My very 1st engine rebuild, I did on my living room floor in late 1972. It was a street engine, not for racing. It was my 1968 GTO 400CI V8. I did send the block & crank to be cleaned, inspected, and polished. I sent the heads to a different machine shop for a valve job and they shaved .020 off the faces also. Then I completely reassembled it in my living room except for the headers and starter, wheeled it out on a dolly to my car, hoisted it up and in. The reason for the rebuild at only 70,000 miles was a bad cam. 3 lobes were almost worn round. Isky cam, cyclone headers, a 800CFM Holly double pumper, 4 speed stick, and that sucker would really go. I got shipped out to Okinawa in 1975, so I sold it. I still miss that car.
Would love to see more detailed teardown inspection videos from yall. I may not know much but seeing the carnage and explaining what to look for is so enjoyable to me.
$3500 for a properly done 5.3 is worth every penny! Seeing how picky you are with getting everything right, the engine is more likely to exceed the quality of the original factory engine. My dad was a heavy equipment mechanic. Listening to you describe how you do things reminds me of my dad. 45 years in the business and he never had a single job come back because it wasn’t done right.
As my Dad said hes gone now im 60 . He use to say Don’t understand it dont have time to do it right the first time but you got time to do it twice . Makes no sense . Thanks for the good content keep it up im learning alot from you .
I hear you, we've seen it more and more often, had to redo a 3,6 v6 pentastar that someone else 'overhaued' . When I asked what the customer paid for the job....he said over $5k. I had to overhaul the whole engine and supply 1 new head as one was actually scrap........
It would pay to find the slackers throwing paint at mediocrity and just make a deal on the parts - don't touch anything, just ship it as is. They probably yank a few motors a month from a junkyard to flip as hard & fast as they can.
At least with the few head studs they did provide, they didn't crank them in there. Every stud I've pulled out by someone else has been impacted in lol.
ok I had to look up jackleg LOL thanks just added another slang to my vocabulairy, train wreck need to use this more. keep up the good work we all need you in az.
That yellow paint pen writing on the crank is from a salvage yard. They bought another one for a replacement because I would guess the original one had either spun a bearing or was worn so much that it needed to be ground. Heck its cheaper to just buy a used one and not have to wait on getting one ground. Job security my friend. Joe
Awesome that customer will be able to see the quality work being done to his motor and know for any future build/rebuilds what to expect. Love the "Facebook rebuild" description, VGG calls it "Craig's list rebuild, lost the receipts". Lol
Andrew seems like a good hand. Hope he sticks with it. Teach him all you know...good craftsmen/artists, in any trade, are a dying breed. Another good video!
Love what you’re doing man, calling out these back wood rebuild guys. I had my aluminum 5.3 at shop for machine work, they lied to me saying they had it magaflux. Went to assemble it and found the crack right away.
Sweet! We could seriously watch these teardown videos daily if you posted them, LoL. Really interested in this one. I like the honest and down-to-earth facts. Keep up the videos. I'm sure guys are learning the correct procedure on rebuilding engines and honestly, sometimes it's better to leave some things to the Pros! Cheers!
I ran into a similar issue with a “core” engine I picked up out of a Yukon. Total hack job. I feel bad for the people that pay for this kind of work that don’t know any better. Enjoy the videos keep up the good work Powell Family!
Again another great informative video, no wonder the engine machine shops and mechanics industry gets a bad reputation all the time, lm a retired mechanic but lm seeing so many unqualified people on Facebook giving the wrong advice and every one is a goggle rebuilder these days,l was told lm doing my head job wrong on line with my top end rebuild because l replaced cam gear bolts, injector bolts,and rocker shaft bolts as landrover so called experts said to reuse them but they are all stretch bolts and specs say to renew every time so l followed the specs,it's the very reason l had to replace the head on this job as last owner reused rocker shaft bolts and he snapped one off in head which we found during a basic rocker cover seal job,he then snapped ezy out in head and butchered it so bad we had to replace head and rocker shaft bolts were that tight l think he used a rattle gun and over tighten them l thought we would snap them on removal,it's a landrover td5 motor and these things are very expensive to do anything on them,l purchased a new head but still sent it to a engine shop to inspect before we install and luckily we did as they picked up a few things which would have costed me as l was supplied new but always let the engine machine shop check over my projects,anyway lm loving you videos and my son loves them too his followed in my foot steps and is into the car industry anyway thank you for the time and effort you put into these videos,regards Roy 👍
I bet you stay very busy. If us customers would just ask around there are good shops such as yours in most towns. I'm enjoying your videos and learning quite a bit about the machining of engine parts. Nice work!
I'm swapping a Ls3 and I had my block fully machined and Def new cam bearings installed. Yea that don't look their not bad. I'm not taking a chance lol
Great video to watch while I’m home sick from our shop, can’t tell you how many people blame us for block plug issues, whether it is not putting the dumbbell back in the LS or the hidden press in plug or ball on a small block Chevy underneath the number five cap or even the screw in plug underneath the cylinder head on a small block. And it’s all from instances of someone bringing in a block to be cleaned or cleaned and machined and opting to assemble themselves, and when we tell a customer it’s an hour or hour and a half to install cam bearings and block plugs they squirm and want to do it themselves. Often happens when it’s a garage that wants to save the money.
As tight as rod bolts were, I might do the abnormal: check bolt stretch in reverse order. I'm guessing it went together with a battery operated impact.
Seems like since the LS engine craz started......so did LS engine builders,Like you said the Google/youtube builders,seen and Know a couple hear around East Tn. .....wearing the flat bill ball cap talking crap....and usually only in there 20,s early 30,s. Love your videos man.
Sometimes I think " you were too busy so I took it to another shop " really means " I thought I'd save some money and do it myself " . Apparently , home builders have forgotten there's a library nearby that will loan you an actual manual . A manual and careful attention to detail will usually get it better than that one .
I have a question I forgot to add . Have your RUclips videos shown any tangible increase in business or attracted new customers ? Just wondering , best wishes to all . @@powellmachineinc
I’ve done more than my share of dingle berry hone rebuilds, but only as a freshen up to my own drag race engines, and also after checking and rechecking cylinder wall taper. I would never do something like that to a friends engine, and especially would double check the cleaning job! And if I’m in doubt, I triple check behind myself and ask questions. In the 45+ years I’ve been doing this, I’ve lost only one engine after an overhaul, and it was my own. I was doing a thrash job trying to make a three day race on Thursday night and barely made it to the track Friday morning in time for time trials. As it turned out, I missed double checking a rod bolt and it threw the rod end out of the block. That was about thirty years ago. Needless to say, I’ve not made that mistake again! Thanks for making these videos. Not only are they educational, they are very entertaining also!
Are these Hack LS Assemblers new? I don't remember seeing this in the Gen 1 era. I'm amazed at the level of insanity you found in this engine. Great knowledge and build standards there!!! Thanks for the vids.
@@powellmachineinc oh my, sounds like I predicted the future! I know I've asked before, maybe just missed the response, but I'm curious where are you gentlemen working? I am interested in using your services if logistically possible, and also want to ask if you ever need any donor cores? I'm constantly sending running cores over the scales for scrap!
It's one thing to run the dingle hone thru a quick fix freshen up, but damnit, only if that's the bare minimum someone can afford. Or it's a derby engine ect. As a small business owner/ self employed mechanic I don't get it. Maybe people get away with this garbage quality work in bigger cities. Where I live, one bad job, and before the end of the week my name wouldnt be worth anything. Thank God for engine builders like you gentleman! Doing better work then the manufacturer every time! As always great video!
That’s a hot mess! I’m a stickler for cleanliness when building in my garage. And for the cheap repl cost of front and rear covers, I don’t even bother with the old ones. 😂
Why do they lie about their engines?! That block looked like it had been sitting out in the weather ☁️🌡️ for at least a year. Awesome video. The owner must have tightened the main caps to 200 pounds 😮
I build my own engines and only once did I do a half-ass build where I didn't have the block and heads decked and I reused the same pistons - just cleaned them up and new rings. But that was because it was my daughter's car and she just wanted to get rid of it for a cheap price. So I did a bare minimum rebuild, but other than that, that's the only time I just threw an engine back together with little investment. And other than that one, probably the cheapest I have rebuilt an engine for is $2,200 in parts and maybe $600 machine shop work. So $2,800 which doesn't account for any labor.
It’s sad I build allot here in Phoenix Arizona , I don’t have any machining equipment but I work with a local shop and do all the measurement , assembly , and combinations . I get engines from some local machine shops who have the equipment and do a terrible job . Full machine work with remachined crank rods new parts and valvetrain upgrades usually comes to about 4500-5500.
Nice job in calling out this done in ya mommas living room rebuild. Maybe if it gets pointed out more,some of the half assers will go back to tending registers at McDonald’s.
👏👏👏 let's hear it for a junkyard builder! Complete garbage! Touching "everything" is the only way to build a reliable unit. They'll learn the hardway....oh yeah they'll learn. Good video.
The previous engine work must have been done at Jeffs Machine Shop in Statesville NC. That is actually some of Ashleys better work. Im kidding but this is the type of work that jeffs does.
@@powellmachineinc dingleberry hone, not decking blocks, not using torque plates, breaking bolts in blocks not taking out oil gallery plugs before cleaning blocks not balancing crankshafts etc is what they do best
If you do not have enough money to fix it right the first time you surely are not going to have the money to fix it right the 2nd or 3rd time. I'm working on a Subaru with bent valves thanks to a botched water pump job. Almost 4k to get a 100k mile used engine installed. They used cheap Dayco timing belt kit and the tensioner fucked up
@powellmachineinc3179 I'll admit, I have done a couple of handfuls of what you called a rering over the years. I have never had a failure and boosted a couple of the ls ones I did. But, they were thoroughly cleaned and inspected. I'm a heavy truck and equipment mechanic. I like the heavy diesel because I can change the liners and machine the counterbores in the chassis. I have even bored and sleeved parent bore engines in the chassis. I did a 3126 cat in a motor coach last year under the bed in the back of the rig. Wrestling a van norman 900 in that hole was fun. And lastly, I have welded and reground a cam lobe on a wore out atlas lathe. Lol. It worked out great. I guess it's not how you do stuff sometimes, it's having the experience, knowledge, and nads to do it and make it last.🤣
"It cost twice as much to get the job done wrong"....wise words from this dude:)
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Hee - Larry - Us!
Thanks for the knowledge and information. In each episode, I come away wiser.
Very welcome
My very 1st engine rebuild, I did on my living room floor in late 1972. It was a street engine, not for racing. It was my 1968 GTO 400CI V8. I did send the block & crank to be cleaned, inspected, and polished. I sent the heads to a different machine shop for a valve job and they shaved .020 off the faces also. Then I completely reassembled it in my living room except for the headers and starter, wheeled it out on a dolly to my car, hoisted it up and in. The reason for the rebuild at only 70,000 miles was a bad cam. 3 lobes were almost worn round. Isky cam, cyclone headers, a 800CFM Holly double pumper, 4 speed stick, and that sucker would really go. I got shipped out to Okinawa in 1975, so I sold it. I still miss that car.
The good old days of high performance ❤
You're right on with the term Crusty✌️ It appears you have great employees. Hard to come by these days.
Definitely
Would love to see more detailed teardown inspection videos from yall. I may not know much but seeing the carnage and explaining what to look for is so enjoyable to me.
Noted!
@@powellmachineinc you must read every comment lol. Much love
$3500 for a properly done 5.3 is worth every penny! Seeing how picky you are with getting everything right, the engine is more likely to exceed the quality of the original factory engine. My dad was a heavy equipment mechanic. Listening to you describe how you do things reminds me of my dad. 45 years in the business and he never had a single job come back because it wasn’t done right.
Absolutely
I luv your summarizations of engine wreckers, Jack Leg, Cornbread, can of coo coo..but cornbread is my fav 👍👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks 👍
I almost spit my coffee out when you said it had a dingle berry hone. LOL! Backwoods "rebuild" for sure.
Lol
ROFLMFAO!!
I have never heard that treated as if it was funny
You never heard that term?
What's the real name of those? I've only ever known them as dingleberry hones.
As my Dad said hes gone now im 60 . He use to say Don’t understand it dont have time to do it right the first time but you got time to do it twice . Makes no sense . Thanks for the good content keep it up im learning alot from you .
Definitely!, ty
Haha “clapped out nonsense”…….i really enjoy good phrases!!….your videos are legit!
I appreciate that!
I hear you, we've seen it more and more often, had to redo a 3,6 v6 pentastar that someone else 'overhaued' . When I asked what the customer paid for the job....he said over $5k. I had to overhaul the whole engine and supply 1 new head as one was actually scrap........
Yeah, it's sketchy out there for sure
What a mess. Enough to make a grown man cry.
Yup
Jackleg has been called!!!😂
Crazy what people try to get away with but it lets me learn stuff thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
It would pay to find the slackers throwing paint at mediocrity and just make a deal on the parts - don't touch anything, just ship it as is. They probably yank a few motors a month from a junkyard to flip as hard & fast as they can.
In a way I blame the LS architecture - it will still run (not well) with lots of flaws. Lets people hide their deficientcy of skill.
I sure wish ur shop was located down here closer to us in central FLA....
I wish it was over by destin close to the beach!!
At least with the few head studs they did provide, they didn't crank them in there. Every stud I've pulled out by someone else has been impacted in lol.
Lol
ok I had to look up jackleg LOL thanks just added another slang to my vocabulairy, train wreck need to use this more. keep up the good work we all need you in az.
Lol
That yellow paint pen writing on the crank is from a salvage yard. They bought another one for a replacement because I would guess the original one had either spun a bearing or was worn so much that it needed to be ground.
Heck its cheaper to just buy a used one and not have to wait on getting one ground.
Job security my friend.
Joe
Wow, it looks like it set in the woods for the past decade!!!
Definitely
Awesome that customer will be able to see the quality work being done to his motor and know for any future build/rebuilds what to expect. Love the "Facebook rebuild" description, VGG calls it "Craig's list rebuild, lost the receipts". Lol
That's the plan!
America 🇺🇸💪🏼🦅🛠️
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great video as always. i am always amazed that someone can call that a rebuild.
You and me both!
Get this channels more subs!
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Glad that you took it apart before it took itself apart.
Absolutely
Andrew seems like a good hand. Hope he sticks with it. Teach him all you know...good craftsmen/artists, in any trade, are a dying breed. Another good video!
Absolutely! I think he us gonna make it!
Man I Love watching Your videos, It is apparent that You are up to date and study these Engines and Your Knowledge is Awesome!!
Thank you very much!
Granddaddy and Daddy hammered it into my head that if you do something, do it right or don’t do it at all.
Absolutely
Love what you’re doing man, calling out these back wood rebuild guys. I had my aluminum 5.3 at shop for machine work, they lied to me saying they had it magaflux. Went to assemble it and found the crack right away.
Absolutely
Ya like you’ll never notice a few cracks
Jack leg is the correct term, meaning they don’t know Jack. Great video.
Yes! Thank you!
I really enjoy your videos! It is nice to see people who take pride in their work and don't cut corners!
Appreciate your clear thinking and say it like it is style.
I appreciate that!
Thank you for your knowledge and video's USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸
Our pleasure!
Dingle berry word of the month😂👌
Lol
Could have been worse, they could have left the rings and bearings out of it lol 🤣 Thanks for sharing
You bet
It's your standard Backyard Mechanic Rebuild but missing important pieces!
Yup
Absolutely amazing revelation. Exposing rip-off merchants.
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Great information.
Glad it was helpful!
Sweet! We could seriously watch these teardown videos daily if you posted them, LoL.
Really interested in this one. I like the honest and down-to-earth facts. Keep up the videos. I'm sure guys are learning the correct procedure on rebuilding engines and honestly, sometimes it's better to leave some things to the Pros!
Cheers!
More to come!
I ran into a similar issue with a “core” engine I picked up out of a Yukon. Total hack job. I feel bad for the people that pay for this kind of work that don’t know any better. Enjoy the videos keep up the good work Powell Family!
Tyvm
Again another great informative video, no wonder the engine machine shops and mechanics industry gets a bad reputation all the time, lm a retired mechanic but lm seeing so many unqualified people on Facebook giving the wrong advice and every one is a goggle rebuilder these days,l was told lm doing my head job wrong on line with my top end rebuild because l replaced cam gear bolts, injector bolts,and rocker shaft bolts as landrover so called experts said to reuse them but they are all stretch bolts and specs say to renew every time so l followed the specs,it's the very reason l had to replace the head on this job as last owner reused rocker shaft bolts and he snapped one off in head which we found during a basic rocker cover seal job,he then snapped ezy out in head and butchered it so bad we had to replace head and rocker shaft bolts were that tight l think he used a rattle gun and over tighten them l thought we would snap them on removal,it's a landrover td5 motor and these things are very expensive to do anything on them,l purchased a new head but still sent it to a engine shop to inspect before we install and luckily we did as they picked up a few things which would have costed me as l was supplied new but always let the engine machine shop check over my projects,anyway lm loving you videos and my son loves them too his followed in my foot steps and is into the car industry anyway thank you for the time and effort you put into these videos,regards Roy 👍
Why in the world would somebody spend that much to rebuild an iron block 5.3? Not derogatory to you at all, I love your stuff.
We build 5.3s all the time?
Keeps you busy
Shame he didn't wait
Cost him but he gets a good job
Definitely
I bet you stay very busy. If us customers would just ask around there are good shops such as yours in most towns. I'm enjoying your videos and learning quite a bit about the machining of engine parts. Nice work!
We really appreciate that!!
nice vid guys.
Glad you enjoyed it
While the opposite is impossible, this goes to show that some people can indeed make a sow's ear out of a silk purse
Absolutely
I'm swapping a Ls3 and I had my block fully machined and Def new cam bearings installed. Yea that don't look their not bad. I'm not taking a chance lol
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Great video to watch while I’m home sick from our shop, can’t tell you how many people blame us for block plug issues, whether it is not putting the dumbbell back in the LS or the hidden press in plug or ball on a small block Chevy underneath the number five cap or even the screw in plug underneath the cylinder head on a small block. And it’s all from instances of someone bringing in a block to be cleaned or cleaned and machined and opting to assemble themselves, and when we tell a customer it’s an hour or hour and a half to install cam bearings and block plugs they squirm and want to do it themselves. Often happens when it’s a garage that wants to save the money.
Yep, 💯
What a mess! Great channel bud, big fan from 🇨🇦
Welcome aboard!
As tight as rod bolts were, I might do the abnormal: check bolt stretch in reverse order. I'm guessing it went together with a battery operated impact.
Yep
Nice job
Seems like since the LS engine craz started......so did LS engine builders,Like you said the Google/youtube builders,seen and Know a couple hear around East Tn. .....wearing the flat bill ball cap talking crap....and usually only in there 20,s early 30,s. Love your videos man.
Yep
Sometimes I think " you were too busy so I took it to another shop " really means " I thought I'd save some money and do it myself " . Apparently , home builders have forgotten there's a library nearby that will loan you an actual manual . A manual and careful attention to detail will usually get it better than that one .
Yup
I have a question I forgot to add . Have your RUclips videos shown any tangible increase in business or attracted new customers ? Just wondering , best wishes to all . @@powellmachineinc
I’ve done more than my share of dingle berry hone rebuilds, but only as a freshen up to my own drag race engines, and also after checking and rechecking cylinder wall taper. I would never do something like that to a friends engine, and especially would double check the cleaning job! And if I’m in doubt, I triple check behind myself and ask questions. In the 45+ years I’ve been doing this, I’ve lost only one engine after an overhaul, and it was my own. I was doing a thrash job trying to make a three day race on Thursday night and barely made it to the track Friday morning in time for time trials. As it turned out, I missed double checking a rod bolt and it threw the rod end out of the block. That was about thirty years ago. Needless to say, I’ve not made that mistake again! Thanks for making these videos. Not only are they educational, they are very entertaining also!
Thanks for the video!!!
No problem!
Are these Hack LS Assemblers new? I don't remember seeing this in the Gen 1 era. I'm amazed at the level of insanity you found in this engine. Great knowledge and build standards there!!! Thanks for the vids.
The internet has keyboard builders believing anyone can build engines
I was almost expecting you to say time for a new donor core to start over!
Wait till part 2
@@powellmachineinc oh my, sounds like I predicted the future! I know I've asked before, maybe just missed the response, but I'm curious where are you gentlemen working? I am interested in using your services if logistically possible, and also want to ask if you ever need any donor cores? I'm constantly sending running cores over the scales for scrap!
It's one thing to run the dingle hone thru a quick fix freshen up, but damnit, only if that's the bare minimum someone can afford. Or it's a derby engine ect. As a small business owner/ self employed mechanic I don't get it. Maybe people get away with this garbage quality work in bigger cities. Where I live, one bad job, and before the end of the week my name wouldnt be worth anything. Thank God for engine builders like you gentleman! Doing better work then the manufacturer every time! As always great video!
That’s a hot mess! I’m a stickler for cleanliness when building in my garage. And for the cheap repl cost of front and rear covers, I don’t even bother with the old ones. 😂
Right on
New subscriber and a like🔥🔥🔥
Rust increases compression !!
Lol
It's a rusty pan of cornbread, But I love me some pinto's and cornbread raised on it
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Why do they lie about their engines?! That block looked like it had been sitting out in the weather ☁️🌡️ for at least a year. Awesome video. The owner must have tightened the main caps to 200 pounds 😮
The owner never touched it
That timing chain looks loose as all get out. I can't believe it's new.
Yeah, it had a used bottom gear
I build my own engines and only once did I do a half-ass build where I didn't have the block and heads decked and I reused the same pistons - just cleaned them up and new rings. But that was because it was my daughter's car and she just wanted to get rid of it for a cheap price. So I did a bare minimum rebuild, but other than that, that's the only time I just threw an engine back together with little investment. And other than that one, probably the cheapest I have rebuilt an engine for is $2,200 in parts and maybe $600 machine shop work. So $2,800 which doesn't account for any labor.
I got a crusty 5.3 that needs built
Just takes money
@@powellmachineinc yes sir. When I get it I will be coming to you. Just up in VA
It’s sad I build allot here in Phoenix Arizona , I don’t have any machining equipment but I work with a local shop and do all the measurement , assembly , and combinations . I get engines from some local machine shops who have the equipment and do a terrible job . Full machine work with remachined crank rods new parts and valvetrain upgrades usually comes to about 4500-5500.
Nice job in calling out this done in ya mommas living room rebuild. Maybe if it gets pointed out more,some of the half assers will go back to tending registers at McDonald’s.
💯, facts
Used to call these tailgate rebuilds.
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That things was almost cornbread colored!!
Done right should be more common than it is these days.
Absolutely
I didnt see any chain tensioner doohickey. Does that cam gear set up eliminate it somehow?
Gen 3 blocks have no provision for a tensioner
Ol Jackleg saying is good,in man....what the ol timers use to say alot....and it is what it is!
Definitely
What is the themo clean process I have not heard that term before ?
Kit from down under
Basically a bake and blast wirh steel shot
These Facebook engine builders are probably the owners attempting the build themselves.
No, the owner paid, he actually took the shop to court and won
@@powellmachineinc Wow, unbelievable!
I can't wait for this video to get around back to the "builder" of this engine. Big oofs my guy!
Lol
Can you show how to bore out the cylinders? Thanks
We have some kids on that, and more to come
I've seen engines in better shape coming out of a scrap yard.
There's definitely a difference between rering and rebuild.
Yup
Do you think there is ever a time and place for a single ball? Maybe not ever when the words machine shop or rebuild are being used?
Maybe, but not for me
That ( mechanic) should go back to the key board and tell people what they are doing wrong.
Definitely
It would have failed prob on startup. No oil pressure, timing FKD lol.
Definitely
I just wish you weren't 4 hours away from me.
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You can have a cheap overhaul done and have to take to someone reputable and get it done again.
You might as well buy your heart medicine from the carnival parking lot. Thank you for the insight.
Very true!
👏👏👏 let's hear it for a junkyard builder! Complete garbage! Touching "everything" is the only way to build a reliable unit. They'll learn the hardway....oh yeah they'll learn. Good video.
Well said!
He done out-slopped the Sloppy Mechanics.
Lol
Save me 4 rods/pistons! I want to build a table.
mainbolts sounded lime they were dry
Dude expose all the idiots that you can
Planning on it
The previous engine work must have been done at Jeffs Machine Shop in Statesville NC. That is actually some of Ashleys better work. Im kidding but this is the type of work that jeffs does.
That's rough
@@powellmachineinc dingleberry hone, not decking blocks, not using torque plates, breaking bolts in blocks not taking out oil gallery plugs before cleaning blocks not balancing crankshafts etc is what they do best
Facebook rebuild for sure😂. If you’re gonna be dumb then you better be tough.
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I need a new cam kit
new bolts and rod bolts torque them up are they round
Could that engine have been in a boat and experienced water reversion?
It's never been in anything
Do you work on Ford 7.3L Powerstroke Engines? 1995 Models?
What ring gap would you recommend on a turboed 5.3
That motor would never have built ANY oil pressure. The owner needs to get his money back from the first builder.
He took the guy to court and won
That's great. That is the worst excuse for a rebuild I have ever seen. @@powellmachineinc
What did i miss. Why was it so rusty?
If you do not have enough money to fix it right the first time you surely are not going to have the money to fix it right the 2nd or 3rd time. I'm working on a Subaru with bent valves thanks to a botched water pump job. Almost 4k to get a 100k mile used engine installed. They used cheap Dayco timing belt kit and the tensioner fucked up
Facts
What a mess people that do that crappie should be ashamed of themselves
Absolutely
Show us your race car.
No money in race car's... we stopped that 25 year's ago
They must have dropped it out of a truck during transport and let it roll into the river 😂😂
Wow
Definitely
@powellmachineinc3179 I'll admit, I have done a couple of handfuls of what you called a rering over the years. I have never had a failure and boosted a couple of the ls ones I did. But, they were thoroughly cleaned and inspected. I'm a heavy truck and equipment mechanic. I like the heavy diesel because I can change the liners and machine the counterbores in the chassis. I have even bored and sleeved parent bore engines in the chassis. I did a 3126 cat in a motor coach last year under the bed in the back of the rig. Wrestling a van norman 900 in that hole was fun. And lastly, I have welded and reground a cam lobe on a wore out atlas lathe. Lol. It worked out great. I guess it's not how you do stuff sometimes, it's having the experience, knowledge, and nads to do it and make it last.🤣