Customer Rebuilt Engine & Now It Won't Start
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this video I have a look at a customers Ford Escape that has recently had the engine rebuilt. The down side is after the job was finished the vehicle would not start!! Well, let's see what it needs to make it run. Remember, don't forget the basics. -Enjoy!
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Helping a buddy "fix" an off idle stumble on his dad"s car ( we were 16). Had the top off the carb and hit the throttle. When we were done "fixing it" we started it and right away we could hear the accelerator pump checkball bouncing between the top of the piston and the head. His dad talked us through the r+r of a cylinder head on a 57 Ford 292. Found the ball, put it back together and it ran fine. His dad never mentioned it again. Nice guy.
Eric ...you don't get off that easy .... give us the follow up drama !
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I had a bad distributor AFTER the first start on a swap. It ran then it stopped. It had spark, just weak spark, and i had 2 other bad distributors of the same type. I finally modified to try a different year distributor. Then it finally started and I made final adjustments, ran great for a year and a half til the distributor went again, but it ran... so I was checking other things for awhile. At least the newer disty was repairable and cheaper.
Matco spark tester way better touch it to wire or coil an crank look for spark
WHAT WAS IT?
SPARK PLUG?>]
My first over haul was a 1966 Buick skylark. The car would studder, go blam blam pop pop. After three days pulling my hair out I called a moble mechanic and he came out to look it over. Did a double take when he saw me. Asked how old I was, told him I was thirteen and this was my first car. He thought my Dad helped me and nope he didn't, did it with a Chilton Manual in one hand and a wrench in the other. He looked over the engine and found out the timing was a 180 deg off. Reset and the car started and ran great. He didn't charge me and handed me a card and said if my parents said it was OK I can learn from him on weekends and Summer as long as I keep my grades up. Spent several weekend and Summer's riding and working with him. Learned a lot about gas and diesel car's and trucks. He was a great guy. Passed away a year after high school graduation.
Thats a lovely memory
There are not many people like that anymore. You were very lucky to have someone like him. Sorry to hear he passed.
@@kevinritchie9227 your right. This country need more men like him. That guy encouraged and sparked the inner me to learn and to have the courage to try new things, not just in the auto/truck industry but others things in life. If you could take just one boy or girl (I have daughter's) and just give them the time of day a word of encouragement or teach them i feel we can help build a better country. But sadly to say in this highly toxic environment created against men now days would you take the chance and liability to even try? If you do be very careful. Look at the crap that went down for the Scotus nomination. And please everyone go and Vote...
@@TheWaterman1000 What's sad is that today that certainly wouldn't happen..parents would not leave you alone with any older man let alone hangout and go places.
Thanks for sharing!
If that's all the DIYer forgot, he deserves a beer
Imagine rebuilding an Engine from scratch.
Hundreds of Parts assembled in the correct Order and Way, just to miss a few tiny Contactsprings on one of the very last Parts.
This is so dump it's hard to believe.
I would pass it off as an honesty check, to save myself the embarrassment.
No he's a fucking moron
@@brettfrancis1527 No you are. I'm sure you couldn't build nothing but a big angry mouth. Stop being a negative person, the man deserves a lot of credit for re=building his own engine, not many could!
He deserves a case, lol. Why the coil pack didn't come pre-assembled is beyond me. Never purchased coils that weren't ready to go.
@@snoopunit watch as it was a bad batch that snuck through.
Just saw the rest. At least it was a simple mistake.
Mrs. O tooting your horn was hilarious, thanks for not editing that out 😁
Haha I can send her to your shop Homie!
I have found that sneaking up behind someone and blasting them with the compressed air blow nozzle works pretty good for payback. It would even be better if it was videoed.
South Main Auto Repair send her over, let’s see what she can do with the Cheeta Bead Sealer 💨
My dad always said that is why mechanics are bald. From hitting head when the horn gets honked. Kudos to Eric, He took it in stride. I would have flipped out for a few seconds.... Got to a point that I would disconnect horn if my younger sisters were helping me.
That was awesome! I jumped as well.
Those fun little moments like at 6:00 are gold.
I did not expect to see you here. Small UA-cam, eh? LOL
@@dashcamandy2242 Garage/workshop videos seem to be mostly what I watch.
This and seeing electronics that are very close to blowing up in a stiff breeze.
Suprised to see you here! I like seeing that one of my favorite UA-camrs has similar taste in content. I like your electrical videos and I was raised by a mechanic and have taken to mechanical work myself now. In my spare time I like to mess around with little electric gadgets,amp/tv repair and little diy projects.not to mention it helps with the automobiles to have electronic knowledge.
I swear you're subbed to all of my subs. Glad to see you around.
That poor guy! My dumbest mistake like this was doing a fuel pump on an 89 ramcharger. The massive 36 gallon gas tank was completely full and I to siphon as much as I could, remove the skid plate, rip my hand apart disconnecting lines before I could drop the tank. Major pain in the ass job getting that damn tank out. Upon re-installing the tank I realized there was a fuel pump access hatch in the floor....
I have a beautiful 89 ramcharger as well!
As a young mechanic, I double threaded an oil filter on my '91 MR2 2.2L. Couldn't figure out why it was knocking. Blew up... Found out later. Now, I triple check that my filters spin on freely all the way to the lip.
A mechanic told me tank had to be talken down to replace the fuel pump, appently he didn't know there is an access hatch under the seat in the 98 pathfinder, pretty convinient.
@@TheKnightDrag0n I own a 94 pathfinder and yeah it's pretty lovely not to drop the tank. But honestly it's pretty easy tho. Like 10 bolts and 30 mins.
Live and learn
The horn honk was freaking perfect. Well done.
Exactly I would like a live replay 🤣🤣
Hopefully you didn't charge him for that lol
It is refreshing to see someone who is honest and displays integrity. I wish I lived closer to your shop as you would be my go to mechanic.
Didn't tighten the high speed tire balancer... wheel came off tire hit the floor running out the shop so did I chasing it across the dealer parking lot till it hit a parked car. Looked real professional in my mechanic uniform. New Olympic event.
LMAO that sucks , i have had a few tires come loose on tire balance machine but i was able to catch it before it was spinning to fast. what i do now is we keep a hammer on the balance machine and once i think i tighten it down i wack it with a hammer a couple of times to "snug" it up.
I literally laughed out loud
This is a bit long. I was working as a tech in a Cadilliac dealer and had a complaint that a/c did not cool with radio on. Went on a road test and sure enough if you turned on the radio the a/c stopped cooling. fan still worked but warm air.
Back in the stall, I had key on engine off and when I turned off the radio I heard the A/C chitch engage. Wow! After following all the wiring, I pulled the Wiring harness from the plug that went into the vehicle. Looking inside the male plug, I saw one of the spades missed it's mark into the plug and the spade bent to the side shorting against the neighbor spade. The bent one was compressor coil wire and the other one it was touching was "antenna down" so it only sent power to the a/c when calling the antenna to go down.
This was a "brand new" car built from the factory with this error.
Thought you would enjoy this.
It would have really freaked you out if you put a cd in and the AC turns on.
This is actual trouble shooting. Unlike Chris fix it
About 25 or 30 years ago, I bought a brand-new, steel gray Mercury Grand Marquis with air suspension. It rode a little low, and wasn’t that smooth a ride, but no tickets due to its appearance. I asked the dealer to check it out. When I went to pick it up, he told me the factory had forgotten to install the compressor, air hoses and air bags, and nobody had noticed. They put the air suspension in. How could the factory and dealership not notice? How did I not notice when I was test driving it? Why did I get rid of a car that no one ever got a ticket in?
@Ron Rhoades newer caddys have them underneath the back seat, under the hood, 2 under the dash and one in the trunk depending on the model. Same with the battery its either under hood. Under back seat, or hidden in the trunk on pass side behind a carpet panel.
@Ron Rhoades ALL CAPS !!!! WTF!!!!!!!!
I spent four months on my first engine build. I did everything myself. I spent time polishing everything inside and out, I cleaned and painted every bolt, I hand made gaskets and adapter plates, I meticulously lubed and aligned, I tested each and every part and all systems from oil to fuel to coolant, I simulated temperature to be absolutely positive the fans would come on (electric fans were new back then), I checked and rechecked the timing to be sure it was perfect. I tried to start it and got nothing. I somehow didn't have any spark. I checked the coil and the plugs and every wire individually, I pulled the cap and checked it for cracks. Still no spark. I went over it all day and all night before I realized that I was an idiot. I got mad and slammed the hood..... And there it was...... The rotor was sitting on the windshield wiper. That's the stupidest I've ever felt in my life.
Sorry. I had to laugh. But be grateful. If that is the "dumbest" thing you do in your life, you are doing well. I am now a retired mechanic in Land Down Under and still help people in need. Wish what you did was the "dumbest" thing in my life. If the Good Lord leaves me alive on this Earth past my current 70 years, I am sure I will have more tales to tell others when I missed something staring me in the face.
We've all made that mistake. I've done it more than once!
Sometimes the obvious things get overlooked b/c you’re so focused on the meticulous things. Happens to many.
Wat rotor?!?
$1 to hit it with a hammer. $299 to know where to hit it.
I tell people that all the time. I don't charge you to turn a wrench, any idiot can do that, I charge you because I know which wrench to turn.
That's great! Never heard it.
@@S8_10 That one's great also!
Yea the percussive maintenance charge
Actually did that with a buddies car, 6o's something Chevelle, wouldnt turn over so I crawled under and hit the starter with a hammer and it cranked
We had a car towed to our shop years ago that had a no crank no dash lights issue. The customer replaced the battery himself and it still didn't start. When it arrived at our shop we discovered that the customer forgot to remove the plastic caps that cover the positive and negative poles on the battery and installed the battery cables right over them. He was very embarrassed to say the least. Really enjoy your videos Eric!
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I just saw one of these on Utube a few days ago
I've seen that more than once.
That is actually pretty funny.
That's incredible. I feel bad for people that stupid.
In this episode, Eric O closes the gap (literally!) between customer and his vehicle.
and puts the spark back in another vehicle and sends another customer on his way WITH a spring in his step (and his plug wire boot).
You are an honest man. Cranked on a 1957 Dodge 318 , no start. Towed it for two miles and no start. Opened the distributor to find no rotor. We all have our lapses.
Bro I'm a mechanic myself... I work for myself as well... I was trying to acquire the repair contract for fleet vehicles for a local Transport company... They sent me a vehicle to fix for them it had the same thing missing...the coil springs... They were testing my honesty... When I called them and let them know it was less than a $50 fix I got the contract LOL... Honesty pays
Wow
Great story, and great lesson displaying their wisdom in testing your honesty.
Sometimes a new set of eyes make all the difference. The guy probably just got caught up looking for something more difficult and just overlooked it.
So true!
Heck, sometimes someone inexperienced can be a godsend! People with experience may tend to look for a more difficult answer while the rookie may just go "... is it supposed to look like that?"
He took the springs out and it wouldn't start so he rebuilt the motor.
lolol
My buddy works at a shop that just replaced an engine over a cracked distributor cap. Lol, whoops!
@@1936Glen can a weak distributor cap be visible using an oscilloscope? I saw spark and such but it was still bad lol, no cracks in my case but it was dirty but was still working ok. I wish I did a capture of a weak spark going through the coil wires to compare with a good one.
Maybe? Lol. Using an oscilloscope for such things is above my pay grade!
@@scientist100 look at engine run at night you will sparks moving on outside of cap
Mrs. O gets an award! We learn many things by making mistakes. No harm no fowl. Thanks for the great videos.
Confession is good for the soul, so: After replacing the blown turbo on my CDTi Astra, I'd almost finished reassembling everything so it was time to fill the radiator. I decided to just pour the coolant straight into the top radiator hose and I'd poured about 3 litres into it before I looked down and noticed this wasn't the top radiator hose, it was the air intake. I'd filled the intake, manifold and two cylinders with coolant. After I'd finished panicking I managed to recover by cranking the engine with the injectors removed (which emptied pressurized coolant all over my garage). I still can't believe it actually made it back to life after that. It wouldn't be so bad if I was a beginner, but I've spent my share of time under cars and I'll never forgive myself for this one.
James Skipworth :Holy shit ! That’s awesomely bad.
@@frazerguest2864 Yep it was definitely the dumbest thing I've done to a car that didn't involve setting it on fire.
James Skipworth sorry but I laughed so hard reading this!!! Thx, I needed that. Certainly did my share of blonde moments
Hello Eric .
Brings back memories of customer towed in a no start after battery install , found black protective plastic cap still on negative terminal with cable installed over cap .
Then the overheat after customer install radiator , to find rubber cap still on radiator inlet neck ..
Then my mistake . Replace timing belt on a Mitsubishi Montero, only to notice i installed old belt instead of new one ####***.
KEEP up the faith Eric ,
MOD # 5
Sean Jones You sir, have turned a wrench. Only people that work on cars can share that type of pain. lol.
I've seen that a ton of times, stapled or plastic tag fasteners, I always look and automatically trim the hose end down, they're usually a bit oversize anyway
Ha! That reminds me of the time decades ago i had an intermittent "no crank" on my '72 Vega. I got a rebuilt starter, pulled the old one out and laid it next to the rebuilt. I got distracted and forgot which one was the rebuilt, as the old one wasn't dirty in the least. I basically did an eeeny, meenie, minee, mo, and installed one of them. Luckily i picked the right one, as i never had a problem again. (Why a Vega? I needed a car and bought this for $200 as a non-runner. Had to have steel sleeves installed, as the bores were hopelessly scored, as the previous owner ran it without water and didn't tell me. This ended up being the worst car i ever owned).
I've done that with the terminals aswell lol
Sean Jones - I soon turn 61 yrs old, and lately ive been catching myself hooking up battery chargers wrong!😡...i bring the box over, put my hand on the red positive battery terminal and say to myself: "red-positive", then, before i plug in the charger i do a final check, and the dad-blame black clip is on the positive battery terminal!😠. Good thing i do a final check before plugging in! I maybe did this ONCE in several decades of shade tree mechanics since i was 17... I hope this is not "the shape of things to come" LOL.
Sticking to the “trouble shooting tree” is just beautiful. Shows how first verifying basics can lead to a quick fix.
Hats off to the owner to be able to walk away when the frustration set in and something really bad happened. And I understand Mr. O's desire to have the owner there for the moment of pride on the engine's first start. But business is business.
At 16, I did a garage bench overhaul on a 289 small block engine out of a 68 mustang. I had basic tools and a lot of motivation. Using a chain hoist slung over the center beam in my dad's one car garage, I was able to lift it out of the car and onto the floor. After having the heads milled, i installed new valves, rings, bearings, seals, and gaskets. I rebuilt the carb, then reinstalled the engine. I tightened everything up, put in all new fluids. I was feeling great. I had also painted the motor, so it looked spanking new. I bought a used dual point distributor from a swap meet and dropped it in as the finishing touch.
The good news is it fired right up, but the bad news was it ran like crap, sputtering, backfiring, and having very little power under acceleration. I thought I must have jacked up the timing, maybe rebuilt the carb incorrectly, installed the cam wrong, etc. I tried different spark plugs, new coil, wires, etc. Then my sister's boyfriend came over, took a look, then listened to it run, then said, "did you install new points." What...points, what are those? Sure enough, he taught me how to install and gap new points and you know what, the engine came alive. It drove so well I was amazed it was all due to $7 in parts. I learned that buying used parts is sometimes a gamble and you really need knowledge. Experience comes from doing stuff and in those younger days, I wasn't afraid to tackle anything.
Unless it was a HP 289 I'm not sure dual points were worth the time. Most 289s had only a 2 barrel carb in 68
I rebuilt the 289 in my 68 mustang when I was around 16 years old and couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t start. Drove me crazy. Figured out It had no spark. Changed the coil still nothing. During the disassembly we had removed the rotor out of the distributor to see if everything was clean inside and forgot to put the rotor back. Chased it for a couple hours over the duration of two days before spotting the little rotor sitting in the corner of one of the parts boxes
The only way most of us learn, and remember it, is to make those mistakes.
Your honestly and humbleness will bring you even more business than you have now. Stay blessed.
My dad just did a tune up on the family car and now no start. Frustrated he went inside for a cup of coffee. I looked over the engine and noticed the negative wire on the ignition coil was disconnected. Reconnected the wire by that time my dad came back out and I told him to start it up. Started up and ran fine. Told my dad what it was and he just called me a smartass. I told him this smartass just saved your bacon.
In the early to mid 2000's i used to drive a 93 GMC Safari aka Chevy Astro van. I was out in the backyard during a hot summers day changing spark plugs, and there was this one on the drivers side in an odd spot that kept breaking on me. I was sweaty, ornery, and annoyed. When i got the plug back in i of course had to start up the engine. Well i started the engine, but i forgot the floor jack was under the van when i attempted to drive off. The saddle of the floor jack ripped a fist sized hole in the oil pan. When i saw oil was pouring out below i immediately turned the key off. Before i had it towed to a garage i disconnected the battery just so some greenhorn did not attempt to start the engine with no oil in the pan. That 2 dollar spark plug ended up to be a 350 dollar brainfart!
I had a 1983 Camaro with an automatic transmission. Wanted to learn how to drive stick, got all the parts from a junkyard and successfully converted the car to a 5 speed. A few months later, doing an oil change, I spent 45 mins looking for the transmission dipstick to check the fluid. Couldn't find it.. jacked the car back up, looking underneath to see where the dipstick enters the transmission to finally realize.. there's not even a transmission pan anymore.. doh!!!
They still have oil in them though.
My first full engine rebuild, Vauxhall Astra 1200s. Forgot the oil filter.. 1st crank spewed oil into the blower intake and then the cars interior. Dashboard out to clear up the mess (and stink), you live and learn :D
Did some work on a v8 engine one day. Finished putting it together and noticed a 14mm socket missing. Decided it must have been left in the valley under the manifold.
Stripped down and not there. Turned out it was in another draw in my tool box by mistake. Waste of an afternoon that one.
You can never be too safe.
Hey, that's why in aircraft building establishments they shut the place down if a tool or documented part is not accounted. Production continues only when tool/part is found.
@@davidgwin4540 Yeah we do, and then when we don't find it we order new ones XD. Then we find it 2 years later in a special tool kit, or in a engine preservation container...
We got some idiots working here from time to time.
Oh and once we found a tool in a helicopter fuel tank, that was after we shut down the maintenance. But mostly if we don't find the tool... it's somewhere not in the airplane...
Sapphire1987 Man, I bet you have some crazy stories to tell! I was going by some of the stories my buddy told me building F18's back in the day ( what he was able to tell me anyway) Iv always had a fascination and respect for what you guys do! I was an engine assembler at a machine shop but always loved aircraft and everything about them👍
Wow!! That's unbelievable!! That was just too easy!! I'd have to agree, the customer did a heck of a job for a DIYer!
I agree with you, if that little oversight is all that he missed... Wow
All except leaving out a couple of pretty vital parts that would make the major overhauled engine actually do something other than turn over LOL.
@@wildbill23c probably over excited or ready to be done with the job. I've been there! Lol Those springs easily can fall out when the COP is pulled.
Like I tell my customers, it usually turns out to be something simple and stupid. Once the plugs were sorted though, engine sounded great.
All well that ends well.
I installed calipers upside down and was stumped as to why I had a spongy pedal after bleeding. Oops. Thanks for being such a humble mechanic. And not grilling the kid for a simple mistake. 👍🏻
Well, I haven't got a car mechanical goof to share with you because I don't "do" much on cars, but, during my national service, I did send out two 10t trucks and six personnel to pick up what was listed as two anti-aircraft guns for HQ. They came back with two small cardboard boxes containing a scale model of an anti-aircraft gun. Never quite lived that one down.
Good story.
The devil is in the detail. Great story!
@@ckeller07 Indeed. I couldn't find the catalog number on the request sheet in the documentation I had. That should have set off alarm bells, but I knew what the real thing looked like and how it was packed up, so I just forged ahead.
That is certainly funny.
Funniest thing I found a customer replaced his fuel pump In tank and said it still won’t go ,got there no fuel to rail but I could hear the pump he left the dust cap over fuel inlet and pushed hose straight over it 😆
OMG the horn.. so evil ...
I LOVED IT!!!
I Lol'd
Newby garage prank.
There is a local mechanic here does a weekend radio show. To check out the honesty of potential sponsors he would drive to their shops with a vacuum hose purposely upplugged and tell the mechanic that the car was running bad. It was easy to see who the honest mechanics were in town, all they had to do was plug in the hose. Those that quoted him x amount of $ to install this or that part he stayed away from. To their credit some mechanics easily heard the vacuum leak, plugged in the hose and did not charge him, sent him on his way. He went after those for sponsors.
Loved it when Mrs. O honked the horn!
My story: first nice day of spring, time to pull out all the summer toys and get started on yardwork. First step, pull the spark plugs from the riding mower, push mower, and string trimmer, and go to the hardware store for new plugs & fresh oil. Changed the oil in the rider, installed the new plug, did the mowing. Changed the oil in the push mower, installed the new plug, did the push mowing. String trimmer is 2-cycle so didn't need the oil changed.
Now, this trimmer was very predictable. With a cold engine, full choke, four pulls and it would sneeze, half choke and one pull and it would start. Every. Single. Time. I must have pulled the rope 30+ times, and it wouldn't even begin to try to think about starting.
My lovely wife called across the yard, ever so sweetly, "Did you put the new spark plug in it?"
As I flipped it over to prove it, I positively BELLOWED back at her, "OF COURSE I PUT THE DAMN.... no."
you didn't feel how there was zero compression on the pullstart?
not sure but maybe it has a compression release so no comp til it spins fast enough? could be absolutely dead wrong
It was a while ago; it's a valid question, but I don't know. Maybe compression release, maybe I just wasn't paying attention, maybe I noticed but didn't grasp the significance. I don't have that unit anymore or else I'd go try it with and without the plug right now.
Silly as this sounds. Maybe I’m watching too intently as I think my heart skipped a beat when Mrs. O beeped the horn. Too funny and the whole interaction after made my day! Love the channel and content.
Tim Simmons RIP headphone wearers.
This is a lesson on always starting out with checking the basics BEFORE you start getting complicated. Is it getting spark? Fuel? Air? A lot of guys would assume it's GOTTA be something more complicated since "no one can be THAT silly" and start by playing around with the timing belt.
After fixing a heater pump motor that was seized due to rust and age (I oiled it up and replaced the brushes), I was dismayed to find it would not shut off when installed on the car. After an hour of tracing circuits, looking for a stuck relay, etc. I got in the car and realized the heat was simply turned on. I hadn't noticed because it wasn't working before!
I'll give you silly. When I first started working at NAPA I didn't know anything about cars, *anything* and I totally fell for the muffler bearing prank. I went from the computer to the book too, the book! Finally I called my manager over to ask him and I could immediately see it in his eyes. I think someone pressed a little too hard on my soft spot when I was a baby.
Not many honest mechanics around. Wish there were more like you. Thank you for what you do. Have a blessed day
Eric I'm still wondering. I truly think he just made a honest mistake. Once again you know why I've been watching you since day one. Your the best you tube repair channel ever. I do like Ford Makuloco also.
brian and eric are great..anytime i have problem with my f150 brian is my first stop...both have saved me big money..
@@workingshlub8861 absolutely
2003 Vauxhall Omega V6, (Caddy Cantera in USA, Holden Commodore in Aus).
Using an adapter, swapped the crappy paper element with plastic housing oil filter for a spin-on canister. No problems with that job itself, but 5000 miles later when I went to do an oil change, I’d not checked the pressure rating of the oil filter, got the wrong one, fitted it, topped up the oil, cranked it over and blew the oil filter clean off, complete with most of the contents of the sump over my driveway. Luckily no damage to the engine, but the wife wasn’t happy about the large oil slick over our red bricked driveway.
I think we've all reassembled something and had an extra part leftover.
Extra parts are a key indicator that you may have not completed the job.
I built a gas turbine from all the parts supply by our production stores and had seven parts left over. Spend the next week tracking down those parts to see where they went on the engine, after all I managed the build of material during the engine design. Someone just left the parts on the parts cart from another type engine build. Scared the hell out me that I wouldn’t know where these parts went on the engine.
Gerrick Slogar LOL
happened to me with an airplane rudder. I had one extra little screw, the supervisor excoriated me lol
That just means you did it better than the manufacturer lmao
Hey Eric, new within the last few months. Totally enjoy all of your posts. Even though this was an old post it reminded me of putting a low mile wrecking yard 350 small block engine in a Chevy pickup years ago for a friend, I like you felt I was duped. After first startup it had a major miss, after an hour or so I found that it had a 6 cylinder distributor cap on it. Looked the same as a V-8 only after pulling the plug wires off two of the posts were dummies. Nobody ever fessed up, I caulked it up to an honest mistake. Although now retired I’ve had the honor of knowing some top notch master mechanics, and you sir I would rate in that same company. Keep up your great sense of humor and professionalism.
I am betting that the horn toot gave your elbow the exact same sensation as a spark lift would have-I almost felt it myself!
As for obvious mistakes or items overlooked,early in my rustbelt mechanic apprenticeship I put a longblock in my own car 1 evening after work that required a new oil pan(original was rusted out).I got a china chrome sbc pan that took over an hour to get fitted(china craftsmanship circa 1988) and had my cousin and neighbor help drop it in my 80 camaro 4 speed car.
Once engine was seated in place in the engine bay my cousin asked what was in the box on the bench-turns out it was the new oil pump-doh!
time to start again
I got one of those cheapie oil pans that was so thin, I ended up banging the dent out of the old one and reinstalling it.
Replaced my fuel pump on my Silverado, put all back together. Turned over but no start...oh man maybe it wasn't the pump...1 hour later..oh yeah! Maybe I should reattach the ground wire by the tank. Fired right up. Simple things can get you at times.
Eric,
You are just amazing! How you found the issue with 30 seconds of opening the hood is almost uncanny.
SMA#1
God bless
Paul
Did an engine swap years ago in an old truck, putting in a larger engine (the old one quit oiling the valve train), and in the process managed to cross the two wires going to the ignition system. Miserably hard to start, and once we got it started you couldn't shut it off with the key. Had to use old school spark plug boot pliers that were plastic to remove leads from ignition system to shut it down. What made this funny? The fact that I had very clearly written on tape 1&2 for the wires and still managed to cross them. My dad reminded me of it for weeks!
when i was about 17 we had an old 84 ford ranger. sounded like a diesel because of how bad the motor had gotten. so we got a crate motor. several rolls of masking tape and a couple black marksalot pens. all i had was a book to do the engine swap with....managed to do the engine swap by myself with just the book for a guide....at the point in time i had no idea how to work on cars or even how an internal combustion engine worked. got it all together and even managed to get it running but it was rough....the only thing i didnt get right was the distributor was off by one notch. we couldnt figure it out so we took it to the shop and the guy was surprised as hell that anyone with no knowledge at all could even get the motor out much less a new one in and running.
bout a year later i started school for automotive tech at the local college. then almost through with my degree i was looking round for a job to get started at. gave up when every place had a tech or 10. even the lube N latte had an ASE master tech changing the oil. figured at that point that career wasnt gonna go very far. but the knowledge has been immensely useful for personal use and some shadetree work for friends that cant afford to go get water pumps and such changed. i admit i would have liked working on cars for a living but...well life happens :)
thanks for the content i really enjoy listening to you work and it is nice to diagnose along side and keep my skills somewhat de-rusted :p
I had a 66 dodge polara and my bud had some mags that would fit it ,so we changed first wheel no problem,went to put on the second ,first nut seized got a pipe yep snapped it off ,same with the next two . “Man they over tighten these lugs “my buddy said so we decided to go to the parts store to get some new ones. “I need 5 wheel studs for a 66 dodge polara “.
“What side do you need”
“Huh”
“You know that they’re left hand thread on the passengers side “
“Huh”
Bought five went back to the car the last two bolts no problem lol
Had a 69 Fury 111, did the same! 😂
If you had that car today...
When I was 15 I changed the brakes on my dads jeep wrangler a bit before Christmas and on Christmas it was snowing and we had went to my aunt's and was heading back home and I was driving because I had my permit with my mom in the front and dad in the back and all of a sudden it almost felt like I went in a pot hole with the front driver side then we see the wheel roll past us.... I had tightened up the lugs way too tight and all of them snapped. Luckily the snow cushioned everything and didnt hurt the rotors and my uncle had a friend that owned a towing company that came to get us on christmas night
Did the same thing on my 66 Polara. No mention of it in the owners manual either. Great car though.
@Allan Sneddon several manufacturers did that, especially with heavy trucks. The thinking of the day was the wheel turning under acceleration and braking could loosen the lug nuts. Back in the day, you had to learn to read the stud to see if it was LH or RH thread.
OMG! Mrs. O and the horn I laughed hard! Enjoy the channel and your relationship with the Mrs. the fact that your a great mechanic is just a bonus. You seemed very jumpy about the Mrs. cranking that key, kind of like she may have done it a few times on you? LOL!
Yeah. My wife never chats or hangs out when I'm wrenching.
Hi Eric from the UK newish to your channel going back through some of your old stuff as I'm enjoying what you do. At 57 now and short of money as a youngster learned alot about cars and the worst thing I did was put a new clutch in a mk5 Ford Cortina and forgot to put the thrust bearing in found it in the box after I had put everything back together . NOT A HAPPY BUNNY 😁
Changed the timing chain on my mother's ecotec 2.2 and dropped a bolt into the oil pan. Fished it out luckily with a magnet. Stuffed a rag in the hole then finished the timing chain job and after cleaning all the tools and stuff up I only found 3 red rags and me and my buddy swore there was 4 red rags. Tore the whole thing back down and there was no 4th rag to begin with. Lol I just had to check lol
Decades ago I installed a new exhaust on my car and after the first ride I grabbed the tailpipe to see if it was tight. I knew it was a dumb move the second I grabbed the hot exhaust.
:))) I hate when I do stupidly simple things like that
Shadow - i did something similar. Put a new exhaust system in (way back when they were relatively cheap) and after driving a while i stopped and noticed the muffler hanging a little low, so i got underneath, loosened the muffler clamp, and pushed the shiny new muffler up with the inside of my forearm. 😖The big blister lasted for weeks. Thank god it was only for a split-second and no worse than a huge sunburn blister.
been there done that
I left a protective cover on Rain-X wiper blades and then wondered why they didn't work. Granted I've only been replacing wiper blades on vehicles for the last 50 years. I figured these new-fangled blades had that part so they can exude the Rain-X on to the windshield.
I did that too, green cover looked liked it belonged there
Same! My wife complained that the new blades were worse than the old ones, big Duh moment for me :)
@@reponut12345 I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I did it too!
but they will be like new after many years if you leave that cover on ~ besides it will work as an ice scraper in winter.
It was the first oil change after Dad and I finished a total restoration of a 69 Camaro. Took off the old oil filter, but the old rubber gasket stayed on the engine. Put the new oil filter and stacked the gaskets, unbeknownst to me. Fired it up, and oil everywhere! They don't stack well! Wouldn't have been such a big deal, but the underside of the car was as clean as the body. It took some doing to get all that oil off the undercarriage! Now I check for a gasket every time on every car!
Late to the party, I know... But my biggest one was when I was a young buck, had my head rebuilt on my 280zx.
Didn't think I needed new head bolts, trying to save that 50$ or so.
Put the head on, got timing chain and all those goodies back in, put the timing cover back on, and the first bolt I went to torque, snapped in the block, had to take it all apart...
The second (successful) time I put it back together with brand new head bolts.
Learned what torque to yield means the hard way.
The bright side, I never crushed the head gasket down, so I didn't have to buy another one.
I rebuilt an 84 Jeep Cherokee 2.5L engine because it had a huge amount of blow by. Bought new plugs, filters, cap, rotor, wires etc to complete the rebuild. Fired up fine, drove it about 15 miles and decided I was not happy with the kick down linkage. Brought it into the garage, made a slight adjustment, and it did not start again. Now, I know the kick down linkage would not have anything to do with it, but none the less, I replaced the distributor, checked for spark, all OK. Checked fuel, that was OK. Check compression that was great. Got frustrated with it, pushed it outside where it sat for three years. Took a fresh look at it, bought a used carb on ebay, and tried that. No difference. Went through it again, put a set of Champions spark plugs and it fired right up. The new plugs I had bought years earlier were Split Fire plugs. Never buy those again!
Friends of ours gave us a Mazda they said engine bad, timing belt broke, messed up engine. Was a non interference engine, took me couple hours, taking breaks to replace timing belt, drove back to their house, no charge. What goes around, comes around😀.
It’s refreshing to watch a humble professional share His knowledge gained through experience.
Helped a buddy put 318 from 69 fury in early 90's Dakota. Cranked it over for awhile and couldn't get spark. Once we figured it out he went for parts. I figured I'd finish welding the rest of the exhaust. 2.5 straight pipe into thrush welded dumped down before the axle. So I climb under truck and started welding. About a minute into it there is a bang so loud I slammed my head into the bottom frame rail. I thought he came back a shot a shotgun in the garage to scare me. I came out ready to fight only to find no one. Here I had lit off all the fuel built up in pipes. Scared the H right outta me. Was half deaf the rest of that day.
This is the best story on here, I can totally see it happening, thats hallarious!
So what did you put back in the '69 Fury?
Poor guy, he did not get the rush of joy that you get when the engine you just rebuilt starts and runs. On the positive, with all that cranking the oil pressure was up.
He can catch it on video though. That's the next best thing.
I always find the first start is more "fear and trepidation". Every little noise sends the paranoia a bit higher even though I haven't had anything worse than a coolant leak. So far.
Mrs O honking the horn make my day! Thank you for sharing this case study!
0:50 right off the bat, thank you for this video that I have not watched! Perfect!
Gotta give us an update !!!!! I can't move on with life until I know his reaction. I gotta think he was thrilled
I was working on an 06 acura rlx with a 3.5 at my job. A 55k cream puff time based Timing belt,water pump replacement. I always "used to" stick the oil dipstick in cyl #1 plug hole, help me just quick eye ball tdc if it rotated a lil and i needed to get back in time, like a big orange flag. Unfortunately its a cable style dip stick with an aluminium sinker for an end, that i ended up folding over and snapping off down the rabbit hole. Two days of nights with nightmares of cracked pistons or a junked head. A vacuum, some surgical tubing, fishing line and a boroscope and many a four letter word. I snagged it, No damage, just a bruised ego. Never again. Dont be a dipstick.
daughters ac wasn't working so I got her a new compressor, went to put it in and found the old one was just unplugged lol
david overstreet lol
@Robert Bonvallet What kind of perverted shit is that?
Never throw money at a problem... see what is actually wrong...
Robert Bonvallet you’re a POS
Hey, might as well do the replacement, eh? Keep the old one as a souvenir.
I helped a friend do a timing chain on his truck Ford 302. We were 16 year olds so it was 1976. Got it all back together and it wouldn't start. I can't remember if we forgot it or failed to tighten it up but I remember there was an eccentric washer that was supposed to drive the fuel pump. Really hurt our pride but a valuable lesson.
We like to tap on the frame of the truck with a hammer when someone starts it after doing an engine repair like injectors or rocker shaft or camshaft. The seasoned techs are immune now but you get the new guys every time
8:50 that's like the climax. LOL!! I feel you, even when I finish a small job on my car, it's like yeeeaaah. Now I need a cigarette.
I once spent 2 days trying to figure out why the Lancia I bought started hard and ran rough. I checked everything except the most basic, the previous owner crossed 2 spark plug wires. I gave the guy too much credit and figured he already checked the basic stuff. Now I always start at the beginning when troubleshooting.
HOLY MACKERAL ! This does remind me of when I was just 17, and already bought my first car. A cherry, one owner, 11 year old 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe. After driving it around a short while it started to back fire badly. I tried to find the problem, to no avail. BTW, I was a junior in high school yet. So, when my dad came home from work, oh, he was an old time 'real' auto mechanic, I told him of the problem. He said to crank it over. I did, then he said, OK, take the distributor cap off, I did. He went to his car got a flash light from the trunk and put it into the cap, and turned it on. Holy hell, you could see all kinds of cracks in the distributor cap. That was it. A new cap, and no more back fireing. That was more than sixty years ago. I never forgot that. Thanks for this video.
You're about to be "the News5 investigative crew took this simple issue to several area shops. 1 was able to diagnose and fix the issue quickly, but the other 4 all listed out hundreds in..."
when I was a teenager I tried bleed the brakes by pumping the clutch
Lol
Ok boomer
@ Bobby Ossenbeck similar, thanks for sharing. tried to help bleeding the clutch by pumping the throttle, for a whole 15mins. wasn't teenager though, just tired. the old man i was helping wasn't that happy
list goes for long, of course
u2 ?
Ahhaha nice thank you good sir I needed this comment
My nephew called me up and said his car was leaking oil. He tells me in his story that he added a gallon his girlfriend added a gallon and more on top of that in the course of a few days. I looked under the engine and couldn’t find a leak. I looked at the dipstick and it was way high so I decided to drain and start from scratch. I shit you not I drained 17 quarts lol. Still don’t know how it ran. Guess they couldn’t read a dipstick.
kinglangren That was one well lubed engine by the time they were finished. That said, I can see how it would happen as fresh clean oil can be very hard to see on a dipstick, especially if you don’t understand what the small holes at each end of the safe range are there for.
MAte the ex did that to me
My aunt worked at a Cadillac dealership and they of course worked on all makes and models. Lady had her car towed in saying it wouldn't turn over, no crank, no start. The mechanic just quickly looked at the car and seems how it was practically brand new couldn't for the life of him figure out why it would just suddenly do that, starter tested good, battery was good. So for the hell of it he starts going through fluids and such, pulls the engine oil dipstick to find oil all the way up the dipstick...well that's odd...so the lady would fill her car up with gas and add a quart of oil to the engine...so much oil that when the mechanic opened the oil cap there was oil all the way to the top of the engine...how on earth it ran for that long and it didn't damage anything luckily it was so full of oil it was hydrolocked.
No wonder certain car makers no longer have engine oil and transmission fluid dipsticks...some people shouldn't be allowed to open the hood on their cars LOL...
maybe they were reading another dipstick
I had everything to change the oil on my wife's car. I'm at work, she had the day off, so she decided to change the oil. How hard can it be? I think she had helped me do a car once. Drove it up on ramps. Pulled the drain plug. Removed and replaced the oil filter. 5 quarts of fresh. Started her up, down off the ramps, drove about a mile, engine started squalling. She pulled over, found a phone, called my Dad. He checked the drain pan, there sat the drain plug. He took the plug and 5 more quarts to her. Fortunately the engine ran fine.
My next door neighbor and I when we were 16 or 17 years old rebuilt a ford 289 V8 to put into his 1962 Mercury Comet. But when we put the new rings on the pistons we didn’t know about cleaning the carbon build up in the ring grooves. We had a hell of a time getting the engine to turn over after all the pistons were in. We had no clue why it was so tight. We had such a hard time getting it to turn, it got to the point of installing the engine in the car minus the heads and towing the car ( it was a stick shift 3 sp trans) till the engine finally freed up enough that the starter could spin fast enough to start it. It was a year or so later before we found out about cleaning the ring grooves. THAT was a learning experience!! lol.
Gotta love the horn trick 😂😂😂
This man has been zap before, I died at the horn
Removed engine from a Toyota Celica due to oil light on. Stripped engine, perfect, replaced engine, then new oil pressure sensor...fixed. It's taken me 40 years to tell this to anyone!!
Cheers
David
Busselton West Australia.
Ok, I'll bite. Here's a 2-fer
1998 Saturn SL2 with the timing chain death rattle. Took it most of the way apart, timing chain cover wouldn't come loose. Assumed it was just silicone holding it together, so I gave her a good mallet whack... Most of the cover came off, except a chunk right in the middle where there was a hidden bolt. Shipoopy.
Go get a brand new timing chain cover, move the oil pump gear and cover plate over... RTVed it all back together, installed all bolts.... Turned her over by hand. So far, so good. Enable fuel, start her up...oil light stays on. 10 seconds later, oil light is still on. Mother Farquaad!
Study the old cover to figure out how I could have messed up a simple gearotor oil pump...then I notice the one way check valve...still in the old cover... and not in the new cover. :-/
Great video. What I can’t believe is that the parts were in the back.
Me do something stupid?
In the early 1970’s I bought a 1968 bmw 2002 that wouldn’t turn over for $200.00. I poked around and didn’t find anything obvious so I set about pulling the engine. When I removed the transmission I found that one of pressure plate bolts had fallen out and wedged the flywheel tight. Did I put the bolt back in start the car and drive away a winner? Nope. I took the engine apart (it was a little worn but not terrible)and one of piston / connecting rod assemblies rolled off the bench and broke the piston skirt.
Did a head gasket on a 4cyl Altima, crank no start took me 1 hour to figure out I didn’t screw on the 2 engine grounds.
After an engine rebuild my friend put in spark plugs that were too long and they hit the pistons. 1968 Pontiac GTO. I happened 40 years ago and haunts me to this day.
Glad to see someone do the right thing. Very nice.
I thought i knew it all about engines till my lawn mower wouldn't start one day. I spent 3 weeks, every day after work trying to work out what was wrong, i thought i was loosing my marbles and that i had finally met my match, had compression, had spark, tank was full, carb was flowing, nothing was going to start this thing.
Then 3 weeks later, im refusing to be beat, had the engine in pieces for the hundredth time, had fuel on my hands, wife hands me a sandwich, im too into it to wash my hands and i notice my hands dont smell fuelly enough. Drained tank, put fresh fuel in, first pull started.
Turned out my wife knew the whole time what was wrong and was having a laugh that finally id been technically beat, she told me my 6 year old son was pretending to be me while i was at work and filled the tank with the garden hose.......
@Not Hitler Not much of a family man, are you?
@Not Hitler i mean.....the fact that fresh fuel wasnt one of the first things he tried kinda puts all the blame on him lol. which i dont mean as an insult to him as he clearly knows that and can laugh about it now.
Your wife deserves a punch in the mouth.
@@Michael-fw5ef nah you just dont have a sense of humor. If fresh fuel isnt one of the first things you try then you kinda deserve the headache as a lesson learned.
Pull a couple of fuses from her oven.........see if she thinks that's as funny.
Years ago I rebuilt a stock chevy 305 CID V8. I mixed up the intake manifold bolts and put a long bolt where a short bolt was indicated. The engine wouldn’t start after rebuild because it had no vacuum at all. Took valve covers off and one intake rocker arm was stuck in full depressed position. The long manifold bolt had torqued itself into the pushrod, holding it firmly in place thus keeping the intake valve fully open. Replaced the intake manifold bolt with a shorter one and the engine started and ran beautifully, even using the old, slightly indented pushrod. Still using that engine to this day.....with the same pushrod in it. Dr. K.
I forgot to put gas in an old mustang I was rebuilding. Thought I had the valve lash wrong as well as the carburetor tuning. Low and behold it was just completely empty and had no gas.
Another one was a small block Chevy I had rebuilt, but did the valve lash incorrectly. It was all too tight. It dawned on me that I had zero compression. I spent weeks going back and forth on everything. Backed off the rockers and the car fired right up!
He's gona be soooooo HAPPY!!
Once put a clutch in backwards on my MG and had to pull the engine and trans back out just to flip the disk around :(
That hurts ouch!!
I had a 66 mustang with a 289 as a kid in 1980. Tinkered with it all the time, after one session of said tinkering the engine started cutting out going around corners. Took me months to figure out what was happening, and then only by accident. I had the car idling in the driveway and I was on the passenger side leaning in over the engine when I brushed one of the cables on the starter relay mounted on the passenger side fender well. The car died and I was ecstatic-problem solved. The worst part was that I had replaced the relay before but must have been careless when tightening the cables on the posts and was causing a short when the car leaned left or right and made the cables move. Learned a lot about mechanics on the car, like, even the small things can bite you in the ass :).
Some years back was at a swap meet and seen this holley double pumper, 750 with see through bowls and polished body, with black metering block. The guy said it has been in his shop for years and he wasn't using it so he brought it to the meet to sell. He wanted 150 for it. It looked new but dusty. so we did the haggle thing and I walked away with it for 100. The next weekend my buddy and I swapped it out and got it on the car. It was a 351 Cleveland with a big cam. we started it up and dialed it in and went to give it gas and it fell flat on its face. Looked in it and seen it was not pumping gas out of the squirters, so we took it back off removed the bowls checked the pumps. we removed the metering block and checked it as well. it all looked good to use. The next day I called holley up and talked to a tech he ran the numbers and came back and asked me if the bowls was clear and I said yep. He told me it was a display model and a non working carb. So I took the bowls off and put them on a different carb.
Things us kids do for looks. lol.
I chased my tail for a month or so on my old Malibu, back when I first started doing my own work, diagnosing my cooling fans. It turned out that the relay had been put in with two of the blades shifted over to a space where there was no connection. Felt really dumb when I found that one.
I've made mistakes on that level. Many times.
If you found it, then you are certainly not dumb...had a similar issue with a rear foglight on my van....spent a couple of hours wondering why there was no connection in the left hand rear only to be informed that they are only required on the 'offside' under UK/E.U. rules....but by then I had wired in another connector(into the missing light cluster) and resolved my non existent issue....but now I have two rear fog lamps...
Blame the engineer that designed it that way. There shouldn't be the possibility to put it in wrong.
I've made a similar mistake working on my hvac blower motor, I pulled the wrong fuse not thinking then I went to try to start my car and it would not crank, turned out I pulled the starter fuse.
I once swapped a Honda s800 engine for one from a triumph spitfire, ended up with 4 reverse gears. Fixed it by turning the back axle upside down.
that wouldn't fix it. Why did you have 4 reverse gears? Does this engine spin the opposite way to every other engine?
I smell a little bullshit.
@@jxckc351 actually if he turned the yoke upside down and bolted it back in, it would flip it. garage54 has a video of exactly that. 4 gears in reverse and only one forward. Be fun to mess with someone. Looks like the s800 motor runs counterclockwise.
@@hoganhogan952 gearboxes are designed to be turned one way. It would cause very excessive wear. you would end up with 6 neutrals or a seized gearbox.
I just rebuilt my engine on my 01 Acura Integra GSR - new piston rings, main bearings, rod bearings, etc. Fired right up when I was done and it idled till warm up just fine and revved up to 3k rpm without noises. During my first short test drive I heard a faint knocking noise when I accelerate, and I was freaking out thinking rod knock?! I carefully drive it home and check for noises - the knocking was gone when it was running in neutral. Turned out what was knocking was a brake line vibrating on my firewall - WOOOOOOO!!!
Nice Job, but Mrs. O was the star of the show when she hit the horn button.
When ever she is there she is.
After having a few beers decades ago I decided to check out the operation of my 302 Ford Falcon's accelerator pump in the single barrel carb. After removing the top I was rotating the accelerator linkage and didn't notice the ball bearing at the end of the plunger being ejected with the squirt of petrol and disappearing into the inlet manifold. Strange knocking sound upon starting and once the right side head was removed I noticed the ball bearing partially embedded in a piston which resembled a golf ball. I retrieved the ball bearing and put it back in the carb where it belonged, slapped the head back on and drove it for a few more years with no on going problems... ( I don't drink now by the way)...
Ashley Rosevear I had a piston look the same way on my old 240d Mercedes. The tip of a glow plug fell in there. Car drove fine for years.
Massaged a 1600 Golf engine into a 1300 Golf. One of those aluminum tips you get on spark plugs somehow fell into the carb whilst engine was idling. Made a "GRRRRINK" noise. I can't remember what exactly happened, or how it got induced into the inlet, but anyway.
Engine got shutted down promptly.
Removed all the spark plugs, cranked the engine over a couple of times, replaced spark plugs, engine did not sustain any damage to that specific piston (think it was No3 cylinder)...
Luckily those engines still got some space in the head even when at TDC, so I think the damage to the piston was just superfical.
Drove with that car a couple of years afterwards (no engine problems at all) until some ne'er-do-wells blagged it.
had a 95 ford probe gt with a manual trans.. did a fresh rebuild on a engine. had it bored out heads done the works... Well was also my first car to drive manual... had to use jumper wire to start it... got it running and had my sister take it down the road and then teach me how to drive manual... well stupid me everytime i went to take off it stalled no matter what and having to get out pop the hood and start it with jumper wire (ended up finding broken start wire later) so after about 4 times stalling it my sister hops in and uh lets down the ebrake... i stalled 4 times and forgot about the ebrake
honesty will give you a customer for life