This 1996 Chrysler Sebring died 9 years ago. The owner snapped off the crank sensor and it's been sitting ever since. Can we get it running and back on the road?
My wife had a car just like this back in 2004. Our oldest son was 16 at the time, and was learning to drive. Flipped it 4 times end over end. No injuries but that was the best thing that ever happened to that car.
Wes, your powers of deductive reasoning, coupled with your natural mechanical skill honed with that degree, and advanced ability to read schematic diagrams made better with practical experience from actual work, makes you one of the few people who might have any hope of bringing a dead turd like that back to life. And that is why I love your content.
You are completely correct about the lighter pistons, the reduction in mass doesn't give any more power by itself. Lighter pistons reduce peak forces on the conrod and crank, so could enable the engine to run safely at a higher RPM (valvetrain depending) which may enable more power to be extracted with other modifications. Lighter pistons tend to be modern short skirt low friction designs, so may give a little more power from reducing frictional losses.
There are a couple good videos (probably many more I haven’t seen) from Engine Masters and Salter Racing Engines. A lighter piston by itself will indeed decrease forces on the Rods and Crank, but as you mentioned the piston shape changes, which in turn makes the rods longer and the skirts shorter, which has other effects, such as timing & particularly ring seal. I think Wes has it nailed, it will have a similar effect on responsiveness to a lightweight flywheel but ultimately engine power won’t change considerably and similarly to exhaust you trade low end torque for high rpm hp. Ultimately the best design is going to be dictated by the type of use the engine will see.
Think of it as on a large engine under a load constantly like a ship, a lighter piston or flywheel would rev quicker, less mass to get moving but to slow the ship down it would take longer to slow the reciprocating mass down because of the stored energy. If its an engine under load doing work, maybe like a tractor trailer a heavier combination would be better, but for acceleration on a drag strip a lighter combination would be better.
The last time someone told me my car had a bad crank position sensor was the death of that car. I am still pissed about it to this day. I took a 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme from barely running and pissing coolant out of every gasket (typical 60 degree V6 of that era) to completely sealed and running perfectly at 16 years old. It took me months and I had no idea what I was doing, but managed to get through it. I was so proud of myself. The first day I had that car on the road I drove it EVERYWHERE. On my last trip away from home it died completely and I got stranded in town. Would crank and crank and crank but not even cough. A random guy came up to me, looked around and told me the same thing. I had a little hope so I took it home and spent every single day after school bent over inside of the engine bay trying to get that sensor out. For months I did this in the dead of winter in Indiana. No matter what I could not get it out. I even tried removing the oil pain to push it out from the bottom but it was impossible. I ended up being forced to sell that car and within a month ended up with another 3.1 car (Grand Prix) which I drove for the rest of high school, but the amount of devastation I felt after that day was absolutely unreal. Came from an extremely poor family and I had to go back to taking the bus to school. I will never know what was truly wrong with that car and I don't have the closure I deserve lmao. Sorry for the story, but man that shit still gets me to this day, 16 years later.
I have a similar story but nowhere near yours. Back in 2015 my dad was going to either sell his 90s something F150 or hand it down to me, he ended up selling it to a neighbors kid for $3000 and now its just rotting away in their backyard it was nice but im sure its junk now.
Sad story. I remember working in the winter until my hands were numb and painful. Go inside and warm up enough to go back outside. Now I will barely even work on a car unless its on the lift in my garage.
@@davidmcd8400 Yep. If you're trying to find the area beneath a curve for two points on the x axis (a and b), you would integrate y=f(x) between the limits of a & b. Also a 1984 grad and computer science & engineering major. I hated Calc II, lol. It was my kryptonite
You gotta imagine someone read the code, told him it was the cam sensor, and then he couldn't find that part listed bc it's part of the dizzy, and ended up convincing himself they must've meant/said crank sensor
My first car cost me $200.00 and I paid for it, not my Dad. I traded it in soon enough, but It worked long enough to get me back and forth to High School for 2 years. No one, including you, knows how well this man's daughter drives. That makes this the perfect car for her to start on. The riddance of the smell will help her build character and then decide whether she wants to walk, take a bus, or drive to class.
Not much to do with how she drives, it comes down to how much it will cost to firstly make the car safe (tyres and brakes etc) and secondly reasonably reliable (timing belt, new fuel pump and lines etc, by the time all the cost are added up it may work out cheaper to buy a better car, it's simple economics.
The number of fathers I've see buy good cars for their kids only for the kids (of both genders) to crash or kill said cars is alarmingly high. When your kids are new to driving just buy them an old pile of junk, so when they kill it (and they WILL - its part of the learning experience) it's not that much of a loss. It's enough of a lesson without taking a big financial hit as well. If they're just tootling around town at lower speeds they are just as safe in an old beater as they would be in something new. And when you're a student anything is better than walking. My first car was a piece of junk, and yes, I crashed it. Twice.
I remember The Car Wizard talking about how people delude themselves when they decide to get an old car running. They have a budget to get the engine started and the wheels turning. That's as far as they think it out. They're not expecting to get hit with the cost of bearings, brakes, lines, tires, etc. Before they can use the car in any meaningful way.
dont give a sht. your fuel cap shts, your car stops. your sensor shts, your car stops, the ecm shts your car stops. your air flow is wrong, your in limp mode.. i dont have these bs problems.. i had a bronco, 82, on lpg only, 12.1 comp, no cam, all std, 351 with 302 heads gives 12.1 comp. good for lpg. i had it for 24 yrs, never stopped, sold recently, no probs. do you keep a car for 24 yrs, with no issues, work, 4x4ing, . ???...guy in our registered with trainers 4x4 club, vehicle went into limp mode, 800k drive back to city..EXCELLENT..15k per hr.. yup..
I thought about all these when buying my first car and went with an economy hatchback. I had 2 home-loans back then, 4 years ago. Now in 4 years my econobox has 50k km on the ODO and has shown me half the country. Mind you I could have stretched my budget to double the amount but I decided to spend it on maintenance and fuel.
My truck was advanced for it's time. It is a 69 Ford 3/4 ton with an automatic fuel shutoff safety system. It was called a Manual Fuel Pump. Works great.
Love all your videos that involve solving problems (versus other channels where too much content is making shop tools and stuff). I have a weird soft spot for reviving (or attempting to repair) stock vehicles that otherwise would head to the scrap pile
My hats off to Mrs. Wes for moving that pile with the door closed as I would have left it open. Great skills used even getting it running Wes. As a quilter I really enjoyed seeing the costume and all the work that went into it.
I think you're spot on Wes. When I installed a light weight flywheel on my turbo volvo some of my friends said I was gonna lose so much torque by replacing the old 12-13Kg stock flywheel. I replied that that is plain wrong, as the flywheel does not produce torque, it just stores rotational energy inbetween pulses. Hence making the car harder to drive/easier to stall out during launch, but way quicker to accelerate. Other lightweight engine internals would only add to that effect in my opinion.
Had a compact car with a 2.0 four-banger, but the same engine was also used in a much larger model. I once needed a new engine and the junkyard had one out of that large model. Guess what - its flywheel was about two times the weight! Had my old one, so no poblem.
You're not wrong about the flywheel, but when it comes to the pistons, I disagree. There is an awful lot of energy expended by accelerating and decelerating a piston repeatedly. It is not recovered, it is wasted, because a piston is not rotating. Less piston mass = less waste. A flywheel does not CHANGE velocity at a constant RPM. A piston CHANGES velocity constantly, even at constant engine RPM. This is wasted energy.
@@ShanesGettingHandy Shane, intuitively, that sounds correct. I was pulling my face when Wes said the area under the curve on the upstroke is the same as the area on the downstroke, so all the energy is recovered. Mind you, I'm pushing 70 so what the hell do I remember from maths and physics ?
@@ShanesGettingHandy It is not wasted, it is almost entirely recovered, the piston does not decelerate against the floor (normally) but on the crankshaft, and then on the load. It is not a new topic of discussion at all, a long time ago at school, talking about using forged and lighter connecting rods and pistons (we had a classmate who was very into engines) our physics teacher argued that the gain could not simply be in the weight of the elements, he had no idea about engines but he knew a lot about physics (obviously) and he did the math on the blackboard of how much energy is needed to accelerate each piston twice per revolution to its maximum speed at half stroke. There was a lot of oversimplification, of course, considering only the mass of the piston (you have to do some ugly integrals to calculate the energy in the connecting rod, because of how it moves) and that only gives very crazy numbers, it was like 200 HP in an engine that gives you 150 HP or something like that. I don't remember how many RPMs he used for the example, but it was clear that if you didn't increase the RPMs, lightening the parts didn't provide much benefit other than reducing friction. I don't know much about engines either, but this discussion stuck in my mind and it makes a lot of sense.
that car in that condition is a guaranteed boy magnet. she will have no shortage of guys trying to impress her by fixing her ride. Dad ain't stupid, free repairs.
@@WatchWesWork boiler maker here.. lite flywheel, piston, rod. heavy crank. . heavy piston rod not good, its like having 40 kg on a rope spinning it around, if its only 2kg, its easy..the crank is the smallest rotator. the fly wheel also has a clutch on it, which lite ones are available or small twin, multi plates, small rotating mass. all pistons today are 2'' high, no skirt. rods are titanium. thing with more power, if you cant do a 3 sec 1/4 mile, why bother.. more torque = less revs.. long stroke under square.. as stated, boiler maker here, in aus. 66 yr old.. i have a s/duty, 4.2tdi, brazilian, mwm german tractor engine. it has 700nm . 230 hp. 14 lt 100.. bigger turbo, no computer..
@@WatchWesWork i'm a little older than you, and in my opinion that car wasn't worth touching when it rolled off the assembly line. Peak Chrysler crap. On further reflection, peak is difficult to call. Could be the 80s. Could be now. Just general Chrysler crap
Mad respect to you Sir, on so many levels. I wouldn't change a single thing about, how you put together your videos and the structured content.Your videos captivate me, where I always have to watch them all the way through to the end, every time.
my Pops tore apart a huskqvarna riding mower with a kohler engine. it sat for 2 years. I had a literal bucket of bolts to piece it back together. this vid brings back those good memories
Wes, when I raced go karts back in the early 60s a light flywheel made a huge difference in quick acceleration and allowed a fast spin up to high RPM. We even removed the magnets and ran them on constant loss batteries. Also taking 5 lbs off a VW 17.5 lb flywheel gave a similar result. In both cases engine modification enhanced the effect. Glad you were able to fire up the Chrysler!
Yep, replacing a cast iron 5HP flywheel with a 3HP aluminum or cast iron flywheel makes a HUGE difference, AND it is incredibly dangerous, which is why it was specifically outlawed by the legitimate sanctioning bodies
Just watched a YT on 60s hot rods, and a San Diego race team (Scheifer?) started making aluminum flywheels because the cast iron shatters - and people shaving them down made them even more dangerous - glad you didn’t have a flywheel let go on you!
@@tomkrause62 There were a lot of us doing the flywheel cuts and swaps from 58-62 and I never saw one shatter. The VW light flywheel has been available for more than 60 years and they don't blow. Now if you're running 5-800 horse power through a shaved flywheel you'd better have a scatter shield but that's leagues away from Go Carts and VWs!
I guess I forgot how much I liked hearing the commentary as Wes worked on one of these beasts. Did you notice the military mission planning demeanor once he had that car on the lift? On a more serious note… I have a 2007 6.6 Duramax with a FASS fuel filter lift pump assembly. As per the directions from FASS the pump is on when the key is turned to ON. The ONLY way to turn the pump off is by turning the key to OFF. After hearing Wes describe the danger of a fuel pump wired this way I need to make a change… but what could that be?
I had a Chrysler Alpine in the U.K. it was an utter lemon, hence I only kept it for about six months. During that half year, I spent hours trying to keep the pile of garbage simply running. A mismatch of Simca and Chrysler parts with an engine and running gear that seemed determined to fail it all too many times did so, usually when it was torrential rain or freezing cold. Congrats on the 300k, hope you soon double that. This is the best automotive and general engineering channel bar none. I speak from a position of knowledges as a retired engineer with over fifty years under my belt. Thanks Wes!
These gems were hitting 5-6 years old when I started wrenching professionally. SO. MANY. NEONS. and Sebrings. And Concordes. And Intrepids. Oh god. I have a visceral reaction to seeing these on the road - at least they’re few and far between nowadays.
Yeah I remember those 4 bangers blowing head gaskets all the time. The heads were always warped. You'd fix them and they'd last about 50,000 miles and blow again.
I haven't see a single one of those cars on the road in over... 5 years? Amazing how quickly an entire generation of a manufacturer's cars could all be gone that quickly.
Pretty sure you're right on your assessment at the end. Changing the mass alone won't increase power, but it allows you to do other things that will and increase responsiveness. Makes sense to me. Disclaimer: My degree is in software engineering, not mechanical.
I thought driving a clapped-out death trap to college was a given... After being on foot the first years I finally had wheels my last... a highly desirable 1978 Ford Fairmont wagon with untold miles, vinyl seats, crank windows, burnt column around the ignition switch, drooping headliner, no rear brakes. Barely ran... for another 200k miles (as a loving son I passed it on to my mom once I had a career).
That's definitely one of those vehicles where you do the world a favor and park it in the trees and slowly back away from it. You were definitely reading my mind Wes, WHY would anyone want to save one of those...
There's no primary cost to the car, if it runs and does not cost too much to get roadworthy, it's a spare car which when your own breaks down, which it will, allows you to go and get parts to fix it,or to drive until your mechanic can fix the primary one. Should you have ever tried to borrow your dearly beloveds car to do these things, you know you need a spare. ! Should you already have a spare, your wifes car will break down and she will demand yours, you'll be driving the spare and it will fail to start one morning when you have to get somewhere. one or more spare motors is good...
There are far better choices for first cars or spare cars. Even if this thing was free, it would be far more useful if it was recycled into something else.
It’s always a pleasure to watch you work Wes! You’re pretty much unflappable in all situations, and your engineering education and experience get you through even the toughest problems.
Can't comment on the light connecting rod light piston question, but I absolutely laughed until I cried regarding the troubleshooting of the quasi-Chrysler V6. Your running commentary about the likely recipient of this automotive abberation, and your lovely wife's pointed questions, made me howl! Looking forward to the sequel.
You literally just gave me *PTSD* from the thumbnail!! 😵 My sister had the exact car. It was a NIGHTMARE to work on. Man oh man. I don't even drink Wes, but I gotta get some whisky after this video ☠️ lol
Hey Wes I know the perfectly good explanation, it's called it costs 60 grand for a new one plus 10 percent interest. You wouldn't believe the older cars ive seen on the road in the last couple years
I just bought my friend’s 2006 JDM odyssey with 60k miles on it here in Japan, selling *my* 2006 JDM odyssey with 200k miles on it to the used car exporters - the swap cost me about 500 bucks. Now I just have to slowly start replacing every rubber line in the car - the Power Steering High Pressure hose let me know it’s the first on the list 😛
I had a buddy of mine who put an auxiliary fuel tank in the truck of his beater car, and ran a fuel line through the firewall into the engine bay. It worked good enough.
Yikes...30 yo Chrysler...sitting for 9 years...partially taken apart and DIYed? Needs to be just left in a field, not good enough to even go to a scrap yard! 😁 Thanks for the videos! 👍👍
@@MrShobar two things can be true at once: 1. it does because he actually went to school for something meaningful. Edit: the vast majority of people don’t. 2. He could have taken that 150ishk and invested it and had millions more dollars. He works with his hands, you can only do that full time for so long in many cases. I don’t think a degree you don’t mostly take advantage of that makes you millions of dollars more poor in your life is worth it.
I work with engineers every day. There's a lot of things many of them can do, however systematically troubleshooting problems is NOT one of those things. VERY few of them possess this ability, which I believe is at least partly genetic, and VERY hard to teach into an automatic skill.
My thoughts on the lighter piston and rods is just what you said. It's not a direct gain in HP or torque but it will rev faster which allows for quicker times to higher HP limits. Max RPM may not change without differant valve springs etc as needed.
Also agreed! Lower mass means it will rev quicker, but power is the same. Perhaps another way of looking at it - just lowering rotating mass does not increase the amount of air/fuel that can go through the engine. That's what makes power.
The lighter mass of the system changes the entropy of the system. However power is made from an explosion and if the parameters for that are unchaged, then the power output cannot be different. You are a master baiter for driving engagement in your comments. Well done Wes.
You love to do what most can't and it sets you apart from everyone else. Being Mr. individual makes you so happy your'e willing to take on the near imposable. Don't change for anyone I love your videos. Keep them coming!
Wes, fellow engineer, power is derived from RPM as you noted so Horsepower is just torque over time, everything else being equal, ignoring friction losses, forced induction, etc, the only way a lighter piston could produce more power is by running higher RPM, it really is that simple.
I always look forward to your uploads. I enjoy, chuckle and practice the same dry, sometimes unscrutable to the uninitiated, sense of humor that you always provide. Thank you.
Congrats on 300K subscribers Wes, now on to a Million! With a car of that "caliber" that someone wants fixed, it's for multiple reasons: 1. They enjoy pain and suffering, their own or others. 2. Some people are consistent at making terrible choices. 3. 25 yrs ago someone got lucky 'once' in that car, they're still holding on to that. 4. The kid is spoiled and this is a life lesson 5. Used car prices are still out of control Congrats, you read into a comment section about a Chrysler Sebring, now go off and do something amazing!
I know of pain and suffering of trying to keep my first very own cheap scooter running well. Took me 6 years to know it's cheap for a reason. Sold it and bought another costing double the money. Thankfully the new one is double the fun, and I have already put 8000KM on the ODO just riding it on weekends over the year.
So to comment on the lighter piston question, yes, a lighter piston/con rod will give you more power, but only because the engine can then achieve higher rpm. As you say, it will accelerate much faster an decelerate quicker, but will also be able to rev higher, thus making more power.
We cross shopped every convertible of this era. Volvo, Mercedes, Saab, Mitsubishi and others including the Sebring. Ended up with a three year old 2000 Toyota Solara that has been dead nuts reliable for 21 years. My wife finds it a little boring but a Toyota will bore you for 300,000 miles. We aren't even half way there yet.
Wes, great to see a repair job your approach to repairing difficult vehicles is very entertaining and educational. I changed the power steering pump on my Enclave over the weekend and dam near lost my mind and my knuckles fighting for space to maneuver.
I love your laugh when it started running. The fact that you couldn't quit without trying to get it running is so great. Getting White Knuckle Towing Co. to move it to the parking lot shows a good bit of sharing the work load too. Thanks, jack
@@jamesdearman814 Wes needs to change the format of this channel. Wes should do his thing but have Mrs Wes sitting in a comfy recliner providing additional commentary using her humor……👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I Helped diagnose/work on similar non/convertible Seebring....once. the challenge was that there were multiple places the engine had sensors for safety. One sensor not getting the signal, no run. Period. Would not allow the fuel pump to be turned on. We had spark,cwe had distributor movement, but the car refused to turn on fuel. Once we figured out the issue several hours into this adventure, it was a tiny sensor. It had gotten broken as I recall. Once the sensor had been replaced, distributor or cap reassembled, it too moments and the pastor's car was running once again. We began fairly early morning by memory and we left after dark roughly this time of year. I am happy you got it running, Wes! I figured you were correct or some other sensor was keeping the fuel pump off. Well done! Thank you for sharing. And if structurally stable, with Much cleanup, why nor run it? It is a running paid for car. Much beats a loan and payments.
I have a neighbor who has one of these but a little older year. He drags it to the mechanic once every could years then drags it back and covers it up. In five years I’ve yet to see it run.
My dad used to own an auto restoration business and had a couple cars like that. Every few months they would scrounge together some money to get some done. Then haul it home to avoid storage fees until they had more funds.
Had a similar save for the kids with a friends convertible Sebring. Found oil streaming out of the head gasket behind the rear cylinder head. It was bad, the hotter the engine the more oil oozed out. Told him I wanted to try something. Pulled the manifold, removed the rear valve cover, found 4 less than tight head bolts. Re-torqued all of them and it stopped leaking. Last I talked to him was a year later and the kids were still driving it.
Those Mitsubishi 6G series engines were great, simple and reliable workhorses. Just needed a timing kit ever 100k and valve cover and cam thrust plate and distributor o-rings changed to keep it leak free
Excellent job as always, Wes. I live in other side of pond to Illinois. We have salt on roads, snow, ice, frozen mud, minus 20C on occasion, etc... We had those burgundy Sebrings all around in late 90s, early 00s. All on that same colour. They disappeared really fast. You have whole lot more mice in Illinois than we have here. Mickey and his relatives like grain growing areas more than pine forests.
The tachometer is an easy fix. There is a 1 or 2 Watt resistor on the back of the circuit board for the cluster. It gets hot and Mopar mounted the resistor tight to the circuit board. Standing it off from the circuit board and correcting the cold solder joints fixes the problem.
Nice to see the delight a win gave you. I agree with your evaluation at the end: snappier but not more power. It’s exactly like reducing mass elsewhere in the rotating assembly.
I think you're spot on with that piston theory. It's kinda like how people think high octane fuel works; it doesn't simply make more power, but rather _allows_ for more power to be made with other appropriate changes. More octane allows more timing, lighter rotating mass allows higher RPM.
Higher octane means higher compression ratio, higher compression ratio - more power. If you put low octane fuel in engine with higher compression engine it will self combusting, like a diesel - knocking, in case of gas engine
@@oleksandrkomisarenko8118 _"Higher octane means higher compression ratio"_ It means you can _use_ a higher compression ratio before detonation becomes a problem. It doesn't magically give a higher CR.
That's why F1 engines had up to 12 cylinders with only 3.5ltr displacement. Lower oscillating mass allow for higher redlines, resulting in more power... At least that's my theory... 😊😇🥸
@@horstszibulski19 redline depends on a lot of factor, like: camshaft profile, valve inertia, piston weight, piston ring thickness etc. Dividing engine on more cylinders is a, kind of, one of the possible way to increase redline by decreasing the piston weights
External battery hookup running 2 electric fuel pumps under the hood just to see if it would run? That's the bank robbery scene from Dirty Harry: "...I gots to know!"
fantastic video i have been presented with years sitting cars and told if you can get it running you can have it. Idrove a brush painted 69 vw all thru college and fixed what broke as needed you could have stopped at the metal intake manifold and i would have been impressed. the return on investment alone on that 3/4 tank of 9 year old fuel should pay for a fuel pump! well done and have a superb week
My wife saw this video come up on our feed and said, "He should change his channel name to 'Why Wes, Why'," without missing a beat.
LoL 😂😆
My wife doesn't have any input! 😢
She's right ... thanks for a good laugh!
Absolutely. Wes wants pain. Why?
Watch wes worry and then after he gets it running watch wes win
LOL
This era of "Chrysler" and "reliable" should never been spoken, together or in the same sentence.
Or in the same state, 95 Plymouth Acclaim need I say more. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE in buying a vehicle, since I got my first car ever
Yea, there's no reason at all to try and fix that heap. The owner clearly makes very poor financial decisions.
Believe me, it's not just this era. I had a late 70s Chrysler product, bought new and that had not set for 9 years. Worst vehicle I ever owned.
@@BryanPhillips-tk1kmMercury made a car so bad they named it the Mercury Mystaqe, or maybe it was the Mystique.
Or anything after.
i love the fact that the sign above the door to your shop says "Go Away"
My late mother had a doormat that said that....
My wife had a car just like this back in 2004. Our oldest son was 16 at the time, and was learning to drive. Flipped it 4 times end over end. No injuries but that was the best thing that ever happened to that car.
Self destructed and kept occupant safe, I call that a win win!
Hot Damn! How fast was he going? glad he got out OK.
I guess he was learning to fly?
Michael Scott is going to be so excited to have his Sebring back!
It's Britney, bitch
Wes, your powers of deductive reasoning, coupled with your natural mechanical skill honed with that degree, and advanced ability to read schematic diagrams made better with practical experience from actual work, makes you one of the few people who might have any hope of bringing a dead turd like that back to life.
And that is why I love your content.
dead turd.....hahahahahahhahahaha
You are completely correct about the lighter pistons, the reduction in mass doesn't give any more power by itself. Lighter pistons reduce peak forces on the conrod and crank, so could enable the engine to run safely at a higher RPM (valvetrain depending) which may enable more power to be extracted with other modifications. Lighter pistons tend to be modern short skirt low friction designs, so may give a little more power from reducing frictional losses.
There are a couple good videos (probably many more I haven’t seen) from Engine Masters and Salter Racing Engines. A lighter piston by itself will indeed decrease forces on the Rods and Crank, but as you mentioned the piston shape changes, which in turn makes the rods longer and the skirts shorter, which has other effects, such as timing & particularly ring seal. I think Wes has it nailed, it will have a similar effect on responsiveness to a lightweight flywheel but ultimately engine power won’t change considerably and similarly to exhaust you trade low end torque for high rpm hp. Ultimately the best design is going to be dictated by the type of use the engine will see.
Thinking about "float" lighter may allow quicker response.
They allow faster rpm increase,decrease less strain on rods and cranks.
Having overall less weight generally would also give you better economy/more power -weight ratio
Think of it as on a large engine under a load constantly like a ship, a lighter piston or flywheel would rev quicker, less mass to get moving but to slow the ship down it would take longer to slow the reciprocating mass down because of the stored energy. If its an engine under load doing work, maybe like a tractor trailer a heavier combination would be better, but for acceleration on a drag strip a lighter combination would be better.
The last time someone told me my car had a bad crank position sensor was the death of that car. I am still pissed about it to this day. I took a 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme from barely running and pissing coolant out of every gasket (typical 60 degree V6 of that era) to completely sealed and running perfectly at 16 years old. It took me months and I had no idea what I was doing, but managed to get through it. I was so proud of myself.
The first day I had that car on the road I drove it EVERYWHERE. On my last trip away from home it died completely and I got stranded in town. Would crank and crank and crank but not even cough. A random guy came up to me, looked around and told me the same thing. I had a little hope so I took it home and spent every single day after school bent over inside of the engine bay trying to get that sensor out. For months I did this in the dead of winter in Indiana. No matter what I could not get it out. I even tried removing the oil pain to push it out from the bottom but it was impossible.
I ended up being forced to sell that car and within a month ended up with another 3.1 car (Grand Prix) which I drove for the rest of high school, but the amount of devastation I felt after that day was absolutely unreal. Came from an extremely poor family and I had to go back to taking the bus to school. I will never know what was truly wrong with that car and I don't have the closure I deserve lmao.
Sorry for the story, but man that shit still gets me to this day, 16 years later.
I have a similar story but nowhere near yours. Back in 2015 my dad was going to either sell his 90s something F150 or hand it down to me, he ended up selling it to a neighbors kid for $3000 and now its just rotting away in their backyard it was nice but im sure its junk now.
Sad story. I remember working in the winter until my hands were numb and painful. Go inside and warm up enough to go back outside. Now I will barely even work on a car unless its on the lift in my garage.
I have sympathy for you on this one Brother. Most of us probably have a story like as well as a story of the car that got away.
@@chrisjackson9102 oh man I have so many. I even sold my old Ranger recently and already regret it lol.
wait wait wait, you take failed DIY repairs? Well I think I have the perfect feeder program for you!
ROFL so I've seen recently
No one mention the big whiteish truck currently stuck at the Derby Market. But but if you had just gone a little further...
lol
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I also have a couple he can do when he gets board...lol
Look at Wes flexing that Calculus II muscle memory with the integrals reference. Great videos, by the way!
Was that limits as well ? Something about as f(x) approaches something or another ? 1984 grad with a math degree but it is all quite faded .
@@davidmcd8400 Yep. If you're trying to find the area beneath a curve for two points on the x axis (a and b), you would integrate y=f(x) between the limits of a & b. Also a 1984 grad and computer science & engineering major. I hated Calc II, lol. It was my kryptonite
You gotta imagine someone read the code, told him it was the cam sensor, and then he couldn't find that part listed bc it's part of the dizzy, and ended up convincing himself they must've meant/said crank sensor
My first car cost me $200.00 and I paid for it, not my Dad. I traded it in soon enough, but It worked long enough to get me back and forth to High School for 2 years.
No one, including you, knows how well this man's daughter drives. That makes this the perfect car for her to start on. The riddance of the smell will help her build character and then decide whether she wants to walk, take a bus, or drive to class.
Not much to do with how she drives, it comes down to how much it will cost to firstly make the car safe (tyres and brakes etc) and secondly reasonably reliable (timing belt, new fuel pump and lines etc, by the time all the cost are added up it may work out cheaper to buy a better car, it's simple economics.
The number of fathers I've see buy good cars for their kids only for the kids (of both genders) to crash or kill said cars is alarmingly high. When your kids are new to driving just buy them an old pile of junk, so when they kill it (and they WILL - its part of the learning experience) it's not that much of a loss. It's enough of a lesson without taking a big financial hit as well. If they're just tootling around town at lower speeds they are just as safe in an old beater as they would be in something new.
And when you're a student anything is better than walking. My first car was a piece of junk, and yes, I crashed it. Twice.
@@darylwalford8697 id just buy a old honda with like 500k miles on it! old hondas run forever!
“Chewed in two-ed”? Well done Wes for really making me laugh.
I remember The Car Wizard talking about how people delude themselves when they decide to get an old car running. They have a budget to get the engine started and the wheels turning. That's as far as they think it out. They're not expecting to get hit with the cost of bearings, brakes, lines, tires, etc. Before they can use the car in any meaningful way.
I think most are thinking fuel, spark, compression...mower. ez pz...
That's been my dumbass a couple of times 😂
dont give a sht. your fuel cap shts, your car stops. your sensor shts, your car stops, the ecm shts your car stops. your air flow is wrong, your in limp mode.. i dont have these bs problems.. i had a bronco, 82, on lpg only, 12.1 comp, no cam, all std, 351 with 302 heads gives 12.1 comp. good for lpg. i had it for 24 yrs, never stopped, sold recently, no probs. do you keep a car for 24 yrs, with no issues, work, 4x4ing, . ???...guy in our registered with trainers 4x4 club, vehicle went into limp mode, 800k drive back to city..EXCELLENT..15k per hr.. yup..
I thought about all these when buying my first car and went with an economy hatchback. I had 2 home-loans back then, 4 years ago. Now in 4 years my econobox has 50k km on the ODO and has shown me half the country. Mind you I could have stretched my budget to double the amount but I decided to spend it on maintenance and fuel.
I remember these being rental cars - especially converts.
Thanks for not leaving us hanging!
My parents rented one of these in Florida when I was about 5. The convertible was pretty cool, as a 5 year old from WI 😂
My truck was advanced for it's time. It is a 69 Ford 3/4 ton with an automatic fuel shutoff safety system. It was called a Manual Fuel Pump. Works great.
And cheap and easy to replace!!!
Love all your videos that involve solving problems (versus other channels where too much content is making shop tools and stuff). I have a weird soft spot for reviving (or attempting to repair) stock vehicles that otherwise would head to the scrap pile
It is satisfying when they fire up!
@@WatchWesWork Yup, enjoyed your satisfied laugh when it ran. A very enjoyable moment
@@WatchWesWorkinfectious, and entertaining. Pretty much like this entire episode!
You ever watch NNKH? He tries to bring second life to a lot of turds.
My hats off to Mrs. Wes for moving that pile with the door closed as I would have left it open.
Great skills used even getting it running Wes.
As a quilter I really enjoyed seeing the costume and all the work that went into it.
I think you're spot on Wes. When I installed a light weight flywheel on my turbo volvo some of my friends said I was gonna lose so much torque by replacing the old 12-13Kg stock flywheel. I replied that that is plain wrong, as the flywheel does not produce torque, it just stores rotational energy inbetween pulses. Hence making the car harder to drive/easier to stall out during launch, but way quicker to accelerate. Other lightweight engine internals would only add to that effect in my opinion.
Had a compact car with a 2.0 four-banger, but the same engine was also used in a much larger model. I once needed a new engine and the junkyard had one out of that large model. Guess what - its flywheel was about two times the weight! Had my old one, so no poblem.
You're not wrong about the flywheel, but when it comes to the pistons,
I disagree.
There is an awful lot of energy expended by accelerating and decelerating a piston repeatedly. It is not recovered, it is wasted, because a piston is not rotating. Less piston mass = less waste. A flywheel does not CHANGE velocity at a constant RPM. A piston CHANGES velocity constantly, even at constant engine RPM. This is wasted energy.
Verified numbers please. A lighter flywheel can work for or against you.
@@ShanesGettingHandy Shane, intuitively, that sounds correct. I was pulling my face when Wes said the area under the curve on the upstroke is the same as the area on the downstroke, so all the energy is recovered. Mind you, I'm pushing 70 so what the hell do I remember from maths and physics ?
@@ShanesGettingHandy It is not wasted, it is almost entirely recovered, the piston does not decelerate against the floor (normally) but on the crankshaft, and then on the load.
It is not a new topic of discussion at all, a long time ago at school, talking about using forged and lighter connecting rods and pistons (we had a classmate who was very into engines) our physics teacher argued that the gain could not simply be in the weight of the elements, he had no idea about engines but he knew a lot about physics (obviously) and he did the math on the blackboard of how much energy is needed to accelerate each piston twice per revolution to its maximum speed at half stroke.
There was a lot of oversimplification, of course, considering only the mass of the piston (you have to do some ugly integrals to calculate the energy in the connecting rod, because of how it moves) and that only gives very crazy numbers, it was like 200 HP in an engine that gives you 150 HP or something like that. I don't remember how many RPMs he used for the example, but it was clear that if you didn't increase the RPMs, lightening the parts didn't provide much benefit other than reducing friction. I don't know much about engines either, but this discussion stuck in my mind and it makes a lot of sense.
Car dies.
Random dude: “CPS is bad. $30 bucks can do yourself”
Owner breaks bolt trying to fix CPS. Parks car for NINE years.
Nine stinky years 😅
Priorities
...and was probably the fuel pump all along...
Ehhh fuel pump is usually what will die from sitting too long. It’s also easy to diagnose. Frankly on obd2 so is the bad crank sensor.
that car in that condition is a guaranteed boy magnet. she will have no shortage of guys trying to impress her by fixing her ride. Dad ain't stupid, free repairs.
It's just gonna be lame middle aged guys who remember when these were new, kinda like me...
@@WatchWesWork So you'd be able to get something on the side? Is she good looking?
Mopar mo'problems....she ain't worth it lmao
@@WatchWesWork boiler maker here.. lite flywheel, piston, rod. heavy crank. . heavy piston rod not good, its like having 40 kg on a rope spinning it around, if its only 2kg, its easy..the crank is the smallest rotator. the fly wheel also has a clutch on it, which lite ones are available or small twin, multi plates, small rotating mass. all pistons today are 2'' high, no skirt. rods are titanium. thing with more power, if you cant do a 3 sec 1/4 mile, why bother.. more torque = less revs.. long stroke under square.. as stated, boiler maker here, in aus. 66 yr old.. i have a s/duty, 4.2tdi, brazilian, mwm german tractor engine. it has 700nm . 230 hp. 14 lt 100.. bigger turbo, no computer..
@@WatchWesWork i'm a little older than you, and in my opinion that car wasn't worth touching when it rolled off the assembly line. Peak Chrysler crap. On further reflection, peak is difficult to call. Could be the 80s. Could be now. Just general Chrysler crap
Mad respect to you Sir, on so many levels. I wouldn't change a single thing about, how you put together your videos and the structured content.Your videos captivate me, where I always have to watch them all the way through to the end, every time.
my Pops tore apart a huskqvarna riding mower with a kohler engine. it sat for 2 years. I had a literal bucket of bolts to piece it back together. this vid brings back those good memories
When you want to drive a car with a sketchy fuel system You always want your wife to drive it first. Good job Wes.
Wes, when I raced go karts back in the early 60s a light flywheel made a huge difference in quick acceleration and allowed a fast spin up to high RPM. We even removed the magnets and ran them on constant loss batteries. Also taking 5 lbs off a VW 17.5 lb flywheel gave a similar result. In both cases engine modification enhanced the effect. Glad you were able to fire up the Chrysler!
Yep, replacing a cast iron 5HP flywheel with a 3HP aluminum or cast iron flywheel makes a HUGE difference, AND it is incredibly dangerous, which is why it was specifically outlawed by the legitimate sanctioning bodies
Just watched a YT on 60s hot rods, and a San Diego race team (Scheifer?) started making aluminum flywheels because the cast iron shatters - and people shaving them down made them even more dangerous - glad you didn’t have a flywheel let go on you!
@@tomkrause62 There were a lot of us doing the flywheel cuts and swaps from 58-62 and I never saw one shatter. The VW light flywheel has been available for more than 60 years and they don't blow. Now if you're running 5-800 horse power through a shaved flywheel you'd better have a scatter shield but that's leagues away from Go Carts and VWs!
Gosh, if it weren't a ragtop you could just mount a replacement gastank on the roof. Nice work.
I appreciate the lengths you’ll go to, to entertain your fans. All you had to say was mid-90s Chrysler and I knew this was going to be great.
You are such a genious. But the minute you got it running, I loved your evil scientist laugh. That was brilliant.
I guess I forgot how much I liked hearing the commentary as Wes worked on one of these beasts.
Did you notice the military mission planning demeanor once he had that car on the lift?
On a more serious note… I have a 2007 6.6 Duramax with a FASS fuel filter lift pump assembly.
As per the directions from FASS the pump is on when the key is turned to ON. The ONLY way to turn the pump off is by turning the key to OFF.
After hearing Wes describe the danger of a fuel pump wired this way I need to make a change… but what could that be?
I think the diesel would be a lot safer than gasoline in any case, so it's probably not something to lose too much sleep about.
Go find an inertia switch out of a Ford.
@tomkrause62 Cleet proabably has a pile of them he's stripped out of his fleet of Crown Vics...
I had a Chrysler Alpine in the U.K. it was an utter lemon, hence I only kept it for about six months. During that half year, I spent hours trying to keep the pile of garbage simply running. A mismatch of Simca and Chrysler parts with an engine and running gear that seemed determined to fail it all too many times did so, usually when it was torrential rain or freezing cold.
Congrats on the 300k, hope you soon double that. This is the best automotive and general engineering channel bar none. I speak from a position of knowledges as a retired engineer with over fifty years under my belt. Thanks Wes!
Hey Wes - a seam ripper is FANTASTIC for opening up wire harnesses.
Awesome little tools
These gems were hitting 5-6 years old when I started wrenching professionally. SO. MANY. NEONS. and Sebrings. And Concordes. And Intrepids. Oh god. I have a visceral reaction to seeing these on the road - at least they’re few and far between nowadays.
Yeah I remember those 4 bangers blowing head gaskets all the time. The heads were always warped. You'd fix them and they'd last about 50,000 miles and blow again.
I haven't see a single one of those cars on the road in over... 5 years? Amazing how quickly an entire generation of a manufacturer's cars could all be gone that quickly.
Pretty sure you're right on your assessment at the end. Changing the mass alone won't increase power, but it allows you to do other things that will and increase responsiveness. Makes sense to me. Disclaimer: My degree is in software engineering, not mechanical.
I thought driving a clapped-out death trap to college was a given... After being on foot the first years I finally had wheels my last... a highly desirable 1978 Ford Fairmont wagon with untold miles, vinyl seats, crank windows, burnt column around the ignition switch, drooping headliner, no rear brakes. Barely ran... for another 200k miles (as a loving son I passed it on to my mom once I had a career).
That's definitely one of those vehicles where you do the world a favor and park it in the trees and slowly back away from it. You were definitely reading my mind Wes, WHY would anyone want to save one of those...
There's no primary cost to the car, if it runs and does not cost too much to get roadworthy, it's a spare car which when your own breaks down, which it will, allows you to go and get parts to fix it,or to drive until your mechanic can fix the primary one. Should you have ever tried to borrow your dearly beloveds car to do these things, you know you need a spare. ! Should you already have a spare, your wifes car will break down and she will demand yours, you'll be driving the spare and it will fail to start one morning when you have to get somewhere. one or more spare motors is good...
If it runs and drives that’s all that matters.
Might be for a kid’s first car. Would make sense for that
There are far better choices for first cars or spare cars. Even if this thing was free, it would be far more useful if it was recycled into something else.
@@CrimeVid I always have 2 cars. That car will never be a good 2nd car without dumping wheelbarrows of money and time into it.
The end section talking about the question of the lightweight pistion was some of the most enjoyable content you've made, fan of 5 years!
Congrats on 300k subs!
It’s always a pleasure to watch you work Wes! You’re pretty much unflappable in all situations, and your engineering education and experience get you through even the toughest problems.
I was just thinking it was amazing that you still had the bolts to put this unit back together.😊
The fourth dry wall screw for the PCM was laying in the wiper cowl! 😊
Can't comment on the light connecting rod light piston question, but I absolutely laughed until I cried regarding the troubleshooting of the quasi-Chrysler V6. Your running commentary about the likely recipient of this automotive abberation, and your lovely wife's pointed questions, made me howl! Looking forward to the sequel.
The Red Panda costume is great.
You literally just gave me *PTSD* from the thumbnail!! 😵 My sister had the exact car. It was a NIGHTMARE to work on. Man oh man. I don't even drink Wes, but I gotta get some whisky after this video ☠️ lol
Hey Wes I know the perfectly good explanation, it's called it costs 60 grand for a new one plus 10 percent interest. You wouldn't believe the older cars ive seen on the road in the last couple years
True. Very true.
The only reason I can think of is to teach an entitled kid a lesson.
I just bought my friend’s 2006 JDM odyssey with 60k miles on it here in Japan, selling *my* 2006 JDM odyssey with 200k miles on it to the used car exporters - the swap cost me about 500 bucks. Now I just have to slowly start replacing every rubber line in the car - the Power Steering High Pressure hose let me know it’s the first on the list 😛
I had a buddy of mine who put an auxiliary fuel tank in the truck of his beater car, and ran a fuel line through the firewall into the engine bay. It worked good enough.
Yikes...30 yo Chrysler...sitting for 9 years...partially taken apart and DIYed? Needs to be just left in a field, not good enough to even go to a scrap yard! 😁 Thanks for the videos! 👍👍
Oh ,I don’t know, up here in upstate NY in running condition that car would be listed for $9000. A marketplace special.
Wes is the real Weller-man of the internet. Always pleasing to watch those wiring repairs 😊
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U got that right cuz they don’t recall or back up or stand behind anything they sell is an AS IS SALE to them!
Enjoyed the Wiley E Coyote smile at 26:14. This mad character is hatching evil science plot.
Spends a bunch of money on college, ends up fixing junk cars at his house :) That's sure sounds familiar lol
Ends up with an education. It shows. The difference is there are options in this world for him, so he does what he wants. And you?
@@MrShobar two things can be true at once:
1. it does because he actually went to school for something meaningful. Edit: the vast majority of people don’t.
2. He could have taken that 150ishk and invested it and had millions more dollars. He works with his hands, you can only do that full time for so long in many cases. I don’t think a degree you don’t mostly take advantage of that makes you millions of dollars more poor in your life is worth it.
@@MrShobar I'm not saying he wasted his time/money.
I work with engineers every day. There's a lot of things many of them can do, however systematically troubleshooting problems is NOT one of those things. VERY few of them possess this ability, which I believe is at least partly genetic, and VERY hard to teach into an automatic skill.
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Talk about a fool's errand. Just watching you work in there made me claustrophobic. Avid watcher for the past year, keep up the great work!
Thank you for your continued glimpses into your life. I love these videos!
Every mechanic out there laughs like a crazy person when an old engine starts. Love it.
My thoughts on the lighter piston and rods is just what you said. It's not a direct gain in HP or torque but it will rev faster which allows for quicker times to higher HP limits. Max RPM may not change without differant valve springs etc as needed.
Agreed.
Also agreed! Lower mass means it will rev quicker, but power is the same. Perhaps another way of looking at it - just lowering rotating mass does not increase the amount of air/fuel that can go through the engine. That's what makes power.
@@kd5byb good point.
Drag Racing engine Builders do it all the time.....more Rpm, more Hp....
Agreed. Honda has tested many motorcycle racing engines that make higher hp at higher rpm’s.
The lighter mass of the system changes the entropy of the system. However power is made from an explosion and if the parameters for that are unchaged, then the power output cannot be different.
You are a master baiter for driving engagement in your comments. Well done Wes.
Hey, Wes! You can read people's minds too?! That was EXACTLY what I was thinking... "Why?!"
Spooky isn't it. I was thinking the same.
FYI, the sound and picture quality are awesome. Interesting and informative as usual. Thanks.
Fixed the fuel system, hillbilly style,with the click clacker 500 fuel pump. Good job!😂
You love to do what most can't and it sets you apart from everyone else. Being Mr. individual makes you so happy your'e willing to take on the near imposable. Don't change for anyone I love your videos. Keep them coming!
@14:49 the forth wood screw for your PCM is there on the cowl.
Ha ha! Came here to say that!!
Wes, fellow engineer, power is derived from RPM as you noted so Horsepower is just torque over time, everything else being equal, ignoring friction losses, forced induction, etc, the only way a lighter piston could produce more power is by running higher RPM, it really is that simple.
Thanks for persevering with the investigation!
I always look forward to your uploads. I enjoy, chuckle and practice the same dry, sometimes unscrutable to the uninitiated, sense of humor that you always provide. Thank you.
Agree... snappy rotation...same power... good content and thanks...🔧🔧👍
I drove one of those as a rental in Florida back in 1996 or 97. I liked the Lebaron Convertible that I rented a couple of years earlier much better.
Congrats on 300K subscribers Wes, now on to a Million! With a car of that "caliber" that someone wants fixed, it's for multiple reasons:
1. They enjoy pain and suffering, their own or others.
2. Some people are consistent at making terrible choices.
3. 25 yrs ago someone got lucky 'once' in that car, they're still holding on to that.
4. The kid is spoiled and this is a life lesson
5. Used car prices are still out of control
Congrats, you read into a comment section about a Chrysler Sebring, now go off and do something amazing!
I know of pain and suffering of trying to keep my first very own cheap scooter running well. Took me 6 years to know it's cheap for a reason. Sold it and bought another costing double the money. Thankfully the new one is double the fun, and I have already put 8000KM on the ODO just riding it on weekends over the year.
So to comment on the lighter piston question, yes, a lighter piston/con rod will give you more power, but only because the engine can then achieve higher rpm. As you say, it will accelerate much faster an decelerate quicker, but will also be able to rev higher, thus making more power.
We cross shopped every convertible of this era. Volvo, Mercedes, Saab, Mitsubishi and others including the Sebring. Ended up with a three year old 2000 Toyota Solara that has been dead nuts reliable for 21 years. My wife finds it a little boring but a Toyota will bore you for 300,000 miles. We aren't even half way there yet.
Wes, great to see a repair job your approach to repairing difficult vehicles is very entertaining and educational. I changed the power steering pump on my Enclave over the weekend and dam near lost my mind and my knuckles fighting for space to maneuver.
Good job getting her running.
I love your laugh when it started running. The fact that you couldn't quit without trying to get it running is so great. Getting White Knuckle Towing Co. to move it to the parking lot shows a good bit of sharing the work load too.
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mrs. wes is a good sport.
Hey Wes, like how you threw Mrs. WWW under the bus, “I’m not going to drive that death trap, here honey you drive and I’ll film.”
She has a real sense of humor!
@@jamesdearman814 Wes needs to change the format of this channel. Wes should do his thing but have Mrs Wes sitting in a comfy recliner providing additional commentary using her humor……👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I Helped diagnose/work on similar non/convertible Seebring....once. the challenge was that there were multiple places the engine had sensors for safety. One sensor not getting the signal, no run. Period. Would not allow the fuel pump to be turned on. We had spark,cwe had distributor movement, but the car refused to turn on fuel. Once we figured out the issue several hours into this adventure, it was a tiny sensor. It had gotten broken as I recall. Once the sensor had been replaced, distributor or cap reassembled, it too moments and the pastor's car was running once again. We began fairly early morning by memory and we left after dark roughly this time of year. I am happy you got it running, Wes! I figured you were correct or some other sensor was keeping the fuel pump off. Well done! Thank you for sharing. And if structurally stable, with Much cleanup, why nor run it? It is a running paid for car. Much beats a loan and payments.
I love you're mechanic videos....I'm always learning something new from a pro.😮❤
Glad you're back doing what you do best.
I'm surprised you're surprised a Japanese engine sat for 9 years started straight up, they are after all the best engine builders in the world.
This is a DSM car. The worst possible mash-up of the worst American automaker and the worst Japanese automaker.
I absolutely loved this video. You almost always fix a problem. Always enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing 👌 😊
I have a neighbor who has one of these but a little older year. He drags it to the mechanic once every could years then drags it back and covers it up. In five years I’ve yet to see it run.
My dad used to own an auto restoration business and had a couple cars like that. Every few months they would scrounge together some money to get some done. Then haul it home to avoid storage fees until they had more funds.
With regards to your piston thing…I think you are spot on. Lighter is probably more snappy but not necessarily more power.
It would be interesting to see some Richard Holdener style dyno testing on this subject though
Would it get better milage?
David Freiberger would be proud with your use of a zip tie~
Wes, you truly are one of the great ENGINE WHISPERERS 💗
Loved the video, thanks again 🙏🏾
“My father wouldn’t do that “
Had a similar save for the kids with a friends convertible Sebring. Found oil streaming out of the head gasket behind the rear cylinder head. It was bad, the hotter the engine the more oil oozed out.
Told him I wanted to try something. Pulled the manifold, removed the rear valve cover, found 4 less than tight head bolts. Re-torqued all of them and it stopped leaking.
Last I talked to him was a year later and the kids were still driving it.
Those Mitsubishi 6G series engines were great, simple and reliable workhorses. Just needed a timing kit ever 100k and valve cover and cam thrust plate and distributor o-rings changed to keep it leak free
Yep. Mine's been going 27 years. And it leaks and needs a timing belt. I'm about to do the valve cover gaskets which are leaking bad.
Excellent job as always, Wes. I live in other side of pond to Illinois. We have salt on roads, snow, ice, frozen mud, minus 20C on occasion, etc... We had those burgundy Sebrings all around in late 90s, early 00s. All on that same colour. They disappeared really fast. You have whole lot more mice in Illinois than we have here. Mickey and his relatives like grain growing areas more than pine forests.
Cool red panda costume.
Though the panda seems a little vicious.
Thanks, Wes, your objectivity is priceless !!!
A happy Wes is a rare sight
That opener was hilarious. Thanks for the video Wes🐾🍺
it has gained value in those years
Love these videos. From an old guy from down under
The tachometer is an easy fix. There is a 1 or 2 Watt resistor on the back of the circuit board for the cluster. It gets hot and Mopar mounted the resistor tight to the circuit board. Standing it off from the circuit board and correcting the cold solder joints fixes the problem.
Nice to see the delight a win gave you. I agree with your evaluation at the end: snappier but not more power. It’s exactly like reducing mass elsewhere in the rotating assembly.
I just now caught this recent video I just want to say I love your videos they're great👍😃
This was probably your most unhinged video yet. It was great!
Chewed in twoed. Brilliant.
300K! Not a moment too soon. Great stuff, Wes! :D
I think you're spot on with that piston theory. It's kinda like how people think high octane fuel works; it doesn't simply make more power, but rather _allows_ for more power to be made with other appropriate changes. More octane allows more timing, lighter rotating mass allows higher RPM.
Higher octane means higher compression ratio, higher compression ratio - more power. If you put low octane fuel in engine with higher compression engine it will self combusting, like a diesel - knocking, in case of gas engine
@@oleksandrkomisarenko8118 _"Higher octane means higher compression ratio"_
It means you can _use_ a higher compression ratio before detonation becomes a problem. It doesn't magically give a higher CR.
@@ferrumignis Yeah, that's what I meant.
That's why F1 engines had up to 12 cylinders with only 3.5ltr displacement. Lower oscillating mass allow for higher redlines, resulting in more power...
At least that's my theory...
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@@horstszibulski19 redline depends on a lot of factor, like: camshaft profile, valve inertia, piston weight, piston ring thickness etc. Dividing engine on more cylinders is a, kind of, one of the possible way to increase redline by decreasing the piston weights
Wow, just wow! Your content always leaves me wanting more.
External battery hookup running 2 electric fuel pumps under the hood just to see if it would run? That's the bank robbery scene from Dirty Harry: "...I gots to know!"
fantastic video
i have been presented with years sitting cars and told if you can get it running you can have it. Idrove a brush painted 69 vw all thru college and fixed what broke as needed
you could have stopped at the metal intake manifold and i would have been impressed.
the return on investment alone on that 3/4 tank of 9 year old fuel should pay for a fuel pump! well done and have a superb week