Nulon who make a Teflon engine oil additive claim to have added it to the oil of an Australian built 1978 model Holden VB Commodore 6 cylinder engine, ran the engine for a bit to circulate the product through the engine then dumped all the oil out then drove the car for about 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) with no oil in the engine from Sydney to Melbourne & it still ran at Melbourne. I wouldn't try doing that but !
Looking at a 2010 s5504vm with 98000 km. Looks cherry and cared for...is this a reliable engine transmission combination. All things being considered a good prospect.
Yeah as long as it counts all hours too, not just idle, I would rather do an oil change at 1000 hours than 3k miles cause on stuff like my work truck I let it idle while I'm at a scrapper waiting to unload or when I'm running the inverter for remote ac power
Look on ebay they sell little tacho gauges that you just wrap te wire around a spark plug lead and they keep track of run time and you can set service alarms. Only works if you have spark plug leads but I use them on everything car generators lawn mower take the guess work out of it
A ton of youtubers make 8 20min episodes just removing the engine from the car, thats why I like your videos, straight & to the point without being boring!
@@WarpedYT if it doesn't have idle meter you can sometimes get the runtime by connecting a obd computer to the cars obd port to read ecu fault codes, get live data and sometimes run time.
I’m 100% using that as a negotiation tactic. “Yeah it’s only 80k miles but it’s idled for 1000 hours. That adds an extra 33k miles in wear and tear....”
@@drink15 it does if the owner needs to sell. And it’s a valid argument. Wear and tear is wear and tear. And if someone didn’t acknowledge that I would be happy to not buy their vehicle
@@markg1495 exactly. Not doing it in a malicious way but it is something to be acknowledged. Especially on lots where dealers like to under pay and over charge on cars that are considered “hot”
There are youtubers that engine swap taking them around two years ! And Alex taking a part totally fine engine just for fun, all that in one episode. INSANE !!!
Dude it's way way way harder too put a motor in a car it was not designed to have. I put a 350 in 1979 monte and that required so much fabricating by itself. Now add modern tech like fuel injection return lines and advanced ECU and OBDII makes it a nightmare. Dealing with Chevy and Ford new modular designs is a real pleasure
H3R3T1C im pretty sure in Ontario it’s mandatory to have a oxy fuel torch powerful impact gun, wire brush and infinite cans on penetrating oil to work on cars lol
His idle time to distance traveled conversion is scary accurate. My car glitched one really cold morning and recalled all the data it had recorded since day one, and the trip meter read 87,000 or so miles with an average speed of 33 MPH, so his idle time to miles driven conversion is damn near spot on with what my cars datalog said.
Seems like a super cool guy. I lived in Chicago suburbs as a kid. My favorite thing was the people. Dad was Chicago raised. Something about that place makes people super funny and have a great vibe. OPRF high school one of the best in the country.
I know right, spent my early 20’s collecting all the air tools a guy could want, only to now have them sit in my tool chest unused. Who wants a hose and a noises air compressor.
@@MariuszChr air tools can be stronger, cheaper. But moving around a hose is a pain. You can do pretty much everything with electric these days except if things are very rusty in suspension stuff. Depending on the car your harmonic balancer might need air tools as some have very high torque specs. Battery is just so much easier.
@@loktom4068 i bet on my life that you support the blm protests, thinks that blue lives matters and Donald Trump is racist, all cops are bad, and probably posts black sqaures on their instagram...
I am an IT guy and usually like to watch car videos as well. It amazes me how this guy takes an engine apart with all that stuff hanging around. Having people be amazed when I work with software or hardware and be a magician I feel the same when I watch these kind of videos. When I take my car to the shop I always have a lot of respect for the guys working on my car damn.
When you put hard work into a hobby you love it makes wonders my dad loved wood working, when I was a kid I overlooked it but he build our back porch, our barn, 2 storage buildings, and his man cave it amazes me till this day that my dad did all this
@Timothy Iorlano 'classic' as in classic car, no. Classic as in the original 'LS' line of engines, hell yes! (Spoiler: the LS engine [in a Chevy Corvette] has been around since '97, almost 24 years)!
Enjoyed the tear down of this engine and i must say the engine very fresh for the abuse it endured. Looking forward to more updates as the build progresses.
This car was NOT abused!! Regardless of the crap he says about 1 hour being 33 miles. But he doesnt provide the source of that information. I have torn down over 2 dozen LS engines in the last 5 years and almost all of them have the crosshatch still in the cylinders. So dont let that shit scare you. The very first one had 267,000 miles on it and was a bone stock 5.3, STILL had the crosshatch in the cylinders.
I just purchased two LS engines, one from a friend who performed regular maintenance every 3k miles. All the internals were super clean, no cooked oil residue in the crank case. Now the second engine I purchased was obviously lacking in the maintenance department. Everything was brown, crank was brown, rods, rockers, springs, everything smelled of cooked burnt oil. Regular oil changes does show inside an engine
@@LegitStreetCars Keep an eye on the LSD frictions.. in nz they are main thing to die when you use the car hard (goes one legger) and keep off the limiter.
heat cycling engines are usually what wear engines out more than just miles/kilometers/hours cause during a heatcycle the metal in the engine expands when it heats up and shrinks when it cools back down what causes metal to slowly warp out of shape and sooner or later cause an engine to lose compression or spin bearings or something like that
Wow, looking at the insides so far & hearing the story of you leaving it run for a day as it was so quiet & how all the rubber was melted to the engine, I'm wondering if it might've been a mistake to open it up & if it might not have just carried on forever with regular oil changes and cooling system maintenance...
I love this breakdown and analysis; I run only full synthetic in my vehicles and change oil regularly but I bought into the myth about idling being detrimental to the engine.
My 04 Silverado was a town truck and had 10,000 hours and 154,500 when I bought it. It was a 5.3l I drove that truck hard for a few years and finally traded it at 237,900 miles. Good engine, good truck.
Dude come on this is the best video on TH-cam every automotive student should watch this right here I can tell you worked hard on this! Even going green with the oil nice job bro thank you !
Some municipalities do a great job with PM. I used to teach maintenance tracking, including to FL municipalities in some cases. I'd point out the hours issue and then suggest oil analysis. With good oil and drain intervals that don't show wear metals you're good. Perhaps this city was one that I worked with. I had similar things to say about brakes. Some places wanted to use pep boys brake parts. I pointed out that first brake jobs where all parts were factory were at a certain mileage on average. And later ones tended to be 5-10 thousand miles less. Just to save $25 in parts over the dealership with municipal discount. Save a couple of brake jobs over the life of the car as well as less downtime and better braking and the factory cop spec parts start looking real good.
The Ford 7.3 in my ambulance is laughing. 500k miles and about 21 hours of every day is spent idling. The "engine hours" gauge has been pegged forever.
Ambulance use varies across the country. My last service van was a twice retired 1996 E350. 170,000 miles were racked up in ambulance service over it's first 10 years and then 15,000 miles over the next 10 years as a mobile command unit for a small police department. The run hours matched up with the odometer to show it was mainly used on the highway. In Texas, it's common to park ambulances and plug them into shore power with both municipal and private services.
Won't be able to do that with a new diesel. You'll clog up the EGR cooler so fast. I see it on tons of fleet vehicles that idle a lot. Cooler after cooler. Just keep running that old 7.3 as long as you can 😂
@@cjeam9199 It's the emissions systems in general. 20 years ago, diesel engines were capable of delivering double the fuel economy and lasting 3-4 times longer than comparable gas engines. To meet emissions you sacrifice longevity and economy. General rule of thumb, replacing the emissions system on a modern diesel costs roughly 10% the new value of the truck. One of my former customers used to tell me, their new Macks and Peterbuilt's averaged 100,000 miles before the emissions system need to be replaced ($30,000) and they found for that money they could overhaul 30 year old trucks with over 1 million miles on them and put them back on the road for another decade. The ROI on modern diesels just isn't there anymore.
Again a very interesting video. It is perfectly edited and narrated. We've seen engine teardowns before, and yet Alex makes it captivating. I am already looking forward to seeing the next step/video(s). Well done, well done, well done!
There is nothing I can appreciate more than your efficiency and organization, 👌🏼. Building two bikes in my two bay garage while using one half as a paint booth, keeping things organized is a must.
8000 idle hours isn't that much. Not like it's a diesel from the 70s that would wash the oil off the cylinder walls. It's definatly high, but not crazy.
Well rule of thumb is a load of more than 80% is actually causing wear. At least according to what I have learned at trade school as a maschinist. Running an engine idle wont do jack to the engine exept for a turbocharger that one will gunk up.
Love discovering Havol8ne/Chevron Full Synthetic is so inexpensive for 6 qts! Walmart is out of stock, though I have at least 30+ qts and tons of filters in my personal stock. 2006 4.7L Tundra 4X4 DC Limited with 103K and way too many short trip/idling hours still runs a champ, just burns a little oil. That LS is impressive.
Im a AST for a road construction company and when I started there I did some tune ups on some of our older chevy/gmc trucks (07-10 models) they all had between 300,000-400000km on them with original plugs. The electrode on the delco plugs was actually recessed in the in about 2mm in the porcelain insulator and the engines were not even misfiring yet. I was so amazed
6:48, I know it hardly matters, but him failing to keep the rocker bolts/rockers and pushrods paired and organized to their original positions is triggering me.
@@jasonscott598 come on Jason. Don't rise to the bait. Many people say such things like "I'm so OCD" as a turn of phrase. I think that's all Daytoma was reacting too. Please don't start a fight on my comment, regardless of how insensitive it may be to tell someone they don't have a condition... hell if you're watching this video, you're probably a pretty cool gearhead so we would all probably get along irl. No need to get along worse here on the internet than we would in person.
@@phillijp the fast came from the USA. Holden were a parts bin special. Our vx commodore 2001 is great. But it is an opel with a gm ecotec v6 and gm transmission, rwd. Great idea, average quality, but so easy to fix. These also came with an ls but it's not necessary for a family hack. Rough ride isn't Holden. Add stiff springs and poorly valved dampers and it'll feel like a tin can rolling off the side of a mountain. Every Holden I've been in is aiming to imitate a BMW 5 series. Their engineers did a lot very well, on a shoestring budget (especially considering the high Labor cost here). Some of the last generation had magnetic ride control and were amazing. A good addition would be a strut brace to stiffen things up a little. Sad that Holden started bringing in Peugeots with gm motors ☹️
That’s a sick ass regal. I’m a HUGE fan of 3800s and w bodies like that one. I have 3 Grand Prixs right now. One of the best motors gm has ever made. Cool to hear that you have worked on these too.
I had a 1999 transam with an 5.7L LS1 motor, modified it from stock 305hp to 500hp. I went racing at the strip weekly, did long road trips, was a daily driver in the northeast winter and in Florida heat. Never had any issue with the motor, LS engines are one of the best ever built !
Just like the hemi and its MDS. These engines are basically distant cousins, and it's pretty cool to see that they suffer from the same issues, and also disappointing.
Yeah I hear ya. In Australia our car mob, Holden, ordered a version of the L98 with DOD called the L76. I've got one and they're just such a problem child with the DOD stuff and weak as piss lifters. Such a sad way to ruin an engine. The kicker? They never turned on DOD on these engines anyway and mine is a manual, which DOD wasn't available in manual so it was an utterly pointless venture from start to finish. So not only a waste of time but such a waste of money too!
@@daytonasayswhat9333 Because the lifters eat away the cam, which can cause catastrophic engine failure, thus literally ruining the engine. Is that what you wanted to hear?
Remember back in the day when you'd get a 350 sbc with 100k miles that burned a quart of oil every 400 miles and needed a complete rebuild with overbore? Now, you can get a 350k mile ls and throw a cam, valve springs, injectors and turbo on it and hit the track.
I'm surprised so few other caprice enthusiast drip the engine. You make it look silly easy and the rest of the work is so much easier with the engine out. Great vid!
Had a 1998 Camaro SS with a built LS1 motor put 130K miles on it as a driver and then raced the shit out of it auto cross and open road racing. Never had a problem car got 23 mpg when you weren’t beating on it. Got it up to 150 mph in 5th gear in an all out mile race. You just can’t beat the LS motor.
Well said. It takes a special kind of intelligence/memory factor. I bowed out around 1972 because had neither and started taking all my cars to a friend who has both.
Long live the mighty LS. What I took most from this video is just what cheap insurance oil is if you change it regularly. I’m a big believer in changing oil every 5000klms or 12months and looking at the internals of this mirror tells me I’m doing good things for my cars. 👍
I am the same but every six months worst case scenario (I also live in a four seasons climate). I recently looked inside my LS at 100k and it was squeaky clean. Oil changes are cheap. Engines are not.
I can’t wait to hear it when you’re done! I’ve always wanted a Chevy SS and you’ve basically got one for a fraction of the price. My first car that I bought as a teen was a 1982 Chrysler Lebaron 318 4 barrel carb. I need to pick up a project car to work on with my teens.
My brother and i worked at holdens in south Australia, my brother most likely put the engine into this car on the factory floor and I would have assembled the doors. They were made on the same line our Commodore and caprices were. So cool to see you guys playing around with them
On top of that... the fact that he loosened all of the head bolts out of order, like bro you gotta loosen them in the proper order. Mans is risking the warp
Spit on it, slap it back on the block with the original head gaskets, use the original head bolts, tighten them down with a few ugga duggas, and it'll still work perfectly.
My 58 cadillac,and 68 Mustang , lifelong Southern California cars, have no rust physically at all. Slight spots of surface rust underneath, comes off with a couple scrapes of a quarter. Neither car has seen snow, or salt. Hell it barely ever rains here lol. Cadillac bought by my parents in 1960. Mustang I purchased in 1977. Both still on the road. Both bone stock.
As a police interceptor owner. I tracked down the people that drove it while it was in service and learned a horrifying fact. It was either idling or going full tilt. It was used as a highway patrol interceptor and.... the engine is surprisingly mint. It did get new cams, but that was apparently the only major engine work. 2003 Ford crown victoria. Drives like a champ. The transmission is showing its 190k miles though
A testament to good maintenance & a well built motor. That's a lot of idle time in our Florida heat.350 small blocks have always been GMs bread & butter like the 327 & 283 before it.
The best way to fix that bs where "07" and up general motors vehicles only use 4 of 8 cylinders when their coasting or what ever just buy a "active fuel management" chip that sticks right in under the dash and makes it run on all 8 cylinders all the time
Yes indeed, I had one for my grand prix which was a V8 that had displacement on demand. I actually bought it just because I didn't like the exhaust tone when it went into 4-cylinder mode. Unfortunately I drove mostly on the highway in those days as I was all over the East Coast. So I had to listen to it a lot. I bought one of those OBD2 chips and not only did my fuel mileage barely change but the engine was just so much happier. I put a hundred and thirty or a hundred forty thousand miles on that 5 3 and I don't think it was even remotely worn in any way. I ended up trade it in on a brand-new pick up when I changed careers. I still see it around town on occasion no, but I have never been able to catch up with the person who owns it now to ask about it.
Hey man, im looking to buy a caprice from Future Motors in Addison, he said thats where you bought yours from, do you recommend that dealership? Id be flying one way from MD to buy a car sight unseen, just looking for some peace of mind that they are a stand-up business. Thanks!
My 2014 Silverado Gen 5 LT L83 just hit 5000 hours on the motor. Doesn't use any oil surprisingly. Never had a single issue with the motor. Dod really improved on the newer LT motors.
Those engines are so easy to work on 😀 I have one in My Yukon, compared to working on my RAM 2500 Cummins or any Ford truck it's like they designed it to be serviced. My Yukon only gets Mobil One or Royal Purple oil. It's got over 300000 miles on it 👍 it's so clean inside and still running like new 😆.
BAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA If you remove a head for work like this and are NOT smart enough to have it cleaned and decked, you dont need to be touching any vehicles and your brain should be removed from your skull cause it clearly is NOT BEING USED FOR COMMON SENSE!!!! ALWAYS have the heads surfaced before re-installing them!! Clean level even mating surface!! THAT is why removing them doesn't matter!
I learn a ton from your videos. I have a 99 Silverado with an LS w/245k miles and the engine is like new, always starting on the first bump of the key.
@@HJZ75driver It's a part of the zeta platform, it's a WM. The zeta platforms base car is the Commodore range, so when I call it a Commodore, I'm referring to the fact that it's based on it. It's a spruced up luxury Commodore.
Thanks for sharing this tear-down video. I just started swapping the L76 from my parts G8 (someone else thought it could ditch drive, but front end didn't like that...) over to my main G8. I don't have the luxury of a shop and hoist, but the info contained in this series helps me see how to go about it in the backyard. Funny to see you putting the pipe to the same bolts I fought with. The ones on either end of the sub-frame came out nicely, but those two middle ones were a 1/2 day pain (including time to get a 4' pipe)!
Don't you like to match rocker arms with its push rods afterwards? Putting that way in a box, I'd say it's getting mixed up. Or are you going to replace it all with new parts?
@@PapaWheelie1 the issue with DOD is that it breaks in the "enabled" position. The lifters and ports clog up if you don't change the oil, and then the oil pump can't keep the lifters full, so they collapse, and the engine keeps dumping fuel into them until they either detect that the lifter is collapsed, and shut off fuel/spark, or, they keep dumping fuel into the closed intake and fill it up, and then cause other issues. Then, once the lifers collapse, and the oil pump has to pump the oil somewhere(its a high flow pump in these engines with DOD, not high pressure), so the relief system splashes/sprays the now not needed oil directly onto the bottom of the pistons in a constant flow, which then results in a really bad oil seepage and burn issue. If your DOD is still working, get the ECU tune to disable it completely, and it should never break unless you forget to change the oil.
Chubbysumo - good info. I have a ‘12 Tahoe with 75k miles and always on time oil changes. I do hate the hesitation that comes when it shifts in and out of 4cyl. I have a 1 mile drive to the interstate every day and I shift it in 5th to disable for that 1 mile. But would love to ecu turn it off permanently. Is it something that I can buy to program it or do I have to hit a tuner shop?
Lmaooo that’s funny I bought a 99k mile charger police car with 19,000 idle hours things a beast I love the police cars just got to get one that was maintained on some level. Mine had 4 recorded oil changes but it was super cheap so I didn’t care runs and drives awesome had none one of the recalls done before I got it if that shows how well it was maintained.
Herpn Derpn it’s all about proper maintenance on these, I also have a Chrysler aspen with the hemi with 250k miles still running all I’ve ever done in original ownership is a water pump
Yeah, Havoline used to cause engine seals to leak. You could switch to Castrol, and the leaks would stop, so I quit using Havoline. Today, I mainly use Prime Full Synthetic from Sam's Club or Costco, but none of those paraffin-based oils like Canker State or Traveler from Tractor Supply. Paraffin causes sludge buildup in an engine. Here in south Texas, HEB has a synthetic or synthetic blend in a blue or gray bottle, too.
The real hero here is regular oil changes and proper maintenance. I pulled an older Santa Fe in last month with almost half a million kilometers on it, and it was mint. Meanwhile a lot of younger adults buy their first car, and by 100,000 KM it's on death row.
What on the insides jack ass? He obviously took the godamn thing apart and said every part was damn near pristine over and over.. but he just said it might have been abused and could have worn internals which werent bad at all but according to this dick fart here the inside is worn... fuck nut.. ┌∩┐(⋟﹏⋞)┌∩┐
@@Z-Ack yeah some people are dumb af. 😂 he praised the engine the entire time as he took it apart. Constantly saying it looked perfect. Yet he based the entire “abused” clickbait theme from the engine being idled for long periods of time. But... there was no abuse. Hahahahaa. Modern engines(most platforms) can idle for long periods of time and be just fine.
I work at a chevy dealership here in Oklahoma and I've seen my fair share of dod failures and problems with that said I have a 07 silverado with a 5.3 with dod and ive put 200k on it with no dod problems so regular oil changes goes a long way
Really all that 6 quart box is just a mini-ecobox. Honestly didn't know they made them in 6 quarts. All I've ever seen were the 6 gallon boxes of Enhance and Lubrigold we get from Warren, and the Quaker State, Pennzoil and Shell ecoboxes we get from Shell at work.
I've been hearing LS LS LS for years, still haven't built one, and just now learned of displacement on demand. I think my next build will just be a billet block up so I don't actually pay for anything but what I use. Solid street rollers with bushings are the way to go, but they need to be block oriented rather than riveted together with link-bars because that's literally a "weak-link". I always try to make everything as bullet-proof as possible because I hate annoying issues after all the trouble of doing a full-blown build, but so far, there have been design compromises in everything I've built because of using OEM blocks.
My 5.7 litre Chevrolet LS1 V8 engine which has done About 363,655 kilometres (225,965 miles) was in the same condition as the engine shown in the video when I pulled the cylinder heads off to replace the hydraulic lifters in 2018 at 337,512 kilometres (209,720 miles) as they were sticking inside the engine block once the engine warmed up. The engine had been neglected & it still had the factory hone marks on the cylinders & no lip on top of the cylinders so I left the bottom end alone,I did an oil pressure test to rule out worn bearings which tested o.k. So I even reused the old oil pump but I did replace the timing chain with a Rollmaster LS2 timing chain which had thicker links in it as the old timing chain was a bit loose,I even fitted a Melling LS2 timing chain damper & bracket kit despite my engine block being predrilled to accept an LS1 timing chain damper the LS2-LS3 damper & bracket kit was cheaper than the original LS1 damper if you could find one,the mounting hole spacings are different between the LS1 & later engines,I did that while I was replacing a leaky timing cover gasket. One word of advice when fitting the new timing cover gasket while the oil pan is still installed is try & get an OEM or Fel-pro (they're the same as GM as Fel-pro are Chevrolets gasket & seal supplier) because I tried to fit a Platinum oil pan gasket (I'm located in Australia), the O ring part was thicker so it squished out & pushed down onto the oil pan. When I went to torque up the front oil pan bolts I cracked the front right hand corner of the oil pan therefore I had to remove the oil pan then get the oil pan welded up,I trimmed the excess gasket off with a razor blade. Note some oil does accumulate in my Chevy LS1s inlet manifold but Chevrolet changed the PCV valve setup in the L76 V8 engine & my engine doesn't burn any oil. I didn't even have to get the cylinder heads rebuilt as the valves didn't leak !
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Can a 90's Camry go thousands of miles with no oil? bit.ly/3a2XYKN
Nulon who make a Teflon engine oil additive claim to have added it to the oil of an Australian built 1978 model Holden VB Commodore 6 cylinder engine, ran the engine for a bit to circulate the product through the engine then dumped all the oil out then drove the car for about 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) with no oil in the engine from Sydney to Melbourne & it still ran at Melbourne.
I wouldn't try doing that but !
Looking at a 2010 s5504vm with 98000 km. Looks cherry and cared for...is this a reliable engine transmission combination. All things being considered a good prospect.
I have never seen anybody work so freaking fast. You are moving like a madman when you aren't talking to the camera.
Dude.. dont set the heads like that, thats how you create small gouges and itll leak.
There was a time when Toyota built great powertrains...since then, it is not the case. LOL
Those hour meters should be mandatory on all cars.
I agree
Yeah as long as it counts all hours too, not just idle, I would rather do an oil change at 1000 hours than 3k miles cause on stuff like my work truck I let it idle while I'm at a scrapper waiting to unload or when I'm running the inverter for remote ac power
@@CookedTickabc Most oil change intervals are every 100-130 hours.
@@zapityzapzap yeah even amsoil signature only claims 700, and that's like the largest interval you'll ever find. (I still try to change it at 500.
Look on ebay they sell little tacho gauges that you just wrap te wire around a spark plug lead and they keep track of run time and you can set service alarms. Only works if you have spark plug leads but I use them on everything car generators lawn mower take the guess work out of it
You have made a believer of me. Even at 83 years of age I am watching and learning from your shows. I am a fan.
Thanks Bill!
Hell yeah Bill sir.
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You look great and also very young in your profile photo sir 👍
A ton of youtubers make 8 20min episodes just removing the engine from the car, thats why I like your videos, straight & to the point without being boring!
But bro, I gotta make them ad monies though..... And I'd like to shout out to all me subscribers.....
except when you get stuck and pause the vid, you look for the frame where theres a hidden bolt or something but it doesn't exist.
I can appreciate those in detail vids but they’re less for entertainment than for education so they have their place.
They tend to be more instructional videos.
This has to be my favorite video of yours, I never knew they had an idle meter... crazy interesting.
Thanks Matt! Lots of trucks have the engine run time meter now too. My 15 Escalade with 73,000 miles has 4500 hours of run time.
Depends on the car but most new cars have an idle time meter
@@hedleyt8095 I had no idea I'm going to see if my eClass has that meter
@@WarpedYT if it doesn't have idle meter you can sometimes get the runtime by connecting a obd computer to the cars obd port to read ecu fault codes, get live data and sometimes run time.
I never knew this wow
I’m 100% using that as a negotiation tactic.
“Yeah it’s only 80k miles but it’s idled for 1000 hours. That adds an extra 33k miles in wear and tear....”
I’d just tell you to go buy someone else’s car and raise the price $1000 on the spot for you.
Doesn’t work like that but give it a try. Also, not all cars have idle timers.
@@drink15 it does if the owner needs to sell. And it’s a valid argument. Wear and tear is wear and tear. And if someone didn’t acknowledge that I would be happy to not buy their vehicle
@@markg1495 exactly. Not doing it in a malicious way but it is something to be acknowledged. Especially on lots where dealers like to under pay and over charge on cars that are considered “hot”
@@maximillianalexander7052 and I would walk away from you and give you the finger
There are youtubers that engine swap taking them around two years !
And Alex taking a part totally fine engine just for fun, all that in one episode.
INSANE !!!
that is the Master having fun ✌️
@Camaro 1968 no...
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Dude it's way way way harder too put a motor in a car it was not designed to have. I put a 350 in 1979 monte and that required so much fabricating by itself. Now add modern tech like fuel injection return lines and advanced ECU and OBDII makes it a nightmare. Dealing with Chevy and Ford new modular designs is a real pleasure
It's crazy what you can do in your garage when it's not full of kids toys.
Get a shed if you can
A shed lol. That’s full too. Need to shed the sht. That’s the best
And a lift
@@HighDefinitionVideo if you’re like me, you need sheds for your sheds 😂
Children 😂
Ya gotta love Florida cars. If that was a Chicago LS you'd have weeks of content just replacing broken studs!
H3R3T1C im pretty sure in Ontario it’s mandatory to have a oxy fuel torch powerful impact gun, wire brush and infinite cans on penetrating oil to work on cars lol
@@MFKR696 i really don't understand why they still use salt nowadays.. car killer..
In England he would have taken 5 minutes to call the scrap man because it would would be returning to the Earth
If it hadn't made it to a chop shop yet
@@Wogix26 Still too many Porsches to steal. They just burn the cop cars!
His idle time to distance traveled conversion is scary accurate. My car glitched one really cold morning and recalled all the data it had recorded since day one, and the trip meter read 87,000 or so miles with an average speed of 33 MPH, so his idle time to miles driven conversion is damn near spot on with what my cars datalog said.
That Regal is nice
Imagine how great having this guy as a friend would be
I know right!
Imagine having one then not ever taking his advice. Because that's what you all do to us.
Seems like a super cool guy. I lived in Chicago suburbs as a kid. My favorite thing was the people. Dad was Chicago raised. Something about that place makes people super funny and have a great vibe. OPRF high school one of the best in the country.
@@brainwashingdetergent4128 don't even get me started on that😖
I’m just amazed at how good electric power tools have gotten thru the years. Only time I use the air hose is to air up tires lol
I know right, spent my early 20’s collecting all the air tools a guy could want, only to now have them sit in my tool chest unused. Who wants a hose and a noises air compressor.
So you say I shouldn't buy air tools? I am starting to collect tools for work with cars. Have some Milwaukee fuel m18 tools for carpentry/remodel.
@@MariuszChr air tools can be stronger, cheaper. But moving around a hose is a pain. You can do pretty much everything with electric these days except if things are very rusty in suspension stuff. Depending on the car your harmonic balancer might need air tools as some have very high torque specs. Battery is just so much easier.
Mariusz Chrobak buy electric snap on tools.
Some of the best ones I’ve used. From my experience
But I’ve heard some stories from macro ones as wee
waterzap99 you are right. When something is way rusted on there you do need that air power lol
I tore down a 513k 5.3 LS a few months ago. These engines are amazing!
Yeah, cops don't turn their cars off the entire shift even when filling up. And when they are driving, they are driving hard.
Hell, we used to even pop the hoods when we knew we would be idling for a while sitting so they wouldn’t overheat.
@@joshw9037 sounds about right
@@joshw9037 we don’t have that problem in Canada lol
It's only tax payers' 💰💰💰💰💰.
If it breaks just bring out the next spanking new vehicle 🚑.
How do you like them apples 🍎🍎?
@@loktom4068 i bet on my life that you support the blm protests, thinks that blue lives matters and Donald Trump is racist, all cops are bad, and probably posts black sqaures on their instagram...
Wow, a TH-cam car channel with actual automotive repair demonstrated. With actual intelligent commentary and advice.
Great job!!!
You should watch South Main Auto channel
I am an IT guy and usually like to watch car videos as well. It amazes me how this guy takes an engine apart with all that stuff hanging around. Having people be amazed when I work with software or hardware and be a magician I feel the same when I watch these kind of videos. When I take my car to the shop I always have a lot of respect for the guys working on my car damn.
When you put hard work into a hobby you love it makes wonders my dad loved wood working, when I was a kid I overlooked it but he build our back porch, our barn, 2 storage buildings, and his man cave it amazes me till this day that my dad did all this
@@DeeRuss sounds like an amazing dad!
_You know that this guy is the real thing, when he drops the sub-frame in the engine bay just so he can work on this classic LS engine better!_
Everything is much easier with a lift.
Wish I had a lift
@@ne2i yup seen this done on a 928 porsche..like you say wish had a lift its so right times you work on it hand gets stuck
Makes things easy as basically all cars are built by lifting the complete engine in with the sub-frame.
@Timothy Iorlano 'classic' as in classic car, no. Classic as in the original 'LS' line of engines, hell yes! (Spoiler: the LS engine [in a Chevy Corvette] has been around since '97, almost 24 years)!
Enjoyed the tear down of this engine and i must say the engine very fresh for the abuse it endured.
Looking forward to more updates as the build progresses.
maybe the car was own by a mall security
This car was NOT abused!! Regardless of the crap he says about 1 hour being 33 miles. But he doesnt provide the source of that information. I have torn down over 2 dozen LS engines in the last 5 years and almost all of them have the crosshatch still in the cylinders. So dont let that shit scare you. The very first one had 267,000 miles on it and was a bone stock 5.3, STILL had the crosshatch in the cylinders.
I just purchased two LS engines, one from a friend who performed regular maintenance every 3k miles. All the internals were super clean, no cooked oil residue in the crank case. Now the second engine I purchased was obviously lacking in the maintenance department. Everything was brown, crank was brown, rods, rockers, springs, everything smelled of cooked burnt oil. Regular oil changes does show inside an engine
I agree, NOT abused. Used and well maintained.
You need to take this to Freedom Factory!
Hell yeah brother!
Dude that would be epic. When it's all done I'll reach out to them.
@@LegitStreetCars hell yes!
@@LegitStreetCars gotta let ALL the bald eagles fly
@@LegitStreetCars Keep an eye on the LSD frictions.. in nz they are main thing to die when you use the car hard (goes one legger) and keep off the limiter.
"Idling is generally bad for an engine
Pulls apart engine and only looks like it has 87,000miles
heat cycling engines are usually what wear engines out more than just miles/kilometers/hours cause during a heatcycle the metal in the engine expands when it heats up and shrinks when it cools back down what causes metal to slowly warp out of shape and sooner or later cause an engine to lose compression or spin bearings or something like that
@@unluckyrgg Science over bias. I like that.
Well said. 👍
Only bad on old diesel with glazing bores but machining now us better
I was thinking more like 93,274, but after examining the cross hatches in #8 I think you nailed it with 87,000
Wow, looking at the insides so far & hearing the story of you leaving it run for a day as it was so quiet & how all the rubber was melted to the engine, I'm wondering if it might've been a mistake to open it up & if it might not have just carried on forever with regular oil changes and cooling system maintenance...
He also said it was burning oil and fuel so a rework was needed. I'm glad he bought all new gear and not just disassemble the engine for show.
I love this breakdown and analysis; I run only full synthetic in my vehicles and change oil regularly but I bought into the myth about idling being detrimental to the engine.
What's your favorite LS powered car or truck? I'm going with my WS6 Trans Am and the C6 ZR1 Corvette.
I like the 2000-2006 GM fullsize SUVs with the 5.3 LS Vortec engine.
Holden Commodore Ute
My 2016 Caprice ppv
Camaro ZL1 also drop the links for the performance parts
GTO
My 04 Silverado was a town truck and had 10,000 hours and 154,500 when I bought it. It was a 5.3l I drove that truck hard for a few years and finally traded it at 237,900 miles. Good engine, good truck.
Dude come on this is the best video on TH-cam every automotive student should watch this right here I can tell you worked hard on this! Even going green with the oil nice job bro thank you !
I would like to see a compression test, and compare that to chevys numbers
That's smart money this guy is kinda amature hour over here without the compression and leakdown
@@drwombat It's a chevy V8, calm down. We're not building BMW engines here.
That is one incredibly clean engine!! Proper maintenance: Priceless!
Some municipalities do a great job with PM. I used to teach maintenance tracking, including to FL municipalities in some cases. I'd point out the hours issue and then suggest oil analysis. With good oil and drain intervals that don't show wear metals you're good. Perhaps this city was one that I worked with.
I had similar things to say about brakes. Some places wanted to use pep boys brake parts. I pointed out that first brake jobs where all parts were factory were at a certain mileage on average. And later ones tended to be 5-10 thousand miles less. Just to save $25 in parts over the dealership with municipal discount. Save a couple of brake jobs over the life of the car as well as less downtime and better braking and the factory cop spec parts start looking real good.
Florida="Cold start? What's that?" Best conditions for an engine. Doesn't even get hot enough for heat-based wear like Texas or Arizona...
@@brentboswell1294 but it doesn’t rust out faster
Be sure you replace the engine mounts while you're in there.. Just did the same on my Caprice but I'm building a turbo setup.
Also.. I notice your tensioner is broken too.. I pulled 11 pieces of plastic put of my oil pick up. Just an FYI
Awesome teardown! When I saw the orange coolant dripping out I was immediately like DEXCOOL NOOOOOOOO
The Ford 7.3 in my ambulance is laughing. 500k miles and about 21 hours of every day is spent idling.
The "engine hours" gauge has been pegged forever.
Where is it pegged at? 10k hours?
Ambulance use varies across the country. My last service van was a twice retired 1996 E350. 170,000 miles were racked up in ambulance service over it's first 10 years and then 15,000 miles over the next 10 years as a mobile command unit for a small police department. The run hours matched up with the odometer to show it was mainly used on the highway. In Texas, it's common to park ambulances and plug them into shore power with both municipal and private services.
Won't be able to do that with a new diesel. You'll clog up the EGR cooler so fast. I see it on tons of fleet vehicles that idle a lot. Cooler after cooler. Just keep running that old 7.3 as long as you can 😂
Alex Puls as I understand it this (and similar issues with the DPF) are why a fair few fleets are buying large gasoline engines vehicles now.
@@cjeam9199 It's the emissions systems in general. 20 years ago, diesel engines were capable of delivering double the fuel economy and lasting 3-4 times longer than comparable gas engines. To meet emissions you sacrifice longevity and economy. General rule of thumb, replacing the emissions system on a modern diesel costs roughly 10% the new value of the truck. One of my former customers used to tell me, their new Macks and Peterbuilt's averaged 100,000 miles before the emissions system need to be replaced ($30,000) and they found for that money they could overhaul 30 year old trucks with over 1 million miles on them and put them back on the road for another decade. The ROI on modern diesels just isn't there anymore.
Again a very interesting video. It is perfectly edited and narrated. We've seen engine teardowns before, and yet Alex makes it captivating. I am already looking forward to seeing the next step/video(s).
Well done, well done, well done!
There is nothing I can appreciate more than your efficiency and organization, 👌🏼. Building two bikes in my two bay garage while using one half as a paint booth, keeping things organized is a must.
Seems a lot like you just debunked the “1hr of idle equals 33miles of wear” myth.
Like, that equation is more like 1hr = 2-3 miles.
You also have to take into account that they changed the oil a lot as he mentioned in the video, that is why that engine looks as good as it does.
Find the distance using hrs and the average gear ratio of your whole box to account for mixed driving
8000 idle hours isn't that much. Not like it's a diesel from the 70s that would wash the oil off the cylinder walls.
It's definatly high, but not crazy.
Well rule of thumb is a load of more than 80% is actually causing wear. At least according to what I have learned at trade school as a maschinist. Running an engine idle wont do jack to the engine exept for a turbocharger that one will gunk up.
@@vHindenburg I guess average BMEP would be more accurate for a wear indicator then?
Love discovering Havol8ne/Chevron Full Synthetic is so inexpensive for 6 qts!
Walmart is out of stock, though I have at least 30+ qts and tons of filters in my personal stock.
2006 4.7L Tundra 4X4 DC Limited with 103K and way too many short trip/idling hours still runs a champ, just burns a little oil.
That LS is impressive.
Im a AST for a road construction company and when I started there I did some tune ups on some of our older chevy/gmc trucks (07-10 models) they all had between 300,000-400000km on them with original plugs. The electrode on the delco plugs was actually recessed in the in about 2mm in the porcelain insulator and the engines were not even misfiring yet. I was so amazed
6:48, I know it hardly matters, but him failing to keep the rocker bolts/rockers and pushrods paired and organized to their original positions is triggering me.
Came to the comments to say the same thing. OCD is a fun one huh
Jason Scott You dont have OCD.
It made me wonder why he didn't organise the parts that came off, but it seems that he is replacing all the matched parts so it doesn't matter 😁
@@daytonasayswhat9333 Sounds like you dont have an education, or a brain at all. Trying to tell people what they do and dont have, lol
@@jasonscott598 come on Jason. Don't rise to the bait. Many people say such things like "I'm so OCD" as a turn of phrase. I think that's all Daytoma was reacting too. Please don't start a fight on my comment, regardless of how insensitive it may be to tell someone they don't have a condition... hell if you're watching this video, you're probably a pretty cool gearhead so we would all probably get along irl. No need to get along worse here on the internet than we would in person.
Good old Aussie engineering and build quality... go the Holden statesman... 🇦🇺
Unfortunately, Holden is no more.
Thank You Stefan Jacoby for Killing Australian Automobile Manufacturing 😡😡😡😡😡
I've driven a few of these cars, I was anything but impressed. They were squeaky and loud and very harsh riding but they were also stupid fast.
@@phillijp the fast came from the USA. Holden were a parts bin special. Our vx commodore 2001 is great. But it is an opel with a gm ecotec v6 and gm transmission, rwd. Great idea, average quality, but so easy to fix. These also came with an ls but it's not necessary for a family hack. Rough ride isn't Holden. Add stiff springs and poorly valved dampers and it'll feel like a tin can rolling off the side of a mountain. Every Holden I've been in is aiming to imitate a BMW 5 series. Their engineers did a lot very well, on a shoestring budget (especially considering the high Labor cost here). Some of the last generation had magnetic ride control and were amazing. A good addition would be a strut brace to stiffen things up a little. Sad that Holden started bringing in Peugeots with gm motors ☹️
I'm Australian and literally not one single part of that engine is Australian engineered hahah
Lol Vinfast Aussie rengineered bmw x5 and an chevrolet 6.2 v8. I'll wager it'll be more reliable than a BMW and cheaper to fix. Made in Vietnam 🎉
I believe it's the frequent oil changes that saved any damage. Looks great inside
Something about cleaning up/fixing/rebuilding a higher mileage engine and making it like new from the inside out is so satisfying to me
That’s a sick ass regal. I’m a HUGE fan of 3800s and w bodies like that one. I have 3 Grand Prixs right now. One of the best motors gm has ever made. Cool to hear that you have worked on these too.
That’s the updated rebuildable Vlom. Those are reliable. It’s usually the older vlom that causes the lifters to fail.
The oil changes are the key!!
Its amazing how clean that engine is. IMO GM has engineered the most user friendly engines ever made
*Northstar enters the chat*
@@trizkial7592 had 1....hated it
Mr flimflam fremdippity danyet Haha what made you hate it
@@trizkial7592 😂😂
Cool video.
Wished that I'd had the room and tools to do stuff like this. I love taking apart and putting stuff together.
I absolutely love this video with the tear down, time laspe and description. Wish everybody's videos were like yours
Not gonna lie, I let my work truck idle way more than I should, I think I’m pushing 12,000 idle hours and 320k miles
A truck would benefit from a small auxiliary engine to provide heat and power when parked.
David Elliott so bring a generator on the back of a truck?
What type of truck
Please keep a running tally of parts and cost of this project, love your channel.
As someone who is getting his motor vehicle mechanics degree videos like these are actually pretty informing.
I love how far the videos have come but there's something so cool about the pre shop videos!
I had a 1999 transam with an 5.7L LS1 motor, modified it from stock 305hp to 500hp. I went racing at the strip weekly, did long road trips, was a daily driver in the northeast winter and in Florida heat. Never had any issue with the motor, LS engines are one of the best ever built !
I’m a huge LS guy, but the damn AFM/DOD literally ruins these perfect engines.
Just like the hemi and its MDS. These engines are basically distant cousins, and it's pretty cool to see that they suffer from the same issues, and also disappointing.
Yeah I hear ya. In Australia our car mob, Holden, ordered a version of the L98 with DOD called the L76. I've got one and they're just such a problem child with the DOD stuff and weak as piss lifters. Such a sad way to ruin an engine. The kicker? They never turned on DOD on these engines anyway and mine is a manual, which DOD wasn't available in manual so it was an utterly pointless venture from start to finish. So not only a waste of time but such a waste of money too!
Why “literally?”
Brett Collins Why “literally?”
@@daytonasayswhat9333 Because the lifters eat away the cam, which can cause catastrophic engine failure, thus literally ruining the engine.
Is that what you wanted to hear?
Remember back in the day when you'd get a 350 sbc with 100k miles that burned a quart of oil every 400 miles and needed a complete rebuild with overbore?
Now, you can get a 350k mile ls and throw a cam, valve springs, injectors and turbo on it and hit the track.
I had an old c10 with over 100k on it, never did burn oil but it did leak out the valve covers until i fixed it
I'm surprised so few other caprice enthusiast drip the engine. You make it look silly easy and the rest of the work is so much easier with the engine out. Great vid!
Had a 1998 Camaro SS with a built LS1 motor put 130K miles on it as a driver and then raced the shit out of it auto cross and open road racing. Never had a problem car got 23 mpg when you weren’t beating on it. Got it up to 150 mph in 5th gear in an all out mile race. You just can’t beat the LS motor.
If that were a northern car, half the stuff would have needed a good soaking in penetrating oil...
Incase you missed it he had a torch
You sir are a neurosurgeon disguised as a mechanic. Very impressive.
Well said. It takes a special kind of intelligence/memory factor. I bowed out around 1972 because had neither and started taking all my cars to a friend who has both.
@Jay U Apparently, a modern day mechanic needs to store more bytes of info than a GP.
Long live the mighty LS. What I took most from this video is just what cheap insurance oil is if you change it regularly. I’m a big believer in changing oil every 5000klms or 12months and looking at the internals of this mirror tells me I’m doing good things for my cars. 👍
I am the same but every six months worst case scenario (I also live in a four seasons climate). I recently looked inside my LS at 100k and it was squeaky clean.
Oil changes are cheap. Engines are not.
I can’t wait to hear it when you’re done! I’ve always wanted a Chevy SS and you’ve basically got one for a fraction of the price. My first car that I bought as a teen was a 1982 Chrysler Lebaron 318 4 barrel carb. I need to pick up a project car to work on with my teens.
My brother and i worked at holdens in south Australia, my brother most likely put the engine into this car on the factory floor and I would have assembled the doors. They were made on the same line our Commodore and caprices were. So cool to see you guys playing around with them
Guess I'm the only one cringing with that head surface down on the shop floor
Just thought so
On top of that... the fact that he loosened all of the head bolts out of order, like bro you gotta loosen them in the proper order. Mans is risking the warp
Probably getting it resurfaced and polished.
Yep. They are fine
Spit on it, slap it back on the block with the original head gaskets, use the original head bolts, tighten them down with a few ugga duggas, and it'll still work perfectly.
Watching this in Maine like wow, what would life be like with no rust...
In maine as well in Lincoln! Cheers.
Rain and road salt in UK too
My 58 cadillac,and 68 Mustang , lifelong Southern California cars, have no rust physically at all. Slight spots of surface rust underneath, comes off with a couple scrapes of a quarter. Neither car has seen snow, or salt. Hell it barely ever rains here lol. Cadillac bought by my parents in 1960. Mustang I purchased in 1977. Both still on the road. Both bone stock.
Can't wait to see the engine back together.
As a police interceptor owner. I tracked down the people that drove it while it was in service and learned a horrifying fact. It was either idling or going full tilt. It was used as a highway patrol interceptor and.... the engine is surprisingly mint. It did get new cams, but that was apparently the only major engine work. 2003 Ford crown victoria. Drives like a champ. The transmission is showing its 190k miles though
A testament to good maintenance & a well built motor. That's a lot of idle time in our Florida heat.350 small blocks have always been GMs bread & butter like the 327 & 283 before it.
The best way to fix that bs where "07" and up general motors vehicles only use 4 of 8 cylinders when their coasting or what ever just buy a "active fuel management" chip that sticks right in under the dash and makes it run on all 8 cylinders all the time
Yes indeed, I had one for my grand prix which was a V8 that had displacement on demand. I actually bought it just because I didn't like the exhaust tone when it went into 4-cylinder mode. Unfortunately I drove mostly on the highway in those days as I was all over the East Coast. So I had to listen to it a lot. I bought one of those OBD2 chips and not only did my fuel mileage barely change but the engine was just so much happier. I put a hundred and thirty or a hundred forty thousand miles on that 5 3 and I don't think it was even remotely worn in any way. I ended up trade it in on a brand-new pick up when I changed careers. I still see it around town on occasion no, but I have never been able to catch up with the person who owns it now to ask about it.
How many LS videos am I going to watch?
The answer is ALL of them.
Watch me finish the entire car, tune it on the dyno and drive it for the first time with all the engine work!
bit.ly/2E5NdK7
Hey man, im looking to buy a caprice from Future Motors in Addison, he said thats where you bought yours from, do you recommend that dealership? Id be flying one way from MD to buy a car sight unseen, just looking for some peace of mind that they are a stand-up business. Thanks!
This comes to show, almost any motor will last when taken care of properly.
So your a master mechanic?
crazy fast who are you commenting to you didnt tag who your responded to
@@popeyeandstraussmx4165 the guy in the video I think he's a master mechanic right?
My 2014 Silverado Gen 5 LT L83 just hit 5000 hours on the motor. Doesn't use any oil surprisingly. Never had a single issue with the motor. Dod really improved on the newer LT motors.
Those engines are so easy to work on 😀 I have one in My Yukon, compared to working on my RAM 2500 Cummins or any Ford truck it's like they designed it to be serviced. My Yukon only gets Mobil One or Royal Purple oil. It's got over 300000 miles on it 👍 it's so clean inside and still running like new 😆.
5:32 There's a face staring at me from out of the intake!! 😯
I saw that! It doesn't look happy!
I seen that shit to lmao
I'm guessing you power washed the drive train, everything looks so clean...
The kids watching this should know, always loosen headbolts equally and starting from the outside when removing a head.
Kids? Lol it doesn’t matter what order you take them out in.
@@jaredmayer3960 it does actually.
Can it cause the heads to warp or something?
@@hunternichols6273 yep, especially with aluminum heads
You may get away with taking them out willy nilly for a while but it can happen.
BAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
If you remove a head for work like this and are NOT smart enough to have it cleaned and decked, you dont need to be touching any vehicles and your brain should be removed from your skull cause it clearly is NOT BEING USED FOR COMMON SENSE!!!!
ALWAYS have the heads surfaced before re-installing them!! Clean level even mating surface!! THAT is why removing them doesn't matter!
I learn a ton from your videos. I have a 99 Silverado with an LS w/245k miles and the engine is like new, always starting on the first bump of the key.
Great Presentation 👍
I just learned about those Walmart boxes of oil that’s brilliant stuff I’ve been meaning to look into them more
lol just noticed someone put the AC belt on wrong, that's at least been replaced at some point haha
Poor Commodore, in Australia they spend their time being abused by the driver due to consistent thrashing and lack of servicing.
Thats not a Commodore.
@@HJZ75driver It's a part of the zeta platform, it's a WM. The zeta platforms base car is the Commodore range, so when I call it a Commodore, I'm referring to the fact that it's based on it. It's a spruced up luxury Commodore.
@@HJZ75driver No, it is a Statesman Caprice in Australia.
@@HJZ75driver well it was built by holden
"Premium chevron oil"
Military: i smell freedom
Thanks for sharing this tear-down video. I just started swapping the L76 from my parts G8 (someone else thought it could ditch drive, but front end didn't like that...) over to my main G8. I don't have the luxury of a shop and hoist, but the info contained in this series helps me see how to go about it in the backyard. Funny to see you putting the pipe to the same bolts I fought with. The ones on either end of the sub-frame came out nicely, but those two middle ones were a 1/2 day pain (including time to get a 4' pipe)!
Don't you like to match rocker arms with its push rods afterwards? Putting that way in a box, I'd say it's getting mixed up. Or are you going to replace it all with new parts?
10:10 I thought you somehow broke a crank bolt and had to yank my jaw off the floor
You need moar tables !
On another note:
Excelent work, mr engineer !
Does “DOD” work with the vehicle in Park? If not, I can imagine that’s why the valvetrain looks so good, still.
Correct idles in V8 mode - I was thinking the same thing
@@PapaWheelie1 the issue with DOD is that it breaks in the "enabled" position. The lifters and ports clog up if you don't change the oil, and then the oil pump can't keep the lifters full, so they collapse, and the engine keeps dumping fuel into them until they either detect that the lifter is collapsed, and shut off fuel/spark, or, they keep dumping fuel into the closed intake and fill it up, and then cause other issues. Then, once the lifers collapse, and the oil pump has to pump the oil somewhere(its a high flow pump in these engines with DOD, not high pressure), so the relief system splashes/sprays the now not needed oil directly onto the bottom of the pistons in a constant flow, which then results in a really bad oil seepage and burn issue. If your DOD is still working, get the ECU tune to disable it completely, and it should never break unless you forget to change the oil.
Chubbysumo - good info. I have a ‘12 Tahoe with 75k miles and always on time oil changes. I do hate the hesitation that comes when it shifts in and out of 4cyl. I have a 1 mile drive to the interstate every day and I shift it in 5th to disable for that 1 mile. But would love to ecu turn it off permanently. Is it something that I can buy to program it or do I have to hit a tuner shop?
Highest Hours I have seen is a 2016 Taurus police I currently have. Has 19500 total hours and 13000 idle hours on the NA 3.7l. Car runs/drives great.
Lmaooo that’s funny I bought a 99k mile charger police car with 19,000 idle hours things a beast I love the police cars just got to get one that was maintained on some level. Mine had 4 recorded oil changes but it was super cheap so I didn’t care runs and drives awesome had none one of the recalls done before I got it if that shows how well it was maintained.
They seem to be pretty stout.... Provided the lifters don't eat the cam or vise versa.
Herpn Derpn it’s all about proper maintenance on these, I also have a Chrysler aspen with the hemi with 250k miles still running all I’ve ever done in original ownership is a water pump
Chevron, worried about the environment except if you live in Ecuador !! Clean up your mess Chevron, shame on you
This engine would have kept going forever looks perfect inside
Yeah, if he doesn't put Havoline in it! I moved away from that crap years ago.
And if he didnt take it apart lol. Im a rotella t6 guy
Yeah, Havoline used to cause engine seals to leak. You could switch to Castrol, and the leaks would stop, so I quit using Havoline. Today, I mainly use Prime Full Synthetic from Sam's Club or Costco, but none of those paraffin-based oils like Canker State or Traveler from Tractor Supply. Paraffin causes sludge buildup in an engine. Here in south Texas, HEB has a synthetic or synthetic blend in a blue or gray bottle, too.
The real hero here is regular oil changes and proper maintenance. I pulled an older Santa Fe in last month with almost half a million kilometers on it, and it was mint. Meanwhile a lot of younger adults buy their first car, and by 100,000 KM it's on death row.
he said "this is gonna be a blast" a true statement from a real gearhead
Crazy how much of our tax money must go to idling emergency service vehicles lmao
Have you ever paid attention to all the electronics that are running in a police car? They need to be constantly running to keep the battery charged.
@@hworkmaniv88 unfortunately im worried about other things if im in the back of a cruiser
Bro this is the Mark Rober of cars lol
What on this engine was “abused”... if the engine looks perfect?
The insides idiot.
What on the insides jack ass? He obviously took the godamn thing apart and said every part was damn near pristine over and over.. but he just said it might have been abused and could have worn internals which werent bad at all but according to this dick fart here the inside is worn... fuck nut..
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@Exodus Idiot... he pointed to every single internal component and said it all looked “perfect”. Idiot. 😂
@@Z-Ack yeah some people are dumb af. 😂 he praised the engine the entire time as he took it apart. Constantly saying it looked perfect. Yet he based the entire “abused” clickbait theme from the engine being idled for long periods of time. But... there was no abuse. Hahahahaa. Modern engines(most platforms) can idle for long periods of time and be just fine.
@@DespairMisery
I like yr style and content mate
U just get straight into without hrs and hrs of utter boredom
Kudos to you. From Australia
They should probably use powerful hybrid cars in the police fleets if they need them to be always ready to go with a huge power boost! :)
I would not just put the heads on the floor like that!
If he had a towel on the floor for them, that would suffice.
These cars aren't even American. They're Australian cars.
Yes, but with U.S made drivetrains
@@Chinunit22 mexican made engine
@@sexyfacenation lol.....how about Wixom, Michigan....or Tonawanda NY.....or Ontario??
I work at a chevy dealership here in Oklahoma and I've seen my fair share of dod failures and problems with that said I have a 07 silverado with a 5.3 with dod and ive put 200k on it with no dod problems so regular oil changes goes a long way
Really all that 6 quart box is just a mini-ecobox. Honestly didn't know they made them in 6 quarts. All I've ever seen were the 6 gallon boxes of Enhance and Lubrigold we get from Warren, and the Quaker State, Pennzoil and Shell ecoboxes we get from Shell at work.
I’m loving this build, As an Aussie super happy to see one of ours being built up
I've been hearing LS LS LS for years, still haven't built one, and just now learned of displacement on demand. I think my next build will just be a billet block up so I don't actually pay for anything but what I use. Solid street rollers with bushings are the way to go, but they need to be block oriented rather than riveted together with link-bars because that's literally a "weak-link". I always try to make everything as bullet-proof as possible because I hate annoying issues after all the trouble of doing a full-blown build, but so far, there have been design compromises in everything I've built because of using OEM blocks.
My 5.7 litre Chevrolet LS1 V8 engine which has done About 363,655 kilometres (225,965 miles) was in the same condition as the engine shown in the video when I pulled the cylinder heads off to replace the hydraulic lifters in 2018 at 337,512 kilometres (209,720 miles) as they were sticking inside the engine block once the engine warmed up.
The engine had been neglected & it still had the factory hone marks on the cylinders & no lip on top of the cylinders so I left the bottom end alone,I did an oil pressure test to rule out worn bearings which tested o.k.
So I even reused the old oil pump but I did replace the timing chain with a Rollmaster LS2 timing chain which had thicker links in it as the old timing chain was a bit loose,I even fitted a Melling LS2 timing chain damper & bracket kit despite my engine block being predrilled to accept an LS1 timing chain damper the LS2-LS3 damper & bracket kit was cheaper than the original LS1 damper if you could find one,the mounting hole spacings are different between the LS1 & later engines,I did that while I was replacing a leaky timing cover gasket.
One word of advice when fitting the new timing cover gasket while the oil pan is still installed is try & get an OEM or Fel-pro (they're the same as GM as Fel-pro are Chevrolets gasket & seal supplier) because I tried to fit a Platinum oil pan gasket (I'm located in Australia), the O ring part was thicker so it squished out & pushed down onto the oil pan.
When I went to torque up the front oil pan bolts I cracked the front right hand corner of the oil pan therefore I had to remove the oil pan then get the oil pan welded up,I trimmed the excess gasket off with a razor blade.
Note some oil does accumulate in my Chevy LS1s inlet manifold but Chevrolet changed the PCV valve setup in the L76 V8 engine & my engine doesn't burn any oil.
I didn't even have to get the cylinder heads rebuilt as the valves didn't leak !