Inconceivable! Such an event would truly bring about universe ending consequences. Such an engine could make unlimited power! Darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, dogs and cats living together!
@@stlchevy95 drag racers work on their cars for months,just go down to the strip and drive it like you stole it,approach the light and spin it 4500 to 7200 and a lot of the chevy guys used to have pans full of his nuggets,seen many small and big block gm makes with grenaded blocks and bent valves due to stretched timing chains
yeah man. that must have been some crazy crunching, followed by a super loud and scary bang and sounds of a running washing machine falling down a cliff.
@@MinecraftSurge rattlerattlerattleRattleRAttleRATTLERATTLEBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGKERCHUNKKERchunkKerchunkkerchunk, kerchunk, kerchunk,,, kerchunk. "SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!!!!" Probably took about the same amount of time that it took to read this.
Pro tip: if the plastic label on the oil filter got so hot that it shrunk and shriveled up, the engine was *severely* overheated. Assuming the label is LDPE, that melts at nearly 400 deg F. Engine oil can overheat without the coolant overheating if the oil is run low, especially during high RPM. Also, in my experience, when the bearings get so hot that they weld themselves to the crank, it happened at high RPM. If it happens at low RPM, the bearings will just wear away to nothing because the heat load is lower. The combination of high RPM and no lube causes the huge heat spike that welds the bearing to the crank. It also takes a LOT of energy to break rods and shoot holes through the block, so that doesn’t happen at low RPM either.
It’s been a long hot week I’ve been looking forward to this evening for a week sitting in my chair with the air on and a cup of coffee, Thanks Eric for putting the time in so we can sit and watch
While the filter may not have picked up bits from the main carnage event, it could be filled with sparkles from the bearings starting to go. I hack into the filter every oil change on my old Camry at 200k+ miles - there's seemingly always a bit of glitter in there, maybe a few small chunklettes to boot, but it keeps going down the road fine... for now lol
That amount of carnage is actually a compliment for the hemi! Most other engines stop after just one failure…but this kept running, well enough to keep breaking!
@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 Yes that was the most epically blown up engine I think I've ever seen 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I really feel like somebody intentionally did that though or it was involved in some sort of burnout contest or something where they just kept going to see how long it would last
This has literally become one of my all time favorite channels. You are such a down to earth guy and in it for the fun of it. Thats what makes it count, you're genuine. And funny af lol
I’d be willing to bet it came apart doing donuts endlessly like you see in those lame take-over videos. That’s one kind of scenario that would do this. The lack of metal in the top of it is also telling. Did not run for long once the excrement hit the air circulator.
@@sharedknowledge6640 they make a lot of bad engines but they make some good ones i have a 06 Torred Daytona edt and my 5.7 Hemi has 190,700 miles on it and still purrs like a kitten.
My bet is, this car was involved with an incident utilizing flashing blue lights. It either had them on its roof, or it was in front of the one that had them on its roof. Either way, classic definition of "run it 'til it don't go no mo"
After working in a big name auto powertrain testing facility, years of high rpm 1000hr durability tests on many engines of the automakers and out of all engines I have experience with, the 5.7 and 6.1 hemis were always fragile and seldom ever finished a succesful durability test. It definitely doesn't help when you run it out of oil. 🤮
@@chrisbrown3925 there’s a lot more than a bottom end that makes an engine reliable. I mean, even Ford’s cheap Ecoboost engines have a very well engineered bottom end.
we got a dart real cheap with the 1.4 multi air off of a guy who thought just the turbo was blown as it was off when he got it. We put a used turbo on it and all was peachy... for a while. It was my brother in laws car and one day it developed a misfire on cylinder 3. Turns out compression was bad on cyl 3. Took the head off expecting to see a bad head gasket or something and turns out there’s a CHUNK missing out of the top side of the piston, top ring showing and everything. I’m amazed it was still running. The piston was just bad so we redid the head because a valve was messed up on that cyl 3. We got a new piston/rod put it in and it ran great. Sold the car shortly after though. I think they were fed up with the problems it was giving them lol. Sorry for the essay just my experience with the 1.4.
Would love to see one. My friend has one with about 140k. Still tooling along. I had an Abarth Fiat and a Dart at some point in the distant past. Very characterful engines.
Honestly looks like some rich kid got bought an older SRT8 and never checked the oil level. Beat the ever living hell out of it until it broke the rod from lack of bearings.
They ran that engine without oil and ran it until the rod bearings spun. When the pistons hit the head and disintegrated it threw the rods out the bottom. I've seen this before.
As a car enthusiast but non-mechanic, I like to watch these videos in order to learn how the various engines work. While I realize that perhaps you like to sell the heads fully assembled, I would love to see a valve train taken apart as well sometime. It interests me to see how the different valve trains work between pushrod and overhead cams, solid lifters, hydraulic lifters, rocker arms, valves etc. Thanks for the great channel.
this is the only thing i can imagine, it looks like the bearings were completely starved of oil. normally when something is simply low on oil we see scratches in the bearings but this is something else entirely, and the fact that it busted through the coolant jacket and theres no milk shake anywhere is a pretty good sign too. i want to see that video
This is impressive. It's like they blew their motor and didn't even let off, then drove it until it cooled back down. How did it get this hot without the rods welding to the crank?
An object in motion tends to stay in motion. I had an engine seize as soon as I pushed in the clutch, turns out the oil pump failed during an uphill pull
7:50 Excellent point, I do the same thing! You are very correct an overheated engine will often have loose head bolts. That smell of burnt oil that has been trapped in the threads for decades....
This is one of those motors that I think somebody did on purpose. It had a rod knock because they had knowingly abused it. So, they just "bricked" it to see how long it would last and exactly how much damage they could do. (Speaking from direct personal knowledge.)
I have a sneaking suspicion this engine was destroyed intentionally. The engine was likely ticking because of a failing lifter at the back of the engine, and was likely deemed beyond repair. It was probably redlined until the front two rods and/or pistons came apart(in no particular order). Although I wonder if this engine was really actually low on oil. Once the piston squirter was "removed" by the rods the oil pressure will definitely take a dive after that, especially downstream of the squirter which in the case of late model hemi, these engines lube from front to back, everything but the front main(which feeds the number one rod journal) and cam journals is downstream of the front squirter.
It's possible to get an indication if an engine has been 'bricked' I find that the valve keepers are stuck hard in the top retainer caps where the engine has been valve bouncing at high rpm and the keepers have hammered themselves into the caps
Eric had mentioned that if there was oil in the engine debris would have been present in other places (head, Pickup screen, oil pump) there was none to speak of.
@@drswanny9000 I have doubts about Eric's hypothesis for two main reasons. First is that these hemi engines have a very fine wire mesh on the oil pickup tube, much finer then in other engines in my experience. This ought to be good for keeping all but the smallest debris out of the pump let alone the filter. Just look how much debris made it to top of this 5.3 Eric tore down a while ago. th-cam.com/video/NfW_C9Gu4NQ/w-d-xo.html. This 5.3 was at least as bad as this 6.1 and the oiling system pumped almost nothing of note to the top of the engine or even the bearings despite much larger holes in the pump screen, which was packed with metal. The second reason is less speculative. In the process of the number one hyper-tectonic piston separating into mcnuggets the rod broke the cylinder wall, which would've let much of the coolant into the crankcase, dramatically increasing the fluid level in the crankcase, also dramatically thinning the oil in the process, which assuming this engine continued to run after the explosion(which I do) and considering the piston squirters plumb into the main oil gallery on these engines, in which the oil flows from front to back, and virtually every point of lubrication in these engines is downstream of that broken squirter, I don't neccessarily believe that the oil pump was sucking on nothing, I simply think that the oil was being diluted by coolant and much of that was pumped right back into the pan, leaving little if any oil pressure for the rest of the engine.
One thing i noticed about this engine is the oil filter looked like it was possibly on or near a fire, with the label burned off. Possibly happened after the engine blew up, and all the inside juice became outside juice near hot exhaust
Your wise beyond your years and most would try to gage the condition/someone was inside of it with a impact is impossible. Hand feeling and gauging bolts by using a breaker bar or rachet is invaluable.
This reminds me of my mom's one car. She was driving the car with no oil in it. The engine blew up in a spectacular fashion. Seeing engines this messed up reminds me of my disease pathology class I took while getting my masters. You hate to see all the horrible things happening, but it's really cool to look at.
Thanks mate great tear down and pearler commentary. Always enjoy your banter and always still so professionally dismantled with majestic explanation. …and all the good parts optimistically end up in the dumpster
Have you ever seen a 1/2” wave in the crown of a piston parallel to the wrist pin? I had a ‘76 TR-7 that lost the connecting rod nuts. The crank came around and slammed the remaining connecting rod through the block and pulled the piston skirts into the crank shaft. This bent the crown of the piston up above the skirts while the wrist pin pulled the center of the piston down. The piston didn’t crack, it just warped like something from a Salvador Dali painting.
I think what makes your vids great is they replicate exactly what the viewer's experience would be. "Owww!" "Ewww!" "Why did [I let] that fall??" And the best part: "glad I don't have to pay for that mistake!"
That was catastrophically sad. Almost seems like maybe someone changed the oil but forgot to refill it got on the road right away and blew it up. Since as you said there's no debris in the pickup and no metal pumped through the motor makes me agree that there was no oil in it to begin with.
I've only been around one running car engine when it slung a rod. I have to say it was a sudden and violent end with an inspection port in the side of the block and a piece of the rod cap on the ground underneath. It was a 4.6 in a Police Interceptor Crown Victoria which were normally pretty reliable.
What a waste! Eric, great video as always. I enjoyed the Victory teardown, and I'll put my vote on the side of doing more engines that vary from the norm. However, I doubt anything will be better than a good old meltdown in a car/truck engine.
Always my favorite weekend treat, hopefully these videos don’t cease anytime soon! I can tell a lot of thought goes into these weekly videos, I can’t get enough. So I always go back and watch previous videos I haven’t seen before. 👍
When you tear down engines with the type of damage that this Hemi suffered, I try to imagine what sort of person was driving it literally, to death. The damage to your Hemi looks almost intentional. The racket it made as it turned itself into a non-functioning six-cylinder damned heavy paperweight had to be deafening. I can imagine some spoiled rich kid that was told by dad he would be written out of the will if he tattooed his eyeballs, stretched his ear lobes, and had his tongue split like a snake at which point spoiled rich kid jumps into his dad purchased Dodge Charger to show dad he won't be pushed around. Hitting the highway with the gas pedal to the floor rich kid will push that Hemi until it either runs out of gas or blows up. He must have had a full tank.
i'd heard once that those engines have to fast of oil pump and that it will drain the pan filling the top end before the oil can make it back down causing low/lack of oil
I'd say the connecting rod didn't get molten but did get very soft - bright red perhaps. The oiled black of the metal on various components needs a lot of heat - heat that needs to be visible before dropping into oil.
Good video as usual. Your videos have me checking my oil much more often than I used to. I have always changed in on schedule, but now check it often. Keep up the good work.
I wanna say this, for my opinion on what probably happened. It most likely was properly changed on a decent interval for the oil but... There is a chance that the last time it got an oil change, It didn't get properly changed by whoever was doing it, And this is presuming that it wasn't the owner of the vehicle changing the oil themselves, and was instead someone else changing the oil for them, like a mechanics shop. So there is a chance that it blew up because of either not enough oil in the front end, or too much oil overall. Either that or... The vehicle tried to go up too steep of a slope and more or less nearly burnt all the rods because of which. And also it's clear that both front pistons went at around the same time too. And that the mid-front 2 would've been next with the mid-rear 2 to follow them after most likely if the engine weren't seized up from the first 2's failure. And just from the heat overall in general.
Old and busted: "Drive it until the wheels fall off" New hotness: "Drive it until the bearings evaporate" A nice meal of Piston McNuggets and extra BBQ sauce to go with it.
This looks very similar to a hemi I took apart in my college auto class. It was from a sheriff’s charger that had under 200 miles on it when it hydro locked at near redline hauling ass down a flooded road completely ignoring the high water sign with flashing lights on it.
I was expecting 4 bolt mains at least, 2 bolt, geesh (I don't count the cross-bolts) Haven't seen a 2v since my 68' Thanks for a great teardown, good to see what the competitions engines are made of
All for the sake of a 100 dollar oil change. Wow. You'd think manufacturers would fit an oil level sensor in the sump like BMW do but there'll always be people who'd ignore that too.
Possibly from a rig used off road? Front sump engines can have oil starvation problems going up steep inclines. That would explain why the rear rods were in better shape as they were immersed in oil.
Wrist pins are made out of a Tool Steel. Which is a much stronger steel. The block could get sleeved, but it's a waste of time. That thing was at the point of going super nova. Crazy that it didn't burst into flame when she let loose.
Whoever makes an engine out of just wrist pins will corner the market for sure.
Honda k & B series, most Toyotas, Mazda BP, Mitsubishi 4g63
Inconceivable!
Such an event would truly bring about universe ending consequences. Such an engine could make unlimited power!
Darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, dogs and cats living together!
Even the hardest alloy will break when hit against itself.
@@WilliamPetefish Blasphemy!
Like an electric motor.
I love how this channel has gone from "I hope I can make some money" to "I hope there's a load of absolutely horrible destruction"
Hopefully he makes good money from the videos to make up for not having too many usable parts, and good on him 👍
it takes a certain kind of gearhead to wish upon destruction
@@stlchevy95 drag racers work on their cars for months,just go down to the strip and drive it like you stole it,approach the light and spin it 4500 to 7200 and a lot of the chevy guys used to have pans full of his nuggets,seen many small and big block gm makes with grenaded blocks and bent valves due to stretched timing chains
He makes more on each video than what the core would be worth even it was a good one
@@stlchevy95we all like destruction just not when its our stuff the is destructing
And we’re glad you crack the head bolts by hand so we get to hear that nice crack as they loosen.
i dont love it, it reminds me too much of work, where i take out bolts like that but there are 420 of them. i wish i was kidding
As a closet audiophile with a fetish for torqued bolts being loosened by hand, I totally concur
best part of every video
love it
Agreed. It's one of the most satisfying sounds.
Hyper tectonic plates. More like what I'd expect in a Lincoln...... Continental. See what I did there. 😂
I can't imagine the sounds that came from that engine, which clearly remained running for some time in a terrible fashion.
Or very shortly in extremely terrible fashion.
yeah man. that must have been some crazy crunching, followed by a super loud and scary bang and sounds of a running washing machine falling down a cliff.
@@MinecraftSurge rattlerattlerattleRattleRAttleRATTLERATTLEBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGKERCHUNKKERchunkKerchunkkerchunk, kerchunk, kerchunk,,, kerchunk.
"SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!!!!"
Probably took about the same amount of time that it took to read this.
The last sound was i think was BANG!!!💥
I always laugh when you hold a part and say “wow, this is actually in great shape” and off-camera we hear it get thrown across the shop😂
Another reason to use a breaker bar before the impact... We all LOVE the sound the head bolts make when you bust 'em free!!
I’m not into ASMR at all, but that BBBRRRRKKKKK sound moves me. The other notable sound is the pneumatic gun.
Two times the plugs, two times the malice. Time to buckle up.
"malice in the combustion palace"
dude that was mint... SUBBED
Worst destruction yet! Plus a case of beer, and my Saturday night is complete!
Thank you for being my favorite TH-cam channel!!
As a master tech of over 20 years, I love the carnage.
Pro tip: if the plastic label on the oil filter got so hot that it shrunk and shriveled up, the engine was *severely* overheated. Assuming the label is LDPE, that melts at nearly 400 deg F. Engine oil can overheat without the coolant overheating if the oil is run low, especially during high RPM.
Also, in my experience, when the bearings get so hot that they weld themselves to the crank, it happened at high RPM. If it happens at low RPM, the bearings will just wear away to nothing because the heat load is lower. The combination of high RPM and no lube causes the huge heat spike that welds the bearing to the crank. It also takes a LOT of energy to break rods and shoot holes through the block, so that doesn’t happen at low RPM either.
Seeing that second wrist pin in the mess just added a whole new level of drama to the destruction.
Hyper tectonic!🤣 You were going for the right one, hypereutectic is the word.
Lol he knows
miss many jet planes flying overhead?
It’s been a long hot week I’ve been looking forward to this evening for a week sitting in my chair with the air on and a cup of coffee,
Thanks Eric for putting the time in so we can sit and watch
for curiosity when there is an oil filter with the block , can we see what’s inside please ? also to see how old it can be , thanks !!
Doubt there would have been much. As he said. It didn’t have enough oil to circulate metal to the filter.
Plus the pick up was clean
While the filter may not have picked up bits from the main carnage event, it could be filled with sparkles from the bearings starting to go. I hack into the filter every oil change on my old Camry at 200k+ miles - there's seemingly always a bit of glitter in there, maybe a few small chunklettes to boot, but it keeps going down the road fine... for now lol
That BMW is a prime candidate for a Chevy 350 implant-turbo 400 tranny- 3:08:1 rear gears. Thing will run forever if not mistreated.
I always look forward to Saturday night. You did not disappoint
That amount of carnage is actually a compliment for the hemi!
Most other engines stop after just one failure…but this kept running, well enough to keep breaking!
What about the marauder engine he had, that managed to destroy seven of the eight rods/bearings? This hemi is nothing compared to that lol
@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 Yes that was the most epically blown up engine I think I've ever seen 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really feel like somebody intentionally did that though or it was involved in some sort of burnout contest or something where they just kept going to see how long it would last
This has literally become one of my all time favorite channels. You are such a down to earth guy and in it for the fun of it. Thats what makes it count, you're genuine. And funny af lol
Chrysler takes their cylinder deactivation very seriously, though it's rare to see an engine that only turns off 2 cylinders. Very clever engineering.
@jxeral The 6.1/6.2/6.4's Never had that only the 5.7
It was a feature pioneered by Fiat over 100 years ago.
LMFAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
@jxeral Piston McNuggets and self deleting piston are my favorite. Read my comment I posted an hour ago...let me know what you think
@@StarGuardian8180the 6.4’s have it as well
This poor Hemi was a victim of someone making some really bad life choices.
You don't wind up in the f&I office at a Chrysler dealership because you made good choices.
I see a lot of late model Hemi’s being flogged on the street. Hard.
I’d be willing to bet it came apart doing donuts endlessly like you see in those lame take-over videos. That’s one kind of scenario that would do this. The lack of metal in the top of it is also telling. Did not run for long once the excrement hit the air circulator.
Champion spark plugs.
If you see a car doing burnouts or wrapped around a tree, you can bet it is probably a Charger~
@@sharedknowledge6640 they make a lot of bad engines but they make some good ones i have a 06 Torred Daytona edt and my 5.7 Hemi has 190,700 miles on it and still purrs like a kitten.
I think the sump contents are what you would call "Chilli con Carnage"!
My bet is, this car was involved with an incident utilizing flashing blue lights.
It either had them on its roof, or it was in front of the one that had them on its roof.
Either way, classic definition of "run it 'til it don't go no mo"
Probably in Arkansas too
Likely ample amounts of intoxicants and a complete lack of sense
@@jefftaylor1247 well that does usually lead to the flashing blue lights, true 'nuff
(14:38)
"Huh, water pump actually looks pretty good"
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*fukin launches it across the shop*
After working in a big name auto powertrain testing facility, years of high rpm 1000hr durability tests on many engines of the automakers and out of all engines I have experience with, the 5.7 and 6.1 hemis were always fragile and seldom ever finished a succesful durability test. It definitely doesn't help when you run it out of oil. 🤮
I was thinking of buying a 5.7 ram but heard about their lifter problem now your opinion only makes my decision not to buy one even better!!! Thanks!
@@petervossos4816 they arent bad if you religiousness change the oil, something you pretty much have to do for ford and chevy too
The 6.1 shure has an expensive bottom end, that crankshaft is (was) a work of art...don't think of it as fragile...
@@chrisbrown3925 there’s a lot more than a bottom end that makes an engine reliable. I mean, even Ford’s cheap Ecoboost engines have a very well engineered bottom end.
Okay, now you gotta tell us which engines were the most durable?
These engines are punished by their owners mercilessly. What’s the ETA on a 1.4T multiair?
Yea I want to see the insides of one because my sister owns a dart with that motor
we got a dart real cheap with the 1.4 multi air off of a guy who thought just the turbo was blown as it was off when he got it. We put a used turbo on it and all was peachy... for a while. It was my brother in laws car and one day it developed a misfire on cylinder 3. Turns out compression was bad on cyl 3. Took the head off expecting to see a bad head gasket or something and turns out there’s a CHUNK missing out of the top side of the piston, top ring showing and everything. I’m amazed it was still running. The piston was just bad so we redid the head because a valve was messed up on that cyl 3. We got a new piston/rod put it in and it ran great. Sold the car shortly after though. I think they were fed up with the problems it was giving them lol. Sorry for the essay just my experience with the 1.4.
As soon as you send him one. Eta??? Are you that ignorant
Would love to see one. My friend has one with about 140k. Still tooling along. I had an Abarth Fiat and a Dart at some point in the distant past. Very characterful engines.
Multiair lol, Italians build junk.
Honestly looks like some rich kid got bought an older SRT8 and never checked the oil level. Beat the ever living hell out of it until it broke the rod from lack of bearings.
You mean some kid in the hood. You don’t need to be rich to afford one of these
Thank you for another great vid. My cat and I always enjoy carnage teardowns and this certainly did not disappoint. Keep up the great work.
same here, but my cat wants to keep sleeping on the key board as im watching lol
They ran that engine without oil and ran it until the rod bearings spun. When the pistons hit the head and disintegrated it threw the rods out the bottom. I've seen this before.
Now I know why I service my car regularly to avoid destroying the engine. I don't miss working on my own cars. Love the channel.
As a car enthusiast but non-mechanic, I like to watch these videos in order to learn how the various engines work. While I realize that perhaps you like to sell the heads fully assembled, I would love to see a valve train taken apart as well sometime. It interests me to see how the different valve trains work between pushrod and overhead cams, solid lifters, hydraulic lifters, rocker arms, valves etc. Thanks for the great channel.
I wonder if there might be a video on TH-cam entitled "How long will this 6.1 Hemi run at wide open throttle with no coolant, or oil?"
this is the only thing i can imagine, it looks like the bearings were completely starved of oil. normally when something is simply low on oil we see scratches in the bearings but this is something else entirely, and the fact that it busted through the coolant jacket and theres no milk shake anywhere is a pretty good sign too. i want to see that video
I’d call it piston potpourri - burnt oil and metal scented. Put it in a bowl and it make your shop smell nice.
I'm early! I just found your channel last week and I love the content! Great video! Keep it going!
I rebuilt a 76 trans am with a frozen engine, the cause was the wrong size oil filter that did not seal. Nothing surprises me.
You know every time I watch one of your catastrophic failure videos I go check the oil on both my cars :)
This is impressive. It's like they blew their motor and didn't even let off, then drove it until it cooled back down. How did it get this hot without the rods welding to the crank?
An object in motion tends to stay in motion. I had an engine seize as soon as I pushed in the clutch, turns out the oil pump failed during an uphill pull
I’m kinda wondering if they was fogging the intake with nitrous and not adding fuel
Really enjoyed your opening with educational details. Would like to see more of that especially when disassembling unusual engines. Love the channel.
7:50 Excellent point, I do the same thing! You are very correct an overheated engine will often have loose head bolts. That smell of burnt oil that has been trapped in the threads for decades....
McEngine dipping sauce to go along with Piston Mcnuggetz
This is one of those motors that I think somebody did on purpose. It had a rod knock because they had knowingly abused it. So, they just "bricked" it to see how long it would last and exactly how much damage they could do.
(Speaking from direct personal knowledge.)
They could have had their stereo and amp on full blast.
Might even have gone as far as draining the oil first, hence why no debris in the oil pick up.
This channel is always a treat to kill a few beer to! Keep up the minty work bud
Malice in the combustion palace and pistons McNuggets… I love it!
I have a sneaking suspicion this engine was destroyed intentionally. The engine was likely ticking because of a failing lifter at the back of the engine, and was likely deemed beyond repair. It was probably redlined until the front two rods and/or pistons came apart(in no particular order). Although I wonder if this engine was really actually low on oil. Once the piston squirter was "removed" by the rods the oil pressure will definitely take a dive after that, especially downstream of the squirter which in the case of late model hemi, these engines lube from front to back, everything but the front main(which feeds the number one rod journal) and cam journals is downstream of the front squirter.
It's possible to get an indication if an engine has been 'bricked' I find that the valve keepers are stuck hard in the top retainer caps where the engine has been valve bouncing at high rpm and the keepers have hammered themselves into the caps
Eric had mentioned that if there was oil in the engine debris would have been present in other places (head, Pickup screen, oil pump) there was none to speak of.
My first thought after seeing all this was that someone was doing burnouts until the engine exploded.
@@drswanny9000 I have doubts about Eric's hypothesis for two main reasons. First is that these hemi engines have a very fine wire mesh on the oil pickup tube, much finer then in other engines in my experience. This ought to be good for keeping all but the smallest debris out of the pump let alone the filter. Just look how much debris made it to top of this 5.3 Eric tore down a while ago. th-cam.com/video/NfW_C9Gu4NQ/w-d-xo.html. This 5.3 was at least as bad as this 6.1 and the oiling system pumped almost nothing of note to the top of the engine or even the bearings despite much larger holes in the pump screen, which was packed with metal.
The second reason is less speculative. In the process of the number one hyper-tectonic piston separating into mcnuggets the rod broke the cylinder wall, which would've let much of the coolant into the crankcase, dramatically increasing the fluid level in the crankcase, also dramatically thinning the oil in the process, which assuming this engine continued to run after the explosion(which I do) and considering the piston squirters plumb into the main oil gallery on these engines, in which the oil flows from front to back, and virtually every point of lubrication in these engines is downstream of that broken squirter, I don't neccessarily believe that the oil pump was sucking on nothing, I simply think that the oil was being diluted by coolant and much of that was pumped right back into the pan, leaving little if any oil pressure for the rest of the engine.
Piston mcnuggets all time high here! Gotta love those holes in the block to look through. Love the channel
You should open up that oil filter to look at the filter material.
It's like one of those videos where they hold the throttle wide open until the engine blows
Neutral drop🙂
After the oil is drained
You need to get a 5.4 or 5.8 GT500 motor one of these days now that would make for an insane engine tear down
I can barely change my spark plugs but can’t stop watching these tear-downs.
One thing i noticed about this engine is the oil filter looked like it was possibly on or near a fire, with the label burned off. Possibly happened after the engine blew up, and all the inside juice became outside juice near hot exhaust
Love that BMW E34 estate at the end bro - As always, Very interesting teardown, never seen so many bits of engine in an oil pain before !
Your wise beyond your years and most would try to gage the condition/someone was inside of it with a impact is impossible. Hand feeling and gauging bolts by using a breaker bar or rachet is invaluable.
This reminds me of my mom's one car. She was driving the car with no oil in it. The engine blew up in a spectacular fashion. Seeing engines this messed up reminds me of my disease pathology class I took while getting my masters. You hate to see all the horrible things happening, but it's really cool to look at.
See when Dodge went from the 6.1 to the 6.4 all they did was actually install an eighth piston!
Sad to see so many parts that could have been useful but for needless abuse.
i knew of someone who said if it aint broke dont fix it
I’ve always wondered, where do you put all of the bolts you take off engines? Is there like a giant tub full of bolts?
Thanks mate great tear down and pearler commentary. Always enjoy your banter and always still so professionally dismantled with majestic explanation.
…and all the good parts optimistically end up in the dumpster
Have you ever seen a 1/2” wave in the crown of a piston parallel to the wrist pin? I had a ‘76 TR-7 that lost the connecting rod nuts. The crank came around and slammed the remaining connecting rod through the block and pulled the piston skirts into the crank shaft. This bent the crown of the piston up above the skirts while the wrist pin pulled the center of the piston down. The piston didn’t crack, it just warped like something from a Salvador Dali painting.
What is the reason for the windage tray?
I think what makes your vids great is they replicate exactly what the viewer's experience would be. "Owww!" "Ewww!" "Why did [I let] that fall??"
And the best part: "glad I don't have to pay for that mistake!"
Valve seat . When you showed the number one plugs
That was catastrophically sad. Almost seems like maybe someone changed the oil but forgot to refill it got on the road right away and blew it up. Since as you said there's no debris in the pickup and no metal pumped through the motor makes me agree that there was no oil in it to begin with.
I've only been around one running car engine when it slung a rod. I have to say it was a sudden and violent end with an inspection port in the side of the block and a piece of the rod cap on the ground underneath. It was a 4.6 in a Police Interceptor Crown Victoria which were normally pretty reliable.
What a waste! Eric, great video as always. I enjoyed the Victory teardown, and I'll put my vote on the side of doing more engines that vary from the norm. However, I doubt anything will be better than a good old meltdown in a car/truck engine.
Always my favorite weekend treat, hopefully these videos don’t cease anytime soon! I can tell a lot of thought goes into these weekly videos, I can’t get enough. So I always go back and watch previous videos I haven’t seen before. 👍
Almost thought u were not going to put a video out 😜 but was wrong and boy this is a good one! and the sweet sound of bolts breaking lose
I'm betting tow rig. Especially with all that heat!
The Adam Sandler of engine disassembly!👍 Sometimes I would like to see you go "Happy Gilmore" on some of those overtightened bolts.
can't unsee that about him lol
@@roxyroller25 How about his voice? It's eerie.😜
He has. Forklift to loosen bolts.
When you tear down engines with the type of damage that this Hemi suffered, I try to imagine what sort of person was driving it literally, to death. The damage to your Hemi looks almost intentional. The racket it made as it turned itself into a non-functioning six-cylinder damned heavy paperweight had to be deafening. I can imagine some spoiled rich kid that was told by dad he would be written out of the will if he tattooed his eyeballs, stretched his ear lobes, and had his tongue split like a snake at which point spoiled rich kid jumps into his dad purchased Dodge Charger to show dad he won't be pushed around. Hitting the highway with the gas pedal to the floor rich kid will push that Hemi until it either runs out of gas or blows up. He must have had a full tank.
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Great work! I really enjoy seeing the mystery unfold as the teardown progresses! Those bearings were around 2500 degrees to melt...
It's always fun to see a piston delete kit
i'd heard once that those engines have to fast of oil pump and that it will drain the pan filling the top end before the oil can make it back down causing low/lack of oil
I’m a simple man. I see you post, I watch and like it. I don’t care if it’s car or not. It could be a lawnmower motor and I’ll be happy to watch it!
I think it would be cool to do an entire video with Chipmunk narration.
I'd say the connecting rod didn't get molten but did get very soft - bright red perhaps. The oiled black of the metal on various components needs a lot of heat - heat that needs to be visible before dropping into oil.
Wrist pins truly are the cameraman of catastrophic engine failures. They always survive
So we're left with "bulletproof" wrist pins. Bet you couldn't give them away... lol! Awesome video!
0:45 Got it, proceeding to dehydrate myself. Jokes aside, really interesting channel and I'm surprised I never found it before.
Anyone else enjoy the sound of the breaker bar loosening the head bolts? Very satisfying! Especially in time lapse.
I have a damaged wrist pin. Its covered in dents and doesnt move in the connecting rod
Good video as usual. Your videos have me checking my oil much more often than I used to. I have always changed in on schedule, but now check it often. Keep up the good work.
Bro I jus happen to stumble onto your channel. After that Hemi tear down you definitely got a new Sub here 💪👍 great video
I have seen this after an oil change that oil was forgotten to be filled or drain plug fell out!!!
Thats a very organised engine.
It has its own spare parts department in the basement.
I wanna say this, for my opinion on what probably happened. It most likely was properly changed on a decent interval for the oil but... There is a chance that the last time it got an oil change, It didn't get properly changed by whoever was doing it, And this is presuming that it wasn't the owner of the vehicle changing the oil themselves, and was instead someone else changing the oil for them, like a mechanics shop. So there is a chance that it blew up because of either not enough oil in the front end, or too much oil overall. Either that or... The vehicle tried to go up too steep of a slope and more or less nearly burnt all the rods because of which. And also it's clear that both front pistons went at around the same time too. And that the mid-front 2 would've been next with the mid-rear 2 to follow them after most likely if the engine weren't seized up from the first 2's failure. And just from the heat overall in general.
Old and busted: "Drive it until the wheels fall off"
New hotness: "Drive it until the bearings evaporate"
A nice meal of Piston McNuggets and extra BBQ sauce to go with it.
This looks very similar to a hemi I took apart in my college auto class. It was from a sheriff’s charger that had under 200 miles on it when it hydro locked at near redline hauling ass down a flooded road completely ignoring the high water sign with flashing lights on it.
The wrist-pins always make it because they are hard as a coffin nail. They will penetrate practically anything once they attain projectile velocities.
Not too bad, a few new gaskets on reassembly. I would however go up a few grades in engine oil ...20w 50 or maybe straight EP 140 ?
Interesting way to heat treat a crank. I wonder what the lab report would be on a sample of this engines oil.
Looks like they drained the oil then ran it full throttle till it blew for kicks.
That's exactly what I was thinking, too.
Them pistons came apart and started the chain reaction
Top work, I love my Sunday a.m catch ups here in UK..
Wrist pins are made of unobtainium. Which everyone knows is indestructible.
Wowzer, complete destruction. Just love looking at the engine design. Could you do an ancient Ford flathead, my favorite?
I was expecting 4 bolt mains at least, 2 bolt, geesh (I don't count the cross-bolts)
Haven't seen a 2v since my 68'
Thanks for a great teardown, good to see what the competitions engines are made of
All for the sake of a 100 dollar oil change. Wow.
You'd think manufacturers would fit an oil level sensor in the sump like BMW do but there'll always be people who'd ignore that too.
Possibly from a rig used off road? Front sump engines can have oil starvation problems going up steep inclines. That would explain why the rear rods were in better shape as they were immersed in oil.
It's a car engine
@@samholdsworth420 They were also used in Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8.
I love your channel I’ve learned so much
Wrist pins are made out of a Tool Steel. Which is a much stronger steel. The block could get sleeved, but it's a waste of time. That thing was at the point of going super nova. Crazy that it didn't burst into flame when she let loose.