I Fixed the Cheapest Small SUV on Marketplace - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2020
- We drop a used engine into a the 2012 Chevy Captiva and get it back on the road. Plus I will look at the other issues with the car and break down the costs.
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'You kinda lose your motivation to clean your car out when it has a rod hanging out of the engine block' 😂 Great video.
Is it not the other way, don't take care and you'll find yourself at the side of the road with a rod and other pieces missing.
As a 30 year vetran of automotive repair, this made me LOL. Love it and great job.
@@Okeanops6 No, GM has your back on that either way. Helping my neighbour with his daughters opel ecotech which has a plate oil cooler mounted on the side of the block behind the DPF. Guess how often the gaskets on those dont leak? Also it has the stupid "no service" auto gearbox.
FWIW I think that was the nicest looking and prepared salvage yard engine I have ever seen. Your drug dealers did alright.
LOL. That's true, they gave it a nice bath!
😂
Had to disinfect it before it went down the road ;)
That is clean. I did get a nice engine last week. They unplugged and included the main harness. I was able to drop the new/used engine in utilizing the salvage yard harness. Most of the time Edward Scissor hands pulls them out.
Gm sure knows how to build them, guaranteed to break or your money back.
"Minor disagreement between the rod and crankshaft."
Great way to describe it! Thanks Wes.
As far as removing the engine from the top. I’m of the mindset of whatever is easiest to do. The less you disturb the less to reinstall. You’re spot on this job. Good luck with it. You and the family stay safe and healthy.
Your intelligence and patience give me hope for the world. Thank you.
Heh. I dunno. You might want to aim a little higher!
Your providing a public service to those of us stuck at home with these videos, Wes! Glad I got to see the inside of that motor, it did not disappoint
"That's whats left of the piston" LOL. "There's your problem lady"
Thanks, Wes; I certainly do enjoy watching you work! Great channel; can't wait for the next one!
Just as I was beginning to feel depressed because I finished watching today's Mustie1 video, up pops a new WWW vid! Hold on, I need a new cup of coffee. Thanks Wes, stay safe!
Drink up!
I’m in the same boat, straight from mustie to Wes
It's so nice to have this content at this difficult times
@@markchatman9583 Same here, From Mustie1 to Wes. Makes it a good day to stay at home
Same here. And are there any Andrew Camarata followers here too?
Afternoon Wes from a mad Uk. Hope you are ok in this time of madness. Enjoy the vids. Thank you.
We are doing well. Thanks for stopping by!
I swear it’s just a blast watching you work. There can’t be a more honest wrencher in your area. Keep it up, hope you do very well on your channel. Thank you
I try!
He's been doing great .💪💪🖒✔
Ford Design Engineering here. We heard your comment. For that we will screw up even lug nuts just to show you who can screw it up the best.
I laughed too when you took the sump pan off too 😂
We knew it was going to be bad, but not that bad!
I did also!
A good deal of the work you do reminds me of working with my Dad when I was much younger, except my Dad was generally in a foul mood over the repairs and fabrication and would be more inclined to heave a wrench across the shop then crack a joke. My wife and I both watch your videos; they are outstanding! You’re patience is commendable as is your humor. Look forward to the next one.
Yeah, my dad hated working on cars too. He preferred small engines or welding.
Small engines, absolutely. He once repaired a very old ‘Flandria” moped with a magneto problem. It had been sitting outside for about two decades. The engine was mounted over the front tire on a mounting bracket that would allow it to engage the front tire once you had the “bike” up to speed. Pretty neat. He also was able to successfully replace the camshaft on our 1972 Ford Pinto. Talk about expletives! But much like you always do, he persevered! Stay well! @@WatchWesWork
Always interesting to hear your thought processes as you investigate and solve problems 👍 just the greatest channel 😊
Ouch, that blown engine smarts, great interesting vlog.
Stay safe all and thanks for sharing.
How did that scratch in windshield get there? Wife, "I don't know" 😀
LOL. Still better than doing it myself!
windshield is cheap to replace.
The wife isn’t, tho!! Lol!!
Windshield=CHEAPER!!
Besides, this wife appears to be a keeper!! What can you say?? Cold day! Nothing to do!! Hanging out in the shop with the hubby!! Certainly better than, “NO DEAR, THOSE PANTS DONT MAKE YOUR BUTT LOOK BIG”! “YES DEAR, I WILL TAKE OUT THE TRASH, AND VACUUM THE FLOORS, AFTER I REINSTALL THIS ENGINE!”
Or, so I’ve heard!! Not admitting to anything, here!! 🥺🥺🤥
Reckon she needs to hit the gym for some upper body strength training
Wes, thank you for taking the time to upload your videos, really enjoyed this two part video. Good commentary, nice editing and a pleasure to watch. 👍👍👍👍👍
Just wanted to thank you for your videos, you do a good job and manage to do it without swearing, are occasionally sarcastic yet informative and entertaining. God Bless and keep safe
That engineering and special tools is what keeps the dealerships service bays full
Good work Wes! I always love it when a piece of machinery can be saved.
Wes, Good to see the family home and happy and healthy!
Very nice work. Surprised how nicely the engine went back in! Of course it was all technique (and a little luck). Your assistant needs an arm massage after holding that hood up for you!
You had me laughing pretty good on this video! Thanks and stay safe!
Thanks for keeping us entertained Wes.
Great work Wes, glad everything worked out and you got her back on the road! The old engine failed catastrophically, completely shattered the piston!
Another good one Wes. Bit dissapointed at the lack of major spillages this time ;). You and your family stay safe now
I know this is an older video, but in case you are still struggling with the Ecotecs, I’ve never had to use a special tool on one of the Ecotec oil filter caps. Just a basic 32mm shallow 1/2 drive socket and a long extension, tools that should already be in any pro mechanics tool box. Works great even on the GDI Ecotecs, changing the filter only takes a minute.
You have a certain laugh that sounds like an evil cackle, lol! "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"
Great work on your engine swap and I really enjoyed your brazing job on the exhaust manifold
Regarding your final comments on rust, here in Alberta we use some sort of BeetJuice blend to cut the ice on our roads, and we don't get quite as bad rust issues anymore on our vehicles. It leaves a heavy white film on our asphalt but it works like a charm.
Thank you for posting such quality content, especially during this pandemic. I always learn something watching your videos.
MY BACK HURTS watching this video Wes, I cant do this anymore, but thank you for sharing your work with us, One thing we found real handy working in tight confined areas of corporate jets for many years and I had a complete set of Angles, both MAX and Snap-ON, as they both have two different degree of off-sets, But the other set we had was a set of BONNY wrenches, they are simple beefy open end one end only and in big sizes, I bet you can grab a set on ebay dirt cheap or a local swap meet sometime, Bonney was the brand, they are super short, but real beefy and nice to handle in tight places for weird angles. Thanks for your videos.
Hi great interesting project . I like the way you think about the problem. And re taking engine out . Only one way to do it .THEway you want and are happy to do it by .Also from top NO messing with brakes . Keep safe and keepem posted.
Man, seeing all those loose parts in the oil pan reminded me of my grandparents Studebaker Lark, an early 60's I think. I was in the car when the engine tossed a rod, locked up the engine and caused the car to skid down the throughway backward. It left a trail of broken engine parts down the highway. We were lucky we didn't hit anyone and no one hit us. We did get tired of explaining that, no, we weren't driving the wrong way on the highway.
"Things go together faster when you know what you're doing" 😃 how many times has that been said? Still chuckling from your model rebrand - oh and little bear assisting you last week. I'll look forward to the next project.
Hi Wes really enjoyed that thanks, very interesting. Locked down in Cornwall UK. Stay safe.
Everyone told me to take the motor out the bottom, I pulled it out the top. My dad worked for gm for 30ish years and had the same thing happen with those welded nuts lol. It was a manual g5 so to get clearance I removed the side timing cover, made the job 1000x easier and with loads of room. Those 2.4s are bad for burning oil hopefully you got a good one!
I hope so too!
33:00 when you talked about the battery sitting on the concrete floor. I used to get super stressed about things like that, and still prefer to set a battery on a piece of wood; even though I KNOW it doesn't matter.
I just can't stop myself.
Car looks and sounds great, God bless from Alberta, Canada.
As usual it was a plessure to watch you work Wes🛠, from Holland with love 👍... you and your family stay healthy man👌
Thank you sir!
The laugh when you took the sump off made it all worth while. Brilliant
I'm going back for old vids...gotta feed the addiction!
Hey Wes, you do it your way. Makes sense to me and I would bet it is cheaper your way. Dealers will do it the "easy" way which generally costs a lot more. But its not their money is it? Keep up the good work, love learning from your videos.
My first car was £1500 (aprx $2000), had 40k miles, was owned by a helicopter mechanic and was only driven by his wife into town for shopping trips.
The fact you paid $700 for that car, paid a further $2k to replace the engine plus other costs and it was still an economical repair with profit in it blows my mind.
You guys in the US pay a lot of money for used cars.
I just found your channel after I came back in from the garage. I was working on my 56-year-old Corvair that has zero rust. LOL. That's about the only thing that makes me glad I live in California. Didn't break a single bolt all morning. :-)
For what it's worth I agree with you about checking the alignment after dropping the cradle, nice job
Great video as always and great job on engine swap! Batteries on concrete floor is a myth!! Battery cases are no longer made of wood.
Of course.
But that info came from RUclips so take it with a grain of salt. I’ve always thought concrete ruined batteries also
Coat the underside with fluid film & drive it! Nice series; hope the GM engineers were watching.
They were probably watching and laughing about all the suckers these shit boxes were sold to. Gm puts out some of the worst garbage that I don't even know how they still have a customer base
You mean the Korean Daewoo engineers?
@@tylerwightman2315 because anyone dumb enough to willingly keep forking money over for this crap is dumb enough to argue that it's a quality product
great work Wes! And you do you. you are the one working on this wonderful machine!
Thanks for the breakdown. Solid $ maker someday., hopefully sooner than later. Good job and a great assistant.
I agree with you on your method of engine removal and install. Good ole GM engineering.
You did pretty good with this. Myself I've never paid more than $300 for a used engine. I always laugh at how junkyard engines are all "low miles"
To be fair, they can pick and choose so there’s that
I really enjoy your site! Keep up the good work. Keep healthy and enjoy your family.
I really like your sense of humor. With each video I listen more closely each time you speak. Best to
you and the family.
I try. Many don't appreciate or understand my sense of humor.
It came out great, man !
It'll be on the road for another 8 years at least.
I thought you will fix this for your lady.
Car looks perfect for a woman.
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This was fun to watch with morning coffee. Thanks for the financial break down, it helps bring things into perspective. I always wonder how long those first generation CVTs will last, that has to be the wild card.
All CVTs are a gamble!
Definitely worth the time and the risk. Great job getting this little SUV going again for someone to use for an affordable cost.
thanks for another great video, very interesting seeing your skills patience and humour also shout out to your able assistant 😊, hope you get a decent price for it.
Good job Wes. (LOL@ "minor disagreement between the connecting rod and crankshaft")
Busted stuff rocks! Can you say “catastrophic damage”? Thanks Wes, loved seeing that!
Pretty catastrophic.
I bought a late model SAAB 93 with an Ecotech. The o-rings on the coolant crossover pipe failed. It cost a $1000 to fix a .50 cent part at any garage. GM is quite capable of some shameful engineering. Stay safe. Cheers!
Peter Lyons A 50 cent o ring can cost you a new engine.
@@jo9732 You are comparing a GM to a Kia, please! BTW you telling us you owned a Saab tells me everything I need to know GTFO here!
Wes, I think you did extremely well getting that vehicle running again. And I like your commentary. I did enjoy the video.
I am so impressed by your attitude, your knowledge, your patience and your ability to share information. Wonderful family and workplace. I learn so much from you, South Main Eric O, and Andrew Carminata (sp). The best three channels on RUclips for mechanicals. Add some guns and it would be perfect.
think your a damn fine mechanic great vid only reason you get negative comments about this type job is most people are too lazy to get up off their ass to take something similar
Life is short. I can think of better use of my time than clowning around with a crap Chevy
To each their own
I can honestly say, I've never seen brake lines that clean on an 8 year old car ever unless they were already changed.
Nice find
You must live in the rust belt then. My brake lines look brand new and they're 23 years old
@@samholdsworth420 I certainly do, either everything rusted to hell or covered in rustproof slime 🤦♂️
Thanks, Wes this was as informative as it was entertaining. We rented one of these for local driving in Arizona in 2013. I'd never heard of the model (later found out it only sold in USA as a fleet vehicle), and thought it looked "odd" inside. I wasn't impressed at all by it, but the worst thing about it was that we returned it having put on 40 miles and it used 4 gallons of gas! Yup, 10MPG in city driving.
Good Job ! Hi back to you #1 assistant, love how she pinky fingered the hood. Faded plastic is a sunny state problem, but they make a spray can for that.
I'll have to look into the spray. New to me.
Engine swap was pretty fast still i think👍Now it needs some cleaning, and for the trim to make it black again are some products.
That's the next step!
I was thinking a heat gun might work.
"Battery sat on the concrete floor". That myth will never die.
I hope he was joking.
ruclips.net/video/3cH-AL2rkpY/видео.html
It’s a myth, agreed.. you know it came from someone that was trying to keep there floors pretty or something.
Dan'sMeTube I’m fairly sure that was his dry humor.. it’s amazing how many people still believe that
it's a fact. seen it with my own two multimeters.
@@lostintime8651 love to see that video
Very nice video. Love the way you present things!!!! Keep up the great work. Stay safe
Hi I'm enjoying watching your channel from "lock down" in the UK... it's like a ghost town over here!
What's your opinion on what caused this failure? A lack of proper maintenance? I've heard that the 2.4 ecotec can be decent if taken care of.
Dude...that thing is "perfect'"
You should have no problem flipping that thing the same day 😂! Even during the 'rona!
We'll see. I hope so!
Great vid Wes ,enjoyed it immensely . God bless you and your family .
If I lived closer to ya, I would let you work on all my stuff !
Great video Wes, thanks for sharing
That must have been going a fair rate when it let go. I’ve seen some destruction in my time but that topped itself good and proper.
I'm thinking she was making a little noise for long time before this happened...
A good game of engine Jenga after a minor disagreement between the connecting rod and the crank?
Nah, the crank just wanted some air and asked the rod to open another crank case breather... some communication issue i guess.
Great video wes enjoyed learning about the chevy ecotec engine. What a engineering kabokle with the oil filter . Thanks for the great content . Beautiful family
Thank you Wes for repairing instead of allowing to be disposed at the crusher. With this we see that we need to be more grateful and humbled with the farmer/rancher mentality. Hello here from Sfe New Mexico.
What a small world I’m also watching from Airport road in Santa Fe.
Dex-kill! I love it - almost missed that one.
We have them here in Australia called the Holden Captiva and they are absolutely shit and they were made in the old daewoo factory. Awesome video though, your content is really good
I've heard the Same thing about my wife's Saturn Vue which I think is the same engine as this car but 370,000 miles later it's still running great.
@@outdoorsmansgarage I never heard that. My saturn sc-1 had an engine made here. My friend's Vue with a 6 cylinder is a Honda engine and it's still being driven daily.
Ford was just as bad. I worked for ford I’ll stick to my GM’s
Daewoo was probably better before they became GM. GM is absolute trash.
TOYOTA!!!!!
Thank you Wes I really enjoy your videos. I to work alone in my own shop. You’re humor is spot on .... I just noticed that the vice you straightened the bracket in is identical to the one on my metal work bench. I’m from up state NY . I got my vice off friendship Long Island on the coast of ME. It was used in a mechanics shop on that island. Ivan Morse serviced many of the lobster boats from Friendship Harbor. Many of my tools and equipment have stories behind them. Let us know if any of your tools or equipment have some history. Keep up the good work. 🤠👍🏼
It's an Athol vise. I bought it from a closed machine shop near Paxton, IL. One of those places where the owner had a shop full of machine tools and other equipment and one morning he didn't wake up. The family was left with many tons to dispose of.
Great video. You no matter what you do there's critics out that would say you did wrong. I say do it your way. I enjoy your videos and seeing your family in there too. Thanks for sharing.
They enginner things like that oil filter so the owners can't change their own oil and have to take it to a dealer for servicing.
I also hate it because you can't use upgraded filters I like mobil 1 filters or Wix and with those stupid things your always stuck with the dumb factory style
Doesn't it say "lifetime oil filter" on the window sticker?
@@lwilton Life is short, you know 8-)
And, if they don't take it to the dealer to change the oil , your connecting rod and crankshaft have an altercation, requiring you to buy another car. Pretty smart thinking on the engineering , NOT!
Not actually true, manufacturers have moved away from spin on filters and back to cartridge filters due to the amount of waste the spin on filters generate. They are very difficult to recycle, so all that steel with the oily internals has been going into landfill with obvious environmental impact. Cartridge filters can be incinerated without further processing to ensure no oil leaches into the ground.
The underside of that car needs protection with tectyl or something to survive there.
Just discovered your channel. You are a fine mechanic and I enjoyed the video. 👍🏻
Gotta love value engineering! Nice job on the install and I hope you make out good on the flip.
i believe my wifes chevy oil filter is just an 1 1/8" socket and i just use a wobbly with it
This is 32mm or 1-1/4. I have a special 3/8 drive socket for it, but I could not find it when I was making the video. Turned today while cleaning.
Piston broke....Yeah, so am I lol
New viewer initial impression: This channel is like if South Main Auto and AvE had a baby. Not necessarily content for content, but in terms of the camera perspectives, family dynamics, and just knowledge-dropping... Also humor but with a decided lack of obvious double entendres and intentional word salads. Subbed.
Heh. I dunno what to say. Great?
I used to restore cars for a hobby when I was younger. I'm old now and cant do it any more but I enjoy watching eideos like this. Good job.
Special tool for oil changes? That sounds like a concession you make to your dealers so they get business after the sale.
Don’t apologize to GM’s engineers, they don’t apologize to us!!!
Good point!
The only thing gm on that thing is the badges.
Great vid!! Keep the car, especially one that clean. I have a 2009 Vue that I bought nine years ago. They are a perfect size and have a good comfortable driving position. Properly maintained you will have no problems. And yes, with the proper socket, oil filter changes are a breeze. Keep up the great videos!!
We'll see. I'm sure I will have it for a while.
Really like the teardown and carnage aspects of the video, a lot of times people will just do their compression checks and leakdown and maybe a boroscope to confirm and then they just grab another engine and go. Good to see the whole picture, knowing the entire story so when you hear that tapping and light knocking, you know it's time to stop driving the car before it becomes a 1000 piece puzzle in the oil pan that isn't going back together.
Another quality job by triple W.
You take care of that nice teacher. She looks very patient. Always put her first. You will never regret doing that. Thanks for the fun . :-)
She makes she that she comes first, don't worry!
Gotta make you smile when they light right off ! Great work Wes !
Dude, nice video..... I think dropping the engine in from the top worked just fine! Wish you were closer. I’d have you work on my 02’ Tacoma! Stay safe!
Another great video Wes. I always enjoy watching a real mechanic that knows his stuff. Good luck with the sale. Hopefully the Corona Virus isn’t impacting your business and family too badly.
It's no worse for me than anyone else I suppose.
Watch Wes Work I guess it’s a case of who is “essential” and who is “not essential “ that makes a difference to how their life and financial situation has changed. Luckily for you and for me or jobs are still considered essential.
Great job Wes. If you've not seen those cartridge filters...you've not been working on VW/Audi vehicles...most all new ones have those, and use special oil too. I just use a big socket on them, filter located in relatively the same place. on my TDI, I always get nasty diesel oil on EVERYTHING! :|
Great work mate, good to see you got the Westiva going... New name for it.
Hi Wes. Great job doing the repair. Hope you get a great price for that car. Had I known you were going to flip it I would not have commented on putting another engine , transmission from a Toyota,Etc just something I enjoyed doing back in the day. Has always I liked,shared. All my best.
The Toyota engine would be a step up, that's for sure!
Good job Wes...Some people just don't understand...a projct is a project! Good vid!