“Oh no I spilled Diesel on the ground, I’m going to jail in this state.” I laughed at this and then was a little sad because it’s both funny and true in Cali.
I’ve always enjoy watching your shows Fred. You are a really down to earth guy. I miss dirt every day . You and Dave work great together. Keep the content coming.
HI Fred. I hope this works for you. I have done this twice, once with a stuck Jaguar XKE engine. I pulled sparkplugs and let sit for two weeks. I had to rotate back and forth on the crank after it broke free, a smidge at a time until it finally rotated fully. Not only did it loosen up it actually ran and did not need rebuilding. The second time was for an aircraft engine that has individual cylinders and you cannot disassemble without rotating the crank. I filled cylinders and crankcase and let sit for a month. Same thing once the crank budged a little I worked it back and forth until fully rotated freely. I think it would have ran but since it was going in an airplane it just was fully rebuilt but the components were surprisingly in good shape. I also think that a car that sits along time and smokes sometimes has stuck rings and the diesel fuel loosens them up. Good luck with this, I don't think its crazy at all.
Watching these videos makes me feel like I’m just there chilling with a buddy while he does crazy shit. Can’t help but laugh at the self talk moments. Keep pushing out the content sir. It’s great!!
I would have personally poured it through the spark plug holes to ensure it reaches each cylinder and loosen any stuck piston/rings, curious about the end result
This is how my wife came to watch MT on demand. You can make a frozen engine block entertaining. We hate MT didn’t renew and, believe me, my wife is ready to organize pitchforks and torches. We’re not 4X4er (please forgive us as we do own trucks) but that didn’t matter. You always looked like you were having a blast and that was entertaining enough for us. Keep good content coming and we will keep watching on TH-cam. (BTW, we enrolled in MTOD for the motorcycle content and……. See a trend?)
I just freed up a Cadillac engine last week. Aerokroil and ATF down the cylinders through the spark plug holes then put a breaker bar on the crank and go back and forth works great. I’ve gotten some engines that were very stuck that way. If it’s really really stuck I’ve made an adapter and pumped grease down the TDC cylinder to keep pressure on it while working it back and forth. It sure does smoke if you get it running that way.
I broke free the rusted 304 in my previous 1974 cj5. pb blaster In the two offending rusted cylinders and a few times a day in high range high gear Rock the jeep forward and back. On day 5 it rolled. I fired it up the next day after points, condenser and coil replacement. I ended up driving it all over until it was time to sell.
Have gotten motors free with ATF,in tractors. Some pretty big cube antique gas engines. With a tractor we jack up one drive wheel and put it in high gear. Then rock the tire whenever I'd think of it. Once a week at least.
Years ago I unstuck a 4.2 using "Hagen Brew" which is 50/50 atf and acetone. I have my doubts about the acetone, but that engine ultimately unseized. I drained about 4 quarts of water out of the pan and put the plug back in when I saw oil. After a half hour of running it stopped smoking and I'll be damned if it didn't become a reliable farm rig.
Hope it works for you, I have a 350 SBC full of diesel for a couple of years, haven't gone back to check it yet. Took 2.5 5 gallon containers to fill thru the carb. Probably evaporated by now.
I wonder if yoh leave that breaker bar on and put some tention on it with a ratchet strap if that would help it move as diesel creeps into all the orfices
Just an idea. Harbor freight makes these cheap 10 ish dollar battery operated transfer pumps. One of those with a little extra tubing would save your back and not have you balancing precariously on the frame. Just a thought we like having you around.
Fill crankcase with half diesel and cheap atf . Fill cylinders with atf and let all that marinate for a few days and then boil up enough water to fill coolant passages and give it a try . I've had success with this method
Doesn’t 304 make it a CJ7? Sorry if that’s a stupid question, I have a 1976 CJ7 and I am curious. Also marvel mystery oil works good to free up old engines.
I can remember when the local logging giant would oil their gravel roads, just like a James Bond trick, to keep dust down. Not oil and gravel, aka "Macadam". Just oil. That was Crown Zellerbach, in Washington, in the '70s. Try that now.
I saw some videos on the Myers Manx 2.0 dune buggy and it about made me cry because that's how simple EVs are capable of being, but they will probably be $100k+. I wish people like Fred and Dave and probably a whole team of hackers could take a Rivian or Hummer and do the Armageddon drill rig treatment to it just to see how much unnecessary electronics or flimsy crap could be peeled off of it to make a real electric off-roader.
Even if it unlocks, the rings and cylinder walls are probably rusted and corroded and they will become scored up as the grind against each other, and then the oil will blow by and burn up a quart every 100 miles. What's the point?
Maybe after it sits put it in 1st gear, if you can, and rock the entire chassis gently forward to get the engine to free up. I have heard stories where someone with a stuck engine towed it behind another vehicle at about 40 mph and popped the clutch in second gear. It did work after a few tries but the engine began to smoke really badly once it was running. Oh. I just remembered that one early Cheep Truck Challenge with the winning 83 or 84 red Chevy. Suburban where the submersion in the water filled the engine water, my guess is that an engine full of diesel won't like to try to compress that anymore than one full of water. May have to pull out the spark plugs before rotating the engine too much. Ah... Dirt Every Day... it was educational fun too. I wonder what ever happened to that cool Suburban?
I have know many people that use a mixture of kerosene and a solvent, and just periodically put a breaker bar on it and just try to move it back and forth till it frees up
Haha!! Just make sure your serial numbers are scratched off your leaf blower!! Seriously Fred why haven’t you moved up north with Dave and the rest of us?
Great work, happy you and Dave are still around! Sorry to hear you hatin’ on the Teslas in this vid though. I’m 3 years into owning a model 3 as a daily, but it doesn’t mean I don’t fully enjoy my CJ5 that I personally 5.3/sm465 swapped! One of the best things about your content has always been the lack of negativity, hope you keep that tradition up!
diesel is the best. Nothing compares especially when you consider cost. Just dump it in every so often until it can be turned over. Put it down the carb also.
Seems like a harbor freight oil can full of diesel would have made it easy to squirt into the spark plug holes. I'm not sure what else you were hoping to do by literally filling the engine.
i was watching other channel of a guy tryiing to revive a front loader with a stuck engine, it was a solid chunk of rust with no hoppe but the guy did a neat trick, he put an adaptor in the sparkplug hole and pumped it full of grease trying to push it down with all the psi, i think if the thing wasn't so far gone it would have worked, if it your engine doesn't come around you might as well give it a try , she's already fk at that point
Thanks for making content for us everyday gearheads Fred!!
“Oh no I spilled Diesel on the ground, I’m going to jail in this state.” I laughed at this and then was a little sad because it’s both funny and true in Cali.
As a car enthusiast I hate it here.
@@agoodballet yes, yes we do
I’ve always enjoy watching your shows Fred. You are a really down to earth guy. I miss dirt every day . You and Dave work great together. Keep the content coming.
I have really been enjoying waking up to these while i enjoy my morning coffee! thanks for making these Fred!
If one day this 304 is running again, we can all say we saw it here first.
I can't wait till you guys can go adventuring again. Enjoying your videos.
Man. I could hear the disappointment in your voice when you said “California”. I feel your pain man.
Glad I found this channel Fred. Miss seeing you and Dave. BTW, just curious if Steve Magnate is missing a pair of his eyeglasses? 😁
HI Fred. I hope this works for you. I have done this twice, once with a stuck Jaguar XKE engine. I pulled sparkplugs and let sit for two weeks. I had to rotate back and forth on the crank after it broke free, a smidge at a time until it finally rotated fully. Not only did it loosen up it actually ran and did not need rebuilding. The second time was for an aircraft engine that has individual cylinders and you cannot disassemble without rotating the crank. I filled cylinders and crankcase and let sit for a month. Same thing once the crank budged a little I worked it back and forth until fully rotated freely. I think it would have ran but since it was going in an airplane it just was fully rebuilt but the components were surprisingly in good shape. I also think that a car that sits along time and smokes sometimes has stuck rings and the diesel fuel loosens them up. Good luck with this, I don't think its crazy at all.
Can’t wait to see this 304 run !
Have a few 360’s I need to fix for my pile of SJ’s.
Watching these videos makes me feel like I’m just there chilling with a buddy while he does crazy shit. Can’t help but laugh at the self talk moments. Keep pushing out the content sir. It’s great!!
Ahhh man you left us hanging! Got to love cliffhangers. 👍👍🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🤘🏻🤘🏻🤣
Fred grinding it out and pumping out the content! Keep up the great work!
This is a cool info tidbit that I'm going to stash away in the old brain pain. Seems like some old school gear head advice.
I would have personally poured it through the spark plug holes to ensure it reaches each cylinder and loosen any stuck piston/rings, curious about the end result
But then you have to take out all the plugs. That's a lot of work.
If you fill the engine from the top it will contact everything below it. Remember 3rd grade science?
@@mikek5298 what if the intake valves are shut?
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@@mikek5298 What third grade did you go too? Yea, shit does roll down hill but, you still have to open the door!
I used to watch you regularly, until MTOD. Glad to see you here on your own. I'll sub for now to see how this thing turns out.
As an owner of a Tesla and an XJ, you just narrated my internal dialogue
I watched You Tube car vids, then I watched mostly Motortrend, now I’m watching mostly You Tube again. Circle of life.
This is how my wife came to watch MT on demand. You can make a frozen engine block entertaining.
We hate MT didn’t renew and, believe me, my wife is ready to organize pitchforks and torches. We’re not 4X4er (please forgive us as we do own trucks) but that didn’t matter. You always looked like you were having a blast and that was entertaining enough for us. Keep good content coming and we will keep watching on TH-cam.
(BTW, we enrolled in MTOD for the motorcycle content and…….
See a trend?)
Looking forward to seeing the results! Keep up the great work!!!
So glad your on youtube now fred love all yours and Dave's videos keep it up
I just freed up a Cadillac engine last week. Aerokroil and ATF down the cylinders through the spark plug holes then put a breaker bar on the crank and go back and forth works great. I’ve gotten some engines that were very stuck that way. If it’s really really stuck I’ve made an adapter and pumped grease down the TDC cylinder to keep pressure on it while working it back and forth. It sure does smoke if you get it running that way.
I broke free the rusted 304 in my previous 1974 cj5. pb blaster In the two offending rusted cylinders and a few times a day in high range high gear Rock the jeep forward and back. On day 5 it rolled. I fired it up the next day after points, condenser and coil replacement. I ended up driving it all over until it was time to sell.
A genuine bonifide science experiment! You go Fred! 🤘🏻💀🤘🏻
This is solid gold
Love it… No half measures Fred! All in!
Marvel Mystery oil. Two stroke mix works great too.
Hey Fred, I like these ones as it gives people a glimpse of the not so fun stuff like your builds
Maybe Dave could get you a jug for Christmas you might get more in the engine lol. Keep up the good work
Have gotten motors free with ATF,in tractors. Some pretty big cube antique gas engines. With a tractor we jack up one drive wheel and put it in high gear. Then rock the tire whenever I'd think of it. Once a week at least.
50/50 mix of acetone and transmission fluid, homemade mystery oil best for loosening rusted frozen parts and effective in dissolving rust.
Years ago I unstuck a 4.2 using "Hagen Brew" which is 50/50 atf and acetone. I have my doubts about the acetone, but that engine ultimately unseized. I drained about 4 quarts of water out of the pan and put the plug back in when I saw oil.
After a half hour of running it stopped smoking and I'll be damned if it didn't become a reliable farm rig.
Did this to my Pontiac GTO but with AFT, was in storage and I knew I wasn't going to be around for a few years to start it.
1998-2021 ... it turns.
Marvel Mystery Oil has never failed me!
😂😂maybe you should cover that thing with a tarp ! 😂😂😂
Marvels Mystery Oil. Works like a charm.
I never follow anyone behind the paywall, but I missed your creativity.
Hell yeah. Baking in the sun will help too.
Hope it works for you, I have a 350 SBC full of diesel for a couple of years, haven't gone back to check it yet. Took 2.5 5 gallon containers to fill thru the carb. Probably evaporated by now.
I wonder if yoh leave that breaker bar on and put some tention on it with a ratchet strap if that would help it move as diesel creeps into all the orfices
Just an idea. Harbor freight makes these cheap 10 ish dollar battery operated transfer pumps. One of those with a little extra tubing would save your back and not have you balancing precariously on the frame. Just a thought we like having you around.
This is so fascinating to me👍🏻
To funny. Keep'em coming Fred
Interested to see the results, good luck!
A little dust control never hurt nothing! 😆
Fill crankcase with half diesel and cheap atf . Fill cylinders with atf and let all that marinate for a few days and then boil up enough water to fill coolant passages and give it a try . I've had success with this method
The greenies must be pulling their hair out. Go Fred.
“EPA open up!!!” 😂😂😂
Coal powered cars going to be great for everyone.
ty this put the trans in gear and the transfer case in 4x4 high and rock the whole assembly back and forth
Great video.
Doesn’t 304 make it a CJ7? Sorry if that’s a stupid question, I have a 1976 CJ7 and I am curious. Also marvel mystery oil works good to free up old engines.
I can remember when the local logging giant would oil their gravel roads, just like a James Bond trick, to keep dust down. Not oil and gravel, aka "Macadam". Just oil. That was Crown Zellerbach, in Washington, in the '70s. Try that now.
Hope the motor turns. It will make disassembly much easier. Needs to be rebuilt, not LS swapped.
Hope to hear it run eventually
Hi Fred! You should get a mic on you so we can hear you better! Keep up the good content ✌️
I have a mic, im just still figuring it out
I saw some videos on the Myers Manx 2.0 dune buggy and it about made me cry because that's how simple EVs are capable of being, but they will probably be $100k+. I wish people like Fred and Dave and probably a whole team of hackers could take a Rivian or Hummer and do the Armageddon drill rig treatment to it just to see how much unnecessary electronics or flimsy crap could be peeled off of it to make a real electric off-roader.
Greta thunberg watches Fred's video: "HOW DARE YOU!!!!"
Fred u sounded so disappointed when u said in this state California lol the EPA is coming down on u guys hard there.
Biodiesel is the absolute best degreaser I’ve ever used!
That's because it's made with lye, the main ingredient in old fashioned soap.
The channel is growing fast!
Use vinegar that stuff works great I unfroze a bunch of motors with vinegar
Great video. Keep recycling old junk it’s better than Tesla batteries on the environment.
Everything is great, Fred. Lol
Old farmer told me 50/50 atf and diesel fuel. Worked well the few times I needed it
Can I have that Jeepster in the back ground? lol
Even if it unlocks, the rings and cylinder walls are probably rusted and corroded and they will become scored up as the grind against each other, and then the oil will blow by and burn up a quart every 100 miles. What's the point?
Maybe after it sits put it in 1st gear, if you can, and rock the entire chassis gently forward to get the engine to free up. I have heard stories where someone with a stuck engine towed it behind another vehicle at about 40 mph and popped the clutch in second gear. It did work after a few tries but the engine began to smoke really badly once it was running.
Oh. I just remembered that one early Cheep Truck Challenge with the winning 83 or 84 red Chevy. Suburban where the submersion in the water filled the engine water, my guess is that an engine full of diesel won't like to try to compress that anymore than one full of water. May have to pull out the spark plugs before rotating the engine too much.
Ah... Dirt Every Day... it was educational fun too. I wonder what ever happened to that cool Suburban?
Haha i love it!!! Tell her you are reducing your carbon footprint by reusing old stuff instead of buying new!😅👌
If they made Teslas that looked or performed like an old CJ I would have two.
Can I have that jeepster back there?? 🤣🤣
Fred, if you get the old 304 running you should throw the body together and drive to the ocean.
love the show fred... keep up the good work. love your videos... except the one where your cooking, those suck.... 😆😆😆..jk
congrats on making to the creator in rise page !!! keep it up !!!
I'd recommend diesel fuel and trans fluid is one of the best ways of removing rust and unceasing a engine
I've done it with diesel yup
Love dirt daily , when are you a dirt head Dave going to have a jeep jambery ?.
Saw someone break an engine loose the othe day with a grease gun adapted to a spark plug thread. Find a piston thats high and get pumping!
I saw that too. Maybe ill try that next.
I have know many people that use a mixture of kerosene and a solvent, and just periodically put a breaker bar on it and just try to move it back and forth till it frees up
Haha!! Just make sure your serial numbers are scratched off your leaf blower!! Seriously Fred why haven’t you moved up north with Dave and the rest of us?
You should try evaporust next if the diesel doesn’t work.
Marvel mystery oil works great
Great work, happy you and Dave are still around! Sorry to hear you hatin’ on the Teslas in this vid though. I’m 3 years into owning a model 3 as a daily, but it doesn’t mean I don’t fully enjoy my CJ5 that I personally 5.3/sm465 swapped! One of the best things about your content has always been the lack of negativity, hope you keep that tradition up!
Make it a morning ritual to go out and give it a little torque to see if it starts to give.
Greta would be angry at you spilling Diesel but it's Bio diesel so it's fine
You're gonna be fine, it's bio-diesel, that means it's ok for the bios or whatever. Everything is bi-O. K.
We're (California) expecting rain on Saturday and Sunday.. I'd cover the engine again
I use kroil Fred. Best penetration oil ever.
diesel is the best. Nothing compares especially when you consider cost. Just dump it in every so often until it can be turned over. Put it down the carb also.
used deisel but always mixed it with atf and shoulda pulled the plugs and done each cylinder
Ecotec 2.4 swap and a 100" wheelbase!
Love your videos.
Seems like a harbor freight oil can full of diesel would have made it easy to squirt into the spark plug holes. I'm not sure what else you were hoping to do by literally filling the engine.
i was watching other channel of a guy tryiing to revive a front loader with a stuck engine, it was a solid chunk of rust with no hoppe but the guy did a neat trick, he put an adaptor in the sparkplug hole and pumped it full of grease trying to push it down with all the psi, i think if the thing wasn't so far gone it would have worked, if it your engine doesn't come around you might as well give it a try , she's already fk at that point
What are your plans for the Jeepster in the background?
If it's a waste of time u should pull the moter from fram and no drain it and light motor off and see if the bio diesel will melt motor down
Worse case you're out $50 in diesel. Lol
HEY, what's up with the Jeepster in the background? I'd love to see a build on that.
How much diesel fuel can an old Jeep engine hold? About 5 gallons
I have no better advice than to light a match, throw it down the intake and run.
So if they go by the number on the chassis, might as well get a Mahindra Ruxor, slip an old jeep chassis under it...."new" jeep.