Did a crank nut on a 6 banger honda accord. 1/2in drive with a jack tube and I was hanging off it. Not only that, I had 2 or 3 extensions just to get to the nut and they were on a jack stand and a block of wood. The whole thing was twisting 90deg and when that nut broke loose I thought someone fired a gun. POW! I felt it resonate up through my cheater bar and into my arms like a cartoon. Thought I won. Nope, it just moved a little. Reset and did it all again 3 or 4 more times until I could finally move it with just the 1/2in drive. It was also a reverse thread. Glad I got that right the first time.
You might've heard this already, but for anyone else out there doing that job: brace your wrench against the frame, and bump the key. She'll pop right off.
I worked at a crane place for a little bit. Took apart seized outrigger hydraulic cylinders by clamping them in a huge vice that was on a bench that was bolted to the floor, and attaching a 10t overhead shop crane to the end of a 4' pipe wrench on the nut. It was ridiculous
@@paulsengupta971 you ain't wrong there, though in these type of situations the tool tends to make a bit more noise than a "tink" when it catastrophically fails.
I used to work on real big cold stamping machines. Had a 4 foot wrench and a 6 foot chain link fence post as a cheater. One guy would turn, the other would smack the bolt with the 10 pound sledge. That first click you got truly music to my ears.
Ahh yes. I have a pipe that goes on the end of my breaker bar too. I call her "iwasntasking". She has a sister thats 2 feet longer called "noseriously"
I've personally polished a 1994 Ford 300 inline 6 crankshaft's rod journals with a shoelace and 2500 grit sandpaper. Then I replaced the rod bearings with standard size stock bearings. Before the operation the engine had zero oil pressure and a collapsed lifter as well as a few rod knocks. Afterwards it had no rod knock but had good oil pressure and the lifter came around after driving it around the trailer park. Guy has put over 10k miles on that truck since. I'm more proud of that truck than anything 😂
I knew of a used car dealer (N.A. Terrebone Motors, Raceland, Louisiana, yes, long out biz) who put paper behind the bearings of an old Chevy (I actually saw him measuring the two types of paper to get the right shim stack). I also saw him brazing the ever-living-f@#& out of another chevy block (he told his mechanic to not bother with anti-freeze/coolant, and it froze enough to blow out the sides of the block) His mechanic refused to do much of what he wanted done to things to sell them on to some sucker. Eventually the Mech found another job.
Spanish windlass as "Sommer-teeth-enator." And the wife wonders why I unexpectedly burst into uncontrollable laughter...😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Take good care, brother!
I tried the home-polished crankshaft on a 4G54 that had eliminated a bearing once, back in about 1994. Road car. '83 Dodge Challenger. (Rebadged Mitsubishi Galant.) It lasted about 1000 km. Went to the junkyard and pulled a crank out of another engine that had already been rebuilt, the crank was in pristine condition at 0.25mm under. That "second" build *still* runs great, I just ran it last weekend. Still purrs like a kitten... :)
Hi Ave, Jeff at Jpaydirt put the $290 Harbor Freight 1" Earthquake air impact up against a $1400 IR 40V electric and IR air impact and was removing bolts from his D9 lower track rollers that the IR air impact wouldn't even touch and the 40V electric struggled to remove just a few. Those bolts were in for 26 years. The Earthquake spun them out like butter. Jeff's words. 🙂
That clank at the end was the sound of his left one detaching and falling to the floor. I have heard that much grunting and groaning in 30 seconds since prom night.
One thing I do now that I'm 55. I will sit and stare at a problem until I think my way out of it. Just go over in my head all the problems I have overcome and eventually patience pays off. I get great satisfaction from this. Unlike my younger days where I would let the verbiage and tools fly through the air. This video reminded me of my experience and I felt your jubilation when the bolt loosened. Cheers
A tip for the big end caps, pull the bolts out until about an inch is left in, and squeeze them together. This gives some purchase to wiggle and pull with. Also, wiggle in line with the crank (up and down in your vid); you have plenty of leverage in that direction.
More vids, nothing fancy, just check in and show what’s happening ! Thought for sure it was left hand thread, but doubted you wouldn’t have checked. I enjoy your vids cause they’re good for a laugh and nice to see what other guys are doing.
Gosh that thing was tight! Haha! This is my first time visiting your channel and I must say, you are hilarious! I love your wit and dry humor approach. You turn frustration into fun 😁. You seem to know a lot too. Good stuff ✌🏻
Welcome back , Hope all is well. I had did the leather trick for a guy with no money for the repair to help him get the thing home . All i charge him was his leather belt and five dollars labor He just had to get it 60 miles to his garage so he could do the repair
Recently i got to the end of travel of an beat up Suzuki sidekick sopedometer, think it was 170 kph and still had 500rpm more on her (that morning I've driven 200km in 4 low on snow over ice, it was a long day). Half an hour later the thing started knocking, no oil. Got to the next city and got me some 2 liters of 20w50 at 2 in the morning, sold in soda bottles in a self service car wash. Still had 700km to the nearest powder snow so in my next questionable decision we kept on going and it gave up in a oil town in the middle of nowhere. Took me 4 days to get a tow consisting of a flatbed trailer pulled by a ford ranger, so plenty of time to talk as it climbed the hills in 2nd. Towing dude told me that he used to work a 80s f100, it started knocking so he dropped the carter, put a strip of gasket maker paper behind the bearing and that Perkins worked two more years
Word to the wise on that crank pulley. If you're into it that much then it's a safe bet you're not going to throw the old v belt back on it so cut it to size to protect your pulley so that your pipe wrench isn't chewing up the edges. If it's protruding into the notch then you might wind up chewing up your new belts as it slides into the notch every rotation.
Just came inside from the shop after a long evening of too many beers and far too many questions between a friend and I while tinkering with an engine. We finally had enough and called it a night. Now that I see this video, I must not have had enough.
Sons Mitsubishi l200 after spinning a crank bearing eventually lodged into itself breaking the crank but oversized the bearing cap considerably. Unable to get replacement we decided to grind down the cap legs - where it bolts to block essentially made it shorter we peened the bearing mount block side until you could just feel small resistance when fitted up with crank and bearings in place (no plastic gauge here) was sweet when running. Sold to a family member who said 2 years and it’s still fine on my crazy repair Super happy with that.
I built up some big end bearings on a Suzuki 850 petrol mini van with solder and filed them down to a guestamte size, I heard 10yrs later was it was still running sweetly !
One of these days we will hear a real click or snap when you grunt like that 😂 Oh and I figured dewclaw was somehow involved after I saw the dead diesel carcass in the thumbnail
Block of wood or a pick handle between the block and crank journal to lock the crank might've helped a lot, rather than trying to hold the front pulley with the pipe wrench🤣👍
Some Honda crank bolts were like that. We used an Ingersoll Rand 3/4 inch impact on them. They were duly humbled by that impact. Fuck with the bull, get the horn. Lol
What I like to do for those really tight double wrench operations is I get a nail puller bar with the end somewhere between an l and a P. Basically an L with kind of an s curved divot what for being proud of the floor. Put the wrenches right on top of each other and hook the l shape around the bottom one. Get the ends as close as they'll go in the vetrtical for more leverage and reef on the nail bar so its pushing the wrenches how you want them pushed. Could probably break loose the bolts holding a skyscraper to the ground if your breaker bar doesn't split right half in two and send the second stage straight to low earth orbit.
I'm glad you're not dead it's been so long since the last video
Lost one good TH-camr in the last week, wasn't ready to lose another.
@nathanstrain2158 who was that?
Too busy stuffing stickers into envelopes!
@@schmitty69 Hobo Shoestring
@@nathanstrain2158 RIP Riding the heavenly rail with Stobe I hope.
Looks like the Canadians are starting to come out of hibernation
Might last 30 minutes
Get the real big boy tools out.
@@richardblanke5521
No ti.e to spare...
I could feel your hemorrhoids forming with that straining and grunting!
Lmfao 😂
Or going to blow a nut.
made my hernia ach
Really? Can i feel them too?
Next bio hacking video will be installing wooden shims and sawdust in the underpants
7:10 Our dude is out here single handedly putting hernia doctors' kids through college.
If you look closely, you'll notice his mechanics hammer also has a crescent wrench on it! Quite the multitool!
That’s the ol’ thumb detecting nut-f@cker!
I has one too. Professional Crescent Hammer!
Every wrench is a hammer, every hammer is a wrench. Every tool is the tool when hitting is the job.
Rastall!
Round chyea we prefer calling it a "thumb detecting nut f*cker" 😂
Did a crank nut on a 6 banger honda accord. 1/2in drive with a jack tube and I was hanging off it. Not only that, I had 2 or 3 extensions just to get to the nut and they were on a jack stand and a block of wood. The whole thing was twisting 90deg and when that nut broke loose I thought someone fired a gun. POW! I felt it resonate up through my cheater bar and into my arms like a cartoon. Thought I won. Nope, it just moved a little. Reset and did it all again 3 or 4 more times until I could finally move it with just the 1/2in drive.
It was also a reverse thread. Glad I got that right the first time.
"I felt it resonate up through my cheater bar" - now there's a phrase you don't hear often.
@@paulsengupta971 That sounds dirty.
Next time, try a counter-weight socket. It’s a thing. Sounds crazy, but they especially work well on those pesky Honda crank bolts.
You might've heard this already, but for anyone else out there doing that job: brace your wrench against the frame, and bump the key. She'll pop right off.
Them Honda crank bolts are notorious b stards.
Missed Uncle AVE's bumbleforking.
I have a 4' pipe wrench in my van. I've never left for a job where I planned to need it, but boy, do I find uses for it!
I carry a 60 inch right now in my truck and am looking for a good price on a 72 inch pipe wrench.
Dang. My longest breaker bar is 40”, but it’s also 3/4” drive.
I worked at a crane place for a little bit. Took apart seized outrigger hydraulic cylinders by clamping them in a huge vice that was on a bench that was bolted to the floor, and attaching a 10t overhead shop crane to the end of a 4' pipe wrench on the nut. It was ridiculous
I was waiting to hear, "It's a left-hand thread!"
Also... "It can't be tight if it's liquid!!!!!"
My dad was a GM dealership mechanic for years. He used to say that not much resits the force from the blue tip wrench.
@@VC-Toronto or as i call it the super spanner no nut it cant remove not so good at putting them on tho
That one little "tink" is always so blissful!
Seriously, when he said "fuckerrr" immediately thereafter I was smiling like a schoolgirl cause boy howdy I know that feeling, and it's a good'un.
Unless it's the tink of the tool breaking.
@@paulsengupta971 you ain't wrong there, though in these type of situations the tool tends to make a bit more noise than a "tink" when it catastrophically fails.
AVE can turn a phrase better than 5 men an a boy could ever hope to.
I used to work on real big cold stamping machines. Had a 4 foot wrench and a 6 foot chain link fence post as a cheater. One guy would turn, the other would smack the bolt with the 10 pound sledge. That first click you got truly music to my ears.
That crank bolt looks like a job for the ol' Torquestruct-O-Matic...
Natso fhkin tuff now rya
😂🤣😂🤣😂
Ahh yes. I have a pipe that goes on the end of my breaker bar too. I call her "iwasntasking". She has a sister thats 2 feet longer called "noseriously"
you forgot to tell us to keep our member in a vice !! your slippn' AVE !!! Brass Knuckles to ya !!! Keep up the Lord's work !
About time our Canadian savior reruns. Easter was a week ago.
I've personally polished a 1994 Ford 300 inline 6 crankshaft's rod journals with a shoelace and 2500 grit sandpaper. Then I replaced the rod bearings with standard size stock bearings. Before the operation the engine had zero oil pressure and a collapsed lifter as well as a few rod knocks. Afterwards it had no rod knock but had good oil pressure and the lifter came around after driving it around the trailer park. Guy has put over 10k miles on that truck since. I'm more proud of that truck than anything 😂
I knew of a used car dealer (N.A. Terrebone Motors, Raceland, Louisiana, yes, long out biz) who put paper behind the bearings of an old Chevy (I actually saw him measuring the two types of paper to get the right shim stack). I also saw him brazing the ever-living-f@#& out of another chevy block (he told his mechanic to not bother with anti-freeze/coolant, and it froze enough to blow out the sides of the block)
His mechanic refused to do much of what he wanted done to things to sell them on to some sucker. Eventually the Mech found another job.
Spanish windlass as "Sommer-teeth-enator."
And the wife wonders why I unexpectedly burst into uncontrollable laughter...😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Take good care, brother!
15 seconds in and were soldering copper onto main bearings, deal. Im in.
Copper?
Bronze or brass, so copper alloys used in bushings and such, but not copper itself.
I tried the home-polished crankshaft on a 4G54 that had eliminated a bearing once, back in about 1994. Road car. '83 Dodge Challenger. (Rebadged Mitsubishi Galant.) It lasted about 1000 km.
Went to the junkyard and pulled a crank out of another engine that had already been rebuilt, the crank was in pristine condition at 0.25mm under. That "second" build *still* runs great, I just ran it last weekend. Still purrs like a kitten... :)
As an occasional shade tree mechanic, I can really relate to this effort. Great videos, AvE!
Ah the lesser spotted blue tinge crank in the wild!
Hi Ave,
Jeff at Jpaydirt put the $290 Harbor Freight 1" Earthquake air impact up against a $1400 IR 40V electric and IR air impact and was removing bolts from his D9 lower track rollers that the IR air impact wouldn't even touch and the 40V electric struggled to remove just a few. Those bolts were in for 26 years. The Earthquake spun them out like butter. Jeff's words. 🙂
You watch that loser?
High mass Impact sockets work wonders on crank bolts.
Somebody doesn't understand physics... You... you don't understand physics.
That clank at the end was the sound of his left one detaching and falling to the floor. I have heard that much grunting and groaning in 30 seconds since prom night.
One thing I do now that I'm 55. I will sit and stare at a problem until I think my way out of it. Just go over in my head all the problems I have overcome and eventually patience pays off. I get great satisfaction from this. Unlike my younger days where I would let the verbiage and tools fly through the air. This video reminded me of my experience and I felt your jubilation when the bolt loosened. Cheers
Thank's for reminding me about Mike Burch. What a legend!
Still got all his toes… was that a Funk fpv reference? A man of culture indeed.
Probably referencing all those Pakistani manufacturing vi-jehos where everybody is wearing sandals while building janky stuff
@@ajfurnari2448safety sandals. Not just any sandals.
I remember jumping up and down on a 1/2" drive Johnson bar trying to loosen a seized lug nut. Managed to get it after torchering it.
A tip for the big end caps, pull the bolts out until about an inch is left in, and squeeze them together. This gives some purchase to wiggle and pull with.
Also, wiggle in line with the crank (up and down in your vid); you have plenty of leverage in that direction.
Tighter than a Honda crank bolt!
Haha. That's what it reminded me of!
Same here!
Thought the same thing.
Yep, I've fought with a few of those.
Reminds me of all the TH-camrs I've seen trying to get rusted parts off of ancient power Hammers
Alec Steele come to mind
Welcome back Uncle Bumble! Thought you had gone the way of the Dewclaw.
More vids, nothing fancy, just check in and show what’s happening !
Thought for sure it was left hand thread, but doubted you wouldn’t have checked.
I enjoy your vids cause they’re good for a laugh and nice to see what other guys are doing.
Good to see you back, partner.
I'd love to see more of the rebuild, keep it up 👍
Good to see you back, buddy.
Love the adjustable hammer,uncle BF
7:15 man that click is the most satisfying sound ever.
The old guy I worked for in 1970ish told me about using pork skins to get their Model T back on the road to home.
I heard the tongue of a belt would work too!
Gosh that thing was tight! Haha! This is my first time visiting your channel and I must say, you are hilarious! I love your wit and dry humor approach. You turn frustration into fun 😁. You seem to know a lot too. Good stuff ✌🏻
Spend an hour or twenty or so on his blacklist, you'll be the better for it. One of the best 'tubers out there.
Oh boy are you in for a good time... Stick around, our Canadian friend is a wizard
ITS ALIVE!!!!! Stunning specimen we have here folks
Twernt me that done it but I've heard from a trusted friend of soft copper pipe being used for big end rod bearings in a pinch .
Love the stickers I got!! Awesome quality on them they should definitely hold up for some time
Ah, you made it through another winter. Good to see ya, Big Man!
Uncle Bumblefuck! you're back! was gettin a lil worried!
Welcome back , Hope all is well.
I had did the leather trick for a guy with no money for the repair to help him get the thing home .
All i charge him was his leather belt and five dollars labor He just had to get it 60 miles to his garage so he could do the repair
I do so enjoy your videos
Love you Ave
Glad to see you’re still about mate
AvE would be a dream science teacher for the youth of the world
What, no long pole jokes! I’ll just insert my own 😉
Might this be Advanced Level Saskatchewan Engineering?
Welcome back!
Have heard of a replacement bearing being sourced from a long dead bullock hide in North Western Queensland.
Please keep on keeping on buddy your my favorite shop teacher
Recently i got to the end of travel of an beat up Suzuki sidekick sopedometer, think it was 170 kph and still had 500rpm more on her (that morning I've driven 200km in 4 low on snow over ice, it was a long day). Half an hour later the thing started knocking, no oil.
Got to the next city and got me some 2 liters of 20w50 at 2 in the morning, sold in soda bottles in a self service car wash. Still had 700km to the nearest powder snow so in my next questionable decision we kept on going and it gave up in a oil town in the middle of nowhere.
Took me 4 days to get a tow consisting of a flatbed trailer pulled by a ford ranger, so plenty of time to talk as it climbed the hills in 2nd.
Towing dude told me that he used to work a 80s f100, it started knocking so he dropped the carter, put a strip of gasket maker paper behind the bearing and that Perkins worked two more years
Where do you live and what happened to the Suzuki?
Glad you're still alive and free - here's hoping you don't get incarcerated by Castro for telling an off joke...
When the nut finally made that squeak of loosening! Soooooooo good
Brass shim stock, scissors, engine bearings.....what in the Africa is going on here.
The hooks on your kito 1/4 ton come-along will fit right into the eye on the end of that pipe wrench. Works good for wrecking things.
The windlass between the 2 wrenches almost made me piss myself🤣😂
I haven’t tight like that in years😀
Thats insane. That engine looks brand new!
Heat it and beat it.... the essence of my life.
Word to the wise on that crank pulley. If you're into it that much then it's a safe bet you're not going to throw the old v belt back on it so cut it to size to protect your pulley so that your pipe wrench isn't chewing up the edges. If it's protruding into the notch then you might wind up chewing up your new belts as it slides into the notch every rotation.
Holy shit! Look at what the cat dug up in the kid's sandbox.
A man who has been wrenching a while..😊
Glad to have ya back cap'n. Give us a garden update there.
Just came inside from the shop after a long evening of too many beers and far too many questions between a friend and I while tinkering with an engine. We finally had enough and called it a night. Now that I see this video, I must not have had enough.
Sweet! I was hoping you'd get back to that thing at some point.
Sons Mitsubishi l200 after spinning a crank bearing eventually lodged into itself breaking the crank but oversized the bearing cap considerably. Unable to get replacement we decided to grind down the cap legs - where it bolts to block essentially made it shorter we peened the bearing mount block side until you could just feel small resistance when fitted up with crank and bearings in place (no plastic gauge here) was sweet when running. Sold to a family member who said 2 years and it’s still fine on my crazy repair Super happy with that.
All hail safety sandels! Farmercobble is informative and entertaining.❤
I built up some big end bearings on a Suzuki 850 petrol mini van with solder and filed them down to a guestamte size, I heard 10yrs later was it was still running sweetly !
That strap crow bar squeezer arrangement scared the bejesus outta me. I'd need to put on full steel body armour before I'd do that one.
Day makes special "heavy" sockets for the extra force of impacts that be applied with a regular Uga Duga impacter. Works stupendously
"Banging like a 3 pound hammer in a dryer." I love it.
This looks interesting and excited to see the outcome 😂
Don't know about anyone else. But skit got very real there at the end. 😂
He absolutely chooched that!
This looks fun! I want to become an engine builder now
your warranty has lapsed, to be fair we did try to call you and everyone you know a thousands times to remind you
Best video iv’e seen in years
The satisfaction of finally breaking a threaded part free can’t be beat.
Best video ive ever seen.
One of these days we will hear a real click or snap when you grunt like that 😂
Oh and I figured dewclaw was somehow involved after I saw the dead diesel carcass in the thumbnail
There I was expecting that pipe wrench to say Pittsburg! Glad to see my patreon bucks are keeping you well equipped!!
I was grunting alone with ya in spirit.
Block of wood or a pick handle between the block and crank journal to lock the crank might've helped a lot, rather than trying to hold the front pulley with the pipe wrench🤣👍
Glad your out of hiding Uncle. Really miss the Dewclaw in your videos as a sparky myself! Hope he's doing well.
There ya are..., thought you'd angina'd yourself off Terra Firma! 👍
Some Honda crank bolts were like that. We used an Ingersoll Rand 3/4 inch impact on them. They were duly humbled by that impact. Fuck with the bull, get the horn. Lol
What I like to do for those really tight double wrench operations is I get a nail puller bar with the end somewhere between an l and a P. Basically an L with kind of an s curved divot what for being proud of the floor. Put the wrenches right on top of each other and hook the l shape around the bottom one. Get the ends as close as they'll go in the vetrtical for more leverage and reef on the nail bar so its pushing the wrenches how you want them pushed. Could probably break loose the bolts holding a skyscraper to the ground if your breaker bar doesn't split right half in two and send the second stage straight to low earth orbit.
I'm big time dog guy, but fire truly gives them a run as far as being man's best friend🤷
That sure was a whole lotta chooch'in at the end there!
That crank bolt stronger then my own will to live!
Nothing the good ol' blue wrench can't break loose.
AvE, the internet hero, the internet inspiration, the internet Dad - we all need.
nice work old man
I shaved a rod cap a few thousand to cure a rod knock along with a new bearing in a old Land Rover it worked great.
God bless you Sir