 ton M211 dump truck of about 1955-56 vintage that old truck was well built 6X6!!
I have not read all the comments so this might be redundant. I use white vinegar to clean rust off of old tools I got from my dad when he passed. I am not talking about surface rust, some of his tool went under brackish water during hurricanes. I also found that is is great for sharpening files and saw blades. I have a plastic storage box that I fill with tools and then fill with the vinegar and leave it a month or so. It actually ends up with a really nasty looking foam at the top. Dump out the vinegar, wash the stuff in water, use baking soda and water to neutralize the acidic vinegar, wipe with old oil to protect from further rust. The chrome peals off if the tools were bad enough, but they are usable. I can't see any reason that it wouldn't eat the rust out of those cylinder walls. It will most likely damage the aluminum pistons, but I think they might be in bad shape anyway. Just an idea, if it doesn't work just go back to the crocodile tears, or maybe tears from a mermaid. I think you know already the best thing to do is at the very least pull the head and go from there.
Those “Jimmy 6” engines were used a lot in early drag racing and Bonneville salt flats racing. (Late 40’s early 50’s time frame) They made big power in its day, with added speed equipment. Some guys still run them on the salt.
At one point the 302 Jimmy was a desirable engine for people want to build an I6 but I think were a good 40 years past the point where 99% of people would care. But a yugo, thats pure gold.
They are all desirable engines. To someone that doesn't own one. If they are free. If they are delivered to the house. If they come with a mechanic to rebuild them. Otherwise it's two lips going FLAP FLAP FLAP.
I know guys that have done it on tractors, and it worked ,to free it enough for getting it apart . But like anything if you got a motor that's so stuck like this one is, and all a nuclear blast would do to it is blow it clean out of the north 40 without shifting the pistons. Then yeah it's a complete waste of time. At least you tried it, thanks for the video. Take care.
Big Congrats over 100K!! People love the working on scrap equipment and destruction as the old truck will it start video and the radial drill drop are my only 2 videos to get over 100K views. Maybe someone will send you a check to rebuild that highly desirable 302 GMC and we will get to see the whole rescue and rebuild process. I am still waiting for someone to offer that for my 320Cid JXD Hercules as I hear they are highly desirable too. LOL
What`s help a lot is adding a heater hose heater. And cook the block for a few hours. You might have to heat cycle it a few times. But the expansion and contraction of the block helps free a stuck engine.
No secret to freeing up rusty cylinders. Just pour some Vinegar in the cylinders wait a few days then work it loose with a breaker bar. Do not force it. It is a common problem any Marina faces with improperly stored engines. The Vinegar turns the rust into a black greasey substance. Don't get the Vinegar in your eyes. It is 5 % Acidity. Loosens up the rings as well. A Navy Seabee taught me this decades ago.
You do not like to admit defeat. What you need is more like Evaporengine. And that syringe! I think you’re feeding Godzilla’s morphine habit. Anyway, thanks for another highly entertaining video, and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Mrs. Wes, Lucas and Max. May Santa bring them everything they want.
Evaporust is citric acid and water. so yes, it’ll freeze. so 1, you can make your own but stronger. And it’s absolutely necessary in heavy rust situations. also, doesn’t work well in the cold. Warmer is better. Sometimes when I’m impatient I’ll warm a few gallons up on the stove and a 24 hour soak turns into about 4
evaporust uses a chemical reaction, chemical reactions increase greatly in their potency and speed at higher temps. effectiveness would drop off dramatically anywhere even approaching freezing... all im saying is if it were to work, it would likely be at much higher temps (closer to room temperature)
Evaporust when heated greatly speeds up its reaction time. I have a heated ultra sonic cleaner that I have evaporust in and the longest I've had to wait is 4 hours for something that takes 24-36 at room temperature
I’m thinking we remove the engine, take it back to the shop, tear it down, fix it and sell it at a huge profit. After all, it IS highly desirable!! And by we, I mean you work, I watch!!
Wing, HIGHLY AGREE WITH YOUR THINKING, SIR. DO IT DO IT DO IT, HIGHLY DESIRABLE WES, HIGHLY.
I second that!
I third the motion.
I'll fourth.
I highly desire that notion
All those in favor of Wes pulling the motor and bringing it back to the shop for a nice rebuild series, give a thunbs up. If I lived closer Wes, I'd come down to help yank it with ya.
plus he mentioned that yugo motor! that man has a treasure TROVE!
hear hear! Uh, buy a plane ticket. They still fly, chump.
Best idea so far..
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That's a shame., worth a shot though. That's a highly desirable syringe by the way, 2014 model with the optional hose.
Thanks for the spoiler 🌮🤡.. 🤣
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@@Mreque89 Apologies!
Thats ok ! Should avoid comments before watching. 🤪
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My experience with evaporust is that the metal needs to be pretty much grease and oil free. I used it on a pair of pliers that were so rusted a hammer wouldn't budge them. Overnight in evaporust and they worked freely by hand.
Have to work a 12hour shift at the hospital getting tired near the end and a Wes video pops up to get me through the end stretch 😂
"work"? Surely work is what you do prior to getting home and finding 3 missed calls and 7 messages because you were too busy to look at your phone all day?
@@chasevans7171how do you have 3 missed, but 7 messages. I spend at least the last few hours of my day doing emails log sheets and work tickets so there is alot of boring ass computer work to be done so it helps to
have something going in the background
It was a long shot but a relatively cheap intervention. I've had good results with Evaporust on light surface rust but I couldn't predict how well it would deal with a seized cylinder. Anyway, it was a worthy experiment and there was some good insight about fluid compatibility and density/buoyancy. The active ingredient is a chelating agent which pretty much guarantees it's water-based (being non-toxic, non-acid, and non-caustic is also a clue). Sucks that it didn't work out in this case but we all learned something and now you have half a jug of Evaporust to play around with.
But Wes but Wes.... you didn’t try my great grandads secret sauce for breaking them loose!! Lol you need a team of horses 3 bottles of Tabasco sauce a box of thumb tacks and some of that sticky stuff that comes on baseball cards... it will be running in no time! Granddad always swore by it
I think that only works when the summer solstice falls on a full moon.
Maybe penetrating oil might work! As VGG would say there's about 87.63% this will fail
Don't forget the Eye of Newt.
Actually, thumb tacks (or sheet metal screws, which is what I use), are very useful for cleaning rust. Put some in a fuel tank with some detergent and shake it like a maraca.
Ah well, now you know. Thanks for taking us along for this and your other adventures in 2020! Happy Holidays to you, Mrs. Wes, Lucas and Max! Nice new logo, by the way.
That engine is actually rare and is actually saught after by old school truck an car guys believe it or not the gmc 302 set a land speed record of 200mph its featured on an episode of road kill
60% of the time, it works 100% of the time
LOL. I think that's in the fine print on the back.
A built 6 in a row with split exhaust. One of the most beautiful sounds "enginely" possible.
My '01 TJ is set up that way. Dual Flowmasters. It sounds amazing and routinely sets off Tesla car alarms.
I have built some hot Toyota six in a rows that sounded awesome and ran quite well,too.
@@wes11bravo In the early 90's I built a V8 conversion street legal Toyota Hilux mini monster pick up truck, with cherry bomb mufflers. It would set alarms off driving round parking lots, it got embarrassing in the end. The truck was fairly quiet if the gas pedal wasn't stamped on hard, it must of just been the right sound frequency to do it.
@@super6954 - 100% brother! I have the complete stock exhaust for it that I will be installing as soon as I can motivate myself. It was somewhat amusing to set off car alarms but the novelty is wearing off!
A Jaguar XK is a good example
Step one pull engine
Step two install Cummins
Step three success
But where is the fun in that? :-)
@@keithmatthews1673 I swear, the 5.9 is the diesel equivalent to the LS motors. In a long enough timeline...
But then it wouldn't be interesting. The point is it would have that janky old engine in it
Boiled Croc Tears ain't no joke... Costs an arm and a leg to collect them, but once boiled they're pure magic.
Its not hopeless until you haul it home and pull the head, pull the crank. For Wes everything can be saved.
Congrats on 100K Wes! You really have earned it. :)
One thing I notice using Evaporust on motorcycle fasteners etc is that they come out with a weird texture like they have been sandblasted. They also start to flash rust again in hours. Its a great product if you're going to paint or treat the item afterwards.
Pulling the engine for a winter project would be an interesting watch,, by far 1 of my favourite channels to watch, keep up the good work lad
Tighter than a Dutch wallet, never heard before but half true. I’m half Dutch.
I think it should be tighter than a ducks bum (use a different word if you please) because a ducks bum is water tight
Ah ah good one .
Tighter than a Dutch wallet, 😂😂 I've always herd it said "Tighter than Dick's hat band" pre-mohel !
That was my dad's version
As a Dutchman, I'm highly offended by that. Dutch Lifes Matter!
I can’t see Wes giving up this easy. Maybe a sequel will follow. Merry Christmas Wes to you and Mrs. W and the kido plus the pup. Thanks for another year of videos.
You can't give up Wes, you never give up, I honestly think it's time to lift that engine out, get it back to your workshop and strip it down. That whole project is worth every second of video footage.
You know you want to!
Go for it mate whoop whoop whoop 👍👍👍
A very close friend, who I have known since around 1958, has a 1929 Chevy sedan with a GMC blown 302 GMC six cylinder engine. It runs VERY well. And those engines are highly desireable.
Glad you are getting this rig running!
"3cyl yugo engine from the bottom of a lake"...had me gasp for breath from laughing...Wes, love your comments, also the boiled crocodile tears...
:-D
Thx a lot!
yugos are all 4 cylinder😊
@@SloVu That is exactly what makes the 3 cylinder ones so valuable.
@@SloVu I know, but imagine you pull up a 3cyl one from the bottom of a lake, just guess how sought it will be...
:-D
This one had me shook. LOL!!!
The ones tied to an anchor line that is.
Caught that comment you made. We'll let it sit for 24 hours......three weeks later. Lol
Good one Wes..
Thanks and if you don't upload beforehand I hope you and the family have a merry Christmas
Perhaps another quick visit to just pop the head off and satisfy the curiosity? It was a fun science experiment, thanks for sharing. A big ole stuck engine thumbs up. You never disappoint on the videos!
Boiled crocodile tears. 😂
Made my day. As always, thanks for the great vids. 👍
Congrats on hitting the 100K mark. No one deserves it more.
Thank you very much!
Haven´t tried it myelf, but a mix of acetone and ATF is often mentioned. Only engine I´ve gotten un-stuck was an old Citroën DS. I had the head of and bashed the pistons with sledgehammer and wood and tried every oily stuff I had lying around. The thing that did the trick that time was a LOT of WD-40 and using the starter on it. Did it survive? Guess what, it´s twenty years since I did that. Runs like a dream. It also had every substance known to humanity in the crankcase and possibly some alien stuff. Even antifreeze which people claim that it kills the bearings. It might have sounded a little strange for a while but it got good after a while. The Citroën has a very overbuilt engine but that old iron is no moped either.
Evaporust doesn't really like to be mixed with grease/oils of any kind. In my experience with it it mixes fairly well with light oils.
Yes after he removed the most of that diesel he should have used a propane torch and stuck it in the spark plug opening and cooked all the residue from the cyls and that heat wouldnt have hurt anything. Then put the evapo rust into a dry cyl to give it the best chance to work.
@@thecollectoronthecorner7061 Just beating a dead horse.
Yeah - a lot of the skilled restorers are pretty careful to put items through the parts washer (or just a bowl of solvent) before using Evaporust or MC-51
I can also confirm. I just submerged a camshaft in evaporust to clean some light rust off it. I had cleaned most of the remaining oil and grease off it with carburetor cleaner. I left one spot between lobes with some oil on it. After three weeks, the oil turned white, and the metal under it was unchanged. Everything else I had de-greased was de-rusted quite nicely.
great start to my day thanks wes!
When you use crocodile tears always use them raw ,never boiled !
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Right! Boiled all of the goodie out of them. Lol
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Wes the #1 thing that keeps everyone coming back.... You NEVER give up easily. Your My go to when my son wants to give up.
Mustie1 is also a very good example of tenacity and self-teaching, just in case you haven't seen his channel ;)
Ayy up Wes,Another good vlog,I hope you and your family have a good Christmas and a very good new year.All the way from Yorkshire England
I hope you got Mrs Wes a nice present
100% saw the title and thought it was a Project Farm video. :)
I believe you've struck gold on this new catch phrase!
I'm only 0:20 seconds in and I'm imagining Wes takes the engine out and sticks it in a vat of evapo-rust like some people do with turkeys and oil around this time of the year. Merry Christmas / Seasons Greetings :)
Your conclusion was very professional IMHO.
What I did on a sa200 lincoln that was seized was I plugged the exhaust and intake off and took 4 compression testers put them in the spark plug holes and put compressed air to all 4 cylinders at once ( make sure to remove the shrader valve ) for a few hours I used atf and acetone 50/50 ratio the air pushes the mixture around and through the piston rings make sure to take out the drain plug and put a catch pan under it so you can keep reusing it I did this for a few days working the crank back and forth until I get freed up
At this point, it would be interesting to pull the engine and go through it to see if you can get each piston moving again. That, and to see if there is anything else that would stop it from running again.
I AGREE, PULL IT, PULL IT, PULL IT, HIGHLY DESIRABLE SIR WES.
@@NoWr2Run It would take far to much of Wes' time to do that.
Now if 'someone' were to start a GoFundMe page, then we might get some action.
Thought not. 😉
You have my permission!
@@imouse3246 WTF ?
You deserve the smartest TH-cam creator award for bringing the syringe... literally everyone else uses a funnel or just pours it all over everything
Sounds like a good winter project if you can rip that engine out and get it back into the shop...I'd love to see what the bottom end looks like. Easier said than done, but nothing is impossible if you have enough time (and enough tools to throw when you get angry 🤣).
Merry Christmas to you and the family, Wes.
"Maybe, but not this one" ,,,, But you tried and gave us ( me) some info on ways to try and some good techniques to boot. Bravo!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family from North Lincolnshire U.K., keep up the good work.
Have the Hufflepuff obtain some unicorn blood. I hear it cures all sorts of things.
Interesting experiment. Thanks Wes.
We have faith in you, you will make it run, we watching!
I restored a bunch of old Starrett micrometers that were rusted using Evaporust. Great product to remove rust for sure.
Congratulations on 100k! You have awesome content.
Back in the day they use to drag race with this engine in gas class
1) try a grease gun with spark plug adapter fittings. you should be able to force the pistons to move.
2) Evap o Rust is water soluble.
*Boiled crocodile tears.* Oh Wes, I'm so glad I wasn't drinking something when you said that or I would not be able to type this comment until after the replacement keyboard was installed. I enjoy your videos and enjoy your humour even more so *Thank You Wes!* LLAP 🖖
If every viewer of this vid donated just a quarter, he'd then have enough to hire a tow truck to pull the entire carcass out of its resting place, tow it to Wes' shop, and pay him shop rates to tear the engine down, and prolly have enough left over to buy every part needed to build the engine right back up to its original "highly desirable" state. *parts availability not guaranteed
I'm in!!
At least you give it a go you win some you loose some keep up the good work mate 👍🏻👍🏻
As for freeing stuck motors I will throw my hat in the ring. When dad retired from dairy farming he worked at a farm dealership. At that time they were scraping combines dad got a nice chevy V8 out of an MF 750. He piped the coolant pump into a stuck 1928 10 20. He let the V8 run at high idle for a wile a cople of times and it worked the 10 20 freed up nicely
It's funny you mentioned the Yugo. I was recently mentioning to Scott from Cold War Motors that my grandmother had a Yugo in the 80's and how I wouldn't mind getting a chance to drive one. We zipped around everywhere in that little car.
Honestly the Evapo-Rust was a good idea. My brother has used it quite a bit on various projects and it does a great job. I wonder if there is something else binding that engine up like the valvetrain. It would be cool to pull the head off and see what you're actually up against. But since Winter is upon us and you're up north in the tundra I foresee that as a project that can wait a few months. Thanks for the videos, Wes! My brother and I both enjoyed the Ford dump truck series.
Thumbs up for Cold War Motors ( my favorite channel along with WWW and SMA). Wes should watch the straight 8 challenge for some tips on freeing up a stuck engine!
@@mikegoodman4133 The Straight 8 Challenge was brutal. I can't believe those things ran again.
If my memory of the earlier video is correct. He scoped the bores and it looked like an old cave full of barnacles and other interesting stuff ,it was rusted that bad. Like he said a few cylinders still had liquid in after 3 weeks, kinda thinking his famous quote of "there's your problem lady" might apply to this motor. she's stuffed beyond anything simple freeing it sadly.
Congratulations on reaching 100k ! Nice achievement !
Evaporust has worked great unfreezing rusted solid vise grips, adjustable wrenches perfectly. As long as it's around 60° or better. Won't work at all colder than that. You said it was getting cold. Amazed what that stuff can do usually.
Put a bent piece of rebar in the spark plug hole and tap the top of the piston while some one puts a breaker bar on the crank pulley moving it back and forward slowly. It’s worked for me over 50 times.
lol cant wait to see what you try next
Congratulations on 100K subscribers!!
This engine might be useful as an anchor for a boat. If you have a really big boat, you can use the whole truck.
at least u tried, keep the videos coming
Like the little update clips are cool I wish you and the Mrs. and your son merry Christmas be safe my friend and your dog to LOL
I use Metal Restore. Found at home depot. Works pretty good. The only thing is environment needs to be warm not cold outside for evap-o-rust or metal restore to work
The evap O rust needs to work in an oil free environment and is water based so it'll freeze
At least you tried. That tighter than a Dutch wallet made me laugh it’s so true lol. If we had a bad year farming and if anyone would ask I would say Dutch wheat... lots of straw not much in the head lol. Some Dutch guys around here don’t get it. Go figure!
Time to take that engine out, and disassemble it to rebuild. But make sure you video that for us to see. Thumbs Up!
The "rust buster" has met his match. Ain't no busting the rust out of the GMC.
Nice try Wes. Happy Holidays 👌👍
I'm pretty confident Evapo-Rust is citric acid with maybe some surfactants. I've used both with identical results. So now I buy 10lbs of citric acid and make batches as needed. Timely reactions require temps 80 degrees f and above. Lowest temps I've tried was around 50f and progress was glacier slow.
💯 K subscribers, congratulations Wes, and Mrs Wes.
Guessing Evaporust contains citric acid, and lanolin, as the main ingredients.
Thanks for sharing.
Hello Wes!! Good try with the evaporust anyway. Those 302 engines were used in the Army deuce and a half trucks for a while from the late forties through to about the mid 1950's, they were a rugged old design, but they did the job, but the trucks were limited to about 50 mph or so tops! I had a GMC 2 1/2 ton M211 dump truck of about 1955-56 vintage that old truck was well built 6X6!!
That yugo comment had me dying. Lol yep, on TH-cam everyone knows everything. You pegged that one!!
Looking forward to this.
Great idea, hope it works. Cheers
If it's "highly desirable" how much is someone willing to pay for it is the big question?
About three fiddy
Evapo rust works really well on 2 of my motorcycle gas tanks, I was kinda sceptical at first but does well.
I have not read all the comments so this might be redundant. I use white vinegar to clean rust off of old tools I got from my dad when he passed. I am not talking about surface rust, some of his tool went under brackish water during hurricanes. I also found that is is great for sharpening files and saw blades. I have a plastic storage box that I fill with tools and then fill with the vinegar and leave it a month or so. It actually ends up with a really nasty looking foam at the top. Dump out the vinegar, wash the stuff in water, use baking soda and water to neutralize the acidic vinegar, wipe with old oil to protect from further rust. The chrome peals off if the tools were bad enough, but they are usable. I can't see any reason that it wouldn't eat the rust out of those cylinder walls. It will most likely damage the aluminum pistons, but I think they might be in bad shape anyway. Just an idea, if it doesn't work just go back to the crocodile tears, or maybe tears from a mermaid. I think you know already the best thing to do is at the very least pull the head and go from there.
I like the new Logo and congrats on reaching 100k subscribers!
Thanks!
Those “Jimmy 6” engines were used a lot in early drag racing and Bonneville salt flats racing. (Late 40’s early 50’s time frame) They made big power in its day, with added speed equipment. Some guys still run them on the salt.
At one point the 302 Jimmy was a desirable engine for people want to build an I6 but I think were a good 40 years past the point where 99% of people would care. But a yugo, thats pure gold.
Right. Everyone like to wax nostalgic, but this thing has no value.
@@WatchWesWork there are thousands of better ones still out there to use. Unlike the I'm guessing 7 good yugos left 🤣🤣
They are all desirable engines. To someone that doesn't own one. If they are free. If they are delivered to the house. If they come with a mechanic to rebuild them. Otherwise it's two lips going FLAP FLAP FLAP.
There was once speed parts for these, probably could find some of it at larger swap meets
Great idea giving it a try! 😀 I've used EvapoRust quite a bit on tools. Works wonders 🙂👍 That poor truck just doesn't want saved. Stubborn ole GMC 🤣
"Go on without me, save yourself!!!" LOL
Congrats on the 100K!
I'm sure Mustie has some miracle concoction that would free up that engine. Lol.
It was told in the yesteryears, that steamed lizard tails will unlock any engine.
I know guys that have done it on tractors, and it worked ,to free it enough for getting it apart . But like anything if you got a motor that's so stuck like this one is, and all a nuclear blast would do to it is blow it clean out of the north 40 without shifting the pistons. Then yeah it's a complete waste of time. At least you tried it, thanks for the video. Take care.
I miss the Location X video. "Hoarding on an industrial scale". Sounds like my garage.
I've got to give you a thumbs up for persistence. The only cure is
You know you're not going to be satisfied until you pull it out of the woods and get it to the shop and get it running.
Big Congrats over 100K!! People love the working on scrap equipment and destruction as the old truck will it start video and the radial drill drop are my only 2 videos to get over 100K views. Maybe someone will send you a check to rebuild that highly desirable 302 GMC and we will get to see the whole rescue and rebuild process. I am still waiting for someone to offer that for my 320Cid JXD Hercules as I hear they are highly desirable too. LOL
Right! Highly desirable! Maybe you should drop the radial drill press on an old truck? Might get a couple views on that...
Watch Wes Work Maybe but I don’t want to have to fix the drill again.
Thanks for honest video.
What`s help a lot is adding a heater hose heater. And cook the block for a few hours. You might have to heat cycle it a few times. But the expansion and contraction of the block helps free a stuck engine.
The engine probably was mechanically froze way before the rust set in anyway, which was why it was left where it sat.
No secret to freeing up rusty cylinders. Just pour some Vinegar in the cylinders wait a few days then work it loose with a breaker bar. Do not force it. It is a common problem any Marina faces with improperly stored engines. The Vinegar turns the rust into a black greasey substance.
Don't get the Vinegar in your eyes. It is 5 % Acidity. Loosens up the rings as well. A Navy Seabee taught me this decades ago.
You do not like to admit defeat. What you need is more like Evaporengine. And that syringe! I think you’re feeding Godzilla’s morphine habit. Anyway, thanks for another highly entertaining video, and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Mrs. Wes, Lucas and Max. May Santa bring them everything they want.
Evaporust is citric acid and water. so yes, it’ll freeze. so 1, you can make your own but stronger. And it’s absolutely necessary in heavy rust situations. also, doesn’t work well in the cold. Warmer is better. Sometimes when I’m impatient I’ll warm a few gallons up on the stove and a 24 hour soak turns into about 4
Just told my wife it’s Saturday morning there better be a watch Wes work. And there is, good day
Enjoy!
Good attempt man
You drank the Evapo-Rust Kool-Aid
evaporust uses a chemical reaction, chemical reactions increase greatly in their potency and speed at higher temps. effectiveness would drop off dramatically anywhere even approaching freezing...
all im saying is if it were to work, it would likely be at much higher temps (closer to room temperature)
Evaporust when heated greatly speeds up its reaction time. I have a heated ultra sonic cleaner that I have evaporust in and the longest I've had to wait is 4 hours for something that takes 24-36 at room temperature
So build a fire underneath, then EvapoRust.