The CHEAP JEEP ENGINE Was Completely FULL Of STOP LEAK
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- When a cherry (literally) 2001 Jeep Grand Cheeroke falls into your lap, you have to buy it. That's exactly what happened here, all it needed was a quick engine swap to get back on the road. That's exactly what I'm doing today with @TylerPotter! Tyler and I got that 4.0 inline 6 engine out, found out the engine and radiator were full of gunk and stop leak, there was basically no oil in it, and the whole package looked like it had been very hot. We managed to get the old engine out and the new engine in and everything underneath done in less than 6 hours, all that's left is hooking up the harness, new plugs, oil, and coolant!
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The radiator was flushed 3 different ways until it flowed right and the water was perfectly clear, the heater core will get the same. I understand basic cooling systems, it just needs to be on the water side of the shop...🙄
Just remember those 4.0s of those years take a HOAT style coolant. MS-9769 is the spec to be exact. Zerex G-05 concentrate and distilled water will do the trick but ask a Jeep dealer and they might have the concentrated coolant for less than Zerex at the parts store. Suprisingly the dealer near me was less expensive for the OEM MS-9769 concentrated coolant.
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You should have replaced the front seal on the trany
@@garyhaas9575 Front and rear main oil seas, as well as the torque converter seal. I prefer to only install once.
You should do a "before you avalonking" video on how to clean up neglected paint before ceramic coating. Maybe grab some junkyard hoods like the old Auri 2000 infomercials :)
I think I speak for a lot of us here, I LOVE all the content diversity on this channel. Super cars, flip cars, warehouse build, 6-door trucks… keeps the channel fresh! Love to see it as always, and keep up the great work
Can't wait to see the replacement of those ugly aftermarket headlights. Thanks for the video!
I was thinking the same thing
I’m pretty sure those are not aftermarket headlights! They need to be buffed.
You know you’ve got a real confident mechanic when he wears a white t-shirt to do an engine swap.
Tyler is a hottie.....
Seriously. I don't wear a white t-shirt to do anything. Especially not working on a car.
@@jacobscott6028 me either.
I used to wear white when I was a Porsche tech. (Private shop so no uniform) I could easily tell if I was dirty that way before a test drive. Usually only my hands were dirty at the end of day.
At home? I'm a mess... lol!
You have to respect JR's grind. He bangs out videos day after day and does a LOT of work on cars.
I really like it when you do the time lapse and show most of the work being done.
Sign of supreme confidence when Tyler shows up to do an engine swap in a pristine white tee. Me? Stained within seconds.
Yeah I really had no idea what I was thinking wearing a white T-shirt but it honestly didn't get to wrecked lol
With all the stop leak, you have to do 2 - 3 coolant flushes to get all of that out of all the hoses, heater core, etc.
It’s always nice seeing your family and friends helping you out very cool 😎
That 4.0 is a BEAST
That was a lot of work. I also enjoy Tyler Potter's channel, nice of him to give you a hand. 👍👍👍
That 4.0 litre inline six was a good strong engine in our old Cherokee. I know there where some stroker kits available for it, but never felt like it needed the extra power.
You are the best number one better than the dealership and you are great at fixing cars and trucks stay safe.
Love my 4.0 jeep's have 3 of them and a 78 Wagoneer with a fresh AMC 401
Six hours with two guys working on it equals 12 hours
As I remember it flag time is established by three different pairs of mechanics working on the same problem. They're times are then averaged. How long does it take one person do the job?
Jr. your always at the shop. Why not go get a camper trailer and pull it inside. Sort of a crash pad for those long nights
That's why he has the Aztec with the mattress in it.
I can't remember if I said this in one of your earlier videos or not, but I'm glad your saving this Jeep from the scrap yard considering how nice the body and interior is...definitely worth saving and will make a nice daily driver for someone once you finish the engine swap.
Old school WatchJRGo!
Complete removal and engine swap all in one video just this one has time lapse. 👍🏽
Good to see Tyler...man y'all make some fire content!!🔥 thanks!
Make sure you flush the heater core out to get all of that leak stop out
Or by pass and sell it to one of us Florida boys. We would never use it. I typically by pass them if they don’t work
@@petescarport move to Kansas and try that.
Why would one need a heater in a car in Phoenix?
May as well go ahead and change it --they are known to go bad and thats what someone was probably dumping all the stop leak in for. But you have to pull the entire dash to change it, most times you have to do the evaporator as well.
That much stop leak took out everything. Rad, heater core, all hoses, water pump. YUCK!
*still*, as a core to a rebuilder, it has value. I seen to remember someone offering 50 bucks for it.
Yup, the old engine is sold 🍻
Wow, that was absolutely the nastiest engine I've seen in a long time
It was a wreck! 💯
I sure wish I could have seen it with the block glowing red. That wouldda been SICK!
JR: "Always do the engine swap". Also JR: "I brought Tyler Potter over to help with the engine swap" 😁We all want your shop and resources, dude!
If you got tons of stop leak in there you should roll it out of shop n try to flush out heater core with a hose or something cause dat crap will set up in the heater core and this would of been the best time to flush it out
It will most likely need a different rad and heater core stop leak plugs those as well
When I see JR climb over the engine I think to myself "I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to do that"
Sometimes it's the fastest way! 🍻
@@WatchJRGo I'm 5'7" sometimes it's also the only way! Good stuff brother!
When I work on my camaro, I call it LT1 yoga 🧘♀️
I think to my self, I remember when I could do that.
How about the heater core
It will get flushed as well 🍻
One hour to pull the engine?! Dayum. It took me and a friend several days to remove the engine in my 944 Turbo. I guess if you do it all the time, it becomes easy?
Probably more difficult on the Porsche too
Yeah this is an SUV with a relative overabundance of space around the engine. I mean, that's definitely skill and experience in there, as well as having the right tools, but space matters too I bet.
You bought the wrong Porsche. I have an 1985 911. Takes an hour to get engine & gearbox out, 30 mins to inspect & service and another hour to put it back.
Two guys @ 6 hours to remove an engine is really 12 hours in the automotive world.
It would probably cost a fortune to pay to have this done at a shop and why it was/would be sold. "Easy" to flip for a profit when you can do the work yourself,
Kinda disappointed we didn’t get to hear it crank, but glad we got to see it done.
If there is that much Stop Leak in the coolant system, the Heater Core (under the dash), will need to be flushed out.
No the heater core will need to be bypassed!!
Bro he lives in Kansas he will absolutely need that heater before November hits.
@Jim jibroni remind humanity to never buy a car from you.
@Jim jibroni for real bro you going to sell a car without heater in Kansas seriously though?
@Jim jibroni I'm never going to buy anything from you. And definitely not a vehicle. Heat is an important thing. Air conditioning is a luxury however hear is not in the winter time.
Nice to see Potter there, it's a good thing.
I can imagine the former owner walking up to the parts counter, pushing a shopping basket loaded with stop leak.
If that were my car and I were keeping it, I'd also replace the radiator, heater core, and all cooling hoses.
Why would you if it's all flushed clean?
He's not keeping it.
@@longjohn77 I don’t think it’s possible to just flush out everything out of the heater core I could be wrong but why risk it ?
@@romeothompson9389 You're right.
Really great time on that swap..I did one and swore to never do another one..such a PIA.
White shirt!!! Brave man🤣🤙🤙🤙
Worked at a Land Rover dealership and they took in Wagoneer and Cherokee's on trade. They were quickly routed off the lot to another dealership. Would have been interesting hearing Tyler's "tips and tricks" working on Grand Cherokee's
With all the stop leak are you sure it’s not a Samcrac car? Lol
Guy's the biggest hack out there.
JR. Make sure you check the cat before running the new engine. I've seen clogged cats cause overheating issues.
Take the mounts off of the side of the engine so you can let it down some to get to the top bellhousing bolts.
14:14 You guess the book time is 13 man hours, then you say how fast you did it, in 6 hours. Two guys 6 hours, that is 12 man hours and your not done. Ya, you did it in around book time...
I'm impressed the white shirt stayed clean.. well done!
Enjoy seeing you guys work and the music was great on this video.
Man look at that shop he in from where he started nice
Great video man- looks like it was a chore but glad you were able to save the Jeep!
With that much stop leak the radiator and the heater core are probably junk and need replaced. At a minimum they both need flushed really really really good.
We need a video of the old engine torn apart to see how it is inside
you got the best music on your time lapse video's
You should have swapped a 3rd gen hemi into it. Most likely would have had to swap the trans as well. That would have been an awesome build.
Make sure heater core flush
$1800 for a Jeep that needs an engine is not the definition of cheap.
It is in today's used car market. Plus that one is otherwise super clean and has low mileage.
If the Jeep looks that good and if the interior is good, $1,800 is a good deal.
A lot of freaking work JR, well done!
i remember paying $600 for my 01 grand cherokee, it had a 4.7.
one of the lash adjusters failed caused the arm to come off, and shutdown thet cylinder.
the previous owner tonight the cylinder was dead , no compression. $25 later she ran like a top
I remembered the time when my dad's Tercel had a heater core leak. We used a small amount of radiator stop leak to do a temporary fix while we waited for a heater core I bought on RockAuto. Since the heater core replacement, we haven't used the stop leak.
Notorious for the cooling fan relay behind the passenger headlight for Blowing!!! HVAC blend door in the dash for breaking, cheap ass window regulators constantly snapping, rotors that warp, 1999-2003 crappiest GC jeeps built!!
Watching this after waking up is soo relaxing.....
Heater core clogged dont forget to flush it.
Lucky to have Tyler helping you.
Next time you pull an engine, you should give it to Eric at I Do Cars. He has awesome videos of engine teardowns and we all get to play our favorite game there 'What caused the engine to eat itself, or blow up or eat a piston' Usually it's from lack of maintenance. Who knew cara needed things like oil and needed it changed regularly. And he likes BMW's, so he's one of you
2nd this ^^ Love his videos
3rd. My favorite is (are) the Viper V10 teardown(s).
My Dad's car had a slight radiator leak so he poured some radiator stop leak into the oil. Did you catch that? He poured it into the oil. It seized up the engine. Mechanics were able to get it working again but it never ran right. It also took my him about 60 years to realize that cars need to have their oil changed. He would just buy a new used car when the mechanics gave him a high estimate to fix his cars. I learned auto mechanics from watching TH-cam videos and now I do all my own repairs.
Whoever thinks mechanic in a bottle is a fix is the type of person to buy blinker fluid and radio oil
Did anyone else notice when they lower the Jeep to the ground after disconnecting the exhaust?
JR stops the lift @6:14 but the car continues to lower slowly for presumably several minutes while they're working on it. If you watch the headlamp it slowly creeps down out of view while they work on the Jeep.
One these days you're going to have to buy the table that Ninja has for engine swaps.
Is it just me or is his intro music the only one anybody doesn't skip through
That engine looked tough to get out and the other back in. Straight 6 is longer than I realized. I think I would have went ahead and removed grill, header panel and lights. I think he is gonna change lights anyway. Keep up the content JR.
You make it look so easy
Had to watch a bar's stop leak commercial during this video...classic TH-cam
I dare you to look at the front coil spring isolators and locators!!! I bet they are rusted!
From personal experience, the electric fans probably stopped working (very common) and the engine overheated. Stop Leak poured in to try to fix the blown head gasket. I ended up junking my daughter’s 2000 when this happened to her’s.
New engine and headlights and that thing is sorted
such an awesome jeep! to bad you wern't closer, i'd flat out trade you my car for this. I've been in the market for a 4x4 for the past few years now, just havent found anything within my price range that doesn't have a crap ton of miles on it. the used car market these days is insane!
If you haven't found one in 3 years you're obviously wanting more than you're willing to pay for.
@@longjohn77 prices in my area are insane. 8 grand for an S10 extended cab with 4 wheel drive with 230,000 miles and more rust than paint
Stellantis options on new cars include: sunroof, power functions and gallons of stop leak.
I've always pulled the grillecand such off for engine swaps interesting to see it done the hard way.
If the core support is welded in then pulling the grille doesn’t help
JR you really should have a few cameras underneath and cutting you undershots into your overall shots. (or side by side). You own the garage, mount up some cheep webcams. Not everything needs to be HD. You could double your viewership just making your timeline segments if cut right..
take the front clip off and it's alot easier... also safer.... no busted radiator
Plus there is plenty of other crap to rebuild / replace
shop needs a high quality living zone with a kitchen and bedroom and it will be my dream shop
You'd need a shower too.
I worry that too many comforts would distract from the job at hand.
@@longjohn77 they are building a shower and the lounge, so it would be pretty livable if need be
@@MagicBrownMan 👍
It's getting almost all of that.
great job guys wow that looked tough lol
Take that motor out to I Do Cars in St. Louis and do a tear down of that thrashed 4.0
Don't forget to clean out the heater core
I have a funny story. I took one of these for a test drive as my first car in 2007 it was owned by the used car dealer manager. Went onto some backroads with my dad slammed the brakes accelerated listening for noises etc and there was a moaning noise coming from the trunk…literally. So Me and my dad got out and found an screaming woman orgasim prank button that slid under the spare tire. That was mounted inside the trunk.
Ohh the memories 🤣🤣🤣
A friend had one of these that I forget the model of, it was Black with Gold stripes and the killer looking gold wheels, it had a 360 in it that blew a head gasket, I hadn't talked with him in a few months and when II asked about it he told me he scrapped it, I was like WTF I would have fixed it and he said well you knew it was here, I don't talk much with him anymore!!!
JR! I like that 34 i spied in the background. Looks kinda like a Factory 5?
It is a Factory Five with a 383 and fuel injection 🍻
If you’re going through the effort of replacing the engine why not throw in a new radiator, heater core and set of hoses
Awesome job man
@WatchJRGo it appears the third or fourth core (freeze) plug was leaking but the vantage point at the end of the video removed engine overview is a bit too high to confirm although the lower portion of the front two freeze plugs have visual corrosion. If you remove them they will likely be markedly worse on the coolant side of the plug. Jeep was kind enough to leave enough casting sand in the block to aid in corroding the plugs!
hope you did'nt forgot to clean and flush the heater core lol you'll have some surprises
Look at you guys slacking during that time lapse!!! 😄
You should do a CSI on the old engine and see what went wrong
Grill lights an bumper off first then not so much of a lean over them to get at engine an ancillaries.
Thats what I would do.
Please disassemble the engine. Great video.
It's probably a spun rod bearing or a rod broke and jammed up inside somewhere 🤔
I'm pretty sure all Chrysler products from the early 2000's came from the factory full of stop leak 😂
Maybe other Chrysler's but not the Jeep Grand Cherokee it was the best Chrysler had at the time
Need to replace that lightbulb in the center 😂😂
It's new nickname should be Terracotta, We once Picked up an XJ with the exhaust manifolds that looked just like that tint to it, burned off by it glowing cherry red- like brownish orange terracotta ceramic tiles.
That was a quick flip. Dope!
Nice work. Enjoyed the music too.
guys great job on the jeep engine swap , that was insane no longer than it took . stay out the mud JR , LOL
Don't forget to flush the heater core.
There is a Ute body kit availible for this car. It looks interesting.
If I could install the engine in the Jeep with Tylers and Watch JR Goes I would drink the cold Bartle Skeets and puff on the Cannabis Cigars and get all schmoked up.
holy crap the dude in the white shirt still has a white shirt ,he must be a pro
Did you flush the heater core cuz I'm sure it's full of that stop leak