This is reminding me of Rebuild Rescue fixing up the FREE Cessna 401. I dig that Durrell is on here, like I’ve said before, your friends are your content. Bring them into the conversation more. Just my opinion, but others have agreed. Your interactions with everyone is gold.
What I like best about Darrell, is that you can tell when he started this, he didn’t know really much about mechanicals or cars or engines or anything like that and he was pretty quiet. But as time went on he has taken the initiative to learn, ask questions, and even help JR in certain situations and work with him. You know so he has really come leaps and bounds and is willing to learn and continue forward and you know open his pallet to a lot more things it’s pretty awesome to be honest.
There is a drain plug in the bottom of the case. This engine runs on caged needle bearings on the crank and rod journals. So you may have rusted up needle bearings that will destroy the crank on start up.
Evapo Rust is very cool stuff! I keep the "well used" stuff in a wide-mouth jug and drop old rusty tools in there whenever I come across them and after a day or two, they are great!
@@CrashRacknShoot Can we import him down to JR and get this truly restored? I also was waiting for him to dip this all in a 55 gallon drum of the evapo rust.
I sent your first video to the last registered owner. He was surprised the machine was still around. If you want his number to get some history let me know.
Seeing the Aztec in the background... I feel like that video will bring a bunch of new people to the channel. (With a title like "Spending a NIGHT in the Pontiac Aztek CAMPING TENT *Finally* ".) Also, that "Corvette tuning session" backing track was definitely pleasant once I figured out what it was (it just had me confused for a bit).
As a retired licenced aircraft engineer I am enjoying watching you take on this project and I hope you get it to at least the taxi run stage BUT of course the engine is going to be your biggest challenge. I am not so sure it will be recoverable but none less keep going JR you have a lot of support behind you judging by the comments you are receiving.
The issue with that engine is, it has needle bearing on the rods. The rust will cause steps on the crank journal. The engine will blow up!.... but that would make for good content. I would be shocked if it docent blow up.
Yeah Jr is so much more wholesome and worth watching.. I stopped watching Sam when he only started making videos only when he has a sponsor, because god forbid 1.4 million subscribers as is, isn’t enough income that u can’t make ONE video without a sponsor. It’s greedy and a huge turn off.. He’s easily clearing $60k+ a month but yet still can’t do a video without a sponsor. It just gets old fast.
HI JR , I have one just like yours , it took me 2 years and $8,000.00 to restore it to like new condition . May I suggest, if you are serious about flying that Gyro, you should have that engine rebuilt by a professional air craft engine re builder ! after all it is an aircraft . have fun !
Take the prop off before you attempt to get it running. It looks like it will fly apart if it ever gets up to speed with that huge crack in it. Safety first!
He seems a sensible guy I hope he does take safety first! We were taught What are you doing that could hurt you or others, What can you do before you start prevent anything hurt you or others. I have learned by rushing in to things that suddenly your injured, and you know exactly what went wrong and then the regrets.
The spark plugs are shielded. This is a aviation thing. The "bolted" connection of the wires onto the spark plugs is both to ensure a secure connection to the spark plug, but also to provide electrical shielding so that the high voltage of the ignition system does not interfere with other aircraft systems like radios and navigation systems.
I'm a commercial pilot for a major airline, have an ATP, four Boeing type ratings and 12,000 hours of flight time. I wouldn't even sit in that thing; Frankly I wouldn't even have it on the property- Be careful John!
Hope it frees up and actually is ok and runs. The crap in the cylinders is ugly but I have seen old military trucks that have sat in a field for over 20 years run with some fresh gas and maybe plugs. Sometimes you had to soak the cylinders down but many would run OK eventually. The old engines were pretty simple and stout.
Basic engines like that are hard to fully kill. Our highschool shop teacher pulled little engines from the landfill and had us get them running. We never had to more than replace some rings, gaskets, or re-seat valves on any of them.
If you just want to see if it will run just pour a cup or pint of gas/oil mix into the carb throat. You only need the carburetor if you want it to run longer. My high school auto shop teacher had one of those McCulloch 72 horsepower drone engines in the shop attic, so I attached a flywheel and engine mount to it, clamped it to a shop table, and we woke up any sleeping students on campus. Sounds like 4 huge chain saws running simultaneously.
Please just pull the jugs off no matter what. 1) It's the right thing to do. Don't go moving the pistons in the barrels when there surely is rust and grit still in there. 2)Good content.
Evaporust works by reacting with a surface to remove iron from it. It finds iron oxide more easy to deal with than the metallic iron. Magic. It shouldn't have much effect on aluminum.
I bet one of those kits you can get off newegg or wish with all the attachments you can put on vaccuums for computer keyboards and whatnot would have been good to have. I guess you'd have to have a kickdown from the bare hose first, but then after that, you can get them really small and long nosed. I Bet it would have massive suction power. I found one at goodwill for my Dyson home vac, and its for cleaning out a car, and computer, etc. I'm sure Rigid make something too. (btw they are located in my home town. )
It's a cool thing to try to restore. What's the end game though, sell it to an experimental pilot? I still think that boxer engine would be cool in a motorcycle.
I find it ironic when birds decide to nest in aviation vehicles, and even more so when said nests cause issues that prevent said aviation vehicle to not properly operate. Like when I saw a DC3 revive on TV one time, and one of the engines was lacking power on takeoff due to a dove's nest in the intake restricting airflow.
@@sirseriously Oh, I remember when the first video popped up in my recommended a while back, but I didn't watch it yet. I'm honestly glad to see it's an ongoing series now! Also, the 401 A looks to be a better candidate for restoration than Jimmy's 310 project. That thing's beyond rough!
Hey JR. I seen these guys overseas that had a 4 cylinder that was locked up, head had been off for no telling how long out in the weather. They took a can of coke and filled each cylinder and I swear within 48hrs they were able to free it up! What’s the name of the air tool with the horn looking device on the end. I’d like to add one to my tool box. Good Luck.
This engine needs to be disassembled completely and cleaned and refurbished if there is any hope using it. Forcing the pistons with debris in the cylinders is crazy, it’s only going to further damage this engine.
Maybe also spray brake clean all around the pistons so you can get the whole cylinder cleaned off. I'm assuming that is a 2 cycle or are there valves that could be stuck too? Are you rebuilding the carb? Probably a good idea.
I really like your content, its always interesting and you always surprise with new projects. I also really like your Friends but i dont think that your content is "your Friends" so pls dont listen too much to comments saying that other people should be more in your content. Just pushing back a bit from this comment section. I watch your stuff because I like your content and not because your Friends are pretty cool
There's a lot of very specific FAA-driven rules concerning all levels of aviation. I'm not very familiar with the "recreational" aircraft requirements, but it's worth getting familiar with.
He would be a fool to actually fly that thing, he knows he’s not gonna fly it but he’s gonna get it running and use it as a land vehicle. Which is awesome in its own way, and then afterwards maybe you can use it as a prop in the warehouse hanging up on the wall or something you know as wall art, that would be awesome. After you paint the engine,and clean her up good and have a beautiful showpiece that everyone who comes will say something about!
At the very least I would take the heads off. You have to put the evaporust on top of the cylinders and with opposed 4 cylinder engine, that's difficult.
If you ever get it in condition to run, I'd be leery of using that prop. It's too far gone, and if it flew apart it could cause a lot of damage to things around it. Don't stand to the sides of it. Those are pretty standard aircraft spark plugs. The ignition harness may be bad, need to use a special tester that has a buzz box that will show if the leads are good or bad. I have a friend that used to fly those things, he switched to Volkswagen engines, the old air cooled version.
you should use a vacuum more often doing the scope to see what you are dealing with helps - samcrac is doing same thing - he should take engine apart and clean - for apps like flying the standards have to be higher - you can use compressed air but that jams dirt in #ring gap #diagnostics
Issues with like the vaccum not working for the top of those heads, be innovative and use a funnel on the end of it or a smaller hose etc lol people struggling when theres an easy solution is my kryptonite basically so had to rant my bad
you need to step up vacuum game - do a central vac with schedule 40, pressure test overnight - less vac maintenance - build a welding table - another good content idea #toolcrib
Your impatience kills me. You paid for evaporust and were given instructions to soak everything for hours. You instead pulled the plugs so only a small amount of the cylinder was "soaked" and turned it over after no time at all. What a wasted opportunity to minimalize damage to the engine.
Birds nests are a typical problem with any aircraft that isn't regularly flown, lot of engine cowl fires are caused by them when the pilot does a poor walk around. As for insects, june bugs are a nightmare especially for building colonies in tail cones on aircraft equipped with them.
Looking at the comments it is a full rebuild or just get a spark and light it up. :D Doesn’t seen to be much in between? Either way it is a cats whisker from being scrap (crank is good or it ain’t)
@@WatchJRGo I wouldn’t have thought so if it is built to a plan. The air frame is the horizontal and virticle ally box. Or, you change so much that technically there is nothing left so it is impossible to get that one flying :D Nice piece to hand from the ceiling for $400 though ^-^
@@mycosys He also said in the previous video he used to built citations . I was just pointing out it had been his job not that he built one in a previous video
You REALLY need to pull the jugs. Horizontally opposed engines need the sidewall cleaned well and honed.
That's my take, too. Do it at least semi-right and disassemble.
This is reminding me of Rebuild Rescue fixing up the FREE Cessna 401. I dig that Durrell is on here, like I’ve said before, your friends are your content. Bring them into the conversation more. Just my opinion, but others have agreed. Your interactions with everyone is gold.
What I like best about Darrell, is that you can tell when he started this, he didn’t know really much about mechanicals or cars or engines or anything like that and he was pretty quiet. But as time went on he has taken the initiative to learn, ask questions, and even help JR in certain situations and work with him. You know so he has really come leaps and bounds and is willing to learn and continue forward and you know open his pallet to a lot more things it’s pretty awesome to be honest.
I’ve been trying to get JR to do an intro but to no avail so far. At least what I can do in the comments anyway.
Nice find! Might have to use that stuff in Mighty Mouse! Savethe310!
"A Wild Jimmy Appeared". Also congrats on buying those warbirds!
Quick tip. A kitchen funnel and a piece of 3/4" pipe on a shop vac will make quick work of tight places.
There is a drain plug in the bottom of the case. This engine runs on caged needle bearings on the crank and rod journals. So you may have rusted up needle bearings that will destroy the crank on start up.
Evapo Rust is very cool stuff! I keep the "well used" stuff in a wide-mouth jug and drop old rusty tools in there whenever I come across them and after a day or two, they are great!
Never knew this stuff existed, but I’m definitely gonna pick some up as soon as possible and do exactly what you said lol. Thanks for the comment
@@B0xlife1 if you wanna see just how good that stuff is, give Handtool Resue a watch. Guy uses it on everything, and probably as an aftershave.
@@CrashRacknShoot Can we import him down to JR and get this truly restored? I also was waiting for him to dip this all in a 55 gallon drum of the evapo rust.
I sent your first video to the last registered owner. He was surprised the machine was still around.
If you want his number to get some history let me know.
Even better JR interview him on the channel. Anyone "living" oldster who has registered a gyrocopter at some point, is worthy of some content.
Seeing the Aztec in the background...
I feel like that video will bring a bunch of new people to the channel.
(With a title like "Spending a NIGHT in the Pontiac Aztek CAMPING TENT *Finally* ".)
Also, that "Corvette tuning session" backing track was definitely pleasant once I figured out what it was (it just had me confused for a bit).
I vote Gabe as test pilot. Way safer than nothing off a roof.
No Waaaaaaay . We like Gabe he’s a keeper. I vote for
No One . Danger Stranger machine
He can’t break any more bones if his bones are all already broken *points to temple*
I vote 100 percent Jake. With a name like that it'll 100% work or 100% fail. 😋
Don't get Hoovie for the test flight!!!
As a retired licenced aircraft engineer I am enjoying watching you take on this project and I hope you get it to at least the taxi run stage BUT of course the engine is going to be your biggest challenge. I am not so sure it will be recoverable but none less keep going JR you have a lot of support behind you judging by the comments you are receiving.
Very cool! I love old things like this, they really tell a story. No way I would go up in it but I can’t wait to see it run nevertheless.
Put the plugs back in it and fill it the rest of the way up with evapo rust, don't want halfway rusty piston rings lol
The issue with that engine is, it has needle bearing on the rods. The rust will cause steps on the crank journal. The engine will blow up!.... but that would make for good content. I would be shocked if it docent blow up.
Hilarious that You and Samcrack are both using evaporust today 😂
Yeah Jr is so much more wholesome and worth watching.. I stopped watching Sam when he only started making videos only when he has a sponsor, because god forbid 1.4 million subscribers as is, isn’t enough income that u can’t make ONE video without a sponsor. It’s greedy and a huge turn off..
He’s easily clearing $60k+ a month but yet still can’t do a video without a sponsor. It just gets old fast.
I know right?!?! Never heard of the stuff before and now two totally different RUclipsrs using it on the exact same day!
HI JR , I have one just like yours , it took me 2 years and $8,000.00 to restore it to like new condition . May I suggest, if you are serious about flying that Gyro, you should have that engine rebuilt by a professional air craft engine re builder ! after all it is an aircraft . have fun !
Take the prop off before you attempt to get it running. It looks like it will fly apart if it ever gets up to speed with that huge crack in it. Safety first!
He seems a sensible guy I hope he does take safety first! We were taught What are you doing that could hurt you or others, What can you do before you start prevent anything hurt you or others. I have learned by rushing in to things that suddenly your injured, and you know exactly what went wrong and then the regrets.
The spark plugs are shielded. This is a aviation thing. The "bolted" connection of the wires onto the spark plugs is both to ensure a secure connection to the spark plug, but also to provide electrical shielding so that the high voltage of the ignition system does not interfere with other aircraft systems like radios and navigation systems.
And also grounds the plug in some scenarios
I'm a commercial pilot for a major airline, have an ATP, four Boeing type ratings and 12,000 hours of flight time.
I wouldn't even sit in that thing; Frankly I wouldn't even have it on the property-
Be careful John!
Hope it frees up and actually is ok and runs. The crap in the cylinders is ugly but I have seen old military trucks that have sat in a field for over 20 years run with some fresh gas and maybe plugs. Sometimes you had to soak the cylinders down but many would run OK eventually. The old engines were pretty simple and stout.
Basic engines like that are hard to fully kill. Our highschool shop teacher pulled little engines from the landfill and had us get them running. We never had to more than replace some rings, gaskets, or re-seat valves on any of them.
The person who had that before the junk yard obviously took great care to keep it well maintained. It is almost a shame that it will not fly again.
If you just want to see if it will run just pour a cup or pint of gas/oil mix into the carb throat. You only need the carburetor if you want it to run longer.
My high school auto shop teacher had one of those McCulloch 72 horsepower drone engines in the shop attic, so I attached a flywheel and engine mount to it, clamped it to a shop table, and we woke up any sleeping students on campus.
Sounds like 4 huge chain saws running simultaneously.
Place in Texas sells parts for those WW2 target drone motors. Also do the updates the airframe.
Please just pull the jugs off no matter what. 1) It's the right thing to do. Don't go moving the pistons in the barrels when there surely is rust and grit still in there. 2)Good content.
Evaporust works by reacting with a surface to remove iron from it. It finds iron oxide more easy to deal with than the metallic iron. Magic. It shouldn't have much effect on aluminum.
Cool vid, something other than cars and trucks. Hardly wait to see is fly. Thanks JR
Can you reuse the Z06 wheels on the copter trailer?
PL100 works very good.
Also Evapo-Rust is environmentally friendly.
What exactly is the copter used for? Maybe a dumb question but I’ve never seen one.
I bet one of those kits you can get off newegg or wish with all the attachments you can put on vaccuums for computer keyboards and whatnot would have been good to have. I guess you'd have to have a kickdown from the bare hose first, but then after that, you can get them really small and long nosed. I Bet it would have massive suction power. I found one at goodwill for my Dyson home vac, and its for cleaning out a car, and computer, etc. I'm sure Rigid make something too. (btw they are located in my home town. )
Hey neighbor! Went to the FAA N number database and looked up N3913 and found Model and engine information along with dates and other data.
It's a cool thing to try to restore. What's the end game though, sell it to an experimental pilot? I still think that boxer engine would be cool in a motorcycle.
At the beginning, I thought you were going to say "Marvel Mystery Oil". LOL.
I find it ironic when birds decide to nest in aviation vehicles, and even more so when said nests cause issues that prevent said aviation vehicle to not properly operate.
Like when I saw a DC3 revive on TV one time, and one of the engines was lacking power on takeoff due to a dove's nest in the intake restricting airflow.
They don't want us to have wings, it's a bird monopoly 🤔
If you like birds in planes check out rebuild rescue's recent videos on the free twin engine he got. The thing was disgusting inside and out.
@@sirseriously Oh, I remember when the first video popped up in my recommended a while back, but I didn't watch it yet. I'm honestly glad to see it's an ongoing series now! Also, the 401 A looks to be a better candidate for restoration than Jimmy's 310 project. That thing's beyond rough!
The birds do of course work for the Bourgeois Z, definitely checks out they don't want us flying....
Evapo is awesome! Love the copter project!!
Really enjoying this project 😀
"Wow, it's like something made a nest in here!" Duh. LOL
Hey JR. I seen these guys overseas that had a 4 cylinder that was locked up, head had been off for no telling how long out in the weather. They took a can of coke and filled each cylinder and I swear within 48hrs they were able to free it up! What’s the name of the air tool with the horn looking device on the end. I’d like to add one to my tool box. Good Luck.
It’s a tornador 🍻
Thank you sir!
Please be careful of the prop. If the engine break loose the prop will turn and if any part of you is in the path it will be pain city.
I just saw Sam Crac use Evaporust in a Viper Engine 🤣
And peanut butter. Well, I guess it was coke, but neither one makes all that much sense, when you have specific alternatives that work better.
If I could work on the Gyro Copter with Watch JR Goes I would drink the shot of whiskey and roll up the fat Woolford and get all schmoked up
You literally had the birds and the bees in that engine...
Great video from JR.
This engine needs to be disassembled completely and cleaned and refurbished if there is any hope using it. Forcing the pistons with debris in the cylinders is crazy, it’s only going to further damage this engine.
Maybe also spray brake clean all around the pistons so you can get the whole cylinder cleaned off. I'm assuming that is a 2 cycle or are there valves that could be stuck too? Are you rebuilding the carb? Probably a good idea.
Evaporust is great. BTW what are you doing with the Aztek?
So this might fly. I'm hoping it doesn't happen i believe this is hazardous.
Makes good wall art hanging. From rafters
Samcracc just called it evapowallet 😄 must be a florida thing
He also said it was $30 a gallon and JR said it was cheap.
Sam's stepmother keeps him broke all the time.
@@Digital-Dan he does owe her a lot of money for all of those loans.
Turning into the Mustie1 channel! Great source to see dead stuff brought back to life.
haha Samcrac just used this same rust stuff on his flooded viper
I really like your content, its always interesting and you always surprise with new projects. I also really like your Friends but i dont think that your content is "your Friends" so pls dont listen too much to comments saying that other people should be more in your content. Just pushing back a bit from this comment section. I watch your stuff because I like your content and not because your Friends are pretty cool
Love the black fox 🦊
I volunteer Tyler, from Hoovies Garage, for a test pilot. Up, up, up and away we go son
Also is that a Marauder in the background?
You fooled me by posting a little after 11:45. I have my phone reminder set for 11:44.
Took too long to upload 😢
Perfect timing - was just about to pass out.
lmao you and Rebuild Rescue both have some nice birds nests going in your engines
I. Assume you have a 3d printer. Should print some custom vacuum parts to get into the cylinders etc.
There's a lot of very specific FAA-driven rules concerning all levels of aviation. I'm not very familiar with the "recreational" aircraft requirements, but it's worth getting familiar with.
So far, he claims he's not planning to leave the ground with it.
He would be a fool to actually fly that thing, he knows he’s not gonna fly it but he’s gonna get it running and use it as a land vehicle. Which is awesome in its own way, and then afterwards maybe you can use it as a prop in the warehouse hanging up on the wall or something you know as wall art, that would be awesome. After you paint the engine,and clean her up good and have a beautiful showpiece that everyone who comes will say something about!
Use shop vac attachments lol
un-damn-believable at the trash in the engine~~!
Evporust won't harm aluminum. You could soak the entire engine in it.
If you have ever listened to old Radio shows, The Shawdow flew a Gyrocoopter to fight "the darkness in men's souls"
At the very least I would take the heads off. You have to put the evaporust on top of the cylinders and with opposed 4 cylinder engine, that's difficult.
If you ever get it in condition to run, I'd be leery of using that prop. It's too far gone, and if it flew apart it could cause a lot of damage to things around it. Don't stand to the sides of it. Those are pretty standard aircraft spark plugs. The ignition harness may be bad, need to use a special tester that has a buzz box that will show if the leads are good or bad. I have a friend that used to fly those things, he switched to Volkswagen engines, the old air cooled version.
Whole thing is a deathtrap
@@mmonkeyman1403 Amen. They have a horrible accident rate.
Come on JR…….everybody has that friend that’s crazy enough to try anything. This thing needs to leave the ground again !😬
Rolls Update????? Hello?
I’ve done plenty of them recently
Why not unbolt the cylinder covers and clean the pist ons?
I thought you got rid of the Saab?
a smaller vacuum tip would have went a long way. And/or shop air lmao
you should use a vacuum more often doing the scope to see what you are dealing with helps - samcrac is doing same thing - he should take engine apart and clean - for apps like flying the standards have to be higher - you can use compressed air but that jams dirt in #ring gap #diagnostics
RALLY FIGHTER 💪🏼 RALLY FIGHTER 💪🏼 RALLY FIGHTER 💪🏼
have a look at this KB-2 Gyrocopter with McCulloch Engine
Issues with like the vaccum not working for the top of those heads, be innovative and use a funnel on the end of it or a smaller hose etc lol people struggling when theres an easy solution is my kryptonite basically so had to rant my bad
Where are the other parts?
"It's like something made a nest in here". Ya think?
John Ross, this thing is a hunk of junk. 😆
you need to step up vacuum game - do a central vac with schedule 40, pressure test overnight - less vac maintenance - build a welding table - another good content idea #toolcrib
The last time I have seen that modle was in mad max 2 they had the same one in it
Your impatience kills me. You paid for evaporust and were given instructions to soak everything for hours. You instead pulled the plugs so only a small amount of the cylinder was "soaked" and turned it over after no time at all. What a wasted opportunity to minimalize damage to the engine.
Is Josh’s boat for sale?
I still think u should bring your Dad in on this project. If anyone can make her fly again it's you two.
use compressed air and blow from spark plug hole out....
may have to take heads off to really clean ...
don't like the pointes. thing in the cylinder
Interesting. But nice it's freed up.
Not an engine that I would say “maybe it will work.” 🤣
Put that engine in a motorcycle or go cart.
Parallel 4, 2 stroke is pretty rare.
I was just gonna say that, I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard of or seen a parallel 4,2 stroker!
Man, I was cringing watching that surgical pick in the aluminum engine 😅
Lol same!
The scratching noise just made me cringe!!!
This thing looks like something Mustie1 would buy
Hey!
Yo! 🍻
Can't believe you would even think about flying that thing w/o it being totally torn down.
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I dunno if it was planned but funny enough Sam Crac posted a video testing evaporust just a few hours ago
Birds nests are a typical problem with any aircraft that isn't regularly flown, lot of engine cowl fires are caused by them when the pilot does a poor walk around. As for insects, june bugs are a nightmare especially for building colonies in tail cones on aircraft equipped with them.
Evaporust is a cheat code for rust.
That motor needs a complete rebuild
JR hasn't seen Samcrac's latest video...
Why on earth would you not just pull the cylinders off and clean them with a pressure washer and a bunch of scotch brite?
water pressure washer in the ports then oil
Looking at the comments it is a full rebuild or just get a spark and light it up. :D Doesn’t seen to be much in between? Either way it is a cats whisker from being scrap (crank is good or it ain’t)
Start it and it’s outta here, I found out making it fly again is basically impossible
@@WatchJRGo I wouldn’t have thought so if it is built to a plan. The air frame is the horizontal and virticle ally box. Or, you change so much that technically there is nothing left so it is impossible to get that one flying :D Nice piece to hand from the ceiling for $400 though ^-^
Are you an A & P Mechanic as well, I understand you built Citation X in a previous episode.
I think it was his previous job before RUclips
@@philtowle4683 he was an IT guy before YT
@@mycosys He also said in the previous video he used to built citations . I was just pointing out it had been his job not that he built one in a previous video