Hey Scott 👋 I keep coming back to your channel as I have now ran into the same issues my lifters started ticking and the truck went into limp mode and I was able to make it home now the journey begins 😅 so far I've got the engine out tore down replacing the rod bearings, cam and lifters. I also went with a hellcat oil pump as the melling oil pumps were out of stock. I found a set of hardened pushrods for about 80 bucks the cylinder walls and pistons looked really good surprisingly. I'm upgrading the springs the valves look pretty good only damage was on the cam and lifters just glad I caught it early. Cheers my friend glad you got the old girl running again
After scratching the head on the dowels during removal, and the subsequent machine shop work, I made my life a lot easier on reassembly. Since the head bolts are torque to yield, and shouldn't be re-used, I cut the tops off and then gave them a dull point. Threaded them just barely into the dowel holes, and slipped the cylinder head over them. Made it very easy to do, and not have to worry about the head slipping/falling while trying to install the head bolts. They are a little tricky to get out as they don't stick out much past the head surface (Which is why you only screw them on a little bit) but even so, it makes the job a lot easier.
Great job Dave, You are like me, in that you hate to pay someone else to do a job that you know or atleast think you can probably do yourself. I really enjoyed this little series of videos and was rooting for you the whole time. That was a lot of work and you made it look easy. Time for a celebratory pint, you worked hard for it. Congratulations
A right of passage for us Canadians. I remember changing a starter at -20 C in the snow in the parking lot of my apartment because I had to go to work the next morning, and doing a great friend a favor by pulling a transmission out of a parts truck outside in the middle of winter, I then installed in into another truck but that was in a warm garage. Thanks for your videos I appreciate them!
Thats the face of happy men who got a hell f the job done right ! Thanx for that video and tons of good info , soon a get my hands on my hemi in my jeep grand cherokee , take care brother
Thank you for the vid, enough aggravation just doing the job not to mention filming it. I'm doing the same thing, same truck, your vid is greatly appreciated...
Bloody awesome, well done Dave. A big effort but well worth it, congratulations on a job done well. We can all start breathing again now, I am sure I am not the only one who was anxiously waiting for this video. Just bloody awesome.
You are indeed a lucky man, and now you can start a business going to people's houses and taking care of doing such things to their broken Dodge trucks. Just think how much fun you had doing yours, you could enjoy it again and again. I hope you have no other troubles and you get that Chevy on the road, but I am thinking the windows in the doors may be a bit more important now and maybe the heater and defroster.
It's RUNNING! You saved some cash and learned some things. Good for you! I'm so glad it worked out. Shoulder to the grindstone, nose to the wheel. did you ever try to work in that position? tomorrow Pal
Had to build the oil back up into the lifters, sounds amazing buddy, I just wanna say congratulations on a very difficult situation that you were forced into, great job Dave 🤙🏻👊🏼👍✌️🤘🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 it’s time for a celebration drink 😁😎
I have watched many videos to prep for my passenger side head gasket replacement on ram . This guy was most helpful and entertaining indeed . Great video . I miss Ontario . Cheers from Newfoundland.
Nice job Dave well done.but Dave the one thing I would do is get another oil filter now and change it again just case of any crap that might of been in the oil galleries after all that
Thanks Jim. The clutch fan is necessary for heavy duty applications, like towing or off-roading, or very hot days. I don't see any of that in my future, lol. If I manage to save enough cash for the hot rod safety test, I'll re-install it, so I can tow it.
@@ScottRodskeep a close eye on the temperature gauge. The belt driven fan is your main air mover. The electric fan is just to ad more cooling when using the air conditioning, under heavy load or driving in hot weather where the belt driven fan needs some assistance.
Thank you for recording your journey. Its been very informative and detailed compared to other videos I watched. I have the top end disassembled right now on my 2012 Ram to change out lifters with new Cam. Still shaking my head having to do this work due to one bad lifter. everything else looked fine. Deleting that MDS crap while I'm at it. Reassemble next weekend or so.
I used the stock oil pump when I rebuilt it the first time. Now 280,000 km later I'm doing it again. I noticed every single one of the MDS lifters had a bit of play in it, whereas the non-mds lifters are like new. Just started putting my engine back together. The oil pan is a real bitch to get out. 🙄
You did a great job my good man, it shows that you don’t have to do this everyday to be able to accomplish a job as big as this. I alway tell people it’s not hard just time consuming. Hats off to you. 👍🏻
Well done,you did something I would have done and not paid a garage an exorbitant amount of money for the same outcome 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😎😎😎😎😎😎john
Dave, you are awesome!! Getting ready to start a similar project on my 2012 Outdoorsman and your videos are giving me some great insight into the fun I'm about to have. Thank you for being so detailed and I'll probably be referencing each video again before and during.lol.
Hell yeah good job man! I actually did my first cam and lifter swap and it ended up all good started it like 30 mins ago and thank god it’s all good! Just need to put back the harmonic bouncer.
Congratulations on your accomplishment. See Dave, self confidence pays off! You’ve got your wheels back, learned something, saved a wad of money & now you can go get your frost bitten backside warmed up! Great job! I hate the cold too as I live 30 minutes SSW of Cleveland.
Well done Dave you did a fantastic job on your first engine rebuild on the timing side. So you know what to do next time it happens! lol With reseating all the valves, the engine should perform a little better. Great job again Dave.
Great job! I've found in my own work that something that looks impossible at first can be accomplished by taking it one step at a time, deal with the first thing, then the next, and so on. Do each step right, and the job is done and you have a great result in the end. All the best to you and your wife from Linda and me.
Great work, Dave!!! Very, very happy for you! BTW, pigtails are readily available for a lot of components. Click on the Electrical-Connector tab for your vehicle on Rock Auto to get a part number.
I’m happy that you have it fixed. It was a little stressful just watching. Hopefully it’s good for many more kilometres. You should take a couple days off now, and maybe go for a nice drive.
I'd give you more than one thumbs up if I could. Quite a daunting challenge. Well done. Now to get Bugsy inspected so you can go for a rip on the first nice day in the spring
Great to see this video. You put in a lot of hard work, and it looked like it was very cold there as well. No fun freezing, and trying to work and think, at the same time. Very happy that she's running! Great series of videos! Thank you!
Great video! Loved seeing your expression after finding out that it started running smooth. I've been there the first time I rebuilt mine. Hopefully it will be like that again after doing it for the second time. Hopefully by Friday. 😬 You did a great job, especially out in the driveway! I'm in Ontario as well and I can only get the front of the truck in my garage. 😆🙄
Congratulations! Glad to hear you got your Hemi running again, I know just how you feel. I rebuilt the engine on my Ford truck this past Spring and starting it for the 1st time was a real nail-biter for me too, but it eventually started, runs like new with no leaks. I've put a few thousand miles on it since and it's perfect.
@@ScottRods mine did the exact same thing after a rebuild.i was really thinkin i did something wrong.it worked out fine.just took to long to pump up the lifters.
0:06 OH BOO HOO! Try wrenching under 65cm of snow! ALBERTA! 8:46 because you hate yourself and your money? 31:26 say what? btw perseverance and precision of this project pays off forever
Love the series. I've been watching recently because I have a coolant leak behind the timing chain cover and looking to tackle the fix myself. Is your Ram 2 or 4wd? I really want to drop my oil pan and can only find videos on 4wds. I'm just not sure if there is less work since there isnt a front differential. Anyway...great series and love the videos and the humor.
I'm pretty sure dropping the oil pan is easy with a RWD. If you go check out @solargarage he is working on a RWD race Ram, so will be able to answer that question.
Congrats Dave. Having a 2012 Ram I expect to be doing the same soon. Job Well Done. PS... have you totaled up the costs compared to having a dealer or garage do it?
Hey Dave Excellent work. Sounds great. Smooth. HA HA So the fan just stayed on until you straightened out the wire ?? You bleed out the air within the cooling system. You got good heat ?? Excellent video
You are the man. Now go get yourself an adult beverage. You deserve it.
Hey Scott 👋 I keep coming back to your channel as I have now ran into the same issues my lifters started ticking and the truck went into limp mode and I was able to make it home now the journey begins 😅 so far I've got the engine out tore down replacing the rod bearings, cam and lifters. I also went with a hellcat oil pump as the melling oil pumps were out of stock. I found a set of hardened pushrods for about 80 bucks the cylinder walls and pistons looked really good surprisingly. I'm upgrading the springs the valves look pretty good only damage was on the cam and lifters just glad I caught it early. Cheers my friend glad you got the old girl running again
After scratching the head on the dowels during removal, and the subsequent machine shop work, I made my life a lot easier on reassembly. Since the head bolts are torque to yield, and shouldn't be re-used, I cut the tops off and then gave them a dull point. Threaded them just barely into the dowel holes, and slipped the cylinder head over them. Made it very easy to do, and not have to worry about the head slipping/falling while trying to install the head bolts. They are a little tricky to get out as they don't stick out much past the head surface (Which is why you only screw them on a little bit) but even so, it makes the job a lot easier.
Great job Dave, You are like me, in that you hate to pay someone else to do a job that you know or atleast think you can probably do yourself. I really enjoyed this little series of videos and was rooting for you the whole time. That was a lot of work and you made it look easy. Time for a celebratory pint, you worked hard for it. Congratulations
A right of passage for us Canadians. I remember changing a starter at -20 C in the snow in the parking lot of my apartment because I had to go to work the next morning, and doing a great friend a favor by pulling a transmission out of a parts truck outside in the middle of winter, I then installed in into another truck but that was in a warm garage. Thanks for your videos I appreciate them!
My sons focus likes to kill ignition coils every winter. Last year it was on that minus 27 day. CAA never came so had to that on the side of the road.
What a journey! You have every reason to be proud of yourself for what you did here. No reason your truck won't give you many more years of service.
Thats the face of happy men who got a hell f the job done right ! Thanx for that video and tons of good info , soon a get my hands on my hemi in my jeep grand cherokee , take care brother
Great job -Francois from Ottawa
Congratulations, I've been waiting for this moment since you started in on it. I hate to see bad things happen to good people.
Way to go Dave! Been rooting for you, you went from having a 500 lump, back to having a 10k plus truck.
Worth around 20k now. Oh how the market has changed.
sounds like rod knock or lifter tick.. could be also exhaust manifold studs broken. don’t think it’s worth much lol
Thank you for the vid, enough aggravation just doing the job not to mention filming it. I'm doing the same thing, same truck, your vid is greatly appreciated...
Yeah, the video added two weeks to the job, lol, but if it helps others then I'll take that hit.
Great job Dave we all knew you could do it, you should be proud of your self, you saved a crap load of money.
Bloody awesome, well done Dave. A big effort but well worth it, congratulations on a job done well. We can all start breathing again now, I am sure I am not the only one who was anxiously waiting for this video. Just bloody awesome.
Nice job, I was in the edge of my seat.
You did a great job, really happy for you! It's got to feel great getting that done!
I am so proud of you Dave! I knew you could do it!
You are indeed a lucky man, and now you can start a business going to people's houses and taking care of doing such things to their broken Dodge trucks. Just think how much fun you had doing yours, you could enjoy it again and again. I hope you have no other troubles and you get that Chevy on the road, but I am thinking the windows in the doors may be a bit more important now and maybe the heater and defroster.
Yes, I can't wait for all the calls to come flooding in......he said sarcastically.
Wow, that job is hard enough done in a warm garage with the engine on a stand, this is next - level . Props to you for all the effort and info.
Thank you. So far it's all still good.
Awesome! I’m so happy for you. Looking forward to seeing Buggsie back in the picture.
It's RUNNING! You saved some cash and learned some things. Good for you! I'm so glad it worked out. Shoulder to the grindstone, nose to the wheel. did you ever try to work in that position? tomorrow Pal
Scott thanks for creating these vids, they motivated me to start my 6.4L modifications,
We just got done with one same truck motor. Sounds good 👍thank you for the great video
Just got home from the shop and watched your video and I was very happy to see your truck running very well .....👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Excellent job! 👍👍. You really lucked out on the weather. Now back to your favourite job... Bugsy's doors.
Well YOU know how to bring someone back to earth, lol
Way to go Dave, good to hear it run.
Congratulations, this is a fairly easy job on a engine stand but it’s intimidating and a pain in the butt when it’s in a cab forward style truck.
That was the hardest part. But in other news, Cirque du sloleil are looking for a new contortionist act.
Great work Dave, would be a huge relief it starting and running nice with no issues 👍
We rejoice with you ! Praise be unto God ! All will get better and better.
Had to build the oil back up into the lifters, sounds amazing buddy, I just wanna say congratulations on a very difficult situation that you were forced into, great job Dave 🤙🏻👊🏼👍✌️🤘🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 it’s time for a celebration drink 😁😎
good job , i have the same thing to start on this weekend
I have watched many videos to prep for my passenger side head gasket replacement on ram . This guy was most helpful and entertaining indeed . Great video . I miss Ontario . Cheers from Newfoundland.
Nice job Dave well done.but Dave the one thing I would do is get another oil filter now and change it again just case of any crap that might of been in the oil galleries after all that
Yeah, I'm going to grab more of that oil while it's on sale, and another filter.
@@ScottRods good idea
Great job Dave. Don't run the truck around without the fan and shroud. The last thing you want is to run the risk of overheating the engine.
Thanks Jim. The clutch fan is necessary for heavy duty applications, like towing or off-roading, or very hot days. I don't see any of that in my future, lol. If I manage to save enough cash for the hot rod safety test, I'll re-install it, so I can tow it.
@@ScottRodskeep a close eye on the temperature gauge. The belt driven fan is your main air mover. The electric fan is just to ad more cooling when using the air conditioning, under heavy load or driving in hot weather where the belt driven fan needs some assistance.
@@jimsullivan2729 Thanks Jim.
Thank you for recording your journey. Its been very informative and detailed compared to other videos I watched. I have the top end disassembled right now on my 2012 Ram to change out lifters with new Cam. Still shaking my head having to do this work due to one bad lifter. everything else looked fine. Deleting that MDS crap while I'm at it. Reassemble next weekend or so.
I wish I had deleted the MSD, but was so overwhelmed I just wanted it running again.
I deleted mine and putting a hellcat oil pump in that engine. More volume and higher oil pressure might be a better thing for these engines. 🤔
Yeah, I'm thinking I should have installed the Hellcat oil pump as well. Truck is running good so far.
I used the stock oil pump when I rebuilt it the first time. Now 280,000 km later I'm doing it again. I noticed every single one of the MDS lifters had a bit of play in it, whereas the non-mds lifters are like new. Just started putting my engine back together. The oil pan is a real bitch to get out. 🙄
You did a great job my good man, it shows that you don’t have to do this everyday to be able to accomplish a job as big as this. I alway tell people it’s not hard just time consuming. Hats off to you. 👍🏻
Thanks bud. I'm still amazed it worked out, and is still running great, lol.
Good job.
Great to hear running nice job and you had doubts lol
Huge respect for getting the job done!!
Well done Dave! Take a bow.
Excellent job now back to the fun stuff 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I Love the editing. The voice-over the march made me laugh, and I was listening from another room. Cheers.
Congrats!
Good job Dave, I knew you could do it. Look at all the money you saved! Now on to more fun.
Well done,you did something I would have done and not paid a garage an exorbitant amount of money for the same outcome 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😎😎😎😎😎😎john
Great job Dave
Well done Dave!
Dave, you are awesome!! Getting ready to start a similar project on my 2012 Outdoorsman and your videos are giving me some great insight into the fun I'm about to have. Thank you for being so detailed and I'll probably be referencing each video again before and during.lol.
Thanks DJ. If you have any questions I'll do my best to remember where everything goes.
@Scott Rods thanks brother. Keep your fingers crossed for me and God give me your patience and humor throughout the whole ordeal.
well done fella
Good job 👏 I did mine before on a 1999 dodge ram 1500 gasket change you did everything right! Again good job!! And to do it in your front driveway!
Thanks Dropper.
Congratulations! It's an amazing feeling, isn't it? :)
You should be well pleased.
Great job mate!! I watched the whole thing and I’m impressed. You tackled the job like a pro!!
Great job you should be proud that was a lot of work!
thats awesome Dave i new you would do it never under estimate your ability to persevere
Hell yeah good job man! I actually did my first cam and lifter swap and it ended up all good started it like 30 mins ago and thank god it’s all good! Just need to put back the harmonic bouncer.
Congratulations on your accomplishment. See Dave, self confidence pays off! You’ve got your wheels back, learned something, saved a wad of money & now you can go get your frost bitten backside warmed up! Great job! I hate the cold too as I live 30 minutes SSW of Cleveland.
Thanks Clay. I think I just need warmer clothes, lol. It's going to get much colder very soon.
Congratulations.....
Well done Dave you did a fantastic job on your first engine rebuild on the timing side. So you know what to do next time it happens! lol With reseating all the valves, the engine should perform a little better. Great job again Dave.
Great job! I've found in my own work that something that looks impossible at first can be accomplished by taking it one step at a time, deal with the first thing, then the next, and so on. Do each step right, and the job is done and you have a great result in the end. All the best to you and your wife from Linda and me.
Great work, Dave!!! Very, very happy for you! BTW, pigtails are readily available for a lot of components. Click on the Electrical-Connector tab for your vehicle on Rock Auto to get a part number.
Thanks Rob. I'll do that when I can bundle more stuff and save on postage.
Good job. Nice work Hemi man Im going to start watching your video's. Kenny from Texas.
Great job! I knew you could do it!
Thanks for sharing!
Great work Dave !
Congrats! ...on a job well done! ...more drama than watching a James Bond.movie.
Oh, and I love the fact you take your coffee breaks, I'd never finish any job without mine! lol.
Way to go! That was a lot of work!
I’m happy that you have it fixed. It was a little stressful just watching. Hopefully it’s good for many more kilometres. You should take a couple days off now, and maybe go for a nice drive.
Good job
I'd give you more than one thumbs up if I could. Quite a daunting challenge. Well done. Now to get Bugsy inspected so you can go for a rip on the first nice day in the spring
Thanks Brian. Are you missing a body part?
No,all intact but youtube will only allow 1 thumb up. Haha!
@@brianhaw9398 Good to hear. I was expecting a gruesome story related to power tools.
Great to see this video. You put in a lot of hard work, and it looked like it was very cold there as well. No fun freezing, and trying to work and think, at the same time. Very happy that she's running! Great series of videos! Thank you!
Thanks Kent.
Good job, Happy for ya.
Sir, What were the symptoms on the truck to do this job?
30:14 !
That made my day 👊
Cheers! 🍺
After a rebuild are you able to floor it
I took it easy for a while, then changed the oil and filter. Working perfect now.
Nice!
IT LIVES!
Great series. Loved it.
See just a bunch of nuts and bolts good job!!!
Yeah, simple. Lol.
Oil sump to oil pump I missed how you hooked it back up?
How did you get the noise to stop
sounds good ,Job well done
Great job Dave. Very well done in a chilly time of year.
Congrats 👍👍 Great job
Great video! Loved seeing your expression after finding out that it started running smooth. I've been there the first time I rebuilt mine. Hopefully it will be like that again after doing it for the second time. Hopefully by Friday. 😬
You did a great job, especially out in the driveway! I'm in Ontario as well and I can only get the front of the truck in my garage. 😆🙄
Good luck my friend.
Woooohoooo!! Congrats Dave, all your hard work paid off and it must feel fantastic. Maybe Bugsy can still be on the road by snowfall? ;)
I knew you could handle it. After you get the air out of the cooling system the heater should work.
Yes. Toasty review tomorrow.
What milage do you have on engine, ?
Congratulations! Glad to hear you got your Hemi running again, I know just how you feel. I rebuilt the engine on my Ford truck this past Spring and starting it for the 1st time was a real nail-biter for me too, but it eventually started, runs like new with no leaks. I've put a few thousand miles on it since and it's perfect.
I was expecting the smoke, but the noise sounded like the big ends had gone. I was gutted for a wee while.
@@ScottRods mine did the exact same thing after a rebuild.i was really thinkin i did something wrong.it worked out fine.just took to long to pump up the lifters.
Awesome!!!
Congrats I know it’s been done awhile ago but I just found the tutorial
Awesome job!!
a friend of mine had a coolant issue it wasn’t filled with the gadget suction tool to properly fill it up past the thermostat!!!!!
Thanks Henry. It's sorted now. Video tomorrow
Did the engine have to be rotated over to TDC to reinstall the valve push rods and rocker arm assemblies?
No. Only need TDC when fitting the belt.
You mean chain , right?
Great job Brat..! Go have a BEER....!
how is the oil pressure ?
A little high, but I'm going to check the sensor plug tomorrow.
@@ScottRods High is good , new pump and all
0:06 OH BOO HOO! Try wrenching under 65cm of snow! ALBERTA!
8:46 because you hate yourself and your money?
31:26 say what?
btw perseverance and precision of this project pays off forever
hahaha, don't worry, it will be bad here soon enough. At least I have a truck to get around in again.
How much was engine rebuild?
Love the series. I've been watching recently because I have a coolant leak behind the timing chain cover and looking to tackle the fix myself. Is your Ram 2 or 4wd? I really want to drop my oil pan and can only find videos on 4wds. I'm just not sure if there is less work since there isnt a front differential. Anyway...great series and love the videos and the humor.
I'm pretty sure dropping the oil pan is easy with a RWD. If you go check out @solargarage he is working on a RWD race Ram, so will be able to answer that question.
Congrats Dave. Having a 2012 Ram I expect to be doing the same soon. Job Well Done. PS... have you
totaled up the costs compared to having a dealer or garage do it?
Thanks Steve. Yes, cost breakdown on tomorrows video.
Hey Dave Excellent work. Sounds great. Smooth. HA HA So the fan just stayed on until you straightened out the wire ?? You bleed out the air within the cooling system. You got good heat ?? Excellent video
What was the total cost of the rebuild
Hey Dave. Parts were $710, plus some tools at $280. Full cost breakdown at the end of this video : ruclips.net/video/H1FKKBjO8Ts/видео.html
Dave! the Sean Connery of auto mechanics! well you look like him if he was one, anyway.