The “end all be all “ to unstick a motor is to pull the heads, get some animal shavings from the pet shop soak them in diesel pack the cylinders and light each cylinder on fire. The heat will expand the cylinders breaking the piston’s free. If this still gives you trouble reinstall the heads reusing the old gasket and just tighten them down, no need to torque next take an old spark plug from the motor get all the porcelain and the center electrode out. Next braze a grease fitting to the plug -what’s left of it. Install that into a plug hole and start pumping in grease, the pressure from the grease filling the cylinder with the head on will break the pistons free
I'd cut the floor out of the Blazer to get to the belhousing bolts, pull that engine and Do a Sweet Small Block Rebuild for us!!! I'd love to see you go through that and get it ripping nicely again! guarantee you can find a blazer, or a square body cab to stick on it if the frames not bent
I really can't believe how easily that boat fired up and how well it ran, especially after finding the engine crankcase filled with water...not to mention how good it sounds.
When Kevin was mentioning needing engines I was picturing someone trying to sell him one from Vermont AND THEN HE SAID IT LOL In all seriousness if you guys ever traveled up let us know! We love your channel & watching you rebuild anything & everything is awesome. We're practically V2 California with the inspection laws we deal with up here so it's nice being able to see a bunch of restoration & other cool stuff you really can't see anywhere else. Thanks Kevin & Mook for staying awesome! Go Junkyard Digs!!
I appreciate the comment about getting old "clunker" cars operational with basic tools. Earlier today, I saw a poor family driving around in a car that had no window glass on it other than the front windscreen. The windows were missing, not rolled down. It rains every day here in Florida and that family probably uses plastic tarps to keep the water out. New glass is out of their price range. Automobiles are essential to get to work around here. Doing whatever it takes to keep what may be that one car running is essential for survival.
Been such a longtime fan and so excited every time you guys get out an amazing video like this! You were the inspiration for me getting an old 59 F100 running for the first time in years, and next up is a 69 nova! Thanks for the information, the education, and most importantly the laughs!
This is what a LOVE about your content since YEARS ! You do what nearly every one can do even, on a budget ! And I really like your style and energy with Mook and your friends 😉 Always a REALLY good show, fun to watch and relax ! 😁 a TON of THANKS from France 😁 Please ... "ENCORE" ! 😉
Ok, one more...I can totally related to the "no shop" protocol. We did most of our main wrenching (in high school) in my friend Paul's front yard...had the perfect oak tree for pulling motors and always nice shade. For an added bonus, Paul's Mom would bring "cold snacks" out to us! To show our gratitude, we always kept the yard clean for her...good fun back in the early 70s!
I miss my blazer. It was one of those 80s military ones with the 6.2l detroit diesel . Ahhhh I loved that thing to death. It wasn't fast, but man it went everywhere. Eventually I rolled it when a brake line swolled up internally and didn't let fluid back out one side when I hit the brakes hard. Rolled it down a hill and landed on the wheels. It drove home after that (without brakes). Had to sell it to get another car so I could go to college. Biggest mistake ever, because shortly afterwards I found a guy selling a preem k5 blazer body on craigslist for 500 bucks. Man I feel so bad about that! Wound up driving a 71 Valiant with a slant six throughout college. Still have it to this day.
I'm just going to say it, that Blazer is rougher than a stucco bathtub. The fact that you tried to do anything with it is amazing. I can't believe is flooded past a roof and it rolled off the trailer that good.
Would be neat to see that blazer back on the road with a different everything but frame, grill and wheels, those slots are nice! Since the body's junk anyways, why not hit the floor around the bell housing with a cutoff wheel? Also that boat sounds bad ass!
TGIF! I usually work from home Fridays and look forward to post afternoon meeting unwinding with new Junkyard Digs content. Keep it up! Also more orange cat cameos pls :)
The fact the boat started up and the horn worked made me very happy. The fork skills working those huge bends out the top of the Blazer was pretty awesome work, all things considered.
The new boat sounds bad ass. I always look forward to your new videos. Have you guys thought about making your own Junkyard Go karts? You get enough you can have a Go kart grand prix. That could be a lot of fun
always great to see a video of yours to pop up in the notifications especially when its funny to see you do crazy things, who needs fancy tools when you got a deere. that made me laugh to see how well that worked.
I have really enjoyed your videos! I've noticed you clean a lot of points and just a quick tip, an emery board is a perfect tool for doing that. I learned that from watching Matt on Diesel Creek.
Wow¡!!!!!!!!!!! What a difference after the forklift treatment! It wasn't a lot going for that engine since it was submerged up to the roof, but it sure did look better bodywise! Another great video! Thanks!
The forklift fix was amazing! I support the reverse Whistlin' Diesel! Speaking of diesel, because the K5 is just going to be sitting now for a long time, can the block be filled with diesel or marvel mystery oil and left to set for weeks to months to see if that will help?
After seeing this, now I understand why all the old guys would put marine motors in there trucks when I was a kid. I always thought it was weird when I was a kid, but getting a stock 350 with 260 hp makes perfect sense
Other than being flooded to the roof, the body being as rusted out underneath as it was saved that thing! I bed with enough care and a new body (not as hard to find as a true frame especially a k) that thing would come back to life! edit: Hey Mortske has a tool that goes on the flywheel or flex plate, it grabs the teeth and has a handle thing on it, anyway it gives a better grab on it and makes it even easier to free stuck motors.. may be worth checking out! Nice to keep in the backup toolbox
Sad about the Blazer. I wonder about the diffs and X-fer case, too. Hopefully your buddy will have more to work with than just a painted frame! Fun Video, Kevin!
Excellent opportunity to try my “unstuckerlater” (you can add a # if you modify the design. Assume the started is dead. Disassemble weld the bendix so it turns in both directions. Cut the armature shaft and weld a socket to it. Now mound it and have a gear reduction on the flywheel. If there is clearance you might get a big breaker bat. But any ratchets will given the same leverage as what you had but with gears.
Junkyard Digs always has either a great or the worst timing with uploads lol. Lucky me, its late, im having a few beers and i want to stay up late, perfect. Cheers guys, your channel is one of those i can never stop watching, ever since that F250 revival, you guys not only substituted by Roadkill addiction, you went above and beyond, introduced me to a bunch of other people doing their revivals and i cant believe its been that long.
Funny enough like 1 year ago I was looking for another youtube channel named junkyard but forgot what the numbers in their name, and came across Kevin's channel and was like ahh why not I enjoy old vehicles, took a chance at watching and fell in love with this funny, entertaining, knowledgeable fun loving guy! I've branched off and started watched a few of the guys he's collabed with everyone of them is great!
I wonder if one of those oil pump primers would be a good tool to have when they’re seized, I’ve seen them on a bunch of auto parts stores for cheap and you could use it before turning it over. I know it wouldn’t have helped this one but maybe on a marginal one? Also, the careful bodywork with the bobcat was amazing. Peak metalwork!😂
Usually the problem with stuck motors is that the rings seize to the side of the cylinder walls. Priming the oil system isn't going to help that problem. That's why they fill the cylinders with ATF or similar-to try to break up the rust on the rings.
@@channell11 You’re definitely right. Although in engines with flood damage, I bet there’s a chance getting oil through the bearings would help. Then all you have to really worry about is piston walls!
I still really loved this video even though the K5 didn’t end up surviving. Rest in Pieces. I grew up on the Gulf Coast and I share your love of marine motors. They always sound sick… in the positive sense.
the no water line full sink that's rough nice work w the Forks there trying to not laugh at 2 in the morning isn't easy, and the boat engine sounds Good
Oh my God dude I was really scared you was gonna scratch the paint😜👀the little offlload from the trailer was pretty sweet I like that I had to watch that about five times
Excellent video Junkyard Digs Kevin :) how get 4×4 wapped with sludge hammer on floor drives side and plus right side too see floor move down to frame sides and maybe take lots hits to ! Hopefully that help out make sure 4×4 blocks are hardwood not soft wood too!
Leave it to Kevin to get an engine running in a video. Never fails to amaze everyone. Good to see Mook in your video as well. To bad about the Blazer hopefully you can get a body for it and get the motor unseized. Looks like it might have potential.
This weekend is the last chance to get your "The Van" shirts! www.junkyarddigs.com/shop/p/amc-t-shirt-m29pt
Love your videos👍
Who needs dent wizard when you have a dent skid steer
The “end all be all “ to unstick a motor is to pull the heads, get some animal shavings from the pet shop soak them in diesel pack the cylinders and light each cylinder on fire. The heat will expand the cylinders breaking the piston’s free. If this still gives you trouble reinstall the heads reusing the old gasket and just tighten them down, no need to torque next take an old spark plug from the motor get all the porcelain and the center electrode out. Next braze a grease fitting to the plug -what’s left of it. Install that into a plug hole and start pumping in grease, the pressure from the grease filling the cylinder with the head on will break the pistons free
I'd love to get one, but sadly you don't ship to Germany ;-;
@@TheSleeplessOneThat's because they don't care about fans outside the USA...
That suspiciously accurate usage of the forklift was pure gold! 😂
Instead of Body by Fisher it's Body by Deere
Precision Engineering at its best
Now THAT'S the proper way to do body work. I think Kevin may have a future doing custom body work!
That's a skidsteer
I used subtitles and the forklift part was just (music)
This is one of the best episodes ever! When Mook says “ You can see it’s bent from space!” 😂……….And then you “ fix” it with a skid steer! Gold!
Junkyard never seizes to amaze me.
Ironic choice of wording on this video 😂😂
Yea, and this episode really put the seize in seizure
😂 well one 350 seized to amaze anyone on running 💁♂️😅😂
Hehe... I seize what you did there.
Best comment ever🤣🤣
seems like the perfect truck for Pole barn garage and the body work is already half way done!
I was thinking the same thing Dalton could have this rolling in a month. Full custom rebuild too!
With all that fiberglass in the rockets it looks like he might have done the original build 😂😂
For the oil pan, take a cheap socket and grind it down with a flap disc or something. Works all the time
And then replace them with socket head cap screws so you can use a hex socket to take them off in the future.
@@pathvalleyrailroad9277 Amen 🙏
Then you have the speciality socket he was talking about!
I'd cut the floor out of the Blazer to get to the belhousing bolts, pull that engine and Do a Sweet Small Block Rebuild for us!!! I'd love to see you go through that and get it ripping nicely again! guarantee you can find a blazer, or a square body cab to stick on it if the frames not bent
Sawzall and a skinny death wheel. Open that oil pan like it's a can of sardines!
Seconded! body is junk, so just make some access!
Mook needs to be in every video. Her humor is friggin great.
Her legs aren't bad either ;) Being serious though, she makes the videos worth watching which her smile and humor.
LOL
“I’d say from any angle” 😂😂😂
@@zachmiller2521 "Including space" XD
Nothing beats the late 90's styling. The rims, the grill, the valve covers...all of it.
Fridays are always great cuz that’s when Kevin drops a new video for us to witness calamities
I really can't believe how easily that boat fired up and how well it ran, especially after finding the engine crankcase filled with water...not to mention how good it sounds.
Thanks for also showing the fails! And long live Boatyard Digs! One of my favorite episodes
Omg 17:24 That's a great idea using a bobcat to straighten that beautiful truck. ❤🙏
First time I’ve seen body repair with a forklift. Came up mint!
When Kevin was mentioning needing engines I was picturing someone trying to sell him one from Vermont AND THEN HE SAID IT LOL
In all seriousness if you guys ever traveled up let us know! We love your channel & watching you rebuild anything & everything is awesome. We're practically V2 California with the inspection laws we deal with up here so it's nice being able to see a bunch of restoration & other cool stuff you really can't see anywhere else. Thanks Kevin & Mook for staying awesome! Go Junkyard Digs!!
They make a tool for the flywheel to try and turn them when the motor is locked up. It gives you a lot more leverage. Love the videos
Mortske uses one.
This^ all day long. Having tried both with and without a flywheel tool, I can tell you that every toolbox needs one.
I'll have to look for that!
I appreciate the comment about getting old "clunker" cars operational with basic tools. Earlier today, I saw a poor family driving around in a car that had no window glass on it other than the front windscreen. The windows were missing, not rolled down. It rains every day here in Florida and that family probably uses plastic tarps to keep the water out. New glass is out of their price range.
Automobiles are essential to get to work around here. Doing whatever it takes to keep what may be that one car running is essential for survival.
Been such a longtime fan and so excited every time you guys get out an amazing video like this! You were the inspiration for me getting an old 59 F100 running for the first time in years, and next up is a 69 nova! Thanks for the information, the education, and most importantly the laughs!
Badass! Always wanted to do a fridge nose revival
@@JunkyardDigsHaha, she’s in Oregon if you want her!
Kevin I agree........The noise of that boat motor is the BEST!!!!!!!!!!
This is what a LOVE about your content since YEARS ! You do what nearly every one can do even, on a budget !
And I really like your style and energy with Mook and your friends 😉
Always a REALLY good show, fun to watch and relax ! 😁
a TON of THANKS from France 😁
Please ... "ENCORE" ! 😉
@polebarngarage would approve of this body work!
One of my favorite things about these old 4x4s is you can work under em perfectly fine without jacking it up
Mook's initial reaction to seeing this was priceless. Great stuff! Keep it up!
And yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing more boat stuff, if you have it.
Wow! The custom skid steer body work on the K5 is impeccable! You can barely tell anything was wrong with it!
Sweet can't wait to get my van Shirts appreciate the information Kevin And Ben @Junkyard Digs
Ok, one more...I can totally related to the "no shop" protocol. We did most of our main wrenching (in high school) in my friend Paul's front yard...had the perfect oak tree for pulling motors and always nice shade. For an added bonus, Paul's Mom would bring "cold snacks" out to us! To show our gratitude, we always kept the yard clean for her...good fun back in the early 70s!
I miss my blazer. It was one of those 80s military ones with the 6.2l detroit diesel .
Ahhhh I loved that thing to death. It wasn't fast, but man it went everywhere. Eventually I rolled it when a brake line swolled up internally and didn't let fluid back out one side when I hit the brakes hard. Rolled it down a hill and landed on the wheels. It drove home after that (without brakes).
Had to sell it to get another car so I could go to college. Biggest mistake ever, because shortly afterwards I found a guy selling a preem k5 blazer body on craigslist for 500 bucks. Man I feel so bad about that!
Wound up driving a 71 Valiant with a slant six throughout college. Still have it to this day.
That thing looks like an ex girlfriend coming back after a few years 😂
😂😂😂😂
The hole forrest movie 😂😂😂😂
For the win
Jesus 😂😂
Or ex boyfriend....
STOP PICKING RANDOM PEOPLE OFF FACEBOOK MOM.
The skid steer body work was worth the watch and like. Gotta see more of that boat! Show us the clean up and first water!
Another great JYD. I too would have saved that K5. It’s very busted up but a lot of original parts for future rebuilds. And that boat. Love it!
17:30 I bet Kevin didn’t learn that bodywork trick from Junkyard Dad… 👍
I'm just going to say it, that Blazer is rougher than a stucco bathtub. The fact that you tried to do anything with it is amazing. I can't believe is flooded past a roof and it rolled off the trailer that good.
Nice looking boat At the end Kevin @Junkyard Digs
Waiting to see Dalton riding this one in another episode of Pole Barn Garage 😂
9:58 "I'd say from any angle. including space." 😂😂😂
I love Mook ❤
Would be neat to see that blazer back on the road with a different everything but frame, grill and wheels, those slots are nice! Since the body's junk anyways, why not hit the floor around the bell housing with a cutoff wheel? Also that boat sounds bad ass!
i'd b interested to see what dalton would name it... "holey goat" "rolled runner" all classics!
Man when you used that lifter to reshape the body and it's like perfect!!! Loved it
TGIF! I usually work from home Fridays and look forward to post afternoon meeting unwinding with new Junkyard Digs content. Keep it up!
Also more orange cat cameos pls :)
The fact the boat started up and the horn worked made me very happy. The fork skills working those huge bends out the top of the Blazer was pretty awesome work, all things considered.
The new boat sounds bad ass. I always look forward to your new videos.
Have you guys thought about making your own Junkyard Go karts? You get enough you can have a Go kart grand prix. That could be a lot of fun
Loved the self unloading! Hey, it worked out fine.
always great to see a video of yours to pop up in the notifications especially when its funny to see you do crazy things, who needs fancy tools when you got a deere. that made me laugh to see how well that worked.
9:50 YES! I was hoping for a Mook reaction to this thing!
Thank you junkyard digs for the videos. Hope you have a good day.
I absolutely LOVE these in the field get it running right where it sat for 20-50+ year’s videos.
I have really enjoyed your videos! I've noticed you clean a lot of points and just a quick tip, an emery board is a perfect tool for doing that. I learned that from watching Matt on Diesel Creek.
A contact burnisher is actually the correct tool, but lots of things work.
Wow¡!!!!!!!!!!!
What a difference after the forklift treatment!
It wasn't a lot going for that engine since it was submerged up to the roof, but it sure did look better bodywise!
Another great video!
Thanks!
Yes more destroyed car content!!!!! I need this video so bad right now!!!
Honestly best forklift body restoration I've ever seen!
What a great looking boat!
"That's the whole schtick of Junkyard Digs"
It's also nice to see stuff rescued from the junkyard instead of condemned to it just cause it's easy.
Never thought of a Skid Steer was a legit autobody tool, but you proved it is!
You did some nice work with the forks! Digging those slot mags and custom tube grill. Fun revival!
This episode felt like a fever dream. I had to watch it twice 😂
I actually purchased the flywheel wrench and made my own extension it works really well
Boat sounds great! Maybe an antique truck body could go on the blazer chassis.
Precision skid-steer metalworking with Kevin......the next JYD channel!!!!
The forklift fix was amazing! I support the reverse Whistlin' Diesel! Speaking of diesel, because the K5 is just going to be sitting now for a long time, can the block be filled with diesel or marvel mystery oil and left to set for weeks to months to see if that will help?
I am very much a fan of the sound of marine motors too. something unique about it. Its just awsome!
After seeing this, now I understand why all the old guys would put marine motors in there trucks when I was a kid. I always thought it was weird when I was a kid, but getting a stock 350 with 260 hp makes perfect sense
These marine motors sound so great, damn
I would love to see you pull that motor and fully rebuild it
Please hang in with the Blazer, even it serialised. Love an ‘under dog’ story!
Other than being flooded to the roof, the body being as rusted out underneath as it was saved that thing! I bed with enough care and a new body (not as hard to find as a true frame especially a k) that thing would come back to life!
edit: Hey Mortske has a tool that goes on the flywheel or flex plate, it grabs the teeth and has a handle thing on it, anyway it gives a better grab on it and makes it even easier to free stuck motors.. may be worth checking out! Nice to keep in the backup toolbox
Sad about the Blazer. I wonder about the diffs and X-fer case, too. Hopefully your buddy will have more to work with than just a painted frame! Fun Video, Kevin!
With the exception of any vents They should be pretty well sealed, but I'm sure they will need drained as well! Hopefully not rusty 😬
Love your content man your a good guy always helping someone out love it
17:21 precision body restoration, nice.
That blazer looks like it has Pole barn garages name all over it.
Or an amazing s show Collab vid with Luke
Excellent opportunity to try my “unstuckerlater” (you can add a # if you modify the design. Assume the started is dead. Disassemble weld the bendix so it turns in both directions. Cut the armature shaft and weld a socket to it. Now mound it and have a gear reduction on the flywheel. If there is clearance you might get a big breaker bat. But any ratchets will given the same leverage as what you had but with gears.
good idea
I enjoyed the 317G Deere body lift operation
17:15
Junkyard Digs always has either a great or the worst timing with uploads lol.
Lucky me, its late, im having a few beers and i want to stay up late, perfect.
Cheers guys, your channel is one of those i can never stop watching, ever since that F250 revival, you guys not only substituted by Roadkill addiction, you went above and beyond, introduced me to a bunch of other people doing their revivals and i cant believe its been that long.
I'll have a few beers with you 🤙
Funny enough like 1 year ago I was looking for another youtube channel named junkyard but forgot what the numbers in their name, and came across Kevin's channel and was like ahh why not I enjoy old vehicles, took a chance at watching and fell in love with this funny, entertaining, knowledgeable fun loving guy! I've branched off and started watched a few of the guys he's collabed with everyone of them is great!
I wonder if one of those oil pump primers would be a good tool to have when they’re seized, I’ve seen them on a bunch of auto parts stores for cheap and you could use it before turning it over. I know it wouldn’t have helped this one but maybe on a marginal one?
Also, the careful bodywork with the bobcat was amazing. Peak metalwork!😂
Usually the problem with stuck motors is that the rings seize to the side of the cylinder walls. Priming the oil system isn't going to help that problem. That's why they fill the cylinders with ATF or similar-to try to break up the rust on the rings.
@@channell11 You’re definitely right. Although in engines with flood damage, I bet there’s a chance getting oil through the bearings would help. Then all you have to really worry about is piston walls!
would evapo rust be a decent thing to use in this situation? I've had the thought a few times. Can't have a rust ridge if the rust is gone.
I second this. That or vinegar would be a very interesting experiment to perform on the 350.
I still really loved this video even though the K5 didn’t end up surviving. Rest in Pieces. I grew up on the Gulf Coast and I share your love of marine motors. They always sound sick… in the positive sense.
Notification SQUAD Have a nice weekend!🔥🔥🔥
Bodywork by Digs. No dent to big or small for our skilled technicians Kevin and John Deere.
the no water line full sink that's rough nice work w the Forks there trying to not laugh at 2 in the morning isn't easy, and the boat engine sounds Good
Oh my God dude I was really scared you was gonna scratch the paint😜👀the little offlload from the trailer was pretty sweet I like that I had to watch that about five times
That windshield adjustment came out great 👍👍 a little hammer and barbie and put a wind shield inner.
New business for ya, Kevin's speedy body work and precision panel alignment .
So effing happy when you decided to take the skid steer to it, literally was cheering and laughing my ass off
That motor and all the Edlbrock accessories Are awesome
Wow unbelievable it actually streightend out
Excellent video Junkyard Digs Kevin :) how get 4×4 wapped with sludge hammer on floor drives side and plus right side too see floor move down to frame sides and maybe take lots hits to ! Hopefully that help out make sure 4×4 blocks are hardwood not soft wood too!
Thanks Kevin. The Blazer is kinda like Mook said . Burn it. Yes the motor is shot. Bad combination of events. Thank you for sharing. 💯👍
Love it! I would so find a way to drive it just the way it is! 😂
Leave it to Kevin to get an engine running in a video. Never fails to amaze everyone. Good to see Mook in your video as well. To bad about the Blazer hopefully you can get a body for it and get the motor unseized. Looks like it might have potential.
Congratulations on the boat purchase! K-5 on the other hand is going to be a really deep rabbit hole!!!
Should give the Blazer to Dalton imo. Great vid! always a good day when junkyard digs uploads.
18:20 like a glove!
Poor Blazer, what a shame. I will say though that straightening a K5 body with a skid steer is exactly the kind of content I subscribed for 😂
Nice one Kevin and the mookster just when you thought the bronco was bent for life Crack on
Mook "I'd say from any angle, including space." EPIC!!
Body work with a skidsteer...AWESOME😁
" you can see it from space" bright girl that Mook . She's a keeper .
Kevin’s new body shop looks mint!!
The grass looks amazing!!
I have a 1990 last full size like that one, except for it is a GMC High Sierra Jimmy with the same interior and mine is mint, perfect, and flawless.
My first vehicle was a 84 k5 with that same valve covers intake carb and headers .....I miss it so much